Did Yellowjackets Unmasking Surprise? Is Superman Snubbing General? How Did Dexter Flub Drug?! And More Qs
We’ve got questions, and you’ve (maybe) got answers! With another week of TV gone by, we’re lobbing queries left and right about dozens of shows including Yellowjackets, The Cleaning Lady, Superman & Lois and New Amsterdam!
1 | Isn’t it something that Blue Bloods has made Lyle Lovett (Lyle Lovett!) such a badass (and a sometimes-scary af one at that)?
2 | 1883 viewers: Do we think there’s anything more to Elsa’s tears than just the trigger of a sad song? And why were Josef and his wife speaking English, and not German (their native language), to each other in the privacy of their own bedroll?
3 | Are you surprised — or simply relieved! — that The Rookie isn’t doing a “Who’s the daddy?” with pregnant Nyla, who had hooked up with her ex on Halloween?
4 | Did you also enjoy The Equalizer‘s meta moment when Queen Latifah’s Robyn told young rapper Sid Slay the best emcees are the ones who aren’t trying to be anyone but themselves?
5 | Didn’t you expect Yellowjackets‘ Van’s face to look much worse when Tai took off the mask? And even though Adam didn’t turn out to be the blackmailer, do you think there was still something kinda shady about how he showed up in Shauna’s life?
6 | Why did Dexter: New Blood go out of its way to fudge continuity by stating the Bay Harbor Butcher had dosed his victims with ketamine, when it was a conspicuous Dexter plot point that he used M-99 (etorphine hydrochloride)?
7 | Sure, host Jesse Palmer was once The Bachelor himself, and he is happily married now… but couldn’t he have clarified that he’s not actually married to the woman who won his season?
8 | Are you buying that The Cleaning Lady was able to clean that bloody crime scene with no industrial equipment? And we don’t mean to question Thony’s methods, but… vacuuming all those jelly beans? How did she not break the vacuum?!
9 | As many a TVLine reader has noted, why is Superman & Lois‘ Clark addressing Lt. General Anderson as “Lieutenant” and not the proper “General”? And Sarah totally met someone at camp, right?
10 | On Queens, how big of Lady Z fans must the police have been in order to coordinate the arrest of Frank Black with the chorus of the abused rapper’s big #MeToo anthem?
11 | Can Our Kind of People‘s Raymond/Tyrique alliance last, or are they both too handsome for harmony?
12 | Did this week’s American Auto storyline prompt you to Google “new cars for $10,000”? Were you shocked that there weren’t any?
13 | Anybody else disturbed that This Is Us‘ Nicky, who’s not the most technologically savvy person, was able to easily Google search Sally’s home address? And did NBC get a rights deal on “Hooked on a Feeling”? Two Ordinary Joe characters sang it last week, and then this week, This Is Us‘ Rebecca belted it.
14 | Was New Amsterdam‘s Dr. Wilder unwise to bring Dr. Castries into the resistance fold, considering Veronica hired her? (Speaking of Dr. Castries, how funny that Genevieve Angelson aired back-to-back on NBC this Tuesday, also seen as This Is Us‘ Young Sally?) Oh, and how does Helen have enough money to hire three deputies?
15 | Is The Book of Boba Fett being a bit too generous in “humanizing” what had largely been outright Star Wars villains? The Tusken people are one thing, for sure, but a Rancor? What, will we next learn that Wampas just crave a warm hug?
16 | How fortuitous was it that DC’s Legends of Tomorrow returned with a bunch of “John Cena arms” references just one day before the premiere of his Peacemaker series? #corporatesynergy
17 | Since Batwoman‘s Pam Isley, aka Poison Ivy, is an eco-activist, does that mean she’s also vegan? Like, where does she stand on plant-based meat substitutes?
18 | Were you surprised how long it took The Conners‘ Dan to mention that Darlene should be more worried about Mark’s reliance on amphetamines after losing her own mother to a drug overdose? And wouldn’t losing her sister to opioids have made Jackie think twice about begging her doctor for painkillers?
19 | Did Sistas‘ Danni make you cheer when she took down that sex trafficker… but groan when she showed up at Karen’s salon to confront Preston? (Didn’t they break up?)
20 | And Just Like That… fans, did you get Mark Ruffalo vibes from Carrie’s date Peter, aka Professor Puke? And did you even recognize The Closer vet Jon Tenney as Peter?
21 | Did Thursday’s Call Me Kat feel like the start of a new chapter for the show — one that relies less on Kat’s quirks and more on the whole ensemble? And how surprised were you to see the show go deep, revealing Randi’s ongoing battle with depression to Carter?
22 | If Pivoting even lasts that long, who do you want to cast as the ladies’ late friend Colleen for the inevitable flashbacks? Eliza Coupe’s Happy Endings pal Casey Wilson, perhaps?
23 | Does anyone watching B Positive buy Gina’s sudden interest in Drew? And at what point does her kidney buddy/potential love interest give up on van life and take a job as Valley Hills’ in-house shrink?
24 | Young Sheldon only wants us to think that Mary might cheat on George first, right? And George will use Mary’s emotional affair with the youth pastor to justify him (eventually) sleeping with Brenda? Did you look up Texas’ age of consent when it was insinuated that 17-year-old Georgie (played by 18-year-old Montana Jordan) was going to go all the way with Emily Osment’s 29-year-old weather girl? Similarly, did you pause the episode to Google whether Christian Teen (featuring Growing Pains‘ Kirk Cameron on the cover!) was a real magazine circa 1991?
25 | On Bull, how do you think Marissa’s new job — with her name on the door, the amazing office, the easy-going boss and the perfect coffee order — will eventually go terribly wrong? (Surely she signed a contract and can’t simply change her mind/return to TAC.)
Hit the comments with your answers — and any other Qs you care to share!
1. No, wouldn’t Julia Roberts fans think he was already a badass for being married to her?
15. If you watched the bad batch they had a whole storyline about rescuing a rancor and omega riding it. So this isn’t completely out of left field to show they are misunderstood. now you know why the handler in return of the Jedi was so upset when the rancor died
The handler in Return of the Jedi always existed specifically to show someone who loved that rancor and whom the rancor presumably liked to; George Lucas has said as much.
liked too, rather. Excuse me.
Are Rollins and Carisi ever going to share a scene again?
22. I’d love to see Elisha Cuthbert as Coleen. And I like the show so it’s def getting canceled.
(8) I was thinking at the time that The Cleaning Lady came into that bloody room with just her little tray of supplies but then suddenly had a shop vac and a bushel of towels
23. I buy her interest in Drew and he leaves van life soon.
Also not sudden.
I can buy it considering she could be working off curiosity. She could have finally caught on to his overtures and has begun playing it over in her head – “What if…?” However, she doesn’t want to be the one to make the big pitch in case she’s wrong and gets rejected. (We’ve all been there, yes?) So she’s making the small pitches like he was, not sure she really wants him to bite.
3) I think it might still come up that her ex is the father.
5) Didn’t Van also have burns? How is she okay?
9) Yes, Sarah met someone else at camp.
23 No I don’t buy it and I don’t like it.
9. On Superman & Lois, where is Sarah’s younger sister Sophie? Is she going the way of Judy Winslow?
9. I’m guessing Sarah had a girlfriend at camp and she will eventually date Natalie.
I was thinking she had foubd a girlfriend too…
Rookie – it’s still too early to tell if they’re not going to go “who’s the daddy” route, so many possibilities especially getting how many weeks pregnant she really is wrong.
New Amsterdam – this season is the worst. I can understand Helen not wanting Max to be a receptionist but not hiring him as a doctor is so contrived. She has the money for 3 new hires instead? Guessing this is so it will be easier for Max to go back to New York and the hospital.
It’s very simple and very real: He can’t practice as a surgeon without certification, which – it was mentioned – hasn’t come through yet. All the jobs he applied for – as he said – he’s either overqualified for, or underqualified. He hasn’t been there long enough to get certified. Helen can’t hire him for reason (a) and reason (b). Besides, she can’t have hired all 3 of those people at full pay or hours. We’ll hear more about that next week, I expect.
His certification came through by this weeks episode. They made a point to say so
He had many, many job interviews to work as doctor on this week’s show after he got his UK license to practice, they showed his Zoom interviews where he starts looking increasingly messy. This is a spoiler site but let’s just say he’s still looking while Helen hired 3 doctors.
22. I’m 100 percent only watching Pivoting because of Eliza Coupe, so the more Happy Endings alumni, the better.
Agree. She’s the best part of the show.
2)My guess is 1883 is taking a page out of The Hunt For Red October/Warrior, having the German characters speaking English when the scenes only involve those characters. I would agree that the series has done a poor job establishing that since I am having to guess that is the series intention unlike the two examples above.
4. My immediate thoughts regarding The Equalizer this week was how far down the rabbit hole are we going with Person of Interest (itself inspired by the original Equalizer) tributes? We already had cop who hunts vigilante turned ally, now we have secret subway tunnel base.
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6. There were so many plot holes on Dexter this season, but no idea why they were so stuck on that one, especially as it was a recurring plot point in the original show that M99 was hard to get.
Thank you for that POI connection. It sure did sound familiar! Maybe Michael Emerson can make a guest appearance when on break from Evil?
7. Jesse Palmer shouldn’t be ashamed about The Bachelor… he couldn’t win anything as a college f.b. player either.
8. Probably not an abundant amount of industrial cleaning products available where she’s from so she learned to make do.
9.Hopefully the person she met in summer camp is either a high school boy from either RiverVale or Mystic Falls, Va.
Really small-minded of you to believe that there is not an abundant amount of industrial cleaning products available in the Phillipines, where she was a physician.
12- no, because I knew they didn’t exist. It DID make me think any car company that could pull that off (even at the higher price it would actually have to be from the episode), would make a killing
They’d make a killing in sales, but not in profit. It costs more than that to make most cars.
20. I was wondering who that really sexy guy was!!! No idea it was John Tenney. He’s aged well. :)
Yeah, Sarah definitely met someone at camp
23) I do not buy her sudden interest in Drew and I am not here for it. I don’t see the romantic chemistry between. I’d actually be fine with Drew driving off into the sunset in his van and not returning.
3) I would love a “who’s the daddy” storyline if it means we get more Enver on the show.
14) That new holistic doctor is not here for any good and will be spying on the others for Veronica.
I see the chemistry but its subjective
8) Jellybeans, idk, but I’ve vacuumed up a lot of things that probably weren’t intended by the manufacturer with no trouble, so long as I pay attention to how the machine is doing.
15) Boring complaint. The original rancor in Jedi was BELOVED by its keeper, there had to have been some reason for that, and the one that appeared in Bad Batch was given some depth as well. There will always be many “monsters” in the Star Wars universe, but as always most often it’s a matter of perspective. (There’s no species that’s all “good” or all “evil” in Star Wars, anyway.)
And do you not understand–the whole subplot of everyone being like “Where’s your litter bro??” to Boba this whole time and now we have a chance he’s going to ride his own personal rancor through the streets.
14 – YES. Just yes to all of it!
Superman isn’t enlisted and the Lt. General disrespected his family crest, so I’m not sure Superman owes him any sign of respect. But, probably writers oversight with no underlying meaning.
#9 Superman & Lois
I think it was a straight ‘needle’ reminding him that he’s Not General Lane.
as to Sarah, “Something” Happened at Camp… but I’m not sure it was a ‘good’ thing… even when she met her parents at the bus stop I thought she seemed ‘skittish’…
* it could be as simple as she had some fun and “she’s a woman now” so there was some naive “Can they tell?”
But being a “Superhero show” and her “Boyfriend” is a ‘super’ I think something Bad Happened at camp and she either blames herself, or she’s in a place where ‘there is no good touch’… what it was and how bad will be revealed and Jordan will need to learn to step back and let her deal with it (emotionally and Physically)
that’s how I read it anyway…
15. I’m more concerned by the fan service of it rather than expanding with another beastie.
17. I never really thought of it since you put it that way, but would it make more sense for her in any media to be a full on carnivore, never eating plants, because of her love for them? (And sometimes being part plant). A Venus flytrap as it were. The Atkins diet x10.
21. It’s not as bad as people say, but it’s still missing something.
24. If you looked it up, did you look up the age of consent in Texas in the 80’s and not now?
13, This Is Us) No, it’s not improbable that Nicky found Sally with a Google search. Sometimes it’s hard, and sometimes it’s impossible, but sometimes it’s really, really easy to find people online.
14, New Amsterdam) I tried to like this show, but smart people doing dumb things keeps me away — like Dr. Wilder bringing Dr. Castries into the fold. And I immediately wondered not just how Helen could afford to hire three deputies for a start-up, but also wondered why SHE didn’t wonder about that.