For most the summer A Million Little Things was the worst new show of the season. Then I saw a comedy and a drama that were worse. Well, I guess even though I hated the show, a few million people disagreed with me. That is because ABC picked up the depressing drama for 4 more episodes. They say it is a full season, but on average a full season is 18-22+ episodes.
Which makes me think that this is a placeholder because Rookie is not doing as well as they expected.
I will say two positive things about the show, it has a great cast and excellent music.
Last week, NBC picked up Manifest for a full season and CBS did the same with FBI. Today, we raise a wine glass to Single Parents because ABC asked them to stick around too.
Is the news a surprise? Nope, because it continually does well after Modern Family. As it should because it gets better with each episode. While the pilot was a little better than OK, the second episode and third episodes were better than the ones before it.
A big reason why is that there is a lot of chemistry between the cast. They play really well off of each other which makes the brilliant lines given to them even funnier.
If you have never seen the show, then check it out tonight at 9:30p on ABC. I promise you will get a few laughs from it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5-0wgrWB9g
After The Conners at 8p on ABC, it is time to get to know The Clearys in The Kids Are Alright. They are an Irish-Catholic family trying to survive in 1972.
Mike Cleary (Michael Cudlitz) and Peggy (Mary McCormack) are the parents to seven boys and they are trying to get them to all turn out OK. The oldest one was studying to be a priest, but not he has dropped out of school and moved home. The middle one is has a sense for drama and wants to be more artsy.
I would give more of a description but after watching two episodes, I don’t know or care what it is about and who any of the boys are. Too many kids and none that stand out like they were able to do on Just the Ten of Us. Talking about old sitcoms, it reminds me of The Wonder Years, but not as good.
Therefore, ABC better hope The Conners is a smash hit because their Tuesday night is going to need it.
Then at 9p, Black-ish is back for its 5th season. Now that they sent Zoey (Yara Shahidi) away to a Grown-ish college, it is time for Junior to do the same.
Since Marcus Scribner did not get his own sitcom and they cannot lose another kid, he has decided to take a gap year. When Dre (Anthony Anderson) and Bow (Tracee Ellis Ross) find out about it, they lose it. They do everything to get him to go back to school. Who will win this fight?
Now that Jack (Miles Brown) and Diane (Marsai Martin) are getting older, the twins begin to ponder if the should they should no longer share a bedroom together.
Black-ish remains consistent and ABC needs to this on this night.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9K06dCP-lc
Then at 10p, Nathan Fillion returns to ABC on The Rookie. Instead of playing a consultant to the NYPD, now he is a cop working for the LAPD.
John Nolan (Fillion) life seems over because he and his wife get divorced. On the day the divorce is final, the bank he is in gets held up. He confronts the bank robber and decides to move across the country to become a cop. Something that is not as easy to do when you are 40.
Now that he has finished the academy, it is time for him to work the beat. He gets assigned to Talia Bishop (Afton Williamson) and she is not going to make his life easy. Don’t worry he will not make her life easy either. He is over eager, over the hill and under experienced. Three things that will get them both in trouble.
Are the streets safer with him on them or more dangerous? You will have to tune in to find out.
The Rookie is your average cop show from the ’90s. Nothing great, but nothing that makes you say I have to watch it every week like you did Castle. If you want something to help put you to sleep on Tuesday nights, then this is perfect for you.
Jenna Fischer, Oliver Hudson, Dean Holland, Lindsay Prince and Bobby Lee saw some red lockers and they knew what they had to do. The cast of Splitting Up Together had to recreate the poses that the cast of The Breakfast Club made over 30 years ago.
How did they do? Even Assistant Principal Vernon would excuse them from detention.
Hopefully tonight at 9:30p on ABC, there will be two hits. Them hitting the airwaves, and then them being a hit!
And can we talk about how Oliver Hudson is so a John Bender? Actually, they are all like the characters they chose to pose as.
https://youtu.be/5b-f9HFciO8
Tonight at 10p on NBC, we get to know two more passengers on Flight 828 on Manifest. One, who we knew was on the plane, and one we did not know about. What secret does that person have?
While we get to know more about the passengers, we also get to know Olive (Luna Blaise). She gets in trouble and calls her mom boyfriend to bail her out instead of her dad. When her dad (Josh Dallas) finds out about his daughter, he goes to rescue her. Only to run into Olive and the man she also thinks of as a father. Can we say awkward?
Talking about awkward, Michaela (Melissa Roxburgh), is assigned to a stakeout with her ex-boyfriend (Alfredo Narciso). When she gets one of her visions, it puts both of them in harm’s way. What will this vision cost them?
All of this leads up to next week’s episode that shows us what happened to people who were not on the plane during those 5 years. There is a reason why this show is the #1 new show, it is that good. If you have not seen it, then catch up on the NBC app.
Also at 10p but over on ABC is The Good Doctor. Tonight, we get to know more about Dr. Glassman (Richard Schiff) as he talks to the ghost of his dead daughter. Since he is sleep deprived after his surgery, his conscience has brought her back to him. The two did not have it easy when she was alive and Shaun (Freddie Highmore) is part of the reason why. Is she there to help her father or to help him break on through to the other side.
Shaun and Dr. Melendez (Nicholas Gonzalez) are assigned to a case that tells us a lot of new things about the two doctors. We get to meet the woman that raised Shaun before he moved in with Dr. Glassman. She had an impact on him and that will help him tonight. But not as much as what we are going to learn about Dr. Melendez.
That foster mom is not the only woman who has been in Shaun’s life, Lea (Paige Spara) is the other one. She tells Shaun she is moving out, and he does not know how to handle that. He does something shocking to win her back.
The first three episodes of this season were a letdown, but tonight more than makes up for them.
