by Damian Holbrook
Cheers to The Masked Singer
for being in tune with what we sometimes need. With so many gritty dramas and negative real-life news cycles, it’s nice to have a shiny, silly piece of musical brain candy like Fox’s costumed karaoke show as an escape.
Jeers to Chicago Med
for misdiagnosing Connor Rhodes. Instead of writing off Colin Donnell’s character, the NBC drama’s writers should have examined why the doc (pictured) fell for two mentally
ill women–first, Robin (Mekia Cox) and then Ava (Norma Kuhling), the colleague who killed his dad and then herself.
Jeers to American Horror Story: 1984
for putting the “ear” in fear. Even though FX’s campy, slasher flick–inspired season has so far been the most entertaining AHS since Coven, all of those lingering close-ups of the killer slicing off his victims’ ears turn our stomachs.
Cheers to A Million Little Things
for a priceless casting call. Bringing back Melora Hardin (The Bold Type) as Maggie’s
newly single mom on the ABC drama is a two-for-one treat. Not only is Hardin (pictured) a tremendously underrated actress, but she looks so much like onscreen daughter Allison Miller, we’ve already made about a million double takes.