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shadowkat1. Just finished watching the first three episodes of Kevin Probably Saves the World. Has anyone seen this? It's, well, it is just weird. I'm amazed it got picked up. I can just see the elevator pitch...
So here's a show about a guy who after a failed suicide attempt moves back to his small town and in with his sister and niece. He has lost his job and his girlfriend. Anyhow, one day a meteor crashes to earth, and he touches it. Which results in him connecting with a celestial entity in the form of a large black woman. She's one of God's Warriors or the Universe's helpers and she's here to help Kevin to save the world. Kevin is one of 36 righteous souls that each of these celestial beings is sent to help. Kevin saves the world by helping others find happiness. Each time he connects with another being, the universe sends him a message or clue -- showing him how to connect to the other 35 souls.
Only one problem the other souls have disappeared, and the beings guarding them have stopped caring.
Meanwhile everyone in Kevin's life thinks he's a wee bit unstable, albeit harmless, as he meanders about talking to an invisible black lady. And somehow manages to help people in his town along the way.
I think they picked it up because it wasn't like anything else on television. I'm stumped for a comparison.
Is it any good?
Eh. Yes and no?
Jason Ritter is quite likeable as Kevin, he has his father, John Ritter's affable personality and sense of comic timing. The woman playing his sister, Amy, looks a lot like Rachel McAdams and/or the gal playing April on Grey's Anatomy. J. August is playing the cop interested in Amy.
The story is also rather quirky and comforting. It's sort of a male version of the Gilmore Girls meets Touched By An Angel, although that's not quite right. For one thing these aren't angels, and they don't refer to God, so much as the Universe. Also the people in the town aren't that quirky, Kevin is, they aren't.
Each week Kevin helps someone. One week he helps a man tell his father that he no longer wants to work in the family brewery, the father has a heart-attack -- which alerts the hospital and doctors to the fact that he has a chronic heart condition, and Dad decides to sell the brewery to a corporation.
The next week, he helps a woman tell her best friend and spouse that she doesn't want to be married to him any longer. Basically the universe wanted him to break them up?
It's weird, and sort of a clever satire on...well Touched by an Angel trope. I'm not really sure what to make of it, to be honest.
2. Good Behavior
Still good. This stars Michelle Dockery as an American thief/con-artist, from Georgia. Who got into high end burgulary due to a drug addiction. A recovering alcoholic she manages to reconnect with her son and obtain custody. Not easy to do, since her son is black, and she's white, and the father's black -- with a better job. The father was the drug dealer who got her hooked.
Anyhow, finally out of prison, she meets up with and falls hard for an Argentine hitman, Javier. Whose family ran a cartel in Argentina. The hitman falls for Letty, Dockery's character. She manages to get custody of Jacob, her son, by sort of betraying Javier to the FBI -- but redeems herself in Javier's eyes when she goes out of her way to save him.
It's rather funny in some respects. Black absurdist comedy. Which comments heavily on various soci-economic themes. And adapted from a series of noir novels by the same author who wrote the novels, entitled "Good Behavior".
This season, Letty and Javier and Jacob are sort of on the run from the FBI. And trying to go legit at the same time, but Letty and Javier are failing miserably at it -- in part because both like an upscale lifestyle. And can't get it without being criminals.
3. The Inhumans
I'm finding this more entertaining and less annoying than Once Upon a Time and The Gifted.
Also, it has some interesting side characters. Quarto is by far my favorite, he's asian, has tats on his face and body, and his ability is seeing trajectories, consequences, and cause and effect. It's a sort of interesting and rather unique talent. All of the characters talents are unique and for the most part, the human characters are interesting. I rather like the nerdy scientist who is fangurling over the Inhumans.
Not sure why everyone hated it. (shrugs)
Also having a character who communicates completely through sign language and with his eyes is rather interesting.
Too bad it only has two episodes left and flopped. Ah well, on the other hand, it's not like I don't have other things to watch.
4. Riverdale
Liking the tone of the season and the cinematography quite a bit. The focus or pov is the kids, with the adults looking shadowy and guilty. There's a deep noir undertone here.
Jughead continues to be the narrator. And we now have the introduction of Veronica's dad, Hiriam Lodge, who is a bit dark, and shadowy. Although it is admittedly hard to envision Kelly Ripa's hubby, who used to play Mateo on All My Children as a villain or even disreputable. But he is. The casting is rather entertaining. Also having him as the father of a 15 year old girl seems odd to me. Mainly because I remember when he was playing a 16 year old. That's part of the fun of this series -- we have all these former 1980s/1990s teen television show and movie stars in the parent roles.
Archie's Dad got shot, and now is all better -- well enough that he can lounge at home and not at the hospital. Who knows it may have been Cherly's magic kiss.
Cherly is still at her gutted out mansion, most of which she burned down. With her mother, who well, Cherly burned the mansion down with Mummy inside -- so Mummy is recovering from some severe burns.
Jughead and Betty, or rather just Betty, manages to coaxthreaten Cheryl into testifying on Jughead's Dad's defense in exchange for the video footage of her Dad killing her twin brother.
Jughead got the advice regarding Cherly from a lawyer for the snakes. When his Dad finds out about this, he's not happy. And warns Jughead away from the woman, stating she's a snake charmer. (They are the snakes, she's a charmer...get it? Jughead didn't and it took me a moment.)
Archie's ex-girlfriend/lover, the music teacher who has taken up with another young student, is killed by her cello bow. Archie is convinced it is her ex. But the sheriff says no, that guy was already brought in and has an albi.
Stressed and worried the guy will take out his Dad again -- Archie starts taking uppers. He also buys a gun. Bad move, Archie. Oh well at least he's not singing this year, they've dropped that story line for the time being.
Meanwhile, Betty and Veronica try to save Pops. And sort of succeed, without her knowledge, Veronica's Dad buys Pops and starts selling drugs from the diner. Betty's home sees several drug transactions take place. Daddy hasn't changed. Sorry V. He's a manipulative bastard with his hooks deep into Mommy.
And...just before the fade to black...two kids are killed by the gunman who shot Archie's Dad and killed his girlfriend. One of the kids looks a lot like Archie.
The pacing is better this year. Still creepy, but not quite as creepy as before. Which is odd.
I'm watching too many tv shows...I still have 20 hours on DVR. I need to kick a few to the curb.
Thinking Dynasty, OUAT, and possibly Kevin Probably Saves the World, but on the fence on that one.
Inhumans will be over soon. So there's that.
So here's a show about a guy who after a failed suicide attempt moves back to his small town and in with his sister and niece. He has lost his job and his girlfriend. Anyhow, one day a meteor crashes to earth, and he touches it. Which results in him connecting with a celestial entity in the form of a large black woman. She's one of God's Warriors or the Universe's helpers and she's here to help Kevin to save the world. Kevin is one of 36 righteous souls that each of these celestial beings is sent to help. Kevin saves the world by helping others find happiness. Each time he connects with another being, the universe sends him a message or clue -- showing him how to connect to the other 35 souls.
Only one problem the other souls have disappeared, and the beings guarding them have stopped caring.
Meanwhile everyone in Kevin's life thinks he's a wee bit unstable, albeit harmless, as he meanders about talking to an invisible black lady. And somehow manages to help people in his town along the way.
I think they picked it up because it wasn't like anything else on television. I'm stumped for a comparison.
Is it any good?
Eh. Yes and no?
Jason Ritter is quite likeable as Kevin, he has his father, John Ritter's affable personality and sense of comic timing. The woman playing his sister, Amy, looks a lot like Rachel McAdams and/or the gal playing April on Grey's Anatomy. J. August is playing the cop interested in Amy.
The story is also rather quirky and comforting. It's sort of a male version of the Gilmore Girls meets Touched By An Angel, although that's not quite right. For one thing these aren't angels, and they don't refer to God, so much as the Universe. Also the people in the town aren't that quirky, Kevin is, they aren't.
Each week Kevin helps someone. One week he helps a man tell his father that he no longer wants to work in the family brewery, the father has a heart-attack -- which alerts the hospital and doctors to the fact that he has a chronic heart condition, and Dad decides to sell the brewery to a corporation.
The next week, he helps a woman tell her best friend and spouse that she doesn't want to be married to him any longer. Basically the universe wanted him to break them up?
It's weird, and sort of a clever satire on...well Touched by an Angel trope. I'm not really sure what to make of it, to be honest.
2. Good Behavior
Still good. This stars Michelle Dockery as an American thief/con-artist, from Georgia. Who got into high end burgulary due to a drug addiction. A recovering alcoholic she manages to reconnect with her son and obtain custody. Not easy to do, since her son is black, and she's white, and the father's black -- with a better job. The father was the drug dealer who got her hooked.
Anyhow, finally out of prison, she meets up with and falls hard for an Argentine hitman, Javier. Whose family ran a cartel in Argentina. The hitman falls for Letty, Dockery's character. She manages to get custody of Jacob, her son, by sort of betraying Javier to the FBI -- but redeems herself in Javier's eyes when she goes out of her way to save him.
It's rather funny in some respects. Black absurdist comedy. Which comments heavily on various soci-economic themes. And adapted from a series of noir novels by the same author who wrote the novels, entitled "Good Behavior".
This season, Letty and Javier and Jacob are sort of on the run from the FBI. And trying to go legit at the same time, but Letty and Javier are failing miserably at it -- in part because both like an upscale lifestyle. And can't get it without being criminals.
3. The Inhumans
I'm finding this more entertaining and less annoying than Once Upon a Time and The Gifted.
Also, it has some interesting side characters. Quarto is by far my favorite, he's asian, has tats on his face and body, and his ability is seeing trajectories, consequences, and cause and effect. It's a sort of interesting and rather unique talent. All of the characters talents are unique and for the most part, the human characters are interesting. I rather like the nerdy scientist who is fangurling over the Inhumans.
Not sure why everyone hated it. (shrugs)
Also having a character who communicates completely through sign language and with his eyes is rather interesting.
Too bad it only has two episodes left and flopped. Ah well, on the other hand, it's not like I don't have other things to watch.
4. Riverdale
Liking the tone of the season and the cinematography quite a bit. The focus or pov is the kids, with the adults looking shadowy and guilty. There's a deep noir undertone here.
Jughead continues to be the narrator. And we now have the introduction of Veronica's dad, Hiriam Lodge, who is a bit dark, and shadowy. Although it is admittedly hard to envision Kelly Ripa's hubby, who used to play Mateo on All My Children as a villain or even disreputable. But he is. The casting is rather entertaining. Also having him as the father of a 15 year old girl seems odd to me. Mainly because I remember when he was playing a 16 year old. That's part of the fun of this series -- we have all these former 1980s/1990s teen television show and movie stars in the parent roles.
Archie's Dad got shot, and now is all better -- well enough that he can lounge at home and not at the hospital. Who knows it may have been Cherly's magic kiss.
Cherly is still at her gutted out mansion, most of which she burned down. With her mother, who well, Cherly burned the mansion down with Mummy inside -- so Mummy is recovering from some severe burns.
Jughead and Betty, or rather just Betty, manages to coax
Jughead got the advice regarding Cherly from a lawyer for the snakes. When his Dad finds out about this, he's not happy. And warns Jughead away from the woman, stating she's a snake charmer. (They are the snakes, she's a charmer...get it? Jughead didn't and it took me a moment.)
Archie's ex-girlfriend/lover, the music teacher who has taken up with another young student, is killed by her cello bow. Archie is convinced it is her ex. But the sheriff says no, that guy was already brought in and has an albi.
Stressed and worried the guy will take out his Dad again -- Archie starts taking uppers. He also buys a gun. Bad move, Archie. Oh well at least he's not singing this year, they've dropped that story line for the time being.
Meanwhile, Betty and Veronica try to save Pops. And sort of succeed, without her knowledge, Veronica's Dad buys Pops and starts selling drugs from the diner. Betty's home sees several drug transactions take place. Daddy hasn't changed. Sorry V. He's a manipulative bastard with his hooks deep into Mommy.
And...just before the fade to black...two kids are killed by the gunman who shot Archie's Dad and killed his girlfriend. One of the kids looks a lot like Archie.
The pacing is better this year. Still creepy, but not quite as creepy as before. Which is odd.
I'm watching too many tv shows...I still have 20 hours on DVR. I need to kick a few to the curb.
Thinking Dynasty, OUAT, and possibly Kevin Probably Saves the World, but on the fence on that one.
Inhumans will be over soon. So there's that.