Did Tracker Tease (Another) Spinoff? Is FBI: International Liaison a Keeper? Saddest Death on The Chi? Weird Chicago Fire? And More TV Qs!
We’ve got questions, and you’ve (maybe) got answers! With another week of TV gone by, we’re lobbing queries left and right about lotsa shows including Tracker, The Chi, Law & Order: SVU, Young Sheldon and CSI: Vegas!
1 | If Doctor Who’s “space babies” are, well, babies, how are there the drawings of toddlers on the walls?
2 | Did you think that S.W.A.T. was going to pull a Con Air and have the suspected kidnapper’s weapon go missing in the cold open, thus putting Hondo in a real legal bind?
3 | How in the world did Fire Country’s Manny manage to keep his job after punching his supervisor in the face?! Shouldn’t he have been suspended by CAL FIRE, at the very least?
4 | Does That ’90s Show’s Season 2 trailer imply that That ’70s Show and its Netflix sequel series are apart of the View Askewniverse?
5 | Has a single episode of SNL ever had as many sketches where it’s just multiple cast members standing in front of a backdrop, reciting lines direct to camera? (There was Teacher PSA, Nurse Appreciation, Lanzetti’s Lawn Care….) Can we all agree that Maya Rudolph (aka “Mother“) deserved better? Also, wasn’t it a little odd that in her monologue, Rudolph never promoted or even mentioned Loot, her Apple TV+ comedy that’s currently streaming its second season? Finally, did the coffee sketch this week remind anyone else of RuPaul’s Drag Race’s “Daytona Wind” acting challenge?
6 | Remote, hidden DNA-hacking lab or not, wouldn’t the CSI: Vegas team have encountered some hint of security when sneaking in? Like, at least one locked door?
7 | Did Tracker just plant the seeds for a Jensen Ackles-led spinoff about Colter Shaw’s brother Russell working cases as a civilian contractor? (In addition to, of course, the Sofia Pernas-led offshoot we have pitched.)
8 | The Chi viewers: Who’s on your shortlist for the “sadness”-inducing big death of the season?
9 | Could this creepy performance on The Voice have just as easily been promoting LSD or waking nightmares as the movie IF?
10 | As badass as Imogen was in The Veil’s street ambush scene, do metal posts like the one she uses as a bludgeon really come out of concrete that easily?
11 | Given how Colin Donnell’s FBI: International character, NSA liaison Brian Lange, was introduced — in the midst of having a traumatic personal memory, and wearing nothing but thirst-trap briefs — is there any doubt whatsoever he is on track to become a series regular?
12 | Any FBI: Most Wanted fans recognize the “F Society” arcade from Mr. Robot?
13 | From the moment Will Trent’s Javi was shot and killed, did you fear Uncle Antonio wasn’t long for this world? How relieved were you not only that he survived the hour, but that he turned out to be one of the good guys, and that the show left the door open for Antonio’s eventual return?
14 | On The Good Doctor, wouldn’t Lim’s patient’s guitar have contaminated the OR and increased risk of infection with the patient’s brain exposed?
15 | We get The Conners not being able to afford featuring every cast member in every episode, but Katey Sagal’s Louise really should have been there when Dan went to the bank to finish paying off the house… right? And surely it would’ve made more sense to feature Jay R. Ferguson’s Ben over Sean Astin’s Tyler in an episode about stepson Mark’s academic future, would it not?
16 | On Abbott Elementary, were you surprised that Jacob spilled the news to Janine that Gregory has feelings for her and is planning to tell her? Shouldn’t have that been Gregory’s news to share?
17 | How weird was it to watch a Chicago Fire episode where half the cast was MIA? But wasn’t it nice to see Severide and Violet interacting more?
18 | Survivor fans: Will Q not playing his idol and getting voted out make Maria’s road to the end that much harder? ▼ And with just five players left in the game, who do you predict will sit in those final three seats?
19 | Any other Challenge: All Stars viewers wish the show would give Real World Miami legend Flora a much bigger edit?
20 | Given where they left off in Queen Charlotte — Violet Bridgerton hinting that she knows of Lady Danbury’s past affair with her father — weren’t you expecting more of an underlying tension between the pair in Bridgerton Season 3, Part 1? And in Episode 3, why didn’t Penelope move out of the way considering the ample time she had watching Colin and the others struggle to wrangle that unwieldy hot air balloon?
21 | Based on what the owl told Outer Range’s hallucinating Luke, are we to assume that he’ll have a huge part in BY9, trying to control (and possibly sell) the dark mineral? What does the color yellow have to do with anything? And does Motley Crüe’s “Home Sweet Home” relate somehow to all the other songs sung by Billy in Season 1?
22 | Wasn’t it a pleasant surprise to see Manifest’s Daryl Edwards presiding over the murder trial in Law & Order’s Season 23 finale?
23 | Were you surprised that Law & Order: SVU‘s Benson so easily gave up the necklace Stabler gifted her last season? And EO ‘shippers: In the context of Law & Order: Organized Crime‘s move to Peacock next season, did the Benson/Stabler call that ended the episode feel like a cooling of the potential relationship both shows have hyped for the past couple of years?
24 | Law & Order: Organized Crime’s OCCB team would greatly benefit from the permanent addition of computer genius Vargas and ATF agent Beck, right?
25 | Will there be a sadder television episode this year than Part 1 of Young Sheldon’s series finale, which took place almost entirely at George Sr.’s funeral? In Part 2, what surprised you more: How much we got of Jim Parsons and Mayim Bialik as Sheldon and Amy, or that their banter translated perfectly from multi- to single-cam? And how many CBS viewers do we think understood Montana Jordan and Emily Osment discussing Georgie & Mandy’s First Marriage switching from single- to multi-camera format — meaning it’ll be shot in front of a studio audience, like Big Bang Theory — in the 90-second teaser that the network aired during the series finale?
26 | How much harder was it to watch this week’s Grey’s Anatomy now knowing that we’ll soon be losing Jake Borelli (Levi) and Midori Francis (Mika)? With budget cuts taking such a scalpel to the call sheet, what are the odds that Natalie Morales will be gone before Monica and Amelia so much as go on a date?
27 | How many Station 19 fans immediately started hoping that Vic’s potential move to D.C. to take Crisis One national would lead to a Barrett Doss-fronted spinoff?
Hit the comments with your answers and any TV Qs of your own!
25. What the big difference with multi and single cam?
“Multicam” is a traditional sitcom taped in front of a live audience, mostly on a small number of sets (such as a house or apartment’s living room), with several cameras taking video from different angles.
“Single-cam” sitcoms are taped more like a movie, with a larger number of sets, and are usually more serious than laugh-a-minute comedies. (Despite the term, they’re also generally taped with more than one camera.)
Multi-cam examples
Single-cam examples: The Hank McCune Show & The Stu Erwin Show were first in 1950 but also Ozzie & Harriet, Leave it to Beaver, Andy Griffith, Bewitched, Brady Bunch, M*A*S*H, The Wonder Years, Sex & the City, Arrested Development, It’s Always Sunny…, The Office, Community, The Middle, Modern Family, Parks & Recreation, Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Young Sheldon.. Probably more classics than people realize, not as popular in the 80s through mid’00s, then become most prominent except some of CBS
Multi-cam examples: Mary Kay and Johnny was first but then the likes of The Honeymooners, I Love Lucy, All in the Family, Happy Days, Mary Tyler Moore Show, Taxi, Three’s Company, WKRP in Cincinnati, Cheers, The Cosby Show, The Golden Girls, Full House, Night Court, Roseanne, Frasier, Fresh Prince, Friends, The Nanny, Married… with Children, Seinfeld, Will & Grace, Home Improvement, Two & a Half Men, The King of Queens, Big Bang Theory
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For the upcoming season, single-cams are Abbott Elementary, Ghosts, Animal Control, St. Denis Medical, Going Dutch. Multi-cams are The Conners, George & Mandy’s First Marriage, The Neighborhood, Poppa’s House, Happy’s Place, Lopez vs. Lopez, and if picked up, Shifting Gears (ABC Tim Allen) and Forgive & Forget (ABC Ty Burrell). Single-cam seems to work well for the mockumentaries and can be helpful for shows that need editing tricks (from I Dream of Jeannie to Ghosts), and a bias grew for them to compete with premium cable/streaming, but the trend is now headed back to multi-cam which is considered more budget-friendly.
Happy Days was actually single-cam for the first two seasons before the network suggested they change to a multi-cam ifo a studio audience style. They also changed the focus of the show from being about Richie and Potsie and their high school adventures to Richie and Fonzie and made it more slap-sticky.
Friends is single cam in the studio. Ted Lasso is multi cam most being outdoor filming like movies.
Single cam is cheaper and ,multi cam is more expensive.
I suppose it’s against the guidelines, but the full main cast of Young Sheldon deserves at least an HM for Performer(s) of the Week after that funeral episode — particularly Zoe Perry, Raegan Revord and Annie Potts.
11. I barely recognized Colin. He was so thin.
He was doing something different with the pitch of his voice too. Seemed higher or more nasal or something.
Oh! I thought that was just me that noticed his voice change. Glad to know I’m not losing my mind (yet 🤣).
i follow him on IG, he’s gotten super into health & fitness this last year, I think partially for the role he finished on Broadway in the fall. his voice tone and cadence was definitely different.
25. Given all the mentions of Veronica after she vanished without trace, is anyone else thinking they’re already planting the seeds for who Georgie’s second marriage is to?
i surprised The Rookie isn’t listed A Martinez playing Cruz Castillo which was his character on Sanat Barbara
The TVLine The Rookie finale preview article referred to Martinez as “Cruz Castillo” but I think that may have just been a reference to his Santa Barbara roll by the author as his character here was referred to and credited on IMDB as Gundo
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6 (CSI) I thought the whole premise of them sneaking in there (especially without armed reinforcements) was sort of silly
I think that Olivia and Eliot are not going to happen. With Organized Crime moving to streaming and having shortened seasons, I don’t think they want to work a relationship in. OC has also had a lot of show runners and I would not be surprised if the EO relationship had something to do with that. It is clear that SVU drives the Law and Order universe and I presume SVU has complete control over what happens with the EO relationship. Imagine being a showrunner and being told that you have no say in this and your storylines can’t affect this relationship. I can see a showrunner being very frustrated by this and wouldn’t be surprised if the current showrunner decided that he didn’t want to be handcuffed by this and Wolf Entertainment ultimately relented.
I was actually hoping that this is what the phone call meant… the fact that OC sent Stabler to Kathy’s grave cemented it for me. I’ll be highly disappointed if they go back to trying to make it Benson’s endgame.
#16 – Have y’all met Jacob? LOL. That was peak Jacob, he can’t keep a secret.
I will say if they stall it for another season they are going to lose the window where I will want them together.
#26. It really felt like they were setting them up to leave the show. It was like look Helm can do Levi’s job and the other woman broke it off with Helm so she’s easier to get rid of.
7 – I’d love to watch a Sofia Pernas-led spinoff but I’d pass on a Jensen Ackles-led one.
11 – Colin Donnell would add a lot more to the show than Luke Kleintank ever did.
13 – I am glad the uncle is ok, more of Antonio, please!
22 – Give Daryl Edwards a new leading role ASAP!
You guys must really hate Uncle Antonio! :P
11. Would love to see Colin Donnell as a series regular on FBI: International and his character as team leader. Miss seeing him on Chicago Med
13. Happy to see Will’s uncle is a good guy. Hopefully we’ll see him next season!
I would rather he join the Fly Team as a liaison and have Vo be the team leader. She’s earned it.
I have no interest in him what so ever. The one leaving was bland enough
| Any other Challenge: All Stars viewers wish the show would give Real World Miami legend Flora a much bigger edit? Agreed!!!!
Would love to see a Jensen Ackles led spin off. Only concern would be that it’s too like the parent show.
18) Maria still has a chance to win, but the favorite now has to be Charlie. The look on Maria’s face at the end of Tribal Council confirmed her fall from frontrunner. Maria has to win the remaining immunity challenges to be in final three, otherwise she is voted out. The final three will be Charlie, Ben and Kenzie. Only way Kenzie can win is if she winds us in final three with Ben and Liz.
I think you’re exactly right. I can’t wait to see the fallout when they get back to camp between Maria and Charlie.
Maria will have to win the next IC or find an idol (assuming they plant it again for F5) to have a shot to make F4, then probably make fire better than somebody to be endgame. Q really messed up and I’m not entirely sure why Maria made him feel secure, it didn’t help her game. That will be her big mistake, not telling Q that he needed to use the idol.
15. Why isn’t Tyler offering up some Buddy Passes since he’s a pilot and all; wouldn’t this be a highlight to Becky dating a pilot? Also, why would Jackie be going to New Orleans with Dan and not Louise?
4 | Does That ’90s Show’s Season 2 trailer imply that That ’70s Show and its Netflix sequel series are apart of the View Askewniverse?
And with that, you meant to ask if they are A PART of it, right?
1) The babies are talking at an advanced level and you wonder how there are toddler drawings?
6) Not if they knew they were coming, which it appears they did walk right into a trap
16) Not surprised at all, even if it should have been Gregory’s place… but it did not seem out of character for him to tell
18) It still would have been 3 to 2 had Q played his Idol. If neither won immunity the next week, I think they might have struck Maria as a bigger threat at challenges over Q despite their dislike of him.
24) It’d be nice to explore an awkward romance with them.
1) I think the point, for the talking and art, is that they were not allowed to grow up. So while they are in the bodies of babies they are actually around 5 or 6 years old.
17. I loved this episode and I hope more just Squad episodes in the future. the whole members together was really good.
Man, Colin’s character feels so wooden, If he joins FBi Int it’s gonna become a snoozefest really fast. I hate to quit on the show but I don’t how to continue with his involvement
It would better than watching Dylan McDermott on Most Wanted overact and chew scenery. He’s gotten a little better this season, but it’s still grating.
More importantly, those babies were born 6 years ago, so, why are they still babies?
RTD made me so sad last Friday, i knew it would be bad, but man, it was worse than I expected…wasting more outstanding talent with bad writing than Chris Chibnal did
12. I thought that the arcade was from Mr. Robot, but wasn’t entirely sure. Thank you for confirming it.
17 | Chicago Fire has been this way most of the season (probably scheduling issues due to the actors & writers strikes). Not looking forward to the Chief’s farewell next week.
26 | Fine with Levi leaving, never got into his character so not sad – he could take Helm with him too. Mika was my only favorite of the new interns, the other four could have gone too (it would not have been a lost). That’s how you cut a budget ABC
27 | Never got into Station 19 fans b/c I enjoy Chicago Fire so much more. But can Ben return to Greys as a doctor now?
I feel ya about Station 19. The first couple of season were decent, but then Krista Vernoff got a hold of it and made it Grey’s 2.0 and all the reasons I liked it disappeared.
That being said, I do love Chicago Fire so much more, probably because it’s much more authentic. Fun fact, the guy that plays Tony on Squad 3 is an active Chicago Firefighter and consultant for the show.
27. A “Crisis One” spin-off would be amazing!! It could be a mix of political/medical/emergency. UGH! I’d watch the heck out of that.
25. If they wanted the average CBS viewer to understand the format switch, they should have said they were going from a Lou Grant to a Mary Tyler Moore.
Regarding 16 – I agree. I am getting a little sick of the will they or won’t they of these 2. I know stuff like this has been going on for YEARS but, sometimes, it just feels stupid & not needed. This is one of those times. It’s taken away part of the charm of the show.
I must be the only person who has never wanted them together…especially after he was supposed to be so devoted to his wife and if I recall, didn’t she help deliver one of the babies after a car crash? it has always been icky to me and so much a bigger opportunity to show a male/female team and truly care for each other without it being a relationship….but a friendship.
Keenen, I think you may have confused a comment on #16 (Abbott Elementary) for #23 (SVU). That said, you’re not the only one, and I say that as someone who’s still angry that they didn’t name Eli “Oliver” after Olivia got Kathy out of that car.