Benjamonster's TV

Welcome to my Monday newsletter! This week, I am making my Tony Award predictions, looking at the finale of Imperfect Women and the most recent episodes of Hacks and Margo's Got Money Troubles . Also, I am counting down my Top 5 Shows Starting with L and taking a look at the Emmy race for Lead Actor and Actress in a Comedy Series! WHAT'S NEW TONY NOMINATION PREDICTIONS I didn't have anything new to review this week (I sampled Widow's Bay and thought there were some interesting things but it wasn't for me) so I'll use this space to give my Tony Award nomination predictions. The nominations are announced tomorrow morning and it's a light year for musicals but a stacked year for plays. Here are my predictions for the major categories: Best Musical: The Lost Boys, Schmigadoon!, Titanique, Two Strangers (Carry a Cake Across New York) Best Revival of a Musical: Cats: The Jellicle Ball, Ragtime, The Rocky Horror Show Best Play: The Balusters, The Fear of 13, Giant,...

Welcome to my Monday newsletter! This week, I am looking at Margo's Got Money Troubles , the season finale of The Pitt and the latest episode of Hacks . Plus my Top 5 Shows Starting with K and a look at the Lead Actor and Actress in a Drama Series races at the Emmys. The newsletter will be taking a one week break next week. It will be back on Monday, May 4! WHAT'S NEW MARGO'S GOT MONEY TROUBLES Apple TV's new dramedy kicked off this week with pretty solid reviews and I'm here to add to the chorus of voices saying this is a charming and fun show. Although I was excited about the cast, I wasn't totally sure about the premise which basically read as a "a young mom turns to Only Fans to make money." That is really underselling what this show is. The Only Fans story got a lot of attention (especially in conjunction with a similar story on Euphoria ) but in Margo's , she doesn't even get her first "fan" until the very end of the third episo...

Welcome to my Monday newsletter! This week is a busy one. I am looking at the newest season of Euphoria and Hacks , the new comedy Big Mistakes , the season finales of Shrinking, American Classic, St. Denis Medical and Memory of a Killer  and the latest episode of The Fall and Rise of Reggie Dinkins . Plus my Top 10 Shows starting with J and a look at the Emmy race in the Lead Actor and Actress in a Limited Series categories. WHAT'S NEW EUPHORIA Season 3 Oh Euphoria . My experience with this show feels like a lifetime ago. I watched the first season, which aired in 2019, during the COVID shutdown in Spring 2020. I was fascinated by the visual style of it even if the story didn't work all the time for me. Then I absolutely adored the one-off special with Zendaya and Colman Domingo around Christmas 2020 as we waited for Season 2 (it was my #1 Episode of 2020). I watched the second season as it aired back in 2022 and enjoyed it but still found it to be a mess a lot of the time. An...

Welcome to my Monday newsletter! This week I am looking at the second season of Your Friends & Neighbors , the season finales of Jury Duty Presents: Company Retreat and Paradise and the latest episodes of Shrinking and The Pitt . Plus, I am counting down my Top 10 shows starting with I and taking a look at the Emmy races in the Comedy Supporting categories. WHAT'S NEW YOUR FRIENDS & NEIGHBORS Season 2 The Jon Hamm dramedy Your Friends & Neighbors is back for a second season. I was lukewarm at best on the first season. I like Hamm in pretty much anything he is in, but the show ultimately left me a little cold despite the promising premise. It did just enough to make me want to check out the second season premiere and I ended the premiere feeling mostly the same but not quite ready to give up on the show. The main reason is now they've added James Marsden to the mix and I'm often high on both Hamm and Marsden and I like the idea of them sort of coming to blows if ...

Welcome to my Monday newsletter! This week, I am looking at the fifth season of For All Mankind , the finale of Love Story and the latest episodes of The Pitt and Rooster . Plus, I am counting down my Top 10 Shows starting with H and looking at the Emmy Awards race for Supporting Actor and Actress in a Drama Series. WHAT'S NEW FOR ALL MANKIND Season 5 I've had a very up and down relationship over the years with  For All Mankind , a show that has been on the air since the day Apple TV launched back in 2019. I thought the first season was technically impressive but ultimately somewhat boring. Then Season 2 was brilliant, one of the strongest second season jumps in recent memory in terms of quality. I was super stoked for Season 3, but it ended up being a bit of a step down from the second season though I still thought it was quite solid and ended in a really exciting place. But then the wheels came off for me in Season 4, which finished up way back in January 2024. So I approache...