About Last Night…THE VOICE, LEGENDS OF TOMORROW, THE TWILIGHT ZONE, and More

Let’s talk about Monday’s TV!

THE VOICE: If you had told me pre-show the best battle of the night would be Team Blake with a non-country song, I would have laughed in your face. But the duet of “Here” by Alessia Cara was great, and absolutely worth the double steal. (I cannot believe Kim Cherry is still on Team Blake. Who saw that coming, either?!)

AMERICAN IDOL: You know when we could have used three hours of the show? When trying to get through the top 20. It would have been way more useful than Sunday’s infomercial.

Alejandro is very good—likely the best of the contestants—but yikes, the judges are setting him up to fail.

LEGENDS OF TOMORROW: I missed this delightfully weird show. It wasn’t my favorite of the season, but it set up good drama (between Sara and Ava, as well as Nate and his father).

THE TWILIGHT ZONE: (This blurb also contains minor spoilers for an episode of the original series in addition to discussion of the two episodes released so far.)

No matter the quality of the episodes, it was probably smart for them to release a couple of episodes at once; anthologies are inherently complicated because loving one episode doesn’t guarantee the quality of the rest.

The first two episodes were a mixed bag. I loved “Nightmare at 30,000 Feet.” The Adam Scott-led episode had obvious homage to William Shatner’s “Nightmare at 20,000 Feet,” but actually reminded me a bit more of Shatner’s “Nick of Time.” In that episode, a couple found themselves tethered to an eerily accurate fortune telling machine; their future was written as long as they refused to break the machine’s hold on it. Similarly, Scott’s character ended up doomed because he listened to a podcast and was determined to prevent a possible catastrophe…but had he written it off as fiction, he never would have set the disaster into motion. (Also, on an X-FILES note, it was lovely to see Nic Lea in an episode co-written by Glen Morgan.)

“The Comedian,” unfortunately, was an overbloated mess. It was a relief the first episode of the show—which CBS All Access made available to everyone in an attempt to get them to subscribe to the service—felt like THE TWILIGHT ZONE versus a rip-off of BLACK MIRROR. But they stuffed it with so much unnecessary, repetitive action that all of the other issues just became more and more glaring.

Which shows did you watch last night?

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