CBS apparently announced its fall schedule early. I thought they usually waited until the end of May to do their press tour thing at the upfronts. Are all the networks going to do this early? I'm sad for the cancellation of So Help Me Todd, but it was uneven at times. I liked the light comedy/mystery, but I didn't care for the corporate intrigue at the law firm. Now CBS is all excited about their new Elsbeth, which is a quirky mystery show sort of like Columbo and sort of like Peacock's Poker Face. It's okay, but I don't care for the police corruption storyline.
Meanwhile I'm starting to sour on the US Ghosts. This past season has been so disappointing, ever since they copped out of Flower disappearing, made Carol die, and became predictable. After all that buildup, I hated the botched wedding. Other CBS sitcoms like Bob Hearts Abishola and The Neighborhood have been bafflingly wrongheaded too. They have totally lost their way and would rather write people selling their family businesses and betraying their core principles. It was particularly disgusting for Douglas to say "most CEOs get prison; you get rich." Excuse me?!! When has any CEO gone to prison? All I ever see are CEOs getting golden parachutes after dismembering a company and ruining their employees' lives. I wish some CEOs went to prison; then there might be justice in the world. Fuck whichever writer wrote that line for Douglas. Has the Boeing CEO been fired yet, let alone been arrested? Seriously, fuck you.
Plus they ignored Abishola's medical school acceptance all season, only to shove it into the time-jump finale where she's already a doctor. So they just skip the question of whether she was going to move from Detroit and/or if Bob would join her. Instead of addressing the major issues during the season, they just gloss over it and then do wacko things like Kemi's food truck for their "happy ending." What a cop-out. They wasted the whole final season. Good riddance.
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