Did SNL's Maya Upgrade Her Kamala? Will Sweet Dee Miss Abbott Field Trip? Best Simpsons Series Finale Gag? Did Fire Ruin Shower Sex? More TV 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 SNL, Abbott Elementary, Chicago Fire, Days of Our Lives and more!
1 | How many General Hospital fans paused the TV to crunch the age math when Jason (who was a toddler when Finola Hughes first joined the ABC soap as an adult superspy) kissed Anna? And based on the debut of Aiden recast Colin Cassidy and the pre-debut pic of Van Hansis as a recast Lucas, are we to assume that the soap thinks all gay men rock the same hairdo?
2 | Did the end of last Friday's Pachinko bring you to tears, as Sunjin acknowledged all that Noa would give up by attending college?
3 | If Power Book II: Ghost had to kill off Monet in its penultimate episode, wasn't that action-movie-style shootout quite the way to go?
4 | Will Days of Our Lives — which famously tapes far, far ahead — find a way to acknowledge Drake Hogestyn's passing more quickly than the nine months it took with John Aniston/Victor?
5 | On SNL, did Maya Rudolph significantly upgrade her already solid Kamala Harris impression, nailing the VP's very specific vocal fry? Did Dana Carvey's Biden instantly make you forget all that came before him?
6 | Who has the better JD Vance and Tim Walz impersonators: NBC's Saturday Night Live (which cast Bowen Yang and Jim Gaffigan) or ABC's Jimmy Kimmel Live (which has Haley Joel Osment and Andy Richter playing the VP hopefuls)?
7 | How did SEAL Team's Bravo suddenly know where the HVT's yacht was located? (Davis had just said they only knew where it'd been.) Also, can't Davis simply tell her bosses she investigated but has no idea who slugged the apparently very precious Decker?
8 | As TVLine reader Ray asks: Does Tulsa King's Margaret cleaning the blood off Dwight's face show that she knows where it came from, or does she not believe it to be blood?
9 | If you were trekking up that arduous Summit, would you have voted Bo or Rose out? And does Bo have any shot of making it to the end?
10 | Didn't Industry's season finale feel a whole lot like a series finale, even though it's been renewed for a fourth season? And how much time actually passed, do you think, in that subtle time jump near the end? Enough time for Yasmin to send out wedding invitations, at least?
11 | When The Simpsons season premiere opened by billing itself as an oft-postponed "series finale," did anyone else race to TVLine to search for a cancellation story they might have missed? Was Joel McHale representing the sum total of Fox's live-action programming the episode's best sight gag? OR was it John Cena playing "Now You Don't See Me" with the baby? And out of all the classic series finales recreated during the end credits, was Sideshow Bob as Frasier the best, give the Kelsey Grammer of it all?
12 | When The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon's Carol discovered that Ash's son's music box played "You Are My Sunshine," did you immediately flash back to Negan traumatizing Carl by making him sing that song?
13 | Will Ashton Kutcher harness the power of Burns! in Ryan Murphy's new comic book series The Beauty? #IYKYK
14 | We're happy for All American: Homecoming's Marcus that son Noah was not diagnosed with bipolar disorder... but given that it's a very real mental health condition for many people, perhaps Marcus' scripted reaction could have been something other than, "Thank you God! This is great news!"?
15 | While we applaud Only Murders in the Building for taking a risk and experimenting with format, can we all agree that an entire episode comprised of "found footage" was a bit... much?
16 | Were you (pleasantly?) surprised by how almost-normal and civilized the vice presidential debate was? Just as debates used to be, in the before times?
17 | Does Agatha All Along have TV's best closing credits in recent memory?
18 | Did this week's Chicago Fire rescue call ruin shower sex?
19 | Yes, Chicago P.D.'s Ruzek and officer Cook were trying to catch a dangerous criminal, but didn't they put the little boy's life in even more jeopardy by crashing into that car?
20 | Was Grotesquerie's "I Don't Know How to Love Him" scene a sly nod to Micaela Diamond's participation in NBC's Jesus Christ Superstar Live? And American Horror Story fans, did your ears perk up when Father Charlie referenced the serial-killer nurse who targeted gay men in the 1980s — aka the villain featured in AHS: NYC? And did that further your belief that this show should have just been called AHS: Grotesquerie?
21 | Does anyone not think the sight of Heartstopper's Nick in his Halloween costume would have entirely changed Charlie's mind about Marvel heroes? Speaking of.... As lovely as Hayley Atwell was as Nick's Aunt Diane, did she almost — almost — make you forget how much you missed Olivia Colman as his mum?
22 | Is Kaitlin Olson conspicuously absent from the Abbott Elementary/It's Always Sunny crossover-announcing tweets because ABC thought it would be confusing, with her currently headlining High Potential? Or will her Sweet Dee not be involved?
23 | At what point will the Doctor Odyssey med crew give up on dressing up for the black tie dinner, which is now 2-for-2 at being interrupted by a crisis? Could The Flash's Kayla Compton have been more underused as a guest star? And as pointed out by TVLine reader Anthony, are we to believe that this week's walking STI (played by Glee's Chord Overstreet) would have remembered the names of every person he bedded aboard the ship? (It looked like there were dozens of names being crossed off Max's list as he made contact!)
24 | In SVU's premiere, was Elodie — the law student who was roommates with the episode's murder victim — given rather short shrift, considering she was a rape victim, too?
25 | Given that Grey's Anatomy's Lucas originally hid his highfalutin family ties, would he really have been dim enough to assume that he got invited to golf with Richard and Winston just because wow, he's such a great doctor? How sweet (or at least bittersweet) were Blue and his amnesiac ex-fiancée? And can anyone even count at this point how many times characters on this show have violated HIPAA?
26 | The computer belonging to Found's Zeke, of all people, doesn't require a password to wake the screensaver...? Hmmm.
Hit the comments with your answers and any TV Qs of your own!