Embiggen Y'all

Yup, this one I should've done a bit earlier and there's two shows starting/concluding that I will talk about next month but here's a rundown of stuff I've been watching. 

Ms. Marvel: With the next show having already debuted on Disney+, I should talk about this six part series that wrapped up over a month ago. It might not have been as big a hot as previous MCU shows but this series did what it needed to do in terms of getting Kamala Khan's origin story off the ground and setting the character up for her big screen debut in The Marvels next year. Iman Vellani did a great job as Kamala, her supporting cast were great, the Clandenstines made for an okay group of baddies and it was nice to get a brief appearance from Carol Danvers to boot.

Stranger Things: Netflix coming to the realisation that going down the split season route with big shows and having a big pay off for them might be the very thing to help them out of the doldrums they're currently. The finale two episodes of the fourth season of this show basically played out like two movies with all the separate groups almost converging on one another in order to take Vecna was stunning. Sure we lost Eddie, Max is in a coma and both Will and Eleven know that worse will come but this was a fantastic way to end what has easily been the best season of the show we've had so far. The expectations for the show's final season are definitely higher than ever now.

The Boys: Season 3 just about managed to prove that while Soldier Boy isn't worse than Homelander, he's not that far off. Both of them being related certainly made a lot of sense along with Ryan siding with his father after Billy's treatment of him earlier this season. This season ended with Homelander being untouchable, Maeve gone, Starlight fully joining the Boys and Billy possibly on the way out. And then there was the Herogasm event that while tamer than the source material itself still managed to be a rather shocking episode.

The Flash: Season 8 ended on a somewhat decent note and now that the end really is nigh, overall this has been a very disjointed season. Reverse Flash got recycled again, Fast Track did nothing of note and who know what Chillblaine brought back from the dead in lieu of Frost. Not to mention Iris's time sickness storyline which dragged out for too long and Cecile being overpowered as a character. I really hope the last season can end this show on a decent note.

The Thing About Pam: In a nutshell, this limited series seemed like Renee Zellweger's attempt to bag herself an Emmy nomination but tonally it was a bit too Dateline meets Desperate Housewives that it jarred a bit. Zellweger did give a good performance as killer Pamela Hupp who murdered her best friend (among others) and tried her best to get away, only to get caught in the end. It's not the strongest limited series you'll watch this year but the six episodes do fly by, so it has that in it's favour.

• Sarah Michelle Gellar will be a regular in upcoming sequel series Wolf Pack for Paramount+ as well as an executive producer.
• Russell Tovey, Zachary Quinto, Sandra Bernhard and Isaac Cole Powell will feature in the upcoming eleventh season of American Horror Story.
• And Just Like That  will see John Corbett reprise his role as Aidan for it's upcoming second season.
• Neve Campbell and  Steven Pasquale have joined the cast of David E. Kelley's ABC series, Avalon.
• Yellowjackets have added Lauren Ambrose, Simone Kessell and Elijah Wood to it's cast for it's second season.
• Dan Levy has joined the cast for Sex Education's fourth season.
• Tom Hollander, Calista Flockhart, Diane Lane and Chloe Sevigny have joined the cast for FX's Feud: Capote's Women.
• Why Women Kill has been cancelled after two seasons.
• Rory Culkin will feature in the sixth season of Black Mirror.
• Kirby Howell-Baptiste and Colin Farrell wil star in upcoming Apple+ series, Sugar.
• Monarch, the country music series starring Susan Sarandon for FOX will feature country music legends.
• BBC/Showtime will make the Gothic thriller The Woman In The Wall, starring Ruth Wilson and Darryl McCormack.
• Only Murders In The Building  has been renewed for a third season.