Brotherly Love and Unexpected Moments: This Is Us "The Best Washing Machine in the Whole World" & "Pilgrim Rick"

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In one of the most brotherly episode yet, we get into the deeper relationship of Kevin and Randall and why they seem not close.

When Kevin and Randall had an evening planned with their mother, she cancels so the two head to have an evening of brotherly quality time. Kevin takes Randall to a hot place where he knows people and makes Randall look small as he did back when the two were kids, as we see flashbacks of them as teenagers. Kevin wanting to split from Randall and the two were playing football for two different schools, which led to a big fight between the two and a heated father.

But the two opened up and finally got down to brass tax when Randall tells Kevin that he was jealous because Randall got more attention from mom. While Randall told him that he was trying to get respect from him but never did. Even thought some of the scenes of them together moving, there were funny scenes like the fight in the middle of the city and Late Night's Seth Meyers pops up asking Kevin if he was okay.

Meanwhile, Kate and Toby have some difference of how their relationship was going now that he lost more weight then she did. After not hearing from him, Kate tries to find him and sees him at his place with a lot of food. He decides that he done losing weight but still wants to support her even though that took a dive when he was trying to eat health for her. It kind of backfired for Kate as she ate a box of powder donuts.

Beth and William had a night to themselves, but William couldn't handle eating anything that she had cook. But she gives the option of having some adult brownies and the two had a blast and even chatted. But that chatting has gotten William in trouble when Beth mention a book Randall loves and he tells her that he gave that book to Rebecca.

"The Best Washing Machine in the Whole World" had emotional part down for Kate, Randall and Kevin storylines. As an older brother, I loved watching Kevin and Randall's relationship grow in this episode. Loved the fight scene when they were on the ground and Late Night's own Seth Meyers was hilarious. Also not to mention the two finally hanging out watching The Manny in Kevin's room, in the basement.

"Pilgrim Rick" 01X08

This episode might be handles down the best Thanksgiving episode, I've seen on television. This had about everything of the meaning of what Thanksgiving is about: tradition.

It's Thanksgiving Day and Randall is full of excitement as the family is coming for their traditional holiday. With the present time and the past we come to know their traditional things from eating breaded hot dogs to one of the kids becoming Pilgrim Rick, who was the motel clerk. Even taking a hike in the woods and watching Police Academy 3. 

While Randall and the family celebrate, Kate was stuck getting there on her flight. She decides that Toby shouldn't go with her and that she needs to figure things out about her and her weight. After the plane takes a turbulence and a passenger, who thought she was gonna die, tells Kate that she decided that she needed to changed her life and that gave her the idea.

When William told Randall about the tapes he use to listen to on his Thanksgiving, Randall decided to go back and get them. But when he found the box of cassette tapes, he found something else, a letter that has Rebecca's handwriting. 

When he came back, the family began to do one last tradition, passing the yarn and say what you're thankful for. When Rebecca told what she was thankful, she passed it towards Randall and that's where he shows her the letter he found at Williams's place. Upset and furious, he walks out but after that we see one more flashback of Randall saying that he loves Thanksgiving and that what they had was the best Thanksgiving ever.  

This episode had really played with my emotions. There were times I'd laughed and there were plenty of times that I'd try to cry and also times that I did cry. This episode was so spot on with their characters and the theme that it just blew me away. It had me wanting to do the things that they were doing for Thanksgiving. Each cast member was outstanding in their own way as each 

Overall, I give "The Best Washing Machine in the World" a 9/10 and "Pilgrim Rick" a 10/10.

You can catch This Is Us Tuesday nights at 9/8c on NBC.

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Wild Adventure Through the Woods: Timeless "Stranded"

Stranded in the year before the United States was even born, how will they get back?

This episode's title probably gives it away better but the adventure of this story was thrilling, character growth and some movie references. Lucy and the team are in 1754 during the French-Indian War, they've been there for three days looking for Flynn. But they get chased by the French and captured.

The team isn't together in a way since last week's bombshell of who's working or who's doing this kind of thing.  Wyatt distracts one of the french solider by insulting about his mother. He takes down him and another one and soon the two get back to their machine when they spot two of Flynn's men at their ship placing explosives around it.

Just before they set it off, Wyatt shoots the one with the switch but the other shoots out one part of the ship and races towards his own. Wyatt, Rufus and Lucy chase until Flynn's ship disappeared. Rufus tries to fix what he could but needs some things, mostly from a Radioshack. But Wyatt thought Rufus could make a flux capacitor, for which Rufus tells Wyatt that those don't exist. But it made a nice Back to the Future joke.

Just before they headed off, Rufus writes a message, places it in a bottle for Mason to find as their Plan B. Mason and team finds the location and find it but the paper turned faded with only a few words.

The three does some walking, trying to get into the French army base where there's a blacksmith shop, but they get caught from a Native tribe and gets tied up again. Lucy and Wyatt tries to tell the chieftess ,Nonhelema, about their situation but she doesn't believe them but Rufus, who she believes is being force to do a job. But he ask her to let his friends go and after a moment, she let them go.

The three gets to the French army base and gets in smoothly, Rufus gets to the blacksmith shop and make the piece that he needs to fix the ship just enough to get back. But when they head out, the army commander has return and everyone looks around. The three get out and race towards the ship, Rufus fixes what he could and just as they get in, the French are there shooting. Everything looks to be going good until a short stop, Rufus puts two wires together and soon they're off.

Now for this to work, the team back in 2016 has to capture their entry, in a way like in Star Wars, which Rufus makes a reference in his message and his friend figured out. And as they try to find it, they locked on them and got them back, a bit closer landing then previous times.

It seemed that this trip really got the team back to focus on team work. Wyatt tells Lucy as the three have drinks and talks about when she took a drink if that was what she wanted to or was it in a book. Only she has the control to change her future. Also not to mention that Rufus and his crush finally kisses.

I enjoyed this episode even though there wasn't an answer on why Flynn came but I believe it was just to throw them off and get stranded. This seemed to be a standalone episode, which I like and a perfect one at that. I thought that the cast was each amazing. I loved the references made during the episode from Star Wars to Back to the Future. There were a lot of humor moments, mostly with Wyatt, Lucy and Rufus during their wild adventures from the berries to being caught by the French.

Overall, I give this episoe a 8.5/10

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

Who To Trust?: Timeless "The Watergate Tape"

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Tough Decisions: Chicago Med "Free Will"

In the fall finale, two doctors try to find a tough solution for one patient's health, plus a decision for one person on whether to live healthy or to save her baby.

Let's begin with Reese's search for Danny. It seemed that her and Choi have been looking for him all through the night. When it got time to head to work, Choi tells her that they'll look more after and headed back. But when Erin comes by, she knew that he was found dead.

She really took a toll about it and I don't blame her, I would do the same thing if I was trying to help someone out too. Charles tries to explain to her that what she did was the best that she could and that sometimes psychology gives them an illusion.

Meanwhile, Choi gets a patient from jail after he was supposed to have been stabbed by another inmate but it turns out the guy was looking for a place to stay at the Med Inn. Choi tries to play him and send him out but at every moment he had, the guy comes back with another medical case from "hurt myself" or him coughing out blood from Rhode's patient's ear rings. But after chatting with Goodwin, he took to heart and excepted the patient.

Manning and Halstead gets a case where a patient, who's having some setbacks, was in need of a kidney transplant. The problem is that he's also suffering from heart issues too. When the patient's brother comes by, he really doesn't want him there because he's upset that his own brother won't give him his kidney.

There was a problem, his brother was HIV positive. With every option that Manning and Halstead had, it didn't go as well as they hoped. But when the brother tells him about his situation, the patient asked if he could have his brother give him the kidney HIV or not. Or course, Halstead says no and Manning thinks there's a possibility that it could work.  

Manning looks around, with every option that she could think of they turn her down. When Halstead talked to her about it, there might be one option that could work and that was to transmit a syringe that the patient's brother will use and use the same one and inject it into his brother's blood system. Anyone think that this was a bad or good idea? Maybe bite them back?

Also to note: Rhodes and Charles (Dr. Charles' daughter) seem to be hitting it off and decide to go out to have dinner. April not only finds out that her illness is back but also she's pregnant. But with this kind of illness, Halstead tells her that there's only one medication for it but also gives the baby a possible defect too. After deciding not to take the medicine, Halstead talked to her about it. I think she'll take the medicine.

I thought that this was another good episode. It brought in a lot of emotions from Reese's reaction to Danny's death to April's health decision. Plus the emotions of anger and worried from Choi and Manning/Halstead storyline. But it sends the episode off on a good funny and warming note (like in The Blacklist) with Halstead singing to friends and family at his home welcoming party. But as Halstead was singing we see him and Manning looking at each other smiling.

Overall, I give this episode a 8.5/10

You can catch Chicago Med when it returns Thursday, Jan. 5th at 9/8c on NBC.

The Answer Is....The Blacklist "Dr. Adrian Shaw No. 98 Conclusion"

In the fall finale, did Red tell what we knew all a long or was he just blowing smoke?

The episode picked off where it left in the previous, Kirk's men were setting up to get moving to take him and Liz out of the hospital. Red tells Liz to get out twice and well doesn't do it, but she tries to talk Kirk down.

Kirk won't back down as he doesn't believe the DNA test show that Liz isn't his daughter. Kirk's men devise a smoke screen to get everyone out and put the hospital on lock down. There the crew goes and takes Kirk and Liz, but Tom gets into one with them and as he was about to choke to death, he replied the guy's question with more of a "can you hear this now?" way with a gun to the guy's head.

But probably the most entertaining couple of scenes was the car chases when Tom was chasing Kirk and Liz and stopped and guns go a blazing. Tom thought he would sneak underneath the ambulance but gets caught until he was saved by Ressler and Samar.

Red's plan was coming along slowly. Taking Dr. Shaw and getting her to find a "patient zero" for him. This patient was cured from he same disease that Kirk has. As soon as they find it, Red grab Kirk's doctor and looked as the medical file of the patient, that he also treated.

So Tom and Dembe picked up "patient zero" who happens to be an ADA. As they taken her, Red made a deal with Kirk for exchange for him for Liz's release. Of course, Kirk takes it and the exchange was made and the fun for Kirk really began there as they strapped Red to the chair and injected medicine that causes pain (remember season 1?).

Injection after injection, Kirk ties to get Red to talk. It seems that they've used a lot and yet Red can still tolerate the pain. Red has told him about a cure but doesn't believe a word til in the middle of their talk the van arrives with the ADA herself. They tested her and proves that she's a match, but still Kirk didn't believe it and tells them to take her and run more test.

Kirk and Red talked more and asked him the question that we all wanted to know, is Liz his daughter. Of course, he dodges the question but at one point, he tells Kirk "what do you want me to say? yes, she is. Elizabeth is my daughter."

And soon, when they were alone they'd talked about Li's mother and Red asked him about how was she like. After Red tells him about how she was assigned to him and probably assigned to Kirk as well. Then Kirk was about to put another injection into Red until he stopped and Red tells him something that we couldn't hear and then stops.

Liz, after being taken and almost killed but saved by Ressler and Samar, get there with Ressler with no Red or Kirk insight. Cooper is informed by Ressler and Samar that Shaw was part of Red's plan to help Kirk.

Later with Liz and Tom at their home with the baby, they get a visitor, Red. He comes in and waits til Liz turns around and sees him. She asked where Kirk is and he replies "gone." Red holds the baby and as they look at her, Liz tells him that she wishes her dad was here to see this, he replies, he would too.

I thought that this episode was another outstanding one. It had enough of action, the car chase scene, to pull over the hump and great character performances from Spader and Ulrich Thomsen (Kirk). Even the ending where Liz and Red look at the baby was beautiful and a relaxing moment for now in the series. Of course, I would be satisfied with the answer I got, but did Red tell the truth or was he just telling Kirk what he wants to hear? And what the hell did he tell him before sitting down? I do think that Red is Liz's father, but of course, this is the Blacklist and things can really change just like that. I think when the show is getting down the end, we'll know a lot more.


Overall, I give this episode a 9/10.

You can catch The Blacklist returning Thursday, Jan. 5th at 10/9c on NBC.

NBC Renews The Night Shift

Well, it looks like good vitals for NBC's The Night Shift.

TVLine has learned that the past summer's #1 drama has proven enough to have steady vitals that it's been renewed for a fourth season.

Averaging 5 million total weekly viewers and a 1.0 demo rating, the drama has beaten out shows like CBS' Zoo (4.5mil/0.7) and Fox's Wayward Pines (2.4mil/0.7). Not to mention that the medical drama has been undeafted in it's Wednesdays at 10pm time slot this summer, opposite of CBS' American Gothic and ABC runs.

In it's third season finale, the show left us with everyone character's fate in the balance to one thing or another, from TC getting blasted to the staff at the hospital quieting their jobs due to new management.

"Week after week, The Night Shift tells incredibly engaging and emotional stories that draw us into a unique world," NBC Entertainment president Jennifer Salke said in a statement. "We are delighted to renew the show for an exciting fourth season and look forward to continue working with such a great cast and executive producing team."

Past Friends: Chicago PD: "Some Friend"

When someone ask, "Is this going to be a conflict? And you says "No." It's going to be a conflict and a pretty good one at that for Al.

This episode dives into a murder case of a girl found at a former major league baseball player's house but when they find her, he was no where. When they checked the place out, Antonio finds a photo of Al and the suspect, there asking if this case will be a problem. Of course it will.

Throughout the episode, we learned that Al was a protector for the suspect and his friends. We learn about Al's past with this guy and the things that he has done to help him. You can really feel that Antonio seems to be riding on Al a bit.

The team finds out that the suspect was trying to help the victim, who was a prostitute. They went back and forth from the victim's pimp to back to the original suspect. Til Al finds out from the suspect's daughter that he used her phone to make a call, another friend. Then Al talks to the suspect an asked him to tell him how it happen. It was an accident that she fell backwards hitting her head on the edge of the table.

Meanwhile, Burgess and her new partner has had one hell of a day. Not only did they made the call of the murder case but also was tried to talk to a suspect on a hit and steal at a diner. Turns out the person was a cop and she had one bad experience that send her down a bad path and into a life of what you see in this episode. Burgess tries to help her, by letting her go but her partner wouldn't. So instead, she hangs out with her til she is released.

This was a good episode. It's an episode that I probably won't remember as much like the others like the previous episode. The cast was really good and Billy Burke too. I did find the Halstead and Lindsay storyline interesting with the flowers, did Jay send those? Could it be her father?

Overall, I give this episode a 7/10.

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

Two Sided Story: Blindspot "We Fight Death on Thick Lone Waters"

In the second to last episode before the fall finale, as the team goes undercover things take a shift turn.

When the FBI takes on a case and gets Weller and Jane to go undercover mission, but the mission takes a south when guns and bombs go off. While the team gets two suspects, Weller and Jane are missing.

Back at headquarters, the ADA is there waiting get his hands on the team once again. But he gets involved in this case. Reade and the ADA interviews the female suspect while Nas interviews the male, who by the way told one hell of a story from his point of view. He made Weller look like a weak defenseless person, and Jane too.

While during the interview, they get information that this mission that they were doing was for a man named Marco, one of the top 10 FBI most wanted.

Reade and Zapata goes out and checks out an area but spots Jane on the road, picks her up and takes her back. There she tells them what REALLY had happen. Weller took on Marco, by jumping into his boat while Jane was left behind.

Nas, Reade and Zapata head back to find Weller and bring in the money. Weller and the scientist, that they kidnapped, escaped. But they didn't go too far. Weller looks for Marco and just as he was there, Nas and Jane get there and soon take Marco done. Apparently, Marco was the man that meet with Jane, Weller and the other two at the warehouse.

Meanwhile, Zapata tells Reade about what she took the knife in the Jones case, thinking that it was his but it was his friend's. The two argued about it but she got it back in time and Reade got his friend a one way ticket out of the city.

Nas gives Patterson a gift of the access to all the stuff that Nas has in her basement. I guess she thinks she's moving up.

This episode was really good. I enjoyed the second suspect's story from his point. I thought it brought a lot of humor (for me) to laugh and I did laugh my pants off too. I guess Weller seems to be in a love square type of relationship: Allison, Nas and Jane. There's something there and it's kind of freaking me out.

Each actor gave a really good performance. So was the writing as well. And it leaves to the the biggest cliffhanger for the fall finale, Phase II is about to begin!

Overall, I give this episode a 8/10.

You can catch Blindspot Wednesday nights at 8/7c on NBC.

Bones Final Season Teaser

Well, it's here.

TVLine has gotten an exclusive first teaser of the final season of Bones. And Booth is going to go all out to get his family back.

In the season finale, Brennan was kidnapped and in the surprising twist it turns out that kidnapper is Zach. Oh yeah!

Even if it's a 30-40 second teaser, it kind of gives me a touching moment when they put previous clips throughout the season.

Here's the teaser:

You can catch the final season of Bones Tuesday, Jan. 3rd at 9/8c

Hope and Feeling: Timeless "The Alamo"

When Flynn travels back to The Alamo, Lucy, Wyatt and Rufus travels there learning only feeling and hope when things change once again.

This might be one of the fun and most interesting episodes so far. The series does amaze me week after week of the story and the well known historian characters.

After a freaky night that Rufus had with Rittenhouse, he confronts Conner about it only to tell him that he needs to do his job. Meanwhile, Wyatt was about to be transferred because he has not done his job taking out Flynn, but before that could happen the staff spotted Flynn heading back to 1836, The Alamo.

Of course, Flynn tried to make a deal with Mexican President General Antonio Lopez da Santa Anna to help to take Texas, only three days before the actually end date.  But as Lucy, Wyatt and Rufus gets to the Alamo, Flynn gets in there and kills William B. Travis just before he was writing his :Victory or Death letter."

The Mexican army was speeding up the process, something that Flynn didn't want to happen and asked Santa Anna to let the women and children go, but he wasn't gonna take any order or advise from Flynn.

With Travis dead, Wyatt tells Lucy to write it, even if she couldn't remember a lot of what was said. While that was going on, Wyatt was advising James Bowie about how to handle the Mexican army and told Bowie about his sacrificing for the good and how he lost his friend in the war.

As the war starts, Rufus tries to breaks a stone floor where there's a underground passageway so that the women and children could run safe. And soon Lucy figures out what to say after listening to Wyatt speak about how it can't come from the mind set but how it feels from the heart and boy did that get the ball rolling.

As they were about to leave, Wyatt saves a young John William Smith and gave him a letter and ordered him to deliver it. By the way that Smith kid will soon became the first Mayor of San Antonio.

Lucy, Wyatt and Rufus made it back with Lucy and Rufus telling Agent Christopher that they won't go on any more missions without Wyatt. Wyatt gets to stay and inform his old army buddy about the bad news but they rekindled and hope to see one another.

Lucy gets back home and tries to reconcile with her mother, who they had an argument about her job, wedding and her father. Well, she tells Lucy about her father, that he's a professor and is outspoken person. But she handled her a folded note, but we don't get to see or know who it is. My guess would have to be Flynn.

This episode had a lot of really good things, one being that we get to learn more about Wyatt, him recalling his last duty in the army. Another was just watching and listening to Davy Crockett. Yeah I might be a fan, watching old series with my grandfather. Each of the characters dealing with finding hope and feeling, which I would think is a moral to the episode. With what Lucy had to do with writing the letter, Wyatt's speech not just to Lucy but to Bowie too.

Overall, I give this episode 8.5/10.

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

Love Stinks from the Truth: The Blacklist "The Thrushes" & Dr. Adrian Shaw"

These two episodes set up tonight's fall finale of The Blacklist.

Let's begin with "The Thrushes" as the Red and the team are still on the hunt for Kirk. Red picks up Kirk's bookie and brings him back to the US. There Red and Liz tells the team about him and what they want to do. When they take the bookie, by the time they were about to take him in, he gets shot and killed.

Now you would think that it was a shock, no, not to Red at least. Because that was a plan to prove to him and Liz that the Post Office has been hacked. So, with the the Post being hacked, Red gets the team to what he calls The Past.

But he informs them about The Thrushes, a team of hackers that hack for pay and only hack to the highest difficulties. Well, they're working for Kirk. It shows later that the Post Office was hack and it was by someone that they know. Aram's girlfriend. Yeah, go figure! Can't trust someone that good of a person to think that they're gonna do something against you.

Aram figured it out and decides to take them out with his own little duck. His only chance would be to do it while him and his girlfriend were to have dinner. Will he succeed? You bet he did! In a great way too with some awesome fight scenes.

Kirk messages Liz and they planned to met on top of a building. As Liz heads to meet Kirk, so does Red and his team. Kirk thinks that she would lose Red but really didn't. As Kirk has Liz's baby, Red makes a scene in and Kirk walks towards the edge of the building. Liz calls him dad and soon just gives her the kid and surrenders.

Kirk is taken to the Post Office and placed inside The Box for his wrong doing.

Now in Dr. Adrian Shaw, Red and the team looks for Dr. Adrian Shaw, a doctor that gives new identities for people by killing others. In a way it's really creepy but very interesting.

The more focus in this episode was between Kirk and Liz as his health gets worst. In the hospital, he needs blood so Liz tries to give him some but it doesn't seem to work out. The next option was for her to give bone morrow but turns out the testing of her blood turns out that she is not related to Kirk.

Kirk does have connected with his assistant and plans to break him out, but how? There was a bus crash that kept the hospital on its feet that no one would notice who is who and most of those that were there in the ER were Kirk's men.

When Liz gets the news she tells Kirk about it and he thinks that Red messed with it but he had no clue about it expect Red telling Liz to get out of the hospital. By the time that was said and done, hell breaks loose. And we're left with to what's to come tonight.  

Tonight is the fall finale. It looks like we'll finally know the truth of who is Liz's father. The suspense is killing me. Is it killing you too?


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

Feel and Love: Chicago Med "Alternative Medicine" & "Inherent Bias"

In the episode "Alternative Medicine" it seems that it was a day of feeling for what most doctor went by and one that couldn't believe.

This episode seemed to be more of each doctor's feeling and belief of their knowledge in medicine. For one Rhodes had to deal with Latham and Halstead. With Latham was about a man who just had heart surgery, but when rechecking his heart, Rhodes couldn't hear anything wrong. But when Latham checked, he tells both of them that the patient needs to go back in to replace an artery.

Shocking to Rhodes, he couldn't hear anything for the second time. But than came when Halstead had a patient, who he diagnosis of a dead bowel. Now Halstead only believes that it's a dead bowel but Rhodes doesn't see it. Halstead convinces him that he felt it and from what the guy had gone through fits. Of course, Rhodes did the surgery and Halstead was right.

Reese felt like she was being followed, turns out it was Danny from previous episode. Danny wants help but doesn't want his pimp to find him and asked to have therapy with Reese outside the hopsital. Of course, Charles doesn't approve of it but didn't realize that what she was doing kind of brought back an event of an incident that he had with a patient.

So, Charles tell Reese about a patient that he thought was doing well but committed suicide and it drove him crazy and had to give up his private practice. He takes Reese to CPD and talks to Erin about it. She warns her to be careful that it could lead to a horrible thing.

Reese talks to Danny and after about one suction, she tries to talk to him to come in and get help but he runs away. Coming back later with a bullet wound and then gets that micro clip out of him and Reese dumps it outside in a water drain.

Meanwhile, Manning gets a return patient, the little girl who has cancer. She wasn't doing to good and it seem that what she was trying to do is go with her gut and feeling on the best way to save her even though everything lead to her dying. Taking the child's death personally, Cho comes to her and tells her that a patient, who happens to be doing some amazing things with medicine. She does and it cheers her up that maybe one day they could find the cure for cancer, like her patient.

My thoughts on this episode will be below after the next episode recap.

In the episode "Inherent Bias" a former friend and classmate returns to a familiar face for one doctor who happens to had past relationship.

In this episode, love takes over when a former love comes back in a bad situation. Reggie comes in Med, couldn't breath and asked for Sharon Goodwin because those two were dating back in the day. The two talked about old times but his health takes a bad turn even though Cho and Manning are trying to get of head of it.

But Reggie kept getting worst and Sharon was getting upset about it. She orders Cho to go on a different medicine. But after so, Reggie had died.

In the meantime, Halstead was pulled into a doctor on call app but it didn't do too well for him. Also Charles gets in between Rhodes and his daughter when his patient was to have surgery without the patient's consent but Goodwin overruled Charles on that after the day she had.

Reese tries to help Danny, this time finding a place for him. She asked Erin for help but he doesn't tell her much. He was kicked out of the shelter. So with no other place to taken him, he asked her if he could stay at her place, for which might be a bad idea but she went through it. But by the time she'd agreed to it he was gone.

Also April finally agreed to her boyfriend's proposal. But she is really happy to take his hand? Yeah I think so but her health takes a turn at the end of the episode.

For "Alternative Medicine" I thought that this was a really good episode. I thought the writing was good from Reese's storyline with Danny and Erin to Manning's of the kids and the little girl that died. IT was emotional at times but also uplifting when seeing kids experimenting and creating something for the future of medicine.

For Inherent Bias" I thought this was a fine episode. Goodwin's character really stole the episode. You can just see her change after each bad turn that Reggie suffered. I guess that's what love does to you, right? Halstead had a really nice humorist storyline, as a docs on call with April's brother. Even though the patient he was treating had a nose bleed, Halstead thought it was something worst but wasn't.


OVerall, I give "Alternative Medicine " a 7.5/10 and "Inherent Bias" a 8/10.

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

"Be Ready" Chicago PD "A War Zone"

When a epidemic of drug overdose hitting Med, a body is found off the lake gets the Intelligence Unit on the case.

Jump, Kick, Kill: Blindspot "Resolves Eleven Myths"

In this episode of Blindspot, the FBI is under attack when a familiar criminal returns for help from Weller and Co. before an assassin takes him out.

This so happens to be one of the best stand along episode of the season so far. It felt like a stand along to me. When Rich Dotcom returns in a big way, threatening the FBI of wiping up their memory. But he seems not to be interested in erasing their files, but more of wanting them to find him, where he was at Weller's place, drinking his beer, cooking up hot pockets while watching Stranger Things.

Rich tells Weller and Co that he needs their protecting from an assassin that is hunting him, after an oops in North Korea. He tells them that his partner is died and that he helped him escape death. When they put Rich in a cell, he escapes later and when the FBI looks at the security cams, it shows officers are dead.

This assassin's name is known as Ray Yamada. He is like Bruce Lee meets Spiderman, the guy is quick. The FBI splits up with Zapata and Reade searching while Weller, Jane, Nas and Patterson stay on base. But Reade and Zapata meets Yamada and the three went dancing like no other, getting a both of them a real butt kicking. Yamada takes Zapata and drugs her with a toxin with only three antidotes, one of which can save her and the rest can kill her.

Reade and Nas get to Zapata and saved her after she was using Morse code. Meanwhile, Weller and Jane tried taking down Yamada and that wasn't quick as easy. But after Jane got knocked down a couple of times, she channeled a dream she had with herself battling it out and used that against Yamada. As they were fighting Weller gets into and tries to get him to talk but fails and kills him instantly.

Just as you would think that it's over and Rich was going back to prison, Patterson was listening in after she was cleared from that blast that went down in their office. Rich gets picked up and headed back to jail until he wasn't and was picked up by his partner, Boston. But they didn't escape, as Weller and them got to them just in time.

I really enjoyed this episode. I really do love those stand along, kind of bottle episode that had a lot of action and drama. Reade and Zapata having difficulties of the Jones case, Nas and Weller having their separate of opinions on Jane again. And Jane starts and ends her relationship with Oliver. But the ending of Roman getting a message about his sister and the FBI just turns up the heat.

I also really enjoyed the director's take, from Jane's nightmare, the fight scene between Jane, Weller and Yamada and Jane and Oliver. It had the look of Kill Bill meets Resident Evil meeting Mr. Robot. It had that kind of feel and look to me.

Overall, I give this episode a 8.5/10.

You can catch Blindspot Wednesday nights at 8/7c on NBC.

Don't Doubt, Believe: This Is Us "The Game Plan" & "Career Days"

In the episode "The Game Plan" not only do we find out where is Jack but also the reason why football is important to the family too.

The Game Plan might be as simple of an episode to understand, it's just like a real football with tough challenges for each one in the story.

Kate wants to watch the Pittsburgh Steelers on Sunday Night Football but Toby thinks it would be better that he tags along. She doesn't want that and wants to watch it alone, which for me is something I love to do too. But Toby doesn't stop, of course, and invites her to his football viewing party with his friend and that gave Kate a real discomfort. But after she leaves, Toby heads to her place to understand why she wants to watch the game by herself and it wasn't as creepy as she said it but it was plan as day to see. She watches football because of her dad, who's a Steelers fan.

And when Toby tells her that he would someday like to meet him, she brings him out in an urn. And later they, all three, watching the game together.

Both Randall and Kevin have some difficulties too as their game plan didn't go the way they wanted it. Randall and his wife to Kevin's hotel room for the night to have a night to themselves. She tells Randall that she is late and they go into the store together to get a pregnancy test. At first it didn't seem right to have another kid, but just as they were waiting for the test to come, they were at a place that maybe a son would be great. But the sad part was that she wasn't pregnant.

Kevin on the other hand, trying to get his storylines from his play down and watching his nieces. Instead of playing runway show with them, he had them, along with William, to read lines to help him in the play. Things got awkward for him when he had explain what death way. William talked him about doubting himself and later we got to see what the real Kevin does when he tries to express himself, pant an image.

Meanwhile, we get to see Rebecca and Jack in a state of one wanting kids and the other doesn't. It really turned their Super Bowl night to a real downer at times, but even though the Steelers won that game, the real victory was that they agreed to have children and started there at the bar, as Kate tells Toby how she was conceived.

In the episode "Career Days" when it's career day at Randall's children's school, the girls seems to want someone, like William or Kevin, that they can understand what they does.

Like in the previous episode, Kevin is having a bit of a hard time with the play. When rehearsing, there isn't a lot of emotion he throws out and Olivia shows him a way to deal with grief, going to a memorial. There he meets with the widow, Grace, and soon the two talk and learn about his father, who died but not much else. Later, Olivia and Kevin have a little memorial romance and by the next rehearsal Kevin uses not only his father's death of grief but the relationship that he and Olivia had too.

Kate's new job takes a bit of a turn when she had to take her boss's daughter to a party, who by the way acts like a total brat. Until she let her out of her car and made her walk to the party.  But the two kind of made up as Kate tells her that she understands where she's coming from as she was trying to look like her mother, even though they may seem like the complete opposite. Also we've learned that Kate and Rebecca haven't spoken in some time.

Randall is a weather trader, whatever the hell that is, and is going to tell what he does at the school's career day. The kids probably would rather have Kevin or William, who are both talented at what they do, but Randall wants to prove to them that he has a cool job and that was with singing about it while playing the piano.

But when you look back when he was nine, Jack was working from construction sites to working in an office filing papers trying to make more money, even though he has a plan of starting his own company. But anyway, Randall's teacher wanted to meet with his parents and it was more than just his grades. She thinks that Randall would be better at a gifted school, where kids dress up in suit and ties not to mention carrying briefcases. Of course, Jack wasn't into the idea, but after snooping around and brought Randall to his job, seeing that he's smart at one point and pretends not to be at another.

But Jack tells him that he doesn't want him to be like other kids that in fact he wants him to be who he wants to be. And later, Randall was taken to the school along with his dad. That explains why he likes to wear the suit and work in offices and he expresses that to his family and William about it and tells him that he decides to take piano lessons from a neighbor down the street and that there will be a recital too.

I thought that "The Game Plan" was an excellent episode, using football as the theme and not to mention life and death. I really thought that Hartley's performance was really good as he was trying to juggle the kids and his play not to mention the scene where he was trying to explain death and talking to William about his struggle. Also Metz too was really good.

For "Career Days" I thought there was a really good balance of humor and drama and a little bit of embarrassment humor as well. The embarrassment humor coming from when Randall's piano performance about what he does. Yeah at times I had to rock back and forth, look around and hope that it would be okay and it did. I have to say that Sterling Brown really shined in this episode. Not to mention Ventimiglia, Hartley and Montgomery too. Hartley's performance with Molly Hagan stood out so well it might have been one of the top three highlights of the episode.

Overall, I give "The Game Plan" a 8.5/10 and "Career Days" a 9.5/10.

You can catch This Is Us Tuesday nights at 9/8c on NBC.

They Did It! They Finally Did It!!

It's been a over 12 hours of getting some sleep and think over the event that just happen last night/this morning. The only thing that comes to my mind when thinking about it over and over is....they did it! They finally did it!

The Chicago Cubs are the 2016 World Series Champions!! It still hasn't stuck in just yet. It's hard to believe that this day has finally come to us Cub fans. As everyone knows its been 108 years since their last win and 71 years since they appeared in a World Series.

This season was one hell of a ride, as the Cubs really took over the National League Central division throughout the regular season. The playoffs seemed to be the unscripted of what a real reality show looks like as just when you think they're about out, they claw and fight their way back, against the San Francisco Giants, the Los Angeles Dodgers and yes down 3-1 against the Cleveland Indians fought back and won it.

Hell, last night's game was literally the best game I've ever seen period. Kyle Hendricks was pitching near his best, just given up one run. Maddon takes him out in thr 4th and beings in Jon Lester, who had a rocky start but calmed things down in the next few innings. Then Aroldis Chapman comes in and struggles after throwing in Game 5 in 2 2/3 innings and Game 6 too. The Indians were only down two and Rajai Davis comes up and hits a bomber out to tie the game.

After getting out of a bad inning, going into the ninth inning, no one scored runs and headed into extra innings. But just as the 10th inning was about to start, it was delayed due to rain for only 17 minutes. It was those 17 minutes that got the Cubs hit the reset button and got pumped up from Jason Hayward.

Cubs got 2 more runs thanks to Zorbist (the MVP of the series) and Montero. Coming into the bottom of the ninth, Carl Edwards Jr. was set to close it out and with getting two outs, the third was difficult for him to get but Madden brings out Montgomery to finish and finish as it a ground ball to Bryant throwing it to Rizzo for the game winning out.


So many emotions that was bottling up throughout this season was finally let out. And let me tell you, I haven't cried of happiness in a long, long time. Hugging my grandmother, who's been a Cubs fan and got me to be one too, in a family that's divided between Cubs and Cardinals (my grandfather).

We both hugged and cried as I said "they finally did it. We got to see them win it." After wiping the tears away we sang along with the fans that we could hear on television singing "Go Cubs Go."


Now the once lovable losers are now they're the champions of the world!! It still hasn't sunk in yet. But in time it will. The only thing that still comes to my mind is "They did it! They finally did it."

NBC Orders More Time for Timless

Looks like NBC has given Timeless more time.

TVLine has learned that the time-travel drama's first season has been extended to 16 episodes.

We're thrilled to be ordering additional episodes so that we can run the final six hours of the season in a row with no pre-emptions after the new year. Our hats are off to Eric Kripke and Shawn Ryan for producing one of the most ambitious new shows anywhere on television," Jennifer Salke, president of NBC Entertainment said in a statement.

Also the network has set a premiere date for Taken, the series adaptation of the Liam Neeson action films. It'll premiere on Monday, Feb. 27th at 10/9c following the spring premiere of The Voice.

NBC has called Taken a "modern-day prequel to the blockbuster feature film franchise that that depicts how (Neeson's character) Bryan Mills developed and sharpened his particular set of skills."
Clive Standen (Vikings) will play Mills, Alex Cary (Homeland) and Luc Besson are among the show's executive prodcers as Cary will also serve as showrunner.

"Monday nights are critical to our success," NBC Entertainment Chairman Robert Greenblatt said in a statement. "And we're going strong into the rest of the season with the return of The Voice in February followed by the premiere of Taken, along with additional episodes of our great new series Timeless. We're very happy to welcome Gwen Stefani back to The Voice, along with Blake, Adam and our new coach Alicia Keys. And Taken is a thrilling new series inspired by the hit movie franchise by updated in a very clever way."