Here’s what’s happening in the world of television for Friday, May 10 and Saturday, May 11. All times are Eastern.
Top picks
Wine Country (Netflix, Friday): Amy Poehler’s film-directing debut arrives on Netflix on Friday, and we’re just guessing, but we think it might be a pretty solid drinking movie. Inspired in part by the 50th birthdays of both Ana Gasteyer and Rachel Dratch, Wine Country (written by Emily Spivey and Liz Cackowski, with the story credited to those two plus Poehler), it sees a group of ladies drinking wine, at wineries, in wine country.
Also there’s spontaneity and drunk singing and novelty T-shirts, what more do you want? Katie Rife’s review? Well, you’ll get that, too—just keep an eye out.
Wu-Tang Clan: Of Mics And Men (Showtime, Friday, 9 p.m.): This new docuseries from Sacha Jenkins (Burn Motherfucker, Burn!) follows the founding members of a group that, to be precise, ain’t nothing to fuck with, on the 25th anniversary of their seminal debut album, Enter The Wu-Tang. We consider it highly likely that Jenkins’ series will bring the motherfucking ruckus and, like cash, rule everything around it.
Saturday Night Live (NBC, Saturday, 11:30 p.m.): Sure, the big season finale isn’t until next week. That matters not, for this week’s host is first-timer Emma Thompson, who coincidentally, also ain’t nothing to fuck with. (Kate McKinnon gets it.)
Dennis Perkins has readied himself to recap the fine work of this international treasure, and also that of the Jonas Brothers.
Regular coverage
Marvel’s Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D. (ABC, Friday, 8 p.m.): sixth-season premiere
Ducktales (Disney, Friday, 3 p.m.)
Lucifer (Netflix, ongoing): episodes 5 and 6 (Friday), 7 and 8 (Saturday)
Wild card
The Society (Netflix, Friday): This Lord Of The Flies-inspired series from Party Of Five co-creator Christopher Keyser stars (among many others ) Legion’s Rachel Keller. We’d give just about anything with Keller in it a try, and this seems like a particularly good fit for her considerable talents. The complete first season drops today.
My Dad Wrote A Porno (HBO, Saturday, 10 p.m.): Based on the podcast of the same name, this comedy special will see host Jamie Morton read a “lost chapter” from Rocky Flintstone’s series of “erotic” novels—and Rocky Flintstone, as you might have guessed, is the pen name of Morton’s father. Pals James Cooper and Alice Levine provide commentary; a live audience at the Roadhouse in London provides laughter and uncomfortable shifting.
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It took until the end of the week, but there’s DuckTales in WoT.
Poehler’s shilling for Comcast, The World’s Worst Company, has really soured me on her. Not everybody has to be to the left of Che Guervara, but Comcast, really?
Old ‘Money Bags’ Poehler thinks she’s the Queen of Summertime, she does.
I’ve been really disappointed with her for sticking with Louis CK’s manager/enabler David Becky. Amy (and in fairness many other) could of stood up for women in the industry by firing him like Pamela Aldion and John Mulaney. Most of his big names clients stuck with him but I was sad to see she not only kept him on but didn’t issue any kind of statement.
I had Comcast ten years ago in Connecticut and they were so bad it’s the only time I’ve ever raised my voice to a CSR. I’ve had them for two years here in Utah, a state not known for good customer service, and the only thing that would make me happier would be if they cut their prices. Their products and service are just downright excellent. I’m not really sure what my point is, other than “Comcast makes Utah a tiny bit more liveable”, maybe.
‘Wine Country’ looks like some real boring yuppie crud.
i have a lot of time of Amy Poehler, but i do not have a lot of time for boring yuppie crud. So i’m torn.
…wait, i don’t have ANY time for boring yuppie crud. So i’m good.
I really like Amy Poehler, but all of that mess with Dave Becky makes me wary.
She was just whining that women aren’t allowed to be mediocre. Looks like she keeps proving herself wrong.
It’s a buddy comedy for women. It looks like not my thing, but I understand that there would be appeal. Their audience probably is the demographics of this site.
One wonders if Maya Rudolph’s character will be big, broad and obnoxious?
I’d prefer her as a time-travelling Scott Joplin, but sadly, it is out of my hands.
This is how insanely rich people think regular middle class people actually live, I take it
tee hee
a SNL rerun gets a paragraph, but Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. gets the minimumest of lines. I wouldn’t normally mention, but i just found out that the second half of that Arrested Development season dropped in the middle of March, and —forget about reviews— there wasn’t even a mention.
Fuck this place. Trying to kill a once-beloved now-shitty show by freezing it out? Let us choose. No?
I don’t know you people anymore.
Other than Game of Thrones, I can’t of a single show I watch that they recap or a single show they recap that I want to watch.
I share your pain about shows I enjoy not being given attention, but SNL isn’t a rerun.
Agents of SHIELD is getting recaps. Emma Thompson is a double Oscar winner and first-time SNL host. I think that deserves a mention. I won’t watch it, but I might watch a few sketches on YouTube. Recaps I enjoy, GoT, Better Things, Atlanta, Barry, Lucifer, Killing Eve, The Good Place, Agents of SHIELD, Veep and probably a few that I’m forgetting I understand your pain on Arrested Development, but since I stopped watching during season four, I also understand the lack of reviews. But, happy belated Cinco de Quattro.
It’s not a rerun.
Hi! Rest assured that SHIELD is getting recaps (hence its listing) and will be featured in future. This is just how WOT works, there are different top picks daily. It’s a long season.SNL isn’t a rerun, and Maggie covered the return of AD in this WOT from March: https://tv.avclub.com/queer-eye-shrill-catastrophe-and-arrested-developmen-1833202297And I promise you, I don’t have the power or the desire to attempt to kill any television show, let alone SHIELD, which I enjoy.
I’m just happy to see DuckTales there. Wooooo
thanks for answering, Allison. I was more refering to trying to starve AD.
hahaha this is so melodramatic
the 2nd half of arrested development was painful to watch.it’s a mercy to not recap.
The AV Club was one of the only sites talking about AD on its first season; it was an island for its few fans. To not mention its last season dropping, is either negligent, or a deliberate “we will freeze this show because of Tambor et al”.
Which i suppose is debatably acceptable, as Tambor and the others treated Mrs Walters quite poorly, i understand. But if on the one hand you’re going to kill a show by denying it oxygen, and still have upwards of twenty crosslinked articles about Trump on this website-about-TV-shows, this shows both a smallness, and a contemptible hunger for clicks.
that SNL promo reminds me of McKinnon’s character in The Spy Who Dumped Me when Gillian Anderson turned up.
Yay for Agents of SHIELD coverage!
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Agreed. I am vibrating with excitement.
Would you say you’re quaking?
I absolutely would, my compadré.
Well, ya did the best you could for this post. Somebody has to pretend to care about this stuff. On the upside, it was very well-formatted (and that formatting looks complicated AF).
“Wine Country” looks like an all-female reboot of every third Adam Sandler film.“Hey, i’d love to go on a trip with my old SNL buddies, but we’ll get the studio to foot the bill and pay us handsomely so we’ll make a hacky comedy while we’re there.”
I’d take a hacky comedy with Amy Poehler and Maya Rudolph (AND TINA FEY!) over anything Adam Sandler has done any day.
Well, that’s a fair point. But even with the talent involved in front of and behind the camera, anytime someone says, “Hey, remember that hilarious road trip we took? THAT should be a movie!” I get the willies. (granted, usually it’s my relatives, but still…)
I love Amy Poehler and Maya Rudolph, but the whole “Mommy Needs Her Wine” trope is overcooked and boring.I’m sure there’s more to the movie than that, but it doesn’t feel like a good jumping off point.