Here's this week's Weekend Catch Up with two finales and a premiere of a new show.
The Carmichael Show: "Pilot"/"Protest"
It's the latest new comedy from NBC this summer, The Carmichael Show brings a spiced up comedy that is like All in the Family and The Cosby Show put together. In it's one hour premiere, the show turns out to be hilarious from the start.
The show is about Jerrod Carmichael and his life with his girlfriend and his family. The show makes fun in a conversational way of issues from religion to race and marriage to politics. It takes light of the issue but also takes some seriousness too.
Jerrod is hilarious along with David Alan Grier and Loretta Devine as his parents that remind me of The Bunkers and the Barones in a way.
The is hilarious with some hysterical jokes and the performance. I would have to say this series might be funnier than Mr. Robinson.
You can catch The Carmichael Show Wednesday nights at 9/8c after the LIVE America's Got Talent Results on NBC.
Suits "Faith" Summer Finale
In the summer finale of Suits, someone is about to leave but who would that be and will they go quietly?
As an emergency meeting to remove Jessica from the firm, Louis and Jessica try one last effort to get support. But Louis goes to the big problem and makes a threat but that back fired with two threats of the guy's own one being sued and the other taking over his sister's company after buying it.
Harvey couldn't be found as Jessica was desperate for his help. But he was with his therapist discussing the situation and why he couldn't back down. We get a back story to his past with his father and mother and the situation that his mother has caused on the family.
It kind of left a bad taste to his mouth. After the session, Harvey makes it back to the meeting before the votes even started. He makes a statement about how a termination is in order and talked about how this firm has been a real family with Jessica in control.
That speech worked and saved Jessica from being dismissed.
As for Mike, he had to face his demons back at home. We get the back story of the moment his mother and father died in a car accident. He was never the same after, going to catholic school and becoming a real trouble maker.
He goes back to the school and talks to the father that still there when he went. Wanted to ask for advice but got a real life lesson when he realized that he should make a fresh new start and that's what he did.
He resigning from the firm and told Harvey first. That could have been the feel good moment of the episode, with them talking and hugging it out.
As Mike tells Rachel of his resigning, as soon as he packed all his stuff, he then gets arrested for fraud and is taken away. I'm surprised that Rachel was just standing there from that time like a deer in the headlights.
I should probably say that there were two people that were leaving. As Jessica thanks Harvey, he gave her another surprise that he too is resigning.
This was a real turner for the show, now that Mike is no longer with the firm and arrested. Who turned him in? I've never seen Harvey sacrifice to anything until now to save someone from the job.
Overall, I give this episode a 8/10. The summer finale was very good and Harvey and Mike had the best story lines in this episode.
Suits will return this winter on USA Network.
Hannibal: "The Wrath of the Lamb" series finale
Drop the mic!! The series finale of Hannibal literally dropped the mic.
As the Red Dragon confronts his darling "girlfriend" of who he is. He plays with her mind by feeling his chest, removing the key, walking down to the door and opening the door. He comes through the front door and has her go back to the bedroom.
He plays with her mind, thinking that he shot himself in the head, but that's not at all true as Will gets a visit from the Dragon himself.
Will has a plan to get the Dragon and that was to release Hannibal as bait. The bait was set but not in any terms of the Dragon's wanting as he ambushed the police and release Hannibal. Hannibal takes Will to his get-away house.
There Will and Hannibal have a drink but shots are fired hitting both Lecter and the bottle of wine (sad).
The Dragon who look like was going to kill Hannibal, he turns the attacks Will by stabbing him in the face with a knife.
Right there, become one of the most epic fights I've seen on television. Will and Hannibal taking down the Red Dragon. There were a few moments where I thought that they couldn't take him but after slicing and dicing they manage to take the Dragon down.
And after seem like a Thelma and Louise moment when Hannibal and Will hugged and leaned over the cliff ending it with a scene shot from the cliff and the song "Love Crime" by Siouxsie Sioux. It was so beautiful and eerie that went so along with not only that scene but the show itself.
As for other characters, Bloom and her wife took their son to another place to get away from things. I don't think that she will ever be happy but this might come close to being as happy as she can get. And for Fredrick, the poor man is getting skin graphs, but nothing else for him.
Overall, I give this finale a perfect 10/10. It was beautiful, it was remarkable, it was all-in-all the best episode that felt so much like a ending finale.
Plus, the post-credit was remarkable too. Bedelia is seen at the dinner table with a meal that was yet to be served. It turns out that the main course is a leg but it was until we see a shot of her and that she lost her left leg. Did she do it to herself? Is Hannibal still alive? I couldn't get enough of that scene.
You can catch Hannibal On Demand at NBC.com
