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2018
Jan
4
 
 
Watching The Good Place gets gooder and gooder...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Jan
4
 
 
In this new episode, Sheldon and Amy continue their wedding plans, and set out on a mission to decide which of their friends deserve which positions of honor in the actual ceremony. How to decide? Scientifically, of course – by conducting a series of secret experiments.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Jan
4
 
 
SERIES PREMIERE: Fox begins 2018 by unveiling its newest singing competition show, an American variant of a successful TV series from Israel. For the U.S., the host is Fergie from the Black Eyed Peas, and the judges include Sean Combs and Meghan Trainor.  The supposed twist is that the series begins in the middle, essentially, with the four “finalists” already chosen as the show begins – and forced to defend their individual perches as finalists against new opponents who t
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Jan
4
 
 
MIDSEASON RETURN: Poor Michael (Ted Danson). He’s proven to be such a poor designer of hellish tortures – literally, new ways to torture people in hell – that he’s now in danger of being fired. And fire, in hell, is a very serious threat. So he and his android assistant Janet (D’Arcy Carden), whom he stole from a warehouse of helpful assistants in heaven, are trying to fool the bosses, and even enlisting his supposed torture victims, led by Kristen Bell’s Elea
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Jan
4
 
 
In tonight’s new episode, Sheldon gets sent off to a school for the gifted – and is understandably apprehensive about it, because he’s apprehensive about everything. But he’s got his grandmother to bolster his confidence – and already this first season of Young Sheldon, the scenes between young Sheldon (Iain Armitage) and his Meemaw (the great Annie Potts) have emerged as the show’s warm center, and true heart.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Jan
3
 
 
Yara Shahidi does a nice pivot as she hops into her very own grown-ish, a spinoff from the hit black-ish...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Jan
3
 
 
Not since the golden age of the Steven Seagal / Sylvester Stallone / Charles Bronson vigilante flicks has a character gotten more sheer pleasure out of killing bad guys than Elizabeth Keen (Megan Boone)...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Jan
3
 
 
CYCLE PREMIERE: This is go-round (or go-round-the-planet) number 30 for The Amazing Race, which years ago was one of the few reality competition series I watched regularly. But after many years of increasingly obvious stunt casting, with pairs of contestants who didn’t get along or had prejudices or other easily inflamed attitudes, the players got in the way of the scenery. My feel-good competition reality show switched to The Voice, and has stayed there ever since. But here’s The Am
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Jan
3
 
 
SEASON PREMIERE: Fox sent six of the 10 episodes of this Season 11 of The X-Files for preview, and those six, beginning with tonight’s mythology-continuing episode, pretty much fall into line with previous years. The mythology itself, the show’s intermittent tale of alien visitations and government conspiracies, starts off as the driest and most disappointing element. The stand-alone “monster of the week” episodes are more enjoyable, and truer to the show’s most suc
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Jan
3
 
 
SERIES PREMIERE: Of late, producers Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk have done no wrong. Most seasons of American Horror Story, and the first seasons of Feud: Bette and Joan and American Crime Story: The People v. O.J. Simpson, have been artistic and ratings successes, and the upcoming Season 2 of American Crime Story, titled The Assassination of Gianni Versace, looks promising also. But this new 9-1-1 series from the executive producer partners, despite a terrific cast led by some personal favorite