Silver Lining Playbook to Friendship: Playing House "Employee of the Month"

When a friend is going through a rough patch, you tend to be there for them even if they don't think anything is wrong.

This week's episode puts Emma and Maggie in a situation when Mark enters Silver Linings Playbook mode by wearing a garbage bag while exercising in front of their house. This is due to his divorce after last week's incident.

When they invite Mark into their house, he pretends he isn't too busy.
It's like what Emma quoted from Steve Harvey: "When you don't fix your problems, you'll spend time fixing other people's problems." And that's what Mark has been doing from the sink to the roof from which he fell and sprained his ankle.

Mark has been one of the funniest characters in this series. Maggie tells him that he needs to rest and ice his ankle, but Mark thinks he needs to go to the ER, but tIts out the doctor tells him the same thing.

In the meantime, Maggie runs into an old friend from nursing school and gets her thinking of going back to finishing nursing classes. After being named employee of the month at Rosie's, she quits her job and tells Emma she wants to be a nurse.

Emma is all for Maggie to be a nurse because she knows that Maggie has always helped people for a long time.

One of the best scenes in this episode came when Emma and Mark got hooked on playing a video game, and it seemed like their relationship wasn't over even when she was putting her shark toes on him (shark toe is sharp nails).

In the end, Mark seemed to be fine since he went home the following day. But soon after that's all over with, Tina is outside of their house doing the same thing that Mark did the other day, except not wearing a trash bag.

This episode had many hilarious moments, from Mark doing his exercises to telling Emma she shouldn't speak in a Steve Harvey voice. Hell, I couldn't get enough of Maggie talking to her boss that she quitting.

Also, Mark and Emma playing a video game was the LOL moment of the episode.

Overall, I give this episode an 8.5/10.

You can catch Playing House on Tuesday nights at 10/9c on USA, and you can see next week's episode On Demand.

 

Wood Picking: Playing House "Knotty Pine"

This week's episode of "Playing House" deals with Maggie and Emma hanging out with Tina, but it soon becomes a situation for Tina's marriage with Mark.

Trying to fix their relationship and be much like friends rather than enemies, Emma and Maggie took Tina out shopping. Trying to help her get some styling wear that Tina thinks is too much and fears that one dress shows a bit too much skin.

After having fun, Tina asks if the next time, they and Ouwilly will join a wood shop to make birdhouses. Emma didn't like it, but Maggie got her to agree. At first, it looked simple, but when the instructor Buck comes around, he gives the ladies some absolute pleasure of compliments.

Buck has hit on Tina and Maggie but not Emma. Later, when Maggie and Emma came in with their finished birdhouses, Buck was helping Tina learn how to use a specific wood tool. It could be a Ghost theme without the Unchained Melody playing.

Buck announces that he's DJing a party that night and asks Tina to go, and she agrees.

Soon, Maggie gets the scoop on Buck, and he hits on married women and breaks their marriages. Emma tries to tell Mark about it without saying anything.

At the party, Emma and Maggie get there and try to break Buck and Tina off; even while they are dancing, it isn't working until Mark comes in and surprises Tina.

Tina and Mark have an honest conversation about this situation, and soon after Emma and Maggie stop Buck from his doings, they find him on the curb alone. They might have broken up.

I found this episode hilarious, and there are so many good jokes from the woodworking scenes to when Emma asks Mark for help, not just once but twice. Mark is trying to solve the puzzle of who wrote Turd on the piece of paper that happened to be in pieces.

Overall, I give this episode an 8.5/10.

You can catch "Playing House" on Tuesday nights at 10/9c on USA, or you can see it On Demand.

To Freak or Not To Freak: Playing House "Cashmere Burka"

This week's episode Emma's mother writes a play but when the pressure is on thanks to Maggie's helpful and both Emma and Maggie have to left up her spirits.

Jane Kaczmearek guest stars as Emma's mother, Gwen, and she wrote a play and has Maggie reading it. Maggie thinking that its good and gets Gwen worked up to make the play happen.

Emma not really caring to do it, does it and plays the lead role. I will say that the funniest part is when everyone is rehearsing the play and Mark is the stage designer and Gwen tells him so many task to do to make the stage to what she wants.

Heck, I couldn't get the word "hairy oyster" out of my head.

When Maggie and Gwen have dinner, Gwen's "good friend" stops by and talks to her. Maggie mentions that Gwen wrote a play and that'll be perform. Gwen freaks out and takes things on her control from firing Emma and then firing Maggie.

After a talk, Maggie and Emma go to the play and find Gwen locked in the bathroom. After a one on one talk, Gwen is calm down and the play was performed in one setting.

The play seemed to be a hit and when Gwen's friend comes up, Gwen tells her that she appreciated that she had come and soon she leaves freaking out.

Also Emma bumps into Dan, who turns out to be a Rabbi, but their relationship grows. When they meet on premiere night, they had an awkward greeting.

I enjoyed this episode very much. I thought there was plenty of humor especially when Mark was freaking out and the outfits he was wearing was weird.

Overall, I give this episode a 8/10.

You can catch "Playing House" Tuesday night at 10/9c on USA Network.

Tuesday Night Comedy & Drama

Stitchers "Full Stop" Summer Finale 

In the summer finale of "Stitchers," things took a different turn and left us asking a straightforward question: Will Cameron live or die?

The episode started with Fisher meeting with Maggie and Turner. Turner tells Fisher not to tell Kristen what he knows about her father and Ed's death. That leads Fisher to want to talk to Kristen alone, but Camille and Cameron come into the picture.

As Camille and Kristen leave to talk, Cameron and Fisher talk, but soon Fisher gets shot, and Cameron
was found knocked out with only a concussion.

After waiting in the hospital, Kirsten and the gang try to find out what had happened and figure out who was the shooter. Just before anything, Cameron is fine; they stitch the victim from the shooting.

Kristen sees the guy, who happens to be the person who helped her and Cameron out catching the robber from episode three.

They searched for the guy, and it was pparapparenthad, who had worked for the Stitchers program before.

It wasn't until Kirsten and Cameron found a video of her dad trying to perform an early stitcher to help get her mother back from a coma. That didn't work. It does answer the question of why this suits her more than anyone else.

As the gang couldn't get anywhere, Cameron couldn't figure out the car he passed just before the shooting, but he got an idea: to stitch him.

Cameron decides to stop his heart and give them enough time to find out what his memory has, but Kristen can't see much of the license plate. But the shocking moment came when Kristen saw a little Cameron, after just having heart surgery, walking in the halls and came upon a younger Kristen coloring her mother's nails.

But was Kristen too late to save Cameron? Cameron flat-lined and left us on a cliffhanger.

Will Cameron live or die by the time Season 2 starts? Who knows?

This episode was good; I thought we got some answers to why Kristen was meant for the Stitcher's program. I did think that throughout the season, Cameron and Kristen's relationship grew.

Overall, I give this episode an 8/10, and for the whole season, I give it an 8/10.

You can see Season Two of "Stitchers" sometime this fall or maybe next summer on ABC Family.

Playing House "Hello, Old Friend" & "Sleepless In Pinebrook" Season Premiere. 

After trying to get a family photo, Emma and Maggie bump into Mark and his Tina, and she doesn't look happy after what happened four months ago.

While trying to talk to one another, Emma and Maggie notice that they have a dog dressed in the same outfit as Mark and Tina. You can tell the dog was not into it, even 

Later Maggie feeds her baby, who's not eating her carrots, but Emma comes with a Mr. Cookie puppet that helps the kid eat and sleep. Maggie's ex-husband tells them that his mother is making sauce.

Maggie goes to Mark's house so he can spend some time with her baby, and they've been doing this behind Tina and Emma's back for a while. It's so hilarious watching Mark talking baby to the baby.

As everyone was helping make sauce, Emma couldn't find Mr Cookie, and when Maggie figured out where it was, they went there and tried to get it. They had to sneak into Mark's house and find the puppet. They search until they hear the dog with the puppet in its mouth.

As they chase the dog and get the puppet, Mark and Tina come in and fight about the date that they were on. Maggie and Emma hide in the closet like a cave of beautiful sheets. As Tina was looking for her dog, Maggie and Emma quickly got the dog out of the closet.

Soon, the girls try to sneak out but get caught by Mark. As they try to leave, Tina appears and wants sex downstairs. She spots the girls on the floor and freaks out, unlike Mark, who was yelling at a level over 10.

They soon talk and settle down and forgive and forget the issues. As they tried to get the puppet, the dog was on the couch humping on it.

As the girls came home, Bruce put the baby to sleep without the puppet, but the photo they took early came from the photographer. Why the photographer wanted Emma to hold the banana was hilarious.

The next episode was by far the funniest episode yet, even if it was the second episode of the season.

When Maggie tells Emma that she had a sex dream with The Property Brothers, that means that Maggie is ready to go out into the dating world again.

I couldn't stop laughing at their conversation about Maggie's dream. So Emma tries signing Maggie up for Tender but instead, group and categorize the men and show photos of them to her.

As Maggie and Emma go out on their date, Bruce and Zach spend Duncle time with the little one. One hilarious moment came when Bruce bathed the baby, and she pooped in the tub, and both Bruce and Zach freak out like it was the end of the world.

Dating didn't go well with Maggie. Guys come and keep asking if they like to party, which to Emma means do you want to do cocaine?

Maggie didn't think it was going anywhere and took off to be with her baby, and Emma bounced and bumped into a guy carrying a bag of bread. But they hit it off.

The episode's ending was a dream sequence with Maggie and Emma dreaming about The Property Brothers, and Emma was sure to have the funniest and best dream.

Both episodes were funny and good. I can't stop thinking about how the Property Brother's dreams scenes. It was just flat-out hilarious.

Overall, I give "Hello, Old Friend" an 8/10 and "Sleepless In Pinebrock" a 9/10.

You can catch "Playing House" on Tuesday nights at 10/9c on USA Network.