Life in Pieces Returns Tonight

Tonight is the season premiere of last season's #1 new comedy, Life In Pieces. And if you haven't seen it, it's a must see family comedy.

Life in Pieces follows the chronicles of the lives of three generation of the Short family as they go do their daily lives in Los Angeles.Each episode is told in four short stories as it follows from the point of view of each character based on their own version of events.

The show has an incredible cast with Colin Hanks (Dexter), Betsy Brandt (The Michael J. Fox Show & Breaking Bad), Thomas Sadoski (The Newsroom), Zoe Lister-Jones (Whitney) along with James Brolin and Dianne Wiest.

The series is different than any other family comedy that's been on television. The writing is really good. And if you don't like one story, you can wait til the next story. It's like a sitcom channel suffer.

Where the show left off from last season, Greg quit his job (after we learned what he actually does) after creating the "CryTunes" baby monitor, but learns his wife, Jen, is pregnant with their second child. We find out that John and Joan have been divorced for 35 years and never told the kids. Matt gets back with Colleen after a bad blind date from Jen. He pops the question to Colleen in his parent's bathroom.

You can catch the season premiere of Life In Pieces tonight at 9:30/8:30c on CBS.

Bones Gets It's Final Season Premiere Date

Well, it's really the beginning of the end for a classic.

FOX has announced it's premiere date for the 12th and final season of Bones, Tuesday, Jan. 3, 2017 at 9/8c.

The farewell run will promise to "celebrate the inventive series and bring the storylines of Brennan (Emily Deschanel), Booth (David Boreanaz) and the Jeffersonian-FBI team to a close, allowing the show's loyal fans to say goodbye to these inedible characters."


Fox's press release also teases "the return of fan-favorite guest stars and squinterns, as well as an old flame from one of the team's past" (aka Eddie McClintock's Tim Sullian). Not to mention viewers can also count on a wedding, and epic serial killer storyline" and a new undercover mission set at a lumberjack competition.

Oh, and you'll also see "Booth and Brennan's marriage get put to the test." Oh boy!!!

"From the very first season, Bones was called 'The Little Engine That Could.' So we could not be prouder of ending up as Fox's longest running scripted drama," series creator Hart Hanson said in a statement. "And we got there because of an insanely loyal, loud, lovely, lively audience."

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Friends and Family: Chicago PD "Big Friends Big Enemies"

A shooting at a concert gets the Intelligence Unit investigating, but who they find out is totally unexpected.

This episode was really good at played with emotions very well. We get to see Atwater dealing with this case very personal, because he was the one trying to save a gun shot victim that he knows. The Unit takes took it as a terrorist attack, but it turns out to be a gang attack.

But after chasing social media posts from the shooters of when and where they're gonna be attacking, they take down one suspect that turns out to be in another gang. Voight went to the boss of Latain Players gang and even though he wasn't the one who ordered it, he knows who it was and helped them lour him out.

Turns out that the shooter was just a kid in high school. Shocking to all from Erin to Halstead, Atwater and even Antonio too.

In the middle of this as Burgess and Tay were helping out, they spotted Atwater's little brother at a house where they were checking on. Atwater was shocked but when he came home he really didn't do anything but gave him a look and decided to take his sister and brother to get something to eat.

Also we got to meet the new member on the Intelligence Unit, Jenny, who's replaced Mouse as he went back overseas. There were a couple of funny moments with Voight. I call them priceless.

As I said before this episode played with emotions, mostly with Atwater and other members of the team. But near the end of the episode, we see a scene of people in the neighborhood enjoying, embracing and having fun. It's something that we don't see a lot these days with what's been going on this year. It gave such a nice pleasant example of there's still good things in Chicago.

Overall, I give this episode a 8.5/10.

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

Not Gonna Listen, You'll Have to Feel: Chicago Fire "A Real Wake-Up Call"

Words are never enough to describe it but the only thing that comes to my mind was something my mother quoting my great-grandmother, "If you're not going to listen, you're going just have to feel it." That's probably how I can best describe this episode.

As Jimmy is back on Truck 81, things aren't as smooth as it may seem. He ignores Boden and does what he does. He disrespects the Chief and poses severe concerns to the rest of Truck 81. Even Herrmann gets ticked off at him and throws him out of the bar. I'll get back to this story shortly.

Meanwhile, Casey is dealing with a small (yet big) issue with how he used his political power to get the adoption agency to push Louie to be with Dawson. Threaten by another politician just to get his crap looked at and passed. He tells Dawson and the one thing that she has in mind is to find a way to stop him from spilling the truth out. My idea: call Voight or Antonio.

Severide takes  Travis's invitation to his party. It seems like he might be back as a party guy again. Also Kidd finally gives her ex the help he needs as she tells him to stay at Chicago Med and get treated.

Now, when the Firehouse 51 gets a call of a car accident. Boden and Casey have Jimmy on the sideline and dealing with a truck that has explosive containers. First things first, move the truck first and save the driver, but Jimmy didn't think so and goes ahead to help the lady, Boden tries to tell him to stop but he still heads over there until the containers explodes in flames and Jimmy is caught.

The team rushes to him and extinguish him from the fire. After that they moved him far to treat him. It was shocking, it was disturbing and real to a fact. Jimmy got severe burns and most of his left side of his face was burned and skin melted. Halstead treated and saved him at Med but couldn't save the left eye at all.

Things went from hated to emotional sadness with a blink of an eye (no pun intended). One of the most heartfelt scenes was when Boden went to see him, said a prayer and soon seen Jimmy's right eye open. He squeezed his hand and shed a tear.

It goes to show you, you don't listen, you'll just have to feel it. I'm not saying that he deserved it, but the guy won't listen and the CFD wasn't either. This was good from an emotional stand point. Just feel so bad and sad to lost a guy like Jimmy. I would think that he would be the next Casey on this team, but never assume that at all.

The bright spot was Brett and Mouch's firefighter novel. At first Mouch didn't like what Brett had written but later he really enjoyed it. I would love to see this book come to life and in bookstores for us #OneChicago fans to read.

Overall, I give this episode a 8.5/10.

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

Never Say Never.....Again: Timeless "Party at Castle Varlar"

If last week's episode was fun, this one had to be a blast.

Just as they found Flynn's location, Wyatt and team go after him but with no success as Flynn and his gang went back with the nuclear as they head to Germany on Dec. 7th 1944. There they thought that Flynn was gonna give the nuc to the Nazis but that wasn't even close.

Flynn was going to sabotage and get Wernher von Braun to the Russians instead of going to the United States (which helped with the space race during the Cold War).

The most interesting and entertaining aspect of this episode was that Lucy, Rufus and Wyatt meets with the famous British spy, Ian Fleming (the original James Bond). There were moments of jealous coming from Wyatt when Ian was using his charms on Lucy.

And yes there were Bond ponds too like the priest hole, they'd escaping from the castle and out of an underground tunnel (Skyfall), or the when they parted ways and Lucy says to him that they'll never see each other again. He replied, "Never Say Never" and Wyatt adds "Again."

Not to forget that Flynn didn't use the nuc at all, but it was used for one purpose....the time machine. Let me please use this quote "wait, are you telling me that this sucker is nuclear?!" Holy crap!! With that nuc as it's own battery it doesn't have to charge each time they travel in time.

This had to be the most action and fun episode yet. The Bond ponds were amazing. Loved the Wyatt and Lucy moment in this episode, as she's struggling on why she's doing this for what reason until she sees it as it to get her sister back.

Overall, I give this episode a 9/10.

You can catch Timeless Monday nights at 10/9c on NBC.

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