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From Netflix to documentaries to reality TV, we round up our top 10 shows to watch this week
There are myriad food trends we’d love to forget about: smoothie bowls, avocado ?toast creations and cauliflower masquerading as everything but a cauliflower, to name just a few. But Food Network Star, the competition show that for years has worked tirelessly to find the next culinary superstar and subsequently launch his or her career? Now that’s a trend we can get—and stay—behind. That’s why we’re tickled pink that the three-part spinoff series is back for a second installment this week, running until June 4.
Much like the first season of the series, the show welcomes back seven former contestants who might have been fan favourites in the past, but nevertheless didn’t quite have what it took to become the next sandwich king or Guy Fieri. With a little hindsight and time to improve their skills, however, they might just be up for it this time around. So with sharp knives and enough chutzpah to fill a matzo ball soup, they re-enter the kitchen this week in front of judges Tyler Florence and Valerie Bertinelli to prove they have what it takes. In the first challenge they’ll all be asked to redeem themselves first by redoing a dish that has haunted them since the first time they stepped into the competition. Then, they’ll be asked to prove they’ve got the camera know-how too when they each tape a one-minute snippet explaining to the cameras how they’ve sharpened their culinary skills since we last saw them. It’s high stakes for sure, as only one of these seven contestants can move on and reclaim a spot in the brand new season of Food Network Star, which is scheduled to premiere on the channel Sunday, June 4.
Imagine a U.S. president whose ambition far outstrips his humanity, who’s committed heinous, horrible acts in his all-consuming pursuit of ultimate power, who believes he and only he knows what’s right for the American people even as they take to the streets to protest his very existence. Not only are we watching that scenario play out pretty much every day on cable news, but it’s also where we find Frank Underwood (Kevin Spacey) in the fifth season of House of Cards.
We’ve seen the former Democratic Whip in the House of Representatives—with the help of his equally ambitious wife Claire (Robin Wright)—scheme, manoeuvre and even murder his way into the White House, yet now that he’s actually achieved the power he’s coveted, he must fight tooth and nail to hold onto it.
The American people don’t know what’s best for them. I do, says Frank via voiceover in a trailer for the upcoming season.
I know exactly what they need. They’re like little children, Claire, he says patronizingly. We have to hold their sticky fingers and wipe their filthy mouths. Teach them right from wrong. Tell them what to think and how to feel and what to want. They even need help writing their wildest dreams and crafting their deepest fears. Lucky for them… they have me.
As Frank looks to the future, with dreams of extending their presidential dynasty to 2020, 2024 and beyond, he delivers the kicker: One nation… Underwood.
Meanwhile, the new season will be the first without original showrunner Beau Willimon, with the show’s senior writers Frank Pugliese and Melissa James Gibson stepping in to replace him.
How will this behind-the-scenes change affect the show? We’ll find out when season five debuts on Tuesday.
The tumultuous fifth season reaches a crescendo, as Elizabeth and Philip must work together in order to save a life and Stan faces an uncertain future in the wake of all he’s been through the past few years. With only one more season to go, you can bet everything is on the line.
What’s old continues to be new again in this TV landscape, and tonight another experiment in nostalgia comes to an end, as Poseidon takes aim at Michael, Linc and their crew. The network has flat-out confirmed someone is going to die, but not to worry: no one stays dead for long on Prison Break.
After surviving a nasty bout of epiglottitis that left her hospitalized for a month, the inimitable Ms. Silverman takes to the stage to wax comedic on her recovery, her family, laser hair removal and getting a new dog.
In 2015, Netflix delivered six ?episodes of F Is for Family, a very? funny, very raunchy animated series co-created by comedian Bill Burr and veteran TV writer Michael Price (The Simpsons). It’s been far too long of? a wait for the further adventures of Frank and Sarah Murphy and their kids Kevin, Maureen and Bill, but they’re finally back, and this time it’s for 10 episodes.
Season two picks up about two weeks after we last saw Frank and his family. It takes place over the course of about a month and a half, and as executive producer/co-creator Price tells TV Week, there’s a definite plot arc over the course of the 10 episodes. More than one, in fact. It’s mostly about dealing with the aftermath of season one and the effect that it has on Frank as a man, as a breadwinner and as the man of the family, now that he’s out of a job, says Price. But it also forces Sue ?to step up in a way that she hasn’t before, in terms of the financial side of the family, and without giving too much away, she steps up and starts going into the workforce for real.
There are also some transitions in the works for the kids, most notably with Kevin, who’s tired of sharing ?his room with Bill and wants a place to hang out with his buddies, play music and whatnot. Overall though, it’s Frank’s situation that informs the season as a whole. But fear not: with this series, the F is definitely still for funny.
It’s hard to believe that this culinary competition has been on for seven full seasons in the States and is gearing up this? week to unroll its eighth. (That’s longer than most restaurants are open.) But returning judge Gordon Ramsay is kind of known ?for being a long-lasting and impactful TV show host, and his skills here have definitely translated. That’s probably why he’s the only one of the original three judges left standing as the show returns this week. Christina Tosi, who joined the series in its sixth season to replace the sneaker-wearing, surly faced Joe Bastianich, is back for another round alongside Ramsay, but this time the duo will be joined by former Food Network host Aarón Sánchez. The personality is the first permanent judge to join the series since Graham Elliot left at the end of season six, and marks a return to the original format after the show featured a rotating panel of guest judges last year. In the premiere, this new trio meets 40 hungry chefs from across America, who are all vying for one of those coveted white aprons and eventually, the title of MasterChef.
Typically, when shows are cancelled and then brought back to life on another network (like this country drama was) they need to bring out the big guns in order to hook audiences back in. We’d say this show definitely? did that in the first half of its fifth season thanks to the shocking and completely under wraps death of one Rayna James (Connie Britton). In terms of shows that have killed off their leading characters, this one will forever go down as one of the craziest.
But now that everyone has ?had time to settle and distance themselves from that unforeseeable tragedy, it’s time to pick the show back up with this week’s summer premiere. In it we’ll see how Deacon and the girls are managing without Rayna, and how her loss has affected them as a family now that some time has passed. As Maddie continues trying to navigate her tumultuous career in the spotlight, she’ll face pressure unlike anything ever before.
Meanwhile, everyone is wondering whether Deacon can stay on the straight and narrow in the face of tragedy, or if he’ll fall back into his old ways. As for Scarlett, who stepped in as the family’s matriarchal figure in order to help everyone through their grief? Well, as we saw in the midseason finale, she has bigger things to worry about now, namely her own unborn child and who the baby daddy might be. (We all want? it to be Gunner, right?) That brings ?us to Juliette, who in the wake of everything else she’s been through, is still forging full speed ahead on her gospel album… the way that only Juliette Barnes can.
Pairing up two complete strangers has been one of the more enjoyable format tweaks in recent memory for this long-running reality hit… so much so that we’re actually kind up bummed that season 29 is reaching the finish line this week.
As a 30-minute program, Flaked is automatically labelled a comedy when, in fact, it’s far more of a drama. What else would you call a program about a (not-so-) recovering alcoholic who’s lost his way, lost a lot of his friends, even lost his business and can’t seem to catch a break no matter how hard he tries?
Seriously, we’re talking about a guy who’s got no place to live and, on top ?of that, just had his only mode of transportation—his bike—stolen. Granted, Chip—played by Will Arnett—is the architect of his own sorrows, having sold out all of his friends, but it’s still a pretty pitiable state of affairs. Not to say the show’s entirely devoid of chuckles (most of them falling into the cringe-comedy category), but a laugh riot it is not. And now, the one bright spot in Chip’s life—his girlfriend, London (Ruth Kearney)—is starting to look elsewhere for satisfaction.
This second season ?is only six episodes long (compared to season one’s eight), so it won’t take you long to binge. And let’s hope there’s some semblance of a light at the end of the tunnel in store for Chip even if it’s just finding a new bike.
