(Let me just preface this by saying that no, I’m not on FX’s payroll. They just make such high quality TV that I find myself posting about their shows week in and week out. If I end up doing a post about American Horror Story at some point, I’ll start it with the same disclaimer. But simply put, FX has some of the best shows on TV right now.)
The obnoxious, disgusting, annoying, and hilarious Sterling Archer (voiced by H. Jon Benjamin) returned to his spy-bro ways this past Thursday, March 31st, for an 8th season of unbridled animated debauchery. It’s kind of FX’s version of Family Guy, an offensive but hilarious cartoon for adults. Archer is about the titular hero’s antics as head spy of his mother’s spy organization, and it’s probably the dirtiest cartoon you’ll ever watch. Full of drinking, sex, offensive language and themes, it also happens to be pretty funny.
How To Get Away With Murder, starring Viola Davis, airs Thursdays at 10/9c on ABC.
Talk about leaving someone on a cliffhanger.
ABC’s How to Get Away with Murder went on hiatus following their mid-season finale depicting a series of events that could have changed the season forever. In order to frame the lawyer’s current client, Catherine Hapstall, for murder, Annalise calls 911 saying she’d been shot, then begs her students to shoot her. When they all refuse, Annalise uses Wes’ rage over the disappearance of his girlfriend Rebecca as fuel, resulting in him grabbing the gun and shooting her. The students then fled the property, leaving Annalise for dead.
Airing on Thursday, February 11, the mid-season premiere did little to explain the actions of the show’s main characters and left audiences wanting more. Following its typical formula, the episode ended with more questions about the mysterious relationship between Professor Annalise Keating and student Wes Gibbins.
While that maybe a good way to tease viewers, it’s also a sure fire way to lose them all together.
Supernatural, the stalwart CW series going on 10 seasons strong, finally gives their fans what they’ve been waiting for this entire season: a return to the drama’s glory days of monster of the week drama and the Winchesters doing what they do best: saving people, hunting things, namely, the family business.
In “Don’t You Forget About Me,” the 12th episode of the show’s 11th season, the Winchester Brothers — Sam and Dean — receive a call that causes them to race to the aid of an old friend. When they arrive in Sioux Falls, SD, they are greeted by Claire Novak, her foster sister Alex Jones (whom the brothers saved from vampires) and their foster mother and fellow hunter, Sheriff Jody Mills. These “wayward daughters” give the brother’s a glimpse into the family life they never knew.
Claire insists there is a monster terrorizing their hometown, but due to her erratic behavior in the past, no one believes her until a murder occurs at the local high school leaving a beloved math teacher hanging exsanguinated from a flag pole.
The episode received praise from the fans for bringing back the few surviving woman on the show, but other viewers were not as enthused about the “filler” episode. Throughout the season, the Winchesters have been working yet again to save the world, this season from the “Darkness” and Lucifer who, unbeknownst to them, is walking the earth in the body of their angel partner in crime Castiel. This episode did not revolve around that major theme of the season, which few viewers feel takes away from the season.
All in all, the episode encompassed everything present in earlier seasons, and was enjoyable for most viewers and was one of the highest rated episodes of the season, raking in 1.87 million viewers.
Here’s to hoping the show returns to its family business roots more often.
