Sundays I usually start new shows, but I did polish off an episode of Julia (MAX) where she was being courted to go to CBS. You know, what should happen, is that since CBS didn’t win all those years ago, they should rescue the show now, and it would be like they had her anyway! #SaveJulia Anyone?

I did start a new reality competition series called The Trust, which had an interesting premise, until people can’t fucking understand what show they are on. Quite predictably, the ladies chose to backstab the men, which is a hilarious portrayal of women. As an audience, we did see that the thought process in the vault was made fully with the best intentions for the group, and no one lied. that is exactly what went down, and they were fully transparent. And they still axed the guy because he took the vote away from a black woman. If I remember correctly, he also had a guy who couldn’t vote, and that dude did not complain. Apparently there was a list of names, and he just picked the top two. I’m interested to see where this show goes from here, but man this premise got predictably ruined super fast. I know this is spoilery, but we couldn’t even get through one fucking elimination without the girls forming an alliance to take out someone for telling the truth, when he didn’t have to say anything at all. Shout out to Laura post for narrating this.

True Detective: Night Country (MAX) is attempting to win me back, by putting Jodie Foster in a weird as shit story line that might not have any basis in reality. On one hand, it feels adjacent to the plot of Alaska Daily, but if there was a supernatural element. Maybe Hilary Swank’s journalist can crossover in this show since Swank desperately needs work that isn’t awful on her resume. I’m intrigued, certainly. And Tanzi Alexander’s description does not hold back on the gory details.

Has Been Hotel (Amazon) has been awfully promoted by the streamer, despite being from A24. It’s an animated TV series about the daughter of Satan trying to rehab lost souls, and it’s part musical. The voice cast is solid, the music was nice. I wasn’t immediately in love, but the concept has potential.

Chad (Roku) had its long awaited Season 2 debut. honestly, why did it take this long? TBS cancelled this show a year and a half ago and they did so the day before its season 2 premiere, so presumably the episodes were shot, unless TBS is just so incompetent that they forgot to actually shoot Chad, and they had to cancel it before they aired a test pattern. Roku interestingly has an alternate English audio track for this, but neither track had any audio description. I spent the whole episode flipping back and forth, letting each one run for a while, and I couldn’t tell the difference. I don’t understand. So, this show sadly gets only one mention from me, and then never again. I’m glad Chad was rescued, as Nasim Perdad is terrific in the title role, but audio description needs to come to Roku.