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The base concept of the show is like any other food competition, multiple rounds where contestants create culinary greatness to win money. There are ways to win advantages over one another from round to round and there is commentary from the judges as you watch the bakers create their entries. The difference here is, these people are not professionals and they are being asked to perform tasks well beyond their skill sets in time frames that would be difficult for a master baker.

I’ll try not to be biased here as not only do I love magic, but Penn & Teller are my favorite magicians.

If you enjoy magic on any level this show is probably for you. The premise is simple; a magician comes out on stage and does a trick. Just once. Then Penn & Teller see if they can figure out how they did it. They get one guess, if they figure it out the magician essentially loses. If they have no idea, then the magician gets to open for Penn & Teller at their show in Las Vegas.

The show 911 airing on the FOX network has set out to tell the stories of first responders in Los Angeles. You see things from multiple perspectives as you jump around in each storyline. We get to sit in the dispatch area as calls come into the 911 call center. There is a team of firefighters that seem to be the first responders to many issues in LA. There is also a police woman that we get to ride along with.

Lots of movies and TV show talk about being ‘coming of age” stories.  In those “adventures” however what we get is an adolescent of some kind making a mental leap from being a child to becoming an adult because of some situation they may or may not have had control over. Not the case with Big Mouth. It is the tale of several kids forced into a adulthood because their bodies have said it’s that time.

With three of the same type of military rescue shows premiering this fall, I have chosen The Brave.

The show centers around the Defense Intelligence Agency. The main operation is handled out of a headquarters in Washington D.C. but the missions are handled in the field by a heroic Special Ops squad. This squad of specialists seems that they will have a new person or group to save every week.  

In order to save those people they will have to travel to some of the most dangerous places in the world and deal with some of the most heinous people in the world as well.

Now, while it is true that Rick and Morty is a show mainly about the strange escapades of a teenage boy and his genius scientist grandfather; this show is very much not one that you would settle in the whole family to watch.

I discovered this show completely by accident. I was actually forced to watch it because of one of my jobs, and I am so glad I had to. I had to look into how the show and its characters worked because of a script writing assignment and it made me a loyal viewer.