A Twist for the Heart: The Blacklist "Alexander Kirk (The Conclusion)

Everything has been leading to this episode, this very season finale that not only had so much emotion but humor and never to mention the very twist that only The Blacklist can bring to this very finale.

Red's plan is just as plan sight as his hat, take out Alexander Kirk and to do so he had Senator Diaz to indict him for questioning. Kirk sees the news coverage and doesn't take the bait. That's until Red has his team and FBI to switch illegal oil onto Kirk's company gas truck.

That my friend was one of many hilarious moments. As Red orders hot dogs that takes about 10 minutes or so, he's distracting the trucker as Tom and team switches the trucker's tank with the tank of oil.

As things went to plan, Red and Cooper had a chat about that Red's gonna kill Kirk. And gave this one of the most beautiful speeches in the three seasons of the show. So good that it felt like a finale.

The plan does work until Keen slips way from Kaplan and takes off on a airplane to Cuba. Kirk has a guy, who is a remembrance to Javier Bardem's character in "No Country for Old Men," following Tom and the baby. Follows him towards Cuba and tell Kirk about it. As Kirk's plane lands in the U.S., he heads to Cuba while his lawyer takes on the questions with the Senators.

That moment when Kirk wasn't there surprised Red as he was going shoot him in the head. Red calls Aram about it and he later finds that Kirk left on the plane to Cuba. While with Aram on, he asked what plane and company that Keen took.

As Red got the name of the company, he heads towards the owner, a friend, and slaps him with his own golf club. The guy thought that Red had ordered the plane, which he didn't, and told that Kaplan was the one who told him.

Kaplan betrays Red. It wasn't a pretty site to see when Red and Kaplan had a talk. He tells her that Kirk is on his way to Cuba and that Keen and Agnus aren't safe, until she responded with and someone else.

Keen gets to Cuba and heads towards a very nice place. He walks in with Agnus and as the camera cuts to the white curtains, who other than Liz pops out. Just to let all of you know I was still in shock, even though with all the talk about she's alive and all.  The three are together for now.

Red and Kaplan are on the plane and Red ask her how this all happen. Kaplan explained that she had to do it to protect her, that she and the baby wasn't protected under him. She talked to the doctor and he had a way to make things look like she was in need of an emergency. He gives her a dose to have her stop breathe for two minutes and after she was taken away in a body bag, he relived her.

My god Kaplan! My god!! She broke his heart. She broke my heart too.

Tom comes back from the store and sees the window broken. He looks around and finds a man in the baby room and kicks the crap out of him until  the big guy knocks him out.

As Red and Kaplan get there, the place is empty. There's broken glass and bottles, there was no sign of anyone. Red comes up to Kaplan with his hands and gun on her head and ask her what should he do with her. In a way, it felt like that scene from The Godfather Part II where Michael grabs Fredo.

In the final scene of the episode, Liz is in an empty room tied to a chair. Kirk comes out and walks towards her and the only thing she's asking is where is her baby and Tom and are they safe. Kirk calls Liz by her real name and tells her that she knows him. He tells her that he is her father. SHOCKING TWIST!!!

What a great finale this turned out to be. IT had enough humor, along with so many twist and emotional turns that writing this took me a day and a half to grab my thoughts together.

This was literally the best season finale that the series has done throughout it's run. The executive producers and writers have done a splendid job that not only answering some questions there's a whole lot more that is asked. Spader, Lennix and Klattenhoff gives a great performance.

I couldn't get those scenes with Red and Cooper along with Red and Ressler out of my head. I kept watching those scenes that still was so beautifully performed as well. It's great to see Megan Boone, because let's face it, it's not The Blacklist without Liz and Red together.  It's so great to see her once again.

I give this episode a 9.5/10. And overall the season a 9.5/10.

What did you think of The Blacklist season finale? Was it good? Was it bad? How excited are you for next season? Any thoughts?

The Blacklist returns this fall same night, new time: Thursdays at 10/9c. It's part of a great new line with with Superstore, The Good Place, Chicago Med.

The Great Indoors - First Look

Coming to CBS this fall a new comedy starring Joel McHale ("The Soup" and "Community"), who's a renowned adventure reporter for an outdoor magazine who must adapt to the times when he becomes the desk-bound boss to a group of millennials in the digital department of the publication.

Jack (McHale) has led a thrilling "outdoorsy" life exploring the edges of the earth while chronicling his adventures for Outdoor Limits. But his globe-trotting days end when the magazine's charismatic founder and outdoor legend, Roland (Stephen Fry), announces the publication's move to web-only and assigns Jack to supervise their online team of "journalists."

Jack's eager 20-something colleagues include Clark (Christopher Mintz-Plasse), a tech nerd who knows everything about surviving on Mars and a zombie apocalypse; Emma (Christine Ko), their social media expert who views Jack as the uman version of dial-up; and Mason (Shaun Brown), a hipster-lumberjack who hasn't spent any actual time outside.

Jack reports to Roland's daughter, Brooke (Susannah Fielding), an ex-flame who caters to the sensitive staffers by giving them all throphies just for working hard. Jack's best friend, Eddie (Chris Williams), runs the local dive bar that's popular with the younger set and helps Jack "decode" his co-workers. Jack is baffled by the world of click-bait and listicles, but if he's patient, he may be able to show these kids that the outside world is much more than something on a screen... if he doesn't beat them with their selfie-sticks first.

Mike Gibbons, Christ Harris and multiple Emmy Award winner Andy Ackerman are executive prodcers for CBS Television Studios. Ackerman directed the pilot.

Get a first look of "The Great Indoors."

Remembering the Good Times: Chicago PD "She's Got Us"

When the Intelligence Unit takes on the murder of a family, the only witness is the family's youngest child. Can the team find the murderer in time?

With Roman off duty, probably Burgess too, Erin and Jay take on some overtime patrolling the streets until they get a call of gunshots at home. As they get there, they see a bloody mess. They search until they see a body move like a little girl, all covered in blood. She was underneath her sister, and as she stood, she fainted.

Voight and the team get there to have a look as Erin goes with the little girl known as Polly. The team goes from a support cult group, Horizon, to interviewing a man who knew the victim by advising him to go to Horizon.

As Erin waits to talk to Polly, Jay brings her some clothes and, to keep her mind off the case speaks about apartments. Jay needs a lot of help if he enjoys having a toilet next to the stove.

Soon, Erin gets called by a nurse that Polly has gone off. She runs over there, tries to calm her down, and puts the knife on the floor. As soon as she does, the nurse comes in, drugs her, and takes her to her room under the order of Dr. Charles. And you know that Erin was upset about it, even with the no sleeping and waiting to talk to her.

Charles finally lets Erin interview Polly. When she does, Polly tells her about the house and that she knows the man because she's seen him at the cabin. Erin looks for the cabin Polly is talking about, and when she finds the right one, she, Polly, and Jay head over there.

It seems that Voight and Co. are having a little bit more fun than Erin and Jay. They get a new suspect, who happens to be a robber at the time of the murders. They get the guy in a very relaxed fashion with Al, and Hank, who's wearing cool sunglasses, spots him and puts him in the van back to the House. The guy's in the cage, and Voight and Al bring in a battery with plugs to scare the man. But soon, he gives up someone that the team has met, who owns $800.

So they talk to Gerald, whom they met before. He wasn't home but found a gun in his room that happened to be his dad. As Gerald returns home, he runs off but gets knocked down by Atwater. They interview him, and he convinces Voight and Ruzek that he didn't do it and tells them to check that the gun hasn't been used.

As Erin and Jay get to the cabin, the girl looks around and starts remembering the event that she saw the man. They showed her some photos of some suspects, but none of them were. She tells them he was older with a beard and a red truck with no top.

At the House, the team found a 911 call made twice with someone describing the red truck and only giving three numbers off the license plates. Mouse found footage, saw the truck, and ran the numbers.

They find where the suspect is, but by the time they get close to the house, the suspect starts shooting at them. Failed to talk him down, they smoked him out, and Dawson took him down, with Voight getting the last kick to the face.

The suspect was a friend of the victim, who happened to owe him money, but the victim didn't give him any. But instead, he gives him a pamphlet on Horizon.

As soon as they got him, Erin showed the photo of him to Polly and told her that he was the guy. Polly and Erin talk before her aunt and uncle get there, talking about moving to St. Louis and how Polly enjoys traveling. It's one of those heartwarming/heartbreaking moments you can't turn away.

In the meantime, during this episode, Roman has been doing physical therapy and has surgery to get the leftover bullets out of his neck. Well, the department declined to do that when the doctor saw that it was near the spine, which would cause much damage afterward. That doesn't sit well with Roman, and decides to ask Burgess if she would go with him to San Diego, CA. She hasn't answered him, but I assume she will in next week's episode.

This episode was terrific. I can never get enough scenes with Voight and Al or Voight and the suspects. It's like watching theatre. I loved the moments that Erin and Jay got in this episode, from talking about apartments to even the toilet near the stove; it was a hoot. I want more and more of their relationship to grow.

Next week's episode is the season finale when Voight and Erin find someone they know in the trunk of a car. Voight goes out of his way to stop and kill whoever has done whatever to his son. It's the season finale, where all hell will be breaking loose. Here's a promo.  

You can catch the season finale of Chicago PD next Wednesday night at 10/9c on NBC.

The CW's New Fall 2016-2017 Schedule

On Friday, The CW has announced their new fall lineup and the one thing to take away from it is that Supergirl will be staying on her Monday night's at 8pm home.

The ex-CBS drama will retain it's regular time-slot where it will be the lead into Jane the Virgin. Crazy EX-Girlfriend is moved to Friday nights after The Vampire Diaries.

Also the network will be placing in new series No Tomorrow and Frequency airing right after two of the network's biggest hits, The Flash and Arrow, on Tuesdays and Wednesdays. Supernatural will be shifting to Thursdays following Legends of Tomorrow and The Originals will be held until mid-season.

Other shows returning for mid-season: iZombie, The 100 and Reign and the new series Riverdale.

Here's The CW Fall Lineup

Monday
8pm Supergirl
9pm Jane the Virgin

Tuesday
8pm The Flash
9pm No Tomorrow (NEW)

Wednesday
8pm Arrow
9pm Frequency (NEW)

Thursday
8pm Legends of Tomorrow
9pm Supernatural (New Timeslot)

Friday
8pm The Vampire Diaries
9pm Crazy Ex-Girlfriend (new night & time)

Bull - First Look

Well, it didn't take that long but Michael Weatherly is back on CBS. Weatherly stars as Dr. JAson Bull in a drama inspired by the early career of Dr. Phil McGraw, the founder of one of the most prolific trail consulting firms of all time. Brilliant, brash and charming, Dr. Bull is the ultimate puppet master as he combines psychology, human intuition and high tech data to learn what makes jurors, attorneys, witnesses and the accused tick.

Bull employs an enviable team of experts at Trail Analysis Corporation to shape successful narratices down to the very last detail. They include his quick-witted brother-in-law Benny Colon (Freddy Rodriguez), who plays a defense attorney in mock trails; Marissa Morgan (Geneva Carr), a cutting-edge neurolinguistics expert from the Department of Homeland Security; former NYPD detective Danny James (Jaime Lee Kirchner), the firm's tough but relatable investigator; haughty millennial hacker Cable McCrory (Annabelle Attanasio), who is responsible for gathering cyber intelligence; and Chuck Palmer (Chris Jackson), a fashion-conscious stylist and former ALL-America lineman who fine tunes clients' appearances for trail.

In high-stakes trails, Bull's combination of remarkable insight into human nature, three Ph. D.'s and a top-notch staff creates winning strategies that tip the scales of justice in his clients' favor.

Paul Attanasio, Dr. Phillip C. McGraw, Steven Spielberg, Justin Falvey, Darryl Frank, Jay McGraw, Mark Goffman and Rodrigo Garcia are executive producers for CBS Television Studios. Gracia directed the pilot.

Checkout the trailer:

The King is Back!: Kevin Can Wait - First Look

The King is back!! Kevin James ("The King of Queens") stars as a newly retired police officer, who's looking forward to spending carefree, quality time with his wife and three kids, but only to discover he faces tougher challenges at home than he ever did on the streets.

Kevin's retirement plans consist of chilling with his family and having epic adventures with fellow retirees Goody (Leonard Earl Howze), his former partner and close friend, and Duffy (Lenny Venito), his oldest pal, as well as his brother Kyle (Gary Valentine), a fireman whose closet encounter with a blaze would be a grease fire in the firehouse kitchen.

However, Kevin's dream is jeopardized when he discovers that Donna (Erinn Hayes), his wonderful wife of 20 years, has shielded him from key family info while he worked overtime protecting the community. Their usually reliable eldest, Kendra (Taylor Spreitler), is dropping out of college so she can support her unemployed fiance, Chale (Ryan Carwright (Bones)), while he designs the next "big app", his teenage daughter, Sara (Mary-Charles Jones), is having issues at school; and their youngest, Jack (James DiGiacomo), is a bit a hypochondriac.

For now, his plans for a cushy life will have to wait, because Kevin has work to do and this time, his family is his beat.

Bruce Helford, Rock Reuben, Kevin James, Jeff Sussman and Andy Fickman are executive producers for CBS Television Studios in association with Sony Pictures Television. Fickman directed the pilot.


Here's the trailer:

"Together We Make an Incredible Family:" Chicago Fire "Superhero" Season Finale

In this season finale, will Dawson be approved to adopt Louie? Can Casey decide what's essential in his life, politics, or family?  And will there be a showdown between the chief and the paramedic? There are a lot of sparks in this finale. Let's recap.

With a second chance to adopt Louie, she needs to find her place so the place can get inspected and approved. Casey offers, but that doesn't seem to be what Dawson wants if he's offering. She finds this lovely place a bit over budget, but she takes it. But later, the offer falls through and goes to the landlord's daughter.

So Dawson took up Herrmann's offer of the place upstairs of the garage. When visiting the joint, it needs more than just a fixer-upper. So, with a team from 51 over to help, they put their love and soul into assisting Dawson to improve the place just in time when the inspector arrived. Things may not go as planned, but when Dawson tells him how much love was given to put in this place, it is the same that Louie will get if she's approved.

Let's jump to Casey briefly as he goes to Springfield to get the big guys on his side. The only way to is to talk and have a drink or three. Susan pushes him through and through with meeting a lot of politicians. And just when it was over, they talked for a bit of the fun he had had. Soon, she moves in, kisses him, and walks away, leaving a napkin with her room number on. Now, will Casey meet her or not? I'll hold that to the end.

Jimmy has been through a lot since the death of his brother. We saw him very emotional and full of anger at Bowden. There were a few times both of them met, and I felt chills down my spine when I thought that Jimmy was going to give it to Bowden (yelling at him mostly). Jimmy's brother's squad didn't help with the cause either, as they blame Bowden, too.

But after Bowden tells him about giving him his brother's badge number, things did let go, and I think Jimmy found some closure. We see that when Jimmy confronts his sister-in-law with his brother's stuff from the firehouse and tells her that it wasn't Bowden's fault and that his brother did what he thought was right. He died as a hero.

Let's jump into Stella and Kelly as their relationship seems on the go, but one person keeps bumping into them...Stella's ex-boyfriend Grant. It's over to come back, please. It has been a headache to watch. I wanted Severide to tell him straight. When Stella gets a text that doesn't make sense, she calls him, and he sounds crazy. They find him in the park and take him to me for an overdose. Kept at Med, Stella tells him it's over, and he gives it to her, yelling at her and pleading for her to return as she walks away. Will this be the last of him? Find out soon.

After last week's event, Bowden had everyone writing a letter to their loved ones with any regrets or messages. Dawson had a hard time writing one because she was focused on Louie. After a call, when Dawson is hanging off a burning building, she returns to the firehouse, and a surprise comes as it is Louie. After a couple of hours with him and Louie is napping, she finally writes the letter to Louie about how many changes she had to go through and how looking at him was all worth it.

We listen to her as she writes the letter, and we see Casey thinking about going upstairs to Susan. As we see him walking up the stairs, the only thing I had in mind was to slap him if he was at Susan's door, but my friend fell through as he was at Dawson's door. There they hug, and the waterworks come for me as I want to hug them, too.

But the episode didn't end on a happy note, and why wouldn't it? As Stella and Severide enter her apartment, the two exchange kisses and head for the bed. Dr. Charles sees that Grant isn't in his room, and as he calls Stella, her phone vibrates, and we see Grant sitting in the chair in the living room with a knife, listening to the two in the bedroom. HOLY CRAP!!!!

My god, it has been one hell of a season. First, this felt like more of a finale, like season one, than the other seasons. It was still good, and I loved every minute of it. Overall, for the season, I think you have to give credit where credit is due, as this season has been Monica Raymund's best performance, as we see Dawson gone through so much this year. Please give her an Emmy!!!!

Season Five can't get here any sooner, and I hope it'll start in September instead of the middle of October. I hope!!!

Overall, I give this episode an 8.5/10 and the season a 9/10.

You can catch Chicago Fire as it'll return in the fall on Tuesday nights at 10/9c on NBC.