"Reacher" is the kind of show that is so focused on the title character's roaming adventures that it doesn't seem like an obvious launching pad for spinoffs, as popular as it is. But Frances Neagley (Maria Sten) is literally the only character besides Jack Reacher who's been in more than half the episodes of the show, so it makes sense that the spinoff would be about her. The first episode that I watched seemed promising, although it felt like deja vu that it, like the most recent season of "Reacher," opens with a sibling of a law enforcement type person dying of an apparent suicide involving mass transit under suspicious circumstances. 

Tommy Davidson's such a talented guy, I always thought he could've had a career like Jamie Foxx's with the skills and the range he has. Varnell Hill is a talk show host character that Davidson played on two episodes of "Martin" 30 years ago, kind of random for him to get a spinoff now. I actually like the parts that are more or less like Davidson hosting a talk show more than the kind of lazy sitcom parts. 

I don't know why I keep watching new Ryan Murphy shows thinking maybe this will be a good one and then they just seem even cheaper and more slapdash than usual, he's really the white Tyler Perry. This one feels like a waste of Rebecca Hall and Vicky Krieps, like the way the first episode opened with a flash-forward to a bloody murder instead of building to that climax felt so thirsty and hacky. 

I wrote a lot about Jay-Z's catalog just this year, in addition to following all the excitement of his return to performing this year, but this docuseries of Jay just listening to songs from his catalog with Rick Rubin is just a treasure trove for Jay-Z fans, I'm enjoying it so much. Rubin gets a lot of (somewhat deserved) skepticism these days for his politics and his working methods as a producer, but the series that he did in this style with Paul McCartney a few years ago "McCartney 3, 2, 1" was really enjoyable and this one is even better. Just a lot of interesting jewels for fans, like that "Encore" was almost The Black Album's lead single but Kevin Liles and Young Guru were unenthusiastic so he went with "Change Clothes," or how Biggie's last line on "Brooklyn's Finest" was "most hated in California" but Jay took it off trying to stay out of the east coast/west coast stuff. 

We're now getting true crime shows about true crime buffs becoming obsessed with cold cases and trying to overturn verdicts. In this case, a couple was convinced that a woman convicted of killing her ex-husband was actually innocent, but when her case was retried, she wound up evicted again. I actually feel bad for the documentarians who made this not knowing how it would end and probably thinking it would be a more exciting ending with the true crime nerds vindicated. 

A decent nature docuseries on Disney+, but it's just funny to think of species like lions or pandas as "iconic," such a funny lens. 

Maybe I was a fool for thinking Kevin Hart interviewing athletes while they both sit in an ice bath wouldn't be a gratingly obnoxious show, but his "Hart to Heart" interviews could be good sometimes.  These were all taped in front of a live audience during Fanatics Fest in July, so there's just a lot of Hart yelling and working the crowd and each episode is only 10-15 minutes, it's just a pretty annoying little piece of content. 

A Korean horror comedy about a hotel heiress who can see ghosts, pretty cute show.