Season 4 Episode 5: Storytime

Welcome back to another week of TV viewing catchup. This is week five and if you have been here before you will know I am trying to keep this going and beat my previous record (Season 1 16 episodes). As you will read, I have started a show. I left last year and now have time to add it to my schedule.

A few weeks ago, I mentioned that I was trying to use more videos rather than photos on my Instagram account, but that had to be put on hold as my PC was struggling. Last week, I updated that I had ordered new PC components to help alleviate this problem with the news. Well, the final piece of the puzzle arrived today, so after this is done, I will be getting this all set up and hope this helps make video editing a lot quicker.

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And now for the uncomfortable bit. I have set up a Patron page, not for the sole purpose of making money but they give me a reason the keep this going. After not completing a full season, I believe this is because there is no one waiting for the next update. So if I see someone coming back each week I would have a season to keep it up. If you are one of the people that keep coming back each week and enjoy reading it, please consider becoming a Patron so I know I’m not just shouting into the wind.

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And finally please take a look at my Instagram account I am going to try my best to start adding video’s where I can instead of just static photo’s. I try to add a post for every show I watch, so I’m more up to date than this blog and has a lot fewer words.

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News

Renewed - Cancelled - Ordered

We have news, yes, actual news. So thank you CW who this week renewed 12 of their shows for another season. So let’s begin.

“All American”, “Charmed”, “In the Dark”, “Legacies” & “Roswell New Mexico” are renewed for their 4th season’s. “Batwoman” & “Nancy Drew” for their 3rd seasons. “DC’s Legends of Tomorrow” for its 7th season. “Dynasty” was renewed for its 5th season, “The Flash” back for its 8th season. “Riverdale” returns for its 6th season and finally “Walker” is coming back for its second season, and that’s it for this weeks news I hope they slow down a bit so to news is spread out and not jam-packed.

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I Have Been Watch

Top Gear: America S1 E1 “Supercars” E2 Overlanding for $5k

Motor Trend – Reality-TV/ Sport

If at first, you don’t succeed, try try again. Well, that’s what has happened to “Top Gear” as we have a third attempt at making an American version.

To start a little bit of history. In 2008 NBC asked for a pilot of a localised version of BBC motoring show “Top Gear.”In November of 2010, the first season premiered on “The History Channel”. After six seasons the show ended. In 2017, the BBC Commissioned a reboot of the show to be shown on BBC America, but this only lasted one season. In 2019, the announcement that a new reboot of Top Gear was in the works this time for motoring centric channel “Motor Trend.”

So now we are up to date. This week we got to see the first two episodes on the new reboot.
This time hosted by Dax Sheppard, Rob Corddry and Jethro Bovingdon. Unlike the original or the first season of the first US try at Top Gear this is not shot in a studio but on location. The first episode centred on Supercars with the three presenters buying supercars and taking a trip across America. So far I can see the love for cars in everyone, at first I was worried that they had just tried to get a couple of famous faces to get people to watch and then add in an expert. But they all seemed to know what they were talking about. It was funny and charming and made me want to drive right into the second episode—this time all about Overlanding. In typical Top Gear style, they were each given $5k and told to buy a vehicle that could take on anything.

The chemistry between the three presenters is amazing they play off each other perfectly, the drive to win, be the best is just what a show like this needs. If you are not a car person you can sit and watch it for the comedy value, and if you are a car fan you can also watch it for the anticipation of what car they were going to get to complete the Overlanding

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Bob heart Abishola S1 E1-8 “Pilot”

CBS - Comedy/Romance

If you have read any of my posts before you might know that I sometimes fall behind on a show or not even start it, when I get a spare day with either nothing or very little to watch, I like to catch up on start a new show. This is where “Bob hearts Abishola.” Comes in.

Coming from the Sit-com master Chuck Lorre is a show about two very different people. Bob, a Compression sock business owner and Abishola, a Nurse from Nigeria, just trying to make a better life for her son. When Bob has a heart attack, he is taken to hospital where he is looked after by Abishola; this starts up an unlikely friendship that helps create a world full of different people and ideas.

In the opening episode, Bob promises a pair of the socks his company makes. Still, when he returns to the hospital with them, he is informed that it’s Abishola’s day off, after some bribing he get her address and goes over to see her at her home but is greeted by her parents who are surprised when a white man is knocking at their door.

As the season progresses, we see their friendship blossom despite Abishola’s mother trying to get them together and make her life better.

Most comedic moments come from different lifestyles and the differences between the American and Nigerian ways of doing things. Some of my favourite moments are between Abishola’s mother & father and herself. They want her to marry Bob and give them an affluent lifestyle.

I am almost halfway through the first season and use any spare moment to watch a couple more episodes. This should be a good indicator of how much I am enjoying this show and can’t wait to start the second season. If it’s as good as the first, I can see this show making a few more seasons.

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Call me Kat S1 E6 “Gym.”

FOX – Comedy

It may have been a few weeks since I last talked about. “Call me Kat.” But I have been keeping up with this incredible show and this week outing was just perfect. As Kat was in the running for an article in the local newspaper about her opening a cat café, she decides to join the local gym to make herself look better in the photos. After taking an exercise class Kat as in a lot of pain the next day, which was not ideal as that’s when she was being interviewed for the article.

When the interview does not go well, Kat hatch’s a plan to run into the interviewer at the gym where he goes once a week. When she runs into him at the gym, she tries to tell him more about what the café is doing for the local community, and this goes completely wrong after a healthy smoothy drink does not sit well with her stomach she abruptly leaves the conversation into to throw up into a bin.

Also in this episode, Phil tracks down a children’s book from this childhood for storytime at the café. But after re-reading it, he discovers it is racist he asks everyone if it’s still ok as a story for “storytime Furry time.” Once he finally decides not to use it for the storytime, he struggles to find another story until he is convinced to tell this own story.

This show is always heartwarming, funny, and slightly different for the normal, mainly because Kat geat’s us at the beginning of each episode and will sometimes talk to us throughout the episode.  

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Chicago Fire S9 E05 “My Lucky Day”

NBC - Actiion/Drama

Every so often an episode of a favourite show reminds me of why I fell in love with it. This week Chicago Fire may have just had it’s best episode yet. It didn’t have a lot of action or large explosions. It was a simple episode show primarily in a freight elevator with only four actors for the most part. In what is called a bottle episode.

Whenever shows make bottle episodes, it always stands out as an exciting episode. You only have to look at the Fly episode of Breaking Bad.

This weeks episode saw firehouse 51 called to a fire alarm in a storage unit facility, with work taking place on the 10th floor where the alarm is going off. The crew make there way up the stairs to investigate. But Herman and Cruz take the elevator to beat the rest to the top. But when the elevator breaks down on it’s way up, and without any signal reception, they have to try and get it fixed by themselves. As things go from bad to worse, Herman tells personal stories from his family life to keep everyone’s mind off their current situation.

What was great about this episode was that not only did they let two characters that don’t always get a lot of screen time shine and flesh out their history. But they also reminded us of fallen fireman Otis. As the action was going on around them and no way of communicating to anyone outside the elevator, they had to think what would Otis do. To help lower the weight inside the elevator, Cruz & Herman decide to empty the large barrels filled with paint stripper, by making a hold in the floor to pour the liquid through. As this is going on, Mouch is stuck, and everyone is trying to rescue him from the fire.

Again this weeks episode was just fantastic and well worth a second watch.

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Superstore S6 E8 “Ground Rules”

NBC – Comedy

As Superstore is playing out, it’s final season it’s nice to see old characters return and this week we got to see Tony son of Sandra start his first day working for Cloud 9.

When Jonah is asked to help teach Tony what he needs to do, he struggles with his slow pace. This is on top of Gleen being emotional but Tonys first day. After accidentally putting beer in the freezer and not the fridge Jonah starts to raise his voice and then unintentionally hits Tony in the face with a six-pack of beer. When Gleen side’s with Tony, Jonha try’s to defend himself which doesn’t go according to plan.

Also in This episode, Garrett finds himself in the middle of Dian’s new relationship. Still, when everyone is ok with it being a three-person relationship, Garrett has to consider if its something he wants to be a part of.

Meanwhile, in the episode, Mateo helps Cheyenne become a better floor supervisor after seeing her playing a game to help decide everybody’s tasks for the day. This does not go down well with Chayenne, who starts making fun of Mateo to everybody.

There were a few funny moments this week, but I’m not sure this was a stand out episode. I hope this show can go out on a high and not just live on its past successes.

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Gold Rush: White Water S4 E10 “Ride or Die”

Discovery – Reality-TV

As the Gold Mining seasons’ end creeps ever closer, Dustin starts to find a new place to mine. When his crew believe they have found a spot they hope will be full of gold. The new site has fast-moving water and what Dustin believes in a shallow floor and when Carlos is dragged down the river by the fast-moving current the team get to work making the area safe to work in. After making walkways closer to the focal point, the crew start moving some rocks and uncover what looks to be good gold locations. While over with Fred’s team, they struggle with large amounts of rock falling into there hold overnight. Whenever they try and use their sledge to remove large quantities of rock, the steep angle allows most of the rock fallout, so they have to come up with another way of eliminating the boulders. After some time they land on a plan to rig up the sledge so that it lifts out and not just slides up the sides of the hole wall. This plan helps them remove the rock in a few hours and get back to digging down deeper into the hole to try and find the bedrock.

As Saturdays have now become Gold rush day for me, I do enjoy White Water as it plays off the fact that two mine crews are doing thing’s in different ways

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And there you have it another week in the bag. We are keeping this streak alive 5 weeks strong.
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