All American
“m.A.A.d. City” (Episode 110)
January 23, 2019
Last week, we laid Shawn to rest while Spencer realized the important of being a hope for his community; to keep one foot in Crenshaw and one foot in Beverly Hills. Catch up on all of the action from last week with our deep dive recap and review here.
Photo: Jesse Giddings/The CW
Now, on to Episode 10 of All American, “m.A.A.d. City” … BEWARE OF SPOILERS!
What To Watch Tonight? We’ve got all the great TV tonight! Arrow, The Passage (read our recap and review of last week’s episode here), and an all new Manifest top our list for the night. Also high on the list, the series premiere of I Am The Night (which we’ll be recapping), a great new, limited series suspense thriller on TNT.
Also on tonight, all new Black Lightning, The Good Doctor, and The Resident. What are you watching?!?
What To Watch Tonight? With excitement (and not a little trepidation), we will be sitting down to watch RENT on Fox, the latest Live musical broadcast to come to network TV. We love this show so much, we’re hoping Fox doesn’t fuck it up. If musicals aren’t for you, you have Supergirl, True Detective, Outlander, Counterpart, and Crashing . What are you watching?
Not on our list tonight but perhaps of interest, the 25th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards will be airing on TBS all night. The SAGs will be hosted by Megan Mullally, and Alan Alda will receive a Life Achievement Award.
1st Choice: RENT. Live. “The Tony Award- and Pulitzer Prize-winning musical is a re-imagining of Puccini’s “La Bohème.” Set in New York City’s gritty East Village, it tells the story of seven artists struggling to follow their dreams during a time of great social and political turmoil.” Fox
2nd Choice: Supergirl. “Kara joins Nia on a trip to Nia’s hometown to visit her family during the town’s annual Harvest Festival. While home, Nia’s mother encourages her daughter to embrace her destiny. Meanwhile, Alex deals with a street drug that is turning people violent and giving them temporary superpowers.” The CW
3rd Choice: Outlander. “Season finale. Jamie, Claire and Young Ian’s attempt to rescue Roger from his Mohawk captors goes awry when a ghost from Claire’s past lays waste to their plan. Meanwhile, Brianna worries Claire, Jamie and Roger might not return.” Starz
9pm Hour:
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1st Choice: RENT. Continues on Fox.
2nd Choice: True Detective. “Hays and West see a possible connection between the local church and the Purcell crimes. As the detectives search for one suspect and round up another for interrogation, Woodard is targeted by a vigilante group.” HBO
3rd Choice: Valley of the Boom. “Episode 5 -Segfault. A close look at “the culture of speculation, innovation and debauchery that led to the rapid inflation and burst of the 1990s tech bubble. The series features interviews with many of the people depicted in the dramatized portions of the production in addition to other Internet personalities such as Mark Cuban and Arianna Huffington.” Nat Geo
10pm Hour:
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1st Choice: RENT. Continues on Fox.
2nd Choice: Crashing. “Pete feels like his time away from New York has taken him out of the scene, so he accepts an offer to perform at a Jewish show, where Elon Gold and Modi question his impulsive behavior with a woman he met earlier that day.” HBO
3rd Choice: Valley of the Boom. Episode 6 -fatal error. “Jim Barksdale continues the antitrust case, and Pixelon’s tech fails.” Nat Geo
Tomorrow night, Fox is going to air a Live production of the seminal Broadway classic, RENT. This follows a now annual trend between NBC and Fox where the networks alternate taking classic musicals and air them Live on a Sunday night for the masses to ingest. After years of taking on “edgy” picks like Sound of Music, The Wiz, Peter Pan, and Grease, the powers that be have now decided to do … RENT. I have some strong feelings about it.
What To Watch Tonight? Yikes! After a few weeks of pretty good choices on Friday night, tonight hits like a ton of bricks. No new MacGyver, Blindspot, The Blacklist or Hawaii Five-0 kind of guts the night. The Top Pick to Watch Tonight is Dynasty, which is back from Winter break. Or, maybe you’re needing an Olympics event fix and you’re watching Ladies’Figure Skating: US Championships. Maybe Hell’s Kitchen? What are you watching?
The Magicians
“A Flock of Lost Birds” (Episode 401)
January 23, 2019
The Magicians is back! Well, the show is back but most of our magicians are still stuck in other identities. You can catch up on where we left off last season with our deep dive recap and review here.
In short, magic is back in the world but it’s being rationed by The Library overlords. The magicians, other than Alice who is in Library prison, have been mind scrambled by a Dean Fogg spell. Oh, and the Monster that lived in the castle at the end of the world is inhabiting Eliot’s body. No bigs.
On to the Season 4 premiere of The Magicians, “A Flock of Lost Birds” … BEWARE OF SPOILERS!
THE MAGICIANS — “A Flock of Lost Birds” Episode 401 — Pictured: Olivia Taylor Dudley as Alice — (Photo by: Eric Milner/SYFY)
Manifest
“S.N.A.F.U.” (Episode 107)
November 12, 2018
If you aren’t caught up on Manifest, you can read the last review here!
Here is a list of passengers we have met so far:
Michaela Stone: police officer whose fiancé married her best friend while she was missing, Ben’s sister, hearing voices and seeing things since returning
Ben Stone: Michaela’s brother and father to Cal, hearing music and voices in his head since returning
Cal Stone: Ben’s son, Leukemia patient – condition hasn’t changed in 5 years due to flight, treatment from Saanvi’s research may cure him
Saanvi Bahl: Doctor, working on cancer research, led to breakthrough on cancer treatment 5 years prior, right before the flight. Now seeing things.
Radd: Went to Jamaica to play for philharmonic, left son behind
Kelly Taylor: Gave interviews with reporters, shot at end of episode 2. Dead.
Bethany Collins: flight attendant, helped Thomas leave Jamaica and come to the US
Thomas: Stowaway on Flight 828, dated Bethany’s cousin
Dr. Fiona Clarke: professor
Marko Valeriev: Bulgarian, being held at facility along with several other passengers
Anna Ross: translator, helped Marko understand custom forms
What To Watch Tonight? Our Top Pick To Watch Tonight is the season premiere of Siren on Freeform. Also high on the list, the all new The Orville. Also on, all new Gotham, Supernatural, Legacies and A Million Little Things. Online, a new episode of Star Trek: Discovery premieres on CBS All Access.
What To Watch Tonight? Our Top Pick To Watch Tonight is the series premiere of The Magicians (check out all of our The Magicians content here). Another Top Pick is Deadly Class which comes on right after The Magicians premiere. Also on, All American (our latest recap is here), Riverdale, Vikings, Gordon Ramsay’s 24 Hours to Hell & Back, and The Dictator’S Playbook.
THE MAGICIANS — Pictured: Hale Appleman as Eliot Waugh — (Photo by: Eric Milner/SYFY)
The 91st Academy Awards
2019 Nominations
January 22, 2019
Early this morning, The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (the “Academy”) announced its nominations for the 91st Annual Academy Awards. You know them better as the Oscars. The awards ceremony, which will be held on Sunday, February 24, 2019 at the Dolby Theatre at the Hollywood & Highland Center, honor those movies that were released in 2018.
The nominations were announced live from the Academy’s headquarters in Beverly Hills by Kumail Nanjiani and Tracee Ellis Ross.
Kumail Nanjiani (left) and Tracee Ellis Ross announce the nominees for the 91st Annual Academy Awards in Beverly Hills, on Tuesday, January 22, 2019.
We have posted the “Big Categories” below along with PCR’s picks (not necessarily what we think will win). If Sound Mixing really floats your boat, you can head here for a handy dandy one sheet on ALL of the nominees.
