NBC Cancels Game of Silence

Well, it's a one and done series for NBC's Game of Silence.

NBC has announced on Friday that the freshman thriller will not be returning for a second season.

Adapted by executive producer David Hudgins from the Turkish series Suskunlar. Game of Silence starred David Lyons, Michael Raymond-James and Larenz Tate.

Lyon's played Jackson Brooks, a Huston attorney who, on the heels of adding to a beautiful successful fiancee of his life, is visited upon by two childhood friends, from their old, small hometown of Brennan. Chaos ensues as they face their childhood nightmare.

The series has been pretty good witha  good cast and the writing is good too. A lot of twist and even some turns that want to make you look away at scenes when watching these character's childhood when they go to a juvenile prison after a hit and run they caused.

Game of Silence airs Thursday nights at 10/9c on NBC.

CBS cancels CSI Cyber

Well, for the first time in 16 years, CBS will not have a CSI series to air come the 2016-2017 as CSI Cyber has been cancelled, after two seasons.

CSI Cyber was the fourth CSI series following with the mothership CSI (which ran for 15 years 2000-2015), plus the spin-offs CSI: Miami (2002-2012) and CSI: NY (2004-2013).

The series has been on the bubble with other shows. It's going to feel so weird not seeing anything on the CBS schedule that doesn't have the name CSI.  

Supergirl Gets a Season 2, but New Home

Well, there's good news for Supergirl fans.

It was announced on Thursday that Supergirl has been renewed for a second season, but here's the real kicker....the series will have a new home come the 2016-2017 season.

The CW ill be taking over as it's new home for the superhero drama. When the series debuted on CBS in October, it premiered with 13 million total viewers and a 3.1 demo rating, which tied NBC's Blindspot as the 2015-2016 TV season's top rated new drama.

TVLine has confirmed that the Supergirl will move production to Vancouver, after setting up in Los Angeles for it's home. At the very early states, there are sources that say there is nothing to report that either way about Calistra Flockhart's participation in the relocation away from LA.

Starring Melissa Benoist (Glee) as the superhero, Supergirl. The series has averaged 7.7 million viewers and a 1.7 rating, numbers which with Live+7 DVR playback go up to 10 million and 2.5. In it's first season finale in April it scored a 6.1 million and a 1.3 in Live+Same day numbers.

But one of the most popular episode had featured a crossover from the star of The CW's The Flash, Grant Gustin, which helped boosted the series to a 7 week high in the demo.

I'm happy that Supergirl is getting a second season. I'm not to happy with how CBS treats their shows like if it doesn't do well to their standards than it's a failure. If you look at what NBC, FOX and ABC has done in the past few years that they keep shows that score lower than 2.0 and get another season.

But Supergirl is coming to The CW the superhero cable network. With Arrow, The Flash and  the Legends of Tomorrow, Supergirl should fit in quite well. I'm looking forward to seeing what they'll use as their campaign for the new season.

A Split City: Chicago PD "Justice"

This week's episode of Chicago PD is the backdrop pilot to the next spin-off series in the Chicago series, Chicago Justice. And this case that brings in the PD and Justice together is a case that's too far familiar that we've see almost everyday.

As we jump in, Burgess and Roman make a stop and talk about their relationship as a coupe, after the events of last week's episode. A mysterious person wearing a hoodie walks towards the squad car and starts shooting at Burgess and Roman.

Scared and emotional, Burgess gets out and chases the suspect but after dogging a couple of shots from the suspect, she runs around the corner of the building and sees someone in the hoodie walking pass a car. She yells at him and he runs but not long enough she shoots him and arrested him.

The Intelligence unit gets there and talks with Burgess through the events that had happen. Al tells her that they couldn't find the gun anywhere and with that in mind everyone gets worried and even further that the person that is prosecuting the case is the man who put Hank Voight in jail, Peter Stone (Phillip Winchester).

Stone and his team plan their own investigation. They interviewed the suspect that made a case that Burgess shot the wrong guy and that it's just another wrongful shooting from a cop.

The team interviews the suspect's girlfriend and coworker. The coworker gives them some idea that the suspect had it in for cops. Later, back at the station, Ruzek finds a photo of the suspect in his girlfriend's Instagram page holding a gun. And soon a phone call comes in from a witness that he had video of the suspect throwing the gun in the river. This seems to be the perfect evidence to find him guilty but Stone and his boss DA Mark Jefferies (Carl Weathers) want the motive so the case can really stick.

When at trail things don't look well for the prosecution. Even Burgess testify and that wasn't easy as a viewer and a fan. She's gone through a lot from being removed from duty to even having to confront her relationship with Roman. And that scene when Platt tells her that she's proud of her just got me in tears. Even the walk towards the court was hard enough to watch as she was walked with the Intelligence Unit with Voight by her side.

Everything that Stone throws out there always seems to be taken away from the defendant. But after the first day of trail, Stone and the tea get somethings that will give the suspect's motive. The suspect lost an uncle that was in prison because of confrontation with a racist cop that Platt worked with. He wanted to seek revenge on the cops.

As the decision went to the jury, the defendant's attorney wanted to make a deal but Stone doesn't. Until he had a talk with Jefferies and even after three days of the jury still deciding, it was best to make the deal before there might be chaos. Stone agrees but wants to talk with Roman and Burgess about it and they agreed on a deal.

This was such a great backdoor pilot of another Chicago series. Winchester and Weathers shown a great performance. These two characters have a very good prospective of justice and the first face off between Voight and Stone was chillingly awesome.

And let's not forget, Marina Sqerciati, who gave her best performance by far in this episode. From the moment the episode begins to the end, my emotions were going on a roller-coaster ride. The writing was brillant and the cast too. I'm really looking forward to Chicago Justice, whether it will be picked up for series.

Overall, I give this episode a 9/10.

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

UPDATE: NBC has announced on Thursday that Chicago Justice has got a series pick up.

The Newspaper (Test Pilot)

This is only a test pilot on a project idea I had a couple of months ago. You remember The Newspaper comic strip but what if that was in a digital style form? There's still some retooling that I'm working on. Hopefully by the fall it will look better. 

Captain America Civil War: An Action-packed Movie Worth Seeing

A team divided by the concept of being contained can not stand. If that didn't make any sense, this probably will.... When a the Avengers are in trouble for causing death and destruction, the United Nations are to force them to revealing their identity and contained until they are being needed.

Yeah, there's going to be separate opinions on that, no doubt.

Captain America: Civil War or should I say The Avengers: Civil War, was a jaw dropping action pack thriller that I've seen in a long time. The story was tight enough to perfection, the acting is top of it's game and give credit where credit is due to the Russo brothers for making a great film.

There were so many actions scenes, two that stand out was the scenes with the group battle and Iron Man against Cap and Bucky. I real enjoyed watching Iron Man get his ass kicked by Cap. Even when he tells Cap to stand down and gets back up for another round was amazing.

The film gave a great thriller and a great twist that involves with Tony Stark's childhood.

And the humor in this film was out of the ballpark. Ant-Man brought it , The Falcon and Winter Solider brought it on as new best friend old-best friend and even Spiderman was hilarious. The scenes with Peter and Tony was just had me laughing my pants off. Not to mention the scene of The Falcon and Bucky fighting Spiderman was priceless.

There are some dark tones in this film but it balances out with the action and comedy that comes with it. I don't get where the emotional part comes from, either they're talking about watching Team Cap's crew in a cell or whatever. I felt bad for them and really hating Stark even more.

This film does give a great ending to the Captain America trilogy and opening it up to Avengers next film. Now what happens here if there should be another Captain America film? Hell I would want another one. It's the only film out of the Marvel/Disney film that I enjoy. Until there's a Black Widow film, for which I'm still crossing my fingers.

Overall,  I give this film a 9.5/10.

It's is so far the best film of the year.

You can catch Captain America Civil War in theaters now.

A Twisted Case: Chicago PD "In A Duffel Bag"

It's one of the most twisted cases the Intellegence unit has face so far this season. The outcome you and even I never saw coming along with another shocker.

As Voight is enjoying an evening with a group of old buddies playing cards, dispatch calls for a mysterious package near the lake. Voight takes the call and head over there to see. As he opens the mysterious gym bag, there seem to be a frozen baby there.

As the baby get sent to Med, Voight and the team search for the parents of the child. With a little bit of hep from the Med team, they get test that helps them go in the direction. They found out that the kid has a gentic disorder and tries to find someone who came to Chciago getting treatment for that.

It pointed to a guy out of the city limits and after questioning him and taking some DNA, he was the baby's father. Voight goes off on the guy like no other and admitts that he does't care if he loses his badge. You know that he's on this case not for the crime but from an emotional standing point.

After the guy tells them where he was in the last 9 to 10 months, the team searchs for high school girls who had dropped out due to preganancy and found a few. They soon got the mother and Lindsay and Halstead drove to the mother's house, but got her stuck up rich parents, but the mother was a pain in the ass.

They tell Halstead and Lindsay that they had exchanged the baby with another family. After the baby was born the midwife took the baby to the parents without having any legal documents. So the team searches for the midwife and finds her at a birthing class. While there, Hank and team went to the parents the were to have the baby but when they get there there were a lot of baby things from clothes to cribs that indcated that they were or had a baby.

So from where this case was going it goes back and forth towards the parents of the mother, midwife and parents there were to take the kid. The midwife was charage but soon released as the team figures out that it was the parents there were to take the kid. As they got to their home, the place was empty so the manhunt was on for the father and mother.

They spotted the van at a gas station and as soon as they left, Hank the team goes in. After everything that had happen, the father confuess of being drunk and forgot the child as he was taken his other son to see the comets or lunar moon. But when the twist came as soon as when Ruzek was shown the suspect's son a space pen that the kid told him that he was the one that took the baby out without his parent's knowlegde.

That got Hank to talk to the father of not going with the story that he told him. After that the most joylous thing happen....Erin got to arrest that rich bitch of a mother that sold the child to the family. That was pleasant to watch and even Halstead telling her husband to just run away.

I might have told just one twist but there were quite a few more as well. One was that Voight tells Erin about Justin and how he was a twin with the other one being a stillborn. That was s shocker. And a reason how this case got emotional for him. Also watching him holding his grandson was sweet as they come.

And the last twist comes at the end with Burgess and Roman opening up the flood lights to a one night stand. The heart knows what it wants I guess. Sorry, I had to say it.

This was a great episode coming in after what I consider a long break. Reruns are good but nothing like a new episode. This episode really did play with some emotions. Hell that baby coming back to life was something and not to mention when the baby took a turn for the worst. This was really a true crime story that you would never seen coming to the end. I thought Jason gave a great performance.

Overall, I give this episode a 9/10.

Next week will test the intellengence unit as a shotting goes wrong and Burgess is on trail. The Unit goes to the team of Chicago Justice for help and the man to do it is the man that put Voight in jail.
Once you see the promo, you'll get chills.

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