Are Ghosts Promos Too Spoilery? Did Gene Simmons Rock Idol? Did Conners Tease Lottery Redo? Can Outlander Heat Be Repeated? And More Qs!

We’ve got questions, and you’ve (maybe) got answers! With another week of TV gone by, we’re lobbing queries left and right about lotsa shows including Ghosts, Outlander, American Idol and NCIS!

1 | Has any series finale more exhaustively recapped every major moment that came before than Alice & Jack’s six-minute montage?

2 | Who would have expected Gene Simmons to be one of the most effective American Idol mentors in recent memory? We still think Tori Kelly is eyeing Katy Perry’s soon-to-be-vacant seat on the panel, but could Simmons be a valid replacement for Luke Bryan or Lionel Richie someday?

3 | On Bob Hearts Abishola, are we to believe that Abishola has had a brother this entire time — a character who hasn’t been seen or referenced in any of the 92 episodes that preceded his introduction in the series’ third-to-last episode ever?

4 | Unless the NCIS team was working on a weekend, why were the funny pages Jess took from Tim’s newspaper in color?

5 | On NCIS: Hawai’i, how completely and totally obvious was it that the wife was in on it? Were you going a bit batty waiting for the team to figure that out?

6 | Twenty-one shots for All American’s Spencer on his 21st birthday? Were his friends secretly trying to kill him? And the18 he actually took should probably have sent him to the hospital, right?

7 | Voice mentor Maluma was just begging us to ask, “Who wore it best?” wasn’t he?

8 | In the Shōgun finale, did you find yourself unexpectedly (and deeply) moved by Blackthorne’s final scenes with Fuji — maybe even more so than by his mourning of Mariko? As beautifully constructed as the finale was, do you wish we had seen Toranaga’s plan actually come to pass in real time on the battlefield, rather than in a flash-forward during his final talk with Yabushige? And do you think the EPs are being dodgy about “Season 2” prospects so as to not taint the show’s Emmy campaign in Limited Series races?

9 | Is it perhaps too obvious that FBI: International “guest star” Colin Donnell will effectively be replacing Luke Kleintank? But if he is, what’s the dealio with Teri Polo’s “mystery character” appearing in the same final two episodes of the season?

10 | On FBI, despite the big win for everyone, didn’t the ATF wind up looking like chumps? All this time, all they had to do was hijack a food delivery truck and get the drop on the “Prophet”?

11 | Do you want to tell The Young and the Restless’ writers that it wasn’t Summer becoming an insta-mom to Harrison that made Phyllis a “super-hot granny” but Daniel having Lucy years earlier… or shall we? And who had “Ashley turns into Blanche from Golden Girls” on their 2024 bingo card?

12 | When Jocasta and Murtagh rekindled their decades-long attraction on Outlander, didn’t the chemistry between Maria Doyle Kennedy and Duncan Lacroix set quite a high bar for the actors cast as the younger versions of the characters in the Blood of My Blood prequel?

13 | When The Conners‘ Dan wandered into the kitchen and told everyone to follow him into the living room to see the lotto numbers, were you half-expecting — even for a moment — that the Roseanne spinoff was about to repeat previously retconned history?

14 | Walker fans, are you very much into the playful vibe between Cassie and Detective Luna?

15 | Did American Horror Story: Delicate serve up one of the biggest nothingburger endings in the franchise’s history? And why was the finale so short? Couldn’t they have used those extra 10 minutes to give us an actual conclusion?

16 | Do you think Law & Order: Organized Crime will take advantage of its soon-to-be-streaming status and push the envelope when it comes to language/subject matter after it goes to Peacock? Also, why is it that many Organized Crime fans seem vehemently opposed to the show being “saved” by a move to Peacock, when many NCIS: Hawai’i fans are downright pleading for Paramount+ to “save” their on-the-bubble island drama, if CBS is poised to pass?

17 | Are Next Level Chef‘s Gabi and Izahya two of the most delightful, root-for cooking competition chefs in recent years, on any show?

18 | When Young Sheldon initially announced his decision to attend M.I.T., were you expecting our narrator to chime in with some snide remark about how he’d never actually attend the same graduate school as Howard Wolowitz?

19 | Can the CBS promo department please stop spoiling every Ghosts twist in their promos (Pete’s power, Carol’s death, Flower’s return, etc.)?

20 | Was Farmer Wants a Wife‘s Brandon asking for trouble by repeatedly saying in front of Grace’s family that he lives “in the middle of nowhere”? Speaking of that: FOUR HOURS to the closest airport?!?!

21 | Are we sure this is a picture from Jensen Ackles’ upcoming guest stint on Tracker and not a picture from a lost episode of Supernatural?

22 | How long before Ellen DeGeneres shows up on Real Time With Bill Maher to complain about cancel culture?

Hit the comments with your answers and any TV Qs of your own!