Saturday, April 30, 2016

The Eye in the Sky: The Blacklist "The Artax Network"


As the FBI is on their own when tryingto find Liz's killer as Reddington sees someone to give the bad news.

Cooper and the team aew on the hunt to who wanted Liz Keen. Without Reddington it would really take longer than what this episode would give. Aram hook into s system that had them seeing what the killer was seeing when watching Liz. I like to call it's God's eye because he can see everything from any camera.

They have one suspect that turns out to be the next target but by the time Ressler and Samar get there the suspect is ambushed and is almost killed but Samar saves him. But let's not forget that the person that was trying to kill the guy was the same person from the nuclear bomb theft episode and boy did she give Samar a good butt kickin.

With no idea who could be after the guy, they look back at the cameras and found a mysterious woman talking with the guy. Cooper asked Tom to follow the Attonry General Panabaker who is spotted talking with the mysterious woman. As Tom and Cooper looked at both photos, Tom thinks it could be Liz's mother.

For the team, they did find where a satalitte network that has been dead but still in use. Amar hacks in and located where the spotter is at. But by the time they get there it was too late as everything got distoryed.

On the other hand, Reddington drives to a wooden house in the woods. There he sees an elderly man and informs him about Liz's death. Turns out that he's Liz's grandfather and you can see that she has his temper. He infomers him about Liz's child, happy but not to pleased that he won't see her but in photos.

Red tries to find a way with the help from Liz's grandfather. He looks through some old things like gliter, board games along with clothes and dolls.

Red still looks lost but when Amar comes and ask for his help, he turns him down. So Amar recalled what Red told him awhile back about how this grave that they were standing could have been Liz's if he had not saved her from the cubal. Amar asked for him to repay his debt but Red turned him down.

After a talk with the grandfather, Red apparently repairs the old man's piano and leaves. I guess whatever the man told him got his edge back because by the end of the episode Amar gets a knock at his door with Red behind it. Red looks like Red and tells Amar that they have a job to do.

Red is back baby!!!

This was a very good episode and it's nice to see how the FBI worked without the help of Red. I was moved from performances from Lennix and Arison. Cooper given the eulgoy at Liz's funneral was emotional and heartfelt and Aram's speech to Red was remakrable. It's his best since the episode back in January.

Overall, I give it a 8/10.

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

Saturday, April 23, 2016

The Father and Gone Girl: The Blacklist "Cape May"



OH MY GOD! That was just my first thought after watching "Cape May." This was by far the best written and acting (from Spader) of the year.

With the exhaustion and damage, Reddington leaves a Chinese restaurant after spending what I assume days after killing the doctor who tried to save Liz. He leaves and looks lost, but until he stops a taxi in the middle of the street, he gets in and asks for a trip to Cape May and pays the driver.

As they drive towards Cape May, Red reflects on the events of the death of Liz in those final moments and his discussion with Tom about how Red will never be near the child. As soon as they get there, Red takes the driver's cab, takes it, and drives towards a diner for breakfast. He spots a woman sitting and leaves her seat when a man comes towards the diner. He comes in and looks for her, but no luck.

As Red gets to the beach shack, he walks around takes a beach chair, and heads towards the beach. Red looks at the ocean and soon spots the same young woman barring something in the sand, and then runs towards the ocean. Red yells at first but then runs towards her to save her.

He brings her out of the ocean and later brings her to the beach house. The fireplace is set, and Red covers the lady with a blanket. He tries to cuddle with her to keep her warm and she speaks out that something that seems to be the reason for her suicide attempt.

Red wakes up, chilly, and looks around for the woman.  Finds her upstairs and she sees that someone is out there. Red goes out, and as he looks at what looks like someone from behind him, he takes a swing, and we learn that it is a kite.

The two looked around the kitchen and had dinner. And the two talk, Red talks about the decision that he had to make to save one life or lose two. The way Red tells it looks like he's trying to find peace with it by talking to her. She sees that he had to make that decision and soon gets interrupted by a cop.

Red and the lady go back upstairs to check the bathwater. She gets in while he sits in the other room. As they had a chat, she asked him if he had ever killed anyone, and he admitted that he had killed those who deserved it.

Soon, someone breaks into the house; Red checks looks around, and goes back up to the bathroom. As he looks at the tub, the lady tells Red that he's behind him, and we see them fight, but it is the lady who finished the job-killing the guy. They take care of the body, but soon more will come, and they get ready for more of them.

They set up traps like that in Home Alone. As they get ready, Red tells her that he isn't leaving without her and tries to convince her that suicide is a mess. The one chilling point from that scene is when he asks her for her name, which he still doesn't know, but apparently, she knows his name as she calls him "Raymond." Creepy and chilling, right?

After the two had one hell of a battle, Red goes out to get the car, but as he does, everything looks different from what he had seen. There was nobody, and the tire of the jeep was flat. He rushes back and sees that there are no dead bodies, and as he looks out of the window, he sees her again running towards the ocean.

He rushes out there, but it is too late. He spots a treasure hunter and asks if he has seen a woman. The man replied that he had not and that the only person that he had seen for the past two weeks was Red. Hold the freakin' phone. He thinks back to what happened last night and that everything he went through was him and his imagination.

If it was all in his head, then who was that woman that he was talking to that happened to know his name? As Red sees the guy finding a necklace in the sand, he asks for it and takes it to the ocean to wash the sand out. He sees the name Katarina Rostova, Liz's mother. He tells her that he keeps her life in that child and calms him down with her hand on his face.

As Red looks around and at the beach, he answers the man's question if he's alright. Red replies that he has someone to see.

What a great episode this turned out to be. It had that Gone Girl sense. James Spader give his best performance ever since, well, the pilot, and draws every emotion that he can put on Reddington as he tries to deal with the loss of Liz.

Just give Spader every acting award from Emmy to Golden Globe. Also give credit to the writer, Daniel Knauf, who wrote the episode. I literally didn't know until Red read the name of the necklace that he was hallucinating.

Overall I give this episode a perfect 10/10.

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

Thursday, April 21, 2016

Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt "Kimmy Gives Up!"/"Kimmy Drives a Car!"




Episodes 5 and 6 serve as one of the best episodes so far. There's a throwback commercial to even catchy tunes that makes me beg Tina Fey and everyone to release a soundtrack.

Kimmy Gives Up!

Episode 5 has Kimmy returning to her GED class to take the final test. Not receiving a letter of it, she gets Dong's and decides to take it to him, personality. Lillian doesn't think she's doing it just to be nice but to win his heart again. 

After dropping the letter off, Kimmy is spotted by Dong's wife and comes in. Dong is mad at her at first, but it's when he tells her that he and his wife must go to a meeting to convince her that their marriage is real.  So Kimmy helps by taking them to certain spots for photos to make it look like they've been on vacation as a couple. 

But it doesn't go quite well, and Kimmy accepts that she and Dong aren't meant to be right now. But maybe in two years, they'll be the couple we want them to be. As Kimmy says, "It's hard to get over Dong."

In the meantime, Lillian sees that Titus has been singing many, many show tunes that even I've never heard of, but they're so catchy. Lillian suspects that Titus is finally happy with the relationship and such. That brought him pretty down until Lillian brought him back up with a show tune that he was surprised to know. 

And as for Jacqueline, she deals with being a parent for the first time with her son. With no Kimmy, Jacqueline goes to the doctor for help and is advised to give her kids a drug to calm them down, which calms Kayne West's behaviors. 

Given Buckley some meds, he turns into a calm zombie-like child along with the other children. When Jacqueline tells Kimmy, she convinces her that it's good, and tries it. The worst part is that she tried it just before her private outfitting and did not see the colors of the dresses as everything turned gray. But she awakes with an outfit that's hilarious and colorful, I don't think even MC Hammer. 

Jacqueline realizes she misses Buckley's misbehavior. She goes out to get some clothing, and after being asked to leave and what size she wears, she and Buckley go to the store for fun.

I loved this episode a lot. I think it's one of the best episodes so far. Titus's performance, just singing many tunes, makes me want to beg Tina and the producers to put out a soundtrack album for the show. Also, I couldn't get enough of Jane's performance too. Also, I loved how Kimmy mentioned that she's still waiting for Nickelodeon to come to her school, and so am I. I love how they add 90s references in this season. So many memories!   

Overall, I give this episode a 9.5/10.

Kimmy Drives a Car   

In episode 6, Kimmy juggles two jobs: being there for Jacqueline and her job. Kimmy as she is always there for her friends. But it will cost her to gain a new job.

When Jacqueline demands Kimmy to do too many things while she has a job at the Christmas store, when Jacqueline loses a tooth, she asks Kimmy for help but goes by herself to get into the dentist without success.

Putting on a mitosis in place of her tooth, she tries to convince the secretary to get her in, but with no success. She loses her mitosis tooth as it drops into the secretary's diet Coke bottle. She later puts in a fingernail (big mistake) and demands Kimmy to take her to the dentist she knows, who turns out not to be an honest dentist.

Kimmy tells Jacqueline that her attitude isn't helping her at all. So, after a bit of a fight, they agree that Kimmy works for Jacqueline but nursing a friend and drives her to the costume shop, where she gets a sexy Joe Biden outfit and uses the teeth.

As Kimmy waits for her outside, someone gets in and thinks that she's an Uber driver. She is an Uber driver. But does ask Jacqueline to be her friend.

While this was going on, Titus and Kimmy agree to do an AIRB and agreed to their apartment for some money. Lillian doesn't like the two renters and asks Titus to get rid of them as she doesn't trust them.

There were some great guest stars from Kennan Thompson and Zosia Mamet. I enjoyed this episode as well and thought that it was about time that Kimmy put her foot down to Jacqueline. This was such a great episode for the entire cast. And I would like to thank the writers for the remainder of the mitosis commercial jiggle; I can't get it out of my head now.

Overall, I give this episode a 9/10.

You can catch Season 2 of Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt on Netflix now.

Jason Bourne - Official Trailer (HD)


He's back and you know his name. He remembers....He remembers everything.
Matt Damon has return to his iconic role as Jason Bourne and this time it looks like he doesn't seem to be going after the US. Julia Stiles is back as Nicky Parsons, which is awesome!!!!

Along with these two are Alicia Vikander, Vincent Cassel and Tommy Lee Jones.

This trailer looks amazing. Jason looks a lot older and a bit meaner in his years. There's so much action shown, which I love and doesn't ruin anything for me what so ever. I literally can't wait to see this film.

Here's the Trailer:

You can catch Jason Bourne in theaters July 29th.

Wednesday, April 20, 2016

USA Network Announces Date For Mr. Robot Season 2





When July comes, we'll finally get to know who's at the door.

On Wednesday, USA Network announced that last year's hit acclaimed drama Mr. Robot will return for it's second season on Wednesday, July 13th at 10/9c.

At the end of the freaky series ended it's first season with the trouble hacker Elliot suffering a psychotic break, before receiving a knock at his apartment door from an unknown visitor. 

Executive producer Sam Esmail said at the TCA in January that Season 2 will be zeroing in on the "emotional journey" of Rami Malek's character: "For e, the headline for season 2 is, 'How do these two guys (Elliot and Mr. Robot) reconcile? How does Elliot reconcile with the fact that he's been seeing a delusion, a fantasy?' That's a tough pill to swallow, and we're really going into the mind of a person who's just become aware of that. Will twists organically derive out of that? If I were a betting man, I'd say yes."

The second season will contain 10 episodes that will includes some new faces from Sandrine Holt (Fear the Walking Dead), Craig Robinson (The Office) and Grace Gummer (Extant), while two recurring actors from the first season, Stephanie Corneliussen and Michael Cristorfer, have been promoted to series regulars as Joanna Wellick and Phillip Price. 

You can catch the first season of Mr. Robot available at USANetwork.com. 

Tuesday, April 19, 2016

NBC Announces Aquarius Season 2 Premiere




It was announced on Tuesday that NBC has set the date for the Season 2 premiere of Aquarius, but with some killer arrangements.

The network's David Duchovny drama, of an LAPD cop on the hunt for serial killer Charles Manson, will return on Thursday, June 16 with a two hour, commercial free premiere at 9/8c.

Yes that's right commercial free premiere. The Peacock Network announcement says it "will have absolutely no breaks for commercials or network promos, with the only stoppage coming for a one minute local news break during the show's second hour."

But when the premiere moves to online and digital platforms the next day, normal commercial breaks will air.

On June 23rd, Aquarius will move to it's normal time slot, 10/9c.


Chicago Fire Showrunner on Chili's Exit





We've known that at Firehouse 51 that there has been some changes ever sine Chicago Fire premiered. There has been a lot of personnel changes because of death from Andy Darden to Leslie Shay or even the ones that departed from Peter Mills and Scott Rice.

But when it comes to the most recent exit that took many viewers off guard was when Chili (Dora Madison) was unceremoniously fired by Boden. No doubt that disciplinary action was a long time coming for Chili since she was coming in late and drinking pretty heavily following the death of her sister. With that in mind, off screen, the decision to boot Chili was a bit of a surprise given that Madison's promotion as a series regular at the beginning of the season after joining the team as Brett's new paramedic partner at the end of the third season.

"(There are" no plans for Chili come back right now," showrunner Matt Olmstead tells to The Hollywood Reporter.

He explains that the decision behind the mid-season exit was to keep the viewers on their toes.

"You can't just save up the big moments and departures and entrances for characters at episode one and episode 22," Olmstead says. "It's almost conditions the audience to be like 'OK, we'll tune in for the first episode and tune in for the finale because not much is going to happen in between because the writers are too timid to make any kind of moves.' So you can threaten people leaving and you can kind of rattle your saber here and there, but unless you follow through on it, no one is going to believe you."

Chili's downfall, which also came at the expense of her romantic relationship with fellow newcomer Jimmy (Steven R. McQueen), was discouraging for the entire house. And even though those who tired helping her were those of her partner Brett and Dawson.

"You think you could have helped her out, but shes on this path of self-destruction," Olmstead said. "It got us some good stuff midway through the season as opposed as to waiting for a finale to have the character exit."

The firehouse has since filled the void left by Chili as her former beau Jimmy is now the paramedic and the firehouse has welcomed a new female firefighter in the form of Stella Kidd (Miranda Rae Mayo). However, Olmstead explains that it wasn't such an easy deisicion to write Chili out.

"It's hard," Olmstead says. "We liked the actress a lot and she did a great job."

You can catch Chicago Fire as they return tonight at 10/9c along with a new Chicago Med at 9/8c on NBC.