Prime Video released the first trailer for the third season of The Boys, and my heart is racing.
It is going to be action-packed with the addition of Jensen Ackles. It is almost too much to handle. But I will find a way to do it. Because the anti-Superhero series is just that good.
So mark your calendars because you are not going to want to miss the season premiere on June 3rd.
The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel is back with new episodes on Prime Video tomorrow, but today we are already getting news about the fifth season. And the news is not funny like Mrs. Maisel herself. That is because it will be the series’ final season.
“Amy, Dan, and The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel have blazed an unparalleled path, elevating the stories we tell about women, challenging the norms in our industry, and forever altering the entertainment landscape with their one-of-a-kind storytelling,” said Jennifer Salke, head of Amazon Studios. “The dozens of awards cement Maisel’s legacy in many ways, but what’s even more enduring and poignant are the characters Amy created and the joyous, brilliant, singular world she and Dan brought to life. This series has meant so much to Prime Video and the effects of its success will be felt long after its final season. I can’t wait for fans and our worldwide Prime Video audience to savor each moment as we embark on the culmination of this groundbreaking and unforgettable series.”
Before we get to season five, we still have to get through season four. The first two episodes are about to start streaming. And they take place shortly after Midge (Rachel Brosnahan) was left on the tarmac.
Midge is in a taxi with Susie (Alex Borstein), and she is declaring that her career is over. Therefore, she needs the money that she asked her manager to hold for her. The money her manager has spent. So how is Suzie going to get it back?
Better yet, how is Susie going to book Midge if she has been blacklisted? If it were up to Midge, she will only be a headliner. The only thing is that it is a man’s world, and she is a woman. So, she is going to try to take them on. Can she win at their game?
Talking about games, Midge and her whole family go to Coney Island to celebrate her son’s new birthday because his grandparents didn’t like his old one. All I will tell you is the scene on Wonder Wheel had me laughing hysterically. As an NYer, I could totally appreciate it.
As I did the scene where her parents (Tony Shaloub and Marin Hinkle) come up with a story how they bought the apartment back for Midge, instead of the other way around. Shaloub and Hinkle steal every scene they are in.
If this is what we are getting with the first two episodes of the season, I can’t wait to see what else we get in the next six that will be premiering two a week every Friday until March 11th.
CBS parted ways with the American Country Music awards, and Prime Video picked it up. Therefore, they wanted to go big, and they are. They asked Dolly Parton if she would do it, and she said yes!
Actually she said, “I am so excited to be hosting the ACM Awards on March 7 from Vegas. Watch for us because we’re going to have some fun.”
I am not a huge fan of Country Music or awards shows, but I am going to be watching this one because of Miss Dolly.
However, I don’t know why they think she needs co-hosts to help her. She can do it all by herself unless they are thinking of asking Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin to do it!
One last note, the reason why they were able to get Parton to do it, is she releasing her album Run Rose Run on March 4th. You can get exclusive merchandise on Amazon to go with the record and the book which accompanies it that comes out on April 5th.
Prime Video has a new show streaming now called As We See It, and it is something that everyone should watch. It is the story of three people in their 20’s with Autism who are living together in an assisted apartment with an aide who is going to teach them to how to be independent.
The show was created by Jason Katims, who has an autistic child. Therefore, he wanted to make sure that the program was authentic. The series’ lead actors, Rick Glassman, Sue Ann Pien, and Albert Rutecki, are all on the spectrum. Joe Mantegna, who plays the father of Glassman’s character, has a child with Autism in her mid-20’s.
This is not Music. This is as real as you get. Because of that, you get a show that normalizes Autism and demonstrates the struggles they have in their daily lives. Lives that are not much different than ours.
As I said, it is a show about three people with Autism living together. So who are these roommates?
There is Jack (Glassman), who has Asperger’s, and he has no social skills. He has just gotten fired from his job because he pretty much called his boss an idiot. If his day cannot get any worse, his father (Mantenga) tells him that he has cancer. This news sends Jack into a tailspin. He needs to know everything about his father’s health, and he doesn’t care if he pisses off the doctor and his staff. Luckily for Jack, there is a nurse (Délé Ogundiran) in the office who is going to help Jack in more ways than just his dad’s healthcare. She is going to teach him empathy and how to better interact with people.
Jack’s father needs to find a guardian for his son in case the cancer treatment doesn’t work. There is a heartwrenching episode when he asks his sister to take care of her nephew. Also, the scenes between Glassman and Mantegna are so beautiful because you see a dad trying to do everything for his son, but his son can’t show appreciation. However, Jack does find a way to do it. That will just grab at your heartstrings.
Violet (Pien) is the only girl in the apartment, and she desperately wants a boyfriend. She looks like any 25-year-old, but she has the maturity of a 15-year-old. And like a teen of that age, she thinks she can do whatever she wants. That is why her brother (Chris Pang) is really strict and protective of her so that she doesn’t get hurt by boys. Her brother is her guardian because their parents are dead. He cares so much about his sister, it is causing him problems with his girlfriend.
Like most spoiled teens, Violet has uncontrollable outbursts. One of them even costs her job at Arby’s, where she met a guy who is interested in her.
Finally, there is Harrison (Rutecki). He is a sweet man, but he is afraid of going outside. He also has problems interacting with people because he is shy. However, he befriends a neighbor who is a young boy with a single mother. Even though she is not around that much, she doesn’t want her son hanging out with Harrison. Like Violet, he is very immature for his age.
There is one more person in the apartment, and that is their aide Mandy (Sosie Bacon). She wants to go to medical school to work with autistic people, but for now, she is working with these three. She is really good with them because she treats them as equals as she teaches them how to become more independent. She is working with Harrison to go outside. She is a friend to Violet as she shares her wisdom with her about matters like boys. And her most challenging job is teaching Jack how to care about other people besides himself and see how his interactions with people can hurt them.
She is putting all of her heart into them, and it might cost her boyfriend, who is moving away. He wants her to come with him, but she is torn. Should she stay with these three people to who she has grown extremely close, or should he move away and be with the man that she might marry?
No matter what life throws at them, they have each other. By learning to accept their challenges individually, they are also helping each other grow as a group. They are like a family who is always going to be there for each other because no one else will understand what they are going through besides people like them.
Sometimes you watch a show, and you know it is going to make a difference in the world. As We See It is one of the shows. So, see it, and then tell other people to see it.
In the last 45 years, we, as a society, have become more aware of Autism and not something we just hideaway. Therefore, we are seeing a lot more of it, but that doesn’t mean we know a lot about it. It is programs like this that are going to help to normalize it.
Katims is giving us a teaching tool with a lot of heart that is also entertaining. I binged the show in less than a day because I couldn’t wait to find out what happens next. So spend the day watching a series that will change your outlook for the better.
Are you bummed that you have to wait until June for new episodes of The Boys on Prime Video? Well, today, they announced that we will be getting an animated spinoff before that.
The Boys Presents: Diabolical is going to release all the episodes for the first season on March 4th. We don’t know much about the eight episodes, but we do know that they run about 13 minutes and will reveal unseen stories within The Boys Universe.
We also can tell from this short clip that is going to be a lot of fun, just like the Emmy-nominated anti-Superhero series. I can’t wait to watch it with the Superhero loving kids in my life. That is what they get for making me sit through all of those Marvel Universe movies.
