DC’s Legends of Tomorrow and Rick And Morty check out for the season
Plus, The Walking Dead and the return of Showtime's Billions
TV Lists Legends of Tomorrow
Here’s what’s happening in the world of television for Sunday, September 5th. All times are Eastern.
Top Pick
DC’s Legends Of Tomorrow (The CW, 8 p.m., season-six finale): It’s time for Legends to bow out for the season. Like The Flash before it, the series peppers in some trouble next to a gorgeous wedding. For Legends, it’s a queer wedding—and the aliens are mushrooms, because on this show, all mushrooms are aliens. As Allison Shoemaker wrote in her last recap, “What’s marvelous about that twist is that when you read the sentence ‘Spooner gets abducted by a mushroom that’s actually an alien,’ it sounds ridiculous in typically Legends fashion, a true why-the-fuck-not moment. But it’s not. It’s moving and lovely, almost making it possible to forget that the show is just casually slipping in the fact that the fountain is a) an alien being that b) protects Earth from malevolent space invaders and c) is Bishop’s ultimate target because he d) wants to do a hard reboot on the planet, which humans seem determined to destroy.” “The Fungus Amongus,” indeed. Luckily, the show returns for season seven in October, so you won’t be left waiting long to see what happens next!
Regular coverage
Rick And Morty (Adult Swim, 11 p.m., season-five finale): This season closer is made up of two episodes. Zack Handlen will recap.
The Walking Dead (AMC, 9 p.m.)
Wild Card
Billions (Showtime, 9 p.m.): This Showtime drama returns to finish up its fifth season. As Scott Von Doviak noted in his last recap, “‘The Limitless Shit’” was never meant to meant to serve as a mid-season finale. That status was dictated by circumstance, namely the shutdown of television production when the COVID-19 pandemic hit. Fate has decreed that this will be the last we’ll see of Billions for a while (the press notes suggest that the rest of the season will be shot in time for the show to return later this year, but take that with a grain of salt).” In fact, Billions is returning more than a year later, with five new episodes (season six will premiere early next year). Scott will be dropping in on the exploits of Paul Giamatti & co. throughout the season.
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In preparation for Shang-Chi, I’m finishing up Warrior. It doesn’t click with me as much as the creator’s previous show, Banshee.
At this point I’m thinking we’ll get X-movies made by Marvel Studios but
they’ll still be a different universe than the MCU. Unless they do a
multiversal Secret Wars movie to retcon in that mutants have always been around:
https://mattthecatania.wordpress.com/2021/09/02/mutant-musings/
With Locast dead, I can’t watch the Legends finale live tonight and that makes me sad. I will avoid spoilers until I can watch it in the morning. Luckily, the AVClub episode reviews for Legends have been showing up late, so that should help!This weekend, only one thing mattered to me, and that was Money Heist: Season 5: Part 1 and it was worth the wait. To say thing escalate quickly is really underselling it. I don’t want to say too much so I don’t spoil anything. But I will say that there’s one episode that’s largely flashback that has not come into play yet, and I imagine it must play a big role in the second half of the season.
I finally finished watching Angie Tribeca, which ended with a tidy conclusion and wS twisty in exactly the way serialized Tribeca seasons have ended. Overall, Show was good, not great. Season 4 overstayed it’s welcome.I was tagged in a bunch fo tweets and Facebook posts as my friends shared the Wheel of Time Trailer with me this week. I haven’t watched the trailer, yet. Instead, I started listening to Book 2, The Great Hunt, on digital audio, again. I still really like this book, 20 years after my first read.I watched the first episode of season 2 of Wellington Paranormal. It’s still a hard show for me to watch while second-screening. It’s also still funny.Still hoping to see Shang Chi this weekend. Haven’t figured out logistics.
Forgot about Angie Tribeca and will watch that next. The bf and I have been watching 30 Rock. I watched it here and there when it on the air. He never got into it before but now loves it.
Does anyone know why R&M took like a month off before the last two episodes?
I saw Shang-Chi & The Legend Of The Ten Rings in IMAX. While I liked the first half, the movie fall apart in the back half. The big problem with this movie is that it’s two disparate ones smushed together. They could be good separately, but they don’t mix together. Shang-Chi is a low key character so throwing in all the flashy magic elements in further buries him in his own movie.
https://mattthecatania.wordpress.com/2021/09/05/is-shang-chi-the-legend-of-the-ten-rings-as-epic-as-its-title/