Coming Clean and Moving On: Champions "I Think I'm Gonna Tolerate it Here"

Just like they say when you keep a secret, it's always about to come out sooner than later.

As Vince tries to figure out how to fix the mess he made of selling the gym without having everyone that works there know about it. He learns that he and Matthew has to pay a fine of up with $5,000 to regain the gym. But when Michael, who's been staying in their apartment too long, steps out and sees Brittney along with the other gym workers. Soon the flood gates break as the coworkers of the gym learn about Michael and that the gym being sold as well.

While dealing with the gym, Vince figures out that Michael was raised spoiled with his unclean habits and such. After getting eaten by the couch, Matthew gives up Vince's king size bed to Michael, while Vince and Matthew sleep in the other bed, together. It draws tension between them and Matthew decides to move out staying with Ruby.  But after a morning with Michael,Vince comes to terms and not only brings Matthew back home but gets the group together and apologies to all and gets an idea for how they can get the money to pay the fine....from Matthew and Vince's childhood hoops shooting machine. For which opens up for Michael to have his own bedroom.

"I Think I'm Gonna Tolerate it Here" is another brilliant half hour comedy of humor and heart. From the great writing, strong character development, the performance from the cast members was just amazing, mostly Fortune Feimster as Ruby shines in this episode. Overall, I give this episode a 9/10.

You can catch Champions Thursdays at 9:30/8:30c on NBC.

It's not Cheating if the Person Helping You Loves You: Life In Pieces "Therapy Cheating Shoes Movie"

Another week, another fun-filled half-hour with the Shorts.

"Therapy Cheating Shoe Movie" was another winning episode in my book with the humorist moments of Joan getting Tyler and Clementine back together, Tim getting Holly to do his driving test online, and Heather trying to make Holly feel bad until Holly tells her that she said the DMV about it and Tim get hiss lilicenseuspended. Not to mention Jen getting sick and tired of the family adding more family time with movie night, but realized that it's essential fun.

I enjoyed this episode. It h. I laugh from time to time. Their stories were so well developed, ma, only with the movie story about Jen. I couldn't get enough of the Tim, Holly, and Heather story with the DMV, as it was one of my favorites. And we're delighted knowing that Tyler and Clementine will get back together. Overall, I give this episode an 8/10.

You can catch Life In Pieces on Thursdays at 9:30/8:30 on CBS.

The Accidental Gift: Life In Pieces "Toilet Shaving Stuck Fertility"

From tech toilets to shave or o shave, this episode of Life in Pieces was another hilarious episode.

"Toilet Shaving Stuck Fertility" was another memorable episode with hilarious moments from John accidentally receiving a new tech toilet from Tim as a thank you to Jen and Greg dodging their crazy neighbors and as they were invited to their party. Sophia and Heather's shaving story was perfect, too. The Matt and Colleen story has been nicely developing as they try anything to have a baby, including having someone inspect their stuff to see if it makes them infertile.

It's one of those episodes that will make you laugh and remember it a few days later. I couldn't get enough of John's John and how much John talked to the toilet, and Joan expressed her love for it after using it. The writing was good, and the performances from the cast were as good as the previous episode.

Overall, I give this episode an 8/10.

You can catch Life In Pieces on Thursdays at 9:30/8:30 on CBS.

Champions New Comedy Series

From the creators Mindy Kaling and Charlie Grandy comes a new comedy series, Champions. Vince seems to live the simple life. He's a charismatic gym owners and living the bachelor's dream with his younger brother, Matthew. But as his high school fling Priya drops off their 15 year old son Michael changes everything.

Starrng Anders Holm (Workaholics), Andy Favreau, Mouzam Makkar, J.J. Totah (Spiderman Homecoming), and Fortune Feimster (Life in Pieces and The Mind Project).

You can catch the series premiere of Champions Thursday, March 8 at 8:30/7:30c on NBC.

Kevin Can Wait Season 2 (so far)

With a very questionable kick off to the new season, the second season of Kevin Can Wait has found it's stride.

I will admit that I wasn't too happy about the new change to the season of letting go Erinn Hayes after the first season and killing her character Donna. But I gave the show the benefit of the doubt and see what they had come up that would make sense and when the second season of the show premiered, it was just a huge disappointment. Knowing that she had died and making a joke about her gym membership wasn't the smartest thing to do and I did have a bit of pissing mood and wanting to watch the show.

But I did and down the road the show got better during it's Thanksgiving episode that really set me thinking that this show will work. And soon after I felt the show finally was better than where they were at the start of the season. The stories were good as it still feels that classic sitcom that we're so use to watching back in the day..

Yes, Leah Remini and Kevin James have a great chemistry that you just can't deny. They chemistry brings another energy to the show that may or may not feel that it's a different style of The King of Queens, but hey it works. And not to mention the cast from Taylor Spreitler, Ryan Cartwright that are hilarious and probably my favorite supporting characters on the show.

So far so good Kevin Can Wait is the show to watch Monday nights. Overall, I do give the season after 16 episodes a 7/10.

You can catch Kevin Can Wait Mondays at 8/7c on CBS.

One Long Challenge: Life in Pieces "Emergency Colonoscopy Driving Lunch"

With one mission that he has to do, it gets complicated when family comes around.

In this 30-minute episode, Matt and Colleen are trying to have a baby, and when Matt has an appointment at the sperm clinic, things get complicated for Matt. From one story to another, Matt receives a call from Heather, Greg, and even Tim to help them. Then the last story comes when, after doing the deed, his bag gets accidentally switched with another person's lunch bag and explodes with a blue dye. But at the end, when they are both at the clinic, Matt goes in to do his deed there but gets stopped when another person is still in there.

"Emergency Colonoscopy Driving Lunch" was one good whole story of perfect, hilarious scenarios of what could happen to Matt when a family member calls for help. With each of the stories, the one hilarious and memorable moment came when Matt had to help Greg out with their mom and dad, and Greg needed to finish the interview meeting that turned into that classic BBC interview of the analysis getting interrupted by his kids and wife and John finds Matt's lunch bag and stomps on it. Overall, I give this episode an 8/10.

You can catch Life In Pieces on Thursdays at 9:30/8:30 on CBS.

Life In Pieces "Reading Egg Nurse Neighbor"

From telling about a different version of the chicken and the egg to a mother reading her own "fifty shades" style novel to people, this week's episode of Life In Pieces was a hoot.

"First Story: Reading with Joan"

When Joan leaves John mysterious, he figures out what she's up to and brings the family to her book reading, which happens to be a "Fifty Shades-style novel. With the family all excited, Joan wasn't and started to get stage fright. Finally, John gets everyone to leave, even though he was the one who threatened them to come in the first place. Joan reads her novel, and with the steamy scenes read out loud, the family hears, and after five seconds (with Greg lasting ten seconds), they leave quickly.

"Second Story: The Chicken and the Egg"

After Colleen reads the story about a chicken who ate Lark and Sophia, Sophia gets Matt and Colleen to tell her a story about the Chicken and the Egg that's about the same thing as what they're going through when trying to have a baby. Half of the report shows many animated farm animals in the Shots. After ending with a cliffhanger story, Colleen and Matt decide that after admitting to being scared of IVF, they should go for it.

"Third Story: Tim Hires a Nurse"

As Tim tries to decide on which nurse to hire from a line of resumes, Heather doesn't think some of them are right for the job. Tim doesn't like how she butts in and makes the final decision, but in the end, she does when Tim hires Cindy, a nurse who gets the job done and does magic as well. After apologizing to Heather, Heather tells the whole thing to Cindy, and she quits. So, I guess it's back to the drawing board.

"Four Story: New Neighbor"

When Greg and Jen get a wake-up call from a neighbor's dog, they assume it's the new neighbor. Trying to make a good impression first, they come over with story-bought brownies, and the two get along great and even comment about the dog that happens to be on the other side of them. When Greg and the neighbor go over to confront the dog owner, the new neighbor happens to give her his two cents and threaten her to shut the dog up, or it dies. Not only does that scare the dog owner, but Greg, too, tells Jen about it. The next day, Greg goes over to the dog owner's house and tries to apologize about the whole thing but doesn't accept the flowers and later sees the new neighbor watering the garden.


"Reading Egg Nurse Neighbor" is a good episode that had some excellent, memorable moments, from Joan reading her novel to Tim thinking that he had hired the nurse he wanted. The one story was The Chicken and the Egg, which had a good message about life and making the tough decision of IVF. It also showed excellent character growth between Matt and Colleen. And the animated story was perfect. Overall, I give this episode an 8/10.

You can catch Life in Pieces on Thursdays at 9:30/8:30 on CBS.

Fresh Off The Boat "Do You Hear What I Hear?"

The one person that could ruin Christmas, happens to show the Christmas spirit. 

Tis the season and Jessica gets ready for this season's HOA Carol singers. But when Holly comes and teaches the group on performing. Soon she sees the audition process and picks the ones that she thought were good, with Jessica being the ones not to make it. Jessica gets upset and fires Holly and jumps with the group until the group leaves her by herself singing alone.

But after stopping at Honey's house and learning of Honey's pregnancy, she apologizes to Holly about how she handled things and all seems to be forgiven. 

Meanwhile, Louis and Honey go see Titanic, with Honey not telling Marvin about it. But Marvin suspects something is going on with Honey and soon spots both Louis and Honey at the movies seeing Titanic for the second time. After confessing, they all saw it with only Louis and Honey loving it and Marvin picking how wrong the ship broke. 

Nicole falls in love with a girl at a coffee shop and gets Emery, Eddie and Alison's help on how to ask her out. After drinking a ton of coffee, Nicole finally asked the girl and gets her number. 

"Do You Hear What I Hear?" was a good, fun and enjoyable holiday episode. Love the Titanic references and makes me want to watch the movie again. I feel with Louis when I was hoping the ship doesn't hit the iceberg. The coffee shop story was good and also Jessica and Holly as well. Really good writing and performances. Overall, I give this episode a 8.5/10..

You can catch Fresh Off The Boar Tuesdays at 8:30/7:30c on ABC.

Fresh Off the Boat "A League of Her Own"/"The Day After Thanksgiving"

"A League of Her Own"

When Nicole walks into a lesbian bar, she spots Honey and Jessica there talking and drinking. She comes out to Honey and tells her that she's playing for the bar's softball team. With Honey accepting Nicole, they figure out a way to tell Marvin. After failing to tell Marvin during movie night watching "A League of Their Own," Marvin learned it in a different way, from Jessica during the softball game.

With mixed feelings about it, Marvin accepts Nicole in coming out, even if he did play it against her as getting her out.

Meanwhile, when Louis tries to rags up his team for the Cattleman's softball team, he's taken the challenge from management that if they win one game, the team will stay but lose then it's gone for good. With that going, Jessica convinces the bar owner to let her manage the softball team that happens to be playing Louis' team. As the two square it off, it's not very promising at first for Louis. 

"A League of Her Own" was a very good episode. It was a good half hour of comedy that had some memorable moments. The writing was good and the performances from the cast as well. Overall, I give this episode a 7/10.

"The Day After Thanksgiving" 

Probably one of my favorite episodes of the fourth season. "The Day After Thanksgiving" was good from the beginning to the end with witty humor to good character development coming from Jessica and Louis' mother. The writing of the episode was so good. Overall, I give this episode a 8/10.

You can catch Fresh Off the Boat Tuesdays at 8:30/7:30c on ABC.

OH OH OMG!!! Life In Pieces "The Twelve Shorts of Christmas"

From rocking to classic Christmas carol to suicidal rumba vacuum, cleaning bee holes to even the greatest gift, this Christmas with the Shorts will surely be remembered this year.

In this Christmas episode, we see twelve short stories of the Shorts and how they spend their days updaysChristmas—from rocking out to Carol of the Bells by Mannheim Steamroller to Sophia accidentally drinking egg nog instead of milk to going to,  not to mention the sad, funny, and confused moment when Joan's rumba vacuum committed suicide. Not to msayttherthereeehive jokes, Greg, Heathe,r, and Matt are trying to recapture their moment in the tub when they were kids.

"The Twelve Shorts of Christmas" is a half-hour of comedy gold, with many, many memorable moments that I would put this episode on the list of great Christmas classic episodes. The cast was terrific, and let alone the writing was strong, solid, and outstanding. I recommend you watch this episode before Christmas. Overall, I give this episode a 9.5/10.

You can catch Life in Pieces on Thursdays at 9:308:30 on CBS.

Who's Got Game: Great News "Squad Feud"

Great News is blowing up in the best way possible!!!

After a Q&A of the mighty women in the workforce that led to them feuding with one another t, they seized each other's squad, even Tatakeway Portia's social media followers. But when it came to Portia, pulling a parody of Taylor Swift's Bad Blood and posting a music video titled "Wash Dish, Bish."

Not to mention, the relationship between Katie and Greg grows as they switch positions after Katie begs Greg to do a story she wants. After a few bumps in the road, Katie seems to get the hang of it, and Diana gives her the Executive Producer position. The feud between them was sometimes hilarious, mostly when Carol, who knows about Katie and Greg's kiss, tried to get them back into that mood. But in the end, Katie takes her old job back from Diana.

"Squad Feud" might be my favorite episode of the second season so far, with the wit and intelligent writing. And not to mention the performances from the cast, mainly from Nicole Richie, who shines with her character feuding with Fey's character. I couldn't get enough of the music video of Portia and the crew. Overall, I give this episode a 9/10.

You can catch Great News on Thursdays at 9:30/8:30 on NBC.

Life In Pieces "Waffle Permission Kidless Boyfriend"

Here's a recap of this week's episode of Life in Pieces.

"Waffle Party" 

When Matt and Colleen have breakfast with Joan and John, Joan asks about the waffle maker they got as a wedding gift. That leads to Joan offering them a waffle party. Matt and Colleen will bring everything to make the waffles, and Joan will bring them here and John. But Matt and Colleen didn't tell them they gave away their waffle maker and learned from Joan that they put a bundle of cash in their box. That led Matt and Colleen to go wild at a store looking for the money until John opened up the waffle maker that he bought and came to realize that he had given Matt the wrong one after finding the cash in his box.

"Permission" 

Nothing says like spending time with mom when you are feeling down. Tyler tries to give Clementine space from their place and doesn't know what to do. Heather takes him to the mall to go shopping, get her hair straighten, and even to the movies.

After it was awkward for Tyler, it became one of his best times with his mother. That was until they were at the movies.

"A Night Away"

Jen and Greg get to have a night to themselves away from Lark, but it turns out to be a  real night to remember when things started slowly by drinking wine, playing a game, and sleeping through the day and night away. When they get back, as soon as they begin to get things going, a baby is screaming next door. Greg tries to be the bigger man and tries to make it stop but instead gets asked by the mother to look after her child as she has to take her youngest to the hospital. 

Greg returns to the room with Jen; all dressed up and ready but unprepared to see Greg with someone's child. They try to be good parents, but they have some fun with the child by jumping up and down on the bed to play ding dong ditch.

As they headed back and tried to find the child's mother, Jen got an Amber Alert about a missing child, and the license plate number looked like Greg's and concluded that they shouldn't have taken the child from the hotel.

"Samantha's Boyfriend"

When Sam brings her boyfriend home, John and Sophia get into Tim's head that they may be doing something else besides studying for a test or a play. It freaks Tim out a lot, and he tries to do what he can to ensure he knows they aren't doing anything wrong.

After a couple of tries, he realizes that he shouldn't have listened to John apologize to Sam for his action, and they hug it out. But as soon as she returns to her room, she kisses her boyfriend.

This was an excellent episode from start to finish. The stories were amazing, and each stood out on their own. The writing was excellent, and the performances from the cast were just as good as well. Overall, I give this episode a 9/10.

You can catch Life in Pieces on Thursdays at 9:30/8:30 on CBS.

Life in Pieces "Meal Potty Cart Middle"

From fancy dinners to middle child issues, this episode of Life in Pieces was sometimes good.

"Meal Potty Cart Middle" was a satisfying episode at times. The MVP of this episode was "Potty Training Lark," as Jen and Greg try to teach Lark how to use the potty after they told Joan about how Lark is potty trained—trying their best and learning from Joan that giving her prunes would make it work, not be to mention that Greg had a tail when he was a child. But after being given Lark prunes, she finally had to gather, and then Greg had to go and use Lark's potty while Jen tried to hold Lark's feet.

The second best story would be "The New Cart Girl," as Tyler is golfing with their father and grandfather and sees Clementine as the new golf cart girl handing out drinks and snacks, getting much attention. Tyler tries to fix it and takes the job as Cart Man while Clementine works in Daycare with another good-looking guy. They admit that their divorce isn't what they expected it to be.

"The Middle Child Day" and "Boccone" were good. They had hilarious coupons, but they didn't meet with the other stories.

Overall, I give this episode a 7.5/10.

You can catch Life In Pieces on Thursdays at 9:30/8:30 on CBS.

Life In Pieces "Treasure Ride Poker Hearing"

From Getting a good Uber passenger rating to learning to get a hearing aid, this episode was another excellent episode of Life in Pieces.

The MVP stories of this episode happen to be "The Pick-Up Artist," as Jen tries to use her niece to get a better Uber Passenger rating, "Queens are Wild," as Joan faces her neighbor who happens to want something in return for her poker game, but what the neighborhood doesn't know is Joan has specific poker skills. Also, the "Hearing and Loathing" comes when John has to face getting hearing aids.

"X Mark the Spot" had some excellent humor moments, but it didn't stand out like the other three stories in this episode.

I thought the writing was good, along with some outstanding performances from the cast in this episode. I liked the character growth in this episode as well. Overall, I give this episode an 8/10.

You can catch Life in Pieces on Thursdays at 9:30/8:30 on CBS.

Life In Pieces "Bunny Single Nightmare Drinking"

From awkward dinner to one hell of a nightmare, this episode of Life in Pieces was another half-hour of many laughs.

"Bunny Single Nightmare Drinking" was an excellent and hilarious episode. The first story of Jen and Greg trying to figure out what her boss' wife's name is was hilarious and memorable. Even with Tyler trying to move on from Clementine, he dates a mother who happens to have children and moves in with him. The funniest part of that story happens to be Tyler and his father, Tim, bonded, and Tim enjoys his son's happiness, which he wasn't.

When it comes to Matt's nightmare of having a child seems so natural as he learns that Colleen is expecting four children and has to move back in with his parents. It was probably the second-best story of the episode.

The last story has Heather thinking that her mom is drinking too much. But it's Heather causing her to drink more as she's trying to spend time with her. Joan admits to Greg and Matt about it and, during that moment, talks about how Heather deleted their shows, even JAG (who, by the way, is way better than NCIS). Joan finally does something about it when she gets a contractor to help fix Heather's house so they can get out.

I very much enjoyed this episode. Each one brought enough laughs and good moments to keep me entertained. The writing was good, and the performances from the cast were just as good as it has been. Overall, I give this episode an 8/10.

You can catch Life in Pieces on Thursdays at 9:30/8:30 on CBS.