2017 Summer TV

So You Think You Can Dance is back Monday with contestants over the age of 18. From what I can tell, it's the same format as the kids version with the All Stars choosing 1 contestant to mentor through the process.

Woo hoo! TWO dance shows this summer. Whodathunkit?
 
I am enjoying this season of "Fargo." This show always finds wonderful talent from North America and the UK and is filmed in Alberta and that frozen landscape is also a "character." And I like the female roles in this one.
 
New/Returning Shows for the week Sunday June 11/2017 - Saturday June 17/2017:
http://www.cinemablend.com/televisi...re-schedule-dates-for-new-and-returning-shows

Sunday, June 11
8 p.m. - Celebrity Family Feud Season 4 - ABC
8 p.m. - 71st Annual Tony Awards - CBS
8 p.m. - MENENDEZ: BLOOD BROTHERS (TV Movie) - Lifetime
9 p.m. - STEVE HARVEY'S FUNDERDOME - ABC
9 p.m. - American Grit Season 2 - Fox
9 p.m. - CLAWS - TNT
9 p.m. - HAMILTON: BUILDING AMERICA - History
10 p.m. - $100,000 Pyramid Season 2 - ABC
10 p.m. - Jordan Klepper Solves Guns (Comedy special) - Comedy Central

Monday, June 12
8 p.m. - American Ninja Warrior Season 6 - NBC
8 p.m. - So You Think You Can Dance Season 14 - Fox
9 p.m. - SUPERHUMAN - Fox
9 p.m. - Counting On Season 3 - TLC
9 p.m. - THE PUTIN INTERVIEWS (Docu-series) - Showtime
10 p.m. - Spartan: Ultimate Team Challenge Season 2 - NBC

Tuesday, June 13
12:01 a.m. PT - OH, HELLO ON BROADWAY (Comedy special) - Netflix
9 p.m. - Face Off Season 12 - Syfy

Wednesday, June 14
9 p.m. - Alaskan Bush People Season 6 - Discovery
10 p.m. - To Tell the Truth (Midseason premiere) - ABC
10 p.m. - BLOOD DRIVE - Syfy

Thursday, June 15
9 p.m. - The Tunnel: Sabotage (Season 2) - PBS
10 p.m. - Alone Season 3 - History

Friday, June 16
12:01 a.m. PT - The Ranch Season 2 - Netflix
9 p.m. - The Great British Baking Show Season 4 - PBS

Saturday, June 17
10:30 a.m. - LEGO Star Wars: The Freemaker Adventures Season 2 - Disney XD
9 p.m. - Turn: Washington's Spies Season 4 - AMC
9 p.m. - The Wedding March 2 (TV Movie) - Hallmark
10 p.m. - T.J. Miller: Meticulously Ridiculous - HBO

Please post any updates I may have missed.
 
So far I'm disappointed with this season of "Dr Who." Maybe it is hard to stay fresh after so many seasons but it just seems a bit dull and familiar this time around. I like Bill and Naldo and Who but the stories are often missing something...they drag along.
 
Cachoo said:
So far I'm disappointed with this season of "Dr Who." Maybe it is hard to stay fresh after so many seasons but it just seems a bit dull and familiar this time around. I like Bill and Naldo and Who but the stories are often missing something...they drag along.
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It feels like there's something missing for sure. I like all the people but I'm not enjoying the stories as much as I usually do. The Pilot was really promising but I've found everything since hasn't lived up to its potential. Although I did actually enjoy this last weeks episode. I feel like that must be a sign of something strange, episodes written by Mark Gatiss rarely end up high on my list of enjoyed episodes.
 
Struggled to watch the first episode of Date My Dad (on W in Canada). Widower with 3 girls and Rachel Welch as mother-in-law who has been living with them to help out but decides the time has come to move out because it's time and because she wants to stop having to do the walk of shame that comes with her very active social life. She and the girls tell him it's time to start dating again, 2 years after his wife's death and on his 40th birthday. He suddenly starts seeing and talking with his dead wife, the girls come up with a scheme to find potential dates for him. He is an ex baseball star who owns a fitness gym. The staff is totally unrealistic stereotypes, the kids are unrealistic stereotypes. The oldest kid is super savvy about man-woman relationships, the middle wants desperately to have a boyfriend but hasn't a clue how to make that happen, the youngest is a pre-teen with an obnoxious knowledge of every fact known to mankind. The dad and dead wife are plastic characters with plastic dialogue. The only even slightly interesting person is Rachel as the abuela, who looks great but has never been known as a great actress. I don't know how I made it through the whole draggy 1 hour episode but I guess I kept hoping it would somehow get interesting or be heartwarming, or anything. It did not.
 
Finished The Affair. Gawd awful.

Loving Daytime Divas. When coming up for replacements for Vanessa Williams, which she does not feel is needed:

Shawn: They're looking at Tyra Banks.
Maxine: Please.
Shawn: Meredith Vierra.
Maxine: Oh, she'd be good.
Shawn: Really?
Maxine: Nooo!
Shawn: Caitlyn Jenner?
Maxine: We can't have a woman with male privilege.
Shawn: Ann Coulter?
Maxine: No, has to be a woman.
Shawn: Oh, damn. They’re lookin’ at Michelle Obama.

Maxine is now worried.

BWAH!!!!
 
The Handmaid's Tale deserves every accolade known to man and more. Five stars out of five is not enough to express how I feel about this show. If Elisabeth Moss loses the Emmy to Claire Foy or anyone else, there's no justice.
 
Elisabeth Moss has been amazing in The Handmaid's Tale! Her subtlety is so key to the role, I really can't imagine anyone else playing the part. She is overdue to win an Emmy.
The whole season was so strong- beautifully produced, and the adaptation of the novel really worked. I'm so glad that the show is going to continue and I can't wait to see what comes next. The season finale was another excellent episode; though if I were to have a complaint about it at all, some of the music choices near the end of the finale really took me out of my enjoyment of it. They felt out of place.
 
lmarie086 said:
Elisabeth Moss has been amazing in The Handmaid's Tale! Her subtlety is so key to the role, I really can't imagine anyone else playing the part. She is overdue to win an Emmy.
The whole season was so strong- beautifully produced, and the adaptation of the novel really worked. I'm so glad that the show is going to continue and I can't wait to see what comes next. The season finale was another excellent episode; though if I were to have a complaint about it at all, some of the music choices near the end of the finale really took me out of my enjoyment of it. They felt out of place.
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I love Nina Simone, but I think that was way too on the nose. The music does seem forced at parts of the series. I know they want to remind us that this is supposed to take place in our world and our reality, but some of the music choices seemed...basic and could have been a bit more inspired. That said, I admit that Tom Petty's "American Girl" at the end really worked for me, and brought out my inner American girl fighter. I've been needing a reminder that being identified as an American can be a good thing lately.
 
New/Returning Shows for the week Sunday June 18/2017 - Saturday June 24/2017:
http://www.cinemablend.com/televisi...re-schedule-dates-for-new-and-returning-shows

Sunday, June 18
9 p.m. - AMERICA'S WAR ON DRUGS - History
9 p.m. - Grantchester Season 3 - PBS
11 p.m. - KEVIN HART PRESENTS: THE NEXT LEVEL - Comedy Central
11:30 p.m. - Legends of Chamberlain Heights Season 2 - Comedy Central

Tuesday, June 20
9 p.m. - Wrecked Season 2 - TBS (One-hour premiere)
9 p.m. - The Haves and the Have Nots (Midseason premiere) - OWN
10 p.m. - Queen Sugar Season 2 - OWN

Wednesday, June 21
8 p.m. - LITTLE BIG SHOTS: FOREVER YOUNG - NBC
10 p.m. - QUEEN SUGAR - OWN (Time slot premiere)

Thursday, June 22
12:01 a.m. - DOUG STANHOPE & FRIENDS - Seeso
8 p.m. - Hollywood Game Night Season 5 - NBC
8 p.m. - BOY BAND (2-hour premiere) - ABC
9 p.m. - The Wall (Midseason premiere) - NBC
10 p.m. - The Night Shift Season 4 - NBC
10 p.m. - THE GONG SHOW - ABC
10 p.m. - THE MIST - Spike

Friday, June 23
12:01 a.m. PT - GLOW - Netflix
11 p.m. - Playing House Season 3 - USA (All Season 3 episodes available on VOD on June 24.)

Saturday, June 24
8 p.m. - NBC Sports: Nitro Circus - NBC

Please post any updates I may have missed.
 
Turn: Washington's Spies returned for its final season tonight with a two-hour premiere and oh my god. Some of the more brutal scenes I've watched on this show. I mean it's an excellent start to the season - really strong episodes (and Martha Washington was in it more tonight and she's amazing!!), but I felt a little ill toward the end.
I love this show though, and I'm really sad that it's going to be ending. Really thought it would get a fifth season.
Plus, I need more Seth Numrich as Ben Tallmadge :swoon:
 
VIETgrlTerifa said:
The Handmaid's Tale deserves every accolade known to man and more. Five stars out of five is not enough to express how I feel about this show. If Elisabeth Moss loses the Emmy to Claire Foy or anyone else, there's no justice.
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ITA.

I will add that accolades must be given to Margaret Atwood for creating the work to begin with. An excellent production team and committed, talented actors could not fail but to do justice to this work.

I reread the book several years ago, more than 20 years after reading it for the first time. I found the ending absolutely chilling, because nothing is resolved. The Handmaid's Tale took the form of a diary that was found many, many years after it was written, and the diary is being discussed at a women's academic conference, much as female scholars today study the roles of lives of women in Biblical or other times.

Then I realized that the ending was intentional, because it isn't over yet - women's oppression hasn't ended yet. The television realization of the work in 2017 only reinforces that. I'm pleased that it is being extended beyond one season and that different side stories/back stories are being explored that couldn't be explored in the novel, which was told from the handmaid's limited perspective.

The image of a sea of handmaids in red capes and white bonnets - when they beat a man to depth - has been engraved in my mind, and I doubt I'll ever forget it.

Although I'm impressed with all the actors, and Moss in particular, Joseph Fiennes also stands out. He exemplifies men who seek and abuse power, but underneath it, are still human.

The finale is tomorrow night here in Canada. I'll probably watch it at least twice, as I have every other episode.
 
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