Cold Cold Cold!!: Chicago Fire "Call It Paradise"

This week Firehouse 51 had to handle the cold elements of winter. Talk about timing for temperatures to be below zero. As the gang tries to prepare for things, set salt out and puts things in certain place to make sure they don't freeze. 

A baby was left near the house as Dawson found her and brought her in. The baby was fine and healthy has can be, but just to make sure the baby is okay, she needs to go to Chicago Med and get check out. Well, ambulance 61 is getting fixed by squad member. 

It wasn't til Britt told Mills how to start it that there was nothing wrong with the ambulance. Soon, they get a call for someone who's having chest pains and heads out over there, leaving the baby with Dawson until they get back. 

Later what we assume is the mother, comes in and ask for her child back. Bowden tells her that she needs papers to prove that the child is hers. Then when the firehouse gets a call, Dawson was left alone and soon the mother comes with papers but it's fake papers. She wants the baby back and then pulls a gun on Dawson. 

Then the Bowden comes in and everyone. She tells them that she wants the baby but then Bowden tells her to go and she goes but was caught by the CPD a couple of miles away from the firehouse. 

Meantime, Britt and Mills are at their location and see's a guy telling them about a kid who was hurt, who was freaking out because him and his girlfriend were doing drugs. Britt went in the warehouse to find the girl who must of really was freaking if she went all the way in the building. 

Britt finds the girl and tells her to walk slowly because she was on a bad railing until she fell and gets caught on a metal rod. Mills comes but and helps but they couldn't call for help with no service. 

Cruz, who was complaining about the cold the entire episode, tries calling out to Britt but got a guy in the ambulance and so the firehouse gang makes their way to them. They came in, they search and they saved. 

As things cooled down or more like warm up, Dawson saw that the baby finally got to be with her parents, who are from Indiana. Bowden throws a Hawaii party for his ailing father ad gave a great speech about how we unite and keep on moving. 

It was during the episode that Severide asked Casey what's the deal with him and Dawson. He wants to move on and see someone. It was Molly's during the party that he spots someone and soon goes to her place and heated things up. 

The surprising moment came when Bowden and his father sat in the room, talked and drank. Soon Bowden's son was crying and he decided to go in there and take care of it so his father can stay and relax. It was a few minutes later after putting the baby down that his father had died there in the chair with the photo album open. 

Next week's episode will be the one that will melt the snow. Apparently Casey made out with the guy who is subbing for Bowden for awhile. 

Also to note that Deadline.com is reporting that there will be another Chicago Fire spin-off episode that will open to Chicago Med. The one that we've been all waiting for since Chicago PD came.   

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

 

Finding & Baking: Parks and Recreation "Mrs. Ludgate-Dwyer Goes to Washington" & "Pre-Mary"

"Mrs. Ludgate-Dwyer Goes to Washington"

As we get closer to the end, things start to take there turn. April doesn't know what she wants to do with her life and has no idea how to tell Leslie about it, since well, Leslie has a five year plan for her future in government.

As they both go to Washington DC to talk about their National Park plan, they talked to everyone from Senator Booker to Senator John McCain. Most of the time, Leslie being Leslie, when finding McCain, he literally was trying to avoid her but she got the best of him.

Later as April and Leslie relaxed from their meetings, they talked on the bench near the Lincoln Memorial. That's when April tells her the truth and well, Leslie didn't take it too well and left. 

Meantime, back in Pawnee Andy, Ben and Ron all try to find April a career that she would want to do. She can't work at Ron's shop, so Ben tries again the accounting firm, but as soon as they like her resume, April turned it down.

After Leslie cooled off with a breakfast chat with Madeleine Albright, she goes back to April and apologize. She takes April to the a place where they help with young adults on what career they are qualified at and it turned out that April would love to do just that, where she can tell someone what job to take and boot them out.

This was just another home run episode. I love the relationship of April and Leslie as it's a like the mentor and mentee. For the first time in a while, April shows so true feelings in that great April style way. Also we got to see and learn that Ron has brothers, you can tell with their fecal hair.

"Pie-Mary"

As Ben is planning his campaign with Jenn on what he should be doing. She advise that Leslie dials it down a bit from what she would do, like speak her mind and such. When Ben spoke about one of his plans, the reporters were on Leslie on why she wasn't entering the pie contest with the other candidates's wives.

That turned out to be a bigger than they thought. Then as Leslie was going to enter the contest, the leader of the women's advocate comes and tells her that she was going to support her until Leslie told her she was going to be cooking. Then she told Leslie that she would go against her and that lead to Ben coming out like a man telling his wife that he wants his pie.

Later Ben decided to make his own pie but in a cal-zone. Who doesn't love cal-zones? And soon as they're at the contest, Ben presents his pie until a group of men protest on how men shouldn't bake. 

Soon Ben was going to apologize but then had Leslie speak about her and what she had to say about all this stuff that has turn up. She goes on saying how a good mom she is and how a hard worker but also talked about Ben because he's running for Congress. 

Meanwhile, April told Ron that with her new job she's going to have to move. So Ron asked her for his key back and when she got the box that she put it in, it wasn't there and it turned out to be a hunt that Ron couldn't say no to. 

They went from the movies to the shoeshiners bench that Andy use to work, which was in a Congressman's office. Until Ron gave up the hunt after finding a letter that was written by April to Andy. And soon April remember where she put the key, it was under a tree in the park. 

She tells Ron that the tree reminded her of him so strong and quiet. Soon we learn that Ron changed the locks to his house a couple of times a year. But also that he barred his gold under that tree, which he thinks he removed it. 

Also we got to see Donna spending some time with Garry, who lost his wedding rings, keys and belt in a small drain outside the office.

This was such a great episode. It was hilarious all around. We got to see another hunt for Ron Swanson to do. We only got two more 

weeks until we say goodbye, I'm not ready to say goodbye. 

You can catch the farewell season of "Parks & Recreation" Tuesday nights at 8/7c on NBC.

He Was There: The Blacklist "Luther Braxton (No. 21) Conclusion"

Well, in this conclusion to the two part episode, we last saw Red, Liz and Braxton face to face. Red talks him down about finding the Fulcrum but Braxton knows how powerful it's worth. Then Braxton looks at Liz and figures out that he came for her so she knows where it is. Then those missiles that the CIA ordered hits the Factory.

Where the episode comes in is seconds with Russler, who is freed from the chain hanging and Samar who is still hanging. Russler gets her down and runs to where Red as he tells that Braxton took agent Keen, he was trying to get a signal for rescue.

As they are in the burning Factory, Liz is in a helicopter hoping that everyone was okay and safe til she saw Braxton right beside her telling her that she's the only thing that matters. They head to a hospital in Alaska, where they take an ambiance and get away.

Red, Ressler and Samar got out, made it, Red calls Braxton and the two talk. You can really see that there is some real hatred between these two characters. It's a small theft trying to rob a con man, which in this case probably won't go down well.

Of course, Braxton and his guys try to get Liz to tell where the Fulcrum is at but she has no freakin clue, as they even water board her. Then Braxton got a doctor that specialize into memory restoration, played by Gloria Ruben.

Braxton took her and held her little boy hostage. So the doctor performed the drug on Liz. As she was trying to fight it off, she could see the night of the fire where mostly everything happen to her. We can hear her mother and father yelling and a young Liz Keen in the closet.

As Red was searching for Braxton, he got his business associates together and offer them a deal if they hear from him to contact him first. Well, one of them called him but wouldn't give it to him unless he gets a good deal. The return is life, so the guy was going to get money, more of a knuckle sandwich right to the head about ten times. Just enough that he can't remember the last 20 seconds of the conversation.

We see Liz in her memory, as she tries to go her younger self tells her to go back. Then gun shots were heard and smoke appeared as the two were back in the closet.

Then Braxton meets up with The Director, as we know they call him, and talked about making the deal they had better. The Director decline to do that, then as Braxton leaves he calls his guy to get the job done. We see he's being followed from a distance, thinking that it was Red, but no it was his body guard, Dembe and as Braxton walked tot he car, he sees Red sitting and soon Dembe holds a gun to his head and they talk.

This turned out to be one of the best theft-con man talk I ever seen. You can feel the tension between these two that they have a history. And soon they take a ride.

Later on, we see Liz seeing terrible things, she's fighting with her younger self and soon as this was going on, Red comes in blaze of glory shooting everyone that got in the their way getting Liz out of there. That's when he comes to her side and talks to the doctor about how much can she go on with the treatment.

They go on with the procedure and well, it turned out to be one of the best scenes on television. The scene where she sees the fire, her father holding her hand, getting out of the fire and soon she sees three men out there, one of them looking like Red.

If I had to vote for the scene that I held my breath for the longest time, that would be the scene right there.

Liz does wake up and freaks seeing Red there by her side. She tells him that he was there the night of the fire and left the house while she was there. She thought that they had something special as working colleagues but she now knows that it's not true and she leaves.

You can see Red, with a steel face, look at Liz leaving and the doctor and her son reuniting, that he doesn't seem happy at all.

But later on as The Director make it back to his home, there was a partying gift for him hanging int he room. It was all 500 lbs of Luther Braxton. Red was there and talked to the guy about how Braxton couldn't get the Fulcrum.

The Director tells him that they will try everything they have to stop Red and that turned out to be one hell of a threat. I guess let the games begin on the hit on Red, that's what next week's episode will show.

Also at the end, we see Liz in her room, looking through a box of things, and all of the sudden she picks up the stuff bunny and she sees something in the neck of it. She rips it open and finds a classified flash drive in it. It's the fulcrum!! She had it all along.

This episode did not disappoint at all. Even re-watching part one early it made it into a great two hour TV movie event. The battle of Braxton and Red when they talked on the phone and in person was one of the best scenes seeing Red and a Blacklister face off.

Another thing: we learn that Cooper's health is not in a good condition than we thought. We knew that his health was no in shape when Red told him brief about it.

If I had to vote for best TV villain this week it would be a tied between Luther Braxton and Elliot Gish on Chicago Fire/Chicago PD.

Next week's episode will surely leaving you on the edge with a Blacklister that no one has ever seen before. Apparently he likes to use a wipe. Also the CIA are on to take Red down. But what will Liz and Red's relationship be after this episode?

Any thoughts?

You can catch The Blacklist Thursday nights at 9/8c on NBC.  

Fire Devil from Hell: Chicago PD "A Little Devil Complex"

In the epic conclusion to the Chicago Fire/Chicago PD crossover event, things are picked off where we were: Linsey is back from working with the Feds, and Antonio and Gabby are going to meet and talk about Elliot Gish, who's the suspect on the arsons that killed many, one of them being Leslie Shay.

When Gabby tells her brother the situation, they go to the building where Gish works and ask him if he can come down and be questioned. That's where Gish denied the request, and that's when Antonio acted like the guy spit on him and took him.

Antonio gives Voight the details on the guy and the scoop. They start talking and asking questions. Antonio asks a question; Gish starts acting like a different person than we see before. After ticking him off, he says he shouldn't mess with him.

That's when his lawyer came and took him away. He returned and told Voight that they were willing to sue, but that would not happen at all.

The team planned him, so Roman and Burgess were it; they followed him to the pizza shop. As he ordered a pizza, he went into the bathroom while the two ate their slice. Never leave a suspect alone, no more than two in the bathroom.

That's when he came back and left. Burgess told Linsey that she thinks he's on to them. That's when they start to follow him slowly until he notices them and comes up and gives them the pizza he ordered. He tells them they're underestimating him,im and then the squad car blows up in flames.

After that, Gabby, along with Bowden and Meg, comes down and gets any updates. That's when Bowden heard a name that the suspect was using, which was a guy who died in the fire where Bowden got his scars.  The suspect is using decease names, and it pisses off Voight.

Me too; I want them to catch this guy, too.

Gabby gets upset about how Antonio handles this, and she tells him that he should do what Voight does to capture guys. But he doesn't and wants to follow the rules.

So the next thing they did was have him followed by Al and Ruzek. They follow him to the store, where he's picking up lighter fluid and matches. As he walks to the cashier, he talks to her, and she shows a burn she suffered years ago, and that's when he talks about it. Then he leaves.

Meanwhile, Antonio and the gang go to the suspect's old home, where he is the only survivor of a house fire that killed his family. When they arrived, it was an empty lot, but after talking to a neighbor who julivesext door to that lot.

They bust in and look around. They finally see a computer and photos of Gabby. He sent a text using Britt's phone to tell them to meet her at a place. That's when they were off for the races. Antonio tries calling her.

And we see Gabby going in gettings in the elevator. As she was going up, it stopped, ds and as she waited for the repair guy to get it started, someone was on top lifting the ceiling off, and it was the suspect. He brings a can of gasoline and dumps it on the floor and is going to watch her and him burn.

Voight and Antonio get there as fast as they can. They get there, and Antonio goes up while Voight stands down. As Gabby kept talking to the suspect, Antonio opened the door several floors up and shot the suspect head, killing him.

I can say that this nightmare is over, and we finally get closure. While everyone is celebrating at Molly's, we see Gabby and Antonio talking, and she forgives him and tells him they are okay. ApparNotnio, after he took that shot, and his shaky hands are a sign of something.

This episode was a great, exciting, scary crossover episode. I've never seen a bad guy like this on television in a while, and he scares the living crap out of me. When he talks, or that one scene with him talking to Halstead and Linsey, the squad car behind them blows up.

As things get back to normal, I don't think it will be for Linsey when her mother returns and tells her about a group of guys renting out. That's something that we'll see in next week's episode.

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

Good or Bad Romance: The Mysteries of Laura "The Mystery of the Deemed Dealer

Sometimes ex's do get back together. In this week's all new Mysteries of Laura, Laura and the gang gets a call when a student gets killed by a hit and run.

The gang looks into a hit and run of a kid who happens to be going to a private school under his father's back to get a better life for them. Billy finds that the victim had a dime-size bag of pot in his backpack.

As the gang move on in the investigation, Laura and Jake decided to go undercover and talk to the parents and teachers of the school. Things get a bit heated with Jake and Laura as they were pretending to be a couple and well, Jake takes it a bit of a she still loves him factor.

After going into the office snooping, they ditched into a closet and acted to a security guard that they were making out. One of the best scenes of the episode.

As soon as Laura comes back home, her father was babysitting the kids and talked to her about how her and Jake still have that romance left. Of course, Laura still feels like that ship has sailed. As soon as her father left, Jake comes in, kisses Laura and tells her that he still love her.

She turned him down fast. And soon after he slept in the living room with Laura freaking out that he's still there and that it's nine in the morning. As Jake leaves, Billy is there to check on his partner and well those two talked about what happen.

Soon, Laura and Billy talked to a student, Spencer, who was second behind the victim on the list to play goalie on the school hockey team. When Billy talked him down with the wrath of Sutton. Laura and Jake thinks that he didn't do it but Laura does know who.

It turned out to be the girlfriend of Spencer, because she wants him to go with her to Princeton.

As the case was closed, rumors were going around the squad room about how Laura and Jake had a one night stand and when Laura found out, she went to Jake and he told her that he told Billy because he was there when he left.

Laura then went out and yelled that nothing happen. Things went back to normal. And later, Laura, Jake and their family had a nice Sunday family dinner. As they finished, Jake brought dessert from the food court. With Laura looking at Jake, there might be some sparks left. Who knows, right? Laura got herself in a love triangle right now.

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

Words with Different Meaning: Tuesday Night Comedies and Drama

Marry Me: "F Me"

This week's episode brings Annie and Jake into a situation that deals with using an offensive word on a flyer in their building. When they come to their apartment drunk, they see a flyer that says Art Show, in which Jake gets a marker from Annie and puts the letter F in front of the art. 

The next day, Julie, played by Jessica St. Clair, freaks out about someone writing F in the art show flyer. So she gets the apartment renters and tries to figure out who did it. 

When Annie and Jake get to the meeting, many people are upset. After that, they sneak out quickly and quietly and figure out what to do. Jake couldn't handle the pressure, but Annie blamed it on someone else. So she wrote on their door and blamed it on someone. 

Later on, after Julie told them that they got the person, Annie felt pretty guilty about it, and they both tried to plead and confess their action. But Julie declined their apology as they wanted that guy they thought wrote on Anne's door to go. 

In the meantime, with the wedding coming, an issue came forth when everyone who sent invitations out replied, all of them. So that leads one plus couple to arrive. So it was like Hunger Games meets the Dating Game (think about that Bravo!).

Gil and Dennah fight for that last spot; in the end, they lose and give it to Kay, who is in a relationship. 

This episode was hilarious and clever. I love watching Anne and Jake get into situations like this; it's funny. It reminds me of watching Jamie and Paul on Mad About You.

You can catch Marry Me on Tuesday nights at 9/8c on NBC.

About A Boy: "About A Prostitute" 

In the opposite style of Pretty Woman with a bit of Mean Girls, this episode takes on when Will needs to make money. So when there are jobs that are looking for experience, he gets an idea from Marcus and Fiona about teaching students how to play the guitar.

So when he puts a flyer at Marcus's school, a mother notices and decides to take his offer to teach her daughter. So after one session, Will and the mother go at it and have sex after she pays him a big wad of cash.

When Will came by the next day, her daughter was at her father's, so once again, they had sex, and he got paid for it. Andy tells Will that he's a male prostitute. That idea going into Will's head, the mother asked him to go on a date to the school's fundraiser and had him sign to be auctioned off until she bit $2,000 on Will.

But everything wasn't what it seemed when he told her he was not a male prostitute, and she got upset and told him that she was doing this to upset her ex-husband.    

Meanwhile, Fiona is dealing with the pressures of PTA mothers. Think of it as Mean Girls meets perfection mothers. Fiona got to hang out with them and be one of the girls until they rejected Marcus's request to dance to Cuban Beat.

In the end, Fiona senses that she's not one of them after he makes fun of Will and that mother's ideal of spending on love.

This was an enjoyable episode. I love that this theme was like Pretty Woman meets Mean Girls. It was just hilarious.

You can catch About A Boy on Tuesday nights at 9:30/8:30 on NBC. 

Chicago Fire: "Three Bells"

This is the epic episode that we've been waiting for, well, since three weeks ago. Last time, Severide and Dawson looked into the warehouse fire where Shay was killed because of a similar fire, but a newspaper clipping with Shay's face circled was found.

Ultimately, they found evidence that the warehouse where Shay died was arson and that she was murdered. Severide and Dawson took the evidence that they found to the Captain. She didn't like it when they didn't take any photos of the scene, but she took them and reported it.

Later on, Severide finds out that the arsonist is responsible for multiple kills. Afterward, the captain asked the warehouse owner, looking through photos of the suspects until he found the guy.

Before this, Severide got a tip from Hadley, the arson who caused fires last season, who wanted to talk to Severide. Hadley tells him that a guy has been sending him a note and a return address that turned out to be the address of a fire that killed Mil's dad.

The Captain talks to Severide and gives him info about the suspect. He lives near where they happen. The creepiest scene was when he walked over and talked to them about the fire. Speaking to Severide directly, he talked about how sorry he was to hear about his friend dying of a fire.

While this was happening, Shay's sister, Meg, came by with resentment of what Shay did on the job. Meg stays with Dawson and Britt; soon, she rides along with Britt and Mils. They get a call when a guy goes crazy, yelling at police and almost attacking Britt with a knife.

After that, Meg knows what Shay went through every day. Shay was that person who wanted to make you feel good, laughing up and not worrying about her and her job.

One of the most emotional moments came when, after Meg and Herrmann talked, everyone at House 51 gave a proper memorial for Shay. Dawson gave a few words that not only Meg and Severide but also Casey. The most powerful moment came when Severide removed the sheet from the ambulance door, and it had Leslie Shay's full name with her time on earth.

There were the lighter moments when Otis's grandmother came to live with him and Cruz. That freaked Cruz out. The best part was when Cruz and Britt celebrated their three-month anniversary and skipped the movie part. Just go to the end credits, and Otis's grandmother knits with a smile.

After the memorial service, Casey and Dawson talked, and they seemed to be okay, but they agreed to go on a break for a while. In the meantime, as everyone met up at Molly's Bar, the captain told Severide and Dawson that they weren't pursuing the suspect right now. They don't have enough evidence to bring him in.

So, if all else fails, will you call when something doesn't stick on a suspect? That's correct, Chicago PD. Dawson calls her brother for help, and that's where we leave until Wednesday night.

Any thoughts?

You can catch the Chicago Fire on Tuesday nights at 10/9c, and you can see the epic concussion TONIGHT at 10/9c on NBC.  

A Wedding and A Campaign: Parks and Recreation "Donna & Joe"

In this episode, Donna and Joe's wedding goes as plan with what Donna hopes to be is to have a non drama evening with her family being there. Donna has April being her maid of honor and what she wants her to do is to keep her family in the no drama zone during the rehearsal dinner, reception and wedding.

April's help turns out to be perfect as plan. But as soon as the wedding was about to begin Donna goes drama on her other maid of honor who was her best friend, who thought that Donna was going out with her boyfriend, which she did but now Donna hopes she suffers from this moment. WOW!

Then during the party, April gave Donna that one bit of drama that she wanted. Her ex boyfriend (played by Questlove) comes out and give her back the popcorn maker that throws it down.

Meanwhile, Ben and Leslie get a call from Jane. Leslie thought that Jane was going to ask her about running for Congress or something. Well, after dodging her calls, Jane comes to them and talks to them about how one of their congressman is an old fool. Jane offers Ben a seat run for Congress.

Ben is stun and doesn't know if he wants to do it or not. Leslie helps him decide by drinking, with only one slip they are drunk as a doorknob. Ben gives a speech to Donna and Joe that's like a campaign speech and the next day, Leslie and Ben were so hungover that Ben called Jane four times and gave her the good ahead to run while Leslie tried to call 867-9309.

Later on after Donna's wedding, Ben talks to Leslie and when a group of reporters comes to him, he decides to run for congress.

Also, when Ron and Tom talk about how Lucy and how Tom wants to marry her and take her to his own Bahamas. Ron tells Lucy about how Tom feels about her and things get awkward throughout the day. But Ron became Dr. Love and helped those two come true to their feelings.

Feel like this was another solid episode, love how Ron got involved in someone's love affair. The fact that it took one slip for Leslie and Ben to get drink was funny and QuestLove's appearance was flat out amazing!!

You can catch Parks and Recreation Tuesdays at 8/7c on NBC.