Friday, October 16, 2015

"Take Me to Church" and Find a Good Time: Friday Night Comedy


Undateable "A Rock and Hard Place Walk Into a Bar"

Week 2 of Undateable Live season continues with some surprises and even coming up with a catch phrase.

Justin and Candace's relationship gets more serious when none of them want to walk away from each other. They're relationship does interfere with Danny when he brings a lady to his place. Candace as Candace likes to do talk and make things a bit worst and soon Danny's date leaves because he couldn't remember her name.

Danny tells Justin that Candace needs to but out at times when he has someone. It gets into a battle between to people that Justin loves, Danny and Candace. At times, Danny and Candace were insulting each other, and at times were very hilarious. One of them Danny tells Candace that she wasn't the star of the hit Disney series "Good Luck Charlie" that it was the parents. Very hurtful but funny.

And of course there was one scene when Danny and Justin were fighting but it was just the two of them that they're going to hit with whatever they name their fists or foot. Like for Justin called his two fist Marvin and Gay and that they're about to bring it on. Danny called his foot that he's about to kick Ron Fudge.

Soon Danny and Candace talked and made up. But they had to get Justin to forgive them by singing Summer Nights from Grace and it turned into one of the hilarious group moments.

Throughout the episode Shelly tries to come up with a catch phrase like other television series. He comes up with "Take it to Church" and it was sound a lot shown by his hoodie and even said out loud from the audience.

The cast have made fun of how the show is live. Like last week, they said that no one should watch a show later that they should watch it live. Shelly turns on the television in this episode and sees himself, than the audience and even Sarah Chalke from Scrubs in her character's doctor coat. They do make fun of Scrubs too. HEll, I thought Scrubs ended after 7 seasons.

I enjoyed this episode so much. I believe that this episode gave a lot more for Bridge Mendler's character a lot to do and said a lot more. I enjoyed watching her and Chris going at it.

Overall, I give this episode a 8/10

You can catch Undateable LIVE Friday nights at 8/7c on NBC



Truth Be Told "Pilot" 

"Truth Be Told" is a new series from the creator DJ Nash. The series is about two diverse couples that live next door and are best friends. You had me at best friends, but anyway the show is focus on conversations/discussions on everyday life.

Mark-Paul Gosselaar plays Mitch and Vanessa Lachey plays Tracy, Mitch's wife. They are a married couple with a little girl. Their friends Angie and Russell, played by Tone Bell and Bresha Webb are a married couple without any children.

Mitch and Russell deals with how at a Chinese restaurant that the lady that gave them their order, probably doesn't speak Chinese. Russell tries speak it by saying thank you and the lady doesn't respond.

Russel deals with an issue when Angie, who got tickets for a Jay-Z concert, is getting them from her ex-boyfriend. But when her ex text her back, Russell looks into and asked the question should you look into your significant other's text? I wouldn't think so, if there's nothing to hide.

As Mitch and Tracy planned to go to the concert, they need to find a babysitter and they took one from the neighbor that has more kids every time they come home they say. The issue with this babysitter is that she's a bit of a hot one as in beautiful.

Tracy doesn't think its an issue at first but it kind a does with the rest. Mitch seems to get intermediate from the sitter. But when Russell thinks that he's seen her somewhere, it turns out to be online as a porn star.

Playing cool about it and not tell the girls, Mitch spells it just before they get even leave the drive way. They stopped and check it out, Tracy and Angie couldn't tell until the sitter actually came out and asked why they were watching her. So I guess it isn't a good idea to hire a hot babysitter.

I enjoyed this cast and their characters. This is like the first time I've seen Gosselaar in a comedy since Save By the Bell. He's hilarious and very good. I like how he was singing to Jay-Z's Empire State of Mind by Russell tells him that there's one part that he shouldn't sing so instead he sing the Alicia Key's verse which was hilarious.

Lachey and Webb are so hilarious as well. Lachey is amazing and hilarious. I can't wait to see what else her character and the rest will be doing this season.

Overall, I give this episode a 7/10.

You can catch Truth Be Told Friday nights at 8:30/7:30c on NBC  

"Bad Things Happen to Good People:" The Blacklist "Eli Matchett"


Is Liz a good person? That's only one of the questions being asked in this episode.

Liz and Red take a detour back to the states and travel to Iowa. There word of a company Verdant was bombed and was stolen of highly important papers that were stolen by a group of farmers who lost their farming land due to business. One of them is run by this week's blacklister Eli Matchett.

Even though Red and Liz are a step ahead of Ressler and the team, doesn't mean that there was some on the edge scenes of them almost meeting one another. Like when Red and Liz were in Costas' apartment and found a hidden box in the vent. Soon Ressler and Samar comes in, making Liz and Red escaping out with the skin of their teeth.

But has much as Liz is a good person and trying to talk with reason, she calls Ressler to back off from searching for them. Ressler knows that he's close and close they have come as I said. They came close when Reddington and Liz were trying to download the files from the computer of the virus that Matchett wants to use to destroy every food source around the world.

At one point after Red and Liz escaped Ressler and Samar, they stopped at a bar where they come into trouble with an undercover cop. Liz shoots him but feels terrible and tries to save the guy's life. They drop him off at the hospital and she freezes with shock of what she has done.

With the virus in Matchett's hands, Ressler and Samar get to him in time. I have to say that fighting scene was amazing. Loved when Donald has to take down someone, who can also beat the crap out of him too. But even though it wasn't all of Matchett's plan, it was Susan Hanover, the lady that also works with the Cabal. And boy did Red give her a nice chat and a message for The Director.

Near the end as Liz and Red are on the road, Liz ask if she;s a good person. Red tells her that bad things happen to good people. That is true but I think that she's a good person but when it comes to survival like she's trying to do with Red, sometimes you have to be bad and play the game that is in front of you.

Also to note: Glen was back and help try to track down Dembe. We know that Dembe has been taken by Mr. Solomon who is hunting down Red. Also to he's not the only one that he's torching, another one of Red's guys, Mr. Vargas is captured too and tells Dembe that they're going to die in there. Also to note that Tom is back and he's hoping that Liz would call for him at their restaurant but not one call. But gets a nice visit from Cooper who is given him a job, probably to help track Liz.

I enjoyed this episode to death. I was on the edge of my seat when Ressler and Samar were this close of catching Red and Liz. I highly enjoyed Red's "Mugs" story. Probably one of his best so far. The guy had such an ugly face that they called him Mugs but his mother called him Picasso. Hilarious!!!

Overall, I give this episode a 9/10.

Here's a promo for next week's episode.

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

Thursday, October 15, 2015

Can't Save Them All: Code Black "Pre-Existing Conditions"




You can't save them all. But when you do, you do your best to your instinct.

This week's episode deals with just some of that. When a prisoner comes in, does he deserve to be treated and saved? That's what Lorenson thinks about when she treats a patient. After telling her that he enjoys killing and such, he gets into her head. Until Hudson tells her that he's her patient and that the best way to handle fear is to be afraid of being brave.

I felt like Angus had a lot more in this episode than the rest of the characters. He deals with a patient when he's hear stop beating but when Mario tells him that it's the patient's heart, Angus thinks its something else. The patient of course is alive, but it was what Angus thought it was. He doesn't speak up and gets placed on treating patients in the waiting area.

He meets one patient that kind have has the hots for him, but she's a stripper but he doesn't see that she's into him. One patient, an elderly man, comes in complaining about a bunch of stuff but when he couldn't breathe and someone given him a protein bar, it turned out to be an allergy from the bar.

Soon he tries to tube the patient to give him an airway. Nervous but he finds the airway while he hums a tune and soon everyone was humming as well.

Rorish deals with Mario, who thinks that he's thinks too high of himself. The other is when a two car crash victims, both are brothers, come in. One of them lives and the other didn't and it doesn't make their mother all the well and wished that the one that lived would have died instead of the other.

But it was when Rorish talked to the mother and how she could understand what she's gone through. She tells her that she lost her husband and two children in a car accident from a drunk driver. I know that it's something that Rorish doesn't want to talk about but it does show that she can open up to give others a but of understanding and hope.

This episode was pretty good. There was a lot of character development from Rorish and Angus. There was a lot of interesting patients coming through those doors.

Overall, I give this episode a 7/10.

You can catch Code Black Wednesday nights at 10/9c on CBS.

A Mentor's Return: The Mysteries of Laura "The Mystery of the Convict Mentor"


This week's case reunites a familiar face to Laura and the team, when her former Captain and friend helps on a cold case that she's been trying to solve for a long time.

When Laura gets a phone call from a familiar face, her old captain that tried to shoot her in the series premiere, Hauser. He tips Laura in code that he has information on a suspect that's has some hidden stuff. One of them were two dead bodies in a vent in a warehouse basement.

Laura and Jake take a look and found that Hauser was right. Laura tries to play it cool like he's her CI and try to get more information when she visits him. Hauser talks about Mullens, the one case that Laura spent nights trying to solve and find those two victims that she just found.

Just as Laura goes through the case, Jake get her to watch the news and found out that Mullens and Hauser had escape from jail. A man hunt underway, Laura thinks of what Hauser had told her. When they figured out that Mullens had more warehouse than they had thought they try to put a SWAT team out there waiting for them. But Laura gets a clue that from her police radio of a robbery at a store and one of the items was pork grins.

That got Laura to find the other clue which was an address left by Hauser and soon Laura gets there. She tries to wait for Jake and the others to show up but couldn't take the chance when Mullens pulled a gun on Hauser. Laura acts quickly trying to stop Mullens. The all three of them talk and Laura acts like she doesn't have a shot. I couldn't really tell if she didn't or if she was playing but by the time she was about to shoot, Billy takes the shot.

This doesn't help Hauser reducing his sentence for the murder that he did, but it does give a bit of closure for him and Laura as they give a one final goodbye. He was not just a mentor but a friend and family member.

I couldn't help but to think that Billy and Meredith have to know that they are in a relationship. I think that they're pretending in the public's eye but we know what's going on.

This episode was very good. I think that this episode was one of Debra Messing's best one yet. Her character dealing with the return of Hauser and solving an old case from the suspect that's in jail.

Overall, I give this episode a 8.5/10.

Here's a promo for next week's episode.

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


Wednesday, October 14, 2015

"Party's Over:" Chicago PD "Actual Physical Violence"


A report on a missing child turns into a hostage situation that soon turns into a search and rescue. This week's Chicago PD was another gripping episode that left a big bang at the end.

 When busy CPD gets over whelmed with people, Jeff Frazier comes in and reports about his missing daughter. Trudy tells him that he need to go to missing person's office, but he replied that he's been down there and told to go to CPD. But Frazier wasn't going to take it, so he grabs Mouse and puts a gun to his head. Now things are in a sticky situation.

Voight talks to Frazier, takes the bag that has information on his daughter. Frazier takes Mouse and goes into another room until Voight can find his daughter. Antonio, Ruzek and Al finds out where the the girl's credit card was last used and found a guy buying three big screen TV's. They find the guy and his girlfriend told them that he found the card in a car that he broke into.

The team find broken glass on the side street but no car. But Ruzek finds something very odd to one house with a sprinkler put in in a dried flower pot. It was a camera and soon went to the house. They search all the way to the bottom where they found a computer with images out front and back and a another room where there was girls keep in cages.

Meanwhile, Mouse tries talking to Jeff about what service he did and his background. Both of them were in the military. Soon, Voight talked to Jeff to tell him that they found their daughter, soon he comes out and as soon as they walked out, Mouse pulls a sneak move and grabs his gun. Jeff goes into jail cell until they find his daughter.

The team searches for the guy name Trevor, even a tip from Benson about the suspect. Ruzek found out that Trevor was going to meet with another girl at the bus station. They go and found him, they take him and put him in the cage back at CPD and had a "nice chat" with Voight and a poker that he used on the girls. When Trevor talked, the team found the place where the leader of this ring was found, but shot to death by Frazier's daughter.

The team gets word that the daughter is at the L-station with a gun. Halstead, Erin and Al get there and Erin talks to the daughter to calm her down and put to the gun down. The daughter doesn't approve of what she had done and was about to kill herself but Erin tries to stop her and soon Voight brings her dad and together they hug.

I was very moved from what the father had to do to get someone to find her daughter. That doesn't mean that I approve of it. I was also moved by Sophia's performance talking to the daughter about not to shoot herself. And I can't forget Sam C. Hunt, who's performance was amazing. Learned a little bit more of his backstory.

But as I said, the episode ended with a bang. Voight had his son, daughter-in-law and grandchild and about to go out for dinner. When Voight tries unlocking the car, it makes a noise and explodes. That was to believe the guy James Beckett that Bunny had help get release from jail, because Voight gave a false report. And because Bunny doesn't get what she wants.

This episode had some real twist and a big turn. Next week's episode will sure be an amazing episode. There was of course a few cameos like Oliver Pratt with word that the reopening of Chicago Med will be on Nov. 17th. I'm sure we can't all wait.

Overall, I give this episode a 9/10.

Here's a promo for next week's episode.

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

Tuesday, October 13, 2015

Big Changes A Coming: Chicago Fire "Let It Burn" Season Premiere


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In a dramatic return, the Chicago Fire returns with changes from inside the house and in personal lives.

The episode starts where it left off when Dawson comes into Matt's apartment and sees Katya dead on the floor. She calls Antonio and tells them that Matt has been taken. Voight and Antonio locate where Matt is, but by the time they get there, shots are fired. Thinking that Matt was the one who got shot, it turns out that it was Nesbitt's business friend, and Matt was beating the hell out of Nesbitt.

Dawson comes in late and sees the aftermath of what went down. Matt heads back to work. He seems to be calm, but he's trying to put the pieces together. Severide, on the other hand, gets news that he's been stripped down from his position on Squad due to his recent history that has gone down with the replacements. I know it's unfair, but now Patterson comes in and takes the lead on Squad.

Patterson may act friendly to all, but something is going on that doesn't seem right. Now, Severide has to take a class on becoming a better manager. And, oh yeah, he makes a study buddy, too.

Britt and Chili make a run for a pregnant lady who got shot during a robbery. The bullet goes into her shoulder, but soon, she goes into labor before they even leave. Chilidelivered the baby, but wasn't crying. Another ambulance comes in and helps treat the newborn. But the mother takes a turn for the worst when the mother goes into cardiac arrest and doesn't make it. It took a toll on Britt and Chili, but they learned that the baby made it, thanks to Halstead from Med.

An emergency comes on a house fire, but before they get there, the streets are blocked from both directions. Matt takes his frustration by driving a truck and ramming the cars to the side. They rescued a man in the house fire but died, and Dawson and Otis saved one elderly guy.

While Matt and Severide deal with issues, Dawson tells Matt she's pregnant. And going into a house and almost getting blown from the house next door. She tried talking to him several times, but Matt got the news that Nesbitt walked out and was working for the FBI.

But it wasn't until Matt got to sign off for Dawson's new uniform that got burned in the house fire he ran to talk to her and express his love for her again. Then, after he was done, she spelled it out, "I'm pregnant."

This season, they premiand ered started great. Changes have always come on the show; this is going to change some heads with new people and new challenges. The new candidate made a great introduction but didn't give a good one to Bowden. I sure enjoyed it. Steven McQueen reminds me a bit of Noah Wyle's Dr. Carter. Spencer's performance was excellent, and so were Raymund and Madison.

 Overall, I give this episode an 8.5/10.

Here's a promo for next week's episode.

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

Life in Pieces "Prison Baby Golf Picking"


This week's episode of Life in Pieces was funny at points and hilarious at the rest.

In "Chad's Last Meal," Jordan Peele's character, Chad, is going to jail and asks his former fiance to give him one last meal. It was either way, meal or sex, and Colleen and Matt decided on dinner.

They headed to Colleen's grandmother's house, where they had a lovely meal. Matt didn't hit it off with Colleen's grandmother, even when he gave her a bottle of Mexican drink, which she replied that it reminded her of when her stepdad beat her mother. As soon as they left, Chad ran away from Matt and Colleen.

In "The Beds," Heather's youngest daughter isn't used to having her room. She's going into each other's bedrooms. But really, she has a peanut in her nose that she's trying to get out. Weird but funny. As soon as the peanut was taken out, Tyler walked by, taking the peanut without knowing where it came from.

But it was both "Tim's great round" and the"Triangle" that had me hilariously laughing my butt off. Tim is playing golf with John, Matt, and Greg, having a guy's time. Tim is playing unbelievably well. Greg and Matt are freaking out because their dad dislikes losing. Even Heather told Tim to lose, but he didn't listen. My great-grandmother always said, "If you're not going to listen, you're going to feel."

He did feel it on the last hole, and John comes up to Tim on his previous putt to win it and kisses him. That threw Tim off, and they lost the game.
The "Triangle" deals with Greg and Jen coping with their mother's advice of what's best for their child. Jen tells Greg that he doesn't back her up against his mother but decides to and tells Joan about not butting in. Joan agrees, but that leaves Heather doing what Joan does and Heather's youngest, too. It was weird but hilarious.

This episode had some hilarious moments. A few were in Chad's meal and the beds, but the triangle and Tim's round were better. I can't get enough of Colin Hanks in this show. He's really like the perfect new father and husband. Dianne Wiest was hilarious and unique. She's like the calmer version of Marie Barone.

Overall, I give this episode a 7/10.

You can catch Life in Pieces on Monday nights at 8:30/7:30c on CBS