Best Lines of the Week (April 24-30): ‘Look After Yourself Once in a While’
This week on TV, Homeland ended its eight-season run in characteristically heart-racing fashion, while Prodigal Son closed its freshman season with a bloody twist. Over at NBC, the cast of Parks & Recreation reunited for a special episode to benefit Feeding America.
Elsewhere, Anderson Cooper announced the birth of his first son, SNL taped a second episode from cast members’ homes, and Never Have I Ever set teen hearts aflutter on Netflix.
Check out the gallery below for more of the best lines TV had to offer this week.
A Parks and Recreation Special (NBC)
Parks & Recreation (NBC)
“Leslie, don’t spend all your time looking after other people. Look after yourself once in a while.”
– Ron (Nick Offerman) gives Leslie (Amy Poehler) some parting words of wisdom after the Parks crew’s group video chat.
Homeland (Showtime)
Carrie: “No one person is worth the lives of tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands.”
Saul: “She is.”
– Saul (Mandy Patinkin) begs Carrie (Claire Danes) not to expose his Russian asset.
Never Have I Ever (Netflix)
“I’d like to be invited to a party with alcohol and hard drugs. I’m not gonna do them. I’d just like the opportunity to say: ‘No cocaine for me, thanks. I’m good.’”
– Devi (Maitreyi Ramakrishnan) prays for what she wants to happen during the upcoming school year.
Insecure (HBO)
“I got the work in progress … I feel like she’s reaping all the benefits of his time with me.”
– Issa (Issa Rae) reflects on a newly mature Lawrence (Jay Ellis).
Killing Eve
“I want to smell powerful. I want to make people gag with it. I want to smell like a Roman centurion who’s coming across an old foe who in battle once hurt her greatly.”
– Villanelle (Jodie Comer) goes perfume shopping.
Saturday Night Live (NBC)
“You asked for: toilet paper. Do you want: a DVD of Van Helsing?”
– Two grocery store owners (Kate McKinnon, Aidy Bryant) offer creative substitutions for grocery delivery.
Prodigal Son (Fox)
“My girl.”
– Martin (Michael Sheen) is proud to hear that Ainsley (Halston Sage) is keeping up the family’s murderous tradition.
Council of Dads
Robin: “You did more than everything.”
Ollie: “I didn’t cure him.”
– Robin (Sarah Wayne Callies) assures Ollie (J. August Richards) that he is not responsible for Scott’s (Tom Everett Scott) death.
CNN Town Hall (CNN)
“On Monday, I became a father. I’ve never actually said that before, out loud, and it still kind of astonishes me. I am a dad. I have a son.”
– Anderson Cooper announces the birth of his son, Wyatt.
Young Sheldon (CBS)
“I’m Sheldon Cooper, and this is why Sheldon Cooper should go to college.”
– Sheldon (Iain Armitage) puts together a video presentation to convince his parents to let him go to college on the Season 3 finale.
Jalen & Jacoby (ESPN)
Jalen & Jacoby (ESPN)
“He sits down … and he says, ‘I need a tuna sub from Subway and a chamomile tea.’”
– The Last Dance director Jason Hehir describes the experience of interviewing Dennis Rodman.
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