A Tale of Butterflies: The Blacklist "Lady Ambrosia "No. 77)"

"Once upon a time there once lived a woman in the woods, she was purely neither evil nor purely good, she gathered unwanted children and gave them a home for which to stay she promised them that they would live forever and she could change them into colors, so beautiful so bold that she cared for them sweetly."

Talk about a fairy tale coming together to make a difference in the future life. This week's episode is an hour of one's tale and makes it creepy and exciting. 

Liz meets with Red at a local dinner. Just before they get to business, Red gives her an envelope that is a trust fund for her child. Of course, she doesn't want to take it. After that, Red tells a tale of Lady Ambrosia and how he loved fairy tales that tell creepy tales, but Liz didn't enjoy them. He shows her a newspaper with the face of a boy presumed dead years ago and thinks there's an honest Lady Ambrosia out there. 

Liz talks to the child, but the only thing she can get out of him is playing with a pen. As the parents come in, Ressler receives word that the parents were trying to give him up for adoption just before he disappeared. 

Later on, the mother makes a call to their adoption agent, who's married to Lady Ambrosia. They meet, and she is killed. The husband gets taken in by the FBI, leaving the boy with Liz. 

Let me say that watching Liz's parenting skills is getting a feeling and watching her trying to heat a waffle on the stove and accidentally leaving the paper towel near the stove, causing a fire. The fire alarm goes off, and the kid is scared. As Liz tries to clear the smoke, Baz comes in with a gun and turns it off. It's nice to bring a gun to turn off a fire alarm; I'll have to try that the next time my fire alarm goes off. 

That wouldn't be the last time Liz has issues in her apartment. Since her name was listed in the boy's adoption, Lady Ambrosia's husband and her son try to get him. But thanks to Baz again, the husband was taken into Red's care. 

Red talks to him about where a particular child was and at first doesn't talk but soon explains what his wife does for the children, that she saves them. Red makes it to where they're at and talks to Ambrosia. Even though what she does is wrong, it doesn't make it right how it all came about. As they talk, her son, Theo, says terrible things about himself, but Red tries to tell him good things about him, which leads him to take his mother and drop her in the well, just like she does with the other children, to save them. 

He drags her and dumps her in the well and, after, jumps in too. As the FBI takes the kids out of the house, they see the butterflies flying high. 

Red delivers the child back to her mother and gets the file he requested. It's a film about Liz's mother, and from his reaction, it doesn't look good. 

Not to mention, Tom's excited after the job he helped pull and hopes to get paid. That is until his friend shoots everyone and him in the van. But as Tom is Tom, he escapes and tries to fix himself but ends up in someone's bathroom. 

Liz, on the other hand, is excited that there's a family that is willing to take her child and share it with her. I feel she may not want to give up the child. I have that feeling. 

This episode was excellent and so clever. I can't get enough of Glen and his bull crap on Red. And I praise Leslie Jones on her cameo talking to Red as he waits to speak to Glen. I want to know if Spader ever lost character in that sense. I would.

We're closer to knowing about Liz's mother than ever before. I can't wait to see how this will play out. The writers know how to take this show and not just have it on autopilot like other shows. 

Overall, I give this episode an 8.5/10.

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

Fight of the Week: Chicago Fire " All Hard Parts"

In this week's episode, Casey gets pulled into election season, Chilli tries to deal with her issues in a different manner and Severide tries to get her to see the light. Plus a boxing match for the television ages or should I just say boxing match of the week?

After speaking for the people who lost their homes in the tornado, a school teacher comes to talk to Casey to run for Representative for that neighborhood. Of course at first, Casey doesn't seem to be interested but as time goes, donuts being offered, seeing what the playground is like for the kids.

After thinking about it and a little help from First Lady Gabby, he decides to run and run he will do. I don't think getting a lot of signatures will get.

Meanwhile, after what was one last shot to stay on 51, Chili gets a package of her sister's things and that just turns the tables once again. She's doesn't open up about it and thinks that she's fine. Dealing with the pain by drinking both on the job and off and the one person that sees the issue is Severide, who tries to be open about it.

Chili's defense is as strong and worrisome as it can get. As Severide tries one last time to get her to speak to Bowden about it or he will and I think we all know who Bowden will believe. Chili comes clean to Bowden about what has been going on and it turns out that not only that she told but it was too late to tell him about it.

Bowden fires Chili for drinking on the job but does give her the courage that she'll always be a part of the family. As she gathers her things, she doesn't want anything to do with the rest of 51 or even Herrmann to call them her family. As she left, Herrmann finds a photo of everyone and gets it framed and drops it off at her place. She realizes that she needs to change and calls Severide for help.

Chili gets dropped off by Severide and he tells her that the toughest part was calling. Chili hopes to prove him and everyone that she can fix this problem. And I think she will and if my gut tells me anything and it's been wrong before, that if she gets help she can prove to Bowden that she can come back.

And of course, the match of the week or Battle of the Badges, who will win Fire or PD? Jimmy vs Antonio, of course the fight has been one of the best and funnest storyline of the season so far even last week's episode too. I thought that Jimmy could pull the upset of winning over Antonio but after getting the first hit, Antonio goes crazy mad and KO's Jimmy just like that. But at least it goes to a good causes and that Herrmann fixed the game just a bit in the betting pool.

"All Hard Parts" was a really good episode. The Chili storyline was really good and had my emotions go up and down through this episode mostly down as I want her to stay with 51. And watching Severide becoming the savior for her, just reminds me of what he went through last year with Shay.

Overall, I give this episode a 8/10.

You can catch Chicago Fire Tuesday nights at 10/9c on NBC.
Don't forget to catch the Crossover Episode of SVU and Chicago PD Wednesday night at 9/8c on NBC.

Tough Decisions Chicago Med "Choices"

There are always choices that we make in life that we think are the best, even if it goes against someone's wishes or practically anything that we face. This week's episode of Chicago Med takes on risky, challenging career choices.

Halstead and Manning treat a patient in the end stages of cancer, but she comes in for a fall she had suffered. Trying to get her heart going, they finally get her back. In comes the patient's husband, who informs them that she is a DNR.

But for Halstead, a signed document that no heroic measures are to be taken isn't going to be taken lightly. When he learns of a new drug that has shown results, he asks Zoey, the drug rep, for help. After getting the okay from her boss, Halstead informs the patient about it, but she doesn't want it.

In defense of what he's trying to do, Halstead wants to give his patient the best chance to have a second chance in life, a choice, but still, she doesn't like it after what she has gone through.

When it came time for her to stop breathing, Halstead sprang into action and brought her back. There are so many ways to describe that scene, but the one word that comes to my mind from it is a nervous shock. In that spare moment, it's hard to believe that a doctor who knows the patient's wishes goes against it, and the outcome will be messy.

Goodwin, of course, wasn't happy, and so was Manning. The family is suing the hospital for what happened, and Halstead could face termination. But if there's any doubt that what Zoey says to Halstead near the end, that if she does take the trail drug, she'll thank him for it.

Rhodes has been spending some time with Dr. Downey, who wants him to help him in surgery. Could he have been looking for someone to replace him? Does Downey think that Rhodes has a gift for surgery instead of trauma? Rhodes gets to the bottom of it, and after declining Downey's offer, he learns why Downey comes into the ER from an accident.

Downey has cancer and only has a couple of months. After learning about that, Rhodes reconsiders his offer after Downey wakes up. Rhodes, who doesn't want it because he's a trauma doctor and that's what he's best at, doesn't think that maybe getting the lessons from Downey would help him in the long run that no other doctor in the ER has,

One of the best storylines in this episode is Dr. Choi, as we see him working out at 3 a.m., punching the boxing bag with rage. He gets a patient, a professor, who comes in unconscious. After trying to figure out what's wrong with her, Dr. Charles receives a page that Choi's patient is going out of control.

Charles sees that the patient is suffering from Bipolar and that she has been taking a drug that has been damaging her kidneys. Choi doesn't think that giving her the drug will help and that she should get the courage to control it. Charles questions until Choi comes in and tells him about his experience on a tour of treating patients for 48 hours and that a mother coming in with a child, who had no injuries shown from the blast, died in her arms looking so peaceful. The image of that kid has been stuck in his head ever since, and he loses sleep.

Brian Tee gave an excellent performance in this episode and opened up a bit of his character background. I was moved and heartbroken by what he had gone through in that last scene with Charlie. Another is Reese, who had to take care of a homeless man. After cleaning and giving him fresh clothes, the guy dies, but not after he gives her a perfect score on the patient sanctification card.

I enjoyed this episode. This show has shown much growth in the writing since its premiere, and the characters have been unique.

Overall, I give this episode an 8/10.

You can catch Chicago Med Tuesday nights at 9/8c on NBC.

Fantasy v. Reality: Supergirl "For the Girl Who Has Everything"

As we left last week's episode, Kara gets attacked by some kind of mysterious plant and now she's in a fight for life as she's had to decided whether to stay in her fantasy or wake up.

Kara is unconscious by the mysterious plant known as the Black Mercy, as it puts her in a dreamlike state. That dream makes her feel that she's really in her home planet with her mother, father and even Clark as well. But the probably, the more she stays in the dream the more she'll think it's real.

After not showing up for work, Jimmy and Win call Alex and get to Kara's apartment where they find her on the floor. They go to the DEO and tries to take the plant off of her but if that happen it would kill her.

Trying to figure the plant, Alex ask Hank to help Kara out at work. Pretending to be Kara, he thought that working for Cat Grant would be simple...it wasn't it. But it turned into one of the best humorist moments of this episode. Hell, he'd rather be back in prison than working for her.

Throughout this episode, even though it was a well performance from the supporting cast, it's Chyler Leigh'a Alex Danvers that really shined. Trying to save her sister no matter what the cost it could have, she gets Maxwell to help build a device to get her into Alex's dream and get her to believe that what's she is seeing isn't real.

Alex enters Kara's dream and find her with her family on Krypton. She tries to tell Kara that she's dreaming and needs to wake up. Alex, who's arrested and is sent to the prison, fights for her life to get Kara to come to her senses. And she does and as Alex tries to grab her hand, she's wakes up and throws a fit to Hank that he brought her back but it wasn't. Kara wakes up and gets up looking at the Black Mercy with a look that you don't want to miss with her.

Kara learns that it was Non's idea. Winn figured out that Non and Astra used the plant to distract them while they use the satellites, mostly Maxwell's on the defense.

Kara goes after Non and kicks the crap out of him, but leaves but without a task for Kara to do with a  a falling satellite. Meanwhile, Alex and Hank try stopping Astra, but the three fight. Astra was going to slash Hank's neck until Alex stabs her in the chest with a kryptonite sword.

Hank takes the fault for it, instead of Alex. He tells Alex that Kara looks up to her and that he doesn't want to ruin that for them. Which was a very sweet thing that Hank has done.

As for Non, after picking up Astra's body, sees that she's dead. He seeks revenge on her death.

At the end, Alex comes home and see Alex, Jimmy and Win cleaning up. She tells them that how important has been to have them around as her family. And it seems that Kara and Winn's friendship is intact.

This was a very good episode that not only did Melissa did a good job, but it was Leigh's performance that stole the entire episode. Fighting for her sister, as a big sister would do to save her little sister. Harewood and Melissa really had some good scenes, mostly with he filling in situation and helping Cat. It was good as last week's episode.

Overall, I give this episode a 8.5/10.

You can catch Supergirl Monday nights at 8/7c on CBS.

NBC renews "Shades of Blue"

Good news for the number one new show of the new year, Shades of Blue will be back for another season.

The show stars, Jennifer Lopez, as a corrupt NYPD detective turned FBI informant, trying to help take down her boss without him knowing it. The show also stars Ray Liotta as Lopez's boss. Liotta is signed for a second season.

"We want to thank Jennifer, who is the hardest-working woman we know, for her incredible efforts as both the star and producer of this show, as well as well as our other amazing producers and cast for all their tireless work in creating one of the most compelling dramas on television today," NBC Entertainment president Jennifer Salke says in a statement. "We're so excited to find out where this story will lead and have them raise the stakes even higher in what we know will be a fantastic second season."

"Shades of Blue" has given NBC it's best Thursday nights at 10pm in recent seasons. It's averaging around 2.5 rating in adults 18-49 and 11.2 million viewers overall and not to mention that it's one of the most time shifted shows on television, meaning that as it's recorded and watched later.

You can catch Shades of Blue Thursday nights at 10/9c with a catch miss episode that will have a double twisted ending that no one will see coming. Only on NBC.

JASON BOURNE - First Look (HD)

We know his name and we're so delighted that he's back!!!!

Here's a first look at the new Bourne film, JasonBourne. This also aired during the Super Bowl.

It's one of the most anticipated movie of the year I would say. Who isn't thrilled to see Damon back as Bourne? This teaser looks amazing and has so many things from Nicky to the fights that he's getting into.  Total knockout!!

JasonBourne will be in theaters July 29th.

The Americans: Trouble

The new teaser for The Americans has been release and it looks like trouble is coming for them Philip and Elizabeth as more obstacles are coming. That included the fallout with thier daughter, Paige, who knows their true identities and seems to be tempted to do something about it with that information.

I guess we'll have to wait and see what's to come.

Season 4 of The Americans premieres Wednesday, March 16th at 10/9c on FX.