The Book Of Boba Fett and Station Eleven lead December’s TV premieres
December's stocking is stuffed with a new Star Wars show, more Olivia Colman, and several holiday-themed debuts
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After a lean start (WandaVision’s allure notwithstanding), the year in TV closes out strong this December with a combination of seasonal offerings and more evergreen fare. The beginning and middle of the month are packed with holiday specials, including new episodes of Young Rock, Kenan, and Mr. Mayor on December 15. But Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist and DC’s Legends Of Tomorrow look much more likely to follow in Ted Lasso’s footsteps as great new additions to the Christmas canon.
The end of the year also brings tidings of exciting new series like Abbott Elementary, starring A Black Lady Sketch Show’s Quinta Brunson, and the engaging New York-based comedy of Harlem. The post-apocalyptic scenario of Station Eleven stands in stark contrast with all the revelry, which will ramp back up at the end of the month with the arrival of The Book Of Boba Fett. And, for those who have waited patiently for more episodic stories of Sex And The City, HBO Max’s And Just Like That… waits to be unwrapped.
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I hadn’t heard of “The Pole” but it sounds REALLY tiresome – the ongoing need to make sweet beloved children’s things “adult” (which really means a 16-year-old’s idea of what’s “adult”.) Ami I off-base?
Mayfield: Boba Fett. Didn’t you get knocked into a sarlaac pit by a blind guy?
Boba Fett: Shut up!
‘The science-fiction thriller depicts the aftermath of a deadly flu pandemic that wipes out most of the world’s population.’This is in no way an accurate description of Station Eleven unless the show has been drastically changed from the novel it’s based on. It’s not science-fiction and it’s not a thriller, although there are some small elements of both there. And the flu pandemic, although it sets the story in motion, isn’t at all what this show is ‘about’. It’s a beautifully-written story set in the years before and then 20 years after the pandemic has hit. It’s about a group of actors and musicians banded together travelling by horse-drawn trucks performing Shakespeare and Mozart for the settlements that have formed in the aftermath. Their motto, taken from an episode of Star Trek, is ‘Survival is Insufficient’. It’s a wonderful book, and worth a read. Don’t let that description up there scare you off.
Yeah, it’s really not sci-fi at all, except for the slight fiction of the pandemic (which is fast-moving and extremely deadly for plot reasons). It’s definitely a bit unsettling to read right now, but it’s a great book and I hope the show is faithful.Also, it was shot partially in and around Chicago, including the suburb next to mine. (If wikipedia is correct, they actually finished filming earlier this year in Toronto; it wasn’t all completed last year.)
I think Book of Boba Fett is where I tap out. I’m happy to see Ming-Na Wen won’t be wasted in the SW universe but I can’t add every tertiary character’s spin-off to the must watch list. At some point it becomes exhausting.
There’s only been one Disney+ SW show (Mando). If you compartmentalize your TV watching by franchise, how are you already out of gas on that franchise?
It really goes to show how memorable The Mandalorian- whenever I think of Carl Weathers, I used to think of The Predator. That was replaced with Arrested Development’s “Baby, you got a stew going.” Now, when I think of Weathers, or see The Mandalorian abbreviated, all I can think is of him bellowing “MANDO!”
i mean there has also been 45+ years of star wars. these are also not hard and fast rules, sometimes it just feels like too much, whether it might technically be more or less than something else.
I think it’s got more to do with the fact that theyve for years been trying to push the idea of a Boba Fet film and now theyve got an actor who nobody is all too familiar with and it’s literally all based on the fact that people think the character looked cool visually in the OT but literally nothing beyond that. It’s literally a series that exists due to 20 year old toy sales.
I’ll probably feel similar when they get around to the Agatha-based WandaVision spinoff. Like…. I get it but…. can we not beat to death aspects of films/TV stuff that were briefly popular please. It does ruin it.
I understand that if something is popular an easy idea is “more of that thing” but in a perfect world couldnt studios just constanly produce original bangers instead of immediately jumping on top of and producing the hell out of existing things that people liked? Is that too much to ask of “artists”?
So no interest in my spec-script for ‘Porkins: The Early Years’?
If this is a Porky’s spin off I’m in.
I’d say exactly the same about all the Marvel animated shows that were announced. There’s no way one can see all of them, so I’m hoping the new MCU movies will not require the watching of every Marvel show. Boba Fett is probably a short series, so I’m looking forward to it. After all, season 3 of The Mandalorian, the show we’re all truly waiting for, won’t come until mid-2022.
I hadn’t heard of With Love before, but I loved ODAAT, and I’m always up for more Vincent Rodriguez, so… will probably give that one a shot!
Man, Station Eleven is just a damn fantastic book and I am excited to see it adapted. From the trailer it doesn’t look not faithful, but we’ll ultimately see.
It was probably the best book I read last year. I’m cautiously optimistic about the series, although I noticed one change already (they gave one character a kid when he didn’t have one in the book) but we’ll see.
It looks like they might cook up more time for Jeevan and young Kirsten to interact.
The Expanse gets a tiny mention at the end yet its the swan song of probably the greatest sci-fi show we’ve ever had. Can’t imagine the Boba Fett Gangster show will even come close to being as excellent.
I haven’t watched since my favourite character was spacelocked. :’{ Was the latest season still good? It’s still one of my favourite sci fi series of late, so I will have to get over my spite and finish the last two seasons once the final one is out.
I thought the last season was great. Big stakes, character development and a good villian.
Yeah it was great, with the exception of the abrupt removal of (redacted), but I guess they did what they could with a shitty situation and so much in the can already.
A correction on Landscapers; the Wycherleys weren’t the murderers, they were the people that the Edwards murdered.
Im not sure why the witcher didnt earn a slide. Season one was a pretty big deal and there’s no reason to think #2 should be any less so. Also, Im personally excited about the expanse, definitely some of the better TV scifi.