Powerless "Emily Dates A Henchman"

When Emily is invited to her ex-boyfriend's wedding, she opens up and sets her sights on the dating world in this week's episode of Powerless.

As Emily looks upon her ex-boyfriend's social media page of photos of him and his fiance. She tries te dating world again and goes out with Wendy and Jackie. There she spots Dan, a doctor, and the two hit it off very well. Emily returns to work the next day talking about how great Dan is and how they're going to go to his boss' place for the weekend. Not knowing this, Teddy and the gang tell her that she's dating a henchman.

Just figuring it out, Emily storms out and talks with Jackie, who gives her a nice pep talk. When Dan comes up, she acts as though she caught him lying for the first time, but soon admits that he's a henchman (for the Riddler) and that his real name is Reggie. But than ties both Emily and Jackie and tries to steal Wayne Security stuff.

Meanwhile, Teddy found Batman's batarang left on a bank vault and both Ron and Teddy start to play with it. It catches Van's attention and he takes it because he knows that Batman would want it back but also he tries to get Batman to pay for the damage to his car (a broken side mirror).

Later, Teddy comes out as Ron sets out the batarang out with milk and cookie for Batman. Van appears and he's looking buff and having a cape hanging out his pants. Van has a Robin suit made cause he figures he could be Batman's sidekick even though two of the Robins have died, for which gives him more excitement. As they wait in the alley, a shadow figure comes walking through, thinking it would be Batman, but it was a robber demanding money, with no help from Robin. As soon as he leaves all three talk while Batman picks the robber up and gives back the guys money and takes the batarang away in a fast pace.

As soon as Reggie was told what the Riddler wanted to do with Emily and Jackie (take them to the river), Van comes in, as Robin, and scares Reggie and his guys away. As they're gone, Van tells Jackie to cut him out of his rubber suit and tells Emily to get a date.

"Emily Dates a Henchman" has one of the simplest titles out there. I really enjoyed this episode both Emily's story and Teddy, Ron and Van's story too. I think that this episode could be it's best since it's premiere and we're only in to three episodes, I know. There wasn't one player that stood out, it was mainly a great ensemble performance from the cast. The writing was very good. I couldn't get enough of Teddy, Ron and Van talking about Batman (because I, too, am a Batman fan). Overall, I give this episode a 9/10.

You can catch Powerless Thursday nights at 8:30/7:30c on NBC. The show will return in two weekson March 9th.  

Friendly Boss: Powerless "Wayne Dream Team"

Can you combine being a boss and friend with her team? Emily tries to balance it out.

This week's episode deals with when Emily and her team get word of their latest idea, the umbrella, and get the go-ahead to be made and tested. Emily tells Van that her team will finish it before the end of the week, but after they tested it out, there was a setback, and Emily wants them to work on it more. But when the Fantasy Superhero League draft is about to begin, she tries to be nice about it.

She asked Sam Greene from HR for help and caused even more trouble when she asked to block the Fantasy League website but stopped the internet, except for LinkedIn. The team decides to investigate it and try to get the internet back but figures out it was HR or Van and mess with Van's photo job that he had done.

When Sam sees it, he orders everyone to watch an anti-bullying tape for punishment. But Emily tells him he was harsh about it, but then he spills the beans about how she asked him to block the fantasy site. So she asked Sam that instead of having everyone watch the video, she'd watch it that lasted for 24 hours.

The team sees how long she has been in the room watching the video, and after she's been twitching, they pull her out of there. They calm her down and accept her as a boss but will get to know her as a friend. As they worked on their fantasy superhero league picks, she picked Crimson Fox over Batman. (I would say it was the wrong move! I never go against Batman, but since I've seen Crimson Fox in the first episode, it was a good choice.)

"Wayne Dream Team" was another hilarious episode. The writing was excellent, with such great scenes from Emily and Jackie getting breakfast/lunch or Emily trying to make a whiplash nose after Van told them how great she whipped her team into shape, which sounded awkward. Hudgens and the cast were outstanding once again, and even though it's only been the second episode, I'm placing this show in my top five favorite new comedies of the season. Even Van and Jackie's storyline about Van being cut out of the Dream Team photo was great, too.

Overall, I give this episode a 9.5/10.

You can catch Powerless Thursday nights at 8:30/7:30 on NBC.