The last thing I watched Morris Chestnut in was The Enemy Within.
VERY similar to The Endgame and it was also on NBC.
NBC keeps picking up all these cool crime dramas with unique plots/setups and just letting them fail with no promotion and no push. No effort to get eyes on them.
I think I'm learning ways to market research studies better than I've seen some shows marketed these last six years or so. They don't even know their market and the medium is so oversaturated and exhausting. Tv right now might be proof you can have too much of a good thing.
genuinely one of the worst things that’s happened to television in the last few years (exacerbated by streaming services) is death of Filler. going from 20 episodes to 8 because “we didn’t really need that episode where the main characters went to the beach right? it had no long lasting effect” but we DID!!! we needed to see how they act without the Big Bad Plot and to establish the dynamics between the characters and lay in the sun (do they forget sunscreen? how do they react to a thieving seagull? do they get buried in the sand or do they do the burying?). the plot isn’t everything. the action doesn’t hit as hard without the quiet moments. give us character development and our little scenes back
So Help Me Todd (2022-) starring Marcia Gay Harden & Skylar Astin is my new favorite detective show.
Todd (Astin) is Margaret’s (Harden) troublesome, goofy former PI son. She ends up hiring him to work at her law firm as a way to give him a job & a way to bring her family together again.
It’s a fun case-of-the-week show that has interesting mysteries and characters. I like that it’s not dark and dreary and that it doesn’t have a giant season-long mystery to solve . It’s nice to see the mother & son dynamic too.
Marcia Gay Harden is stunning as always. Plus, I would want her lawyer to defend me in real life.
Quinta Brunson just became the second Black actress in Emmys history to win Lead in the Comedy category, 42 years after Isabel Sanford won for The Jefferson.
“This is a historic win, it doesn’t belong to just me… This is for every little res kid, every little urban kid, every little Native kid out there who has a dream, who is seeing themselves represented and our stories told, by ourselves, in our own words.”
Sending a warm congratulations to Lily Gladstone for becoming the first Indigenous person to win a Golden Globe for best actress!