LEGO MASTERS: L-R: Contestants Emilee and Kelly in the “Catropolis” episode of LEGO MASTERS airing Thursday, Oct. 5 (9:02-10:00 PM ET/PT) on FOX. ©2023 FOX MEDIA LLC. CR: Tom Griscom/FOX

Best-bets for Oct. 5: cooks, cats and lust

1) “Hell’s Kitchen,” 8 p.m., Fox. Last week’s opener left Gordon Ramsay seeming oddly pleasant. The women edged the men via a tiebreaker and no one was sent home. Now each side has to work on a dinner service and Ramsay returns to his screaming mode. Then “Lego Masters” (shown here) has an unusual challenge: Turn plastic bricks into playful home for real kittens. Read more…

1) “Hell’s Kitchen,” 8 p.m., Fox. Last week’s opener left Gordon Ramsay seeming oddly pleasant. The women edged the men via a tiebreaker and no one was sent home. Now each side has to work on a dinner service and Ramsay returns to his screaming mode. Then “Lego Masters” (shown here) has an unusual challenge: Turn plastic bricks into playful home for real kittens.

2) “FBoy Island” finale, 8-9:30 p.m., CW. When the season started, we met lusty guys – half of whom secretly admitted they were just in it for the sex. The three women have each trimmed down to two possibilities. Now they make their picks … and learn whether each choice is one of the “fboys.” And then? A new season starts Oct. 16, as the show jumps to Mondays and comedies move to Thursdays.

3) “Found” opener, 9 p.m., NBC. Here’s a quick rerun of Tuesday’s opener, which had good intentions and awful execution. The story has Gabi (Shanola Hampton) as the survivor of a long-ago kidnapping, fighting a trend: The media focuses on a few missing people – young, female, upscale; she tries to find the rest. It’s a good idea that’s done to noisy excess, with a final twist that is mostly just despicable.

4) October oddities. A month that ends with Halloween is stuffed with perverse movies. Some are fun: Freeform has animation, with “Monsters, Inc.” (2001) at 6:30 p.m. and “Monsters University” (2013) at 8:30; USA has the delightful “Ghostbusters” (1984) at 8:05 and its sequel (1989) at 10:25. Others are rough. AMC and Syfy have marathons; Netflix adds Sophie Thatcher in “The Boogeyman.”

5) “El Norte” (1983), 8 p.m. ET, Turner Classic Movies. When this arrived 40 years ago, Variety (the show-business trade paper) called it “the first epic in the history of American independents.” Gregory Nava co-wrote (with Anna Thomas) an Oscar-nominated script about a brother and sister, torn by war in Guatemala, who tackle the journey to the U.S. Working with a tiny budget, he gave this compelling story a sprawling, Hollywood look

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