Worth Watching: Katee Sackhoff in Space in ‘Another Life,’ ‘Christina on the Coast,’ ‘Elementary’
A selective critical checklist of notable Thursday TV:
Another Life (streaming on Netflix): The good news: Katee Sackhoff, beloved to sci-fi fans as Starbuck on the revered Syfy version of Battlestar Galactica, is back in space in this interstellar thriller. She’s astronaut Niko Breckinridge, reluctantly leaving her family and husband (Justin Chatwin) behind to lead a young crew on an investigation of the origin of a towering, crystal-like alien artifact that has crashed through Earth’s atmosphere. The not-so-good news: The mayhem that ensues, including the actions of a mutinous crewmate (Tyler Hoechlin) and a scary space malady, is nothing to write home about. Maybe a rewatch of Battlestar Galactica is in order (available on Amazon Prime Video).
Christina on the Coast: My Perfect Paradise (9/8c, HGTV): Home is where the heart is, and in this hourlong special, SoCal interior designer Christina Anstead and second husband Ant walk viewers through the lavish makeover of their personal backyard and pool space, including a tube water slide, outdoor kitchen, bar and hot tub. But fear not, Flip or Flop fans. Christina resumes her on-camera professional relationship with ex Tarek El Moussa when the hit series that put them on the HGTV map resumes next Thursday.
Elementary (10/9c, CBS): The complicated relationship between Sherlock (Jonny Lee Miller), Watson (Lucy Liu) and tech billionaire Odin Reichenbach (James Frain) takes an ominous new twist when Odin asks the team to try out his controversial new crime prevention system. While they scope out a subject whom the program predicts may commit a crime (but hasn’t yet), their investigation is shadowed by the fear that Odin may jump the gun.
Inside Thursday TV: Streamer BritBox presents the third and final season of British comedy Mum, starring Lesley Manville as Cathy, a widow who’s still figuring out her romantic feelings for beau Michael (Ozark‘s Peter Mullan) as she and her family head to the country to celebrate her brother’s birthday. Each episode (future installments premiere on Tuesdays) depicts one day in the week leading to the party… More peril for USA’s Queen of the South (10/9c) as drug queenpin Teresa (Alice Braga), now operating in New Orleans, finds her empire threatened by an FBI informant… While multiple channels obsess on sharks at this time of year, the Arctic survivalists on History’s Alone (10/9c) are besieged by wolverines. And not the Marvel kind.
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The Outpost and Elementary. BTW, it sounds like the Odin Reighenbach character on that show may have stolen technology from Person of Interest's Harold Finch... apparently he can predict people who are going to commit a crime.
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DVR...
Baskets...am never sure whether to laugh...or wince...
Reef Break...the "twists and turns" are quick, frequent and unforeseen...
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Agree about Reef Break. It really is fast moving and I never see those twists coming!
Do you watch CBS's Blood & Treasure? That's another really fast moving adventure with shocking surprises every week.
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If I get one good chuckle a week out of Baskets, I'm satisfied. It's not supposed to make you laugh out loud throughout the entire show.
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The shocking surprise to me is that it's still on. 😉
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Blood & Treasure was surprisingly renewed for a second season .
Reef Break will likely be canceled, but I've seen more shocking renewals.
Netflix canceled Designated Survivor. Not surprised nor disappointed. There are much better shows on broadcast.
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About Blood & Treasure: I know! It's only been getting a .3 in the ratings which is worse than the reruns on the other networks at that time.
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And the show doesn't look cheap to produce.
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CW's The Outpost and ABC's Reef Break.
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I managed to watch Blood & Treasure last night. Did you fill in the gaps you missed originally?
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Yes, but still don't get how such an old magazine survived the elements. The sun, salt water air, rain etc.......
Doesn't make sense to me.
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Haha, yes, I remembered your comment from yesterday and kept an eye out for that magazine. And yes, it was a little on the unbelievable side. If the magazine had been in a suitcase (from the plane) or something, that might make some sense, but otherwise it does strain credibility that it would still be there and legible after 20-some years. However, I think the purpose of the magazine (for the show) was to set a time frame of the plane accident, and to date the wreckage so that it matched what Danny & Lexi thought had happened. Personally, I'm not quite clear on who killed the guy who stole Cleopatra... are they assuming it was either the Brotherhood or Farouk's people? I didn't hear that part.
Also, DID I NOT CALL IT after the very first episode that the Laroquette character could end up being the ultimate bad guy? Of course, with two episodes to go, there might yet be a further twist to it, but as of now, my early prediction was spot-on. 😉
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Yes!! I do recall you mentioning that Laroquette would end up being shady character. I didn't get a sense of that until this episode before the reveal.
The scenery in Europe and Bermuda is enticing me to take a cruise to those locations!
About that really old magazine exposed to the outside elements for a quarter of a century????!!!! If a magazine was left outside my house for a month (or even less) it would be illegible and I would barely be able to hold it in one piece!!
The writers should have had that magazine in a suitcase.
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MasterChef, iZombie, and Baskets again!
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