Must See Thursday is back on several networks, so you don’t want to miss your favorite shows’ season premieres.
As I have done the previous days, I am reviewing the shows, in my order, of best to worst. Tonight is the first night where there is nothing that bad.
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At 8p, The Good Place is back on NBC with a full-hour season premiere. The episode starts off with Michael (Ted Danson) going back to earth to save Elanor (Kristen Bell), Chidi (William Jackson Harper), Tahani (Jameela Jamil) and Jason (Manny Jacinto) from their original deaths.
Now that they are getting a second chance of life, will they make the most of it? Fast forward a year and things are not looking good. Thus, Michael goes back down to earth to get the four of them together again. How will he do it? What has happened in the last year? You will see it all unfold tonight.
The Good Place is not only my favorite show of the night, but it is also my favorite show of broadcast. Want to see why then watch. You can catch up on the first two seasons on the NBC app or Netflix. You will not be disappointed!
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Also at 8p but on CBS, it is time for Amy (Mayim Bialik) and Sheldon (Jim Parsons) to be reunited with the gang on The Big Bang Theory. Not only that, they get to open their wedding presents.
Leonard (Johnny Galecki) and Penny (Kaley Cuoco) gave them the perfect gift. One the newlyweds have no idea what it is, but they will doing anything to figure it out.
Stuart (Kevin Sussman) is getting ready for his date and things do not go well. You have to see it to believe it.
Then there is Raj (Kunal Nayyar), who by the episode, Raj will make a huge decision.
Two episodes into the final season of Big Bang Theory and I am sad to see it go because it is starting off really strong.
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Then at 8:30p, Young Sheldon (Iain Armitage) gets some competition in Dr. John Sturgis’ (Wallace Shawn) class. A girl, who is as smart as him, and she is also younger than him. Needless to say, he does not like it.
When his parents (Zoe Perry, Lance Barber) find out about her, they invite her family over. They paint her to be perfect as compared to their son. But is she better than our Sheldon?
You don’t want to miss it to find out.
The only reason why Law & Order: SVU is down here is because I prefer comedies over procedurals. But this procedural, that begins its 20th season tonight at 9p with a 2-hour season premiere on NBC, deserves respect.
A teenage boy goes hunting with his dad (Dylan Walsh). When he cannot kill a bunny, his father rapes him. He wants his son to be a man. How far will his son go to prove he is a man?
That is what Benson (Mariska Hargitay), Rollins (Kelli Giddish) and Stone (Philip Winchester) will have to try to prevent from happening. In a case that will forever touch all of them.
Finally, there is Murphy Brown that is back on CBS tonight at 9:30p. While the revival feels the same as it did 20 years ago, it has a big problem for me. It is way too political.
I watch scripted TV to get away from Donald Trump, not to hear about it again. Plus, it makes the sitcom feel dated. It won’t even well play in repeats in the coming months, let alone in a few years. The original touched on politics, but this is all over it. Way too much for me after watching the first three episodes.
While I will tune out because of all of the Trump jokes, I am sure many will tune in because of it. Depending on how many will tune in for it, will depend on how much further they will go with it. Low ratings will mean a change and I am rooting for that because I am rooting for the show.
On CBS’s SWAT Louis Ferrigno Jr. plays a tough guy, but in real life, he is a big old softie. Especially if he holds a meowvelous little kitten.
This video is so sweet that it could even make The Hulk turn back into Bruce Banner. That’s right, Louis Ferrigno is his dad. And hopefully, his dad became a grandfurther, as in Jr. adopted that precious baby. They are a purrfect a pair!
Now that you are in love with the actor, make sure to watch him on SWAT at 10p.
Tonight is the second night of the fall season and it is the worst night of television on all of the networks except for NBC. Tonight, we will be crying over This Is Us and tomorrow the heads of ABC, CBS and Fox will be crying over their how bad their shows are.
As I did yesterday and will continue to do, I will do my opinion of best to worst and tonight is a lot of worse.
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I will start off with New Amsterdam that debuts at 10p on NBC. It is my favorite new show of the season. It was the only pilot that made me cry. That is because there is a lot of heart in the medical drama. It is not too focused on medical procedures or being a soap opera. It is about the patient as an individual and the doctors who want to make them feel better.
Dr. Max Goodwin (Ryan Eggold) is the brand medical director at Bellevue Hospital in NYC. He is going to shake things up at his new job. He tells the doctors put the patient before billing and he means it. He fires the whole cardiac surgical unit because that is what they do.
He wants to hear what the doctors want, so they can make the hospital a better place. The doctors are more than willing to do it, and it is starting to make them better doctors. How long can they do this before the money people make them stop? Not only that Dr. Goodwin has a secret of his own, one that might limit how long he stays at the hospital.
Thankfully he has a lot of good doctors to back him up like Dr. Hana Sharpe (Freema Agyeman), Dr. Laura Bloom (Janet Montgomery), Dr. Floyd Pearson (Jocko Sims), Dr. Anil Kapoor (Anupam Kher) and Dr. Iggy Frome (Tyler Labine).
I just love the feel of the show because it is a medical drama but not one that makes you feel like you might get diagnosed with one the unusual illnesses they have. Plus, Ryan Eggold plays the role so brilliantly. He is one of them, while also being their boss. You can feel the compassion in his performance.
Actually, you feel the compassion about the whole show and that is why it is my favorite new show of the season.
It is the first Monday after the Emmys and that means it is time for the start of the fall season on broadcast TV. As much as this pains to me say, this is the weakest one for new shows in a really long time. Since there are a lot of shows premiering over the next few weeks, I am going to put them all in one post on a daily basis from, what I think is, best to worst.
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The best show of the night goes to a new one and that is Manifest that debuts on NBC at 10p. Michaela (Melissa Roxburgh) and her family went on vacation with her brother, Ben (Josh Dallas), his wife Grace (Athena Karkanis), their twins, Cal (Jack Messina) and Olive (Luna Blaise) and their parents (Malachy Cleary and Geraldine Leer) and it is time to go home.
Michaela is ready to get home, but she will do anything not to travel with her nagging mom. When the airline opens up 4 seats, she decides to go along with her brother and his son who is battling cancer. Cal’s diagnosis is grim, so Ben wants to spend some time alone with him. They just have no idea what will happen next.
Their flight seems normal until they hit some turbulence. Once things level out, it is time to land at JFK. Air traffic control tells them to land at a nearby airport instead. When they get there, they find out that it has been 5 and 1/2 years since they took off. No one has aged a day in that time, while everyone else on the ground, including their family, has.
After several hours of quarantine, the passengers are reunited with their families. Now, they have to adjust to being together again. That is not the only difference, they start hearing a voice in their head that tells them to do something. They do not understand and that is something we are going to find out.
While I really like the pilot, I am cautionary optimistic because we have been down this road before with sci-fi shows. They give a good pilot and then it is all downhill from there. Hopefully, this will break that pattern. Please break the pattern because there is a lot of potential here.
For the rest of tonight’s reviews, then click here!
CBS announced today the 20 contestants who will be competing on the 37th season of Survivor, and there are some familiar names on the show. Those names are Elizabeth Olsen and Natalie Cole. They are just not the Elizabeth Olsen and Natalie Cole we know. Olsen is a 31-year-old from Texas who works in the kitchen. While Cole, 56, is from LA and she is a publishing CEO.
The theme for this season is David vs Goliath. Which means, the new castaways are “divided into two groups of 10 strangers. Castaways who make up the David tribe have overcome adversity in their lives, while the castaways on the Goliath tribe tend to capitalize on their individual advantages and use it against their opponents. This extreme game of social politics will focus on the underdogs versus the favorites and reveal that every Goliath has an Achilles heel, while every David has a secret. weapon.
Still sounds confusing to me. I am sure it will all make more sense when they explain it during the 90-minute season premiere on September 26th.
To see who will be competing on the Mamanuca Islands in Fiji, then click here!
