A Good Person: This Is Us "The Pool: Part Two"

With the summer coming to an end; we see our favorite family trying to squeeze one last family moment before the start of school and other things. Here's a recap!

While Randall and his family try to enjoy one last family summer fun before they all get busy. Randall goes with Deja riding the bus to her school. But he gets a bit of overprotection with her when she's sitting next to someone. Tess goes for a new hair cut and while it's a bit overwhelming, it's a cool new look for her. But later as they get together; as they race up theRocky's Steps with fun and joy. Jack whether he's a good person. At the end of the day, they come together and enjoy being the pool. 

Meanwhile, both Kate and Kevin are having a bit of a hard time dealing with their issues. Kate worries about how she's going to take care of baby Jack; while Kevin is worried about jumping off the wagon while dealing with Uncle Nick and doing his next role. But when baby Jack begins to cry, Kevin comes in and not only calms him down but as Kate comes in she and he both calm each other down as well. Kevin takes the next flight to his next movie role while Kate accepts the challenges and whatever comes their way they'll deal with it for Jack. 

Also, Toby has been sneaking out at night to do exercise just to take the stress off. 
"The Pool: Part Two" was a very good and heartfelt episode from beginning to end.  The story was so good with character development; even some very good performances from Chrissy Metz, Justin Hartley and even Chris Sullivan. Even that one scene with Sullivan and Mandy Moore was so good as they have a connection of worrying about Kate.

I enjoyed watching M. Night Shyamalan in this episode just like the rest of the unbelievable guest stars that come in playing themselves. Overall, I give this episode a 9/10.

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

The People We Meet: This Is Us "Strangers"

The season premiere of This Is Us might have us questions some of the characters; but the ending will explain it all with its classic twist. SPOILERS! Here's a recap!

After driving back from the audition, Rebecca and Jack not only had a wonderful time; but the two tells one another that they won't be calling each other right away. Later Jack calls Rebecca and asked for another date; having dinner with her parents and parents friends. While it seems to go well, Rebecca's dad isn't too impressed with Jack and thinks that he can find her a better boyfriend than him. Oh, how he thought so wrong.

Meanwhile, we meet three different new characters, One, Cassidy Sharp, a military officer trying to hunt down an enemy, but when things don't go the way it was planned; she takes it back with her home. After a couple of days, things aren't the same at home and it leads to her separating with her family and seeking counseling.

Second, Mailk, a young father who works with his father at an auto shop. With so much responsibility his father advised him to live his life. And thrid we meet Jack, a blind musician, who after having an accident at home meets a lovely waitress, who becomes an inspiration to his music as he wrote a song and not only becomes a hit artist but marries the waitress and expecting a baby.

Now for the twist, as we see the Pearson family (present-day) celebrating Kevin, Kate and Randell's birthday; we see Cassidy talk to her group when a chair is thrown breaking the window and we see Jack's brother. Kevin gets a call to help him bail out of jail. Mailk, who goes to a party, is cooking burgers and meets Deja and soon makes an impression to her as she comes back home; where Randall and company are living in Philly. And Jack is no other than Kate and Toby's son, who we learn of his blindness; but that's not going to stop Kate from loving him. 

"Strangers" is a very good episode. It's at best not to overthink or just not think about what each character is all about because once I did that I had to rewatch over again. While the story between Rebecca and Jack was really good with a nice ending of Rebecca singing her love to Jack. The three new characters really stole the episode right out of the gate. Jennifer Morrison, Asante Blackk and Blake Stadnik are truely amazing; that bring that extra love, warmth, and mystery to the show. And not to mention that the song that Stadnik sings at the end should be considered for an Emmy.  Overall, I give this episode a 9/10.

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

Relationship Status: This Is Us "R&B"

Could this be the end of Beth and Randall's relationship? Here's a recap!

Last night's episode was not only another memorable one; it was a strong written one of showing the developments between Beth and Randall. We see not only how they first met in college; but that Randall was determined that Beth was the one. From college to fast forwarding to seven years as Randall still proposing to Beth, with her responding with a no.

Throughout the episode, we see a deep background of Randall and Beth's relationship; Randall had a way by guilting Beth whether it's getting married; that later turned when she takes Randall to her favorite place for him to the proposal; for which she said yes. Another when they worked things out together during their wedding when rewriting their own vows. Even when changing their first born's diaper and she tells Randall how he could in a way smooth talk while taking all the cheesy parts of the nachos.

But it was during when William and Kevin were staying at their house their relationship really showed. Beth lied to Randall about going to a meeting that turned out to be having her own night along with candy, wine, and Living Single marathon. But he tells he understands and after talking about the episode she's on, he guilts her to come back home with him and William, as he was looking for maple syrup.

Coming back to the present, the tension between Randall and Beth could but cut with a sharp knife. As Beth tells Randall why he doesn't argue back to her; we see a flashback to when he spied on Jack and Rebecca arguing at each other. We see that that flashback is the reason why he doesn't want to argue with someone that he cares and also why he fixes every problem with words and affections.
It really got ugly when Beth brings up his mental break down moments that ended with Randall going to his office in Philly. Later we see Randall on the couch and Beth on the floor and see them as kids as they each were looking at their flowers that Randall got them for their date.

"R&B" was an amazing and memorable episode from beginning to the end. The episode has so character development and moments that I couldn't leave my seat during the commercials. The show pulls off another powerful episode and a strong performance from Susan Kelechi Watson and Sterling K. Brown, but also the Niles Fitch and Rachel Hilson too as they played 17-year-old Beth and Randall. I really don't see how this could turn any worst or even better after the ending of the episode. I'm not ready for the season finale just yet, but feel like it's gonna be big. Overall, I give this episode a 9/10.

You can catch the season finale of This Is Us Tuesday at 9/8c on NBC.

To Be Or Not To Be?: This Is Us "You Are My Sunshine"

After last week's episode that felt so realistic, this week's episode of This Is Us took my breathe away. Here's a recap!

As Kate keeps her faith in baby Jack going to make it through this ordeal; Toby isn't sure if he's gonna make it. When the nurses were going to take some more blood from Jack, Toby wasn't too pleased and walked out an emotional upset. But after talking with another father who's been at the hospital for six weeks; he kind of help Toby talk it out with Kate. Soon Kate leaves Toby with their son and he starts talking with him.

Kevin and Zoe go to couples therapy and soon discuss whether if they want to have children or not. Zoe doesn't want to have any; so Kevin goes to a meeting and walks around to Sophie's house, where he meets her there. As soon as they have coffee, she tells him that she's engaged but still had coffee and talked. She gives him advice that he has to make the decision and that it's not going to be handed to him like other things in his life.

In the past flashback, we see the Pearson family getting ready for the school dance. Kevin and Kate are excited while Randall isn't and tries to study for a science exam instead. We see Rebecca and Jack chaperone the dance; she learns that Jack never went to a school dance before and took this time to show him what it was like. While a young Kevin toilet papering an office and sees Sophie. He begins to wrap each other around with toilet paper and told her that they will be together.

Randall and Beth are trying to make their situation work; but it seemed that when Randall is trying all that he can to be a parent, catch up on work and still trying to be there for all. As Beth is nailing her first recital with high praise, but she's also enjoying it too. Randall tells her that they've been invited to dinner, but she told him that she can't because she's going to be hanging out with her co-workers.

But the heat really gets going when Randall gets to the dinner but Beth doesn't show up and leaves a very mean voicemail on her phone. Soon, Beth gets there and later after dinner and purple cheesecake, the two really got to it. Beth tells Randall that he should sleep at his Philly office; but Randall comes home and tells her that he's not going to sleep there and soon as they were going to be talking about it, Randall shuts the door and end of the episode.

"You Are My Sunshine" might not hold up to last week's episode, but it sure came close. From the moments of Kate singing to baby Jack "You Are My Sunshine" was such an overwhelming of emotions. While watching Randall and Beth's relationship seem to take another dark turn. As much as I feel that everyone played such a big role in this episode; I feel that Chirs Sullivan's performance was outstanding. As for Kevin and Sophie; I'm still not given up on them as that past moment at the dance and the moment after their coffee just seems that they are not over each other, even though Sophie's engaged. The episode was amazing with such strong character development with everyone but mostly Toby. Overall,, I give this episode a 9/10.

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

Past Regrets and Futures Truths: This Is Us "Songbird Road, Part 2"

After more than a few weeks of a break, This Is Us returns with moments of intense chills, humorist and a shocking slip. Here's a recap!

This Is Us returned last night with another amazing and powerful episode. Picking up where we left off in Part 1, Kevin decides to take Nick back with them, with Kate and Randall not so sure that helping him would do anything now. Soon Rebecca shows up the next morning and meets with Nick for the first time and sees the resemblance of Jack, with the eyebrows. Kevin finds a Veteran place where he could get the help that he needs but turns him down after checking it out. Rebecca gets a flashback to when she took Kevin to get his rookie baseball card signed from a player that could be traded and learns that Kevin really is like Jack in fixing or making things better for others.

Rebecca talks with Nick and later Nick walks out after telling her that he can't be fixed. But it for a second shot, Rebecca talks with Nick one more time and it does get through to him. Nick knocks on Kevin's door and after fixing his ceiling in his motor home and tells Kevin that he's gonna go to a meeting and gonna take it one step at a time. As Kevin and Rebecca drive home, Rebecca was happy that Kevin did such a good thing, but Kevin wasn't too happy as he flashback to the moment when he was back at Nick's motorhome and looks at a bottle of whiskey and decides to drink.

Meanwhile, as Kate and Randall head back, they decided to check out their house that they use to lived in. Kate remembers that day when it was fun, but Randall remembers differently. We see Jack struggling to terms about his brother. Randall remembers Jack yelling at them for making a mess, while Kate remembers what happened after when Jack apologizes to them and started to have fun. Later as soon as they each got home, Kate tells Toby that she wants to show their son everything that they love from movies to even events. While Randall comes home not only to give some gifts to the girls but gets word from Beth that her mother had an accident and is leaving to see her along with Zoey.

"Songbird Road, Part 2" was worth the wait as it was another amazing, powerful that gave me chills throughout the episode. Parker Bates and Justin Hartley's performance really strong as his character make another revelation that he's not just a Hollywood poster. But when it comes to trying to help others it always doesn't go the way it's supposed and watching him slip back to his habit of drinking/ It was not only heartbreaking but also shocking as well.

Griffin Dunne gave another strong performance in this episode as Nick Pearson. The rest of the cast gave a really good performance. The writing was so strong along with the character development in the characters of Kevin and Nick.

Overall, I give this episode a 9/10.

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

Life Moments: This Is Us "Sometimes"

Last night's episode of This Is Us was just another reason why this show is at it's best.

"Sometimes" was another amazing episode; with such strong character development and moments that didn't make the story too loud or soft. Whether it's Jack trying to get his brother to come to his army base; but he doesn't want to nor does his Sargent. Or Jack and Rebecca taking a trip to LA and having a good time. But when they had their own thing with Rebecca going to a record company and Jack talking to a former falling soldier's family I think that they didn't expect what they would be facing and that things happen sometimes for a reason.

But the Kevin and Zoe story was probably the silent story stealer of the episode. When Kevin and Zoe head to Vietnam, Zoe tells Kevin not to tag her on social media because of her father being around and wants to reconnect with her. After Kevin sees that the necklace might have been bought at a shop; but really it had a long journey as we can see it. After Zoe gets sick (probably from eating a dish that had bat), she tells Kevin the real reason why she doesn't want to meet with her dad, because he sexually abused her as a child. And soon the two really connected with their relationship.

I was amazed at this episode from start to finish like other episodes of the show. But watching the character of Jack going through a lot of things from the war to traveling with Rebecca was an emotional ride with some much good fun too. But Zoe's story was really powerful and Melanie Liburd gives a strong and stunning performance.  Overall, I give this episode a 9/10.

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

Life Decisions: This Is Us "Katie Girls"

Life decisions are made in this episode of This Is Us.

"Katie Girls" is an excellent episode where it dives into life changing decisions and facing the fears of those decisions. From diving back to Rebecca's past of meeting Alan, the man who came to her door in the last episode. But after thinking that she has a future with Alan, she spots Jack at the store and later visits him at his mother's friend's house and does the dishes together.

Kate, who's having IVF procedure, worries about what would happen if she doesn't come out of it. But when she's under, she meets not only her teenage self, but her preteen self and her dad. After debating, Kate fights back and comes out of her anesthesia. And she gets the best news that they found eight eggs. So the chances of having a baby are really good. But not hoping for Octomom, Toby!

Kevin's movie is a hit and made everyone including Randall cry. During an interview with Terry Gross, he gets asked about Jack and his experience in Vietnam. It starts Kevin to hunt for answers and found photos and a name that he calls Mr. Thompson.

After a week goes by from Randall argued with Kate about passing on a piece of dad to talking to the city councilman Brown about the recreational center. Randall tries to apologies to Kate and flies over there to be with her and Toby. After Kate's surgery, Randall gets word about Sky getting attacked by the recreational center.  As he came back home, he thinks he's going to run against Brown. But Beth gives him more news that she got fired from her job.

This was another excellent episode that had many emotional moments whether it's Kate worrying about the surgery to her talking to her past lives and her dad. Rebecca and Jack had some solid moments; mainly when they are together at the store and talking about their dreams. Kevin and his flashbacks to when Jack yelled at him when he was throwing a toy grenade at a toy store and Jack apologies to him about it. The performances from the cast in this episode was amazing that each and everyone one of them played a equal amount of making this episode special. Even the writing as well was outstanding.

Overall, I give this episode a 9/10.

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

A Second Chances: This Is Us "Nine Bucks" Season Premiere

The season premiere of This Is Us left us with joy and tearful moments but the end left us shocked.

It's Kate, Kevin and Randall's 38th birthday, while they celebrate it they're dealing more than getting ready for a party. With Kate, she tells Toby that she wants to try to have another baby. After getting negative results and sees a specialist, who runs some test on her and Toby. The specialist concluded that it wouldn't be good with her condition of weight and all, plus Toby's depression too.

Kate takes it very hard and when she with her friends for a birthday lunch. Toby tries to cheer her up and tells her that they are other ways of having children.  But a call back from the specialist informs them that they want to try and help them have a baby. With Kate overjoy, Toby decides to stop taking his anti-depressants.

Kevin and Zoe begins their spicy relationship and Beth has a feeling that they are together. Beth promises Randall that she swear on Oprah that she wouldn't get into those two, but she did. Beth is trying to protect Kevin from Zoe, who doesn't have the best track record on relationships. But I think they're gonna take it easy.

In the meantime, Randall takes Deja out to his father's apartment building, and tells her that Beth and him would like to fully adopt her. But for that to happen she has to give her full agreement. Later she leaves the house to see her father, who works at a shop . She confronts him and tells him the almost same speech that Randall gave to his father and than asked for one thing. When Deja came back home, Randall was mad until she gave him his birthday gift, a pair of running shoes and tells him that she's all in for them to adopted her.

As for Jack and Rebecca, we come in on the night of the unbelievable Steelers game and Jack meets Rebecca for the first time. After Rebecca sings the two talked and went out to a carnival, where Jack spends $7 out of his $9. But when it started to rain, both Rebecca and Jack were stuck with nothing to do. As Jack drives her home, he opens up to her about why he wouldn't buy an umbrella for her. The two at first didn't have a connection but when she leaves her sweater in his truck, that's a sign that she wants to see him again. 

But when he drives back to Rebecca but as he gets there, he sees someone else at her front door and kisses her. A total shocker, but to add even more we more forward into the future with Randall and Tess get ready. Randall calls an aged Toby, who's alone in bed, to get him to come along too.

"Nine Bucks" was a strong season opener that dived so well into the this season. From Randall and Deja to Kate and Toby and not to mention Jack and Rebecca were such strong and emotional storylines. Yeah, it got me to grab the tissues early on but it also shocked me at the end of this episode.

I did enjoy the moments between Beth, Kevin and Zoe whether it's Beth swearing on Oprah to Randall not to confront to two about it, but she did. Plus the Kevin is Batman comment was hilarious and still has me laughing.

I can't wait to see what's gonna happen this season. I think that what we are looking at with the future scene that maybe Beth and Kate might have died and Randall wants everyone to be together. And even though it was a shock, it shouldn't since there has to be some drama with Jack and Rebecca. Jack couldn't get her just like that, but we kind of wish he would.

Overall, I give this episode a 9/10.

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

This Is Us "Ava Maria" Season 3 Premiere Press Release/Clips/ Photos

Here's a look into the season premiere of This Is Us titled "Ava Maria."

"Ava Maria"

Season Premiere: When celebrating their 38th birthday, Randall, Kate and Kevin find themselves on new paths.


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Sneak Peak: 

You can catch the season premiere of This Is Us, Tuesday, Sept. 25 at 9/8c on NBC.

"Okay" This Is Us "The Car"

With the Super Bowl episode being such a tragic event, the episode is a remembrance of the man from the view of the family car. 

"The Car" was a powerful eulogy of who Jack Pearson was as a father and a husband. It just had enough balance of emotion, inspiration, and humor to the previous episode. You see Rebecca and the kids still dealing with the loss but also remembering their father in bits and pieces in time that starts with buying the car and leads to that final weekend. With a bit of help from Dr. K, doing his wise man thing, reminding Rebecca that she's just as strong as Jack and letting her know how much he was scared, too.

After her talk with Dr. K, she takes the kids and Jack's ashes to Jack's favorite tree, which also holds a deep place for Rebecca. She tells Kevin, Kate, and Randall that they should live and not have to worry about who's the man or whose fault it is that leads Jack back into the fire. But the one thing that leaves with a powerful meaning is that Jack was a man who could see into the future, which Rebecca talks about before pouring some of his ashes by the tree.

In the last scene, Jack tells the car dealer he doesn't want to buy a used car. Still, the station wagon means he doesn't have much money to pay for it. Still, all he wants is for his family to be okay, and it ends with Rebecca driving the kids to a Bruce Springsteen concert that Jack bought a couple of weeks ago for them to go and also help her with her fear of driving through the bridge that we see at the beginning she fears.

The writing and the performance of this episode could not be any better. There was depth, and there were well-developed characters, mainly Rebecca, who we see grow a lot. Mandy Moore should be considered for an Emmy role, not to mention Milo Ventimiglia as well. The one scene that stood out was when Dr. K visited and talked with Rebecca, followed by the scene where she and the kids talk about Jack at his favorite tree spot. Overall, I give this episode a 9/10.

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

The Moment: This Is Us "That'll Be The Day"

Just like the promo for the episode that this is the day that they'll remember and boy did we get the tip of it at the end.

Let's start with the present day with Beth and Randell as they are starting they're first day as apartment owners, where William lived. Randell with full excitement, jumps into full Mr. Fix mode when other tenants were complaining of their issues. Beth leaves it with Randall and even Kevin, who comes in to find something to do and make amends with Randell and Beth.

Who needs The Property Brothers, when you got The Pearson Brothers at work. Kevin takes care of the door and wall while Randall fixes the toilets and such but finds out that the apartment has bugs and gets everyone out to another place to live. Kevin and Randall do talk about the day 20 years ago about their dad.

Meanwhile, Kate surprises Toby in the bedroom, thinking that he was looking at porn, but it really was photos of dogs. Kate, who has some emotional issues with dogs, tries to find a dog for Toby and meets with Audio. Just as she's about to adopt him, she has second thoughts. Playing with my emotions because I'm an animal lover,  but at the end Kate brings Audio home to Toby and it was like TV magic come to life.

Let's jump to the past, 20 years ago as it's Super Bowl Sunday and Jack is excited for what's probably the final Pearson's Family Super Bowl party. But things don't go well to his plan when Kevin is just mad at not able to go do what he was hoping to do and leaves to be with Sophie, who got accepted at NYU. Kate gets a letter from a University saying that she's one of the final candidates and wants to see or hear an original song from her. But when Jack video tapes her while singing she has a fit and express to him that she's not what he sees as his little girl. And Randall and his new girlfriend got out and watch Titanic.

Jack tries to keep busy by fixing a new TV set for the Super Bowl party and trying to find a house that could use some redoing to get his business started. Rebecca find a place for him to do just that and tells him that they are expecting a call back from them. After Randall gets back, Jack sees him and tells him that he and his girlfriend kissed.

As Jack cleans the dishes, and puts stuff away and even shut off the crock-pot. This is the same crock-pot that they got from a neighbor couple, that started out in the episode cleaning their garage, 18 years ago as a gift and was warned about the switch needs to be fiddled with because it doesn't always shut off. Well, that same crock-pot Jack turned off happen to turn on and started the fire leaving us with a firing kitchen, no batteries in the smoke detector and an emotional cliffhanger.

"That'll be the Day' was a fine and emotional episode at times, mostly between Katie and Audio and the final scene of the episode. The writing was so good from the beginning and grew to even better and better with moments of humor and sadness. The character development was so good with these characters. The scene with Kevin and Randall walking down the hall to do their job was just hilarious and making the Property Brothers look like kids. The performances from each of the cast members were amazing, Overall, I give this episode a 9/10.

You can catch This Is Us on a special night Super Bowl Sunday, Feb. 4th at 10/9c (depends on the game. Set DVR with extra minutes just in case).

Over that Hurdle: This Is Us "Clooney"

After last week's amazing hour of television, this week episode shows our favorite family getting over that hurdle.

"Clooney" is well written, well established episode that's full of (again) life lessons and character growth for our favorite family. The one motive for this episode "over the hurdle" is really best describe this episode as each member like Kevin getting over the hurdle of Miguel with his mother, Kate with her weight gain confession and helping a member of her group. Randall gets into searching what seems to be a long lost love of Williams when finding poems of his and coming to thinking of being the landlord of the building that he had stayed. Jack and his business. Not to mention the cat of William's Clooney, who we see taking a journey in the city til making his way to William, not to mention still alive and with a family in the same building.

The episode really dives deeper into the background of our characters with their life challenges. Each and everyone finds their over the hurdle moment. The writing of this episode might not be as strong as last week's episode but it still holds up as to a really good episode. The performance from the cast was amazing and no one out performed each other, but I would have to say the cat did steal my heart throughout the episode. Overall, I give this episode a 9/10.

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

Parson No Fly Zone This Is Us "The Fifth Wheel"

"This Is Us" returns from a it's holiday hiatus and returns with one of the most overwhelming emotional episodes of the season. But just one thing: Stay away from the Parson's No Fly Zone.

After being arrested and placed in a rehab center, Kevin and the family (mainly Kate, Rebecca and Randall)  talked into a therapy session about Kevin's addiction, where true feelings come out. Kevin comes out to Rebecca of how she favors Randall while Jack favors Kate growing up. Meanwhile, Miguel, Beth and Toby have their therapy session about living with the Parsons.

"The Fifth Wheel" comes in strong from start to finish with excellent writing. If you are have been watching this season, you could instantly understand the meaning of the title for the episode. The performances from the cast from Justin Hartley and Mandy Moore was outstanding with full emotional driven. Not to mention that Brown and Metz gave a great performance to, mostly coming during the therapy session that really stood out from the episode.

I'd very much enjoyed this episode from start to finished. The performances from Hartley and Moore deserve award nominations for this episode, with their performance from the therapy session to the end of the episode of why Kevin really doesn't get the love or extra attention that Kate and Randall gotten. The writing was outstanding that should be considered for award consideration.

Overall, I give this episode a 9.5/10.

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

This Is Us "The 20's"/"The Most Disappointed Man"

"The 20's"

"The 20's" was a fun and emotional episode as well. Watching a lot of flashbacks of the ten year olds of Big Three trick or treating to learning about a death and then flashing forward to their twenties. Kevin, in his twenties, tries to steal a role from a roommate, Randall and Beth are soon to have a baby and a get a surprise for the first time parents.

Meanwhile, Rebecca, who signs up for Facebook, posts her first granddaughter photo, but gets a message from an old friend. Miguel messages her to see how she's been doing in the last eight years, probably since Jack's death or so.

Overall, I give this episode a 8.5/10.

"The Most Disappointed Man"

Just as Jack and Rebecca are about to adopted Randall, the judge somehow doesn't support it. But after Rebecca gives a convincing speech, the judges grants them the right to adoption. William, even though has been clean, pleads guilty on drug charges but when the judge visits him in jail, he offers to reduce his sentence and to get some help. But in return, William must keep the judge's promise, for which he did, until he gets news about his cancer diagnosis.

Randall takes Deja to visit her mother in prison, but the mother declines the visit. But when Randall visits, the mother tells him that she plans to take her daughter back.

While that was going on, Kevin and Sophie's relationship takes another dive and continues to drink and take abuse the pain meds again. And Toby and Kate tells Kevin about their pregnancy announcement and was consider to get married at city hall but decided to have a big one instead.

"The Most Disappointed Man" was another amazing episode that gripped with emotional storytelling. The performances from Mandy Moore and Ron Cephas Jones steal this episode by far from the other cast members, who also did an amazing job. The writing was strong. Overall, I give this episode a 9/10.

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

This Is Us "Still There" /"Brothers"

This Is Us just keeps getting better and better.

"Still There"

"Still There" is another amazing episode that shows really good character growth. Randall and Deja connect with what they have, which is anxiety and invites her to what helps him the best to deal with that running. Also standing up for her was a real moment for Deja to see how much Randall cares for her.

Meanwhile, after having knee surgery, Kevin continues on using pain meds, leading up for the character for a spiral. And Kate finds out that she's pregnant. Also we get to see how Rebecca stands up to her mother, calling her a racist and coming to terms on how right Rebecca is about Randall.

Overall, I give this episode a 9/10.

"Brothers"

With the announcement of Kate's pregnancy from Kate and Toby. Kevin drinks and tries to get more refiles of his pain meds. But with his involvement of Sophie's auction, it don't go well and makes a huge mess between them.

But the storyline has to be when Jack takes Kevin and Randall out camping and learning about his father dying at the same time. Jack may not want to say goodbye to him, but Rebecca made the effort to meet along with Kate as well. But later we see Jack looking at a photo of him along with others in the army. But it turns out that in Jack's childhood, we get to learn a shocking news that Jack has a brother, who makes an appearance when Jack awaits their father at a bar drinking.

"Brothers" is another great accomplishment episode that showed emotions, mostly into the fatherhood. It did struck a personal note for me to say the least. Milo's performance was amazing as he has always shown, along with Hartley and Brown's performance as well. Overall, I give this episode a 9/10.


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

Rock but Solid Start: This Is Us "Deja Vu"

This episode was so beautifully written and performed.

"Deja Vu" is a beautiful episode that dives into two main storylines: one the fact that Kevin tries to put off the memories of his father during the shooting of his film along with Sylvester Stallone. When Kate get star struck with Sly, she mentions their father to him and it gets Kevin, who apparently hasn't grieved over the death of his father. And while filming the action scene when he saves Sly's character, Kevin gets a flashback of the night of his father's death and soon trips and breaks his bad leg.

The second story would be Randell and Beth meets with Deja Vu, who's brought to their home after her mother was arrested for charges. Things get dramatic quickly when Beth picks up Deja's mother's cigarettes and blows up in anger. Soon, Randell has Deja sit down with him and Beth as he tells her the story of how he was adopted into a family and hoping that she would embrace the adventures of a new life with a new family.

This episode was beautifully written with heartwarming moments with emotional turns. The performances from Sterling K. Brown and Justin Hartley were amazing. Even Stallone's performance, I think deserves an Emmy nod for Guest Appearance. Overall, I give this episode a 9/10.

You can catch This Is Us Tuesdays's at 9/8c on NBC. 

"This Is Us" Cast Joining the Tonight Show After Super Bowl

Just if you just can't get enough of the Parsons (and who can't?). Expect a second helping when they join Jimmy Fallon on The Tonight Show Live in Minneapolis, Minn.

The stars of This Is Us, Milo Ventimiglia, Mandy Moore, Sterling K. Brown, Chrissy Metz and Justin Hartley, will appear in the post Bowl episode with Fallon along with the Super Bowl Halftime Show Justin Timberlake and Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson.

The Tonight Show will be filmed at Minneapolis' Orpheus Theatre, and will be preceded by a new episode of This Is Us as well at the late local news.

Holy Ships!! Stranger Things Season 2, "Chapter 5: Dig Dug"/"Chapter 6: The Spy"

Chapter 5: Dig Dug

There was so much going on in this episode that I almost did what Will did at the end of the episode was happen to be a jaw dropping moment.

Where to begin? Let's start with Dustin as he tries to figure out how to get Dart out of the house. He does it by leaving a trail of food for it that leads to the basement. It was working until it saw and sense Dustin and so he went for Plan B attack it and knock it in the basement. Oh by the way, he was wearing a pretty cool outfit that remembered be of The Mighty Ducks.

Lucas tries to fix his relationship with Max and after his father for advice, he tells her the truth about last year. She didn't believe him at first but with a very convincing look she seems to believe him. Trouble is that her so called brother saw her with him again and isn't too pleased. This guy really freaks me out.

Eleven finally goes to see her mother and tries to reconnect with her after seeing the lights in the house go off and on like what Will did in the Upside Down. Doing her bit once again, she saw what her mother went through to find her after she was born from a diffcult labor, Papa stealing her and making her mother think that she was dead, to seeing her getting a gun and finding her. And to even seeing how she got to be in the condition she is in now. And understands that the words she says all the time is what she remembers the most from certain time.

As Joyce and Mike help with Will, Will sees that Hooper is in trouble after he is in under ground with the vines and such. Even he got sprayed and coughed up stuff that I think that he might go through what Will has been going through. With time running out, Joyce gets Bob to help and after trying to get the brainy dude thinking they drove and found Hopper's car.

There Joyce and Bob go under and searching for Hopper. They finally come to him as he is tied down with vines around his neck and body. They cut it all off and with some creepy but cool scene shots, he's free. That is until the DOE dudes come in and get them out. As soon as they start burning off the vines, Will starts to have a seizure like moment and screams his head off like he's been burned.

This episode was so good. The performance from everyone was so good and the writing was as well. I didn't really think too much on the Nancy/Johnathan story as it just was a bit light out of the others in this episode. I'm think that maybe that Hopper is infected like Will is? He coughed up stuff after that mutant planet sprayed him with crap. Overall, I give this episode a 8.5/10.

Chapter 6: The Spy

HOLY SHIPS!!!!! Revenge is best served deadly I guess. 

With the doctors and nurses searching of what is wrong with Will, saying that he is bruned without any burnmarks on him. That all first scene of the episode was so intense and even scary for me watching Schnapp's performance. As Owen's team of doctors perform test of Will, it turns out that he has a vrius and Will is the host, that helps connect to a human and not only see what the creatures are doing but also be known as what Mike calls Will "The Spy." 

Thinking that Will is helping Owen and the team. A team goes down and searches to burned down the rest of the place until Dart and gang comes along, after trying to attack Dustin, Lucas, Max and Steve at the junkyard, and attacks the team that's underground where Hopper was trapped. Not only does these creatures killed but are moving towards the DOE by the end of the episode. 

Meanwhile, Dusitn and Steve try to get Dart to come to them after seeing that it had escaped Dustin's basement. Lucas and Max catches up and meets them at the junkyard to prepare for Dart to come, but as it turns out Dart wasn't alone and turned into one hell of a montage to Tremors. 

This episode was a real thrill. From the begnning to the end, I really was tied to my seat. With what was going on between Will and Dustin and the gang, I really did fine the Nancy and Johanhan story in this episode to be the calm before the thrills. You know sixe episodes in and I know I haven't said much about Paul Reiser's performance so far but I just have to say that he's amazing in this role. He can surely balance the comedy and drama as it does remind me of his performance in Aliens. Overall, I give this episode a 9/10.

You can catch Season Two of Stranger Things available on Netflix now and Season One too along on Blu-ray and DVD.

This Is Us "A Manny-Splendored Thing"

This week's episode of This Is Us was not a disappointment episode.

"A Manny-Splendored Thing" such a good episode that it not only brought the laughter and tears but a lot of George Clooney and ER references as well (which I really like).

Kevin comes back to do a special episode of The Manny and Sophia tries to get him through the diffecult part of being back at the scene of the crime where he brust off the set last time. There were a lot of George Clooney ER references that I really enjoyed and watching how these from the past and present was just heartwarming and funny.

Randall is having a hard time dealing with the adpotion papers and the one thing he's worried about it that could they take care of a kid that has problems that they haven't dealt with. After a brief break, Beth talks to Kevin about the issue and learned that Randall was given pick up lines from Kevin when they first met and Beth tells Kevin that she thinks he's funny, even though she never thought so. But her and Randall settle their issues and moved forward to the adoption.

Kate and Toby is having Rebecca and Migual over before Kevin's taping and Kate is nervous to death of her coming over. We see the reason why Kate acts different to her mother and it shows when Kate catches her mom in the shower singing better than her and realizes that Rebecca has been over confident.

The performance from Kate singing "Landslide" and showing a montage of Jack boxing in the gym as he tries to quit his drinking problem and other scenes was amazing and overwhelming at times.

Not to mention the scene with Kate telling her mother after her performance what she truly feels about why she didn't want her at her performances. It was just a stiller scene from Metz and Moore.

And not to mention we Jack battling his drinking addiction and see why he's been drawn to drinking with the job he has. But we also see how he first attemps to stop drinking, by boxing his pain away and talking to Kate as she's his rock. But when the second time around, Jack tells Rebecca that he can't do it like he did last time and she takes him to am AA meeting.

Overall, I enjoyed this episode a lot. The perfomance between Metz, Moore, Milo and even Susan Kelechi Watson was flatout amazing. The writing was so good and powerful at times in some scenes that I laugh and cried at times. Overall, I give this episode a 9/10.

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

This Is Us Season 2 Clips and Promos

We're just little more than a week away til the anticapted season premiere of last year's biggest new show, This Is Us. If you're like me, who can't wait for the big day, I hear you. I thought that maybe this will tie you down til the seaosn premiere.

I'm guessing that probably after watching these clips and promos that you probably grabbed some tissues. Don't be embarrassed, I did it too when I first watch these clips.

You can catch the season premiere of This Is Us, Tuesday, Sept. 26 at 9/8c on NBC.