The first teaser for HBO's Succession made it look like a very serious drama, which was kind of surprising, since it's written by The Thick of It's (Veep's British predecessor) Jesse Armstrong and directed by Anchorman and Step Brothers' Adam McKay. Succession was obviously never going to be a Will
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Light and dark assemble in the official trailer for Marvel's Cloak & Dagger. In a new teaser for the upcoming YA-centric Freeform series, a crisis is headed to New Orleans and two confused but extremely powerful teens are the key to stopping it.
Tyrone aka Cloak (Aubrey Joseph) is a troubled
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Nick St. Clair kidnapped Archie as revenge against Veronica, Cheryl wrote a scathing editorial about Sheriff Keller, and Chic's real identity was revealed on Riverdale Season 2 Episode 19.
Below, TV Fanatics Jack Ori, Paul Dailly, and Justin Carreiro debate Betty giving up Chic to The Black Hood, the true fate of Charles Cooper, and Archie's motivations after surviving the kidnapping.
1. Veronica went against her parents' wishes to defeat Nick St. Clair and save Archie. Could this be the point where she turns against her family?
Jack: It certainly seems so, and with good reason. Archie has been nothing but loyal to Hiram and the Lodges did nothing to help him. The thing is, though, I think she expected Archie to be angry too and instead he became more ruthless in his determination to get Hiram's approval.
Paul: I agree. I love that the writers are going this route with the character. She was great in all of her scenes and it was pretty obvious she was not sleeping with Nick. She had revenge in mind.
Justin: I think so. She's been siding with Hiram and Hermione for so long, but she did so with the caveat that Archie would be safe and protected from the family business. Now that he was put in danger, and that her family did NOTHING to help him, she must realize now that they're the villains and she can't work with them.
2. Chic wasn't really Charles Cooper and he killed him. React!
Jack: I wasn't surprised once it was all revealed. It made sense given the fact that Chic was violent and weird. I felt so bad for Alice.
Paul: I was surprised. I feel like this plot should have been resolved sooner, but I'm glad that Chic is finally out of the picture. Alice must feel awful right about now.
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Justin: This revelation blew me away because like Paul said, I expected this type of reveal to have happened much sooner. Betty and Chic had a shared darkness, so I thought they were siblings. But, it made sense since the entire family is completely different than him beyond that evil.
3. Sheriff Keller quit his post after a public outcry. Was the town right to place the blame on him?
Jack: Yes and no. Certainly he should have done more to keep everyone safe, whether or not he expected The Black Hood to be resurrected. But, he had very incomplete info since people kept hiding communications with The Black Hood from him and as far as he knew, the guy was dead.
Paul: I don't think he did enough to keep everyone safe, so there needed to be a change or else people would have lost faith in the law.
Justin: Like I said in the review for Riverdale Season 2 Episode 19, I felt bad for him because he shouldn't have received all the blame. However, it's quite telling when a group of teenagers were the ones to constantly solve his biggest crimes. He's not doing his job and he's not experienced enough to be the sheriff.
4. After being kidnapped and tortured by Nick, Archie wants to earn his bones by killing The Black Hood. Share your initial thoughts on the kidnapping/his murder mission.
Jack: I really hated this story. I thought that one way or the other Nick was just making things worse for himself and that it could have been more easily solved by Veronica recording the conversation at Pop's where Nick demanded she sleeps with him and going to the authorities.
Plus, it was over-the-top violent, and no one but Veronica seemed to be concerned that Archie had disappeared. And then Archie gets home and instead of being at all angry at the whole world for not caring that he was gone, he decides that the thing to do is become a murderer too. Ugh.
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Paul: Yeah, this plot with Nick returning was bizarre. I get him wanting revenge, but it's silly that he went to such extreme measures to carry it out. Archie has proven that he's not great at hiding things, so it will be fun to see how much hanging around with Hiram has increased his skill set for deception.
Justin: Archie is an idiot! Instead of turning away from the two people who abandoned him and left him to die, he decides to get in deeper with them and kill someone to get their respect.
He's going to get himself killed or arrested. And, Nick made a simple plan of revenge more complicated than it should've been. He's terrible at being a mob boss.
5. FP was revealed as Charles' real birth father after Alice previously said he wasn't. Were you surprised at all, even after the red-herring?
Jack: Not really. Who else could it be? This was one of those reveals that I think was supposed to be dramatic but wasn't.
Paul: Nope. It was obvious all season long. Somehow, I thought we already knew the truth.
Justin: No. Though, I'm more frustrated than surprised because Riverdale had ruled out the possibility and led us astray. Red-herrings are great in mystery novels, but openly lying simply to hide an obvious conclusion was a tad tacky.
6. Betty let The Black Hood go after Chic as his next victim. Do you think Chic survived the run?
Jack: Probably, because it makes better drama for him to pop up again just as well think he's gone for good. At least we know now that Chic is not The Black Hood since he couldn't be in two places at once, though.
Paul: Betty is playing with fire. But Chic likely survived. Jack's right, he'll pop back up sometime around Riverdale Season 7 when the show is running out of storylines.
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Justin: Am I the only one who thinks he got killed? Chic's storyline got resolved pretty easily. And unless he comes back to kill the Coopers, he has no reason to return. I could see the real Charles Cooper return in the future for a lacking plot pool, but Chic most likely is dead.
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Jace (Dominic Sherwood) and Clary (Katherine McNamara) are about to collide in this week's episode of Shadowhunters, but not in the "passionate lovers" kind of way -- in the "fight to the death" kind of way.
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American Idol has not been the big performer in the ratings ABC was probably hoping for.
There was some good news for the show on Sunday night. It secured 8 million viewers and a 1.8 rating, which is the show's second-highest ratings since moving to ABC.
With a stronger lead-in, Deception swelled 33 percent to 3.7 million viewers and a 0.8 rating.
Elsewhere...
CBS: Instinct (7 million/0.6 rating) and Madam Secretary (6 million/0.6 rating) were stable, while NCIS: Los Angeles (7.5 million/0.7 rating) matched its series low.
Fox: The Simpsons (2.4 million/0.9 rating) was steady, while Brooklyn Nine-Nine (2 million/0.9 rating), Family Guy (2.3 million/1.0 rating) and Last Man on Earth (1.8 million/0.7 rating) were both up.
NBC: Little Big Shots (6 million/0.8 rating) and Genius Junior (3.7 million/0.6 rating) were both steady, but Timeless (2.6 million/0.6 rating) inched up a tenth.
Southern Charm New Orleans is already far and away more entertaining than its Savannah counterpart. It’s got meltdowns, it’s got marriage drama, it’s got second line…and it’s got hella abs and very attractive, albeit messy, people. Isn’t that the recipe for great reality television? Last night’s episode is no exception. Jon Moody’s painting party is being blown to bits by Tamica Lee and Reagan Charleston. Justin Reese is thrilled he isn’t a husband yet. Tamica is screaming at Jon, Reagan is screaming at Jeff Charleston and Jeff is trying to defend the party in its purest form. It was just for painting! Tamica ushers out husband Barry Smith who calmly tells her she is behaving irrationally. She insists her beef isn’t with him, it’s with the host and asks how he would feel if the tables were turned. I’m guessing he wouldn’t mind if his wife was at a party where he wasn’t in attendance, but he keeps his mouth shut because he’s clearly not stupid…unlike the Charlestons.
The drunk duo is trading slurred insults. Reagan is pissed that Jeff never answered her calls, but he swears he didn’t have any missed calls to her because of poor service. Check his call log for Pete’s sake! Realizing he’d left his phone and his jacket at Jon’s the pair turns around to retrieve it. Reagan swears she’s simply concerned because her husband never drinks this much, and she worries he’s been hit too many time in the head due to his stint in the NFL. She also warns him not to get the wet paint from his attempt at nudes all over his nice jacket. What a stupid painting. The Picasso of NoLa is insulted. He’s hanging the masterpiece in their bedroom. As if! Reagan slams the painting into her husband, coating his jacket. She whines a nasally apology while promising to clean it. Jeff counters that she’s never cleaned anything in her life, and I believe him. He’ll be the one cleaning his jacket. She works and puts him down, and it’s sad. He screams that he isn’t the wounded concussion bird that she wants him to be. He’s just upset because his wife is being a giant beatch.
Jeff storms out of the car and runs into the night. Reagan warns that he will be arrested, but he doesn’t care. In the other Uber, Tamica and Barry’s conversation has turned to their friends’ tumultuous marriage. Barry is worried about Jeff. On cue, a hysterical Reagan phones Tamica to share her husband has run away. They reroute the Uber and Barry is hesitant to follow Jeff’s path through a construction site. He knows that when people trespass, the property owners usually shoot first and ask questions later. A melodramatic Reagan sobs that she doesn’t want her husband’s selfishness to endanger Barry. I think Barry’s decision to chase Jeff into the swamp is based solely on not wanting to listen to Reagan’s shrieking. Catching up to Jeff, Barry tries to talk some sense into his friend. Jeff repeats that he just can’t do it anymore.
Finally, Tamica makes sure that Reagan gets home safely while Barry makes a second attempt to wrangle Jeff who is hellbent on walking the seventy miles back to his house. I’m sure he’ll be fine walking over that bridge. It’s only twenty-five miles, after all. Jeff is distraught, and he pours his heart out to Barry. He doesn’t know what is wrong, but he’s not himself. He finally allows Barry to take him back to his wife’s downtown apartment. The following morning, Barry fills in Justin on how terrifying the experience was. Reagan heads to the French Quarter where she finds Jeff asleep on the floor in part of his suit. He apologized for being a disheveled mess as she snarks he looks like a busted Chippendales dancer. Jeff is overly apologetic–he is under so much stress, but he realizes that doesn’t excuse his actions. Reagan is tearful. They are a team, but she’s concerned that half the team is suffering from some massive brain swelling.
Kelsey and Justin live together, and she’s excited to remodel their home. She’s disappointed to learn they will be potentially displaced for several months during construction. Justin treads lightly when mentioning his mom is fine if they move in with her. Kelsey isn’t exactly thrilled at this option. She won’t be able to go braless in booty shorts; however, Kelsey promises Justin she’ll consider it. She promises they can discuss it later. Meanwhile, Reagan heads to bestie’s house for wine and cookies. Tamica feeds Reagan cookie dough and wine as she doesn’t know how to technically bake. Reagan wonders aloud if she’s making a mountain out of a mole hill with Jeff’s behavior, but Tamica assures her friend that Jeff needs help. Across town, Jeff heads to Barry’s gym to apologize and express his gratitude. He’s scared and worried about himself, and he wants to get help. Jeff recognizes he’s been isolating himself, and he is ready to work on himself. Reagan asks Tamica’s advice. How did Tamica handle her separation from Barry. Tamica admits that she was suffering from postpartum and accusing Barry of infidelity. When they were poised to file for divorce, they realized they needed to work on their marriage for their kids. Reagan reminds Tamica that there are no children to anchor her relationship with Jeff. She loves him, but she’s not sure she is strong enough to work with him when she could easily walk away. Tamica is starting to realize why Reagan wanted the French Quarter condo. Just like Jeff the night before, Reagan is running away from her marriage.
Barry is meeting his friend and Tamica’s arch nemesis Gian for lunch. Gian is very business savvy, so Tamica doesn’t fault Barry for seeking Gian’s advice. She also realizes that her husband flirts a bit with his clients, but it’s part of being a trainer. He’s seeking Gian’s guidance on starting a line of active wear, and Gian is happy to stroke his ego…and his arm. Speaking of business development, Jeff is trying to mend fences with Reagan by going all in with her jewelry line. When he left the NFL, he pursued his MBA so he could partner with Reagan in business. She’s the creative side, but he’s her Swiss army knife, tackling everything from quality control to shipping and receiving. I may have another job title for Jeff, but it’s really sweet (and kind of sad) to see how much he adores his wife. Jeff is working with a clothier and his friends to prepare suit forms for an upcoming launch party. Justin praises his friend’s eye for detail. Jon cites Reagan as the car, but Jeff is the engine that gets everything done.
The evening of the launch party, Jeff is excited to have a lot to do as a distraction. Jon arrives shirtless, and I can’t even count the amount of abs this guy has! The rest of the gang arrives with Tamica channeling a sexy nutcracker. Jon and Reagan’s beef is water on the bridge thanks to Jon modeling her wares. The party ramps up with a traditional Mardi Gras band. A fellow NFL wife arrives so Reagan can revisit the hellish night. Her friend Rachel relates. Her husband has a problem following a grocery list. Concussions, y’all. On the balcony, Tamica is giving Justin a hard time about his relationship with Kelsey. She doesn’t think Justin wants to marry Kelsey, and Justin thinks Tamica needs to mind her own damn business. They haven’t even been together for a year. Tamica just doesn’t see the pair working in the long term, and Kelsey interrupts before Justin can defend himself.
Tamica is quick to tell Kelsey that they are chatting about the status of their relationship, and she’s worried about her friend Justin. Justin intercedes that he maintains they are happy and moving at their own pace. Kelsey seems fine with this answer until Tamica interjects that Justin doesn’t think Kelsey is The One. Kelsey seems hurt, and Justin attempts to explain himself, although he won’t really give a definitive answer as to whether she is The One. Tamica points out his inability to form the words yet again. Reagan wanders up on this shiz show, and she informs her friend that she needs to save this drama for another evening. Tamica argues she is just asking the right questions, but Reagan counters that she is making her guests uncomfortable. Both Justin and Kelsey admit to feeling uncomfortable, so Reagan puts an end to the conversation as Tamica storms back into the party. She finds Jeff and starts complaining about Reagan before being pulled away by Jon. Jon tries to school her on the etiquette of finding out one’s husband has been invited to a guys’ night that included a group of ladies. Is she insecure? That’s a hot button word for Tamica. Barry is watching his wife hold his own as Jon tries to peace out gracefully. One of Jon’s friends yells “Insecure” in Tamica’s direction before following Jon, and Barry follows him out screaming some very not nice things. He threatens Jon’s friend who is threatening a law suit. Jon and Tamica try to calm him.
TELL US – WHAT DID YOU THINK OF LAST NIGHT’S EPISODE? SHOULD JEFF SEE A DOCTOR REGARDING HIS RECENT BEHAVIOR OR IS HE JUST STRESSED?
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