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TV Recap: All American – Welcome to Beverly Hills …

All American
“Pilot” (Episode 101)
October 10, 2018

All American, airing on The CW, is one of the hottest new shows of the Fall. From April Blair (Into the Badlands; YOU; Reign), who serves as Executive Producer along with Greg Berlanti (the Arrowverse), All American tells the story of a high school football phenom who moves from his home in Crenshaw, California to play ball at Beverly Hills High School. It follows his ups and down as he navigates a world radically different from the one he’s known before.

The show is based on the life of Spencer Paysinger, a professional football player, and stars Daniel Ezra as the phenom, Spencer James, and Taye Diggs as the coach that recruits him.

Our recap of the series premiere follows and our review is at the end. Spoilers, we really enjoyed the show!

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What To Watch Tonight – Tuesday, October 16, 2018

What To Watch Tonight? Tuesday are the single best night of the week for TV. Across the board, you are at a minimum of three deep each hour of excellent dramas. At 8p, our Top Pick is The Flash followed closely by The Gifted. At 9, Black Lightning is our go to but we’ll be watching FBI also (check soon for our recaps). The new kid on the block, The Rookie, premieres tonight at 10pm, which we’ll be watching but on tape while we watch New Amsterdam live (and live tweet).

Before you watch your DC Superhero shows tonight, check out our Across the Arrowverse from last week to know everything that happened!

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What To Watch Tonight – Monday, October 15, 2018

What To Watch Tonight? Manifest is turning out better than I expected (check out our recap of last week’s episode here), and there is Constantine: The Legend Continues and The Good Doctor too. But our Top Pick To Watch Tonight is Arrow‘s Season 7 premiere! Also on tonight, worth noting, is The Voice and Monday Night Football!

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What To Watch Tonight – Sunday, October 14, 2018

What to Watch Tonight?!? So many options now on Sunday! With The CW continuing its season premiere roll out, Supergirl‘s season 4 premiere is Our Top Pick to Watch Tonight. Also at the top of our list? The Last Ship at 9pm and YOU on Lifetime at 10pm. We’re also recommending Doctor Who and The Walking Dead. And if none of that does it, you’re probably watching Sunday Night Football! What will you be watching?

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What To Watch Tonight – Friday, October 12, 2018

PCR Favorite, MacGyver, is our Top Pick to Watch Tonight. Also on, Last Man Standing, Hell’s Kitchen, the season premiere of Dynasty and an excellent PBS special, Shakespeare Uncovered.

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TV Recap: Across the Arrowverse – Week 1

Across the Arrowverse
Week 1

Welcome to Across the Arrowverse, a new weekly round up everything that happened this week in the 5 DC superhero shows that air on The CW. We are including Black Lightning in the Arrowverse though its not been explicitly included but c’mon, it’ll happen eventually. And even if it doesn’t, well, you still want to know what’s going on with the Pierce family, admit it! Formate wise, we are going to briefly (for me anyway) recap each episode and then at the end, summarize any cross show references you need to be aware of (e.g., tonight’s The Flash had several Legends of Tomorrow references)

This week saw the season premieres of The Flash and Black Lightning with the other shows coming online in the next two weeks.

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What To Watch Tonight – Thursday, October 11, 2018

What To Watch Tonight? If you’re into sitcoms, Football or Shonda Rhimes, you fucking LOVE Thursday night TV. If not, well, maybe you can catch up on other stuff from earlier in the week. Here at PCR, if it wasn’t for the season 14 premiere of Supernatural, our Top Pick To Watch Tonight, we’d have the TV off tonight and we’d be reading Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.

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What To Watch Tonight – Wednesday, October 10, 2018

What To Watch Tonight? Thank Beebo for The CW! With the season premiere of Riverdale at 8pm and the hotly anticipated series premiere of All American at 9pm, we finally have something to watch before the excellent A Million Little Things, at 10pm.

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What To Watch Tonight – Tuesday, October 9, 2018

What To Watch Tonight? Oh, you’ve got choices! With the season premieres of The Flash and Black Lightning, Tuesday nights are now even more jam packed! At 8, our Top Pick to Watch is the season premiere of The Flash but we’re also hot on The Gifted which is introducing a great new group tonight. At 9pm, we’re picking the season premiere of Black Lightning (catch our recap of the Season 1 finale here) but I know a lot of people are looking for the new FBI and This Is Us. At 10pm, one of the hottest new shows of the Fall, New Amsterdam is our Top Pick To Watch (read our recap of last week’s episode here).

NEW AMSTERDAM — “Every Last Minute” Episode 103 — Pictured: (l-r) Laila Robins as Mrs. Ryland, Ryan Eggold as Dr. Max Goodwin — (Photo by: Virginia Sherwood/NBC)

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TV Recap: Better Call Saul – It’s All Good, Man …

Better Call Saul
“Winner” (Episode 410)
October 8, 2018

Better Call Saul‘s OUTSTANDING fourth season comes to a close tonight and what a wild, transformative season it has been. But, before we get to all that happened tonight, make sure you check out our recap & review of last week’s action here!

All caught up? Great! Without further delay, the season finale of Better Call Saul begins … after the jump (BEWARE SPOILERS)!

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