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The Chase (2021)
Game show HOST problem
NOTE: The 1 rating is for the host itself, the way it's hosted, not the contestants, these incredible chasers, who deserve a 10 and better; feeling less tense!
Sara Haines needs to GO, they need Ben Bailey (Who's Still standing, Cash Cab) to replace her-he is a great assessor of talent hosting and an entertaining personality. Bailey has heart, wit, humor, and he is comfortable in his own skin, and was the best host on NBC's Who's Still Standing. Haines has a dull personality that makes everyone in our house turn off the show, The producers needs to get rid of her pronto. The chemistry is off and she is the root problem. What a horrible host. She reads questions too fast. She always says the same thing "Chaser did you know this one?" I really think she needs to read slower and be more personable. She looked tired on this show since she has low energy and a lack of genuine enthusiasm. If anyone watched Who' s Still standing, what do you think about replacing Sara Haines with Ben bailey ? Who else could be a good replacement? Again, the producers could also hire Brooke Burns, Drew Carey, Jane Lynch, Chris Hardwick, Aisha Tyler, Wayne Brady, Levar Burton, Julie Chen, Akim Anastopoulo, McKenzie Westmore, Jerry Springer, Ellen DeGeneres, Joe Rogan, Jeff Probst, Beth melewski, Jonathan Kelley, Nikki Bella, Ashleigh Banfield, Meredith Vieira, Steve Harvey, The miz, or Rosie O'Donnell, as they seem like the obvious solutions.
With Brooke Burns, I like her personality, she reads clearly, and has a great tone. I've noticed she speeds up a lot on the final question she asks on cash builders. You needed someone like Brooke to blow through those questions with reasonable speed if you wanted to get any reasonable amount of cash worth playing for. Now 3 correct questions and you have $75,000 of cash to play for. Previously it took you 15 questions to get the same amount of money. No one that I can recall seeing ever got 15 questions correct during the cash builder.
As for Sara Haines, I recommend that she hosts Press Your Luck and even stick with the View, since it totally matches her personality better and it won't feel awkward or stressed. She is a wonderful host for a Talk Show, not a Game Show. For the most part, she is ill-suited to the role of a game show host. She doesn't really add any personality to the proceedings, and she has no idea how to react to traumatic contestant situations.
Real Time with Bill Maher (2003)
Great Guilty pleasure guilt trip TV viewing (along the style of Nick Dipaolo)
Bill Maher, one of the most controversial figures on and since ABC's cancelled Political show "Politically Incorrect", is on the attack! Nothing is sacred from politics, the media, religion, sports, immigration, even political figures and etc. This is a no-holds-bar look at our pathetic existence living in the greatest country in the world and a verbal slap in the face to all the pundits of what is and isn't acceptable in our society. Now if you are an individual of tender sensibilities? I seriously suggest you avoid watching this. I am not trying to dissuade your decision making, but you don't have the intellectual or emotional aptitude to handle this kind of humor. If you have some common sense and a few sharp edges to your personality? Give this a watch.
Good Sam (2022)
There's room for improvement in the way of New Amsterdam, Three Rivers, The Night Shift, Third watch, & Code Black; hopefully GS takes out the father/ daughter feud storyline
NBC"s New Amsterdam is quite different than this medical drama since it focuses more on reforming the existing healthcare system rather than just patient cases. It's like the This is Us of medical dramas. I find the story more cohesive and thought out than this show. Good Sam has a tendency of preventing their characters from evolving into likable, complex characters. If I were the writer for GS, I'd take out the father feud storyline with Sophia Bush because it is standing in the way of other important things happening in the show ( like surgery, treatment, etc). Also, GS are wanting the viewers to have such suspended belief that essentially they can keep making controversial decisions - which in the cancelled series Code Black could have you fired without hesitation - and not suffer the consequences. Dr. Sam and Rob Griffith have one too many times now broken the rules and are still somehow professional doctors. Hospitals also don't want to take on the liability of a straight shooter type doctor. I know GS is a TV show but sometimes they give doctors too much God complex and it makes it highly unrealistic. Sometimes the stories are so drawn out too that you begin to lose focus on the shows story arcs. That being said, I still watch it but prefer the humanity of New Amsterdam and hopefully GS copies the tone of cancelled series of Alex O loughlin's Three Rivers and Code Black.
Big Sky: Love Is a Strange and Dangerous Thing (2021)
Great cliffhanger ending for the season but Cassie Dewel and Jenny Hoyt has to have a better team, way of dealing with suspects and Backup officers(copy CBS's SWAT)!
Have you noticed that on CBS's SWAT, Sergeant Daniel "Hondo" Harrelson and company are always efficient when it comes to catching suspects very fast? Well, that is what should be applied on this show with the main protagonists! Seriously, a crossover between those characters from SWAT could help Cassie Dewel and Jenny Hoyt change their attitudes and approach to these types of dangerous situations they find themselves in. How could Dewell, Hoyt, and Lindor make such an ameautur move like that without wearing bulletproof vests/protective tactical gear clothing? The writers could have at least make it more similar like on CBS's SWAT (if possible for season 2), no private investigator(s) is letting a serial kidnapper killer out to look for other victims with little backup/protection power. Why do they even have two inept private detectives who wasn't asked by anyone to help on the case, in fact they were ordered to stay away, and no one is paying them for their service, as limited as they are. The writers should and could have(also at least) used the Kleinsasser women to back up Dewell and Hoyt or another serial killer to help them spy on Ronald and girlfriend (Since I still don't get the whole ranch storyline and how it ties into the other crazy things going on). I feel like the whole ranch story was all over the place and could have gotten retooled by the writers if they had more time to edit (over season 1 after spending time with the Legarskisis).
Blue Bloods: The End (2021)
Intense action-style 2 part season finale episode that took a page out of ABC's The Rookie
This was a nail biting episode in the form of Nathon FIllion's The Rookie! (Well, that show takes place in Los Angeles and shows LAPD officers ) but still, I was on the edge of my seat, as if that was my family too. Shooting the criminal at the hotel was brilliant. It was like the LAPD officers (John Nolan, Eric Winter Nyla Harper), with who are efficient on that other cop show The Rookie. That show is an upbeat to the old Adam 12 type show, with this one being much more interesting. I like the way that Jaime, Danny, Joe, teamed up as the everyday officers with of course the Hollywood action boost shown on ABC's The Rookie. If it were made exactly like the daily duty of an officer there more than likely wouldn't be more than one or two calls outside of a traffic stop or report to be taken. They also have zen like quality of the officers too (like the Rookie). Wondered why nobody had ever used that tactic before. Joe holding up his map to show where he was was a brainstorm idea. Excellent. Then the final shootout was incredible, Remember that Joe's relative side resents the Reagans, they want Joe to be a Hill. They did not want him to be apart of dangerous assignments. She most likely would have refused an invite to celebrate. The writers stayed true to the characters and the story line. The one liners references Reagans made were excellent but so sad when the guy got killed in the end that had become sympathetic to Joe. The actor portraying Joe did an amazing job. What a contribution to the Reagans. His relatives should have been at the Reagan dinner table. They're family too, Especially at this scary success. It is enjoyable and the audience leaves the episode feeling good about the episode.
Blue Bloods: Justifies the Means (2021)
Intense action-style 2 part season finale episode that took a page out of ABC's The Rookie with the feeling of The Rookie vibes
This was a nail biting episode in the form of Nathon FIllion's The Rookie! (Well, that show takes place in Los Angeles and shows LAPD officers and Blue Bloods takes place in NY with NYPD officers ) but still, I was on the edge of my seat, as if that was my family too. It had The Rookie vibes. It reminded me of the drug cartel situation shown on The Rookie, Shooting the criminal at the hotel was brilliant. It was like the LAPD officers (John Nolan, Eric Winter, Nyla Harper), with who are efficient on that other cop show The Rookie. That show is an upbeat to the old Adam 12 type show, with this one being much more interesting. I like the way that Jaime, Danny, Joe, teamed up as the everyday officers with of course the Hollywood action boost shown on ABC's The Rookie. If it were made exactly like the daily duty of an officer there more than likely wouldn't be more than one or two calls outside of a traffic stop or report to be taken. They also have zen like quality of the officers too (like the Rookie). Wondered why nobody had ever used that tactic before. Joe holding up his map to show where he was was a brainstorm idea. Excellent. Then the final shootout was incredible, Remember that Joe's relative side resents the Reagans, they want Joe to be a Hill. They did not want him to be apart of dangerous assignments. They most likely would have refused an invite to celebrate. The writers stayed true to the characters and the story line. The one liners references Reagans made were excellent but so sad when the guy got killed in the end that had become sympathetic to Joe. The actor portraying Joe did an amazing job. What a contribution to the Reagans. His relatives should have been at the Reagan dinner table. They're family too, Especially at this scary success. It is enjoyable and the audience leaves the episode feeling good about the episode.
Law & Order: Organized Crime: What Happens in Puglia (2021)
Non-traditional Law & Order spin off( reminiscent and reminds me of) in the vein of CBS's FBI and CBS's cancelled series Ransom with Luke Roberts, Sarah Greene
"Organized Crime" is an efficient spinoff that is trying something different from the Law & Order universe and it's predecessors. Like "Ransom" (or FBI), It doesn't try to be fancy, it's not going for deep, it just delivers tense storylines and then moves on. These storylines are built around high-wire negotiations of one sort or another. Much fretting and sweating ensues.
And like the CBS show Ransom, Stabler doesn't work alone. He has a psychologist/professor Angela Wheatley (Tamara Taylor ) who susses out psyches, He has a high tech junkie database researcher Jet Slootmaekers (Ainsley Seiger )who's perky, pretty and kind of sneaky. He has Sgt. Ayanna Bell (Danielle Moné Truitt) who's used to stressed-out people, and in the opening episode, Stabler takes on a new hire, Richard Wheatley(Dylan McDermott) , There's some sort of backstory hidden theory between Stabler and staff that's sure to be slowly revealed in the way FBI do slow reveals leading to ... something. This is also like David Krumholtz's Numbers and also touches of HBO's The Wire.
The thing that sets Organized Crime apart from other spinoff is that Dick Wolf is doing something serialized. This show supposedly abhors violence and tries to find a solution to certain situations. How refreshing for a LAW & Order spin off television show. Then you watch the first episode and see a sniper shot, a kidnapping, a punch to the gut, followed by a person being shot, followed by nonviolent Stabler pummeling a bad guy into submission and you realize, yep, this is a different type of Law & Order series without the dun dun sound and more of a problem solver type of spinoff.
Law & Order: Organized Crime (2021)
Non-traditional Law & Order spin off( reminiscent and reminds me of) in the vein of CBS's FBI and CBS's cancelled series Ransom with Luke Roberts, Sarah Greene
"Organized Crime" is an efficient spinoff that is trying something different from the Law & Order universe and it's predecessors. Like "Ransom" (or FBI), It doesn't try to be fancy, it's not going for deep, it just delivers tense storylines and then moves on. These storylines are built around high-wire negotiations of one sort or another. Much fretting and sweating ensues.
And like the CBS show Ransom, Stabler doesn't work alone. He has a psychologist/professor Angela Wheatley (Tamara Taylor ) who susses out psyches, He has a high tech junkie database researcher Jet Slootmaekers (Ainsley Seiger )who's perky, pretty and kind of sneaky. He has Sgt. Ayanna Bell (Danielle Moné Truitt) who's used to stressed-out people, and in the opening episode, Stabler takes on a new hire, Richard Wheatley(Dylan McDermott) , There's some sort of backstory hidden theory between Stabler and staff that's sure to be slowly revealed in the way FBI do slow reveals leading to ... something. This is also like David Krumholtz's Numbers, Acrorn's 19-2, and also touches of HBO's The Wire,.
The writing on this show (is non-formulaic) is a lot different in the best way. For SVU, It has a format , so it's just one case, one arc, done. With "OC," It's like you really get to know characters, so I like this format a lot more because I feel like they're getting deeper into the characters. They're actually communicating\interacting. You can actually hear them interact for longer without a case interrupting them. Even the scenes with Elliot and Olivia, I love that they're able to just talk as two people now. It's honestly so refreshing. It's more about the characters than the cases.
The thing that sets Organized Crime apart from other spinoff is that Dick Wolf is doing something serialized. This show supposedly abhors violence and tries to find a solution to certain situations. How refreshing for a LAW & Order spin off television show. Then you watch the first episode and see a sniper shot, a kidnapping, a punch to the gut, followed by a person being shot, followed by nonviolent Stabler pummeling a bad guy into submission and you realize, yep, this is a different type of Law & Order series without the dun dun sound and more of a problem solver type of spinoff.