[This Week In TV] Glee, Community, iZombie
This Week in TV is a weekly feature reviewing the best, worst and most interesting episodes of television from the past seven days. The plan is to cover a wide variety of shows, but not always the same ones each week, so let us know in the comments which ones you’d particularly like to read about. This week sees Glee give its farewell performance, Community make another miraculous resurrection, and iZombie premiere on the CW.
[American Idol-izer] Top 10 Perform
Ah, Movie Week. It's American Idol at its corniest. While I wish the show would do away with theme weeks altogether for the sake of staying current (next week is 80's Week, so that's not happening anytime soon), sometimes we do get some startlingly great performances. This week was not one of those times. A week full of out of tune performances (I must be sounding like a broken record at this point), surprising voter turnouts, Kenny Loggins, Jennifer Lopez promoting her single for Dreamworks' Home with a laser light show dress, and two weeks in and the judges have already used their magical save.
I mean, really? Two weeks? This has happened once before with Casey Abrams back in Season 10, but that was a totally deserving choice. Here? I just can't accept it especially after seeing the hokiest, toneless performance I'd seen this season.
But first, here's everybody else.
[The Weekly Swarm] 3/9 - 3/15
Last week served as our send-off to SXSW as Virgil and I are in Austin covering SXSW 2015 right now. While our SXSW content will be trickling out over the next week or so, revisit last week's content. Some highlights include Oswald's editorial on why there's a lack of Latino representation in Hollywood, reviews of R100, It Follows, Champs, and Sheppard's new album, Bombs Away, the trailer for the Netflix-exclusive Daredevil series, and more!
Why Is There a Lack of Latino Representation in Hollywood?
[SXSW 2015] Are You Ready for SXSW?
Why Is There a Lack of Latino Representation in Hollywood?
Sony Announces Another Ghostbusters Sequel
[Review] R100
[Review] It Follows
[Weekly Netflix Fix] Archer, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, and More
[Interview] Bert Marcus (Champs)
[SXSW 2015] Are You Ready for SXSW?
[Review] Champs
The Top 15 Glee Covers
[American Idol-izer] Top 12 (and 11) Perform
[SXSW 2015] Are You Ready for SXSW?
20 Artists You Need To Know: Summer Festival Edition
[Review] Sheppard: "Bombs Away"
[Trailer] Marvel's Daredevil
The Top 15 Glee Covers
[Weekly Netflix Fix] Archer, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, and More
[American Idol-izer] Top 12 (and 11) Perform
[This Week In TV] Better Call Saul, The 100, Bates Motel
This Week In TV: Better Call Saul, The 100, Bates Motel
This Week in TV is a weekly feature reviewing the best, worst and most interesting episodes of television from the past seven days. The plan is to cover a wide variety of shows, but not always the same ones each week, so let us know in the comments which ones you’d particularly like to read about. This week sees Better Call Saul reveal the tragic history of one of its most beloved characters, the second season of The 100 come to a stunningly bleak conclusion, and Norman Bates being promoted to manager of the Bates Motel.
Are You Ready for SXSW 2015?
For the next 10 days, we'll be bringing you all types of coverage from this year's South by Southwest (SXSW 2015) ranging from reviews from upcoming films, interviews with actors, filmmakers, musicians, tech people, to photos of your favorite artists via the #RHSX15 tag! We'll also be doing exclusive social media coverage on all of our platforms (Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook) featuring our favorite moments in Austin, TX as they happen with the special #SXSecs tag! Who knows who we may run into this year.
[American Idol-izer] Top 12 (and 11) Perform
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American Idol is going through a weird scheduling flux this season (But Empire deserves all of the schedule space it gets). With two cuts in the same week, from the Top 16 to 12 and 12 to 11, the competition was a bit tougher. And once again the strict hour run time forced a bunch of contestants on stage before they were able to compose themselves and led to a bunch of wonky vocals. Thankfully, we won't be talking about those here.
We got the Top 12 on Wednesday, and contestants who made it through only had about 24 hours to celebrate as the field was narrowed down to 11 last night (during a welcome two hour block). A super weird night of new multi camera interviews, a bunch of Empire hype (and a performance of its "No Apologies" theme), red and green light up chairs, and also my boy Quentin is in trouble you guys.
Here are the Top 12 contestants:
Boys: Daniel Seavey, Rayvon Owen, Qaasim Middleton, Nick Fradiani, Clark Beckham and (Wild Card) Quentin Alexander
Girls: Sarina-Joi Crowe, Maddie Walker, Jax, Joey Cook, Tyanna Jones, and (Wild Card) Adanna Duru.
But, only 11 contestants made it to next week.
[Weekly Netflix Fix] Archer, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, and More
This week's list of new Netflix Instant additions is upon us! The two biggest additions to Netflix Instant are Aziz Ansari Live at Madison Square Garden and the Tina Fey-created, Netflix-exclusive show, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt. If you need some convincing on whether or not to watch the Ellie Kemper-starring show, perhaps Xander's write-up on the show may help sway you? Other highlights include How to Train Your Dragon 2 and Archer: Season 5.
Check out the full list below.
The ABCs of Death 2
The Alps From Above: A Symphony of Summits
Blame It on the Streets
By the Gun
Cat Run 2
Food Chains
Aziz Ansari Live at Madison Square Garden
Crash
My Own Man
One Child
Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt: Season 1
One Child: Season 1
Hansel vs. Gretel
Mr. Pip
Glee: Season 5
Archer: Season 5
Back Issues: The Hustler Magazine Story
Believe
How to Train Your Dragon 2
Faith Connections
Life of Riley
Danger 5: Season 2
Mar 101 Way Up: The Story of Peckham BMX
After the Fall
The Angriest Man in Brooklyn
Cesar Chavez
Tyler Perry's The Single Moms Club
The Top 15 Glee Covers
With only a couple of episodes before the series finale, I can't help but feel nostalgic for Glee's greatest hits. I've stuck with the show through its rough patches because it's still capable of churning out an outstanding performance or two. With over 727 songs (give or take a couple) spanning its 120 episodes, it's been tough to narrow down all of these choices but I've developed a system.
For this list, I've tried to limit the amount of songs I chose per season (otherwise these choices would all be from Season 1), made my choices based on how they were used in the show (For example, as much as I loved "Cell Block Tango" it was shoehorned into a domestic abuse episode), and how the performance was laid out. So these 15 covers all had a great mix of story, visuals, and musicality.
So, here are The Top 15 Glee Covers.
Honorable Mentions: Cell Block Tango, Mr. Roboto/Counting Stars, Boogie Shoes, Heads Will Roll/Thriller, Oops I Did It Again, Bust Your Windows, I Want to Break Free, Far From Over, Push it, Take a Bow, Ride Wit Me, Bootylicious, Run Joey Run, Safety Dance, And I Am Telling You, When I Get You Alone, Cry, Don't Speak, If I Were a Boy, Defying Gravity, The Final Countdown, Anything Goes/Anything You Can Do, Don't Stand So Close to Me/Young Girl