Honoring a Fallen ‘9-1-1’ Hero, Seeing ‘Ghosts,’ Revisiting ‘4 Seasons,’ a ‘Easy Favor’ Sequel

9-1-1

4-hanky alert: The fan base of this long-running first-responder drama continues to be in shock — and mourning — over the surprising dying of the 118 crew’s chief, Bobby Nash (Peter Krause), in the newest episode. They, and by extension we, get to vent their grief and respect for the fallen hero because the sequence levels a public memorial. His widow, Athena (Angela Bassett), pours her feelings right into a case involving the dying of a kid and bringing closure to a distraught mom.

Ghosts

Seems Sam (Rose McIver) isn’t the one one who can see lifeless folks. In a intelligent outing for the favored comedy, we meet Kyle (Superstore‘s charming Ben Feldman), a drifter who shares Sam’s reward, or presumably curse, when Pete (Richie Moriarty) encounters him throughout one in every of his roamings. Sam is thrilled to have another person becoming a member of the dialog, however Jay (Utkarsh Ambudkar) feels much more ignored than standard. Elsewhere in spirit world, 500-year-old virgin Sassapis (Román Zaragoza) and Joan (Taylor Ortega) think about taking their screwball romance to the following stage.

The 4 Seasons

Spring, summer time, fall, and winter — for this group of longtime buddies, first performed by the likes of Alan Alda and Carol Burnett in a 1981 movie, there’s no dangerous time to get collectively for a vacation, even when nerves and relationships fray. Tina Fey, working with fellow 30 Rock alums Lang Fisher and Tracey Wigfield, adapts Alda’s hit movie right into a bittersweet eight-part comedy. Fey stars alongside fellow Saturday Evening Dwell grad Will Forte, with Steve Carell, Colman Domingo, and Kerri Kenney-Silver additionally a part of the good friend group, which suffers an upheaval when one of many {couples} splits up. Erika Henningsen (at the moment taking part in Sandra Dee in Broadway’s Simply in Time) costars as Ginny, who joins the gang as a chipper new girlfriend attempting to slot in, simply one in every of many problems over an eventful 12 months.

One other Easy Favor

Blake Full of life reunites with Anna Kendrick in director Paul Feig‘s sequel to the hit 2018 mystery-comedy. Emily (Full of life), contemporary out of jail seven years later, is as glamorous and enigmatic as ever when she invitations her true-crime vlogger frenemy Stephanie (Kendrick) to be her maid of honor at a lavish marriage ceremony in gorgeous Capri, Italy to a good-looking businessman (Michele Morrone). Is that this an act of reconciliation or one thing extra sinister? Appears the latter when the ceremony takes a murderous twist.

100 Foot Wave

The Emmy-winning (for cinematography) browsing docuseries returns for a 3rd season, as soon as once more hanging 10 on the enormous swells of Nazaré in Portugal, the place veteran surfer Garrett McNamara as soon as set an enormous wave world report in 2011. As Garrett assesses his well being, he hopes to get again in peak type earlier than passing the torch to the following era. However risks lurk as big-wave groupies converge on the excessive cliffs, pushing their bodily and psychological limits.

Hacks

With opening night time behind them, TV’s new late-night star Deborah Vance (Jean Sensible) will get a lesson in viewers demographics within the sensible show-biz comedy. Homosexual dads underneath 50 love her, ladies 25-54 not a lot. What to do? Deborah’s about to get a tough lesson in visitor reserving (courtesy of an impressed Jimmy Kimmel cameo), and will a corny “Dance Mother” (Julianne Nicholson) from Canada be the reply?

INSIDE THURSDAY TV:

• Georgie & Mandy’s First Marriage (8/7c, CBS): The household dynamic is strained when Jim (Will Sasso) begins inserting and shedding bets with Meemaw (Annie Potts).
• Regulation & Order (8/7c, NBC): The execution-style homicide of a mechanic leads the detectives to conclude the sufferer did greater than repair automobiles. Adopted by Regulation & Order: Particular Victims Unit (9/8c), with the seek for a younger lady who was within the backseat of a stolen automobile.
• Physician Odyssey (9/8c, ABC): It’s double bother when the ship double-books two very completely different ebook excursions: one for conventional mothers, one for sex-positive teams. Adopted by Gray’s Anatomy (10/9c), the place Amelia (Caterina Scorsone) performs a dangerous mind surgical procedure on a younger affected person, whereas her ex, Hyperlink (Chris Carmack) and Jo (Camilla Luddington) conflict over marriage ceremony preparations.
• Elsbeth (9/8c, CBS): Billy Magnussen (Black Mirror) friends as a spoiled playboy who Elsbeth (Carrie Preston) suspects has added homicide to his must-do record.
• Lifelines of Hope (9/8c, The CW): An inspirational particular options celebrities together with Dolly Parton, Billy Crystal, Billie Eilish, Jennifer Garner, Samuel L. Jackson, Bob Odenkirk, and Luke Combs in tales of bravery and group spirit.
• Genghis Khan: The Secret Historical past of the Mongols (9/8c, Nationwide Geographic): A six-episode historic docuseries (two episodes weekly) profiles the legendary warrior and conqueror.
• Discovered (10/9c, NBC): Margaret (Kelli Williams) leads the hunt for a lacking lady with Down Syndrome, whereas Dhan (Karan Oberoi) makes progress in determining Jamie’s (Parker Queenan) id.

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