Worth Watching: ‘Schitt’s Creek’ Returns, ‘Nature’ Gets in the Saddle, Syfy’s ‘Deadly Class’
A selective critical checklist of notable Wednesday TV:
Schitt’s Creek (10/9c, Pop TV): The cult comedy is back for a fifth season of small-town/big-attitude shenanigans, with back-to-back episodes featuring Moira (the sublime Catherine O’Hara), who’s in Bosnia filming a movie she hopes will put her back on the A-list. (What are the odds?) And then she’s losing sleep over love letters she finds addressed to Johnny (Eugene Levy). What’s a diva to do?
Nature (8/7c, PBS, check local listings at pbs.org): Not to be confused with the disturbing stage play, Equus: Story of the Horse is a two-part study of the mighty animal by anthropologist Niobe Thompson. The first episode, “Origins,” explores the evolution of the horse from a tiny forest dweller to the majestic steeds we now celebrate.
In Pursuit with John Walsh (10/9c, Investigation Discovery): Former America’s Most Wanted frontman John Walsh is back on TV, tracking fugitives and seeking missing children. His son Callahan Walsh co-stars, leading ground operations and working with local communities and authorities to root out persons of interest. Each hour will also feature two missing children, in partnership with the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children, with hopes of unearthing new leads.
Deadly Class (10/9c, Syfy): Based on a graphic novel, this deeply unpleasant and tremendously uninteresting melodrama is like The Magicians gone punk — and, notably, lacking in magic. It’s the story of street urchin Marcus (Benjamin Wadsworth), who joins a clandestine student body of liars and murderers when recruited — thanks to a possibly unearned badass reputation — into the elite and secretive Kings Dominion. Not to be confused with the Virginia theme park, this academy is where all of the world’s top crime families send their young ’uns to be schooled in the Deadly Arts. It’s all very noisy and chaotic, and maybe you just have to be in the mood for yet another dark, twisted hour of TV murk. I wasn’t. Calling John Walsh…
Inside Wednesday TV: Who better to pull ABC’s The Goldbergs (8/7c) out of their we-miss-Lainie funk than papa Murray (Jeff Garlin), with Geoff (Sam Lerner) in tow… Lainie (AJ Michalka), of course, can be found on the ’90s-set high-school spinoff Schooled (8:30/7:30c,) where the new teacher attempts to give a misfit student a makeover… It’s a mini-Saturday Night Live reunion when Vanessa Bayer guests on ABC’s Single Parents (9:30/8:30c) as Will’s (Taran Killam) ex-wife, Mia, showing up unexpectedly for little Sophie’s (Marlow Barkley) birthday… No big surprise on FXX’s You’re the Worst (10/9c) when Jimmy (Chris Geere) and Gretchen (Aya Cash) announce they’re bypassing a traditional wedding. But a courthouse elopement? Really? There’s a whole final season to get through before the Big Day, so manage your expectations.
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Boy oh boy. I enjoy Schitt's Creek for the most part and while Stevie Budd is a great relatable character I feel like this show is heavily underutilizing her talents. I mean Emily Hampshire is a goddamn powerhouse and 12 Monkeys were better at using her talents.
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None of my usual shows are on tonight (not new,anyway), which is curious. I might check out the Nature show about horses, and then NOVA, about the "day the dinosaurs died." THen maybe FBI at 10. (Somehow I can't warm up to the female FBI agent. Something about her makes it hard for me to believe her in that role. Maybe it's because she reminds me of the female FBI agent in the show Limitless... almost like they're working from the same cliche'd description. Same with the female FBI agent in Intelligence a few seasons before that--although maybe she was Secret Service and not FBI. Anyway, all these "female government handlers" pretty much look alike, so it's hard for to take this one seriously because of that.)
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I get what you mean by the character Maggie. Although in later episodes Maggie opens up and actually has a personality. Sela Ward's character is much more appealing to me. Try and catch last night's episode, it really is very good.
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Last night's FBI on CBS was perhaps the strongest one this season so far. It is becoming more like ABC's superior Quantico. The supporting FBI agents that used to be mostly at headquarters are now going undercover and/or more involved with the cases. Quantico was more theatrical but FBI is satisfying me for now.
CBS is airing an FBI rerun tonight at 10:00
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ABC comedies, Riverdale, and Vikings for me! I've already seen tonight's Deadly Class, but I'll add it to the schedule for next week!
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Don...since you've seen Deadly Class...and have "added it to the schedule"...I'm guessin' that your judgement of it is NOT quite as dour as Matt's???
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It's pretty much what he said. Once I got used to the idea that there's no magic, superpowers, or sci-fi in it, I thought it was interesting enough to tune in for another episode. I'm not committed to watching the whole series. I'll take it one episode at a time. I take it you didn't watch the premiere episode when they aired it a couple weeks ago.
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NO...didn't watch it...
I figured why watch episode #1 then wait a couple weeks to watch episode #2...when I could wait a couple weeks to watch episode #1 then episode #2 a week later etc.
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