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‘PUPPY BOWL XXII’ on WARNER BROS. DISCOVERY PLATFORM
The Super Bowl features a clash between the New England Patriots and Seattle Seahawks, and one wishes there could be another halftime show as great as when Prince performed in 2007.
An alternative to the gridiron contest, at least as pre-game entertainment, would be “Puppy Bowl XXII” simulcast on Sunday, February 8, 2026, across the platform of the Warner Bros. Discovery universe that includes Animal Planet, HBO Max, Discovery, and more.
This year’s three-hour sports spectacular includes a record-breaking 150 rescue dogs from 72 shelters across the United States, Puerto Rico and the British Virgin Islands and will feature heartwarming adoption stories and show-stopping matchups.
Referee Dan Schachner returns for his fifteenth year to oversee the action, ensuring fair play as these furry athletes compete for championship glory and their forever homes.
The show starts with Schachner rounding up players at the Marriott Bonvoy Puppy Bowl Hotel as they get ready for the big game. The starting lineup then sprints through a tunnel to take the field.
Reigning champions Team Fluff will send players including Benito (Siberian Husky-Chihuahua from Puerto Rico) and Showgirl (Chow Chow-Rottweiler) to defend their title.
Meanwhile, Lobster Roll (Bulldog-Border Collie), Brulee (Boston Terrier-French Bulldog), and Miso (American Cattle Dog-Beagle) will compete to bring the coveted Walmart “Lombarky” trophy to Team Ruff.
As the game unfolds, one standout pup will earn the prestigious Bissell MVP (Most Valuable Puppy) title while another will claim the Subaru of America, Inc. Underdog Award.
Fifteen special needs dogs, including Wynonna, a determined pup with only three legs, and Eleanor, who is both deaf and vision-impaired, will also compete to prove that nothing can hold them back.
For the first time ever, Puppy Bowl will spotlight senior dogs in a special exhibition game, as Team Oldies and Team Goldies go head-to-head in the all-new Pro-Dog Halftime Showdown.
“Puppy Bowl XXII” has a lot going for family fun, and sportscasters Steve Levy and Taylor Rooks provide play-by-play commentary emulating pro football.
‘HIS & HERS’ on NETFLIX
The opening scene of “His & Hers” is that of a bloodied woman spread on the hood of a red sports car in a rainy wooded area at night. Her arm twitches slightly, an indication she’s barely alive but about to expire.
A sudden shift takes us to Anna Andrews (Tessa Thompson) in a hooded jacket, acting somewhat suspiciously before entering an unkempt apartment strewn with empty liquor bottles and piles of unopened mail.
The next morning Anna’s voiceover intones “There are at least two sides to every story. Yours and mine. Ours and theirs. His and hers. Which means someone is always lying.”
This somewhat facile observation about the human condition is the driving force behind the contrived six-episode unraveling of a murder mystery that takes place in the small Georgia town of Dahlonega (a weird name but an actual place).
On leave from her position as a news anchor in Atlanta due to the death of her child, Anna learns the next day that this murder took place in her hometown where her aging mother Alice (Crystal Fox) still lives.
Annoyed that a vacuous blonde, Lexy Jones (Rebecca Rittenhouse), has taken over the anchor desk, Anna returns to the station to insist that she needs to return to Dahlonega to report on the crime scene.
Strangely, she stipulates that cameraman Richard Jones (Pablo Schreiber), Lexy’s husband, must accompany her on the assignment. Does she have an ulterior motive you may wonder?
At the small town an hour away from Atlanta, Jack Harper (Jon Bernthal) and Priya Patel (Sunita Mani) are the Sheriff’s detectives who arrive at the crime scene, needing to fend off a slew of reporters, including ambitious Anna hoping to score a big scoop.
Anna wants to know if Jack is familiar with the dead woman, who happens to be Rachel Hopkins (Jamie Tisdale), stabbed so brutally that all signs point to a crime of passion rather than being victimized randomly.
Suspiciously, Jack acts like someone hiding a secret, going so far as to evade the coroner’s request for a DNA sample that is expected of every first responder dealing with the crime scene.
Anna is also hiding something, which has to do with promiscuous Rachel, Jack’s alcoholic sister Zoe (Marin Ireland), and Helen Wang (Poppy Liu), the headmaster of the elite school they all attended.
The prime suspect is Rachel’s cuckold husband, Clyde Duffie (Chris Bauer). The spouse is always suspected in these situations, but that seems like a red herring.
In any event, Anna and Jack, though married but living separately, are the “two sides” to a his and hers story, but there never is enough suspicion that either one is the true suspect.
“His & Hers” has enough plot twists and turns, some of that involving a “mean girls” club at the school the adult women attended long ago, to entertain, at least until the final episode that takes a wildly improbable leap.
Tim Riley writes film and television reviews for Lake County News.