These are my favorite quotes from the past week, mostly from shows currently on the air, but also other random things I happen to be watching.
Black Sails Silver: If it makes you feel any better, I haven’t considered killing you in months.
Victoria Victoria: I have decided to go to Windsor. Lord M: On a Wednesday? Victoria: Yes. You know how fond I am of trees.
Albert: For me, this is not a marriage of convenience. Victoria: No. I think it will be a marriage of inconvenience. But I have no choice. Albert: Neither do I.
The Royals
Jasper: Maybe that’s what you need to see. She’s moving on, you can move on and never look back. Liam: You give some shit advice sometimes, you know that? “She’s moving on”?… Eleanor had a date today.
Jasper: What? With who? Liam: Just some naked prince. You tell me. That help you?
Jasper: No, you’re right. That was shit advice. It just actually made it so much worse.
Supergirl Mon-El: I thought James was a professionally handsome desk person.
Livewire: You know what I love? Little boys who think they can do a better job than the woman who’s an *actual* superhero.
These are my favorite quotes from the past week, mostly from shows currently on the air, but also other random things I happen to be watching.
Victoria
Queen Victoria: I would like my reign to be a merciful one.
The Royals Eleanor: We have to trust somebody sometime, right?
Supergirl Winn: I’m not the red shirt! I’m not the red shirt! You! You’re the red shirt!
Timeless Wyatt: Why is everyone looking at us like they want to kill us? Bass Reeves: Because the two of us are black, and one’s Indian. Rufus: Huh. So, it’s like the scary version of Blazing Saddles.
Bass Reeves: Who the hell ever said “easy” and “right” were the same thing?
The West Wing President Bartlet: The only thing you ever had to do to make me happy is come home at the end of the day.
The Flash Barry: See, I’m livin’ with somebody now, so I can’t have criminals constantly interrupting our alone time.
H.R.: I think that a man often meets his destiny on the very road he takes to avoid it.
Earlier in the week, I posted my list of the returning shows I am excited about, so here are some new shows to check out.
1. One Day at a Time, the first season was released today, January 6th, on Netflix, stars Justina Machado, Rita Moreno, Isabella Gomez, Marcel Ruiz, Todd Grinnell, and Stephen Tobolowsky. A newly single Latina mother struggles to raise her teenage children with the help of her mother. It is a re-imagining of the 70s show of the same name, from Executive Producer Norman Lear. I have heard great things about this series and have already watched the first episode, which was really funny but also had a lot of heart. Once I finish writing this post, I plan to watch the rest of the episodes.
2. Taboo, premieres January 10th on FX Networks, stars Tom Hardy, Jessie Buckley, Oona Chaplin, David Hayman, Jonathan Pryce, Franka Potente, Jason Watkins, Jefferson Hall, Ed Hogg, Michael Kelly, Mark Gatiss, Nicholas Woodeson, Stephen Graham, and Tom Hollander. Set in 1814, Taboo follows James Keziah Delaney, a man who was believed to be long dead, but he returns home to London from Africa to inherit what is left of his father’s shipping empire and rebuild a life for himself. His father’s legacy has been ruined, and James must protect himself from enemies while discovering his family’s dark secrets. Even after reading that description, I do not really know what the show is about, but it stars Tom Hardy, so I am in.
3. Victoria, premieres January 15th on PBS, stars Jenna Coleman, Tom Hughes, Nell Hudson, Peter Bowles, Catherine Flemming, Daniela Holtz, Ferdinand Kingsley, Tommy Knight, Nigel Lindsay, Eve Myles, David Oakes, Adrian Schiller, Peter Firth, Alex Jennings, and Rufus Sewell. This series is a look at the early life of Britain’s Queen Victoria, from her accession to the throne at eighteen through to her marriage to Prince Albert. I loved the movie The Young Victoria with Emily Blunt, so I am not sure how I will feel about Jenna Coleman in the role, but I will give it a try. As I have said before, and will surely say again, I just find the history of the British monarchy fascinating, and will pretty much watch anything involving them.
4. SIX, premieres on History, stars Walton Goggins, Barry Sloane, Kyle Schmid, Juan Pablo Raba, Edwin Hodge, Dominic Adams, Brianne Davis, Nadine Velazquez, Jaylen Moore, Donny Boaz, and Nondumiso Tembe. This series is inspired by the real missions of Navy SEAL Team Six. Each season will be about a different mission, with the first season focusing on a 2014 mission to eliminate a Taliban leader in Afghanistan that goes awry when they uncover a U.S. citizen working with the terrorists. This was originally supposed to be released last summer, but it got delayed. I wrote about it then, and am still really excited about it. The cast is awesome, and I hope it will be a fantastic series.
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