Here’s what’s happening in the world of television for Monday, March 2. All times are Eastern.
Top picks
Dispatches From Elsewhere (AMC, 10:15 p.m., time-slot premiere): Last night, we met Peter (Jason Segel) in an episode called “Peter.” We also met Simone (Eve Lindley), but tonight, we’ll learn even more in an episode titled, you guessed it, “Simone.”
While you’re waiting, check out Liz Shannon Miller’s recap of last night’s premiere, give Gwen Ihnat’s pre-air review a perusal, or just wander out into the world and look for mysterious fliers or phones that are ringing for no reason at all.
Breeders (FX, 10 p.m., two-part series premiere): Martin Freeman and Daisy Haggard star in this slightly acidic yet warm-hearted comedy about raising your kids, loving your kids, and wishing your kids would just knock it the hell off for a second.
Kyle Fowle will drop in for a premiere recap.
Regular coverage
Better Call Saul (AMC, 9 p.m.)
The New Pope (HBO, 9 p.m.)
Wild card
The Bachelor, “Women Tell All” (ABC, 8 p.m.): Think of this not so much as a wild card pick and more of a general heads-up to those of you watching The Bachelor this season. Peter (did you know he’s a pilot?) will go through a major rose ceremony at the top of the episode, but after that, things will pivot to the annual bloodletting that is the “Women Tell All” event, in which people who previously had at least some excuse for being an asshole on television defend their assholery and thus make even bigger asses of themselves. So if you’re not into women trying to speak loudly over each other and try out zingers that almost certainly won’t land, you might want to check out after the first 20 minutes or so.
But hey, at least we all get to hear more about the champagne stealing, right?
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All new FX domestic comedies will remind me of Married, and Judy Greer knowing that’s where I know her from. I’ll still give Breeders a try.
And for the penultimate time, the recap nobody asked for: Worst Cooks 1 March 2020:
The remaining four contestants started with a Worst Cooks classic – remote control chef. A soft shell crab sandwich flummoxed the teams. Identification of the breading on the crab was a whole ordeal, and then the salad and slaw on the plate were both more upsetting than comical. In seasons past, I would have been amused by misidentification, but this was several contestants convincing their teammates to undo correct instructions. After the first commercial break, Alton started drinking Bourbon, and your boy definitely followed suit.
This week, the teams tackled steak. Alton gave his team steak and eggplant, and Anne did steak and potatoes. The demo was very pretty.
The cook was weirdly stressful for both teams. Alton convinced his most talkative player to be silent, which threw off his rhythm, and kept saying random ingredients he liked to trick his other into adding them to her steak. Anne just got to watch her team stress about using cutting tools and potentially messing up sequencing (spoiler: they did). Alton did decide he had made his recipe too easy and interrupted his team to make them add a component. He let them guess about flavoring. Predictably, during the tasting, he didn’t actually plan to taste the steak sauce, but one competitor jumped the gun and put it directly on the steak.
The winners of the evening were kind of telegraphed, which was unusual. There wasn’t much drama. There was, however, like an 8 minute commercial break.
I’m still pretty sure I know which team is going to win next week. So there’s that.
After all these weeks of contestants and Anne trying to give Alton an aneurysm, I’m not sure I can fault him for either drinking or mean-spirited petty revenges.
I think for me the main issue is that it doesn’t appear that Alton is equipped to teach people who have no previous training or drive to better their cooking. Their successes have seemed accidental rather than part of a curriculum well-executed. It feels like he has punished himself by participating in the competition as an instructor, and compared to past judges (see especially Tyler and Rachel, who have telegraphed during tastings how proud they are of progress) his style leads to more drama for the final cook, but also the sense of a foregone conclusion for the season.
If Anne’s students had shown any appreciable improvement this season, I could accept that argument. But, with the possible exception of Shannon, none of the cooks have shown anything but the most rudimentary — they don’t set fire to things as much — improvement on either side.
That said, Shannon will almost certainly win, and Food Network will feel validated for pushing this show over into the cringe-worthy.
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