I finished a show, and I’m putting it last so I can have spoilers. Let’s get out of the way Queenie (Hulu) which had our titular hero celebrate her birthday while navigating her complicated relationship with her mother. This show has come a long way from the series premiere, which I tonally couldn’t figure out what it was trying to say. It has gotten better, but it would still fall short as often the show has complex ideas, but the delivery is a bit messy. This episode, for example, has Queenie have a bit of an overly visceral reaction on her birthday to her mother being asked a simple question about why her mother named her Queenie. It felt more like an unearned overreaction, and often that’s because the show has a great idea, but the execution isn’t established enough to take that thought to a meaningful level.
I started The Emperor Of Ocean Park (MGM Plus) and finished it. This was a drag, a desperately slow burn about a deceased conservative judge and his family that comes to reckon with what that means for them, and perhaps the mystery around his death. Forest Whitaker plays the dead judge who lives on in flashbacks. This DOES have audio description *IF* you are subscribing as a Prime channel add-on. Only that way. The app, to my knowledge, still doesn’t support audio description, but Amazon has a handful of MGM Plus original shows and catalog title movies that have audio description, plus premieres like new films If and Snack Shack.
Jurassic World: Chaos theory (Netflix) put our kids in two different places, with Darius and Kenji trying to find one of Brooklyn’s mysterious pick up illegal dinosaur spots, and the other three are trying to figure out what the hell is wrong with Bumpy. I mean, I hate to remind these kids that in the last season of the previous show, they were playing with implants so these dinos might have those chips in their heads again. I’m such a huge fan of these characters and this show, it has surpassed half the film franchise for me. It’s now at that point of do i put it above The Lost World?
I did watch another catch up episode of 911: Season 5 (Hulu)…
And now Spoilers. I finished Pretty Little Liars: Summer School (MAX) and just like I predicted, which hilariously the show alludes to in a different way. So, in the season finale, the girls believe they might be in a “Billy/Stu” situation, so they lock Johnny in a freezer, and question Christian. However, it becomes clear that neither of these boys are the killers (duh), and the last final girl is currently going through the killer reveal of it being the mother of the Season 1 villain, plus Wes, the aspiring filmmaker. These girls forgot, they already lived through Scream, this is Scream 2. The film buff teams up with the mother who blames the final girl for her son’s demise. I figured out the Scream 2 connection when they started giving this mother way too much screen time, and meanwhile String bean hadn’t been heard from in forever. Plus, Wes just randomly goes missing? Yeah, sure. I wish they had kept Johnny around, as he was a solid character, and boyfriend for Imogene, but alas. I suppose he could still pop up in Season 3, but I’m excited for next season mainly because the loss among our main cast was non existent, with all the major Season 1 characters surviving Season 2, and they introduced three new regulars (Christian, Jonny, and Jen) who could have stuck around for a third season that might have had the ability to axe one of the final girls. Six final girls is a lot, and since Kelly survived, and now seems like a part of the core group, and at least some of them have relationships, I’m oddly excited for a third season of this campy show.
