HBO’s Scenes From A Marriage takes its final bow
Plus: Buried and Legends From the Hidden Temple debut, while Evil and Heels have their season finales
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Here’s what’s happening in the world of television for Sunday, October 10. All times are Eastern.
Top picks
Scenes From A Marriage (HBO, 9 p.m., series finale): Hagai Levi and Amy Herzog’s adaptation of the Ingmar Bergman miniseries draws to a close tonight with “In The Middle Of The Night, In A Dark House, Somewhere In The World.” Chris Feil hasn’t always been optimistic about the endpoint of Oscar Isaac’s Jonathan and Jessica Chastain’s Mira together, but found the penultimate episode (which includes that scene) to be the strongest of the series to date. He’ll resume his recapping duties one last time to break down the series finale.
Buried (Showtime, 9 p.m.): Here’s Robyn Pennacchia on the four-part docuseries about the “memory wars”: “[Overall], Buried is balanced and thorough, and not interested in injecting flashiness, à la docuseries like Tiger King. Anyone watching it who is unfamiliar with the story is going to vacillate between believing the memories were real or not, and may even come out of it not knowing what to believe—which is exactly as it should be with a case like this. It would have been easy to go at this topic from either side, with a distinct point-of-view. But because [the filmmakers] chose not to do that, the most convincing arguments are able to stand out on their own.”
Evil (Paramount+, 3:01 a.m., season-two finale): The second season of this supernatural drama concludes this morning. Look for our post-mortem interview with Michael Emerson on the site later today.
Regular coverage
The Walking Dead (AMC, 9 p.m.): It’s fall finale time. Alex McLevy will recap as usual.
Wild Cards
Legends Of The Hidden Temple (The CW, 8 p.m.): Cristela Alonzo hosts the adult version of this show, because all the kids who watched it growing up wanted a chance to meet Olmec. The stakes are higher, as the show leaves the studio for the outside world (horrifying), and the prize is $25,000, which could really help out on those student loans. Watch for future coverage!
Heels (Starz, 9 p.m., season-one finale): This wrestling drama gained strength and momentum as its first season unfolded. Kyle Fowle was an early convert, writing in his pre-air review that “while there’s plenty of drama, Heels might work best as a workplace comedy. DWL’s cast of wrestlers, and the people portraying them, have a wonderful chemistry that brings every scene in the shady Dome to life, and there’s even a wonderfully hilarious cameo from a former superstar of the industry (and potential new AEW signing?) that’ll leave you wanting to spend a lot more time in this particular locker room.”
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TUAYPCW, my drewds! Season 3 of Nancy Druid was off to a great start despite the AV Club’s ongoing campaign to ignore it. Is Bess x Temperance on the table?
On the other end of The CW enjoyment spectrum, Riverdale’s fifth season finale was as aggravating as earlier episodes. If you have to watch one from five, make it The Josie & The Pussycats backdoor pilot.https://mattthecatania.wordpress.com/2021/10/07/binging-banshee-ruined-riverdale/
“What If…?” ended on a stronger note. Not all the episodes wowed me, but it had nice variety. So it’s much like the longer Marvel movies.
https://mattthecatania.wordpress.com/2021/10/06/what-if-disney-made-an-mcu-cartoon/
100% agree about Nancy Drew! I already love the new FBI guy’s banter with Nancy and Temperance already looks like she’ll be a delightful big bad for the season (and Bess x Temperance probably will happen after Bess leaves a trail of bodies behind her while marching through Tinder).
I watched the series finale of The Outpost. For a show I thought for sure would be canceled after its comically low budget first season, the show really came into its own with some good world building, a bit of a wicked sense of humor, and fun action scenes that gave it a Xena-like feel. In the end, the big threat of the gods / the Seven was dispatched with stakes that felt dangerous but also with the ease you need in 42 minutes of airtime while also saving room at the end for what the people really want – the happy ending for our heroes (at least the ones who lived until the end of the season). The only thing I wish had been different was having Luna for the first three seasons, because that character was an absolute delight in season 4.Aside from that, I’ve been watching Alone, the show where they just drop people off on Vancouver Island by themselves as winter approaches and see how long they can survive on their own with a satellite phone to call for extraction & 10 basic items (think tarps, knives, cord, sleeping bag, etc), and they truly are on their own, even having to film the whole thing themselves. On the one hand, this seems like a horrible thing to have to do, but on the other hand, there is a very real draw to just going somewhere remote without the ability to contact anyone and being alone with my thoughts for awhile. To be clear, I would maybe last one night in these conditions, whereas the people remaining in season 2 in the episode I’m on are up to day 57 I believe.
Did I watch anything this weekend? I feel like I didn’t.I streamed briefly on twitch, to see if I could join that lost of people making $50 a year. I will not succeed.I finished the first season of (1990s) Sabrina on Hulu, and watched the first episode where they replace her original sidekick with Lindsay Sloane. The laugh track is painful, but the completions in me is okay with the lightweight Witchery.I also listened to two different podcasts about the wheel of time (as is my work time standard) as we continue to crawl closer to the show’s Amazon premiere. I tried to get my wife to want to see Venom 2 or bond 25, but she has seemed uninterested. Alas.