Plants and Tech: The Blacklist "Gaia" & "The Lindquist Concern"

In the episode "Gaia," the next blacklist turns out to be a brother nature for the environment, plus Tom makes a bad call when it comes to getting his child.

This episode had me twisting an turning just a bit. The task force goes after an Eco-terrorist who has a connection to Kirk. He takes on those that pollute the air and harm those that have been effected, like his son for insistence. But when he tries to take down a nuclear planet, he's ride there gets diverted by Aram and crash.

But that gave Red help looking for Gaia's wife and son, who happens to know Kirk's doctor. He offered them help in exchange for the doctor. During that scene when they're in the dinner, Red shows his softer and charming side when it comes to give a sweet child ice cream.

But it wasn't all good, Kirk gives Liz a chance to see her daughter, but Tom thinks he can get her back with his own team. That turned out to be a bad idea and Liz paid a bad price for that even though she didn't know that Tom was going to do it.

Not to mention, that Dr. Kaplan was rescued by some stranger, who tries to help her. It seemed so strange at first, but at the end of the episode, it turns out that she's his prisoner.


In the episode, "The Lindquist Concern" this episode was interesting and creepy all at once.

When Red gets Liz and the task force to track down a criminal who targets young inventors with million dollar worthy inventions. He may seem slow and stupid at his workplace, but he's a smart and very intelligent to get away as he seeks whats own to him.

When the FBI caught up to him, he takes his employees in another room as hostages. Samar comes and tries to reason with him but wouldn't do it and he takes a bullet to the chest.

Meanwhile, Red and Liz track down Kirk with the help from his doctor. Red wants Liz to stay back when they go after him at the meet his doctor would be at. When left behind some of Red's crew, Red heads with the doctor to the area to get ready. But Tom went on a tip from Ressler about a guy who knows Kirk and got information.

When Tom called Liz he tells her where Kirk was at, in Russia. Totally different from where Red and Dembe are at and Liz calls to warn them but it was too late as Kirk's car, which came in, blows up. Only a few injuries, Red thanked Liz for her last attempted call.

With only a few more episodes left before the fall finale, I feel they're gonna get Liz's baby sooner, probably in tonight's episode. I just have that feeling.

Both episodes were really good. I thought the blacklist Gaia was really good but the other guy in last week's episode was okay, creepy but okay.

Overall, I give "Gaia" a 8.5/10 and "The Lindquist Concern" a 7.5/10.

You can catch The Blacklist Thursday nights at 10/9c on NBC.

Ill and Gamble: Chicago Med "Brother's Keeper" & "Extreme Measures"

In the episode "Brother's Keeper," the hospital takes on an epidemic when two patients come in with the same condition. Choi and Rhodes take on a patient whose son is ready to let him go but not the patient's girlfriend.

This episode might be a bit overdramatic in its promo, but it was an excellent episode to start. First, I can't forget to mention that there was a TV icon on the show. Daniel J. Travanti, Captain Frank Furillo from Hill Street Blues, had a guest spot as Dr. Choi and Rhodes' patient, who comes in with confusion and needs surgery to remove a tumor. But his son tells them he doesn't want any heroic measures.

But when Choi's patient had difficulty breathing, he heard him say save me and got Rhodes to take him to surgery. Surgery was a success, but when Choi told him about his girlfriend being strong, he made a remark and told him that she was just a gravedigger.

Meanwhile, Halstead and Manning dealing with their patients suffering from the same conditions, which has them thinking of an outbreak of a super bug. Goodwin calls on Dr. Charles's daughter, the newest member of the epidemiology department. Things got scary when Manning's cancer patient wasn't breathing, but finding a blockage in her throat, she got in there and pushed out the puss. It turns out that the cause of this illness was an instrument used on them a couple of weeks ago.

Dr. Charles and Reese handle a case of a boy who resists against male doctors and wants to leave the hospital. Reese talks to him and seems to calm down just a bit. Soon, "his mother" comes, and Reese doesn't think he's comfortable with her. Trying to get him to stay, Reese gets a chest x-ray on him and finds a chip in his chest. Charlies believes that he's part of a drug ring and that the "mother" is his pimp. But he left before they could do anything, but that won't be the last time she'll see him.

In the episode, Extreme Measures," Halstead, Shore, April, and Noah are at a marathon, but someone gets hit by a van. It leaves Halstead in a challenging situation of how to treat him.

When April and Noah are helping at the local marathon, they get pulled into someone who just got hit by a van. No ambulance could get there in time, and Halstead and Shore were a couple of feet away. So Noah tries to perform a chest tube but does it successfully, but not to the approval of Halstead when he gets there.

The four of them try to figure out how to keep him alive. It led Halstead to take a risk that even Rhodes was questioning. When they brought him in, the patient went to surgery, but after, Halstead wasn't sure that this guy would make it. After a while, the patient woke up but couldn't move his legs, which got Halstead upset until Rhodes asked the patient to wiggle his toes, and he did. That leads him to an underwhelming moment.

Dr. Choi treats an elderly patient who hasn't taken all her medicine and appears malnourished, too. Choi tries to open up to her about it, but she tells him he's okay even though the test proves otherwise. It wasn't until her friend came in that Choi asked her about her friend and soon realized that she was not doing healthy money-wise and was trying to make a good impression from what her friend was showing her. Some friend, right?

Manning takes on an eight-year-old girl who's losing her hearing. The test shows that the girl has had old fractures, to which the mother says that it was from the child's father, who says that he'd died. It turns out that the mother lied about the father; he's still alive, but she says she believes that he abused her, and so she took her away from him. That also led to Manning performing another test, which showed she had a condition that caused the fractures. That put the girl's mother in a bad situation as Al and the CPD took her.

Overall, I enjoyed these episodes. Even though "Brother's Keeper" was a bit over-promoted, it was still a perfect hour of drama; Reese and patient were excellent.

"Extreme Measures" was one of my favorite episodes, as it pushed Halstead figuratively and emotionally to the limit of treating and saving the patient.

I've noticed that Choi has been getting exciting storylines with excellent guests.

The next episode will be a crossover event with Chicago PD as Reese's patient returns for help dangerously.

Overall, I give "Brother's Keeper" an 8.5/10 and "Extreme Measures" a 9/10.

You can catch Chicago Med Thursday nights at 9/8c on NBC.

The Lying and Dying: The Good Place "Chapter 7: The Eternal Shriek"

Michael announces that the problem going around the neighborhood was from him and that he'll retire. Eleanor and Chidi tries to figure out how to top Michael from retiring even if it does prevent a murdered...

Michael figures out that he's the one causing the problems in The Good Place and sees that the only way for it to stop was to get on a train and retire. Tahani throws him a retirement party, for which he seemed grateful but mostly bummed out.

Eleanor tells Chidi about how this happen and learned that Michael will be torched . Chidi tells her that she needs to confess about it, but she had a better idea and asked Janet the one awkward question, is there a way to shut her down. And in fact there is a kill switch but if used she will be murdered.

For Eleanor to stay and save was to do the unthinkable. Janet lead Eleanor and Chidi to where she can be shutdown. The two have a hard time pressing the button because of Janet's "human emotion for life." That's where she's pleading to not be killed.

But Jianyu shows up, because he was bored at the party. He sees the button and goes to press it until Chidi pushes him away and presses the button accidentally and Janet is dead. But not gone without a huge announcement from Janet herself in a world screen video of her announcing that shes been murder.

A funeral was in store at Michael's retirement, but we learn that Janet doesn't die, she shuts down and has to learn all over again everything in the universe. Michael announces he won't retire but will stay.
Chidi is nervous as a wreck and we see a flashback of him telling a lie to professor about his shoes and that grew to be unbearable for him to handle. It showed us why he doesn't like lying to others.

Just as Chidi was this close of spilling the beans, Eleanor steps up and tells Michael that the events have been caused by her as she's not suppose to be here.

This was so well performed and the writing was so good. D'Arcy Carden, who plays Janet, really stood out in this episode as she was hysterical during the pleading to Chidi and Eleanor scene and the rebooted version of Janet.

Also William Jackson Harper was great in this episode too. We got to see a little bit of his backstory from his wife to why he can't handle lying to anyone.

Overall, I give this episode a 9/10.

You can catch The Good Place Thursday nights at 8:30/7:30c on NBC.

Life in Pieces Returns Tonight

Tonight is the season premiere of last season's #1 new comedy, Life In Pieces. And if you haven't seen it, it's a must see family comedy.

Life in Pieces follows the chronicles of the lives of three generation of the Short family as they go do their daily lives in Los Angeles.Each episode is told in four short stories as it follows from the point of view of each character based on their own version of events.

The show has an incredible cast with Colin Hanks (Dexter), Betsy Brandt (The Michael J. Fox Show & Breaking Bad), Thomas Sadoski (The Newsroom), Zoe Lister-Jones (Whitney) along with James Brolin and Dianne Wiest.

The series is different than any other family comedy that's been on television. The writing is really good. And if you don't like one story, you can wait til the next story. It's like a sitcom channel suffer.

Where the show left off from last season, Greg quit his job (after we learned what he actually does) after creating the "CryTunes" baby monitor, but learns his wife, Jen, is pregnant with their second child. We find out that John and Joan have been divorced for 35 years and never told the kids. Matt gets back with Colleen after a bad blind date from Jen. He pops the question to Colleen in his parent's bathroom.

You can catch the season premiere of Life In Pieces tonight at 9:30/8:30c on CBS.

Bones Gets It's Final Season Premiere Date

Well, it's really the beginning of the end for a classic.

FOX has announced it's premiere date for the 12th and final season of Bones, Tuesday, Jan. 3, 2017 at 9/8c.

The farewell run will promise to "celebrate the inventive series and bring the storylines of Brennan (Emily Deschanel), Booth (David Boreanaz) and the Jeffersonian-FBI team to a close, allowing the show's loyal fans to say goodbye to these inedible characters."


Fox's press release also teases "the return of fan-favorite guest stars and squinterns, as well as an old flame from one of the team's past" (aka Eddie McClintock's Tim Sullian). Not to mention viewers can also count on a wedding, and epic serial killer storyline" and a new undercover mission set at a lumberjack competition.

Oh, and you'll also see "Booth and Brennan's marriage get put to the test." Oh boy!!!

"From the very first season, Bones was called 'The Little Engine That Could.' So we could not be prouder of ending up as Fox's longest running scripted drama," series creator Hart Hanson said in a statement. "And we got there because of an insanely loyal, loud, lovely, lively audience."

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Friends and Family: Chicago PD "Big Friends Big Enemies"

A shooting at a concert gets the Intelligence Unit investigating, but who they find out is totally unexpected.

This episode was really good at played with emotions very well. We get to see Atwater dealing with this case very personal, because he was the one trying to save a gun shot victim that he knows. The Unit takes took it as a terrorist attack, but it turns out to be a gang attack.

But after chasing social media posts from the shooters of when and where they're gonna be attacking, they take down one suspect that turns out to be in another gang. Voight went to the boss of Latain Players gang and even though he wasn't the one who ordered it, he knows who it was and helped them lour him out.

Turns out that the shooter was just a kid in high school. Shocking to all from Erin to Halstead, Atwater and even Antonio too.

In the middle of this as Burgess and Tay were helping out, they spotted Atwater's little brother at a house where they were checking on. Atwater was shocked but when he came home he really didn't do anything but gave him a look and decided to take his sister and brother to get something to eat.

Also we got to meet the new member on the Intelligence Unit, Jenny, who's replaced Mouse as he went back overseas. There were a couple of funny moments with Voight. I call them priceless.

As I said before this episode played with emotions, mostly with Atwater and other members of the team. But near the end of the episode, we see a scene of people in the neighborhood enjoying, embracing and having fun. It's something that we don't see a lot these days with what's been going on this year. It gave such a nice pleasant example of there's still good things in Chicago.

Overall, I give this episode a 8.5/10.

You can catch Chicago PD Wednesday nights at 10/9c on NBC.

Not Gonna Listen, You'll Have to Feel: Chicago Fire "A Real Wake-Up Call"

Words are never enough to describe it but the only thing that comes to my mind was something my mother quoting my great-grandmother, "If you're not going to listen, you're going just have to feel it." That's probably how I can best describe this episode.

As Jimmy is back on Truck 81, things aren't as smooth as it may seem. He ignores Boden and does what he does. He disrespects the Chief and poses severe concerns to the rest of Truck 81. Even Herrmann gets ticked off at him and throws him out of the bar. I'll get back to this story shortly.

Meanwhile, Casey is dealing with a small (yet big) issue with how he used his political power to get the adoption agency to push Louie to be with Dawson. Threaten by another politician just to get his crap looked at and passed. He tells Dawson and the one thing that she has in mind is to find a way to stop him from spilling the truth out. My idea: call Voight or Antonio.

Severide takes  Travis's invitation to his party. It seems like he might be back as a party guy again. Also Kidd finally gives her ex the help he needs as she tells him to stay at Chicago Med and get treated.

Now, when the Firehouse 51 gets a call of a car accident. Boden and Casey have Jimmy on the sideline and dealing with a truck that has explosive containers. First things first, move the truck first and save the driver, but Jimmy didn't think so and goes ahead to help the lady, Boden tries to tell him to stop but he still heads over there until the containers explodes in flames and Jimmy is caught.

The team rushes to him and extinguish him from the fire. After that they moved him far to treat him. It was shocking, it was disturbing and real to a fact. Jimmy got severe burns and most of his left side of his face was burned and skin melted. Halstead treated and saved him at Med but couldn't save the left eye at all.

Things went from hated to emotional sadness with a blink of an eye (no pun intended). One of the most heartfelt scenes was when Boden went to see him, said a prayer and soon seen Jimmy's right eye open. He squeezed his hand and shed a tear.

It goes to show you, you don't listen, you'll just have to feel it. I'm not saying that he deserved it, but the guy won't listen and the CFD wasn't either. This was good from an emotional stand point. Just feel so bad and sad to lost a guy like Jimmy. I would think that he would be the next Casey on this team, but never assume that at all.

The bright spot was Brett and Mouch's firefighter novel. At first Mouch didn't like what Brett had written but later he really enjoyed it. I would love to see this book come to life and in bookstores for us #OneChicago fans to read.

Overall, I give this episode a 8.5/10.

You can catch Chicago Fire Tuesday nights at 10/9c on NBC.

Never Say Never.....Again: Timeless "Party at Castle Varlar"

If last week's episode was fun, this one had to be a blast.

Just as they found Flynn's location, Wyatt and team go after him but with no success as Flynn and his gang went back with the nuclear as they head to Germany on Dec. 7th 1944. There they thought that Flynn was gonna give the nuc to the Nazis but that wasn't even close.

Flynn was going to sabotage and get Wernher von Braun to the Russians instead of going to the United States (which helped with the space race during the Cold War).

The most interesting and entertaining aspect of this episode was that Lucy, Rufus and Wyatt meets with the famous British spy, Ian Fleming (the original James Bond). There were moments of jealous coming from Wyatt when Ian was using his charms on Lucy.

And yes there were Bond ponds too like the priest hole, they'd escaping from the castle and out of an underground tunnel (Skyfall), or the when they parted ways and Lucy says to him that they'll never see each other again. He replied, "Never Say Never" and Wyatt adds "Again."

Not to forget that Flynn didn't use the nuc at all, but it was used for one purpose....the time machine. Let me please use this quote "wait, are you telling me that this sucker is nuclear?!" Holy crap!! With that nuc as it's own battery it doesn't have to charge each time they travel in time.

This had to be the most action and fun episode yet. The Bond ponds were amazing. Loved the Wyatt and Lucy moment in this episode, as she's struggling on why she's doing this for what reason until she sees it as it to get her sister back.

Overall, I give this episode a 9/10.

You can catch Timeless Monday nights at 10/9c on NBC.

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Unlikely Friends: Kevin Can Wait "Beat The Parents"

This week's episode of Kevin Can Wait was very funny. Funnier than last week's episode if I may say so as Ray Romano guest stars in this episode.

When Donna and Kevin thinks that their son, Jack, needs someone to play with, Donna goes out and finds a kid, Graydon, from school from a file at school as she's the school nurse. They may be excited when Donna found the one for Jack, but their gonna have a field day with his parents.

As Jack and Graydon plays, the kid's parents show up, Vic and Brandi, and things don't seem to be a pleasant good time with these two. Vic wears a man-bun which was hilarious to see Romano pull off.Vic and Brandi are like the creepy friends that want to hang out with you so much that you really don't and they'll do anything to make you do anything from dinner to even snowboarding.

Donna and Kevin decides to end Jack and Graydon's friendship by framing Graydon of stealing Jack's video game and bring his former friend that moved to Brooklyn. But the plan got derailed as when Vic tells Kevin that he sales hot tubs and that he could get them a great discount. That stuck Kevin in the head and aborted the mission and gets Donna on board to go for the hot tub.

When Kevin and Donna get to the hot tub store with the boys, things take another turn for them as Vic couldn't sale any of the better models and yet couldn't get them a good discount. He tells them that he's drowning, can't keep the house, about to lose his job and he doesn't want to break up the kid's friendship. At first Kevin and Donna left but after seeing Jack and Graydon, they went back and made a deal, even though the hot tub might be a bit bigger and can make you swirl around like a toilet.

I find this episode this to be hilarious and so simple to watch. There were a lot of funny lines and mostly seeing Ray Romano and Kevin James on the same screen again was amazing. I hope that Vic comes back soon. I thought the the scene where Kevin was on the phone with Donna telling her to abort the mission that they didn't need Jack's old friend, while that kid was in the car with Donna.

Overall, I give this episode a 8/10.

You can catch Kevin Can Wait Monday nights at 8/7c on CBS.

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Family & School: Fresh Off The Boat "Coming From America" & "Breaking Chains"

In the season premiere of Fresh Off the Boat, they make a pretty good way of catching up from last season when Louis and his family have to get to Taiwan to attend to his brother's (Gene, played by Ken Jeong) wedding.

Louis is shocked to see that Gene is successful and is marrying to a beautiful fiancee, Margaret, and gets jealous of moving to America and had to start all over.  Not only did Louis have issues but Jessica had difficultly dealing of how much has changed from what she remembered of her home country.

Trying to find the soup place that was all out and instead went to McDonald's to trying to make a deal on a new Air Jordan shoes that turned out to be fake ones for Eddie to wear.

Along with Eddie's shoes, he's find it difficult to find a fax machine so he could contact Alison.

There were a few that stood out, like when Gene and his fiancee made a video of how they met calling it Ghost 2: The Story of Gene and Margaret making a better spoof of the Ghost films. Emery had difficult with the mosquitoes has they kept biting or as he calls it "kisses" his face.

But Jessica realizes that she loves her life in America and that she even misses bagels. They both come to realize that they're Ghost, two people living in between separate worlds.

Louis comes to terms and wrote Gene a lovely message wishing him nothing but happiness.

As Louis and the family get home, they are overwhelmed. But when Alison comes over and tells Eddie it's over, he explained that he couldn't find a fax machine and couldn't send a message. But she understood that but she was talking about a newspaper headline "Lakers Hit the Shaq-pot."

This was a nice season premiere. It had laughs and a better version of Ghost, to be honest. There were some really good scenes like Louis and Gene messaging each other and Louis tells him how much he had spent to get back home for his wedding. Jessica struggles adjusting coming back.


In the episode, "Breaking Chains," as school starts, Emery starts his first day of middle school, but Eddie has a few rules for him to follow. Plus Louis thinks that Jessica needs some help around the house as she express she needs some help.

This episode seem to be an average one at that, some was funny and some just wasn't at times. The ones that stood out was Louis getting a house cleaner for Jessica.

I find Jessica to be hilarious expressing her anger about the situation also after accepting the cleaner and taking her home she asked her how she got the bleach stain off the coach. She replied that it's a family secret and Jessica locked the doors and demanded her to tell her.

The middle school storyline was okay. Not my favorite and but it did have a little bit of humor. The idea of how Eddie and his friends should tackle their first day in a fantasy was funny.

Loved the two songs playing while Jessica was given the cleaner a ride home, "Zombies" from The Cranberries and "Un-Break My Heart" from Toni Braxton.

What did you think of this episode? Leave a comment.

You can catch Fresh Off the Boat Tuesday nights at 9/8c on ABC.