Big TV news for fans of True Detective! HBO has ordered a fifth season of the anthology drama following the success of the just wrapped fourth season. Also, Paramount Plus put a ring on those tossed salads and scrambled eggs, and the Frazier revival is officially returning for a second season on the streamer. Now that Julia is axed, will David Hyde Pierce guest star?
The Traitors (Peacock) is getting rough. I don’t think the shows producers even expected someone to turn down being a traitor, so they had to move quickly to come up with some episode extending twist since only two remain (as of my current position). They still have quotas, and there’s a target right on Pavarti. If she is eliminated at the round table the next episode, that leaves Fedra all alone against a lot of faithfuls to finish, unless she can recruit. I don’t know who the kill is, but when Fedra said Kate would make an excellent recruit, I concur. She seems to be on no ones radar, and she told the cameras on arrival she wanted to be a traitor this season. Hopefully Fedra gets to recruit her, cause Pavarti is dead in the water.
Halo (Paramount Plus) is getting actually better than Season 1, as characters are getting fleshed out (finally), and there’s this nefarious plot to seemingly let Reach fall. No one seems to care what happened to Cobalt team either. The audio description here is still pretty great, as the science fiction elements are very strong, like the transparent cell wall they walk through.
Choir (Disney Plus) is still a show about a nondescript group of kids in the middle of Detroit.Debuting this during black history month and having audio description that chooses a color blind approach is very odd. You can feel black pride pulsating through this, in the best of ways, and all I got was the lady with blue hair.
The New look (Apple Plus) starts fleshing out its plot more in the second episode. I can’t say I’m interested yet, but I can say that you have a much better understanding of what this show is after two episodes, and not just the pilot. This show has a first episode that likely stopped people from continuing on, but I did think the second episode had more focus, as it pushed forth on the idea of Coco Chanel in some espionage.
And finally, Season 6 of The Rookie (Hulu) is back. We left in a lurch, so I’m glad we started wrapping things up, but there’s still an extension of this plot as now the LAPD seems to be fighting a criminal organization with the resources of SPECTRE. ABC has messed with the audio description for a lot of its shows, but I think this one might actually be the same? Am i crazy? I think this is the same narrator. If it isn’t, I really didn’t notice a massive change in quality like I did for comedies Abbott Elementary and not Dead Yet.
