Kristen Schaal was on Conan yesterday to talk about The Last Man on Earth that is back on Fox this Sunday, and she told him about eating crickets on the show. So the TBS host wanted to know if she had to eat real crickets when they filmed the scene. She told him that swallowed about 50-60 of them by the time they were through. Why? As she explained, “I’ll put anything in my mouth for a laugh.”
Then it was time to move on from her to her co-star Will Forte, he asked for the fake crickets to munch on for his scene. They were dates with agave that looked like the real thing and no one told her. Don’t feel too bad for her because by the end of eating all of those buggers, she took a liking to them. So much so, she eats them regularly now and brought some on the TBS talk show for Conan O’Brien and Andy Richter to try. O’Brien wasn’t having any of it, but the sidekick thought he would give it a try. He didn’t mind them, even after she told the weird feeling you get when an antenna gets stuck in your throat. Richter pulled one off of his tongue and he describe it as “like a pube.” Which brings us back how Schaal will put anything in her mouth for a laugh.
BTW I don’t care how yummy they look, there is no way you can get me to eat one. I shudder just thinking about putting the creepy crawly that won’t shut up in my mouth. Would you, could you eat one?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FhhYJXV508A Rosewood is Fox’s latest procedural and it feels like it is trapped in the ’80s.
Rosewood (Morris Chestnut) is a medical examiner in Miami and he is obsessed with death. There is a reason he is so obsessed and you will find out by the end of the episode.
Everyone in Miami PD is used to him and letting him tag along with them. That is until the recently transferred Det. Annalise Villa (Jaina Lee Ortiz) joins the force. She hates death and she hates working with Rosewood. When she realizes she has no choice, she takes him with her but she makes things difficult. Then when they solve the murder, she is OK with working him.
Rosewood is a cross between Miami Vice and Dexter, but it is more Miami Vice than Dexter.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYGVpAyObYw
Then at 9p, the moment you’ve been waiting for all summer is here, Empire is back! I ain’t going to tell you too much because I don’t want you to go all Cookie on me.
The season premiere picks up a few months after the finale Lucious (Terrence Howard) is in jail, Jamal (Jussie Smollett) is the head of Empire but Cookie is running things. Dre (Trai Byers) and Hakeem (Bryshere Y. Gray) are not happy about their little brother being in charge and things are going to get crazy!
That is why we love Empire, it is just as good at being bad as it was last season. What more could we ask for?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FtenR69qmk Scream Queens debuts on Fox tonight at 8p and it is the only new show of the season that left me wanting more episodes.
Back in 1995, a KKT sorority sister gave birth to a secret baby and died within minutes of the birth. No one did anything to help her and it looks like someone is getting revenge for her death.
Now 20 years later, KKT is run by Chanel (Emma Roberts) and her Chanels (Ariana Grande, Abigail Breslin and Billie Lourd). They are an elitist sorority, but that is all about to change when Dean Munsch (Jamie Lee Curtis) tells them that they must let anyone who wants to join, in. That makes Chanel go ballistic.
The main pledges are Grace (Skyler Samuels) who is a legacy, Zaydya (Keke Palmer) her roommate and Hester “Neckbrace” (Lea Michele) need I say more?. Pledging is going to be killer as in someone in a devil suit is going around killing off the sisters one by one. Who? Well we all need a little mystery in our life.
The show isn’t only an estrogen rush, there are several men on the show too. Wes (Oliver Hudson) is Grace’s dad, Chad (Glen Powell) Chanel’s boyfriend and head of the top fraternity and his best friend Boone (Nick Jonas).
Jonas is the star of this show and Niecy Nash is a close second. She is the security for hire that is brought in to protect the girls from the devilish killer.
If you love ’80s horror slasher films that are just as much about the kills as the laughs, then you going to love this show. So get the popcorn, a lover to pretend to comfort you and enjoy the best new show of the fall season.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fLl-DMzxrk
I have to start off my review by admitting I have never seen the movie Minority Report, so I went into the Fox show blind. I don’t know if that helped or hurt me, but I really enjoyed the show that debuts at 9p tonight.
Three kids (Agatha and twin boys Dash and Arthur) were born brain dead because their parents were drug addicts, but science found a way to save them and give them back their lives. Then one day the three of them started having visions and they are able to see murders before they happened. When the scientists realize what they could do, they hooked the Precogs up to machines and for 10 years they were left in a pool of water only to solve crimes before they happened. When science was done with them because there is no crime left, they are shipped off to an island and never to be heard from again.
Or so they thought. It is now 2065, Dash (Stark Sands) left the island and is living in a big city. He can see how people will die, but his brother knows all the details. Without Arthur (Nick Zano), Dash can’t always solve the murders. Arthur is a successful businessman and he doesn’t want anything to do with his past. Agatha (Laura Regan) on the other hand wishes Dash would stop using his gift and remain hidden.
One day, Dash gets to a murder too late and he tries to help the detective find the murderer. Detective Lara Vega (Meagan Good) is suspicious of him until she realizes he is a Precog. Now they are working together to solve crimes. He has the visions and she has the know how and that makes them the perfect team in this thrilling procedural.
The best way to describe Minority Report, is that is a cross between Sleepy Hollow and Almost Human. If you like those shows, then you are going to like this one too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5dU8OHO5zc
Then at 10p over at ABC, Castle is back and there will be a lot of changes coming this season.
Castle (Nathan Fillion) gives Beckett (Stana Katic) a gorgeous bracelet for her first day as a Captain. She has to go to One Police Plaze before going to work, but she never shows up. Later on when he is called to a bloody murder, he finds her bracelet in the blood. Now, she is missing and it looks she is working with the person who committed the murders.
While at the crime scene, Castle, Ryan (Seamus Dever) and Javi (Jon Huertas) come across a woman and Hayley (Toks Olagundoye) is a quick-witted, free-spirited, former Scotland Yard police officer. Everyone is suspicious of her but they still work with her. After all it is Beckett, and they will do anything to find her before it is too late.
This year’s season premiere feels a lot like last year’s and I didn’t like the whole Castle missing story last year. In other words, I am not liking the changes they made even though I like Toks Olagundoye.
Long before Jamie Lee Curtis was a Scream Queen because of Halloween, her mom, Janet Leigh, was one of the original Scream Queens because of Psycho. Now 55 years, she is recreating her mother’s infamous shower scene for Fox’s Scream Queens. Looking at this one still she shared from it, her mother would be so proud of her daughter because it is perfect. Sorry Anne Heche, it is in Curtis’ blood and not just the blood that went down the shower drain.
Scream Queens debuts September 22nd at 8p on Fox with a 2 hour screamtastic premiere.
