![]() WHY IT EXCITES US: Whether you’re an OG Child’s Play fan or a new viewer looking for a campy Halloween treat, the murderous redhead has consistently delivered disgusting kills and cheeky one-liners for two full seasons now. ![]() An illegal auction of involuntarily donated human organs gets waylaid by an earthquake? After which victims, buyers and seers fight to stay alive? Game on! WHY IT EXCITES US: Over the past two years, a few TV projects have touted themselves as “the next Squid Game,” but this South Korean thriller - which seems to have materialized out of nowhere and landed Stateside on Paramount+ - sure seems to have the same dark, twisted tone. SEASON 12 PREMIERE DATE: Wednesday, Sept. We’re also dying to see if acting newbie Kim Kardashian can, ahem, keep up with a group of seasoned veterans. After a few ambitious-but-uneven installments, we’re relieved that Delicate looks and feels like a return to form for Ryan Murphy’s FX franchise. WHY IT EXCITES US: God help us, we’re always going to be excited about a new season of American Horror Story, even if it’s more of a cautious excitement - a morbid curiosity, if you will. Image Credit: 'American Horror Story' (FX screenshot) That said, do we need extra reasons to be excited beyond Mark Ruffalo and Hugh Laurie, who respectively co-star as Daniel LeBlanc (father to the young blind girl Marie-Laure) and Etienne LeBlanc (Marie-Laure’s great-uncle)? We think not. For Phoebe, her beeping smoke detector keeps her awake, and the incessant noise drives her to destroying the machine and tossing it down the garbage chute.WHY IT EXCITES US: Anthony Doerr’s 2014 novel, on which the series is based, is a gorgeous, vividly written story set during World War II, and we’re eager to see how Netflix (and its budget) brings the emotional tale to life. Everyone but Ross and Joey gives up on the search and heads inside, but the whole gang is in for a sleepless night in one way or another. In case you can't recall the Friends episode based on that one shot (and what kind of fan are you if you can't?), "TOW They're Up All Night" begins with the group on the apartment building's roof at night, trying to spot a comet for Ross's sake. After all, aren't most sitcom guest roles just doctors, cops, or firefighters? Plus, a go-to rule for making a successful TV series is to set it in a hospital or police/fire station, so the odds of someone playing these kind of roles full-time in Hollywood are pretty high. Of course, even if we were willing to concoct a backstory involving Ben's first grown-up job as a firefighter and his cross-country move to pursue medicine, George's Friends cameo is obviously just a funny coincidence. George isn't the only Grey's Anatomy star to appear on Friends - remember when Ellen Pompeo played Ross and Chandler's mutual college crush? - but in a move of art foreshadowing (fake) life, he played a firefighter in the episode. ![]() The Friends fan recently shared a screenshot of a very young, very attractive Jason George, aka Ben, in a 2001 episode of the sitcom, "The One Where They're Up All Night." Catching these now big stars in old Friends reruns is a favorite hobby of mine, but the celeb sighting that the Reddit user apple_sandwiches experienced is one that feels particularly relevant in today's TV world. When it comes to actors of a certain age who only became household names in the last decade or so, you can likely find a guest appearance on Friends at some point on their resume. Yes, the whole point of the spinoff series is that he's an old rookie, but this Station 19-Friends crossover with Ben Warren will still make you giggle. Thanks to eagle-eyed Friends fans, we even now have an excuse to believe that in an alternative universe, Ben was already a firefighter long before he turned up at the firehouse in Station 19. Let's not forget that he was an anesthesiologist before working in surgery, so big professional changes are apparently just in Ben's nature. The subtitle of Station 19 might as well be "Ben Warren's Mid-Life Crisis," seeing as the show follows Ben's drastic career shift from Grey's Anatomy surgeon to firefighter.
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