April 19th's Weekly TV Thoughts

Tracker – Another promising episode that went completely off the rails.  Yikes was that bad.  I definitely missed some things, but I stopped paying attention.  I just didn’t care.

Suits LA – Can we just get to the part where the brother dies in the backstory already?  I suspect it is coming this Sunday, but I’m just cringing waiting for it.  I forgot to jot down my thoughts right after I watched it, and I’m trying to think about anything in the contemporary story that was worth commenting on.  Honestly, not too much.  A couple of things were set up, so we’ll see what the payoff is.

Poppa’s House – The stuff with the phones was fun, but then the show just went a little too far with things.  Especially since I was trying to eat dinner with the fish scene.  Yikes!  I am curious what they did for the make up effects for when Jr. shaved his one eyebrow.  It was good.  Too good since clippers wouldn’t really erase all trace of it like that.  Still, it was very impressive.

Wild Cards – I wasn’t not expecting the episode to go there.  Pretty impressive.  I’m a bit more jaded than the characters were at the end, but I want to believe that they’d make it.  As to the scenes with Max’s dad, you can remember the past and move forward as well.  It’s important to be able to do both, in fact.

The Challenge – It was closer than I was expecting.  Very close, in fact.  But ultimately, I was right about who would win.  Not sure what I thought about Sam’s knee.  I hope it wasn’t really injured.  But I could see something like that being mental.  And I’m glad the winning team split the money.

Survivor – As someone who has played games with people who are playing in ways that frustrate you, I get where Chrissy was coming from.  I truly do.  But going at them head on rarely works like you want it to.  And I’m not sure there is a right perspective here.  It’s nice to see the strong guys teaming up for a change instead of getting voted out.  They are right.  But it’s always frustrating when you get in a situation with a strong alliance you can’t crack.  And that’s where Chrissy found herself.

The Amazing Race – I hate those needle in haystack challenges.  This one almost literally a needle in a haystack.  It’s crazy how the gamers were able to come back and not be eliminated.  Guess the brothers being saved last week wasn’t for very long.  Crazy to realize this is the first time the teams had to drive on the race.  Definitely a game changer.  And unlike when a taxi gets lost, I don’t feel as badly for the teams since it is their fault, not just bad luck in taxi drivers.