Flashback: Timeless "Karma Chameleon"

Going to back to stop from a killer being born is one thing, but going back to stop someone from meeting is another in this week's episode of Timeless.

After coming back from their previous mission, Wyatt asked Rufus to help him stop his wife's killer, meaning that they had to stop his parents from ever meeting. Sounding dangerous, Rufus agrees but Wyatt tells Lucy about it before everything was a go.

Wyatt and Rufus sells it like Wyatt made Rufus stealing the lifeboat. The time: March 1983 and Wyatt and Rufus look like an early look of Sonny and Crockett, in my opinion. We see a whole lot of flashback shows from The A-Team to Manmianl (my favorite even though I was born in 1989).

Wyatt finds the killer's mother and purses to have a relationship, but the bartender tends to be the killer's father too. Every time Wyatt tries to separating them, there always seems to be something else comes between them, like a drunken passenger from a previous flight or a cop that got in a way. Also let alone there was a storm coming too.

After Wyatt was help free from the cop from Rufus, he runs towards the mother's hotel room where she and the bartender were getting it on. Wyatt rushes in and pulls the guy out and takes him out for a drive but the winding being too strong couldn't get his keys and the guys makes a dash until he trips, flies over a car and landing on the parking stomp on his head, killing him. Wyatt devastated about it tells Rufus that he didn't want it to have it like this let alone his own wife too.

They come back and he gets the news from Lucy that his wife is still dead and that they killer hasn't been found. Seems like Flynn played him very well and watching Wyatt react and being taken away was just painful to watch.

Meanwhile, while Wyatt and Rufus was having flashback to the 80's, Lucy gets to have a meeting with Anthony about how all of this mess that Rittenhouse has caused could all end, blowing up the lifeboat with C-4 in Oakland. But it turns out that Anthony was shot dead and that the lifeboat is gone along with Flynn and Emma (who knows a lot more than Anthony anyway).

But after meeting with Anthony, Lucy learns from Agent Christopher about the man that Mason has been meeting with, the man that turns out to be her father. After the accident, she meets with her father again and confronts him with all of this Rittenhouse, which all is true and he comes forward with the truth. Also that all of this Rittenhouse is her legacy, that's in her blood and it seems that it looks like that he'll be part of her life now more thane ever.

I thought that this episode was fabulous. This episode was interesting from the time we had a Lucy-Wyatt moment to the end when Lucy's father explains Rittenhouse to her. Even though we learn more about Rittenhouse, I this episode was more about Wyatt and his mission to get his wife back. Matt Lanter really does a great job in this episode along with Abigail Spencer and Malcolm Barrett. Love the music and clips of shows from the 80's (who doesn't?). I thought the writing was really good. Overall, I give this episode a 8.5/10.

There's only two more episodes before the season finale. You can catch Timeless Monday nights at 10/9c on NBC.

The Good Place renewed for Season 2

Here's some forking good news to those that love The Good Place. NBC has renewed the Kristen Bell-Ted Danson comedy for a second season with 13 episodes.

The Good Place average a 1.9 rating in adults 18-49 and 6.1 million viewers overall in Live plus 3 day ratings.

Last week's finale ended with one of the most shocking revelations this season that Eleanor Shellstrop has actually been hold up in The Bad Place the entire time.

Creator Mike Schur told TVLine that a second season would follow the mold of the first season with 13 episodes.

"When I pitched the show to NBC, I felt pretty strongly it was kind of a big swing, and everything was gonna be really heavily serialized," Schur said. "It just felt like it made sense to keep that to a shorter season. And they very kindly and reasonably agreed with that."

"Mike Schur has always had one of the most fertile and imaginative minds in comedy, but what he brought us with the first season of The Good Place was just extraordinary," NBC president Jennifer Salke said in a statement accompanied the renewal announcement. "We absolutely caan't wait to see where these characters go, literally, in Season 2. A big thank you to Mike, the writers and cast for delivering a series in which we all take such enormous pride."

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Have no fear people! Team Wayne Security is here to save the day.



Here's the latest promo for the first ever DC Comic sitcom, Powerless starring Vanessa Hudgens in this workplace comedy of the everyday heroes saving those from destruction from superheroes. Plus a familiar voice is narrating this promo.



Powerless premieres this Thursday at 8:30/7:30c on NBC.

Timeless "The Murder of Jesse James"

Not only does this episode was a lot of fun to watch, but also it dived deeper into someone from the past.

Our three main characters face their not so good moments in the beginning of the episode, Wyatt meets with his wife's killer. Rufus gets a kiss from Jiya and news that she'll be operating the time machine (but not too soon) and Lucy dream of having a bad conversation with her sister.

They get a call that Flynn has gone to April 3, 1882, for which was the date that Jesse James was murdered by his own crew, for a pardon from the government. But before that even ever happen, Flynn stops James' crew from killing him and instead Flynn kills the crew, offers him a drink and ask for his assistants.

When Lucy and company get there, they were a bit too late. So with no clue what to do and being a couple steps behind, a dazed and lost Lucy figures out who they could help them, U.S. Marshall Bass Reeves, aka The Lone Ranger. They also get to meet his side kick Grant Johnson. Wyatt does call him another name, but insults him because it means stupid or slow.

Anyway, the Lone Ranger and crew set off to find Flynn and James. With no clue what Flynn was doing, we do get an understanding in the present after Jiya does some okay testing of driving the time machine. She looks into the video history files of what she could learn from and finds someone who is declared to be dead after a bad accident. It turns out to be someone Rufus worked with before Wyatt and Lucy came.

Flynn and James gets to the place and soon they are getting attacked with gun fire. Flynn tells James to stand down, while he goes and has a talk with the person. That person happens to be the same person that Jiya saw in the video and has worked with Rufus, Emma. She appears has a lot of electronics for someone in the 19th century. Flynn offers her out of here and for to help him. They leave while given Jesse James a deadly gun that he has never used before and waited for Lone Ranger and crew to get there.

As they get there, Rufus was shocked and amazed that Emma is alive. Soon James starts shooting up the cabin, hitting Grant and killing him. Wyatt and Bass goes out there as Wyatt shoots James in the shoulder. Wanting to kill him, Bass talks him down but Lucy shoots James in the back as history calls it but this time in a different way.

After that event, Lucy gets the award money for killing Jesse James from Bass. He tells her and the guys that he doesn't believe in killing but holding the law to those that broke it and that they should face it. Rufus tells him that he should tell his stories so people will remember them, because someone like Disney would have someone else known as The Lone Ranger and someone like Johnny Depp playing his sidekick (EW!!).

As the crew gets back, Rufus tells Mason and Agent Christoper about Emma's alive and is with Flynn. Soon, Mason joins with Jiya at the time machine lifeboat and discusses what she had done and threatens her. But they move on with Rufus watching almost all of their conversation. After that, Wyatt comes to Rufus asking to use the Lifeboat to do something...kill his wife's killer for which will be an adventure for next Monday's episode.

If I had to use one word to describe this episode...fun. It was just down right run to watch this episode and the writing was so damn good. It kept me amazed and interested. Coleman Domingo was amazing as Bass Reeves, "stunning" as one person who watched it with me calls him. Annie Wersching playing Emma, was a really good choice, even though she didn't have a lot of lines, only a few but her expressions really can say it all. I recommend to everyone to watch this episode, this is popcorn episode viewing my friend! Popcorn viewing episode!!! Overall, I give this episode a 9/10.

You can catch and watch Timeless Monday nights at 10/9c

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A Wesen Twist: Grimm "El Cuegle "

When you hear baby snatcher, you would think of one of the most important things that...well...takes and eats the,m but not this kind. This one monster of the week has a dt side to him.

I would have to say that I'm pretty excited to get back to the Monster of the Week episode now, and "El Cugele" happens to be a memorable one. Let this be a lesson to new parents who are expecting or have a baby that taking too many photos can be a bad thing.

When a man, known as the "El Cuegle," looks for a baby, he searches the internet, primarily social media websites, hunts them, and takes them away. Nick, Hank, and Wu are brought to investigate, and after tracking him down and taking him to the station, the guy tells them that he's only doing what's good.

See, when the guy is a woman, he has three eyes (one sees the past, the other the future, and the other the purpose). He explains that the reason why he's doing this is that he's trying to prevent those babies from doing someone dangerous in the future (like he tells them that the baby will kill both his parents 18 years from now). Creepy right?  What would you do, let him go and do what he's supposed to do, or lock him up and let what the future lays for that baby? A genuine Sophia's choice.

The El Cuegle escapes and rushes to the baby again, but Nick and Hank stop them in a real old-fashioned buddy butt-kicking mode and kill him after falling from the house's second floor. But before dying, he mentions "the bears." Now, unless he's telling us about the Chicago Bears winning the Super Bowl next year, I would think he was just talking crazy. Still, he was talking about the blanket that the baby has been wrapped in, which was also seen in the future when the older version of the baby shoots his parents.

First, I could see why he would want to shoot his parents (mainly his dad for being a total dick to his mother and not believing in her). But this was an interesting case to watch.

In this episode, the scene with Nick, Hank, and Wu talking with Renard is golden. One of the funniest moments in the episode (wait, it's the most comic). The second would be Monroe telling Diana how Nick looked like Renard. The other funniest scene was Renard and Meisner at the station continuing their conversation from the previous night.

Another thing: Diana telling Rosalee and Monroe that there's more than one baby or something she couldn't tell. But there are more babies, which leads to what I think is the most remembered moment of this episode (besides Nadalind): the Monrosalee scene. Rosealee and Monroe are discussing trying to step back from what they've been doing. What Monroe tells her is simply beautiful and heartwarming, too. We want nothing but happiness with their soon-to-be big family.

Third thing: I don't know about all of the Nadalind fans out there, but I loved that scene when they returned to the loft (I prefer Fome). We got a nice scene with Adalind and Nick together in their Fome Sweet Fome! Yes, I'm going to say it.

Final thing: Even Eve eavesdrops on Nick and Adalind in their conversation in the underground. She seems to be feeling increasingly, and I think Juliette is popping in and out. She seems to lose her wedging powers like when Adalind lost hers in Season 4. But while under the tunnel, she seems to get the urge to grab that stick and gets burned on her hand a symbol and soon draws on the wall. We might see her art in the next episode.

This episode was excellent, with a lot of good, some creepy, and funny moments. The writing was fantastic, and the actors, even those playing El Cuegle, were excellent and believable. I didn't lose interest throughout the story, and it left a creepy ending. Overall, I give this episode a 9/10.


You can catch The Final Chapter of Grimm on Friday nights at 8/7c on NBC.

Conviction "Bridge and Tunnel Vision"

In the episode, "Bridge and Tunnel Vision," When Hayes investigates a 10 year old case, she finds out that her boss was the one who convicted them and wants to get him back.

Hayes decides to go after Wallace's career making cases called the Prospect 3. The case was of three boys, Mike, Brian and Seamus, that were convicted of raping and assaulting a woman, Zadie Daniels, while on her way from work.

Hayes thought that this will be a great way to stick it to Wallace and when he comes up to see what they were working on, she decides to tell him about another case. But that secret didn't last too long when her mother comes up for a visit and spying on her too. Wallace thinks that the case was a slam dunk, but something wasn't adding up.

They learned that Zadie had lied about the whole rape thing, because she had an affair with a married guy. But the hit on the head with a brick was from someone, just so happens to be one of the boys. There might be a new problem as the days get closer, the team looked into background info on the boys and Brian was the one with a history of hitting women.

Hayes gets him to confess, while Mike and Seamus were free. Even though it might be a win for Hayes and her team, she doesn't quite enjoyed it as she told the press of the closed case to the media and soon Zadia gets mobbed with them asking about her lying.

This episode wasn't that bad. The case for this epsiode was good. But as I said about it in the pilot, ABC doesn't need to push the Scandal style sexy soap drama for this show. It can be better with central grounded characters. Overall, I give this episode 7/10.

You can catch Conviction Sunday nights at 10/9c on NBC.

Companions and Lovers: Victoria "Ladies In Waiting"/"Brocket Hall"

"Ladies in Waiting" 

I think the best word to describe this episode would be nature. As in you can't mess with nature that it should take it's time. That's what went running through my head after watching this episode.

As Queen Victoria takes her role on, her family from uncle, mother's boyfriend to even some of the caretakers have taken their plan to make sure that she loses her position, making her look crazy, just like her grandfather. But also the Whig Prime Minister Lord Melbourne resigns because he feels that he lacks the requirement of mandate in the parliament.

Of course, this doesn't go so well with Victoria because he's the only person that she can trust out of all the rest of the people around her. Robert Peel comes in it doesn't quite go so well and everything that he would suggest, she just turns it down, like letting go a few of her lady friends because they're married to the opposite party. With that in mind, Peel leaves and Melbourne comes back and takes his position as the Prime Minister again.

I thought that this was a suitable episode. The performances from actor were good. The reason I think that the word nature comes into play of this episode was that no one wants to let Victoria do her own thing and yet her uncle and Sir John tries to mess with her, it just seems that they're messing with the nature of her abilities. But with Melbourne leaving and then coming back, it sets things right with her. I enjoyed this episode and thought that the writing was very good. Overall, I give this episode a 8/10.

"Brocket Hall"

"Brocket Hall" probably one of the most interesting match making episodes I've so far.

As everyone around Victoria trying to get her to marry, thinking that being an independent is a problem and that she needs a man to help control her. But she tries to turn them down, her uncle King Leopold of Belgium tries to get Lord Melbourne to go with it, but he doesn't think it's right for her to be force into marriage.

We do see Victoria express her interest in having a romantic relationship Melbourne but he turns her down in a nice way. Later the two of them do dance at a costume party, after dancing with other men, who are trying to win her over, failed anyway later on.

Melbourne and Victoria danced and it just seemed to click just watching them. He wants her to choice someone who makes her happy long term, as he tells her later on.

Meanwhile, Victoria confronts Sir John about taking a pay and leave the court, along with leaving her mother, for which he takes. But finally Victoria and her mother finally bonded for what looks to be the first time since. Finally, that guy was really getting on my damn nerves with how he acts around, thinking he's all high and freaking mighty.

This episode really centers around it's historical moments like in this episode during the Newport Rising, Victoria learns about one of the house staff's nephew was one of many setting to put to death by hanging but stop it and instead exile them to Australia, showing that her reign of power can be a merciful one.    

The show ends in one of the best moments of a first meet, as Victoria plays the piano,  who pops up and catches her by surprise, her cousin Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, who pretty much looks nothing like what she remembers or describes.

I enjoyed this episode pretty much the same as the previous episode. The performance was good, just watching Coleman and  Sewell on screen is just amazing to watch. Also I've been amazed from Nell Hudson in these last couple of episodes, her character, Miss. Nancy Skerrett, just seems interesting to know more and more as she's quite different than the rest of the house staffers.  The directional visuals were amazing even during that scene when Victoria meets with Melbourne was wonderful. Overall, I give this episode a 8/10.

You can catch Victoria on Masterpiece Sunday nights at 9/8c on PBS.

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This Is Us "The Right Thing To Do"/"The Big Day"

"The Right Thing to Do"

The first new episode of the new year and they hit us with another winning episode.

"The Right Thing to Do" will be remember of how it all reminds us that when things in life are in a tough spot, there's always that one right thing to do about it.

From Toby declining and then changing his mind about having surgery on his heart. Thinking that he might not need it but realizes that even though he loves Kate, the right thing to do is to have it and see what goes beyond there. For Kate on the other hand, she tries to decided whether she wants to be wit him long term and she tells Toby after surgery that she would want to marry him. That's when he awakes and agrees.

For Kevin, when you think that him and Sloane might hit actually be a couple, Kevin doesn't really acknowledge it the way we see it. After performing the play in front of the director, he thinks they could pull it off. But that changes when Olivia pops up wanting to join the play again, which the director was pleased to have back. Olivia tries to make things right with Kevin but soon he realizes that he's better with Sloane and than leaves with heartbreak.

For Randal and his dad, he thinks that his dad seems to be moving away from him after meeting Jessie. But that wasn't the case at all, as he tells Randal that his cancer was coming at him full strength and the medicine wasn't working. That's where they decided to stop the chemo meds and let it takes its course.
Probably one of the uplifting stories was of course, Jack and Rebecca. We see them learning that they are having triplets and that the apartment that they just got wasn't going to be enough for all five of them( let along carrying them up and down the stairs). Rebecca talks to her stubborn mother about their situation and she offered her and Jack to stay with them. She tells Jack about it but he kind of takes it not seriously because Rebecca doesn't like her mother at all (as we learned in the Thanksgiving episode).

When Rebecca ask Jack to get some ice cream for her, he takes off but forgets his wallet but hears Rebecca crying. He then drives off to, what I thought was to Rebecca's parents place but that turned out to be wrong. He drove to his father's place and asked for money. Jack and his dad don't get along as we saw it in the beginning of the episode, but he gave him the money and Jack took his classic car and sold it and used the money not only for a station wagon but also the house that he's working on with his crew, which is the home that the family stays in through childhood.

This was another great episode. I was so amazed from the story plots and the characters that it just made me smile at times. When life gets in the way you just have to decide what's the right thing to do for that moment and each of the characters did something in their situation. I have to say that Milo Ventimiglia gave a really good performance in this episode, maybe his best. I guess we'll have to see.
Overall, I give this episode a 9/10.

"The Big Day"

Let me this say this: after watching this episode, I was literally lost for words. When I mean that I mean I was blown away from everything that I just saw in this one hour episode.

I'm not going to recap of what happen. I will just say this (while not being a butthead about it). I recommend you watch this very episode and see for yourself. This was by far the best episode since Last Christmas let along the Pilot or The Trip.

The writing was just outstanding. It moved me in so many ways to tears and joy. Mandy Moore and Gerald McRaney were literally put on their best performance with McRaney stealing most of it with his dramatic acting and brilliant comic tone.

And also I want to say that the musical score and music playing during this episode (and throughout) have been literally the best on television. It set the tone and mood for the scene so beautiful.  Give a lot of credit to Siddhartha Khosla and Goldspot.

For the second time, I do recommend watching this episode for yourself. I think if you see what I mean that you would understand where I'm coming from. This episode is clearly worth watching.

Overall I give this episode a 10/10.

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

Fear is Not Real: Timeless "The World's Colombian Exposition"

Timeless is back and we pick off right where we left off and leaving us on the edge of our seats.

Wyatt and Rufus get back to present day and search for Lucy, even though they had to wait til the machine cools down for four hours. They find her in Chicago at the World's Fair in 1892. Trying to figure out why that time and place would be somewhat a plan from Flynn with a double edge sword

Flynn takes Lucy and tries to get Harry Houdini to get inside the meeting of three of the biggest minds of the 20th Century (Edison, Ford and Morgan). But when they get in, it back fires on Flynn and Houdini leaves Flynn handcuff for now and recuse Lucy.

Meanwhile, the other reason why Flynn chosen this time and place was to lured them into Murder Castle owned by H. H. Holmes. Trapped with two other people, Wyatt and Rufus tries to
breakaway and old brick to get someone to hear them as they are in an airtight soundproof room. They will escape thanks to Lucy and Harry and the meeting between Lucy and Wyatt was like fireworks.

They try to find Holmes but only found the caretaker. While looking for Holmes, Lucy spots a photo of Holmes and it turns out that the guy that was with Wyatt and Rufus was actually Holmes himself.

He takes her to the basement to burn her. Fear as she should, she learned what Harry had told her and used that against Holmes, pretending to be a psychic. That gave enough time for Wyatt and Rufus to get there and save her. Eventually, Wyatt kills Holmes and the three get back to present day. Rufus declares war against Rittenhouse, as he's done with the recordings. Of course, Mason doesn't like it, but goes with it.

At the end, Wyatt gets a call from Flynn about returning the favor that he promised back in the previous episode with Benedict Arnold. He give the name that killed his wife and where he is at, but he can't go there so suggested that he should go back and kill his parents or something to that nature.

This was one hell of an episode coming back from a month hiatus. The story was amazing and I was just overly amazed from what they really did in this episode from Holmes, Murder Castle, World's Fair and even Houdini as well.

It's just mind blowing. It literally took me awhile to figure out that the guy hanging with Wyatt and Rufus was Holmes. The writing was amazing, the performances from the actors was great as well. Overall I give this episode a 9/10.

Late last week, co creator Eric Kriple written a letter to fans about the state of the show. It list that the show is doing great on every level expect for live viewing and pleased fans to gets everyone to tune in 10/9c. Here's that tweet of the letter.

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

"Oh My God...."Grimm "Oh Captain, My Captain"

HOLY CRAP!!!! I think that's probably what I could describe in this week's explosion of Grimm.

"Oh, Captain My Captain" had everything we probably wanted and then some. I think when it's all said and done, this episode would have to be in my top ten list of favorite episodes.

With Nick still on the run, he plans to get back at Renard, being Renard himself. By that, he'll have to use the same trick that Adalind and Eve had pulled off, or as I love to call it, the hat trick.

But for it to work, they'll need some of Renard's hair, which left it up to Adalind and Monroe. The scene when Adalind gives Monroe Renard's hair and clothes and soon Renard shows up to change his shirt. Adalind puts him in the closet to get Renard out of the room. That scene was one of many humorist moments of the episode

When Monroe brings in a hair sample, Nick breathes in from the hat. He does nothing for a few seconds, but he soon works and transforms into a creepy, weird, and sweaty Renard. Nick freaks out because he's still in woge mode, but Rosalee calms him down. Another funny scene comes when Hank gets to the shop, and as he comes in, Nick yells at him about his resignation papers and gets Hank pissed off until Eve asks him if that is good. Hank's looks were just too funny.

Nick planned to go on live TV and announce that Renard would be stepping down as the new Mayor. Of course, the real Renard hears about it as Adalind tries to keep him in the house til the live announcement. Renard leaves with frustration and heads over to the station.

Nick and Hank get into the Captain's office and clean the place, taking the laptop and papers. Until Renard's new replacement captain comes in and wants to talk to Renard about the news, pissed off because Renard gave him a deal, kill Rachel Wood's partner, and he'll get the job. But Nick tells him that he won't get it due to blood on the shirt, and the guy woge and soon leaves.

Nick starts to feel something painful but moves on and tries to get out of there, but the press comes in asking questions. As he leaves them, he bumps into Renard at the parking lot, and he and Nick face off, but only for a bit until the press gets there.

Hank, Nick, and Wu return with what they've earned, but a sight problem comes: Nick can't change back. Well, his body was tired when he was in Renard's office. So when Renard called, they agreed to meet at Nick's loft on the rooftop.

As the two meet up, they exchange a couple of funny lines; one of them, if Nick shoots Renard, would that be considered suicide? The two finally battle it out until they can't take either down. But they made truths to go back to the showings and that Nick would raise his son and Adalind would come with him, but Diana would have to be shared with Adalind and Renard.

Nick gets back to the shop as Renard; no one can't find a way to help change back. But then Monroe wonders if Nick is Nick; that could be just the real Renard. But Eve figures they should ask Nick a question that only Nick knows. Adalind asks the first question about where they had their first kiss; he replies that it was at the table in their loft or in the woods that took her powers (yes, I still consider that a kiss). Adalind relaxes and tells everyone that it's Nick and that the kiss that took her powers wasn't a kiss. (yes, it was!!).

Without knowing how to change Nick, Diana soon wakes up and greets her daddy. Nick turns around, and she asks him what had happened, but he tells her that things are okay. She put her hand on his chest, and her eyes changed. And she told him he wasn't her daddy and pushed him with full force across the shop. But that helped Nick change back to himself, and Adalind rushed to his side and hugged each other, but as he looked at Diana and she looked at him, I'm not sure things were good.

As Renard gets to his home, he hears someone in the dark across the room. The guy says that he's still on the wrong side, and who pops up, Meisner!

This was hands down one of the best episodes so far. It had thrills, laughs, and excitement! Since it aired, I've watched it more times than the previous episodes. The writing was excellent. I thought that Claire and Silas did a fine job in that scene of picking clothes and hiding from Renard. Russell and Sasha had a heated exchange after Nick turned into Renard.

Give props to Sasha, too, for doing double duty along with the stunt doubles. It's probably one of his best works so far. As a Nadalind fan, I loved that scene when Adalind and Nick hugged each other after Nick turned back. I think we could all use a #NadalindHug after this episode.

And what can I say about David Giuntoil's television directorial debut? It was amazing!! I loved the camera work during the fight scene and when Nick was breathing in the smoke from the hat. Overall, I give this episode a 9/10.


You can catch the final chapter of Grimm on day nights at 8/7c on NBC

Family and Faith: Chicago PD "Don't Read the News"/"You Wish"/"Sanctuary"

"Don't Read the News"

When a dead girl's body is found on a school football field, it's not the first time this has happened in the neighborhood.

I thought this episode was excellent. Meam is interested in the case that the Intelligence Unit was trying to solve. When a photo of a teen girl is found dead at a school field, the unit learns that it's not the first time this has happened and that a serial killer is out there.

Voight and the team find there have been over nine murders over the past ten years, and none of them have been solved by the district unit, even though their excuse was that they had moved around a lot.

The suspect looked to be the boyfriend of the victim b, but there was a twist when the team found out the victim survived. They talked to her and had her look through some photos and found the guy who turned out to be the victim's boyfriend's stepfather—twisted, right?

The guy was a real prick when interviewed by Voight and Al, who tried to tell them that he didn't do it and that he knew the guy who gave the photos of the victims. Thank god he's locked up.

Other things: Erin gets to meet her father. They had an excellent meeting and carried on with a couple of dates later on. Of course, Jay, being the boyfriend and protector he can be, looks into the guy's background and past with flying colors.

And Adam Ruzek is gone for a while, undercover, that is. So that introduces us to Kenny, a detective who's previously worked with Voight. He didn't fit in at first, but he adjusted well.  

As I said, this episode was excellent. The writing was strong enough to keep my interest in the episode. Attacks played the best to their strengths. I wonder if this guy, who says to be Erin's father, is the real deal. I'm not so sure. That one thing I've learned from the past three and a half seasons: Never trust Bunny. Overall, I give this episode an 8/10.

"You Wish"

When a dead body turns up in an alley, it seems to be a hate crime, but it's somehow not what it seems.

"You Wish" had a good case of the week's storyline, but it wasn't the most interesting. When the Unit gets a call of a dead male body in an alley, they find that the victim lost a body part that's most valuable to him.

The search for answers went all the way to a runaway, who had an encounter with the victim, who tried attacking her sexually, but she got away by stabbing him with a knife, which was left inside a bush. Burgess gets into her first interview session, which is okay, but she falls for the suspect's lies.

After not coming up with anything else, they'd decided to look into the victim's past, which led to his ex-girlfriend. Atwater and Kenny interview the lady and tell her that she saw him a couple of nights ago (the night of the murder) but didn't let him in as she tells them he was hurting and banging on the door for help. But she called the special police (police for the apartment complexes) and gave the officer's name. That led to them interviewing the officer, and after leaving him alone to talk to the ADA, the officer tried to hang himself. That led to the lead officer coming in and talking to Voight about their history in another city, for which their boss misled them.

That might have been a good case of the week, but it was the story of Erin finding out that Jimmy isn't her father. That can be attributed to Halstead, who took his DNA from a cup and ran it. I don't know which was more difficult, that Jay was right or that Bunny once again pushed Erinn. I don't blame her for thinking he was her father; he had everything from the photos, but Bunny was being Bunny and thought he was her dad.

The scene when Erin tells Bunny about the DNA was the best location in the episode when Bunny tells her that she shouldn't tell him, and Erin pushes her breakfast out of the table. That's how I felt, too, not to mention yelled at the television. But there's a thinker in this episode; when Bunny comes to the station to talk to Hank, thinking that he ran the DNA, he tells him that he won. There was at that point where she told him to run a DNA on him to see if he was her father. That's something I consider looking into as much as I would never think Hank and Bunny having a one-night stand (EW! Hard to think about it!).

This episode had a good case of the week story but was overshadowed by the Erin/Bunny/Jimmy story. Sophia Bush is excellent with her character dealing with this father issue. Overall, I give this episode an 8.5/10.

"Sanctuary"

When the Intelligence Unit chases two suspects to a neighborhood church, faith and support get in the way of their investigation.

"Sanctuary" might be one of the most exciting episodes when it starts, but also satisfying when it ends.

When the unit got a call about a dead body found at a park, the suspects spotted a few blocks down. They chase them to a neighborhood church, but the unit can't get in until the priest tells them they can't come in because they believe they're innocent.

Things heat up when news gets around, causing people to demand those boys to come out. It gets so dicey that the victim's boyfriend throws a fire bottle in there, but Voight and the team get them out and into the station. They would be in there til they found the real suspect, who happened to be one of the interviewers who said it was those boys.

When the team checked the suspect's place, it looked abnormal. They found the suspect's roommate's head and hands in the freezer. After waiting, the suspect returns to his home but gets spooked and drives off. Crashing into a tree, Burgess and Al search for him in the woods til he has a gun aiming at Al, but with a tackle that's worthy of being called better than any tackles the Chicago Bears has done all season, he takes the guy down, breaking the guy's arm.

In the interview room, the suspect kept blaming the kids for the murder, but Voight told him that in his many years protecting and serving Chicago, listening to that has gotten tiresome and forced him to tell the truth by pulling on his broken arm. Ouch, right?

As I said, this episode had everything an attack could have: enjoyable, motivational, and satisfying. This was an excellent episode. The story was so good that I was moved by characters like Al, Burgess, and even Voight. After going through a lot of mixed emotions and burning a church, everyone from #OneChicago helped to rebuild the church, which was a moving moment that came at the end of this episode. Overall, I give this episode an 8/10.

You can catch Chicago PD when they return with a new episode on e Wednesday, February 8th at 10/9c on NBC.

Powerless (S1E1) Preview "Wayne of Lose"

"Wayne or Lose" 

In the series premiere of Powerless, In a world where humanity must cope with the collateral damge of Super Heroes and Super-Villains, Emily Locke (Vanessa Hudgens) begins her first day as Director of Research and Development for Wayne Security, a subsidiary of Wayne Enerprises that specializes in products that will help defenseless bystanders feel a little safer. Full of confidence with big ideas, Emily quickly learns that her expectations are far exceed those of her new boss, Van Wayne (Alan Tudyk) and office coworkers, so it will be up to her to lead this team toward their full potential and the realization that you don't  need superpowers to be a hero. Also starring are Danny Pudi, Christina Kirk and Ron Funches.

Here are some clips behind the scenes and interviews with cast members:

Sounds that Thrill: The Blacklist "The Forecaster (No. 163)"

When a calling card comes at the door of a murder happening, does Liz take the case? Of course she does!!!

"The Forecaster" might be one of the most thrilling episodes so far with the way it has been told. Liz and Tom are in their new apartment with Agnus and when Liz is about to leave for work and an collage of someone dead is laying in front of her door. Liz takes it to work and shows it and figures that a judge has been murdered and tries to see if Red knows anything about, for which he could only be brief about it. But for what we all know is that this collage predicted a murder would happen an hour before it happened. Spooky, right?

Meanwhile, while Tom and Agnus has a little daddy-daughter sing off and cleaning up, he sees someone walking up the door and dropping off another collage and this time he ran after the person. But as he runs off, he stops and runs back to attend Agnus because he doesn't want to lose that Father of the Week award.

That collage gives a clue about where the killing will take place, so Liz and the team stacked out. Liz got word about a finger print of the suspect that has been placing those collages at her front door. Soon someone on a bike appears, thinking that it might be him, until someone on a motorbike comes up and turns out that's the shooter and Liz saves the victim from getting killed.

Liz and Ressler interviews Fiona Driscoll about the collages and tells them that they are visions predicting these murders. Fiona shows them more of them, those that had happen and when she tells them that it's not her that's doing it but her daughter, Maggie. Maggie has some special disorders and apparently can hear things from other frequencies for which she has heard two men talking about the murders.

So Aram had the idea to use the frequencies that she hears in her hearing aid to their advantage on where that conversation she's been hearing from. It turns out the calls would be calling from the same apartment place as both the suspect and Liz spotted each other. The suspect makes his move quickly and grabbed the girl while Liz and Ressler got to the guy's apartment. Chasing the girl they got her back when turning up the frequencies all the way up to find her (screaming due to being so painful).

Liz wants to use the girl one more time and this time just before she's done with her arts and crafts, they know where the suspect was going to hit. Trying to warn security, too late for that Cooper! But as Liz and team goes in, Ressler goes across the street and spots the suspect cutting the cable of the elevator and soon shots the guy (dead). But Liz save the victim when the elevator was coming down fast.

That was a more interesting case of the week but I think it got a bit overshadow from Red's story plot when he rents an apartment of a former friend, who was shot to death. He meets with an associates of Iniko, Geoffrey, who he asked to invest in his business. It gets to be a cat and mouse type of game at the end when he brings in both Iniko and Geoffrey (who tries to kill his boss but fails). Iniko kills Geoffrey and Red kills Iniko after what he has done for the mining business and killing his good friend. And not to mention that he also took Iniko's cleaning crew, Sakiya and Fudo, who are now working for Red as Mr. Kaplan's replacement.

The one person concern about this is Dembe and he tries to talk to Red about it but he's not really paying attention. Dembe goes behind his back and tells Liz about it and tells her that Kaplan is died, for which we all know is not true as she's alive and somewhere on a mysterious truck ride with someone after a creepy weekend with some woodsman.

This was a lot better episode than last week. This episode has a lot of real interest from this week's case to Red's seeking revenge and Kate's replacement, for which as of now I've with Dembe concerning about Red. Also when Red asked Liz to see the new apartment he had a disappointing look on his face. The scene with Tom and Agnus was hilarious and fun. The writing was great and the cast performed very good. That actress who played Maggie were stole the show. Overall, I give this episode a 9/10.

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

Rise of the Queen: Victoria on Masterpiece Classice "Doll 123" Series Premiere

(Note: I will not compare this show to The Crown (Netflix) in any way because I haven't seen ALL of it yet. I'm reviewing/recapping it as I see it.)

When we last saw Jenna Coleman, we said goodbye to her as Clara Oswald over a year ago on Doctor Who in one of the most heart-wrenching goodbyes on the show. But now she has returned to television in a royal and dramatic role, Victoria, on Masterpiece Theater.

In the series premiere, "Doll 123," we come to the late night/early morning of the death of King William IV (Victoria's uncle) and travel to Victoria's home about it. Ther,e he can't sleep; Victoria gets the news and proceeds of the Royal exchange of power at 18.

Throughout the episode, she holds and plays with one doll that she got from her mother at the age of 11 and didn't put a crown on it til she learned about her taking over from her uncle at the age of 13. But at the end of the episode, she does put her doll away and moves on into business by signing papers. Throughout the episode, she tries to take things independently, including not having her mom and dad with her during some critical business.

She makes one of the biggest mistakes, accusing Lady Flora of having a child from her stepfather. That was proven wrong after she was ordered to have an exam by Flora's doctor, and when the news came, it wasn't a pregnancy but a tumor of massive size, too. She took a backlash from it from her family to even the press (that was leaked from her own family).

There are perfect moments, one of which is the relationship between Victoria and Lord Melbourne. At first, the two might seem to be a fit for a couple if Victoria had the idea, but I believe or can tell that they'll have an excellent working relationship like the classics of Jack and Liz (even though this isn't a comedy).

The episode displays a lot of beautiful scenery, even though some might have been CGI at times. The music score throughout the episode was stunning, and at times, when the score was during the scene of Victoria's crowning or Coronation, I couldn't stop humming it out of my head.

Coleman shines in this episode. I can feel through her eyes of her and her character's emotions. Also, the cast is impressive as well. Rufus Sewell is excellent and shows chemistry with Coleman—the writing of this episode intensifies. Overall, I give this episode an 8.5/10.

You can catch Victoria Masterpiece Theater (in the United States) at 9/8c on PBS.

Chicago Fire/Chicago PD: "Some Make It, Some Don't"/"Don't Bury This Case"

It's #OneChicago! Do I need to say more? Okay, maybe just buckle up for the ride.

The crossover event between Chicago Fire and Chicago PD has always been one of the better part of great television viewing, or in this case, like a great TV movie.

For the first part, "Some Make It, Some Don't," Casey and Dawson meets with DCFS about Louie's father coming back and wanting to take his son back. Of course, this doesn't get any easier for them, when news came that the guy is Louie's biological father, it struck hard for Dawson. The two went to a lawyer but they know that going forward that it's going to be a gamble.

Dawson and Casey decided to meet face to face with him and the two talked. Apparently he didn't know that he had a son til he got back from overseas. After that Dawson agreed to let him see him. That didn't quite workout when they were waiting at the meeting place and the guy didn't show up.

Meanwhile, Severide, who agreed to give bone morrow, meets the person that he's given it to and it may turn into a special relationship down the road. After a couple of meetings, Jeff informs him that the chemo isn't helping her and that they had to take her off of it. Severide was down and not only took the next day off but went drinking.

Let's hold Severide's story a little but and talk about one of the funniest story plots in the episode, ping-pong table. After a call of a student trying to take a barrow of beer and gets his arm stuck, the guys on 81 sees and takes a ping-pong table. It becomes one ping-pong 2017 with Otis, Herrmann and other playing like kids and busting things from doors to windows. It gets so bad that they come in during their off shift and play. Let me just say Miss. Connie wasn't liking it at all and at the end the staff of 81 took the table back. But soon gets a call about a car accident for which they took.

Truck 81 gets to the scene of a car hitting a van of a mother and daughter. Turns out that the car belongs to Severide and after taking care of the daughter and mother, the officers got word on who the car belongs to and Herrmann ask for the Intelligence Unit take care of it.

Severide wakes up in his living room with bottles of alcohol around and answers the door, turns out to be Erin and Voight. They ask him to get his jacket and to come down with them to the station with them. Severide has no clue what's going on and Erin tells him that his car was found at an accident.

After talking to Severide, word gets out that the mother is pulling through but the daughter had died. They charged Severide and puts him in the holding cell.

As the team investigates, already some of them think that he has done it (Halstead!) and others (Erin) think he deserves the benefit of the doubt to figure it out. After tracing Severide's steps, it seems that every points to that Severide had done it, but after interviewing him again, he remembers a few more things like after getting in his car, he stops and gets out because he had way too much and gets home with a spare key he had hidden. Also a tracker was found underneath the car.

That lead the team back to the bar that Erin and Halstead where at and spotted one of the valet guys taken the car and placing a tracker on it. That lead to grabbing him and setting up a sting, but that backfired when he got spooked  and that lead to one of the best car chases on CPD in a while that just left me on the edge of my seat. But soon they lost the guys but found the car.

There were some personal moments through this episode from Casey talking to Voight about Severide and even Severide and Erin having a moment that kind of really set the tone for the rest of the episode and that was to get Kelly out of there fast.

Atwater knows someone that could help, when they go there apparently he knows what they're talking about and helps take them there. Arresting the leader of the group, Voight has a nice talk with the guy and tells him that if he talks he'll walk out with his business in hand. That lead to a name but the guy apparently he's in hiding from what he has done but demands money from him. So to get him out of hiding, they took the suspect's mother and takes a photo of her in the truck of the car for proof to be here. He comes and get ambushed by Halstead and is taken into the station. The suspect's friend talks about how it all went down and that it wasn't Severide that caused the accident. Severide got released and walks with Erin out of the prison gates, hoping that things between them would be okay and thanked her.

This was one hell of a two hour event that still after almost two weeks it still holds up. As always Fire played with the emotions and humor while PD settles not only with emotion and mystery but on the edge of your seat action like the car chase scene that's one of my favorites. I think Severide will probably get a bit too close to that patient that he's helping. I really think that Burgess is going to have a tough time at first being with Al on the team, but I think she can make it. That was kind of funny on Al's reaction about Burgess partnering up with him. Great writing from both shows and great performances from the cast too. Overall, I give this crossover a 9/10.

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

Be Kind Go: The Good Place "Chapter 11: What's My Motivation"

Maybe instead of Pokemon Go, this would be a better version called Be Kind Go (yeah that didn't sound good but it was a thought).

When we last left, Tahani had an idea to make sure Eleanor stayed in The Good Place she can earn enough points back so that her points made sure she can stay. But that would come to an issue when looking at the points, the (fake) Eleanor actually has over -4,000 points but the average is over 1.2 million. Yeah, seems impossible right?

Tahani helped (Fake) Eleanor by doing kindness like holding doors open and saying kind things like have a nice day and such. But that seem to backfire after saying those nice things, those gave her the stink eye and nothing goes up in the points meter.

So Tahani had the idea to have a town hall kind of meeting with the people of the Good Place about Eleanor. There were a few that didn't like her because of what she has done. So Tahani had another idea to throw a party to lighten everyone to like Eleanor.

Meanwhile, (real) Eleanor and Chidi had breakfast together and she had a hidden message for him inside a poached egg, that read "I Love You." But to Chidi, he thought it was from the egg and realized that she was the one that loved him, putting him in an awkward spot and asked (fake) Eleanor for advice. That advice seemed to help in the points because it bump up a bit.

Michael figures out about Jianyu is really Jason Mendoza, who happens to be like Eleanor and also learned that he and Janet are married. Michael interviews Jason again like Eleanor but this time, it seemed that he was a lot worst than she was and literally gave Michael chest pains (Jianyu broke Michael!!!). We also learn how he died and that it was mistaken when the real Jianyu was in a meta state of mind and got crossed with Jason. Also the two have the same IQ: a seven year old mind.

At the party, Tahani and Eleanor hopes that this would work, but after a disappointing Michael gave a disappoint speech, Eleanor gave a speech about how sorry she was about the stuff she has caused. But it seemed that it just wasn't working until she made a joke with Pobody's Nerfect and got a lot of laughs, but it just didn't seem to work in earning points. But it gave Eleanor the reason why it wasn't working and went off to do what she thought was best...leaving The Good Place for good.

As she wait for the train, Janet and Jason try to leave too, because they love one another (it's so humorist Ex-Machina, right?). There a train rolls in, it's Sean, the judge, and as he gets off, the three get on and take off. As Michael tells Sean about Eleanor thinking he has a strong case, Sean tells him about them leaving on his train and we see Eleanor out the window saying sorry to everyone.

This was another superb episode that had a lot of great moments from Janet and Jason of their love for one another (especially the scene about her having many tongues) to Michael and Jason having their interview, which was second funniest behind the tongue bit. Manny Jacinto really stole this episode. Bell and Jamil work so well in this one as well. There's still a bit inside me that hopes Chidi and (fake) Eleanor might have strong feelings for one another, but I think that's just my reaction hopes from last week's episode. The writing was really good. Overall, I give this episode a 9/10.

You can catch the one hour Judgement Day season finale of The Good Place this Thursday night at 8/7c on NBC.

Powerless: New DC Universe Comedy

Coming to NBC Thursdays this February, a new team of heroes helping those from superheroes.

Powerless takes place in the DC Universe and follows the adventures of Emily Locke (Vanessa Hudgens) as the director of Research and Development at Wayne Security (a subsidiary of Wayne Enterprises that's run by Bruce Wayne's cousin), that specializes on products to help ordinary humans who are victims of the battle between superheros and supervillians.

Along with Hudgens, Danny Pudi (Community), Alan Tudyk (Zootopia), Christina Kirk (A to Z), Ron Funches (Undateable), Kate Micucci (Garkfunkel and Oates and Ducktails) and Josh Fadem (30 Rock and Key & Peel) stars in the show. Developed by Ben Queen, creator of A to Z and co creator of Drive, this is the first sitcom comedy series set within the DC Universe.

Here's a couple of promos:

The series premiere of Powerless begins February 2 at 8:30/7:30c after Superstore o NBC.

Grimm "Trust Me Knot"

Trying to escape, making a bloody deal and a fun way of babysitting, this week's episode of Grimm might has been addicting just like Nick and his stick.

"Trust Me Knot" picks off where we left in the previous episode, Renard has his squad (cops) moving towards Bud's shop, while Nick sees them coming he pushes everyone back to the shop. And just before that all happens with a nervous Monroe, he tells everyone Rosealee's pregnant.

Just as that happens, Hank and Wu arrested Renard for the murder of Rachel Wood. Of course, he had no choice and it just seem so good to watch him being take down, even if it was for that minute.

Moments later the squad breaks in and grabs Nick. As they search him, one officer finds the stick and with a second later the stick just so happens to blow the squad out, out cold. Something really tells me that this isn't just a healing stick after all. That gave Nick time to dress up and divert the others out as they think that Nick got away. That gave them enough time to take the SWAT truck and drive off to some place safe, this time the underground where Monroe tells Nick there's another way in.

I don't know about you, but when Hank and Wu walked Renard in the station to the interrogation room, I just got the chills from that scene. I think watching them interview him about the murder and given his alibi, for which he tells them Bonaparte (but they didn't know that he's dead til Nick told them later).

Renard calls for a layer, Adalind, for help. She asked Rosealee and Monroe to look after the kids. Monroe worried about Diana and who wouldn't, right? But I think that babysitting Diana would be a pretty cool time, consider what she has done while Uncle Monroe was watching her. She levitated a lot jars at the spice shop making a really pretty scene.

Meanwhile, Adalind gets meeting with Renard and he asked her to help get him out. But she doesn't want to lie and get in trouble too so she turned him down (thinking of her children first). But when Nick calls her he asked for a favor about making a deal with someone who hates him. He tells her to meet him at the place where she told him she loved him (the loft or from).

As Hank and Wu bring Renard to the loft, there Nick tells him that he know where he was the night of Rachel's murder. There he tells him in order to keep that from leaking, he'll make a deal for his release and not come after him and that would be Adalind testifies where he was. With this deal there has to be common ground agreement and nothing says that like a Trust Me Knot, which is a blood oath that both keep their side of the deal: Adalind testifies for Renard and Nick can be free.

The scene with Adalind spilling blood on the rope for the trust me knot to work was amazing!!!

While back at the shop, nothing seems to work on that cloth. But when Diana comes down, she can see everything on it and draws it on paper. To them it's something that none of them: Rosealee, Monroe and Adalind has ever seen. Seems like we got ourselves a mystery here.  But while figuring that out, Trubel gets a call from H.W. and requested her to come. She has to leave but she wants Nick to come too as they're calling for Grimms. Nick tells her that he can't (after looking at Adalind).

But moments later when Hank called that Renard's trial was happening now, but that deal that they made turn out different when the Judge called for a mistrial and Renard went free, which means that the deal has been broken like it never happened. That means that Nick is back on the hiding and Adalind (even though she doesn't like it) has to go back living with Renard (for which I wouldn't agree because of Renard's meeting with the Judge and ADA about killing Nick and his friends). Renard calls one of his officers and told them to get Nick and walks out smiling.

This was a really good episode, from beginning to the end. There were some intense moments like from the beginning. There were humorist moments like Uncle Monroe babysitting Diana and Bud calling Renard "a dick." There was a lot that filled up and satisfied and also worried towards the next installment. I thought that Sarah Roz was amazing along with David Giuntoli, mostly during the can't resist holding the stick. And not to mention, Hannah Loyd as Diana. She's really stealing some great scenes. The writing was excellent. Overall, I give this episode a 9/10.


You can catch the final chapter of Grimm Friday nights at 8/7c on NBC.

Grimm "Fugitive" Season Premiere

I know it's been a week since the season premiere of Grimm, but I wanted to take my time by re-watching it over and over to get a feel of it and let me say: I still got the same feelings when I watched it the first time.

"Fugitive" is a real roller coaster ride of an episode as it starts from where they left off when Nick and Renard are at a standstill after Renard killed Bonaparte. From then on, he goes off to the races with the team Grimm underneath the loft, trying to find a way out. When he returns to check on Nick, he almost gets his neck cut by Trubel.

When he returns to his place, he tells her that Bonaparte is dead and that he did it but doesn't remember how. But it gives him a good guess that Diana was the one that did it. As soon as he gets his stuff h, he tells her that she should fall in love with him and that she'll pay the hard way.

Renard puts an APB out on Nck, dead or alive, for the acts that he has caused. Wu and Hank return to the station to check things out, while Monroe and Rosalee decide not to tell anyone about the pregnancy (because who knows what will happen next, right?). Nick calls Adalind to see if he's okay and asks him to come over. He gets there, and it's one of those calm moments of the episode that we'll call (for Nadalind fans) the best scene when they kiss and agree with Kelly.

When Rosealee, Monroe, Ee, and Trubel get to the spice shop, Eve and Monroepickupp pick up the dead bodies, and the hand of the dead body grabs on. Eve is in a trans and sees the guy pulling her. Rosealee calls this a death grip aandsto,p and she stops chopping. Itshabitatt seems that the stick is more powerful than we all think, and maybe not keep it for a while, but for Nick, I don't think he'll let it go.

Nick gets word about the APB out on him and hides at Bud's shop. He gets the gang back to see what he can do next. The best part would be to leave as you soon Renard gets Bud's place on surveillance,

Meanwhile, when Hank and Wu return, they get test results on Rachel Wood's Wood findings that Renard's fingerprints were over. It seems they have a hand to stop Renard.  It leaves on a nice cliffhanger that probably wanted us to wish this a two-hour premiere.

This was a great kick-off to the season premiere; in a way, it rained at 1,000 miles per hour!!! I loved it, I IIownedt, and as it ended, I w I a, need more of it. I loved the Nick/Adalind and Monroe/Rosealee scenes as they provided calmness before the intense rush came through. The writing was good, and even the actors were terrific. Overall, I give it a 9/10.

You can catch Grimm on Friday nights at 8/7c on NBC.

Good Fix, Not Enough Story: The Blacklist Lipet's Seafood Company"

New year, new episode!!

Thank god, The Blacklist is back!! I've been getting a little bored during the month and a half since the show's fall finale. I got to have my Reddington fix.

"Lipet's Seafood Company" is a great episode if you haven't seen the series yet (like Chicago Med). The question that we've been wondering since we heard about it in the promo is, who's the mole on the team?

Here's what stood out in this episode: One, Aram dealing with the aftermath of being hacked of highly classified information. If you remember, he got into a relationship with an enemy that he had no clue she was part of and hacked the post office. That didn't sit well with the US Attorney, and she interviewed him about it. He admits that he's horrible at picking relationships, and after knowing about Samar's mole doing (that's right, she was the mole, but to save her ex-boyfriend), he breaks off their date.

Another Liz and Tom finally get to have an everyday life. Now that Kirk is somewhere that he can no longer be found or heard, Liz and her family get to have a routine so-called life. She returns to the FBI hoping to be an agent, but it won't happen because she shot the US Attorney (Season 2). But Red, who made a couple of deals with the higher job (President-elect), soon gets her badge back.  


I found that the case this week was a bit disappointing but entertaining at the same time. There were a few perfect moments, but the case for this episode didn't stick to me like the rest. The one thing that popped into my head when seeing fish and computer chips was thinking of getting fish and chips.

Nonetheless, even though the story wasn't as strong, the actors' performance helped pull off this episode. Will I rewatch this episode down the road? Maybe. Will I remember it? It's probably from drone to cheeseburger chowder. Overall, I give this episode a 7.5/10.


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

A thrilling Twist: Chicago Med "Uncharted Territory"

New Year, new episodes of TV's best medical drama, and if you haven't seen Chicago Med, this episode would be the one to hook you.

"Uncharted Territory" is one of those episodes that you don't need to go back and rewatch the previous episodes to catch up. This one was like this is what Med is, and enjoy. And boy, was this episode enjoyable.

The episode had two great story plots: Dr. Manning's treating a young 20-year-old with what was thought to be one thing but goes a complete 360 when it was all done, and it didn't end on any good note. This one stunts me as a viewer who thought this kid would improve. But it did give us some excellent Manning-Halstead scenes.

The second, Dr. Choi treats two MMA fighters, two different kinds of people with their brothers hating on each other. One tries to find peace, while the other thinks it's all in the rules. It's something that Choi has seen before, and why, trying to be the ref between one another, one of the patients takes a turn for the worst and goes brain-dead. After watching a family forgive the fighter, Choi takes the fighter's brother and tries to make things up.

Others: Charles gets his head twisting and turning when he has to give his two cents on a patient who needs a new heart, but the problem is that she's had a bad past with alcohol but has been cleaned for three months with help from her daughter and willpower. But he doesn't think that's what cuts to get a new heart. I also believe that not only was his decision based on what his brother did but also on his relationship with his daughter and Rhodes.

And not to mention: April is back to work but gets worrisome news about her baby's health due to the medication that she's on. Her finances suggest that maybe it would be best to terminate the pregnancy, but of course, she won't do that at all. The two seem to be on separate terms right now.

This episode was one of the show's best so far this season. The characters drove it. The writing was so good, as was the performance from Torrey DeVitto and even Brian Tee. Manning's storyline was a roller coaster kind of a ride following it.

Overall, I give this episode a 9.5/10.

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

A Ring of Memories: Kevin Can Wait "Ring Worm"

New Year, New Episode!!

When Kendra questions on the whereabouts of Chale, Kevin digs into it and gets a reminder of a promise that he had made long ago.


When Kevin finds out what Chale has been up to, working to save money to buy Kendra an engagement ring, it pop into Kevin's head that he promised Donna that he would get her a better one than he got her. Jumping to 20 plus years, he forgets and tries to make it right.

That leads to trouble when it comes to getting the money. He gets advice from his brother and friend about sneaking money into the account with her seeing the bank statement, that he thinks comes in the mail but didn't know you can check in online (uh oh!).

So when she sees that $6,000 was transferred into their checking account, Kevin tells her that he was going to buy and dirt bike but she disapproves it but she quickly learns from Chale that he was going to use the money to buy her a ring. After feeling bad and getting excited she plays him into getting the bike. That gets Kevin thinking that he should get the bike and not the ring and when it came time to getting the bike, Donna thinks they were getting a ring along the way.

But it was until they get to the bike shop and sees what Kevin wants to buy. Disappointed and wanting to go home, Kevin tries to get her to open the hatch on the back of the bike but after the third time he tells her, she did and sees the ring.

It lead to a really good surprise that really ended up that Donna didn't want the ring after all since her regular one contains so much memories. But she proposes to him on getting that bike and the two rides around the woods in front of the kids popping wheelies and splashing mud on Jack, their son.

This was a good episode to start the new year, there were hilarious moments at times and there were some that didn't stick out. But watching Kevin and Donna is enough in this episode to be hilarious. I find the Chale-Kendra story plot okay there was some okay moments, let along better when Kendra and Kevin were having a daughter-dad talk. Also the cold opening of the spider was funny and the breakfast scenes with the kids as well.

Overall, I give this episode a 8.5/10.

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

The Choice: The Good Place: "Chapter 10: Chidi's Choice"

Love was somewhere in the air in this week's return episode of the new year.

As Michael tries to find a way to figure out how (fake) Eleanor can stay in the good place, (real) Eleanor goes her way and conducts an interview with (fake) Eleanor to see what they could use in their argument.

When she told them about how a big mess she made the first day, she then told about hoe Chidi has helped her, she returned the favor and described him in many ways. (Real) Eleanor thinks that she might have a crush on Chidi and thinking about she thinks she really does.

While back at Michael's office, him and Chidi try to work up something that could help them with Eleanor, but it gets complicated due to Chidi's lack of making a decision, for which happens to be his biggest issues. Michael tries to help him make a decision but it was just useless and we see flashbacks of him trying to make a decision from as a child to being a best man for his friend's wedding and even trying to pick a place to get a beer, for which caused him to go to his death.

(Fake) Eleanor pulls away Chidi from Michael and expressed her feelings for him but soon after Tahani learned that Jianyu isn't who he says he is and learns about the painting that Chidi made, she too expressed her love to Chidi. Talk about a real bachelor series going on or either someone turned up the romance love to 5 clicks.

Chidi leaves and talks to Michael about it. Michael thinks all of this is caused by him and so he takes him to the frozen yogurt shop and tries to make him make a decision. I feel like he'd picked (fake) Eleanor, which I was hoping but by the time he gets there to make his decision, she tells him that  it might not be love but she thinks of him as a best friend savoir kind of relationship. Also we see how Chidi dies too from a fallen air conditioner that he hit in his place, while talking about his best man speech and while choosing a place it fell right on him. Holy Crap!!!

At the end, (real) Eleanor comes back and over hears that Tahani has an idea of keeping (fake) Eleanor in the Good Place and heads over to Michael.

Other things: After Tahani's upset with Jianyu, Janet comes and cheers him up with his favorite food. He wonders why has she been nice to him as it was the same way he treated her when she was rebooted and then the two fell in love and got married on the same day. It was one of the funniest moments throughout the episode, even the wedding was too.

Not to mention that (fake) Eleanor and Tahani had a very nice BFF time while waiting for Chidi to make a decision. Watching a classic BBC comedy series, for which I have no clue how a show lasted 16 years with 30 episodes, and also braiding hair as well. You know finally these two seem to be the best friends that they seem to be.

I thought that this episode as it's first in the new year was really good. There were a lot of great moments, mostly about love and decision making. I thought that everyone played so well with one another from Kristen Bell to Jameela Jamil to William Jackson Harper and even D'Arcy Carden to Manny Jacinto as they were amazing and so funny. After waiting about two months, it wouldn't have bothered me waiting (because I still have the episodes on my DVR and I watch them a lot when I get bored).

Overall, I give this episode a 9/10.

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