What do a sweeping period romance, a mockumentary-style comedy about public education, and a nostalgic animated adventure series all have in common? They're some of the best shows on TV this week.
Vulture's Roxana Hadadi and entertainment writer Whitney Friedlander joined AirTalk, LAist 89.3’s daily news program, to share their feelings on the new season of Bridgerton, the final episodes of Abbott Elementary, and how X-Men '97 holds up.
Bridgerton
Lace up your corsets, folks! Bridgerton is back for season three. Penelope Featherington, a very important supporting player in previous seasons, is now getting the main character glow-up. She seems to finally give up her long-held crush on Colin Bridgerton, but um, yeah, we'll see if that lasts.
"I'm trying to get away from suggesting that there's any guilt to enjoying this show. There's no guilt. It is very much what it is — a sweeping, epic, period romance." —Roxana Hadadi, Vulture
"It's a very fun watch. It's beautiful... I never thought I would want to wear a corset, and now I want to wear a corset." —Whitney Friedlander, entertainment writer
When & where: The first four episodes are available on Netflix. The last four episodes come as part two on June 13.
Abbott Elementary
If you still haven't checked out Abbott Elementary — where have you been? The season three finale of the mockumentary comedy airs next week. With a "will they, won't they" situation still simmering and a fourth season confirmed, it's a perfect time to start up this highly bingeable series.
"Such a topical conversation about public education space and the need for resources for teachers and other educators... and yet somehow funny and heartwarming and magical." —Whitney Friedlander, entertainment writer
"[The strikes] did leave us to a shorter season of Abbott. So I think you sort of feel a little bit that maybe some subplots were not developed as much as they would have been if we had a typical 22-episode season." —Roxana Hadadi, Vulture
When & where: Episodes air on ABC and are available on Hulu. The season finale airs on May 22.
X-Men '97
In this revival of X-Men: The Animated Series from the mid-90s, the group of mutants use their odd gifts to protect a world that hates and fears them.
"It walks this incredibly impressive line of giving us what we want — that theme song, getting us very hyped — and then going down a very introspective, I think in some ways confrontational, path about what the X-Men represent in the superhero space and how their conflict about how they want to be defined, why that's still relevant today." —Roxana Hadadi, Vulture
When & where: All 10 episodes are available on Disney+.
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