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.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckCv4_pIEN4
ABC cancelled Last Man Standing and Fox brought it back from the dead. Much to the delight of their fans because more people tuned in to the show on its new home. Tonight at 8p, they lose another cast member and this one will not be recast.
That is because Mike’s (Tim Allen) father passed away, much to his delight because he hated his father, so he cannot wait to get rid of all of his stuff. Things like his dad’s pot dispensary Bud’s Bud. He wants to sell it, but Kristin (Amanda Fuller) and her husband (Jordan Masterson) want to run it. What will he do?
Also on the episode, Kyle (Christoph Sanders) gets a new job in corporate and Mandy (Molly McCook) gives him a makeover that will make him a laughing stock to everyone but his wife.
Side note, still don’t like the new Mandy (and never liked the new Kristin), but I still love the show.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUZ-54J4JEU
Then at 8:30p, it is time to party on The Cool Kids. It is Margaret’s (Vicki Lawrence) birthday. Not just any birthday, but her 65th.
Since she is having a hard time with becoming a senior citizen, Hank (David Alan Grier), Charlie (Martin Mull) and Sid (Leslie Jordan) decide to take her to a young people’s club. Can this oldies but goodies still party like when they did 40 years ago?
You do not want to miss this instant classic with classic sitcom stars to find out!
Over at 8p but on ABC, Fresh Off the Boat is back. Someone is leaving the show and another person is joining it.
Honey (Chelsey Crisp) is going to have her baby while Jessica (Constance Wu) gives birth to hers. Not a fourth child but her book is finally out. Will it be a hit?
Meanwhile, Louis buys an RV, from a famous basketball player, and wants to take his family on a road trip. What could go wrong?
While the three boys are getting older, the show is not getting old. You can say it is like it is still fresh off of the boat.
Then at 8:30p not only is Speechless on a new night but the DiMeos are out of their house. They have nowhere to go, so Kenneth (Cedric Yarbrough) says they can live with him.
A month goes by and the 6 of them are still living together. Jimmy (John Ross Bowie) and Maya (Minnie Driver) know they cannot stay there forever, so she decides to cross the pond and ask her dad (John Cleese) for the money.
Maya has not seen her father in decades and they are not close to put it mildly. He is a grumpy old man and Maya will do anything to get the money from him. Even pretend that she likes him. Will it work?
You don’t want to miss a single second from this two-part season premiere that shows us London and a lot of laughs!
They said the third time is a charm, but not for the third day of the broadcast fall season. Of the screeners I saw for tonight, none of them made me go wow. They kept my interest but nothing groundbreaking.
As I have done for the last two days, I will review the shows from best to worst in my opinion. I have to say, it was a tie for best. When it comes to worst, there was no contest that that goes to A Million Little Things. I don’t know what ABC was thinking by putting the most depressing show on television after four comedies. Seriously?
I will start it off with Single Parents on ABC at 9:30p. It is a new comedy about 5 single parents trying to survive the day by raising their kids without a spouse.
Will Cooper (Taran Killam) and his daughter Sophie (Marlow Barkley) are new to the school and his whole life revolves around his kid. He acts more like a first grader than her dad. Thankfully, the other single parents are there to help him out. But they are only doing it so that he will leave him alone. He is like that lost puppy no one wants but will do anything to have you take him home. You know the type of dog.
Angie (Leighton Meester) used to be like Will, but not anymore. Now she will do anything to have alone time to drink. While Douglas (Brad Garrett) not Doug just want to hang with his dermatologist friends and not his twin daughters. Poppy (Kimrie Lewis) wants Douglas to help her with her son, who is a little eccentric and she accepts him for who he is. Finally, Miggy (Jake Choi) does not have a kid in the first grade like the others, they have adopted him and his baby boy into their group.
Even though they don’t want to hear that it takes a village to raise a family, it really does. Good thing they have each other in this endearing comedy that could become an ABC staple.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Wbt1wXGccw
Then at 8p on Fox, Empire is back on Fox and the 2-year time jump helps to breath new life into the show as more people die.
As you just read, the drama starts the season off 2 years after the season finale. Lucious (Terrence Howard) and Cookie (Taraji P. Hensen) are nearly broke without Empire and they are trying to start their own record label. Andre (Trai Byers) is in jail and Jamal (Jussie Smollett) is in London with a new love.
The Lyons are all over the place and something needs to get them back together. How about another death? Is that person the one in the coffin? Who is in that coffin?
I have seen the first two episodes of the season, and it feels as good as it during the first season. The restart is just what they needed and you do not want to miss it.
To read the reviews of the other shows, then click here!
