{"id":12840,"date":"2021-05-16T06:06:31","date_gmt":"2021-05-16T11:06:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tvmeg.com\/?p=12840"},"modified":"2021-05-16T06:26:55","modified_gmt":"2021-05-16T11:26:55","slug":"blog-its-that-time-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tvmeg.com\/index.php\/2021\/05\/16\/blog-its-that-time-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Blog: It&#8217;s That Time Again!"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>Blog Post #21<\/strong>2<\/h2>\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- TVMEGBODY -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1056557952271337\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"8801203268\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-12859 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/tvmeg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/depression.png\" alt=\"Pandemic Depression\" width=\"300\" height=\"214\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tvmeg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/depression.png 420w, https:\/\/tvmeg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/depression-300x214.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>I know it&#8217;s been awhile since I last posted the blog&#8230; no excuses this time! OK&#8230;well, there was this little thing called the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pandemic#COVID-19\">pandemic<\/a>, so that sure didn&#8217;t help. I&#8217;m not the type to get depressed, normally. I&#8217;m very optimistic. Even if I get sad or angry, it doesn&#8217;t last very long. However, I was having a lot of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/coronavirus\/2019-ncov\/daily-life-coping\/managing-stress-anxiety.html\">pandemic depression<\/a> this past year or so. I did think of many blog topics in my head, but getting them written down for you was a little bit more problematic. For one thing, when I get depressed, I procrastinate more and spend way too much time watching TV and reading social media, and less time working on my sites. I know I&#8217;m not the only one! I know that many people were stuck at home, in a funk&#8230; so they baked bread, ate comfort food, binged Netflix and made funny TikTok videos of their cats. It&#8217;s as if a sort of ennui came over the country (if not the whole world).\u00a0 Not to minimize it because it was the result of the fear of COVID, plus having to stay home, or losing your job, or not being able to have contact with other people.<\/p>\n<p>Lack of time management skills is definitely one drawback of running your own company (especially if you have <img decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-12858 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/tvmeg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/bold.png\" alt=\"The Logan sisters on &quot;The Bold and the Beautiful&quot; on CBS.\" width=\"303\" height=\"195\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tvmeg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/bold.png 466w, https:\/\/tvmeg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/bold-300x193.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 303px) 100vw, 303px\" \/>no board of directors to answer to).\u00a0 My time is my own, and sometimes I&#8217;m bad at prioritizing. For another thing, there are many other duties that I have on my site that require daily or weekly updating. They don&#8217;t leave much time for other writing. Also, it&#8217;s been harder and harder to get more volunteers for our site. Right now I have no one to write &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/tvmeg.com\/index.php\/daytime\/bold\/\">The Bold and Beautiful<\/a>&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/tvmeg.com\/index.php\/2020\/07\/26\/recaps\/\">short recaps<\/a> for our site at all. I was writing some of them, when I had a little time, and we had a fine volunteer named Mark who was writing them the rest of the time. Mark has disappeared, though (as often happens with volunteers), so I have no one else to do it. We do have a lot of other <a href=\"https:\/\/tvmeg.com\/index.php\/2018\/10\/27\/credits-page\/\">wonderful writers<\/a> on our site that provide <a href=\"http:\/\/tvmegasite.net\/day\/updates.shtml\">daily soap updates<\/a>, recaps and more. If you can write a short B&amp;B recap for even one day per week, that would be very helpful &#8211; and we&#8217;ll be eternally grateful!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-12857 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/tvmeg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/canceled.jpeg\" alt=\"Bojack Horseman CANCELED!\" width=\"294\" height=\"149\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tvmeg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/canceled.jpeg 592w, https:\/\/tvmeg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/canceled-300x152.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 294px) 100vw, 294px\" \/>Another thing that took up a lot of my time was all of the <a href=\"https:\/\/tvmeg.com\/index.php\/interviews\/\">interviews<\/a> I did this past year (particularly in 2021). I&#8217;m always glad to do them, but they do require me to devote a ridiculous amount of time to them. I&#8217;ve done a lot fewer <a href=\"https:\/\/tvmeg.com\/index.php\/primetime\/reviews\/\">TV and DVD reviews<\/a>, in fact, because I simply haven&#8217;t had enough time to watch and write.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve been stretched very thin.<\/p>\n<p>So, enough excuses. This time of year is when the TV networks tell us which shows are returning and which aren&#8217;t; as well as telling us about their Fall schedules and about the new shows they have coming out.\u00a0 It&#8217;s a sad time for TV fans because our favorite TV series invariably are canceled. Everyone thinks, &#8220;My favorite shows always get canceled!&#8221; and that annoys the heck out of me because MOST TV SHOWS GET CANCELED AFTER ONE OR TWO YEARS! It&#8217;s not just your show, and not on just one network. Also, this is not a recent phenomenon. It&#8217;s been happening for<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-12856 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/tvmeg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/networks.jpg\" alt=\"TV networks\" width=\"277\" height=\"156\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tvmeg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/networks.jpg 533w, https:\/\/tvmeg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/networks-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 277px) 100vw, 277px\" \/> at least 50 years.\u00a0 It happens on all TV networks, not just broadcast &#8211; even cable and streaming.<\/p>\n<p>The reason I know this is because I did some research a few years back. I&#8217;m not going to say that it was serious or in-depth research&#8230;.it was just a hurried look at the primetime TV schedules going back to the 1970&#8217;s. <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lists_of_United_States_network_television_schedules\">Wikipedia has all of the schedules<\/a> dating back to the beginning of TV. I went through them, taking notes, and that&#8217;s when I discovered that my theory was true: most TV series get canceled after one or two years. This has been happening a very long time.<\/p>\n<p>For some reason, people think that because something is entertaining &#8211; that&#8217;s its main function. Of course, the main purpose of TV, movies, video games (and to a certain extent, plays and books) is to make money. They may call themselves the entertainment industry, but they&#8217;re in the BUSINESS of entertainment.\u00a0 TV networks make money from their advertising (most broadcast and cable TV, and some streaming), subscriptions (Premium <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-12855 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/tvmeg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/income.png\" alt=\"Income\" width=\"479\" height=\"295\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tvmeg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/income.png 650w, https:\/\/tvmeg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/income-300x185.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 479px) 100vw, 479px\" \/>channels and streaming) or from funding (PBS). Most people know this, somewhere in the back of their minds, but they don&#8217;t really think about it. Their emotions about <em>their<\/em> show override everything else.<\/p>\n<p>If a show gets low ratings, it has to be canceled because the network can&#8217;t convince enough sponsors to buy ads during that show&#8217;s time. If not enough people watch a show on, say, Netflix, then they cancel it because it&#8217;s not worth it to them to keep it going &#8211; they want their content to be popular. They don&#8217;t want people to cancel their subscriptions because they don&#8217;t like their shows. They want more people to sign up for Netflix.\u00a0 It&#8217;s very similar to what happens with broadcast TV &#8212; they just don&#8217;t have ads. All the networks also look at the demographics &#8211; who is watching the shows. They prefer shows that are watched by people in the 18-49 age group because that gr<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-12854 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/tvmeg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/allrise.jpg\" alt=\"cast of canceled show &quot;All Rise&quot; on CBS\" width=\"363\" height=\"184\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tvmeg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/allrise.jpg 592w, https:\/\/tvmeg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/allrise-300x152.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 363px) 100vw, 363px\" \/>oup has the most <a href=\"https:\/\/www.investopedia.com\/terms\/d\/disposableincome.asp\">disposable or discretionary income<\/a> and they&#8217;re not yet settled on which brands they like.\u00a0 Older people have more money, but they&#8217;re not as likely to be swayed by advertising, and they also save more of their money. Younger people don&#8217;t have as much money, since they&#8217;re not in the work force, for the most part.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been trying to tell people these things when I see them complaining on social media &#8211; particularly in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/search\/groups\/?q=TV%20shows\">Facebook groups<\/a>.\u00a0 I get annoyed when I see things like, &#8220;How can they cancel such a good show?&#8221; or &#8220;I think that there must be more to it than ratings,&#8221; or &#8220;Don&#8217;t they know that it&#8217;s popular on HULU?&#8221;\u00a0 Then I have to explain to them how it works, but they really don&#8217;t care, for the most <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-12853 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/tvmeg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/paramount.png\" alt=\"Paramount Plus Network\" width=\"324\" height=\"207\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tvmeg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/paramount.png 470w, https:\/\/tvmeg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/paramount-300x191.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 324px) 100vw, 324px\" \/>part. I don&#8217;t know why it bothers me so! It&#8217;s just my personal pet peeve.<\/p>\n<p>TV Networks <em>do<\/em> look at some <a href=\"https:\/\/people.howstuffworks.com\/culture-traditions\/tv-and-culture\/dvr-viewings-tv-ratings.htm\">DVR<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2017\/digital\/news\/nielsen-digital-tv-ratings-hulu-youtube-1202505553\/\">streaming<\/a> ratings, but the bulk of their money comes from the live broadcast advertising, so that&#8217;s the most important thing. This is why they&#8217;re losing money, too, and having to change their business models.\u00a0 Most people are either watching TV on their DVRs, or watching streaming, or not watching at all.\u00a0 You may have noticed that <a href=\"https:\/\/observer.com\/2018\/03\/netflix-amazon-hulu-hbo-cbs-disney-fox-streaming-wars\/\">every network has their own streaming service<\/a> as well. That&#8217;s because they&#8217;re trying to get more money and stay in business via subscription.\u00a0 NBC\/UNIVERSAL has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.peacocktv.com\">Peacock<\/a>; CBS has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.paramountplus.com\">Paramount+<\/a> (formerly called CBS All Access); ABC has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.disneyplus.com\/home\">Disney+<\/a>; FOX has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hulu.com\">HULU<\/a> (Disney bought FOX, so they now own HULU as well); The CW has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cwseed.com\/\">CWSeed<\/a>; AMC has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amcplus.com\">AMC+<\/a>; HBO and Warner Brothers have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hbomax.com\/\">HBO Max<\/a>. The list goes on.\u00a0 There are too many, though, so we shall see how it all shakes <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-12852 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/tvmeg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/netflix.png\" alt=\"Netflix shows\" width=\"405\" height=\"177\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tvmeg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/netflix.png 687w, https:\/\/tvmeg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/netflix-300x131.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 405px) 100vw, 405px\" \/>out. It should be interesting!<\/p>\n<p>The networks also make some money from the other streaming networks such as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.netflix.com\/browse\">Netflix<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Amazon-Video\/\">Amazon Prime<\/a>, if they make a deal to stream their shows; and from the cable companies; and from syndication and foreign airings. Those are not their primary sources of revenue, however. Sorry, viewers in Canada &#8211; they don&#8217;t care too much if you watch their shows because you&#8217;re not watching their ads.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of which, this week are the <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/feature\/upfront-schedule-broadcast-newfronts-cable-podcasts-1234745416\/\">upfronts<\/a>, which is when the broadcast (and some cable) networks show their new shows and Fall schedules to advertisers and media, hoping that the former will buy air time from them. <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-12860 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/tvmeg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/prodigal-1.jpg\" alt=\"&quot;Prodigal Son&quot; poster\" width=\"162\" height=\"243\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tvmeg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/prodigal-1.jpg 265w, https:\/\/tvmeg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/prodigal-1-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 162px) 100vw, 162px\" \/>It used to be done in person, of course. Like most things this year &#8211; it&#8217;s virtual. I will be attending the FOX upfront next week. I&#8217;m still waiting to get an invitation for the NBC upfront, so my fingers are crossed!<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, getting back to the TV fans&#8230; this month, many fans are down in the dumps about the cancellation of &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox.com\/prodigal-son\/\">Prodigal Son<\/a>&#8221; by FOX. I love that show myself, and I&#8217;m upset about it. However, it did have really low ratings. It was barely brought back from <a href=\"https:\/\/tvseriesfinale.com\/tv-show\/prodigal-son-season-one-ratings\/\">season one<\/a>, and then it did even worse for <a href=\"https:\/\/tvseriesfinale.com\/tv-show\/prodigal-son-season-two-ratings\/\">season two<\/a> (the pandemic probably didn&#8217;t help because it delayed its return). FOX has canceled all of their non-animated shows except for &#8220;Call Me Kat&#8221; so far&#8230;.we&#8217;re still waiting to hear about a few other shows.<\/p>\n<p>A lot of fans tend to blame FOX for canceling their favorite shows, without realizing that FOX puts a lot of <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-12850 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/tvmeg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/firefly.jpeg\" alt=\"&quot;Firefly&quot; series on FOX 2002\" width=\"279\" height=\"157\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tvmeg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/firefly.jpeg 533w, https:\/\/tvmeg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/firefly-300x169.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 279px) 100vw, 279px\" \/>interesting shows on TV that the other networks would never touch. So if not for FOX, we might not have had any episodes of &#8220;Prodigal Son,&#8221; or &#8220;The X-Files,&#8221; &#8220;Firefly,&#8221; &#8220;Fringe,&#8221; &#8220;9-1-1,&#8221; &#8220;The Resident,&#8221; &#8220;The Gifted,&#8221; &#8220;Lucifer,&#8221; &#8220;Glee&#8217; and many other fun shows.\u00a0 As I said above, they don&#8217;t cancel any more shows &#8211; or any sooner &#8211; than any other network. I would also guess that because FOX aired some of the successful groundbreaking scifi\/fantasy shows, it&#8217;s pushed the other networks to have more of these types of shows, which is why we now have &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbs.com\/shows\/evil\/\">EVIL<\/a>&#8221; on CBS, and non-traditional shows like &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbc.com\/manifest\">Manifest<\/a>&#8221; and &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbc.com\/zoeys-extraordinary-playlist\">Zoey&#8217;s Extraordinary Playlist<\/a>&#8221; on NBC.\u00a0 Networks tend to copy each other. I&#8217;ve seen fans blame Syfy or ABC for the exact reason, too. They threaten <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-12861 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/tvmeg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/zoeys.jpg\" alt=\"&quot;Zoey's Extraordinary Playlist&quot; on NBC\" width=\"304\" height=\"165\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tvmeg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/zoeys.jpg 553w, https:\/\/tvmeg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/zoeys-300x163.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 304px) 100vw, 304px\" \/>to boycott. What is the point? It rarely helps anything.\u00a0 They&#8217;re not going to keep your show on if it&#8217;s losing them money.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The problem with people getting so upset over the cancellations is that they stop watching shows that they think <em>might<\/em> get canceled. TV networks (especially broadcast and cable) are already having such a crisis due to the competition from video games, the internet and streaming TV, and people who &#8220;cut the cord,&#8221; that it becomes a vicious cycle of people getting pissed off, the nets losing money, and then people stop watching, or they watch less. I totally understand the angst. It hurts my heart when a show I love goes away. I just don&#8217;t see the point in blaming the people who cancel the shows because their job is not fun.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-12849 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/tvmeg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/expanse.png\" alt=\"&quot;The Expanse&quot; on Prime\" width=\"170\" height=\"252\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tvmeg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/expanse.png 270w, https:\/\/tvmeg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/expanse-203x300.png 203w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 170px) 100vw, 170px\" \/> They don&#8217;t like to fire people, either. It&#8217;s just the nature of their jobs. FOX is not one guy, and the people who canceled &#8220;Firefly&#8221; years ago are not the same people who canceled &#8220;Prodigal Son.&#8221; They just go by the same rules. If it doesn&#8217;t make money, they stop buying\/airing it &#8211; in the same way that companies stop making a product if it doesn&#8217;t sell.<\/p>\n<p>The other problem &#8211; sad to say &#8211; is the internet. People go on Twitter or Facebook and complain about their favorite shows getting canceled, and it sometimes spurs them on to make giant fan campaigns that sometimes even save shows, such as the case of &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/video\/detail\/B07YL9WK1S\/\">The Expanse<\/a>&#8221; getting picked up by Amazon after Syfy canceled it. Unfortunately, this is rare, so instead, people get all riled up, and they start trying to get people to boycott. Or, they just get angrier and angrier, which often leads to fighting amongst themselves. It doesn&#8217;t make anyone feel better, as far as I can tell. It probably does make them more disillusioned with TV, so they watch fewer shows.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-12862 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/tvmeg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/irregulars.jpg\" alt=\"&quot;The Irregulars&quot; on Netflix\" width=\"261\" height=\"177\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tvmeg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/irregulars.jpg 443w, https:\/\/tvmeg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/irregulars-300x203.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 261px) 100vw, 261px\" \/>Now I&#8217;m just waiting to see if NBC cancels those two shows I mentioned before, plus &#8220;Debris,&#8221; or not. I have my fingers crossed!\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/tvline.com\/gallery\/renewal-scorecard-2021-cancellation-list\/\">You can see the list of canceled and renewed shows on this site.<\/a> There are only a few other shows I&#8217;m upset about. Some of them we&#8217;ve known for some time because the networks gave them one last season: &#8220;Black Lighting,&#8221; &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/tvmegasite.net\/prime\/shows\/supergirl\/\">Supergirl<\/a>,&#8221; &#8220;Burden of Truth,&#8221; &#8220;Trickster,&#8221; (all on The CW) and &#8220;Connecting&#8230;&#8221; (on NBC).\u00a0 Also, I&#8217;m very disappointed that Netflix canceled &#8220;The Irregulars,&#8221; which I just recently binged.\u00a0 They didn&#8217;t give that one much of a chance. Sometimes it takes people a little while to get around to watching shows. There&#8217;s a lot out there to watch! I loved that show. It&#8217;s worth watching anyway, though. It&#8217;s a pretty self-contained season. It has an ending, so you can watch it and enjoy it, like a miniseries.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12848 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/tvmeg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/prodigal2.png\" alt=\"Gil and Jessica on &quot;Prodigal Son&quot; season finale\" width=\"217\" height=\"164\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tvmeg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/prodigal2.png 397w, https:\/\/tvmeg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/prodigal2-300x227.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 217px) 100vw, 217px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Prodigal Son&#8221; has their last episode this coming Tuesday, May 18th, and it&#8217;s a doozy. I&#8217;ve already seen it. Make sure you watch it. It&#8217;s great! It has everything we&#8217;ve come to know and love about this show: comedy, drama, tragedy, action, shocking violence, gore, and awkward comments from Edrisa. It has a tiny cliffhanger, but it&#8217;s not the kind where you think, &#8220;Oh, no! I can&#8217;t believe that&#8217;s how they&#8217;ve ended it!&#8221;\u00a0 Even if we don&#8217;t get to see the resolution, we know these characters very well, so we can imagine them getting out of the precarious situation t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-12844 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/tvmeg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/resident.png\" alt=\"&quot;Resident Alien&quot; on Syfy\" width=\"387\" height=\"191\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tvmeg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/resident.png 608w, https:\/\/tvmeg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/resident-300x148.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 387px) 100vw, 387px\" \/>hat they&#8217;re in at the end of the episode (Yes, I&#8217;m being deliberately vague). It&#8217;s not exactly shocking, either. At least, it wasn&#8217;t to me. There was plenty of foreshadowing. I hope that someone does pick it up, though. I just love this show, and I&#8217;ll miss it.<\/p>\n<p>Another show I really loved this year was &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.syfy.com\/resident-alien\">Resident Alien<\/a>&#8221; on Syfy. I hope you got to watc<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-12847 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/tvmeg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/wandavision.jpeg\" alt=\"&quot;WandaVision&quot; poster\" width=\"190\" height=\"311\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tvmeg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/wandavision.jpeg 244w, https:\/\/tvmeg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/wandavision-183x300.jpeg 183w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 190px) 100vw, 190px\" \/>h that one. It&#8217;s coming back for a second year, thank goodness. I was happy to interview some of the cast (<a href=\"https:\/\/tvmeg.com\/index.php\/2021\/02\/21\/tudyk2\/\">Alan Tudyk<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/tvmeg.com\/index.php\/2021\/03\/02\/sheridantomko\/\">Sara Tomko and showrunner Chris Sheridan<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/tvmeg.com\/index.php\/2021\/03\/27\/reynoldstudyk\/\">Tudyk again with Corey Reynolds<\/a>. It&#8217;s such a fun show.<\/p>\n<p>Like most geeks, I was also transfixed this past year by &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.disneyplus.com\/series\/wandavision\/4SrN28ZjDLwH\">Wanda\/Vision<\/a>,&#8221; &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.disneyplus.com\/series\/the-falcon-and-the-winter-soldier\/4gglDBMx8icA\">The Falcon and Winter Soldier<\/a>&#8221; and &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.disneyplus.com\/series\/the-mandalorian\/3jLIGMDYINqD\">The Mandalorian<\/a>&#8221; on Disney+;\u00a0 and &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/The-Boys-Season-1\/dp\/B0875THX53\">The Boys<\/a>&#8221; and &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Invincible-Season-1-Official-Trailer\/dp\/B08WJP55PR\/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&amp;keywords=Invincible&amp;qid=1621158168&amp;s=instant-video&amp;sr=1-1\">Invincible<\/a>&#8221; on Amazon Prime &#8211; all excellent shows!\u00a0 Speaking of which, I just heard about this useful service, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vidangel.com\/\">VidAngel<\/a>, that helps you keep four-letter words, violence or other things you don&#8217;t like out of your shows and movies. I sure <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-12846 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/tvmeg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/daysofourlives.png\" alt=\"&quot;Days of Our Lives&quot; on NBC\" width=\"246\" height=\"163\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tvmeg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/daysofourlives.png 454w, https:\/\/tvmeg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/daysofourlives-300x198.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 246px) 100vw, 246px\" \/>wish I had found this before I watched &#8220;The Boys&#8221; and some other shows!<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m still watching &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/tvmegasite.net\/day\/days\/\">Days of Our Lives<\/a>,&#8221; but sometimes it&#8217;s a little too boring and predictable. Their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbc.com\/days-of-our-lives\/video\/thursday-april-1-2021\/4334735\">April Fool&#8217;s Day episode<\/a> was a real hoot, though. They made fun of their show so well. I&#8217;m looking forward to the return of Ciara (Victoria Konefal). <a href=\"https:\/\/tvmeg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/sodarticle.png\">I had this letter published in Soap Opera Digest<\/a>, complaining <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-12845 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/tvmeg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/mandoluke.png\" alt=\"Luke Skywalker and Grogu from &quot;The Mandalorian&quot; on Disney+\" width=\"262\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tvmeg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/mandoluke.png 468w, https:\/\/tvmeg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/mandoluke-300x192.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 262px) 100vw, 262px\" \/>about the lack of romance in the show! I hope they can improve that.<\/p>\n<p>Which show are you missing? What are you watching now? Let us know in the comments!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tvmeg.com\/index.php\/sample-page\/articles\/\">Here are all of our Articles!<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"ccbnTxt\"> Proofread and Edited by <a href=\"http:\/\/tvmegasite.net\/bios\/brenda-bio.shtml\">Brenda<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><i>The opinions in these articles are those of the writer and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of The TV MegaSite or its other volunteers<\/i><\/p>\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- TVMEGBODY -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1056557952271337\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"8801203268\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blog Post #212 I know it&#8217;s been awhile since I last posted the blog&#8230; no excuses this time! OK&#8230;well, there was this little thing called the pandemic, so that sure didn&#8217;t help. I&#8217;m not the type to get depressed, normally. I&#8217;m very optimistic. Even if I get sad or angry, it doesn&#8217;t last very long. 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