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Are we the baddies?
Political Discussion Welcome
Tuesday, September 8, 2026
What's On Tonight (Wednesday): Breaking news and broken hearts
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| The Paper |
We're paratroopers, Lieutenant. We're supposed to be surrounded! Here's what's on television for tonight, Wednesday, September 9!
Our Top Pick tonight is the sophomore season of The Paper (Peacock, 3 a.m.). This seemed the right choice because it is adjacent(ish) to what I do IRL. While the show takes numerous liberties with journalism and the news industry — the economics of the show's newspaper make no sense — it does have a heart that is pretty true to the practice of community reporting. And like the show, trying to inform with a volunteer/freelance staff is largely what I do. Plus given it's my birthday, I figured this Top Pick is commendable. Also, the headlining is terrible.
Elsewhere, football is back, Tyler Perry is gettin' Married Again, Band of Brothers has a Legacy, Ted Lasso rings in the new year, Diarra solves the case, the Hardacres are threatened, Miles O'Brien does one more Solve, and it's a Shardy Halloween.
Monday, September 7, 2026
Politics Corner September 7
beware of Harlan Crow
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I am still being judged. Of course I am. I haven't held a real job in a very long time and I'm not likely to ever hold a job again. Volunteering is almost certain but volunteering is not accepted as work in this country no matter how much work is actually involved. I can't get a job that I'm qualified for because I can't prove my qualifications until I'm on the job. The things that I can prove are in fields that I'm simply incapable of doing anymore.
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glare is all peregrine
What's On Tonight (Tuesday): Is is Real or make believe?
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Tonight's Top Pick is the sixteenth season premiere of The Real Housewives of New York City, returning after a 19-month absence. Just a little bit longer until scripted network programming comes back.
Sunday, September 6, 2026
Politics Corner September 6
beware of Harlan Crow
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Still being judged.
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one of things is not like the other
Political Discussion Welcome
What's On Tonight (Monday): Who's up for a little Exploitation of Evil?
Courtesy Vulture.
Tonight's Top Pick is the two-episode (!) premiere of the four-hour (!) O.J. Unseen: Exploitation of Evil, debuting at 9 p.m. on HBO Max and ID. It's hard to believe that it's been 20 years since Juiced.
Cancellation League Update!
Courtesy Amadeus3000.
You've got two weeks until the contestants deadline. We're at 15 so far.
Saturday, September 5, 2026
Politics Corner September 5
beware of Harlan Crow
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I had a visitor yesterday. I feel judged.
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the stare belongs to the peregrine
Political Discussion Welcome
What's On Tonight (Sunday): You know nothing, Sydney Carton
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| A Tale of Two Cities |
It was the best of times! Here's what's on television for tonight, Sunday, September 6!
Our Top Pick tonight is the series premiere of A Tale of Two Cities (MGM+, 10 p.m.). This miniseries adaptation of the Charles Dickens classic stars Gilderoy Lockhart Kit Harington and François Civil as Sydney and Charles and Mirren Mack as Lucie. For such a quintessential piece of literature — of which reading it in high school unquestionably spurred my life track as a writer — the work isn't often adapted. The mini was developed by Daniel West, who also did the Kit-led mini Gunpowder, that I assume no one remembers.
Elsewhere, Susan Reyland and the Marlow gang both find Murder on PBS, Librarians answer the call, Negan saves community, and the President gets malware.
This Weekend in Pop Culture: September 4-6
Welcome to the Weekend in Pop Culture! Let's examine what's coming out in theaters this weekend.
By Any Means
A hitman and an FBI agent team up to investigate the killings of civil rights leaders.
Fall 2: Deadpoint
After her sister dies in a climbing accident, a woman and her friend climb a mountain on a plank walk, because stupidity apparently runs in their family.
Onslaught
A mother protects her daughter from an unstoppable killing machine.
What have you been watching?
Friday, September 4, 2026
What's On Tonight (Saturday): Bad feminist
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| Surviving the Silence: The Roxane Gay Story |
Sister sister! Here's what's on television for tonight, Saturday, September 5!
Our Top Pick tonight is Surviving the Silence: The Roxane Gay Story (Lifetime, 8 p.m.). Author Roxane Gay's memoir Hunger gets Lifetime movie treatment. Gay is one of my favorite writers. Her Black Panther: World of Wakanda was wonderful and I still regularly revisit Bad Feminist essays. Her Tyler Perry essay is exceptional.
Elsewhere, Tamera Mowry loves a Mystery, balls are foot'd, Camp Rock gets vertical, Scavengers Reign in linear, and Practical Magic goes to Dinner.
Politics Corner September 4
beware of Harlan Crow
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There is nothing better than a little girl dancing. She doesn't know that the world is turning to shit. I will protect her from that as long as I can. I've spent my life trying to get the world turned right or at least moving forward. She doesn't know this and I don't ever want her to even understand. Ponies and rainbows.
Political Discussion Welcome
Thursday, September 3, 2026
What's On Tonight (Friday): We Can Have a Parade and Serve Hot Hors D'oeuvres!
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| Mayday |
Today's Top Pick is the Apple original film Mayday. Ryan Reynolds stars as a US pilot who is shot down over the Soviet Union in 1987. Luckily he is found by Kenneth Branagh, who gets to do the Liam Neeson old man ass kicker role as a former KGB agent who loves Americana and decides to help Reynolds. Your mileage may vary regarding the two stars, but the directors are Jonathan Goldstein and John Francis Daley, who also directed the far better than it had any right to be Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves.
Other than that, there's not much happening. It's the Friday before a 3-day weekend. Go out.
⭐🎥 Mayday (Apple, 12:01 AM) 'When hotshot U.S. Navy pilot Lieutenant Troy "Assassin" Kelly (Ryan Reynolds) is sent on a top-secret mission into Russian territory at the height of the Cold War, the operation implodes, leaving him stranded behind enemy lines. Discovered by Nikolai Ustinov (Kenneth Branagh), a gruff ex-KGB agent with a penchant for American culture, Troy thinks he's toast -- but could an unlikely alliance between the two lead to Troy's rescue and a bond neither saw coming?'
Elsewhere...
Glory, Glory ... It's Your Own Thursday Headlines!
Courtesy IMDB.
This week's Notable Opening Night is Sept. 3, 1924, when What Price Glory opened at what is now the Gerald Schoenfeld.
The Great British Sewing Bee, S6 E1
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| Via CB |
Via The BBC:
Joe Lycett kicks off ten weeks of the most perplexing patterns, eye-popping transformations and stunning made-to-measure garments yet.
Originally aired April 22, 2020.
Watch on Roku or Google Drive.
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