Welcome to another episode of TV Avalanche, where Brian Grubb and I try to sort out the best, worst, and most interesting things happening in Peak TV.
Only one review this week, as we talk about NBC’s high school musical drama Rise (which I wrote about today) before heading into a grab bag of topics and questions, including The Sopranos prequel movie, ABC shelving a black-ish episode about athletes kneeling during “The Star-Spangled Banner” over creative differences, the best shows to binge right before having a baby, and a hypothetical Leftovers/9-1-1 crossover. And we also check in on the somewhat underwhelming state of TV so far in 2018, which is one of the reasons we’re only reviewing Rise this week.
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The rundown:
0:00 – 15:55 Intro, Rise
15:55 – 24:50 Sopranos prequel
24:50 – 34:20 TV quarter-year check in
34:20 – 1:02:01 Listener Mail