Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist is back for its third episode tonight at 9p on NBC and it gives a lot satisfaction. As in, Zoey (Jane Levy) hears her boss sing (Lauren Graham) The Rolling Stones Can’t Get No Satisfaction. Once Zoey figures out why her boss is singing that song, she tries to ignore her problem. However, her music universe won’t let her get away from that tune. Now, she won’t get any satisfaction until she helps her boss.
Zoey’s mom, Maggie (Mary Steenburgen), is not getting any satisfaction either. That is because Zoey gave her dad, Mitch (Peter Gallagher), who can no longer communicate, a way to communicate. The first word he types is lemonade. No one knows what that means, but he is getting a lot of lemonade.
Being a caregiver is taking its toll on Maggie, and Zoey finds that out when her mom sings to her. What can she do to help her mom sing a happier tune to her?
While Zoey has nothing to sing about, the women in her life do. What we learn is that Steenburgen and Graham can really belt out a tune. What I already knew and tonight’s episode confirms, that ZEP is the best new show of the season. Don’t miss it, the music will not be in your life if you do.
Back in January, I fell in love, actually I became obsessed, with a show called Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist. There is so much I adore about it. One of the things I love most is the sweet chemistry between Mary Steenburgen and Peter Gallagher, who play spouses. Her character has become her husband’s caregiver because he is suffering from a rare neurological disorder that has left him trapped in his own body. Even though he cannot communicate, you can still tell that the couple understands, and, more importantly, they love each other.
Their love is my relationship goal. That is until I went to donate platelets, and decided to watch the sixth season of Grace & Frankie while I was there. I knew that Gallagher is playing Jane Fonda’s husband on the comedy. What I found out is that Steenburgen is playing his ex on the show.
Now I am totally confused. It is weird going from watching four episodes of them playing a happily married couple to happily divorced co-workers. Therefore, I had to know, was it planned? I got on Twitter and asked them.
Steenburgen told me, “Not planned but lovely, all the same.” When it comes to Gallagher, he responded with, “So lovely and so lucky. xo.”
If she and Ted Danson were not one of Hollywood’s most admired married couples for almost 25 years, and he was not happily married to Paula Wildash since 1983; then I would say that Hollywood is trying to tell them something. However, it is actually telling us something.
We need to watch them in, my favorite new show of the season, Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist every Sunday at 9p on NBC, and Grace & Frankie on Netflix. Can we talk about how this season ended?!?
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Ever since NBC introduced us to Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist a few weeks ago, we have been waiting for the second episode to air. Tonight at 9p (after a repeat of the series premiere), it is finally airing and you better get ready to sing and dance.
The episode starts off with Zoey (Jane Levy) waking up and having the music in her. Now, that she knows what her day has in store for her, it is time for work. Things are tough because her team is not accepting her as their boss. While she is trying to get them to focus on the job, her BFF Max (Skylar Astin) starts to sing the Jonas Brothers’ Sucker to her.
She is not into him like that, so she brings her confidante and neighbor Mo (Alex Newell) to the coffee shop, which is her haunt with Max, to try and see if the barrister in interested in her good friend. While they are there, the coffee shop breaks out into song and Mo tries to see and hear what Zoey is experiencing. Mo does not, and is no closer to understanding what is happening to Zoey.
While they are at a loss for understanding what is going on, Zoey’s family has a better understanding of what is going on in her dad’s head. Mitch’s (Peter Gallagher) new medicine is giving him some more mobility and her brother, David (Andrew Leeds), has found a way to help him communicate. David gave his dad a buzzer to buzz once for yes and twice for no. It seems like a great idea until his wife (Mary Steenburgen) needs more than a yes or no answer from, and he cannot give it to her. However, he can give it to Zoey in a song. What does that song mean, something no daughter wants to know about her parents.
In a time when shows are all dark and gloomy, Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist finds a way to bring us joy. It is an endearing show with characters you root for and sing along with. So much so, I want a Mo in my life. Everyone needs a Mo. Alex Newell is the brightest star among several shining stars. I cannot get all of the heartfelt acting and singing that is done on this show. There are plenty of surprise singers on it like Gallagher and Steenburgen. You could not ask for a better cast than the one they got for ZEP.
Fall in love with all of them tonight at every Sunday at 9p. Or every day because I cannot stop watching this show. It is that freaking amazing!
Tonight at 8:30p, it is time for the second to last episode of The Good Place on NBC. After four seasons of wondering what the real Good Place is like, we finally get to see.
Will it be everything that Michael (Ted Danson), Eleanor (Kristen Bell), Chidi (William Jackson Harper), Tahini (Jameela Jamil), Jason (Manny Jacinto) and Janet (D’Arcy Carden) thought it would be? Is it even better than that? Before they find out, it is time for them to go to a party in their honor with some the greatest through time including a pretty neat guest star.
While they are all in heaven, I am in hell because I do not want this show to end.
Last week on The Good Place, Michael (Ted Danson) and Sean )Marc Evan Jackson) came up with a way to save Earth. They will give humans a test to determine which place they should go to. the good one or the bad one.
Now that they are on board, they need to get all the other demons to be so too. That is a lot easier said than done. However, that is not as hard as finding out who to test. Eleanor (Kristen Bell), Chidi (William Jackson Harper), Tahani (Jameela Jamil), and Jason (Manny Jacinto) have all the files to pick the best people. Yet, they are going to look at their own files first. What will they learn about themselves and each other on NBC tonight at 8:30p?
Lots of shocking things, but not as shocking as the reveal at the end. But I have said too much.
One thing I hate to say is that we only have two more episodes after tonight. Why does this show have to end? Wwwwwwhhhhhhhhyyyyyyyyy?
