Rueben

Using her favorite online handle, Rueben is an East Coast-bred gal who is now a permanent Californian and a lifelong tv-oholic. She watches at least 25 TV shows a week, goes to the movies as often as possible, listens to music every waking moment, reads every day and “plays” on the internet every chance she can. Some of her current favorite TV shows are Outlander, Sweet Magnolias, Wednesday, High Potential, Will Trent, Reacher, The Gilded Age, Fire Country, Matlock, Miss Scarlet, Skymed, The Rookie, Bridgerton, Virgin River and School Spirits. She is looking forward to season three of Silo on Apple TV; season two of Ransom Canyon on Netflix; season five of Harry Wild on Acorn TV and the debuts of Lanterns on HBO Max and Anna Pigeon on USA Network. Follow her on Bluesky @ruebensramblings.bsky.social or contact her at rueben@nicegirlstv.com. Please also check out Rueben's Ramblings website for even more entertainment news.

Blindspot Roundtable: “Enemy Bag of Tricks”

Friday night’s new episode of the third season of Blindspot found the team attempting to solve one of the tattoos on Jane’s body for which Weller was directed toward by her brother Roman – although the rest of the team doesn’t know that! – and one that led to a downed satellite and a turncoat agent working with the North …

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Did You Know: TV and Movie Trivia

For a good portion of this year, I have been compiling “Did You Know” trivia items to share with our readers, as part of my life-long love of collecting entertainment trivia. Here are the latest trivia tidbits from the worlds of TV and movies that I want to share. I would love to know if any of our readers knew …

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Outlander Recap: “Creme de Menthe”

Last week’s episode of Outlander ended with Claire – having only been in 1766 Edinburgh for one day – already finding herself in jeopardy, interrupting a strange man searching Jamie’s rooms for his “ledgers.” Naturally, last night’s new episode picked up right where last week’s episode ending with that strange man – who turned out to be John Barton, an …

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November TV Calendar

The following list provides the dates of the new dramas that will air on streaming services as well as the major and cable networks and the made-for-TV movies and more that will all air during November: November 1 – The season finale of the SundanceTV mini-series Liar will air at 10 PM November 2 – The new CBS drama S.W.A.T. …

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Women Behind the Scenes Spotlight: Wendy Mericle

Today’s Women Behind the Scenes spotlight is shone on writer and executive producer Wendy Mericle. While Wendy has had her share of successes on the small screen, she actually started out living without a television, as her parents took it away when she was 5-years-old. She has shared that they wanted her “to go play outside and read books.” This …

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The Gifted Roundtable: “eXit strategy”

Last night the latest episode of The Gifted aired on FOX, entitled “eXit strategy.” The episode focused on the mutants efforts to save Lorna and Reed from Sentinel Services before they basically disappear for good, but in order to do that Marcos has to make a big risk and the Strucker children play a part in the rescue effort. Here …

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My Top Choices for November TV

With the holidays soon to be upon us a lot of shows will either be pre-empted for holiday specials or will air repeats. But the cable channels will be airing a lot of holiday movies, prime among them the plethora of movies on the Hallmark Channel. There will be a few other interesting programming options throughout November. Here are my …

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Outlander Recap: “A. Malcolm”

It’s the episode that fans of Outlander have been waiting a LONG time to see: the reunion of Jamie and Claire. As everyone knows by now, the much-beloved couple have been separated in time – 20 years for each of them in their respective time periods, but 200 years apart when you think about the centuries for which they actually …

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Comparing the Military Dramas The Brave vs. Valor

Both of these military-themed dramas air on the same name: Mondays. The Brave airs on NBC at 10 PM while Valor airs on The CW at 9 PM. The new episode of The Brave that aired on Monday was entitled “Break Out.” The episode focused on the elite team, along with Deputy Director Patricia Campbell, entering an Afghani prison to …

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Throwback Tuesday: Lasting Friendships Through Television

Back in August of 2009, I posted the following article that focused on lasting friendships I have been fortunate enough to make thanks to television shows for which I have become extremely enamored with over the years. Enjoy! Where did your most treasured friendship form? In elementary school? At summer camp? In college? For me, my longest running friendship was …

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