Superstore "Cloud 9 Academy" Episode Preview

Here's a preview of next Thursday's return of Superstore titled, "Cloud 9 Academy."

"Cloud 9 Academy"

Amy and Cheyenne attend Cloud 9 Academy to advance their careers. Dina and Garrett get roped into babysitting Glenn's daughter while he childproofs his office and Jonah and Mateo become political activists.

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You can catch the return of Superstore next Thursday at 8/7c on NBC! 

NBC Renews Brooklyn Nine-Nine for Season 7

Looks like the 99 will be staying on NBC for another year.

TVLine has learned that NBC has renewed Brooklyn Nine-Nine for a seventh season.

"It's been one of our great joys as a network to give Brooklyn Nine-Nine a second life," said Lisa Karz and Tracey Pakosta, Co-Presidents of Scripted Programming, NBC Entertainment. "Cheers to Dan Goor, Mike Schur, Luke Del Tredici and David Miner, and out amazing cast and crew who each week turn New York's finest into New York's funniest."


The once FOX series, now NBC, made it's debut on Thursday, Jan. 10 with 3.56 million total viewers and a 1.2 rating, improving on it's time slot predecessor Will & Grace' fall average by 50 percent, while hitting a two-year demo high. Also versus its previous season opener, B99 was up 82 and 71 percent.

The news of the pick up follows the previous renewals of The Good Place for Season 4 and Will And Grace for Season 11.

You can catch Brooklyn Nine-Nine  Thursdays at 9/8c on NBC.

Our Air: This Is Us "Our Little Island Girl"

Last week's episode of This Is Us was another brilliant and beautiful episode of the season. Here's a recap!

As Beth and Zoe drove to visit to check on Beth's mother after learning she bruised her hip at school. We see not a warming mother that we would imagine but a mother that is driven to make her daughter and niece be the best; considering that Zoe's work isn't what she calls potential but when she learns that Beth was laid off from work, she starts to help her find another law firm.

Throughout the episode, we see a flashback of a young Beth going for ballet and trying to get her parents to agree to let her join a top ballet academy. While she's trying her best and making a few mistakes, she sees what would be her competition. But at home, she and Zoe learn of Beth's father diagnosed with lung cancer and things start to go from "go for your dreams" to "stop dreaming" and think about the future for which she did and goes to a college meet and greet where she bumps into Randall.

Back to the present, Beth confronts to her mother and not only tells her about why she doesn't bring her girls to visit but that she could have been a great ballet dancer. Her mother agrees and thought that she did it for the best just like her own mother did it for her. Later as Beth comes home, she tells Randall that she knows what she wants to do next: ballet teacher.

"Out Little Island Girl" was such an amazing, beautiful and strong episode. The performance from Susan Kelchi Watson was outstanding and I would consider it to be an Emmy nomination for it. Not to mention that Phylicia Rashad's performance was stunning and we got to see how and why we see Beth as she is as a realist and not like Randall or her father. The episode had strong writing and character development for Beth and her mother. Overall, I give this episode a 9.5/10.

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

NBC Renews Chicago Med, Chicago Fire & Chicago PD

Looks like NBC will be sticking put in the Windy City.

On Tuesday, the network announced that it has renewed Chicago Fire, Chicago PD and Chicago Med.

Chicago Fire has been picked up for an eighth season, while Chicago PD and Med will return in their seventh and fifth seasons.

"We remain in awe of the job Dick Wolf, our producers, casts, and crew do in creating some of the most compelling television today," NBC's Co-Presidents of Scripted Programming Lisa Karz and Tracey Pakosta in a statement. "The Chicago franchise is a lynchpin of our schedule and we're thrilled that audiences have embraced out Wednesdays with such incredible passion for these shows and characters."

Both Med and Fire are each averaginb a 1.3 demo ratng thus far this season. It's currently tie for second among all NBC dramas, trailing only This is Us. Chicago PD averages 1.1 demo rating, ranking sixth.

In total viewers, Med, Fire and PD rank No. 24 among NBC dramas, drawing 8.4 million, 8.1 million and 7.2 million weekly.

You can catch Chicago Med, Fire and PD Wednesdays at 8/7c on NBC.

Chicago Med "Old Flames, New Sparks" Episode Preview

Here's a preview of this Wednesday's episode of Chicago Med titled, "Old Flames, New Sparks."

"Olf Flames, New Sparks"

Natalie and Will grow further apart; while Dr. Charles struggles to come to terms with his feelings towards his ex-wife. The personal issues between Rhodes and Bekker continue to cause problems at the hospital.

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Oh man! Seems like Dr. Charles will be doing everything to help his ex-wife. I still have hope for Natalie and Will and that they are going to have to work together if they want to get back together. I still have hope! As for Coner and Ava, I'm starting to see it now from Ava with how she's been acting and I just love the intense drama between these two.



You can catch Chicago Med Wednesdays at 8/7c on NBC.

Life In Pieces Gets Premiere Date

Well, finally the wait is over!

On Monday, CBS has announced the premiere date for Life In Pieces. The date is set for Thursday, April 18, TVLine has learned.

The fourth season comedy will kick off with two episodes, airing at 8:30 pm and 9:30 pm, before settling into it's regular 9:30pm time slot on Thursday, April 25 (which is currently airs Niva Dobrev's hit comedy Fam, which will wrap up its Season 1 run by that time).

Season four is described, the Short family, "welcomes a few new family members and weathers an unexpected health crisis" in the new episodes, and "some long-hidden secrets are revealed in an unexpected way." 

Back in August, TVLine reported exclusively that Joey King (the real-life sister of Hunter King, aka Life in Pieces' Clementine) will recur in Season 4 as Morgan, a pregnant 17-year-old who plans to place her baby with adoptive parents Math (Thomas Sadoski) and Colleen (Angelique Cabral).

Life In Pieces also stats Dianne Wiest, James Brolin, Zoe Lister0Jones, Colin Hanks, Betsy Brandt, Dan Bakkedahl, Niail Cummingham, Holly J. Barrett,, and Giselle Eisenberg.

After hearing the news, I'm literally on cloud nine as I think that Life in Pieces is CBS best comedy right now. From the beginning when I heard and saw the first trailer that this show brilliant and it really has proven after three seasons that it's my top list of comedies to watch. 

Triple Dragon Cleanup: Brooklyn Nine-Nine "The Honeypot"

As Jake help Holt search for a new assistant, Amy helps out with the team of cleaning their desk. Here's a recap!

As Captain Holt goes through and interviews candidates as his Gina's replacement, Jake offers his help and gives his acceptance. Later Jake finds the perfect candidate, which later after hiring him Jake feels that he's a spy from John Kelly. In order to find out that he is a spy, they had to distract him so Jake could copy the guy's laptop drive.

After what took so long, Jake finds nothing but it was soon that the guy would come to him and Holt and confess that he's a spy for Kelly. Soon the three devise a plan to get Kelly but as the plan goes in play, Holt and Jake get doubled crossed or did they as Holt comes up with a backup plan called Triple Dragon and gave his demands to Kelly of what he wants or he'll turn tapes and recordings of him. The 99 is back!!

Meanwhile, Terry notices that everyone's desk is a bit messy and while everyone agreed they asked for someone to help with that problem: Amy. Amy gives them orders of how to get things organized, but no one wants to throw out anything because it gives them joy. Soon Amy decides to go hardcore and gets everyone to put their non-important stuff in trash bags and set them on fire.

But when she sees Terry's suspenders still in his desk, Amy learns the real meaning of keeping those suspenders because they were for him when he passed the lieutenants exam that he didn't pass. The next day, Amy puts the lieutenant's books for Terry to study and taking the test again.

"The Honeypot" was another marvelous and hilarious episode. By the time the show ended, I wanted more and more. From the Holt and Jake's taking down an assistant that is spying on them, which I enjoyed a lot to Amy ship shaping the team's messy desk, which at first I didn't think would be all fun but it turned out to be better than what I thought it would come out to be. It gave a nice moment with Amy and Terry as he opens up why he keeps his suspenders. Strong character development plus the writing and the performances were awesome too. Overall, I give this episode a 9/10.

You can catch Brooklyn Nine-Nine Thursdays at 9/8c on NBC!!

Brooklyn Nine-Nine "The Honeypot" Episode Preview

Here's a preview of this Thursday's episode of Brooklyn Nine-Nine titled, "The Honeypot."

"The Honeypot"

Jake and Holt clash over the merits of a new hire in the 99th precinct. While Terry, Amy, Rose, and Charles try to do something about the cluttered bullpen.

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You can catch Brooklyn Nine-Nine Thursdays at 9/8c on NBC!

Chicago Fire/Chicago PD Crossover Event: "What I Say"/"Good Men"

Here's a preview of this week's two-hour epic crossover event between Chicago Fire titled, "What I Saw" and Chicago PD titled, "Good Men."

Chicago Fire: "What I Saw"

In the first part of the crossover event with Chicago PD, a spate of robberies comes to light after a firehouse lockbox key goes missing. CPD's Voight has suspicions that a firefighter may be involved, and with Boden's support, he recruits Cruz to go undercover and help sniff out any suspicious activity.

Chicago PD: "Good Men"

In the second part of the crossover with Chicago Fire, using information from CFD's Cruz, Intelligence chases down the robbery crew that's been using the lockbox key. Voight is under pressure to bring the crew to justice without tarnishing the reputation of a murdered firefighter who might have been involved.

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I literally can't wait to see this crossover!! I hope we get to see Halstead riding his motorcycle again. That was total badass.

You can catch the two-show crossover event Chicago Fire at 9/8c and Chicago PD at 10/9c Wednesday on NBC!

Creepy Crawlers: The Blacklist "General Shiro (No. 116)"

Move over Stewmaker (even though you're dead) there's a new Blacklister that's just as creepier! Here's a recap!

There's been a string of murders of highly corporate people dying from deadly bugs that come out of their bodies. Freaky, no? Reddington gives Liz and the task force a name to look into and as they hunt down and as Liz and team learn of that the reason these guys are dying was business of making money and not saving the environment. As Liz and Ressler learn who General Shiro is, they go after him but a bit late when he pulls not only another stunt to the chairman committee but also himself when he is arrested.  But Dembe gets help from Liz to look into Shiro's office for a file that could help Reddington.

Meanwhile, Reddington tries to stay afloat when it's time to pick the jury for the trial. Trying what he can, Red gets Dembe to ask Glenn for help but turns out Glenn would be the lord and savior for Red. But after what seemed to fight for him to stay on the jury, Glenn messes it up and gets dismessed. Thanks, Jelly Bean! Now looks like the fate of Red could be the end is near unless he can get something going with whatever Shiro had in the file.

I very much enjoyed this episode from the beginning to the end. The deadly bug thing was not only creepy but so awesome. But it was during the jury finding began to get intense with nervousness, mostly coming from Glenn when he came in. As much as I could say those were my favorite moment of the episode, there were more from Red and Cooper smoking cigars and chatting, Dembe telling Red that he's screwed but Red tells him to keep the faith, and the talk between Liz and Dembe near the end which gave me chills beyond words. Any chance that Dembe knows what Liz knows? Overall, I give this episode a 9/10.

You can catch The Blacklist this Friday with a two-hour episode event beginning at 8/7c on NBC.

Making a Promise: Brooklyn Nine-Nine "The Crime Scene"

When a crime scene gets difficult for Jake and Rosa to solve; Jake ups the difficulty by making a promise to the victim's mother that they'll solve it. Here's a recap!

With only being about two characters in this episode, was probably one of the funniest episodes of the season so far. When Jake and Rosa are dealt with a very difficult murder case but things didn't add up. But when Jake meets with the victim's mother and makes a promise to solve the case, Jake doesn't stop cracking the case. From placing red sticky notes as blood on Amy while sleeping to even not wearing any pants in the victim's home, drew the lines that Jake overthinking and Rosa decided to give the case to major crimes.

But the tables turn when Rosa and Jake tell the victim's mother that the case was too hard to crack. After looking at the mother, Rosa changed her mind and makes the same promise to her like Jake did early and tells Jake that she did because she reminded her of her mother. Just as they go back, the apartment was clean from top to bottom, but Jake and Rosa hear something rattling in the air vents where Jake spots wrappers and empty bottles that indicates that someone was hear when CSI was going through the room. Looking at the tape, they see their suspect and soon picks him up and books him!

After closing the case, Rosa tells Jake that she called her mother to meet with her. After an awkward couple of seconds of meeting, Jake leaves and Rosa and her mother seem to be on good terms now after she came out as bisexual last season.

"The Crime Scene" was such a strong and hilarious episode. It's probably one of my favorites so far this season, only this being the sixth episode of the season. I thought the characters were amazing and the development of Jake and Rosa was beautifully written. Not only was Rosa and her mother meeting was a great scene, but I also couldn't get enough of the CSI guy and Jake arguing about great cop shows that are based on their squad. Overall, I give this episode a 9/10.

You can catch Brooklyn Nine-Nine Thursdays at 9/8c on NBC.

Chicago Med "We Hold These Truths" Episode Preview

Here's a preview of this week's episode of Chicago Med titled, "We Hold These Truths."

"We Hold These Truths'

After witnessing a pick-up truck plowing through a street fair, Natalie and Maggie are forced to make some tough decisions on the fly The doctors and nurses of Chicago Med find themselves on high alert with the influx of patients arriving in need of aid. And D. Charles ex-wife comes to town with some news.

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Holy crap! Looks like this week is gonna be another must-see week! I just wonder what new Dr. Charles would be getting and would it have to do with Robyn.

You can catch Chicago Med Wednesdays at 8/7c on NBC!

Sidetrack: Chicago PD "Ties That Bind"

When the Intelligence unit gets close to capturing an arms dealer, it leads to two of the members being held captive for money. Will the team save them, or will it be too late? Here's a recap!

Reality Check: Chicago Med "Can't Unring That Bell"

Maggie fights to keep her patient by making a sacrifice. Conner is in a situation about his decision-making of a former patient. At the same time, Will deals with not only his patient but also Conner's patient. Here's a recap!

Maggie's friend comes back to the ED again for fluid overload. But when she finds out that her patient is at the bottom of the kidney transplant, she makes the most significant decision of donating her kidney to her. Of course, Sharon does what she can to stop it, but after Maggie offers the FMLA card, Sharon understands and approves the transplant.

Conner learns that he's under review about the patient he placed in the ICU (the one where Jay got answers to where Will was being held). After learning that everything was okay, Ava said that she thought Conner did what he did to save the patient. But after talking with Lanik, Conner thinks who could have turned him in for that committee review, Ava? He confronts her and asks her and thinks that she needs help, but she tells him that he's the one who needs help.

Will deals with what I would call a hit of objective reality. Not only does he help try to save a patient who's gone into cardiac arrest and trying to keep him alive, but he sees Conner's patient was shot by a gun that had his stolen gun. He tries to see any updates on Conner's patient and learns that the kid has a bullet in the spine and can't feel his left leg, but no surgery as it could be even worse. But Will talked to the parents and got them to want the surgery, which he did, and it worked. But Will was advised to get his head out of his ass.  As for Will's patient, his heart wasn't working after what seemed to be 30 minutes of CPR, so I had to stop and let him go.

Also, Natalie treats the baby she delivered a while ago, and the mother dies. She and the baby's father seem to get close and even get questioned by Will. But Natalie tells him she's just comforting him and that he could lose his baby. Dr. Charles' date seemed to go well till he learns that his date has a daughter who's a drug addict, and after trying to save her from what appeared to be a heart condition, she bails out of the ED to get drugs again.

"Can't Unring That Bell' was another excellent and intense episode. I enjoyed the Maggie storyline as she's trying to help save a patient that she ignored. What a strong performance from Marlyne Barrett. As for Conner and Ava, I can't pick a side as to whether she's telling the truth. I would hope we get to see maybe a there would be an episode where she talks to a therapist of Dr. Charles. Will needed a work day like that and maybe rethink and go to therapy, but he also got Natalie thinking that perhaps she should listen to him better instead of assuming. As much as Dr. Charles and his date were humorous at times, the rest with the drug addict daughter was a bit predictable, and it was one of the weakest stories in the episode. Overall, I give this episode an 8.5/10.

You can catch Chicago Med Wednesdays at 8/7c on NBC.

Circle of Life: Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt "Kimmy Says Bye!" Series Finale

Will Kimmy help save her apartment building? Will Titus pick career over love? Is this the end for Lillian? Here's a recap for the series finale of Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt.

Trying to come up with the money to save their apartment, Kimmy tries to figure out what to do from doing live streaming cash and go pron video with her and the bunkers members but that doesn't work. She thought that website that her boss helped build seems to have not worked as it comes up as an error.

Kimmy tries to help Lillian, who isn't taken well of losing her apartment. Lillian tries to go out with her building until the blast wasn't strong enough to take the whole building down. Lillian gets another calling thanks to Kimmy.

Titus gets the role that he's been waiting for, a spot in The Lion King. He's second in line of another star, but soon gets hurt in a bike accident. Later Titus gets a call from Mikey, who wants him to sing at his wedding, but does he? He chooses career over true love, but Kimmy steps in and helps Mikey decided whether to cancel the wedding or go with it. As Titus gets a break, he realizes that he still loves Mikey and tries to go to the wedding but Mikey gets to the theater first and tells him that he loves him and the two kiss.

Jacquline deals with Eli again. As her business is falling apart, he hits on her in a way that she questions of whether to do or not. But soon, she declines until he tells her that it was an offer work as a junior assistant for him, which she agrees only after learning that he's blind. 

Kimmy tries to figure out what's her next thing, and when she sees Xanthippe, Kimmy realizes that she's been reading her book. Xanthippe tells Kimmy that her book is a hit and that the reason that her website isn't working is because of the many, many people trying to visit it. She confronts Jacquline and Eli and worked up a deal.

Four years later... Lillian is the voice of the New York Transportation, Titus and Mikey are happily married with two kids as Titus is a hit movie star. Jacquline and Eli are a hit top movie agent duos. And as for Kimmy, as big as her book become, she opens a theme park at Universal Studios.

"Kimmy says Goodbye" is really the circle of life wrapped up in a nice and lovable bow. There were many laughs, but many, many tears shedding during this episode that I lost it fully during that montage of Circle of Life. So well written finale with amazing and outstanding performances from the cast. This should be in line with some of the greatest series finales like The Office, 30 Rock and Parks and Rec. Overall, I give this episode a 10/10.

You can catch the entire series of Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt available on Netflix.