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1 | If you've seen James Gunn's motion picture, which of the two characters eyed for potential spinoffs has the greater potential — Skyler Gisondo's Jimmy Olsen (hopefully starring opposite Sara Sampaio's Eve Tessmacher), or Edi Gathegi's Mister Terrific?
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2 | In Episode 6, shouldn't have proactively taken steps to keep Driscoll from removing the tube from her field trache/letting himself die? Even factoring in Roger Ebert's 'Law of Economy of Characters,' did the reveal of the serial killer shock you? And do you think Jamie Hector knew his own Bosch spinoff had been scrapped at the time he filmed his Ballard cameos? #Awkward ▼
3 | To paraphrase TVLine reader BAdams: Should just 'go full Murphy Brown' and give Scola a different partner every week?
4 | Wasn't there something kinda cool about how the Home Run Derby players' introduction set-up made them look like toy action figures? ▼
5 | fans, how much would you be willing to bet that Mekhi Phifer's yet-unnamed Season 2 character turns out to be none other than Roman, Morgan's estranged ex and Ava's biological father?
6 | Watching this week's , did you at times suspect that the Cring family captain was actually Cousin Eddie from National Lampoon's Vacation? ▼ And if you didn't already know that this Fox show tapes in Australia, would something about the studio audience's overall vibe have been your first clue?
7 | Was Jon Stewart's interview with the totally real Elmo — wherein the Muppet admitted that he faked last weekend's X hack in a futile attempt to pander to the alt-right and (unsuccessfully) help PBS avoid federal funding cuts — among his most unhinged (and funniest) segments since returning to The Daily Show last year? ▼
8 | Can we surmise that Emmy nominations co-presenter Harvey Guillén has never come across Severance star Britt Lower's Instagram bio, which makes clear that her last name rhymes with 'flower' (versus 'slower')?
9 | Now that Emmy nominations are out and The Studio was triumphant with 23 nods, we have to ask: How many of winners do you think will thank Sal Saperstein in their acceptance speeches?
10 | With the Emmys' Outstanding Variety Talk Series down to just three nominees, do you think the right trio of shows — The Daily Show, Jimmy Kimmel Live! and The Late Show With Stephen Colbert — were nominated? Or would you have swapped one (or two) of them out for, say, Everybody's Live With John Mulaney and/or Late Night With Seth Meyers?
11 | faithful: Did you wonder if any of Téa Leoni and Tim Daly's friends from the show got them a wet/dry vac as a wedding present?
12 | Any other viewers dig their fingernails into an imaginary steering wheel when this second SUV followed his buddy into this left turn with zero regard for the oncoming white sedan?! ▼
13 | On The Summer I Turned Pretty, how long do we think Belly and Jeremiah's engagement is going to last?
14 | When you saw that Olivia Colman and Brie Larson are doing a show together, did you for an instant think, 'Secret Invasion reunion!'? (Until, that is, you remembered that Larson/Captain Marvel dodged that streaming bullet.)
15 | In Big Brother's live eviction episode, were you surprised that Kelley won the first BB Blockbuster competition? And now that Zae is out of the house, do you think Rachel will be safe for Week 2? Lastly, who do you want to see win the next Head of Household comp?
16 | On a scale of 1 to 'Conan O'Brien's last two weeks hosting The Tonight Show,' how unhinged do you expect on to get…?
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