Friday, April 23, 2021

What's On Tonight (Saturday): Promises, promises

The Promised Neverland

Your viewing lineup, should you decide to accept it! Here's what's on television for tonight, Saturday, April 24!

Tonight's Top Pick is the second season of the anime The Promised Neverland. It had a stellar first season, weaving a tale about orphans trying to plan an escape from their school/home upon learning the outside world was full of demons and they were being raised to be food. Two episodes in, this season, which follows the kids while they're on the run in the wilderness, has been pretty good, but the reviews aren't too favorable as it progresses. The subtitled version is already out, and the IMDb episode ratings go from the low 8s to a 2.7 for the finale.

Elsewhere, the Missions Impossible Force accepts missions, vegetables rebel in Space, the Doctor must stop Axos, the wildlife of the grasslands is profiled, a nanny is a mistress and Killer, Attack on Titan tells Zeke's backstory, and Murdoch's life gets complicated.

STREAMING & EARLY PRIMETIME

📺 Doctor Who (Retro TV, 6 p.m.): The organism Axos spreads its particles across the Earth to allow itself to feed on all life on the planet. The Doctor and Jo must stop it.

Murdoch Mysteries (Ovation, 7 p.m.): The brutal murder of a woman from Murdoch's past complicates his life.

QUICK HITS:
Super Soul (Discovery+, 3 a.m.): Bruce Perry

FOR THE RECORDAccident, Suicide or Murder (Oxygen, 7 p.m.); Ghost Brothers: Lights Out (Discovery+, 3 a.m.); The Netflix Afterparty (Netflix, 3 a.m.); Portals to Hell (Discovery+, 3 a.m.); Passport to Love (Discovery+. 3 a.m.)

🕗 8:00 EASTERN / 🕖 7:00 CENTRAL

🎥 Dreamgirls (HBO, 8 p.m.): AFRICAN-AMERICAN ACTRESSES for $800: Jennifer Hudson, Beyonce & Anika Noni Rose are the singing trio in this film adaptation of a Broadway show (27 Feb 2019)

🎥 My Husband's Killer Girlfriend (Lifetime, 8 p.m.): A mother discovers that the nanny who framed her for abandoning her 3-year-old daughter is her ex-husband's new girlfriend. Lifetime, where anyone can be your killer!

🎥 Svengoolie: Gargoyles (MeTV, 8 p.m.): An anthropologist/paleontologist and his daughter, while travelling through the southwestern U.S., stumble upon a colony of living, breathing gargoyles who in the end only want to be left alone.

QUICK HITS:
One Wild Day (BBC America): Grasslands

FOR THE RECORDEscape to the Chateau (HGTV); World's Deadliest Weather (Weather Channel)

🕘 9:00 EASTERN / 🕗 8:00 CENTRAL

🎥 Hearts Down Under (Hallmark Channel, 9 p.m.): Love, Australia style. And Hallmark style.

🎥 Mid90s (Showtime, 9 p.m.): In 1990s Los Angeles, a 13-year-old spends his summer navigating between a troubled home life and a crew of new friends he meets at a skate shop.

📺 Mission: Impossible (Decades, 9 p.m.): Spend a day with the men and women who accept the impossible missions. In this season one standout, The IMF is sent to infiltrate an organization that plans to unleash 200 agents unwittingly infected with a deadly plague on an unsuspecting America. Barney, Cinnamon, Rollin, and bacteriologist Roger Lee end up in an enemy camp that trains agents to be "real" Americans and they must destroy the bacteria without revealing that it was deliberately destroyed."

This Weekend in Pop Culture (WOT&Pop Culture, 9:30 p.m.): What pop culture have you consumed lately?

FOR THE RECORDDr. Oakley, Yukon Vet (Nat Geo Wild); Pit Bulls & Parolees (Animal Planet, season premiere)

🕙 10:00 EASTERN / 🕘 9:00 CENTRAL

Final Space (Adult Swim, 10:30 p.m.): Gary and the crew race to find a cure for Quinn's Final Space poisoning. Tribore and Quatronostro find out about a prophecy and journey to the great oracle Tim Belts.

🎥 Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (TCM, 10:30 p.m.): Enjoy this classic musical in its widescreen format. None of that full screen shit.✔️

QUICK HITS:
📺 SNL Vintage (NBC): Brie Larson, Alicia Keys (7 May 2016)✔️
Urban Beauty TV (BET Her, season finale): Deborah Cox

FOR THE RECORD48 Hours (CBS); Alaska Animal Rescue (Nat Geo Wild)
Brie Larson / Molly (gif by Cali)

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Attack on Titan (Adult Swim, 12:30 a.m.): A look into Zeke's past shows his struggle to become a Warrior. His plans to end the suffering of all Eldians stems from a chance friendship made in his youth.

Black Clover (Adult Swim, 2:30 a.m.): Asta approaches the Devil Believers, intent on talking things out as they near the Spade Kingdom and the mighty devil dwelling within its borders.

Fire Force (Adult Swim, 2 a.m.): Shinra and Arthur continue their battle against Dr. Giovanni, who reveals some new information about Adolla Links. Licht discovers an imminent crisis threatening the Fire Soldiers in the Nether, as well as the Tokyo Empire at large.

Food Wars! (Adult Swim, 1 a.m.): Though Polar Star Dormitory has won, the Azami administration continues its revolution.

📺 Lost in Space (MeTV, 1 a.m.): In this classic episode, Dr. Smith uses the Space Pod to land on a planet that the Jupiter 2 is passing by. It turns out that the planet has evolved in such a way that plants are the highest form of life, and some of them are quite intelligent. One of these plants, a large carrot, captures Smith and tries to change him into a plant.✔️

Naruto: Shippuden (Adult Swim, 3 a.m.): Itachi activates the Visual Jutsu Izanami to trap Kabuto's mind.

⭐ The Promised Neverland (Adult Swim, 1:30 a.m.): Emma and the group learn the necessary skills to survive in this world. Back on their own, the children traverse a wasteland in search of a place called B06-32.

📺 The Rookies (Heroes & Icons, 2 a.m.): The Rookies are given the task of protecting a controversial Army General who has recently returned to the country after serving in Vietnam. The officers must deal with mob control, as well as actively track down a sniper who hits the General.

📺 The Six Million Dollar Man (Cozi, midnight): Disease and revolution threaten islanders who are descendants of an advanced alien race.
Lost in Space, "The Great Vegetable Rebellion" (via Frolic)


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