the Small Screen Diaries- 02/03/24

So the Top 20 were chosen on Squid Game: The Challenge (Netflix), which is still easily the dumbest way of calling something a “challenge”. I don’t even know why only 20 people? All of them should have made it through, just expand the numbers. Did you really not have enough numbered vests? It would have been even more beneficial to be a higher number then. Plus, we should have a feeling like we had in the first Squid Game, that multiple people could win. That changed in the final challenge, but these guys didn’t need to know that multiple people could split the pot.

Reacher (Amazon) takes an interesting turn as Reacher has to put himself in danger to save his friends. Of course, the show is titled Reacher, so I think he’s fine. And that thing with the catheter would have made me give over my bank information, let alone some bullshit meeting spot. I would have been like “OK. Consider me your personal Google. What would you like to know as long as you promise to not blow up my penis?”

Quantum Leap (Peacock) jumped a little bit forward in time and Hannah is back again. Listen, I hope we realize that in Ben’s current timeline, with the age that Hannah is now, there’s no way these two are ending upon together. The next leap, Hannah is going to be older, her son will be a teenager. I’m actually more interested in who her son becomes, and perhaps that explains how that algorithm shows up to get Ben home.

I also started Feud: Capote vs The Swans (Hulu) which has audio description that helps to tell you who these people are. I know nothing about why Truman wants to fight Swans, but right now, the acting is on point, and I am intrigued.

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