Last week, we got to meet the new faithfuls and The Traitors during the three-episode premiere of Peacock.
The 21 contestants are: Carsten “Bergie” Bergersen (Love Island USA), Chris ‘C.T.’ Tamburello (The Challenge), Dan Gheesling (Big Brother), Deontay Wilder (FMR Boxing Heavyweight Champion), Ekin-Su Cülcüloğlu (Love Island UK)Janelle Pierzina (Big Brother), Johnny “Bananas” Devenanzio (The Challenge), John Bercow (FMR Speaker of the UK House of Commons), Kevin Kreider (Bling Empire), Larsa Pippen (The Real Housewives of Miami), Marcus Jordan (Fashion Entrepreneur), Maksim Chmerkovskiy (Dancing with the Stars), Mercedes “MJ” Javid (Shahs of Sunset), Parvati Shallow (Survivor), Peppermint (RuPaul’s Drag Race), Peter Weber (The Bachelor), Phaedra Parks (Married to Medicine), Sandra Diaz-Twine (Survivor), Shereé Whitfield (The Real Housewives of Atlanta), Tamra Judge (The Real Housewives of Orange County), and Trishelle Cannatella (The Challenge)
During the first three episodes, we sadly got to say goodbye to Johnny Bananas, Peppermint, Maksim Chmerkovskiy, and Marcus Jordan via banishment or death.
What am I talking about? Basically, 21 people move into a Scottish mansion, and they are given a role. They are either chosen to be a traitor or faithful. If they are selected as a traitor, then they have to hide their identity from all of the faithfuls for the rest of the game.
In each episode, there will be a banishment round, where the contestants eliminate who they think is a traitor. But they are basically guessing. And they are going to guess incorrectly more than correctly.
After the banishment ceremony, the traitors choose to kill someone off. Last week, host Alan Cummings told the traitors they will have to murder someone in plain sight, and that task was given to Traitor Parvati.
When episode 3 ended, she was trying to find someone to drink from her poisonous cup. Tonight at 9p, we will find out who drank from the cup of death.
Will that murder lead to a traitor being banished? I can’t tell you! I can tell you to be prepared for some twists because the producers like to change things up. And that is what keeps this international phenomenon so exciting.
So tune in for an unforgettable funeral that will either leave the contestants with $20,000 more in the pot or with nothing added to it.
But I have said too much, and I don’t want a black rose…
One last thing. I started watching this series two weeks ago, so I was very late to the game.
After I binged the first US season in a day, I immediately did the same with Australia and The UK on Peacock. It is so good, I needed more. And I got it. Now, I am getting a slower fix with the second US season, which will be releasing one episode a week until the season finale. And then, when it is done, we will get the second UK season, which I have read is even better than the first one. And I am going to sound like a bad American, but The UK’s is by the best of the three.
When Seth MacFarlane and I were kids, family sitcoms were so sugary sweet that you got a cavity watching them.
But let’s be honest. Our families were nothing like the Cleavers, the Bradys, or the Huxtables. But then again, Bill Cosby was nothing like Cliff Huxtable, as we now know.
Anyways, the kids of today are getting a sitcom that is more like their home life on January 11th.
Seth MacFarlane is bringing his naughty, trash-talking, pot-smoking, beer-drinking, talking Teddybear Ted to the small screen for a seven-episode event on Peacock.
In this comedic prequel event series to the Ted films, it’s 1993, and Ted the Bear’s (Seth MacFarlane) moment of fame has passed. He’s now living back home in Framingham, Massachusetts, with his best friend, 16-year-old John Bennett (Max Burkholder), along with John’s parents, Matty and Susan (Scott Grimes and Alanna Ubach), and cousin Blaire (Giorgia Whigham). Ted may be a lousy influence on John, but at the end of the day, he’s a loyal pal who’s always willing to go out on a limb for friendship.
What more do the fucking kids in America want and need? We are getting a foul-mouthed bear with parents and kids who curse equally as much and do things that we all do. Who needs moms who say gosh and darn when you can have dads who say shit and fuck?
Forget the Keatons. We now have Bennetts to be our role models. I can’t wait to show my nieces this series because they will be like Ted is just like you, Crazy Aunt Stacy!
In 2012, we fell in love with the foul-mouthed, horny, pot-smoking Teddy Bear Ted. And now he is back on Peacock for seven glorious episodes, which are the prequel to the two Seth MacFarlane movies. Yes, folks, MacFarlane will continue to voice his genius creation.
It’s 1993, and Ted the bear’s (MacFarlane) moment of fame has passed. He’s now living back home in Framingham, Massachusetts with his best friend, 16-year-old John Bennett (Max Burkholder), along with John’s parents, Matty and Susan (Scott Grimes and Alanna Ubach) and cousin Blaire (Giorgia Whigham). Ted may be a lousy influence on John, but at the end of the day, he’s a loyal pal who’s always willing to go out on a limb for friendship.
John Carpenter is one of the Kings of Horror, thanks to his movies like Halloween, The Fog, Christine, and They Live.
The guru is back, and this time, his tales are scarier than ever. That is because they are based on true stories.
Carpenter teamed up with Peacock to give us John Carpenter’s Suburban Screams. The six episodes tell horrifying stories in five quiet suburban communities that will never be the same.
Imagine a house that always terrified you, only to find out that you were right. What if you and your friends used an Ouija board, contacted someone who was murdered, and now she won’t leave you alone? Or you have been hearing about The Bunny Man, a 100-year-old story about a man dressed as a bunny who goes around killing people with a hatchet. Only to have that story come to life and people being attacked by him again?
These are just three of the scary true-life horrors that will make you want to avoid the suburbs. And Carpenter’s movies are a lot less scary because Michael Myers isn’t real like the escaped convict who goes around torturing and killing the women in a small town.
All of these cases are told by the people who experienced it, news stories, and reenactments. And with Carpenter’s way of making fiction seem real, just think about what he does with nonfiction. Sleeping and I are not going to be friends for a while.
So, if you like true crime shows or Carpenter’s work, then you are going to love this series that stays with you long after the credits role.
It has been 3years since music executive José Menéndez and his wife, Kitty, were shot and killed. Their sons, Lyle and Erik, were convicted of their murder in 1996 after a very public trial.
During their trial, the Menéndez brothers alleged that their father physically and sexually abused them. But, there was no evidence found to support that claim.
However, their case might be reopened because Menudo’s Roy Rosselló is telling Peacock that he was raped by José Menéndez.
During the three-part series, Rosselló will share his story in Menendez + Menudo: Boys Betrayed. The streamer says he “could be the key to changing how the public views the brothers’ case while simultaneously crusading for his own justice.”
Rosselló joined the Puerto Rican boy band in 1983 when he was just 13 years old and was a member until 1986. The band was famous for kicking out bandmates when they got too old, which the joke was hitting puberty.
This is not the first time that a member of the group claimed they were raped or sexually abused by someone. But it was the first time that someone said that it was José Menéndez.
It will be interesting and heartbreaking to hear what is revealed in the limited series that starts streaming on May 2nd.
