Here’s what’s happening in the world of television for Monday, June 7. All times are Eastern.
Top pick
The Bachelorette (ABC, 8 p.m., season-17 premiere): The Bachelor franchise doesn’t stop, even when it probably should, so here we are, staring down the barrel of another season of ludicrous costumes from cannon-fodder contestants, uncomfortable amounts of sloppy kissing paired with triumphant love music, and fireworks only rivaled in their predictability by the ones that go boom on Independence Day. Run up to your television, then jump into its arms and wrap your legs around it, because it’s go time.
Like the nightmare season of The Bachelor that preceded it, this season of The Bachelorette is a COVID season, so expect to see the 15 different angles of the same hotel lobby over and over again. Another thing you’re likely to get over and over again? Vibrator jokes, because this season’s lead, Katie Thurston, is the one who brought the vibrator last season. So, she’s vibrator girl now. That’s how it works. Tonight she’ll meet a firefighter trainee, a bartender, a motivational speaker, a dancer, a “business owner,” a guy who sells zippers, an insurance agent or two, and a “surgical skin salesman,” to name the professions of but a few of her prospective suitors, assuming they’re not secretly two kids in a trench coat. Look for a recap by chronic Bachelor franchise sucker Gwen Ihnat after the premiere.
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Wild card
Ms. Fisher’s Modern Murder Mysteries (Acorn TV, 3:01 a.m., season-two premiere): Phryne Fisher’s long-lost niece Peregrine (Geraldine Hakewill) takes up her aunt’s role as Melbourne’s nattiest sleuth in this spin-off of the popular Australian mysteries-with-great-hats series.
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What in the heck is Acorn TV?
mostly British/commonwealth cozy mysteries, I think. there’s an Australian one with Lucy fuckin’ Lawless.
It’s a streaming service.
Dear Mr President, There are too many streaming services nowadays. Please eliminate three.I am not a crackpot.
I am about to shitcan Spectrum and not sign up for any of them. Cesspools. While I’m at it: get off my lawn.
It’s definitely an issue with this era of Peak TV, there’s so much stuff. Like, does anyone even remember that just a couple of years ago one of the big cable companies revived Mad About You?
Streaming service for all the British shows not on BritBox.
If you have a library card, you probably can get Acorn TV for free (check your library’s website to see what streaming/digital services they offer). Otherwise it is yet another streaming service. It usually has shows from the UK, Ireland, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Spain, and Mexico. The shows skew heavy toward mystery/drama. It really doesn’t have enough content to be worth paying for, but if you get a few weeks a month free with your library card, then it is worth checking out. Some of the shows are also on the iTV website and some are on Hoopla (also sometimes free through your library).
The only show I recall watching on there was My Life is Murder with Lucy Lawless. The second season should be out sometime.
Very much looking forward to Katie’s season beginning tonight. Hopefully it goes well; this is the first time since I started watching the shows that the lead is someone I’ve previously seen, so I’ve been told that that adds to the experience.
She’s pretty attractive. That’s all I got.