BMF, the latest offshoot of Power, comes to rule over Sundays
Plus, the Tonys, Walking Dead, and Scenes From A Marriage
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Here’s what’s happening in the world of television for Sunday, September 26. All times are Eastern.
Top Pick
BMF (Starz, 9 p.m., season-one premiere): Joshua Alston is really impressed so far with this Power offshoot, the third of four planned spin-offs. BMF (or Black Mafia Family) is a family drama set against the rise of a drug-dealing enterprise; or maybe it’s vice versa. “BMF is itself a distant planet in the Power universe, with [Curtis] Jackson once again executive producing and supplying its boom-bap theme song, and former Power writer Randy Huggins manning the keyboard. But what sets the show apart is its real-life inspiration: Detroit-born brothers Demetrius ‘Big Meech’ Flenory and Terry Flenory, the Black Mafia Family of the show’s abbreviated title. The Flenory boys, since given stiff prison sentences following a 2005 FBI raid, wrested control of the coke market in the ’90s in Motor City and beyond. By the time the brothers were swept up in a racketeering dragnet, they had expanded nationwide and were distributing nearly three tons of product every month.”
Regular Coverage
Scenes From A Marriage (HBO, 9 p.m.)
The Walking Dead (AMC, 9 p.m.)
Wild Cards
Power Book III: Raising Kanan (Starz, 8 p.m., season-one finale): Another Power show that was so compelling upon its debut that Starz ordered the second season before the first one even premiered, Power Book III: Raising Kanan wraps its first season tonight.
The Tony awards are looking a bit different this year:
The 74th Annual Tony Awards (Paramount+, 7 p.m.): The main ceremony, hosted by Audra McDonald, is a streaming exclusive that will not air on CBS.
However, the top three awards (best play, best musical, best revival) will be presented during the Broadway’s Back! live performance special, which will be available immediately after the main ceremony on both CBS and Paramount+.
3 Comments
All I cared about this weekend was Doom Patrol and this season is already terrific. It’s probably my favorite show, and I think episode 2 might now be my favorite episode of the series. Hoping this doesn’t spoil much, but I was absolutely convinced that Garguax the Decimator was played by Holt McCallany from Mindhunter until I went & looked it up on IMDB. The guy who played the part had such a Bill Tench vibe though and he (like everyone else) was just perfect. The show is just an absurd delight.I watched GBBO sorta out of obligation to my wife who likes to watch with me. It’s 100% sticking to the formula. There’s the pretty one, the quirky one, the one who will only cook recipes from his ethnic homeland but will mostly fail to pull them off, the one who will only cook recipes from his ethnic homeland and make them spectacularly, the coldly scientific beautiful mind one, the walking disaster one, the seen-it-all senior one, the gruff one, and the teenager. The teenager is vegan this time, which is great and I hope I can steal some technique from her if she does well & sticks around long enough, but otherwise I feel like I’ve seen this show many dozen times now.
How was my pop culture weekend? Thanks for asking.I watched some very uninspiring football games, and was disappointed in the outcomes of several of then, even though thr results were, technically, fine.Ivery started crawling through Sabrina the Teenage Witch on Hulu. I don’t remember Paul Fieg, but he was clearly here the whole time. I think I must have only seen maybe seasons one and two, when they aired, and dropped in for the finale? It appears I burned through my new allotment of Nailed It already, and that is the worst thing that could have possibly happened to anybody.I haven’t seen any new cartoons lately and I am a touch sad about it.
After two episodes, season 1 of Foundation is off to a good start. But it ain’t Games of Thrones levels of successful. I’m guessing not a single actor from the first episode will still be around for the series finale (80 episodes planned? Uh-huh…).