NBC's New Fall Schedule

NBC has released it's up coming 2016-2017 fall schedule and the one big news to take out of this is the decision of moving Blindspot from Mondays at 10 to Wednesdays at 8pm, where it's replacing the cancelled Mysteries of Laura. The Monday Post-Voice slot will go to the new sci-fi drama Timeless.

The network is given comedy another shot on Thursday nights with Superstore at 8pm followed by the new Kristen Bell-Ted Danson comedy The Good Place. Chicago Med will move in the 9pm while The Blacklist will take the 10pm.

As the schedule was released, later in the day news come that The Carmichael Show was renewed for a third season of 13 episodes. The show will be in line with other returning shows during the midseason or later: Returning shows: Shades of Blue and Celebrity Apprentice, new comedies Trail & Error, Great News, Powerless and Marlon, and new dramas Chicago Justice, Taken, Midnight Texas, Emerald City and The Blacklist: Redemption.

Here's wht the NBC schedule will look like in the fall.

Monday
8pm: The Voice
10pm: Timeless

Tuesday
8pm: The Voice
9pm This Is Us
10pm Chicago Fire

Wednesday
8pm Blindspot
9pm Law & Order: SVU
10pm Chicago PD

Thursday
8pm Superstore
8:30pm The Good Place
9pm Chicago Med
10pm The Blacklist

Friday
8pm Caught on Camera with Nick Cannon
9pm Grimm
10pm Dateline

Saturday
8pm Dateline Mysteries
10pm Saturday Night Live (encore)

Sunday
7pm Football Night in America
8:20pm NBC Sunday Night Football

Shows that are not returning: Heartbeat, Best Time Ever with Neil Patrick Harris, Crowded, Game of Silence, Heroes: Reborn, Mr. Robinson, The Mysteries of Laura, The Player, Telenovela, Truth Be Told and Undateable.

Mysteries of Laura Cancelled by NBC

It looks like Debra Messing is off the case as NBC has cancelled the light crime drama procedural The Mysteries of Laura.

The series starring Debra Messing is was developed by Jeff Rake that was based on a Spanish format series. Laura was one of the bright spot for NBC when it launched in fall 2014 and the only show to return for a second season. Even though it's been older skewing, Laura has been a reliable at the 8 pm for the network on Wednesday's lineup.

Laura just wrapped in March with a 16 episode second season with a demo rating of 1.2 Live+same day adults 18-49. It's been a real boast Messing as the TV star lead.

NBC usually likes to keep shows like that in their back-pocket but coming off a strong drama pilot season where the network brass liked virtually all of their drama pilots, where they're making shelf spacing tighter and decisions tougher. And not to mention that Laura comes from Warner Bros. TV, an outside studio, where there is no extra incentive for NBC to try and keep it.

This news was a real blind-spotted. I really thought that NBC would renew it and at least keep it just in case a new series doesn't do well. Laura was an outstanding series with a great ensemble cast and the writing was so good. And not to mention that it was a real family cop drama. I can't find any other cop drama that you can watch with kids.

Well, best of luck to you Laura and co. We'll definitely miss ya!!

For Honor and Love: The Mysteries of Laura "The Mystery of the End of Watch" Part 2 Season Finale

In part two of the two-part season finale, Laura and the gang not only deal with the death of a fellow officer but also the murderer who did it and a moment of truth as someone speaks about her love for him.

This episode was emotional from the start, reviewing the event that occurred at the time of the shooting. We see Laura lying there with Santiani in shock and sadness. Soon, Laura gets to Santiani's son's school to inform him.

As everyone at the station is still in shock, Max isn't showing any emotions. Jake puts Santiani on the board as the only victim. The team pulls together and starts digging into who could have done it.

They all thought that it was Chung, the drug lord, that they busted in Part 1. He did threaten Laura before being taken away, and Laura thought that the shot was for her. Even though Chung wasn't in jail, he was later ruled out as a suspect.

That's when they move in on the ex-husband of Santiani. Laura got word that Nancy's son had disappeared. She and Jake look around the kid's room to find any clues. Laura finds an envelope with a plane ticket to the Cape Canaveral.

She shows Jake the ticket, drops him off at the station, and heads home. Jake sees a shop about to go out of business and heads over to buy a ring for Jen. He plans to propose to Jen. Jake tells Billy about and questions the man's motives.

In the meantime, Laura wakes and sees her boys all quiet and behaving right under Lucy's care. When talking to Lucy, she gets a flashback of Santiani and her tracker on her son's phone. They had to race towards the station and get Meredith to hack into Santiani's computer. Go figure that she is the only one using the past given password they track and find Santiani's son as he's with his father. After taking the father in for questions and a polygraph test, Laura suspects he knows who killed Santiani and will go with the plan., which is to take the money that he and the kid were to have when Santiani dies. It's about money.

The team gets set, and Laura sees the playing field. As the drop goes down, they need a confession from them, and they do, and the hounds are after them. After Meredith and Billy get one, Jake takes one down from the top and jumps on him.

After the capture and watching the son walk out with his grandmother and father, the team gathers around and listens to the call of Santiani as a salute. Every cop in New York City was silent as her name was being called.  That was such an emotional scene.

After that, Laura hugs Max, who hasn't shown any emotion after Santiani's death. Soon, Jake leaves. Billy tells Laura what Jake is about to do, and she heads home. Laura is emotional, and Lucy tells her to go after them. She races like no other and heads to where Jake and Jen are having dinner. She asks him for a minute to talk, and she tells him that she still has feelings for him. She tells him to throw the ring out and come home with her to be with the boys, but that's until Jen comes in and shows the ring on her finger.

This episode was so good. I am emotional from beginning to end, and I still want to see more. Messing gives her best performance, showing both comedic and dramatic. I love the scene where Debby and Debra talk near the end, and Debby tells her to go after him. That was so good. And the moment they honored Santaini, I thought that was such a beautiful sendoff and what the NYPD does when an officer has died.

Overall, I loved this season and gave it an 8.5/10. I want to see Laura back. Please bring it back in the same amount of episodes; that's fine. This is such a great mystery show and a show that a family can watch together. It has a great cast and excellent writing; I don't want to wait the 11th and a half hour to hear that they've been renewed. Renewed them now, NBC!!!

Overall, I give this episode a 9.5/10. It was just so good, more dramatic, and a little comedy.

The Family Way: The Mysteries of Laura "The Mystery of the Unknown Caller" Part 1 of 2 Part Season Finale

In this part one of a two part season finale, Laura faces a case that will not only challenge but faces her personal life as well.

When a mysterious caller, in distress, leaves a message for Laura, Meredith and her track where that caller came from before gun shots were heard. They found the body and still Laura doesn't quiet remember until they look into the guys apartment and find a photo of someone that she knows...her half sister, Lucy.

If you want to know what she like, Jake describes her better as Laura without morals. And that's true, Laura trying to find her, goes to her dad, Leo, for help. She tracks from the phone call she made from his phone and spots her at Grand Central.

After a hilarious chase scene, Laura takes her down and brings her to her office. Trying to get her to come to grips that this is serious, Laura puts her in jail cell for the time being. But there was no way that Jake was no going to notice and takes the case after Santiani was mad of how Laura took the case.

As the case gets underway, Billy and Meredith find a truck that belong to the suspect and found a hidden compartment of perception drugs, some that were mislabel. That lead Laura to get upset with Lucy even more and tell her that she can't help her being involved working for a drug lord.

But if Laura was mad at Lucy, she's even madder at her own dad for her to inform that she wasn't read her rights and so she got to walk away and not only made Laura bad but even Santiani worst after she left Leo talk to her.

After the two talked it out and had a drink, Laura came up with an idea to bust the drug lord, but needs Lucy to set it up. After convincing him about a buyer who wants to buy $5 millions worth, he tells her were to meet.

Just before Laura went in, Santiani put a tracker on her phone, like she does with her kid. These two have come closer as friends in this episode.

Laura moves in and gets stop by a janitor, who tells her to get in the basket and took her to where the drug lord. After talking and watching the truck get loaded, Laura gets her phone, turns in on and transfers the money. When she turned her phone on, Santiani spotted where she was located, see it comes in handy to have that tracker app.

After capturing the drug lord, Laura and Lucy seems to be on the verge of patching things up slowly. Santiani tells Laura that they are wanted at a press conference for the drug bust. Laura doesn't want to go, but she went anyway.

As the gang watched from their bar, as Santiani gave her speech and in a split second a gun shot was heard and a female officer was shot. As Jake race to the hospital, Laura walks out and it turns out that Santiani had died.

This of course must of been part of what that drug lord threaten Laura.

This so good of an episode that I'm freakin dying to see what comes next. Sad to see Santiani is gone after her and Laura have finally gotten along in a friendly way. Debby Ryan was amazing and the perfect choice to play Laura's sister. And I couldn't get enough of Robert Klein as Leo.

Overall, I give this episode a 8.5/10.

You can catch The Mysteries of Laura Wednesday nights at 8/7c on NBC.

A Hack of Revenge: The Mysteries of Laura "The Mystery of the Ghost in the Machine"

When it comes to a death of an undercover cop, it hits home to another one which is also gets a target on his back. But this criminal isn't who it turns out to be.

When an undercover cop is found dead in a car that he apparently drove. Laura and the team find out who it is. But as they get closer to a suspect, the department gets hack and they had to go old school to solve the case without any computers.

The case gets a bit personal to Billy, who's worked in the department of the victim, but also gets a visit from an old friend when a hit is on him as well. It turns out that undercover cops are getting shot from a hacker, but the question is left who.

Laura goes back and talks to the victim's mother and sister and comes to a clue from a cyber bully who told the victim's sister that she was not a good singer on youtube. But it didn't stop there, which went on to emailing and more. But her brother stopped it but he ended up dead.

They figured out that the suspect went to school, who witnesses said that he was young and weird. Laura and Jake go to a class about Mars. Laura gets him as she drinks his disgusting pumpkin spice drink.

IT turned out the suspect is a college student who was seeking revenge for what he believes that he didn't do nothing wrong to the victim's sister. That it was free speech, but he'll be speaking free when he goes to jail.

I liked this episode. I could have never guessed it was a college student, was thinking of a higher person probably from the inter department. I do like how Billy and Meredith's emails got into the boss' office printer. Also Jake almost got fired of an email from his doctor about his health, which is good.

Overall, I give this episode a 7/10.

You can catch The Mysteries of Laura Wednesdays at 8/7c on NBC

NBC Orders 3 Additional Episodes of Mysteries of Laura

Deadline.com has reported that NBC has picked up three additional episodes to the sophomore drama. Which brings the total for this season to 16.

While, Laura might not be a smash hit, it's improved week after week since it's tweaking when the shoe return for it's second season. From it's most recent episode that aired on Nov. 3, rose up 11 percent and two tenths reaching a four week high in viewers and demos, it's best since Feb. 25.

You can catch The Mysteries of Laura Wednesday nights at 8/7c on NBC

The Cook of Murder: The Mysteries of Laura "The Mystery of the Dead Heat"

When a gym owner is found murdered and cooked, Laura and Co. not only have to find the murder but also where they'll hit next.

Laura and Jake come to a murder in the gym hot room. They come around with their first suspect named Archie. Jake and Meredith found him in the victim's car and almost took a swing towards Jake.

When Meredith got to interview him, he tells her that he was homeless without a job. The victim tried to help him with anyway that was possible. Even though he's not a suspect after that, the Captain still thinks he did it.

Laura proved her wrong. Soon her and Jake went back to a couple that they interviewed but by the time they get there, their place was empty. They had like a full on American Ninja Warrior look. Laura went back to the wife while Jake and the team check out the place.

Billy finds the murder weapon, and a piece of paper that had different times. It wasn't until Jake found out those were the times for sunsets and that they plan to hit or bomb a place at 5:59pm. Laura gets the victim's wife to find what building the suspects were going to go after. The first one was the bank, but that turned out to be a distraction but it turned out to be another place where it's going construction, hence the Warrior training.

Laura and Jake take the two suspects, with one of them escaping but gets caught by Billy and Meredith.

Also in this episode, Billy's trying to sneak in his mother to see Meredith. Even though Billy tries to play it cool and acting like his mother wants to see him and such. We finally see that Billy and Meredith are now a couple.

Laura refers Jake to her dad's doctor. In exchange for a date, Jake needs a doctor's note. Which I think they'll be on a date real soon. And Laura and Santiani's relationship seem to be growing into a friend zone. Helping the captain dodge an almost punishment from the Chief for misdirecting the case.

Overall, I enjoyed this episode very much. It felt more like one of those classic mystery series you would want to watch on the weekends. It wasn't has intriguing  as last week's episode but it was still good.

I give this week's episode a 7/10.

You can catch The Mysteries of Laura Wednesday nights at 8/7c on NBC.

The Fire Burns Even Higher: Chicago Fire "I Walk Away"

As the arson investigation heats up, the fire burns oh so high for Dawson and Bowden as evidence shows who's behind it.

When a call comes of a man who has his foot smashed from a moving boxcar, the wife of the patient comes forward after seeing how they saved her husband's life. She gives them a video that shows them that House 51 was indeed trying to stop the fire with a resident not carrying.

That's the evidence that Dawson and Bowden need to complete the investigation. As Dawson looks into it, Kelly's study buddy helps out and spots a famous realtor who is the suspect. Dawson gets her reports in order and hands them to Duffy, which he is happy with, but he still needs more evidence instead of going to CPD.

That makes her go to Bowden and show him what she has, and he agrees that this is all enough. Instead of going to the CFD, he goes to the Sun-Times and gives them a report. That sets a backlash, and later, as Bowden goes to Dawson for the evidence, they aren't there.

Meanwhile, Britt is still dealing with the baby John. She's getting so attached and emotional with the kid I thought that she was going to adopt him. Well, it didn't happen, but after almost getting shot, she gets help from Dr. Charles from Chicago Med, who locates the father and tells him about the kid. And it sure made Britt feel like a winner when the father came and held his son.

Casey and Jimmy are building a perfect lieutenant/candidate relationship. It makes me want to think of Benton and Carter's relationship. I'm very much impressed by Steven McQueen's performance and his character. I do think that maybe if he stays alive, he could be in a leading role. But don't tear my head off from that; it's just a thought.

Kelly and Jamie are in a serious relationship when he lets her drive his car and wear his Blackhawks jersey. But as always, it turns south during a news conference of Roger Maddox on his accusation of setting those houses on fire.

But it was at the end that left us on the edge of our seats (this one moved up from second to first level) as Dawson was looking for those files; they were no longer in the computer and not the filing cabinet. Dawson starts to have pain in her stomach. She's gone into early labor. Bowden calls Casey, and we are off to Chicago Med next week.

This episode was outstanding. I'm relieved that Britt has finally found the light of this baby situation. I know she cares a lot, and what she did was a great thing. As I said before, McQueen is growing on me. I love how he talked to the wife of the husband when they had to take the guy's leg off and also stand up to his brother. The guy's gotta fly sometime, right?

It was nice to see Oliver Platt as Dr. Daniel Charlies, who helps Britt with the baby situation. The man breaks the rules to help, and I love it.

Overall, I give this episode an 8.5/10.

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

And don't forget to tune in to the Chicago PD two-hour event tomorrow at 9/8c after The Mysteries of Laura on NBC.

Laura Vs. Citizen Stultz: The Mysteries of Laura "The Mystery of the Watery Grave"

In of the most nerve wracking episode ever. It seem that Laura had could have met her match when it comes to going up against one of the most powerful man in New York, but she's Laura Freakin Diamond. She can take anything on.

When a investigate a death of the wife of a national media baron, Wilson Stultz. Laura and the team find that Beth's car in the river, but no body was found, thinking that it might have washed down the river. Laura and Jake talk to Wilson and gives that a biker gang was after him due to a story that his paper put out.

That lead Meredith to show off her biker side and when a situation turned bad for a group of bikers and a driver, Meredith makes an arrested. When the biker was being quested he tells Laura that they didn't make any threats but make a proper papers to sue Wilson and the paper for that story.

As the case begins to moved when Meredith found that the phone call from Beth was a recording and made Laura think that this wasn't a murder but Beth faking her death. Laura finds out and tracks Beth to a motel near the airport.

Beth tells Laura that Wilson been abusing her and know for a fact that he killed his other wife. Laura decided to keep Beth's death as it is. Soon Wilson talks with Santiani about how her detectives aren't doing a great job solving his wife's death. But she played him and gave Laura the go ahead to dig deeper into Wilson place.

It gets very ugly with the press at Laura's house. Laura and the team check's Wilson's house. They look around because it's one of the room's was on a magazine and doesn't change because of it's value. But one painting was missing which was given to a museum.  But one final clue helps Laura nail the guy, the fact that Wilson hated his mother.

Laura takes Beth and the ME to Wilson's mother's grave and find that there's two skeletons in the casket.  The fact that Wilson killed his first wife, buried her in the backyard and moved the remains to his mother's casket piece by piece.

This episode was unbelievably nerve wracking  because of the character Wilson appeared. He's like the Citizen Kane of the 21st Century. I enjoyed it either way. I will say this that I was shocked to see Santiani open up to Laura that she was abused once by her husband, so this case was hard for her. Also Jake asking Laura for a date, I would be happy to see where that would happen or not. I think that Jake deserves a second chance at least.

Overall, I give this episode a 7/10.

Here's a promo for next week's episode.

You can catch The Mysteries of Laura Wednesday nights at 8/7c on NBC.

A Mentor's Return: The Mysteries of Laura "The Mystery of the Convict Mentor"

This week's case reunites a familiar face to Laura and the team, when her former Captain and friend helps on a cold case that she's been trying to solve for a long time.

When Laura gets a phone call from a familiar face, her old captain that tried to shoot her in the series premiere, Hauser. He tips Laura in code that he has information on a suspect that's has some hidden stuff. One of them were two dead bodies in a vent in a warehouse basement.

Laura and Jake take a look and found that Hauser was right. Laura tries to play it cool like he's her CI and try to get more information when she visits him. Hauser talks about Mullens, the one case that Laura spent nights trying to solve and find those two victims that she just found.

Just as Laura goes through the case, Jake get her to watch the news and found out that Mullens and Hauser had escape from jail. A man hunt underway, Laura thinks of what Hauser had told her. When they figured out that Mullens had more warehouse than they had thought they try to put a SWAT team out there waiting for them. But Laura gets a clue that from her police radio of a robbery at a store and one of the items was pork grins.

That got Laura to find the other clue which was an address left by Hauser and soon Laura gets there. She tries to wait for Jake and the others to show up but couldn't take the chance when Mullens pulled a gun on Hauser. Laura acts quickly trying to stop Mullens. The all three of them talk and Laura acts like she doesn't have a shot. I couldn't really tell if she didn't or if she was playing but by the time she was about to shoot, Billy takes the shot.

This doesn't help Hauser reducing his sentence for the murder that he did, but it does give a bit of closure for him and Laura as they give a one final goodbye. He was not just a mentor but a friend and family member.

I couldn't help but to think that Billy and Meredith have to know that they are in a relationship. I think that they're pretending in the public's eye but we know what's going on.

This episode was very good. I think that this episode was one of Debra Messing's best one yet. Her character dealing with the return of Hauser and solving an old case from the suspect that's in jail.

Overall, I give this episode a 8.5/10.

Here's a promo for next week's episode.

You can catch The Mysteries of Laura Wednesday nights at 8/7c on NBC.

Friends and Heart: The Mysteries of Laura "The Mystery of the Locked Box"

How does a murder occur under a tight top security system at an apartment complex?  You'll be surprised on how this one went down.

A top billionaire is murdered in his own apartment, with slashes all over his body. That's the question Laura and the gang are asking. No one got in and no one got out.

They looked from the mother, business partner to even the crazy maybe up wife. They even search and captured the mysterious hat man, who was at the funeral but found out that he's the victim's father.

But thinking about it more and more the way you had to think to solve this case was to think tech. When they search the business partner again, who happens to have the victim's cell phone, turns out that he wasn't the guy at all. Even though he was a total moron from the start.

It took tech and a voice enhancer to figure out who it was and not to mention wheezing. It turned out the murderer was the best friend, who was not happy and left a bunch of messages on the victim's phone. The murderer had a drone come in and slash the victim.

What a techy mystery it turned out to be. Not to mention that we found out that Jake does suffer a bit of memory lost but the pills that he's taken is for his heart condition that he has kept under wraps. I'm beginning to worry about what will happen.

I enjoyed this episode a lot. Laura eating in the ME's office, telling the store manager that a box of crackers are $7. Even Max had some really good funny scenes. Also the case was pretty good, i would have thought it was the business partner.

Overall, I give this episode a 8/10.

Here's a promo for next week's episode.

You can catch The Mysteries of Laura Wednesday nights at 8/7c on NBC.

A Twist in the Act: Mysteries of Laura: "The Mystery of the Cure to Loneliness"

This week's case deals with a death of a cancer patient that look like a suicide, but there's a twist that will have you going "what?!"

Laura gets a call of a cancer patient, who from the look of everything in the apartment look like it was suicide, but that's what Jake and everyone else thought. Laura thought it was murder, apparently she was right.

The victim didn't have cancer at all. She was pretending to have cancer so she could have friends and do something meaningful. But someone caught her in the act and helped her performance by make-up and such.

Going through suspects, the victim's best friend, junkie who Billy chased but fell from the roof by jumping. It turned out to be the food delivery guy, Ted Burns who has been playing and stealing money from cancer patients for years.

This episode had such a good twist. I love how Laura stands her ground and keeps going for what she believes to be the truth.

Of course, Santiani and Diamond butted heads, but makes the relationship seem so bold. And I can't leave out that Jake's hiding a secret from the rest, popping pills. Something to watch out for in the future.

Overall, I give this episode a 8/10.

Here's a promo for next week's episode.

You can catch The Mysteries of Laura Wednesday nights at 8/7c on NBC

Changes Come: The Mysteries of Laura "The Mystery of the Taken Boy"

In the season premiere of The Mysteries of Laura starts off big, changes come to a the squad and a missing boy is kidnapped for different reason than you would think.

The case this week starts out from a hit and run when a man at a park warns kids to get out of the way from a runaway taxi cab, that hits the man and kills him. Laura and the team investigates that the comes to find out that he was on his way to fixing his life.

Billy and Meredith search for the taxi cab, which they found all burned but came across a damaged camera that had its chip in it and found out that the boy was a target. Laura and Jake get there too late.

The new captain of the department Capt. Nancy Santiani is a very different character and demands the people that work in her department to keep the volume of talking down. Laura doesn't like her at all and it's not all rainbows and sunshine with her.

Things don't go the way Laura wants it, but when they realize that the parents of the missing boy turns out that he was adopted illegally. The kidnapper made a ransom for money with the parents, Laura and the team try to ambush them but you just can't get rid of the mother's instant. Besides the boy had hours til he need his insulin shot.

After grabbing the guy who was to take the money, Laura gets the final clue that sister of the missing boy had an encounter with the dead victim when they were in rehab.  Jack and Billy get there in time to rescue the boy and give him his insulin shot.

This episode was really good starting off and ended really good. Changes do come to the squad, one of them Frankie is gone because to Santiani she didn't have the seniority of a detective. Also the look of the department looks very different. And it seems that Laura and Jack seem to get along very well and that these two might get back together. They're love for each other doesn't seem to go away.

I like where this new season starts and can't wait to see where it will go. I know that the series is taking a more of a turn of more crime solving and less on the family matters.  I love the battle between Laura and Nancy. And the chemistry of this cast is still amazing to watch.

Overall, I give this episode a 8.5/10.

You can catch "The Mysteries of Laura" Wednesday nights at 8/7c on NBC

The Mysteries of Laura Season 2 Promo (HD)

Det. Laura Diamond is back!!!

Season Two of The Mysteries of Laura will bring in more dramatic but comic cases for Laura and her team to solve and less on the life with her kids. Plus new cast of characters that includes Callie Thorne (Necessary Roughness) and Gabriel Mann.

This is a great show to watch with the family.

Here's the promo for the upcoming season. There's only a few scenes from the new season with mostly scenes from last season.



You can catch the premiere of The Mysteries of Laura Wednesday, Sept. 23 at 8/7c on NBC

Necessary Roughness star joins Mysteries of Laura

Season two of "The Mysteries of Laura" might get interesting for Detective Laura Diamond.

According to Entertainment Weekly exclusively, "that Callie Thorne will be joining the cast of Mysteries of Laura in a recurring capacity for season two."

The Necessary Roughness alum will debuting in the season premiere as Captain Nancy Santiani. She's "the all-business new boss at the 2nd Precinct. Despite how young and small she is, "Santiani runs a tight ship and refuses to take any crap from Laura, who doles out plenty of it."

They will clash as they are two strong women that are both single mothers. They'll "find common ground and come to understand each other, even if they can't stand to be in the same room with each other."

You can catch the season premiere of "The Mysteries of Laura Wednesday, September 23rd at 8/7c on NBC.

Gabriel Mann joins 'Mysteries of Laura'

Former Revenge star, Gabriel Mann joins the cast of Mysteries of Laura.

There are no complete detail of who he will be playing but from indications, looks like he'll be pairing up with Laura (Debra Messing), Jake (Josh Lucas) and Meredith (Janina Gavankar).

When "Laura" was renewed, it was reported that season two will be focusing more on Laura's life on the force than jiggling work and her crazy family.
 
"The Mysteries of Laura" premieres Wednesday, September 23rd at 8/7c on NBC.

Love and Rouge:The Mysteries of Laura "The Mystery of the Corner Store Crossfire" Season Finale

The season finale of The Mysteries of Laura shows not only that this is a police dramedy but also that it has some heart. The first 

In last week's shocking cliffhanger, Jake gets shot by an unknown robber. We cut to as Laura rushes to the hospital and demands to see Jake, as she's in a precarious state now. Laur Sees him as he exits the elevator and runs to him. Stop by the doctor; he tells her to wait in the waiting room and let him do his job, which she'll do for Laura.

Billy, Frankie, and Meredith are at the scene; Laura comes in and takes over by questioning the store clerk who saw it all.  Laura was determined to find Jake's shooter, even if she had to play a bit dirty.

The team arrested a DJ who had robbed a couple of other places. Billy and Laura questioned him and got him to spill some helpful information, even though he wasn't the shooter. They looked for the clerk at the shop but couldn't find him. But they did find his girlfriend, who's keeping their relationship on the down low because of his family. After she couldn't say much to Billy and Meredith, DJ was brought to talk to Laura, who was not in a perfect mood.

After spilling this, her boyfriend made a gun from the 3D machine and gave it to the shooter, asking for it. Billy and Meredith found the guy and got him to talk, but it was too late that he gave the gun to the shooter earlier.

They found the guy near the JFK airport at an auto shop. In that scene, Laura was bound to get answers and even took on a tall and big guy. But with him looking at another person, that gave Laura a hint that he's the guy. Of course, the guy ran but didn't get any further as Laura turned on the car wash machine and captured the guy.

It turned out later that he wouldn't use the gun but deliver it to another person. Someone was going to use it in the courthouse. They sweep the place until Laura knows and sees it through the security cameras of the person, a mother who lost her child to this guy on the trail.

Laura and the gang rush into the courtroom and talk to the mother down. Laura looked like she was relieved that this case was over. After the case, we see her talking with her dad about how she's been excellent as a single person and expects that she and Jake are divorcing.

Jake comes out of his coma; not only did he suffer from a gunshot to the chest, but suffered a head injury. He might not remember any after he says things like when Jake asked Laura to give him one last chance to be the husband and father he can be. Laura did admit that she still loves him. She tells her boyfriend that they might need a break, and he agrees and tells her that he'll be waiting.

Laura then comes in and sees how Jake doesn't remember that she brought his seat pillow to him. She walks out for a bit and sees everyone in the room that this family//this dysfunctional family is probably the best thing she has.

This episode starts quickly, like I saw in the previous episode, and then cuts to Laura in the ER. Emotions run high in the beginning for the first half hour. I couldn't get enough of Debra Messing's performance; she was in a more serious role.

It was a case of revenge from a mother who lost her child and wanted to take out the murderer that I didn't see coming.

Overall, I give this episode an 8/10; it was perfect. Robert Klein came back as Laura's father, funnier than ever. It wasn't a disappointment at all.

Overall, this season, I think it's been one of the best new series in a while. I don't care what other people may say about it. This series is excellent as it is. I find it to be like that Saturday Evening Mystery show. It's a simple series that you can sit, relax and follow. Debra Messing is unique, and so is this cast.

The series will return in the fall regularly, on Wednesdays at 8/7c, still part of the Woman Crush Wednesday with Law & Order: SVU and Chicago PD.

The Shocked and Stunned: Wednesday Night Drama

The Mysteries of Laura: "The Mystery of the Deceased Documentarian"

This episode went from solving a cold case to one of the most shocking endings in it's series so far and it leads to what I think will be a great and thank god a season finale.

When a bike messenger was looks to be delivering something get shots. Laura and the gang investigates that this murder isn't just about a message.

As the investigation goes, the victim turns out to be a filmmaker who was solving a crime that had happen 15 years ago. The victim made a film and sent it to a film festival but was rejected. Laura and Jake got to show a screening of it to the public and interviewed the folks who were there, that included the cold case victim's boyfriend.

But as their investigation goes on, there's someone who's also trying to solve the crime too. Casey, who's went to the same high school and is a podcast crime investigator, that's like Serial.

When you think that they found the killer who be the guy who hung himself in the flower shop, but as Laura would think it that if there's no note, it's not a suicide.

Laura and the gang dig deeper and that lead to going to the film festival that was going on in New York City and get the original copy of the bike messenger's movie. When looking at the final two minutes of it, Laura knows who the killer is.

That lead to the suspect's wife to come down and file paperwork to claim the earrings that apparently were left in the victim at the flower shop. Until Frankie gave the wife the wrong forms and she started to call her husband but didn't answer.

The suspect was at Casey's house being interviewed on her live podcast. When Laura made a phone, she talks to them and well, Casey did what Casey would do, spill out that he did it. The suspect gets mad but as Laura talks him down that his ex-girlfriend had cheated on him.

The suspect was taken down as Billy and Frankie got there. But it would be Casey that probably needed the protection from Laura.

Near the end of the episode, Laura and Jake have a moment. Laura is buying a summer house for the kids and her boyfriend. Jake doesn't feel like he'll be part of their kids lives after this but Laura tells him that he will always be. That lead to Jake going to the bar and joining him was Frankie. They talk about their plans and that freaky lamp that she brought in and sold.

But the shocking moment came when Jake went to a grocery store. He's looking for some zingers and when all of the sudden a robber comes in and demanded money. Jake gets ready to take the suspect down when a lady comes in and scared. The suspect points the gun and Jake takes the bullet for her and the suspect leaves.

Jake is on the floor shot in the chest. That was the most shocking and dramatic moment in the series so far and I think that come next week's season finale that it will be even more dramatic and a bit emotional as well.

I have to say I didn't see that ending coming at all. Yeah I'm feeling bad for Jake after that talk with Laura. He hopes that they would get back together and be together forever.

This episode had some funny moments. I enjoyed Melissa Joan Hart being the "Serial" character in this episode. It was so cool seeing Clarissa on the show.

I give this episode a 8/10. I think that this was pretty good episode. The one thing I literally take out of this episode was the shocking ending. and I'll just say this that thank god that next week is the season finale and not the series finale.

You can catch the season finale of The Mysteries of Laura next Wednesday at 8/7c on NBC.

Chicago PD: "Push the Pain Away"

After the aftermath of the death of Nadia, Erin isn't doing well to coup the lost. She went to see her mother, at a local bar where she works and drinks away.

I think I would know for a fact that Voight told Bunny to stay away from Erin. Can't stop a mother for loving and caring for her daughter.

In the meantime, a case for the intelligence takes on a group of guys who want nothing but justice for what this chemical company had done to one of the suspect's little girl.

These gone in a YMCA and goes on a rampage but not like you would think. They planned it and shot only less than seven people.

Voight and Al talk to one of the suspects that was caught. Voight talks to him but doesn't budge at all. So, when Atwater and Roman takes a look underneath the highway, they spot a bullet case and soon sees a camera.

When they play back the video, the suspects had taken off in a garbage truck not even five minutes ago. Atwater ran towards and demanded an officer's car. Roman and Atwater chase the truck and it stops in a building. They hold fire until everyone gets there.

Voight talks to Erin after a quick brief with the Captain on the back story of these suspects. Voight doesn't want Erin to spin out. This is after Erin was dragging from a hangover.

Erin and Ruzek interviews the company executive and his lawyer. After dodging the question of why these guys would be going after these people. Erin goes off and the executives decline to talk any more.

Later on, Voight talks with the suspects, they have hostages and demanded things that they want in 30 minutes. Voight tells them the truth that they can't get it in that amount of time. The suspect tells Voight that he'll take out a hostage if their demands aren't meant. When Voight got a feeling after that conversation, he goes out there without a bulletproof vest and his gun and walks out there.

He talks to them Voight to Suspect, as Voight does best. He ask to see the hostages so he knows that they're safe. They show him one and takes them back. Then Voight starts talking and with an earpiece, Erin tells him the story of these guys.

Voight talks to one of them and walks a bit back near the open, which gave Halstead a clear shot to shoot the suspect. And after that Voight takes the other one down after the guy gave him a couple of hits.

But with these guys caught there's still one more that's out there. And it's a younger suspect that they're after. Burgess found out that she cleared the suspect because he didn't have gun residue on him. They got the idea of who the suspect is going after.

They get to the executive's board meeting where they search the place for the suspect. Erin goes by herself into through the kitchen and in the halls until the suspect puts a gun on her head. Erin talks to him and from what I got I think she took it behind too far when she tells him to shoot her. Bold but smart because the suspect wouldn't do it.

After that Erin just left and we see her talking with her mother again at the bar. As Bunny gives Erin her drink, she starts talking about an old boyfriend that she use to go out with long ago. Well, that turned out to be bad news as they went to his apartment and well, let's just say that there were drugs on the table.

Erin has really gone to the dark side. She blames herself for Nadia's death. We'll get a bit more next week of where she's going and what she's probably going to do. She might rethink her career. Who knows?

Overall I enjoyed this episode. I was at time on the edge of my seat. There were some tense moments in this episode. For one, Erin and telling that guy to shoot her. The way she was telling him I had no idea if she was playing him or telling him to do it.

It felt kind of weird seeing that Burgess and Atwater switch spots this week. Burgess hopes that she stays with the team but soon Atwater will be cleared from his accident last week and will be back with Intelligence and Burgess back with Roman.

Overall I give this episode a 8/10. IT was very good.

Next week is the season finale of Chicago PD. It's one finale that we can't miss at all. Along with Mysteries of Laura and Law & Order SVU, it's literally called Season Finale Wednesday.

You can catch the season finale of Chicago PD next Wednesday at 10/9c on NBC.

The Step Up and Downfall: Wednesday Night Drama

The Mysteries of Laura "The Mystery of the Crooked Clubber"

This week's episode takes Laura and the gang in searching for the murder of a young man that was part of a robbery of the rich and famous. This case really took everyone for a ride.

Laura and Billy examine the dead victim and when there was a clue of substance in the victim's shoe, Laura had some idea where that might have lead to. Laura discusses to Jake about going to this club that the rich people or kiddies go to. But when discussing it, Frankie wanted to go and as they get there both Frankie and Laura dressed up as 80's teens that are about to go to a party.

But as Laura when looking, Frankie saw the bartender give something to someone so she investigated that by asking him for a drink and a good time. The guy soon gave her her water but soon admitted that he put something in it and soon Frankie was a totally different person. Laura soon put her in jail for a night so Jake wouldn't find out.

The case when left and right at times but when they figure out when was the next bank robbery, they got in front of it and had Frankie and Meredith working the jewelry shop. The two robbers showed up and both Frankie and Meredith couldn't do anything due to a hostage. But Laura came in with a plan and drove the van into the building having both of them arrested.

The two robbers turn out to be were questioned until they didn't want to talk. Which gave Billy and Jake the perfect time to go get lunch. Billy brought a Subway lunch to one of the robbers and left them alone. Soon they were arguing about confessing until Frankie showed up and asked for the robber's cell phone.

That almost ruin the whole thing until it really didn't. It gave Laura on who did it which turned out to be the victim's own brother that killed him. The brother was ashamed as his brother for what he was doing, going to parties and dressing up weird.  

I thought that this episode was pretty good. We did get to see Frankie and Laura together in this episode and Frankie who is was Wisconsin, wants to show Laura that she can be a better detective than we all assume.

All in all I give it a 7/10 this week. There was a lot of humor, twist and hunger with that Subway.

You can catch The Mysteries of Laura Wednesday nights at 8/7c on NBC

Chicago PD "There's My Girl"

After the events of last week's episode, it's hard to come to terms of a lost of a member of the team. 

This week's episode deals with a bombing in a neighborhood, the CPD went to investigate it and found nothing much, but Jay knows a witness that seen it all but she's only 12. 

The teams learns that the bomb was made out of same material as was the bomb used at the Boston Bombing. They soon get a suspect. As they went to the suspect's apartment, both Erin and Jay see the suspect and chase after him. 

After chasing him for a good mile and one hell of a joy ride I would love to have been in, they caught the guy. Atwater and Dawson interviewed him. As Dawson left, Atwater talked to him and soon left to give him time to think it over. 

It was until Voight goes in and sees the suspect had cut his throat with a soda can that Atwater left in there. This isn't looking good for Atwater at all. 

Later on, Mouse found out that someone had planned it and it turns out to be the guy who was looking for his wife at the time but later on in the episode his wife died. The team learned the guy's history on how his first wife died in a car accident that he set up. So Voight had him in the cage and boy did he give him one heck of a talk. But the guy confess of doing it.

Throughout this episode, Trudy has been trying and waiting to get an accepted order for Nadia's memorial stone. When she got word that the department is going to allow it. Boy did she showed her temper but also emotion as well. She really and I mean really left the Chief had it but the guy said no. 

She talked to Voight and had Roman and Burgess go get a file for him at a warehouse, which had information on the Captain and one of it was his little special time with a showgirl. Well, that turned it around and Nadia got her memorial stone. 

But I think the main part of this episode was about Erin and her dealing with the lost of her best friend that she had saved. She acts tough, she's sad but acts tough about it. She even let Halstead drive the car because Nadia told her that she should let him drive. 

After the case and after the memorial, she was invited to go to Molly's with Jay and them but she didn't go there at all. She went to her mom's bar, talked to her and started having shots. She admits to her mother that she was the one that got Nadia killed. Oh she's in a very dark place and this is what Voight was talking to her about back at the house. 

She's not even suppose to be near her mother at all. Erin is going into a deep dark place. She's going to be thinking about what she's going do next: be a cop or leave? 

All in all, I loved this episode. This was such an emotional episode of the aftermath of Nadia's death. I think it was Trudy that kind of stole the emotional scenes. Just seeing her act like that was something you don't think or see of her at all. I give this episode 9/10 overall.

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

Reasons To Tune In & Watch The Mysteries of Laura

One of the best new series this season is The Mysteries of Laura, the hit new NBC Police Procedure comedy-drama (or as we know it to be dramedy). It's part of Woman Crush Wednesday on NBC in the lineup of Law & Order: SVU and Chicago PD.

If you haven't seen it, it follows the life of Laura Diamond, an NYPD homicide detective, who has to balance her life between work and being a divorced mother to twin boys. The show stars Debra Messing (Will & Grace and Smash) as the brilliant detective Diamond. 

She works with her partner Detective Billy Soto (Laz Alonso) along with Detective Meredith Bose (Janna Gavankar), Max Carnegie (Max Jenkins), Captain Jake Brodrick (Josh Lucas), Laura's former husband, and not to mention Detective Frankie Pulaski (Meg Steddle). Each episode has that crime of the week and the classic feel of the "Ripped From The Headlines" story format. 

 Here are some reasons to tune in to the show:

1. Great Ensemble Cast

This is such a great ensemble cast. The chemistry is unbelievable with this group of actors. I am watching from Alonso and Messing to Alonso and Gavankar, from Jenkins and Gavankar to Messing and Lucas. And I don't want to forget that Steddle's character came in after episode 15; with her addition to the show, there's a good chemistry between her character, Frankie, and Gavankar's character, Meredith. I love this group of actors and their characters. There's just so much fun and laughter in this dramedy.

2. It's Such a Relaxing Show

When I say relaxing, I don't mean taking a nap during the show. No, it's a lovely, laid-back series that you can follow along, try to figure out who did it, get the humor, and at the end feel so good. That's what I think when I watch the show. It's like that movie mystery of the week type of thing that used to be on Sundays or any day during the 80's and 90's. 

3. The Diamond in the Rough

Debra Messing, playing Laura Diamond, is probably one of her best characters since playing Grace on Will & Grace. She's got the combination of intelligence and attitude of Columbo meets Jordan Cavanaugh meets Det. Benson. Please don't mess with Diamond, or she'll contact you. 

4. The Working Mom

The series is an excellent appeal to working moms. There's an author, Lina Gardiner, who talks about how they show some appreciation and appeal to working moms and romance lovers. You can check the page out from USA Today. It betrays what a working mom has to juggle: working outside of work and raising twin boys. I see how my mother is with working at a nursing home and trying to take care of my brothers and me.

5. Great Guest Stars

The one thing that's good about this show is the great guest stars that come on the show. From Peter Jackson to Brenda Song, Kelly Rutherford to Anastasia Griffith, and not to mention Eric McCormack as Laura's ex-fiance and the fabulous Robert Klein as Laura's father, Leo. Later on, Melissa Joan Hart is the guest star, so she might not want to miss that.



You see, The Mysteries of Laura isn't like the rest of the other cop dramas that are on today. It's a show that appeals to a typical viewer. It may not be like SVU or Blue Bloods, but it's an excellent show to watch with the family. There's humor, there's drama, there's romance, there's mysteries, a great ensemble cast, great guest stars, it has everything that you would want in a show.

This week's episode of Laura deals with the court, but it's not the court you would think it is. Laura and the gang investigate on the basketball court.

You can catch The Mysteries of Laura available on Amazon Prime.