Winter TV Finales - Tom Swift - Season One/Series Finale

Like the show title, swift is exactly what Tom Swift was.

Starring Tian Richards, spin-off of Nancy Drew (which I have just started season two on Paramount+), premiered on May 31, with it's ten episode season concluding on August 2nd.

So I think the "Drew-niverse" is now completely DOA. With season four of the upcoming origin series Nancy Drew looking to be the last. With low ratings, hidden on Friday nights, the show will most likely see out a shorter fourth and final season. Maybe 13 episodes like the third season I am yet to watch.

Lead actor Richards said of the adaptation, "The original Tom Swift was great for his time and what he represented. At the time, that was the face of young boys, All-American kids full of possibilities. But in 2021, that can look so different. It can look like someone like me—a Black guy who is chocolate, who is queer, who is all those things that we're told aren't the normal or the status quo." 

He added, "We're going to dive into so many sectors of identity. We're going to talk about Blackness—and a different kind of Blackness than we're used to seeing, which is the Black elite, the 1 percent, the billionaires. We're also going to talk about a queer boy's journey into becoming a queer man. Not only self-acceptance, but acceptance as a whole, having the community and people around you."

The series was filmed in Atlanta, however on June 30, 2022, the series was canceled after one season due to low viewership.

It was a little lame but it filled the train ride out to Parramatta on my Parra workdays.

In Australia (like Nancy Drew) it also streams on Paramount+. Is it the best series of the winter? Hell no, did it deserve a second season? Nope. However it's series like this which really on paper should maybe just have been a shorter season, limited series.

Next up, we ride the Bullet Train with Brad Pitt.