How Is Survivor’s Andy Still Here?! Will Penguin’s Sofia Be in Batman II? Did FBI Tan Merit Mention? Why’d Gibbs Never Speak of ‘Her’? And More 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 NCIS: Origins, Survivor, The Penguin, SNL and more!
1 | How did Pachinko’s Anniko find her way to Hansu’s home? (If she had somehow followed Noa, why wait to knock until enough time had passed for them to be halfway through dinner?)
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2 | Which making-of-a-sketch comedy show TV series did Jason Reitman’s Saturday Night film make you miss more — Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip or, let’s be honest, 30 Rock? And did anyone spot the Colon Blow, Swill, Land Shark costume or Bass-o-matic Easter eggs?
3 | Did SNL host Ariana Grande actually pull off a better Jennifer Coolidge impression than resident mimic Chloe Fineman? And wouldn’t it have been truly classic if the actual Coolidge had shown up at the end, instead of Dana Carvey?
4 | Watching this week’s The Chosen, did you appreciate that some of the shiva attendees had a completely reasonable, horrified “zombie!!!” reaction when Lazarus rose from the dead? ▼
5 | If Sofia Falcone survives this season of The Penguin, should we expect to see Cristin Milioti in The Batman Part II? ▼ Also, what did you think of Mark Strong as a recast of the reportedly unavailable John Turturro’s Carmine Falcone from The Batman?
6 | Was Chelsie’s performance during the Final 2 jury questions one of the best we’ve ever seen on Big Brother? And was Makensy choosing to bring Chelsie to the finals one of the most flabbergasting moves ever?
7 | Is Brilliant Minds’ hospital the darkest-lit one you’ve ever seen? ▼
8 | When NCIS’ Parker first picked up that stray, tie-dyed rubber band in the REACT Training Center, did anyone else immediately (and correctly) suspect that the lawyer dropped it when she fell?
9 | Watching NCIS: Origins’ first interrogation room scene with the closed-circuit camera… what, did one-way mirror glass not exist in 1991? ▼ And regarding Gibbs’ heretofore-untold story about “her,” do you suspect it’ll be more than some grand love-gone-wrong? That maybe Lala wound up betraying him/her country in an unspeakable way?
10 | First Clark, now her dad… Superman & Lois is really putting Lois through the wringer this season, isn’t it? And seriously, is no one in Smallville wondering what happened to Clark? Do you think the original Jonathan, who chose to leave after two seasons, is kicking himself now that the show finally decided to give the character powers?
11 | Who at GMA do we send our angry letters to for teasing a huge Taylor Swift announcement Tuesday… only to reveal an Eras Tour coffee table book, on sale at Target?
12 | Did Only Murders in the Building really need a near 40-minute (!) episode to rule out the Westies as the murderers? Surely there was a more concise way they could have circled back to Glen Stubbins as a prime suspect, right?
13 | Dancing With the Stars fans, what made you cry harder: the footage of Ilona Maher’s defeated sobbing after last week’s missteps, or her gorgeous redemption rhumba this week (with her tearful Olympic rugby teammates undone in the audience)?
14 | We hope FBI’s Jeremy Sisto had the very best summer hiatus getaway, but doesn’t so conspicuous a suntan merit a throwaway line regarding his character? ▼ Also, did your eyebrows raise along with OA’s, hearing Maggie’s college professor “Rachel” reveal?
15 | After this week’s The Irrational, how many episodes do you think we have until Phoebe fully ditches her boring new position and returns to Prof. Mercer’s team?
16 | What was the best Agatha All Along backstory reveal — that Agatha was on the Titanic (with Loki, apparently!) or that she was Jolene from the Dolly Parton song?
17 | Grey’s Anatomy fans, what do you make of the fact that Sophia Bush’s upcoming, recurring doctor character doesn’t work at Grey Sloan, but her husband — who isn’t necessarily being cast? — does?
18 | Are The Golden Bachelorette’s producers secretly crushed that Joan sent Mark home, robbing them of the glorious cross-promotion of a hometown double date with Bachelor winners Kelsey and Joey? And were you surprised that not only Mark but also early frontrunners Keith and Jonathan didn’t make it to hometowns?
19 | How relieved are you that Chicago Fire‘s Severide and Damon storyline didn’t go in a payback/revenge direction this week?
20 | Which Survivor player was messier in Episode 5: Tiyana or Rome? And instead of having temporary teams for the reward challenge, don’t you wish there had been an official tribe swap instead? Whose exit was more memorable: Anika Dhar’s or Season 45’s Kellie Nalbandian? And show of hands: Who else is surprised that Andy is still in the game?
21 | Does the twist revealed this week on Ryan Murphy’s Grotesquerie negate our similar theory about Ryan Murphy’s Doctor Odyssey? (Or does Ryan Murphy only want us to think that it does?)
22 | Are you disappointed that the upcoming season of Project Runway will not include Christian Siriano as mentor?
23 | On Matlock, Julian’s argument that bodegas don’t sell ice cream in anything smaller than “a gallon”… was pretty ridiculous, right? (As was later proven out!) And when Senior referred with plentiful side-eye to “the things” that Julian has done, did you read that as, like, bad husband stuff, or having a role in the opioids cover-up?
24 | On Doctor Odyssey, is the fact that Max’s aura is “a crimson, bloody shadow” further proof that he’s actually dead, dying or comatose?
25 | We understand professionalism and all, but SVU really didn’t give us any couple-y moment between Carisi and Rollins during Kelli Giddish’s return?
26 | As Grey’s Anatomy’s Helm began speaking French every chance she got and James made repeated mentions of his world travels, did you have the sense that the groundwork was being laid for Levi to take off to globetrot?
Hit the comments with your answers and any TV Qs of your own!
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