What's On Tonight (Wednesday): Second time around

Every Year After

Outwit, outplay! Here's what's on television for tonight, Wednesday, June 10!

Our Top Pick tonight is the premiere of Every Year After (Amazon Prime Video, 3 a.m.). Following The Summer I Turned Pretty, Off Campus, 56 Days, We Were Liars, etc., Prime has carved a niche for itself revolving around young people and soapy romances (and often time jumps) adapted from popular novels. This one kind of reads like a stereotypical Hallmark movie where old flames reconnect and find true love. That is the trajectory, but it expands on the toll returning to a hometown, seeing someone you might not be over, and gives fleshes out the supporting cast. Also, reviews have been quite positive.

Elsewhere, Pearadise gets docuseries treatment, Criminal Record stops the danger, All the Queen's Men still exists, Vox Machina has avoidances, Outlast goes to the jungle, the Brilliant are possessed, and the Bennet Sister has options.

Politics Corner June 9

  

beware of Harlan Crow

photo mine

Politics Corner is exhausted and somewhat woozy. The upper endoscopy was successful and I'm healthy for another couple years. Fasting and anesthesia can take a lot out of you.

probably the weirdest image that made me pick up a book

and that was long before I ever heard the phrase "running around with hair on fire"

via Grateful American Foundation

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Jeopardy! recap for Tue., Jun. 9

 Here are today's contestants:

- Dan Laine, a software engineer from Jersey City, New Jersey;

- Wilson Li, a VP of regulatory reporting from Woodside, New York; and

- Peter McFerrin, an energy industry professional from Corona, California. Peter is a six-day champ with winnings of $147,399.

It's Never Lupus And Other Tuesday Headlines

The National Bird Of Ecuador Is The Andean Condor;
The National Animal Is The Galapagos Turtle,Via Giphy

'Not A Crime To Party With Jeffrey Mr. Epstein,' Just Wow [The Bulwark]

'Secretary Sh*tfaced Goes To France, Insults Europe, Belches, Leaves' [Wonkette]

Politics Corner June 8

  

beware of Harlan Crow

photo mine

Know who else doesn't like Ken Paxton? His lawyer. [Associated Press]

via Associated Press

What's On Tonight (Tuesday): Domingo is His Name-o

 

Courtesy FOX.

Tonight's Top Pick is the season finale of Bear Grylls Is Running Wild, with Bear's guest Colman Domingo. Welcome to summer, folks!

Jeopardy! recap for Mon., Jun. 8

 Here are today's contestants:

- Kaylea Bowers, a technology product manager from Orlando, Florida;

- Alejandro Sobalvarro, a graduate student from Austin, Texas; and

- Peter McFerrin, an energy industry professional from Corona, California. Peter is a five-day champ with winnings of $116,198.

Sportsball June 8

 

Via Imgur

What's On Tonight (Monday): 8 Simple Rules for Dating My Mom's Best Friend

 

Courtesy Deadline.

Tonight's Top Pick is Alice and Steve, starring Nicola Walker, Jemaine Clement, and Yali Topol Margalith as Alice's adult daughter and Steve's new girlfriend. The cast also includes Joel Fry as Alice's husband, which presumably rules out a lady-guy-lady finale. ("Oh, that's your answer for everything!")

79th Tony Awards Discussion

 

Courtesy Tony Awards.

Post in my absence, gang, and remember my motto: it's never bitchiness for bitchiness' sake, until it has to be.

CBSSM: Steven Spielberg

 

Via Comb.io

This week's segments can be found at the CBSSM YouTube page. Viewers in Australia/New Zealand may encounter IP geoblocking that requires a VPN to bypass.

PET SET

 

What's On Tonight (Sunday): Give me a T! What does that spell?

Tony Awards

Let's this groove get you to groove! Here's what's on television for tonight, Sunday, June 7!

Our Top Pick tonight is the 79th Tony Awards (CBS & Paramount+ Premium, 8 p.m. / Paramount+, Monday). This might be the last time the award ceremony plays on broadcast TV. The contract from the CBS Les era is done and the Tonys have never been a profitable venture. It was about prestige. We'll have to see where it lands next year. But Broadway will always have it's best, baby!

Elsewhere, Questlove gives Earth, Wind & Fire documentary treatment, the Interview is now only about Vampire Lestat, This Land was made for CNN, HGTV is Building Baeumler, 100 Cooks take on Food Network, and Antoni Porowski is the Best.

This Weekend in Pop Culture: June 5-7

Welcome to the Weekend in Pop Culture! Let's examine what's coming out in theaters this weekend.

Masters of the Universe
A live-action adaptation of the cartoon rip-off of "Conan the Barbarian."

Scary Movie
Prepare for more horror films to be mocked in a way that shows that the writers probably didn't watch the movies!

What have you been watching?

National Black Bear Day And Make Your Own Saturday Headlines

Via Imgur

PET SET

Politics Corner June 5

  

beware of Harlan Crow

photo mine

This week is Pride Fest in Milwaukee. I went to the grounds last night and it was appropriately weird. I turn 60 this year and I have been with Pride since the very beginning. I worked it more often than not. There was at least a decade that I headlined the dance stage on Saturday and sometimes Friday or Sunday. I pulled together a spoken word stage for at least two years. There were countless times that I staffed booths for numerous organizations and at least one year that we brought our tire store down to the grounds. I staffed at least four queer magazine/newspaper booths that I worked for. I'm intensely connected and yet I felt mostly disconnected. I'm amused and grateful that the fetish community and the furries are normal now. I love RuPaul but I haven't watched Drag Race in years and her queens seem to be almost all of the entertainment and this is Milwaukee and where's Trixie Mattel? But I'm just another aging gay man and every year they get younger and more different from me. Nothing wrong with that at all. I just have to remind myself every now and then that this exotic new frontier is exactly what I fought for. I didn't know how the kids would turn out but I wanted that to be there choice and not to be stuffed into boxes like we were.

so, is this enormous Kate Pierson wig worth spending a fortune for?

the hairline is distracting -- that's net and gets tucked under and pinned

photo mine

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What's On Tonight (Saturday): Locker talk

Locker Diaries Phineas and Ferb

The longest day! Here's what's on television for tonight, Saturday, June 6!

Our Top Pick tonight is Locker Diaries: Phineas and Ferb (Disney+, 3 a.m. and other Disney platforms). This short-form series is the latest in Disney's Locker Diaries platform concept where we only see characters from an inside locker. Zombies got this treatment not long ago. It works great as a vertical video concept, and these are all released on multiple platforms, not just the main streamers. A 16:9 version will be available on certain platforms.

Elsewhere, horses go racing, Hallmark goes Greek, capitalism is on Purpose, and BBC America gets Wild.

Jeopardy! recap for Fri., Jun. 5

 Here are today's contestants:

- Seth McElroy, a registered nurse from Charlottesville, Virginia;

- Jackie Goncalves, an art department coordinator from Brooklyn, New York; and

- Peter McFerrin, an energy industry professional from Corona, California. Peter is a four-day champ with winnings of $96,997.

Please, Please Don't Eat The Daisy And Other Friday Headlines

Ian Holm Via Tumblr

'Andy Ogles Didn't Tweet Anything MAGA Republicans Don't Actually Believe' [Wonkette]

Let's Gooooooooooooooooooooooooo For Harry Dunn! [Standing Our Ground]

What's On Tonight (Friday): No One Played by Javier Bardem Could Be an Evil Man

 

Cape Fear

Today's Top Pick is the series remake of the film remake of Cape Fear starring Amy Adams, Patrick Wilson and Javier Bardem.  I assume anyone tuning in will mostly be tuning in for Bardem cutting loose as a man sent to prison looking for revenge on the family of his former defense lawyer.  Not sure how this is going to work stretched out over multiple episodes, but it's great cast and Bardem looks like he's having a blast.

Runner up goes to the streaming premiere of the BDSM romantic comedy, Pillion.  The film stars Alexander Skarsgård as an enigmatic biker who takes on a shy man (Harry Melling) as his submissive.  Reviews were great (99% Fresh) and it certainly looks more interesting than today's other romantic comedy premiere, Office Romance starring Jennifer Lopez and Brett Goldstein.  Why can't J-Lo find love, or given how many of these types of movies she's been in, why can't she stop finding love?

Honorable mention goes to Mexico 86, the "true" story of how Mexico managed to land the 1986 World Cup thereby becoming the first country to ever host twice.  The trailer looks fun but I'm mainly in it for Diego Luna, who I've only ever seen in Andor.  I feel like I should correct that oversight.

⭐🔔 Cape Fear (Apple, 12:01 AM) SERIES PREMIERE. 'Inspired by the 1991 remake directed by Scorsese and produced by Spielberg. A storm is coming for happily married attorneys Anna (Amy Adams) and Tom Bowden (Patrick Wilson) when Max Cady (Javier Bardem), the notorious killer they are responsible for putting behind bars, is let out of prison - and he wants vengeance.'

Elsewhere...

Politics Corner June 4

  

beware of Harlan Crow

photo mine

Blanche is on his back with his legs in the air again. Or at least that's what Pam Bondi says and we all know how reliable her word is. [Guardian]

did you miss the Lotto drawing? they were very specific and they are not drawing again

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