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Summer 2020 [TV]: Revenge of the Bachelor
Zonugal
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June has arrived and we're effectively in the summer, which means we are getting a new season quarter of TV shows.
Here they are!
The full summer 2020 lineup
Monday, May 25
Barkskins (Nat Geo)
Tuesday, May 26
America’s Got Talent (NBC)
World of Dance (NBC)
Wednesday, May 27
American Soul (BET)
Craftopia (HBO Max)
Game On! (CBS)
Legendary (HBO Max)
Looney Tunes Cartoons (HBO Max)
Love Life (HBO Max)
Marvel’s Agents of SHIELD (ABC)
The Not-Too-Late Show With Elmo (HBO Max)
Friday, May 29
Central Park (Apple TV+)
Ramy (Hulu)
Space Force (Netflix)
Somebody Feed Phil (Netflix)
Sunday, May 31
Celebrity Family Feud (ABC)
Laurel Canyon (Epix)
Match Game (ABC)
Press Your Luck (ABC)
Quiz (AMC)
Monday, June 1
90 Day Fiance: The Other Way (TLC)
Below Deck Mediterranean (Bravo)
Tuesday, June 2
Dirty John: The Betty Broderick Story (USA)
Fuller House (Netflix)
Thursday, June 4
Forged in Fire: Beat the Judges (History)
Friday, June 5
13 Reasons Why (Netflix)
Dear … (Apple TV+)
Queer Eye (Netflix)
RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars (VH1)
We Are Freestyle Love Supreme (Hulu)
Sunday, June 7
I May Destroy You (HBO)
30 For 30: Be Water (ESPN)
The Bachelor: The Greatest Seasons … Ever! (ABC)
Wednesday, June 10
Lenox Hill (Netflix)
Bulletproof (The CW)
Thursday, June 11
The Bold Type (Freeform)
Don’t (ABC)
Double Shot at Love With DJ Pauly D & Vinny (MTV)
Friday, June 12
Crossing Swords (Hulu)
Pokemon Journeys: The Series (Netflix)
Sunday, June 14
Helter Skelter: An American Myth (Epix)
Grantchester (PBS)
30 For 30: Long Gone Summer (ESPN)
Tuesday, June 16
Siesta Key (MTV)
Thursday, June 18
Syfy Wire’s The Great Debate (Syfy)
Friday, June 19
Dads (Apple TV+)
Love, Victor (Hulu)
The Politician (Netflix)
Sherman’s Showcase (IFC)
Taste the Nation With Padma Lakshmi (Hulu)
Sunday, June 21
The Chi (Showtime)
NOS4A2 (AMC)
Perry Mason (HBO)
Yellowstone (Paramount Network)
Monday, June 22
Penn & Teller: Fool Us (The CW)
Thursday, June 25
Doom Patrol (HBO Max)
Search Party (HBO Max)
The Twilight Zone (CBS All Access)
Sunday, June 28
The Story of Late Night (CNN)
United Shades of America with W. Kamau Bell (CNN)
Black Monday (Showtime)
I’ll Be Gone in the Dark (HBO)
Wednesday, July 1
Unsolved Mysteries (Netflix)
Help! I Wrecked My House (HGTV)
Friday, July 3
The Baby-Sitters Club (Netflix)
Hanna (Amazon Prime Video)
Sunday, July 5
Outcry (Showtime)
Wednesday, July 8
Tough As Nails (CBS)
Thursday, July 9
Expecting Amy (HBO Max)
Close Enough (HBO Max)
Wednesday, July 15
Brave New World (Peacock)
The Capture (Peacock)
Intelligence (Peacock)
Psych 2: Lassie Come Home (Peacock)
Thursday, July 16
The House of Ho (HBO Max)
Friday, July 24
Room 104 (HBO)
Tuesday, July 28
Maxxx (Hulu)
Thursday, July 30
Frayed (HBO Max)
In My Skin (Hulu)
Friday, July 31
The Umbrella Academy (Netflix)
Sunday, August 9
The Good Lord Bird (Showtime)
Friday, August 14
Ted Lasso (Apple TV+)
Sunday, August 30
Love Fraud (Showtime)
August TBD
Lovecraft Country (HBO)
Love in the Time of Corona (Freeform)
Myself? I'm going to continue to watch Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
So, what is everyone watching while America collapses?
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totally unnecessary, Hyori's B&B is still on Netflix
Also speaking of food shows, I have to admit that the Amy Schumer Learns to Cook show on Food Network is quite good. Her husband is a professional chef and the two of them have a charming dynamic with him as the extremely straight man. It's shot quarantine-style by their live-in nanny and a few stationary cameras around the kitchen. If you don't hate Amy Schumer then it's worth checking out.
maybe I need to finally pick up HBO, ugh.
I finished the second season today.
Here are my very official thoughts:
Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season 2
Master Character Ranking
#1. -- Cordelia
#2. -- Spike
#3. -- Angelus
#4. -- Giles
#5. -- Buffy
#6. -- Willow
#7. -- Oz
#8. -- Angel
#9. -- Jennifer Calender
#10. -- Joyce Summers
#11. -- Xander
Best Five Episodes of the Season
--What’s My Name Part #1 & #2 (2.9/2.10)
Spike brings in three professional bounty hunters to eliminate Buffy while she ponders on what her profession might be if her fate wasn't already sealed.
Buffy joins forces with another Slayer in hopes of saving Angel from the clutches of Spike and Drusilla.
--Passion (2.17)
Angel steps up his torment of Buffy and her friends as Jenny searches for a way to restore his soul.
--Ted (2.11)
Buffy's mom introduces her new boyfriend, who charms everyone except Buffy. When she confronts his dark side, she is left questioning her actions.
--School Hard (2.3)
Buffy's mother and friends become trapped inside Sunnydale High School when a vampire named Spike launches an attack against the Slayer on Parent-Teacher night.
--Halloween (2.6)
On Halloween, Buffy and her friends patronize an unusual costume shop where customers turn into whatever costume they are wearing.
Best Quote of the Season
--Cordelia: It was a nightmare. A total nightmare. They promised me they'd take me to St Croix, then they decide to go to Tuscany. Art and buildings. I was totally beachless for a month and a half. No one has suffered like I have suffered. Of course, that kind of adversity builds character. But then I already have a lot of character. Can you have too much character?
Best Season Moment
-- Literally everything with Cyborg John Ritter
{Twitter, Everybody's doing it. }{Writing and Story Blog}
Listen, she had my favorite quote in the first season but she isn't very exciting in the second season...
Just finished Legends of Tomorrow season 5 (would recommend!)
Just started Central Park season 1 (from the Bob's Burgers creator!)
I'm in the middle of Harley Quinn season 2 (better and gayer than the first!), Stargirl (very very good!) and Penny Dreadful: City of Angels season 1 (I really liked the most recent episode!)
On the summer 2020 lineup:
I am already watching: Central Park
I will definitely watch: Love Life; Love, Victor; NOS4A2; Perry Mason; Doom Patrol; Twilight Zone; Room 104; Umbrella Academy; Lovecraft Country
I plan to watch: American Soul (a friend's cousin is in this!); everything on HBO Max; Queer Eye; Drag Race; anything else there that's gay but hasn't immediately caught my eye already; Ramy
I'll try to watch someday: Nearly everything else
The exceptions to "Nearly everything else" that I'm specifically going to need at least a handful of recommendations from before I can start: Space Force; Love in the Time of Corona
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Totally ready for The Light to stop factoring into the big "surprise" reveals at the end though.
The whole list is a shambles.
If it's a Master list, it only needs one entry, surely, and that one isn't even on it!
We're clearly dealing with a demented mind.
Good show though
The trailer made it look kind of silly and dumb, and it is at times, but at other times it’s a very serious and real look into what it’s like to be a minority growing up in the inner city.
Wait! I just started watching DC's Stargirl, and that's new.
Folks, we need to chat about how bad the stunt doubles and fight scenes are. They are..so very bad.
And honestly? Most of the acting is bad, especially the early seasons.
It's near and dear to my heart but it's flaws are pretty glaring on this run.
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Almost. just had to order new Snaps glasses.
It's maybe one of my favorite episodes of the show.
Although my real favorite thing is every time Xander tries to use it to explain that actually he does know about military stuff because he was sort of a soldier for a little bit there.
Its the equivalent of Xander getting military training uploaded into his brain like in the Matrix.
Its very dumb and I love it.
Although it just generally falls under the "Referencing a Past/Future Episode" rule too I guess
yeah I tried to watch S1 again a few years ago and couldn't hack it. My memory is that all of those things have something of an upward trajectory through the series, at least.
- Went through Primal. Fairly impressed. Would not say no to more episodes
- Watched the first episode of The Jetsons. Constantly surprised as the episode went on. I am no longer sure what the show even is.
- - the laugh track threw me
- - the robot maid shop owner referred to the Jetsons' house as a "slum clearance project"
- - Mrs. Spacely is protesting and is excited to hold a sign saying, "Martians go home"
- - Elroy's Public School routinely sends kids to the wrong house
- Finished the new Looney Tunes
- - a few minor complaints here and there; some praise; but I loved the interstitials.
- never got around to Samurai Jack as a kid, so I'm giving that a try. Not impressed yet.
- - naturally I recognized Aku's voice, which made me a bit sad.
- re-visiting Dexter's Laboratory, and I'm a bit bummed that I'm not really feeling it
- also thought I might re-visit Ronin Warriors (aka Samurai Troopers), but it's, at least initially, pretty hard to take.
- - if it's not the narrator recounting what just happened, it's that we're introduced to all of them at once. There's no sense of gathering the party, growing into their powers, or earning anything. Might stick with it, but I have the impression it's not recalled fondly, so...
Steam
Then in the Season 2 finale...
Now in the Season 3 finale...
I made this joke for season one!
This made me click those spoilers even though I only finished season one. And now I'm extra glad.
Villainelle's actress is consistently impressive.
I found it to scratch a bit of an ATLA itch, but the first season’s animation is a bit jerky so far
The animation gets a lot better in the later season, and they're pretty consistently good in fights. It's slower stuff where the computer and budget shows the most early on.
Figured we had a couple more
That final confrontation scene with everyone in the living room was just perfect.
Good WWDitS tonight.
This is super nitpicky and not directed at you, but because the 18th century is my main period of study I always feel compelled to make this point:
while today almost everyone thinks that word was pronounced as you spelled it, in the period it's almost always spelled without the h at the end - 'huzza' - and probably was pronounced at least as often with a hard 'a' sound as the softer 'ah' sound, if not significantly more commonly. Based on rhyming poetry, songs, etc. There's some debate in the field, some people think it may be regional, etc etc but just because "huzzah" is considered today to just be the "accepted" pronunciation I always try to encourage more use of "huzzay".
.... erm, sorry.
Also I have never understood why the Bachelor is popular.
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