Is Night Agent Boss Chief of F-Bombs? Would You Sign Up for ‘The Hundred’? Best Law & Order Cook? More TV 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 lotsa shows including The Way Home, The Night Agent, Law & Order: Organized Crime and more!
1 | Didn’t Up Here‘s bookstore look a lot like the record store on Hulu’s High Fidelity?
2 | After Love Is Blind‘s Kwame picked up a guitar to freestyle a love song for Chelsea and then Zack crooned an original ballad for Irina, can we ban all singing in the pods from here on out?
3 | Does The Night Agent‘s phone have call waiting? In case another spy is trying to reach him with a crisis while he’s having a flirty sharing session with Rose? Was it a bit funny to see “Wayne Palmer” (24 alum D.B. Woodside) demoted from POTUS to the Second Daughter’s Secret Service detail? With Kari Matchett as the president and a Peter Gallagher lookalike as VP, did you for a second think the show had give us a Covert Affairs reunion? And does anyone wield the F-word as well as Hong Chau (as White House chief of staff/not Fire Country star Diane Farr)? We’re pretty sure she turned the expletive into parts of speech not yet discovered!
4 | 
After learning that Fear the Walking Dead is doing a seven-year time jump for its final season, were you surprised to watch the trailer and see that, aside from some extra gray in Morgan’s beard, everybody looked exactly the same?
5 | Has any TV version of New York City looked less like New York City than Rabbit Hole‘s?
6 | The Way Home fans, what’s your take on how much Del really knows about the pond?
7 | We dunno… didn’t Succession‘s The Hundred (“Substack meets MasterClass meets The Economist meets The New Yorker“) kind of sound like something you’d want to read?
8 | Perry Mason Season 2 watchers, did we take for granted how much vim and vigor Tatiana Maslany’s now-MIA Sister Alice brought to the otherwise muted, plodding series in Season 1?
9 | With the rate at which The Company You Keep is revealing big secrets, are you worried that the show is losing some of its tension?
10 | 
Is The Bold and the Beautiful‘s Sheila from Krypton? How else could she have survived a 20-foot fall from Bill’s balcony, gotten up and run away? Also, did the soap really reuse the footage of Caroline’s plunge from the same spot?
11 | Servant, Severance, and now The Savant? Apple TV+ is trolling us with their titling, yes?
12 | Now that How I Met Your Father creators Isaac Aptaker and Elizabeth Berger have confirmed to TVLine that we’ll meet Sophie’s absentee dad by the end of Season 2, we want to know: Who would you cast in the role? Should the EPs enlist someone from one of their previous shows (Love, Victor and This Is Us)? Perhaps Hilary Duff’s Lizzie McGuire dad Robert Carradine? Or is there a secondary or tertiary How I Met Your Mother character old enough — presumably, someone around Paget Brewster’s age — to fit the bill?
13 | Are you also still trying to figure out what The Real Housewives of New Jersey‘s Louis wearing his dead father-in-law’s pajamas to sleep has to do with his family’s safety?
14 | Was Tim Meadows a rare case of Mandalorian miscasting? Between his laissez-faire vibe and the chintzy costume (seriously, take a closer look at it on rewatch), did that scene feel like an SNL sketch?
15 | Didn’t Ted Lasso‘s Roy thinking “prima donna” was “pre-Madonna” feel like a joke straight out of Bill Lawrence’s former sitcom Cougar Town? (We were waiting for Christa Miller’s Ellie to pop up in frame and say, “Change approved!”) And given how private Colin was being about his romance with Michael, wasn’t it hard to believe that Colin would later be OK making out with Michael in a public space, not far from all his friends and teammates?
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Who wants to tell The Flash‘s Allegra that websites don’t have newspaper front page-style layouts? Did the show really deprive us of seeing the Iris/Nia/Kara/Alex/Ryan brunch?? And how glaring was it this week, with Iris and Nia both comatose, that Team Flash now has no medically trained member?
17 | Do you think Survivor‘s Carolyn will blow up Brandon and Danny’s games once the tribes officially merge next week?
18 | If Chicago P.D. takes two steps back with Burgess and Ruzek next week after this Wednesday’s big development, will you lose it?
19 | If A Million Little Things‘ Maggie was so irked about Dr. Jessica taking over her radio show, why did she listen to it every day? And who listens to radio in their homes on actual radios anymore, anyway?
20 | 
With that jacket/shirt combo, did you half expect The Masked Singer judge Robin Thicke to break into “Do You Hear the People Sing?” during this week’s episode?
21 | Is Next Level Chef‘s dirty little secret that more than half the season has nothing to do with its “three levels of kitchens” gimmick?
22 | Was anyone watching Station 19 not ultimately hoping that that obnoxious social-media star would plunge to her death?
23 | Is Grey’s Anatomy working overtime to make us forget that we ever liked Maggie and Winston together, ahead of Kelly McCreary’s exit? Also, was anyone else afraid that the PRT was going to explode when Addison drove off at the end of the episode?
24 | As sibling castings go… did So Help Me Todd miss the mark here?
25 | The end of this week’s Law & Order: Organized Crime got us to thinking: Who would win in an Italian-food cookoff — Stabler, or SVU‘s Carisi?
Hit the comments with your answers — and any other Qs you care to share!
24. Sometimes siblings do look completely different from each other. I look very different from my own sister. You would not know we were in the same family, unless you looked at our family members. So, usually casting usually go for more similarities, or hair coloring, but I can by sometimes when are differences.
24. Think of NBC’s Sisters… did any of them look related to each other or their mother?
I wanted so badly to love ” The Night Agent”. After all I love spy , international espionage , political thrillers more than anything else but it just is so lacking in credibility that every minute it nags at me. So this young woman who was practically raised by spies and didn’t have a clue after their murder teams up with a second generation FBI agent. She then proceeds to take over his entire operation basically calls all the shots with no objection from him at all. In addition the President’s NSA isn’t going to tell her what to do because she’s calling all the shots there too. Amazingly enough with all of the great shows Berlin Station among them being cancelled all the time this show is already renewed for a second season and seems to be a hit. I don’t get it at all.
24 – YES!!!
12. For Sophie’s father we need some who could have had kids in the nineties. Michael Gross who played Ted’s dad is old enough and it would be a funny way to link the two series. Ted and his dad talked about nothing important. It would not be too out there to have tes never mention Aunt Sophie. Plus it could bring Josh Rader to the show in a way that’s not a random meet up.
Honestly my first thought would be Peter Herman from Younger. He 20 years Hillary’s senior and would be around Paget’s age.
Yes but imagine the link with Sophie being Ted’s sister. Both tell long winded inappropriate stories to their children.
Obviously it will be someone who is famous and a great cameo like John lithgow was. I don’t think I’m right but it would make for great fan fiction
19. If my nemesis were on air every day I’d listen to them every day, just to despise them while listening.
And – only cool people still listen to radio shows on actual radios!
Radio, what’s new?
Radio, someone still loves you!
This is absolutely the correct answer. How can you let your hatred grow for someone if you don’t know what they’re doing?
#20, lol.
Agreed! I don’t even watch Masked Singer, but I almost did a spit-take reading this! Haa! (Then watched the linked utube clip!)
14. Yeah, I thought so. I know him best as Caleb the Cannibal from B99, so all I could think was don’t get too close or he’ll eat you. Didn’t seem to have quite the level of gravitas required for the scene given how good a job Paul Sun-Hyung Lee did with a rare larger role.
What I want to know is when and where can I finally watch the 4th and final season of Snowpiercer, now that TNT has ditched the entire thing.
6-I really don’t think she knows anything about the pond.
14-YES! It was such a weird scene. SNL skit sounds about right.
23-They’ve really made Maggie completely unlikeable.
23. I always felt Maggie and Winston’s relationship was very rushed. So I never really cared if they succeeded or failed as a couple. So it’s kinda whatever, maybe with Maggie out Winston will get some sort of personality/character.
22 – Station 19 – Yes, and I was hoping she’d take Bishop with her
17 – Survivor – One can only hope the bros get outted
# 3 – on call waiting, Rose says “don’t you have to keep this line open? Just in case someone calls?” and he replies “you really think it’s set up so a night agent in trouble gets a busy signal?” … so it seems there’s a plan in place
Came here to post this as well. Seems TVline missed that conversation. It does seem like call waiting would be slightly inappropriate for the type calls coming in… Or even 2 phones since there’s only one Night Agent. But I’m not sure you can nitpick these type things the way some situations were handled on the show.
10 – So, so stupid. I realize that soaps are not known for their link to reality, but that was just silly. She didn’t limp or have scratches on her face. Nothing. And am I the only one who thinks her heart attack was manufactured by Bill and that ring?
17 – I seriously hope that Carolyn trashes both their games, but I suspect that Josh will get it first, even though he has no actual link to them. Unbelievable how clueless they both were the way they talked around her.
23. I wasn’t worried about the PRT blowing up, but I was thinking it’s irresponsible of Addison to drive with one arm in a sling.
So only two-armed people are allowed to drive? There are thousands of amputees who would take exception to that.
I think the Burgess and Ruzek storyline is illustrative of a cyclical, unhealthy relationship and romanticizing a lot of red-flag behavior.
I admire both actors and respect their efforts to ground the material, but it’s just a tired trope to go back to your ex over and over again. It reminds me of rewatching “Friends” and seeing that Ross and Rachel weren’t “star-crossed”, but not having a mature relationship many, MANY times over 10 years.
I think rewatching Chicago PD will give Burgess-Ruzek viewers a similar feeling, and that comes back to the writing.
The flash/supergirl/batwoman brunch that excludes all their other female characters (inc Arrow/Legends etc) feels harsh.
Also…these filler eps are killing me. Too much Iris, not enough Flash!
Between shrinking and Superman and Lois can we talk about how much Christa Miller looks like the actress that plays Lana?!
The way back #6. She has to know…I keep thinking she is the white witch from the first episode…I have rewatched it and the hair matches
Survivor- yes. Carolyn will blow people up but will likely get voted off. But. She will piss off people before. Can you see her on the jury? O yes!
The Way Home..not back
If you watched the final episode **SPOILER ALERT** it shows at the end that the “White Witch” is actually Kat.
6. Del totally knows about the pond
Is it just me or does Trevor on Ghosts look a little more tan than usual?
#6- I have a whole theory about this. I think that Del does know all about the pond because she is the white witch or a decendant of the witch. And that is why the pond works for Kat, Alice and apparently Jacob and not Elliot. Because they are blood relations of Dels.
As someone else above says, the very last scene od the season finale (episode 10) reveals the face and identity of the white witch –and it isn’t Del.
22. I have never wanted a character on a show to die more than her. She was the absolute worst.
18- I won’t lose it if it makes sense. Adam’s undercover assignment with Samantha Beck is requiring him to get pretty close to her. How close he will have to get to maintain his cover could make things interesting.
25- Carisi
#25 – Let’s find out!!