Continuing my Apple watching I finished the latest season of Slow Horses which I enjoy and caught the new and pretty good Maximum Pleasure Guaranteed. Of course there was also watching elsewhere, I immediately binged Nobody Wants This which is still charming. I finally caught Off Campus after all the buzz and found it a little mid, there was sex but also a little too much YA after school special vibe. I remembered to go back and finish Big Mood on Tubi, which was pretty uneven but the protagonists are worth a watch. And can’t believe RJ Decker is already done with its season, I like a good Hiaasen vibe.
Movie wise, The Invite was well done but I am not so in love with watching couples fight. Then Mayday, which was lighter action fare somehow started losing my attention, I was admittedly tired.
- St. Denis Medical (NBC) Season Premiere, Monday 11/2, 8pm – The doctors and nurses of an underfunded Oregon hospital return for a third season, these characters are growing on me.
- The Fall and Rise of Reggie Dinkins (NBC) Season Premiere, Monday 11/2, 8:30pm – The disgraced ex-football star and the washed-up filmmaker return for a second season, I want to like this show a little more than I do but it is funny and the cast is great.
- Bass x Machina (Net) Series Premiere, Tuesday 11/3 – An adult animated series set in a lawless steampunk west overrun by outlaws, machines and supernatural terrors, where a father becomes judge, jury and executioner to protect his family, with Brian Tyree Henry and Tati Gabrielle among the voices.
- Curfew (MHz) Series Premiere, Tuesday 11/3 – A six-part British thriller set in a society where every man is ankle-tagged and bound to a seven to seven curfew, and the veteran officer investigating a woman’s murder during curfew hours cannot get anyone to accept that a man is responsible, I’m still not sure what MHz is.
- Stick (App+) Season Premiere, Wednesday 11/4 – Owen Wilson’s washed-up golf pro and the teenage phenom he is coaching return for a second season, I watched the first of this almost entirely during a bout of insomnia, it’s somewhat formulaic but sweet and funny.
- The Greatest (Am) Series Premiere, Wednesday 11/4 – An eight-episode account of the life of Muhammad Ali from creator Ben Watkins, with Jaalen Best as Cassius Clay and Michael Ealy among the cast.
- Church Wives (BET) Series Premiere, Wednesday 11/4, 10pm – Two ambitious women inside a prominent megachurch go to war over a coveted leadership role.
- North of North (Net) Season Premiere, Thursday 11/5 – The young woman reinventing herself in her tiny Arctic hometown returns for a second season, this show is definitely a vibe, and again the characters grew on me.
- It Gets Worse (Para+/Show) Series Premiere, Friday 11/6, 9pm – Leo Reich created and stars in a six-part comedy about three young people taking stock of their humiliating jobs and nonexistent love lives.
- Charmed by a Southern Monster (Pea) Series Premiere, Monday 11/9 – Bravo’s first scripted microdrama, on the Peacock mobile app only, with Craig Conover as a rumored murderer and Nicole Mattox as the corporate fixer sent to seduce him into selling his family’s estate.
- The Body (Net) Series Premiere, Wednesday 11/11 – From Quinn Shephard, an all-girls dance squad’s Halloween initiation goes wrong and tips a Catholic school into guilt, unholy desire and ghostly visions.
- The Good Daughter (Pea) Series Premiere, Thursday 11/12 – Meghann Fahy and Rose Byrne play sisters still piecing together the lives fractured by a single night of violence twenty years earlier, until a new attack hits their small town.
- 12 12 12 (App+) Series Premiere, Friday 11/13 – Anthony Mackie’s disgraced FBI agent and Jamie Dornan’s career criminal play cat and mouse across Europe around a raid on a bank vault beneath Zurich, with every episode spanning the twelve months of planning, the twelve hours of the heist and the twelve days after, I like a good heist.
- Cunk on Cinema (Net) Series Premiere, Sunday 11/15 – Diane Morgan’s Philomena Cunk, who I’m not really a fan of, turns her attention to the movies, putting hard-hitting questions to experts on everything from the invention of the camera to the future of AI.
The procrastinator lists mostly scripted items that may not be on your regular season pass, though notation does not imply recommendation. Times noted are typically PST, please check your local listings.
