This Week's Catch Up

I thought I would write up a quick recaps of the shows that I haven't written up yet. I thought I would take this time to write it up in a post called Catching Up. There are times when writing up a recap or so doesn't get done til the next day or so. So with my busy schedule going on, I think that I might be doing this for the weekend, even though this is Monday. Don't worry there's a lot more shows that I'm still catching up on. 

The Blacklist
"The Kenyon Family"

I consider this episode to be The Blacklist meets the Children of the Corn meets Waco type. When a polygamous cult leader disappears, Red has Liz and the FBI looking for them as bombings have been placed and set in vans, When they found out that kids are involved here, they never image what the outcome might be.

When Liz and Ressler found one kid alive in a place where there were dead bodies everywhere, they take her into their protection. When they head out they get stopped and run off the road. Ressler is trapped in his seat, one officer is out while Liz goes out and looks for help but when she comes back the officer is hurt badly and Ressler and the kid is gone. But not long that Liz is also taken too.

Liz founds herself tied up with a bunch of kids looking at her. The leader is in the other room talking to the polygamous that Liz has been looking for but we see later that he's been dead for quite some time with sticks in his eyes and mouth. When Liz ask to see Ressler, they bring him out and with a few minutes Liz breaks free and gets the others to freeze but soon a kid in a van not far had the other bomb but is killed by a gun shot.

In the meantime, Red is looking for the safe that Alan had told him about in the fall finale. He goes to his little friend for help locating the place. He did and got on Red's nerve on coming along and he did. They search one room and it turned out to be the wrong floor and room.

I do enjoy watching this guy get on Red's nerve. And when things cooled down from the FBI at the place where the killings happen, Red gotten in and found a secret basement, went in and found a 1960's presidential car. He soon starts it and find files and other things. He did goes back to the car and calls a number with a mysterious person answering it.  And the question: "Who the hell are you?"

This week's episode will be one of the most creepiest Blacklister so far. With the name Deer Hunter, but what would be the creepiest isn't the name but what this person does. Also the man who lied to Liz has returned, the man we hate or love, right?

You can catch The Blacklist Thursday nights at 9/8c on NBC.

The Mysteries of Laura

"The Mystery of the Alluring Au Pair"

When a woman is found dead i a park, Laura and the gang investigate and turns up that the victim was more than what they had imagine. The team search's the victim's past and found out that she was a sitter for a woman that later turned into a missing person when the victim was watching a child. Turns out that the father took the kid, due to he was upset that he didn't have any parental rights to see his kid more often but he didn't kill the victim.

As they investigate more, they found that the victim was more than what she was, turned out that she was part of a top dollar dating service. When they busted a suspect, the last person to has dated the victim, turned out not to be the person that killed her but it was the guy who gave the victim a work visa.

Meanwhile, the gang was being reviewed for miss leading relationship between two high power officers, or I'll just say after the act between Laura and Jack. The person to do the interview, everyone thought it was a dude but it was a lady name Frankie (played by Meg Chambers Steedle from Boardwalk Empire).

One of the hilarious scenes when she goes around and talks to each member of the gang one by one and tries to get them to talk. Max and Billy blew it, Meredith gave away that she's a bit jealous of how Laura gets the good cases and well, Laura tries to play her by kissing her boyfriend in-front of them.

In the end, we learn a bit about Frankie, lost her husband and is trying to find a new adventure, and that she's going to join the team since they have been under staff for a long time.

This episode was pretty good. The case may not be all that but it was surely fun to see everyone get questioned by Frankie about Jake and Laura.

This week's episode of Mysteries of Laura will have a blast from the past when Eric McCormick stops by and is trouble.

You can catch Mysteries of Laura Wednesday nights at 8/7c on NBC

Odd Couple
"Pilot"

Probably one of the funniest new shows on television this season. Who know that Matthew Perry and Thomas Lennon have a good chemistry.

Two different characters, one's clean while the other is dirty. Felix just got kicked out from his wife and is filed for divorce, while Oscar is living his life, trying to forget his last relationship and hitting on women.
The pilot was very funny, and had lots of humorist jokes about each other. I feel that Perry's characters on television is probably always going to be a sports broadcaster (thinking about him in Go On).

One of the funnest scenes was when Oscar grabs Felix out and tells him about the notes on his sports ticker and informs him about how much he hates it. Also that it took him two days that the two letters "F.U." stood for Felix Unger.

I'm interested in turning in to see where this series is going. I only say the first film and never seen the second or the Broadway show.

You can catch The Odd Couple Thursdays at 8:30/7:30pm on CBS.

The Jack & Triumph Show
"Triumph Comes Home"

It's funny and yet it's awkward. I grew up watching Triumph the insult Comic Dog on Late Night with Conan O'Brien and Jack McBrayer on 30 Rock. I never knew that these two use to work together on Late Night til later on. Now these two have their own sitcom, if you will, and it's one hell of a show.


The show is about Jack and Triumph, who were on a hit 80's or 90's TV show "Triumph's Boy" and when the show got cancelled, both of them faced a a spiral downhill career. And when Jack's TV mother June, played by June Squibb, takes him in to live in her house, she takes Triumph far, far away so he wouldn't be part of Jack's new life.

Years later and many, many nose sniffing to get back, Triumph comes back and brings Michael Winslow along. One of many best scenes was when June and Triumph insult one of another.  When Winslow makes a move on June, her stuff was gone.

So Jack and Triumph tries to make enough money to pay Winslow to get June's stuff back and they decided to sell autographs and stuff at comic con. In that old fashion style, Triumph goes his way insulting others while trying to get people to come to them. And well, he goes his way to getting people with signs that have Jack licking someone's hand, putting stuff on an autograph photo and the best part having someone being his mommy by wearing a rubber breast on his chest and have Jack nip it.

I couldn't stop laughing, there were so many insult jokes that there needed to be time to catch my own breath. I've never watched anything on Adult Swim but now that this show is on, I might have to. Even if there's awkward stuff in the show and breaks the fourth wall many times, its still hilarious.

You can catch The Jack and Triumph Show Friday nights at 11:30/10:30pm on Adult Swim.

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Elementary: "When Your Number's Up"

I love Sherlock Holmes from books to film series and even television series as well. I enjoy the series Elementary a lot but it's not like the other series Sherlock which has a lot of character depth in my book. I caught this week's episode and even thought I haven't watched the series like a regular, I still how this version "solves" crime and his relationship with his partner Watson. 

I do hope that these two do not get involved in a relationship lie Bones ad Booth or Scully and Mulder. That would kind of ruin the whole Sherlock-Watson dynamic. But all in all, I enjoy the series much and I'm always trying to catch up when I have time for it. Heck it's pilling up on my DVR and most of the time, it gets deleted from someone else.

Elementary is on Thursdays at 10/9c on CBS.

Allegiance:

It's probably one of the most dramatic series I've seen and yet people compare it to The Americans meets Parenthood. Allegiance is about when a newbie FBI agent, smart enough to solve anything, but one problem, he doesn't know that his mom, dad and sister are Russian KGB spies. Well, they're former spies until now. Things gets out of hand, mom and dad don't want to work for their former country anymore. 

There's dramatic suspense in both the family side and work side. 

This past week's episode I couldn't breath at all. Even though the CIA is in the hunt for the laptop that has files of important information. The parents work til the sound of the door being open to get the files and sneak out of the place. 

The mother is dying to tell his son the truth about them and it seems that they will tell him this week. 

Allegiance is on Thursdays at 10/9c on NBC.  

State of Affairs: "Deadcheck" season finale

If you haven't seen State of Affairs, it one of the best new series on television. This season has been nothing but amazing. Amazing in a way that it doesn't disappoint and keeps you on the edge of your seat. 

Yeah there might be a lot of shows like this but it's one that I can watch and don't have to wait til the DVD comes out. 

Last week's season finale, was everything that they said it was going to be. When things didn't go the way they hopped, Charlie decided to take things into her own hands and well to go out in the field and killed the man that played them the whole time. 

Well, things get intense for both Charlie, her team and the fabulous Alfre Woodard as the President of the United States, as they are trying to take the terrorist. 

When Charlie gets there, she goes full blast shooting and all. When she was talking to the terrorist, the President meets with a man, played by Adam Arkin, who threatens the her and propose a situation. With minutes later as Charlie killed the terrorist, she tries to call the President but no answer. Soon jets are heard and she turns and sees airstrikes about to hit, leaving us with a cliffhanger. 

It was so good that I hope there's a season two but I don't think that's going to happen.