TV Series

“I‘d like to go to Themyscira.”
–Velma Dinkley

Lex and I will be alternating reviews to the forthcoming CWTVDCU version of Crisis on Infinite Earths, starting tomorrow with a joint overview of the series, followed by Lex’s take on the official start with Supergirl. Despite a plethora of guest-stars that will bring Smallville, Superman Returns, the 1990s Flash and, just possibly, the 1960s Batman (we don’t yet know which character Burt Ward will actually be playing) into continuity with the various CW series, the Crisis will leave many worlds untouched. The chaotic DC movies seem disconnected from this event, as do prestige shows like Titans and Doom Patrol.

Also missing? The latest incarnation of Scooby-Doo, who has belonged to DC for some decades now. In 2019, the pooch and his Mystery-solving friends appear in Scooby-Doo and Guess Who?, a series that revisits the premise of the first Scooby spin-off, The New Scooby-Doo Movies (1972-1974), in which, each week, Mystery, Inc. stumbled onto a mystery and a famous guest-star.

In this episode, it happens to be a certain DC Amazon.

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I have managed to get nearly everything to be advertisement free in my life, which means that until something is outright told to me, I tend to miss that it exists.  His Dark Materials is a new genre show that I had no concept of, so didn’t know it needed to go on our list.  If anyone finds any more of those, please, chime in!  The week is a bit more bare than usual, but we get to see Watchmen explain the past, Black Lightning have a father and daughter bonding episode, The Good Doctor tries to get laid, The Flash gives us the first half of a two parter leading into Crisis, Arrow tries to restart his game, Riverdale acknowledges these kids are getting to old for high school, and Titans finishes its season.  We don’t get a description for Castle Rock nor The Mandalorian, but if you’re watching either you probably have a good idea what to expect from these episode.

[All synopses (and titles) from Trakt.tv below the cut, except when there really aren’t any.  (If a show’s synopsis is a spoiler to you, do not click More…)]

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We reviewed the first two episodes of The Terror: Infamy and then left it. The story-arc structure works against stand-alone episode reviews. Here we consider the final eight episodes together.

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With the show that created the CWTVDCU flying off the screens for good this year and a TV version of Crisis happening later on (with appearances by characters from Superman Returns and Smallville announced), we have a new DC super-series, this one featuring the twenty-first century version of Batwoman.

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Even with the official start to fall this week with the equinox, the late-late-late-not-quite-fall-season television offerings are still sparse.  We go get the return of The Good Doctor where Murphy goes on a date.  Alfred plots assassination, and on Preacher there is a theater event to end all theater events¹.  Meanwhile², at camp in in 1984, American Horror Story brights out an evil monster.  While we don’t get a proper description of what happens on Titans, the name “Aqualad” probably tells us all we need to know.

[All synopses (and titles) from Trakt.tv below the cut, except when there really aren’t any.  (If a show’s synopsis is a spoiler to you, do not click More…)]

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The second series of The Terror continues in its uneven manner, with government-ordered oppression in the foreground and a supernatural mystery lurking in the background.

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