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Is a Jeopardy champion flashing white power symbols? Were the Oscars insufferable this year? Does The Duchess actually exist? It's a weird week for TV news. And for reviews, I watched the first episode of HBO Max's tragically bad (and mean as hell) new reality competition series starring Bethenny Frankel, The Big Shot with Bethenny, so that you don't have to. It's also premiere week for the long-awaited Drag Race Down Under, and it's a camp ol' time. And then you get to hear my Philly/DelCo accent, which is spot-on and not-at-all ridiculous, when I recommend Mare of Easttown.

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Caitlyn Jenner is running for Governor of California, and no one asked for this. Other news this week: How I Met Your Mother gets a spin-off starring Hilary Duff and Below Deck gets two new franchise extensions. I'm also recapping the season finales of The Real Housewives of Atlanta and RuPaul's Drag Race (I have a lot of feelings, so this episode is long), and my recommendation for the week is a new Freeform 90s teen mystery drama that isn't as absurd or annoying as Pretty Little Liars, I promise.

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This episode is brought to you by two pots of coffee and blind rage. I start off the news segment this week by ripping Carole Radziwill and her casual homophobia surrounding the coming-out of The Bachelor's Colton Underwood to shreds. I got heated, folks. And then, because Carole got me going, I decided that I would not be participating in straight culture for this episode, so I bring you recaps of two shows that feature queer characters (The CW's Kung Fu and Younger, late of TV Land and currently airing on Hulu and Paramount+) and a recommendation for a gay-as-hell series on Netflix that will be returning for its second season in May: Special, written by and starring the amazingly funny Ryan O'Connell.

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There's even more Drag Race headed our way very soon as Drag Race Down Under announces a premiere date! Also, MacGyver gets canned and Tyler Perry's Madea is set to take over TV after conquering film and stage over the past several decades. For recaps, I get into the new season of Top Chef, which is set in Portland and features approximately 313875 contestants, and Amazon Prime's new horror anthology series Them, which is getting some mixed feedback but which I find absolutely fascinating and completely terrifying. And if that's not enough horror for you, my recommendation for the week should do the trick.

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The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City star Jen Shah has been ARRESTED on federal fraud charges, and we never saw it coming. But the cameras might have, because it apparently happened during filming of season two, which gives us all something to look forward to. For recaps, I dive in (bad pun intended) to the latest episode of Below Deck: Sailing Yacht, featuring the most atrocious charter guests of all time, and the return of Christopher Meloni to Law & Order: SVU and the pilot of his new spin-off, Law & Order: Organized Crime. It's been a long time since the OG zaddy Elliot Stabler has graced our screens, but is it a welcome return?

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We lost two TV icons this week in George Segal (The Goldbergs, Just Shoot Me) and Jessica Walter (Arrested Development, Archer, Dinosaurs, Amy Prentiss), and Sharon Osbourne lost her job! This week's recaps include the stellar midseason entry of Batwoman, "Survived Much Worse," and the premiere of the Disney Plus sequel/reboot series The Mighty Ducks: Game Changers, starring Lauren Graham and Emilio Estevez reprising his role from the films as Gordon Bombay. I have feelings about it.

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This week is full of contentious topics: Paris Hilton, Sharon Osbourne being a racist POS, and the finale of RuPaul's Drag Race UK crowning a winner that, while deserving, was not the fan favorite (or the frontrunner, statistically speaking). Plus HBO Max has released the first five episodes of its teen dramedy Generation (or Genera+ion, as it's stupidly stylized), and it's a friggin' MESS, y'all. So there's a lot to complain about this week. Strap yourselves in!

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The Golden Globes happened! And they were a problematic mess. Can they be fixed? Should they? I don't know, but I talk about it anyway. As for recaps, I watched the pilot of NBC's new alien space-trash drama Debris, and then I rant for 15 minutes about how Married at First Sight is the strangest show on television featuring the worst reality TV figure ever at its core this season (Chris, you are evil). And hey, did you get Paramount Plus when it launched last week? Because I did, and it's not great; so my recommendation is a free alternative service owned by the same folks.

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In January of 2020, The New York Times reported that complaining is good for you. I hope that's true, because there's a lot to complain about this week with the announcement of what shows are making their way to Paramount Plus and how much it'll cost you to partake in them, from the revival of Frasier to the sixth season of RuPaul's Drag Race: All Stars. For the week's recaps, I talk about why the CW's pilot of Superman & Lois didn't work for me (see: this episode's title) and what the Floribama Shore gang is up to for season four. Finally, my recommendation is It's a Sin on HBO Max, which leads me on a tirade about why we need to tell more queer stories.

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