Tough Decisions: Chicago Med "Free Will"

In the fall finale, two doctors try to find a tough solution for one patient's health, plus a decision for one person on whether to live healthy or to save her baby.

Let's begin with Reese's search for Danny. It seemed that her and Choi have been looking for him all through the night. When it got time to head to work, Choi tells her that they'll look more after and headed back. But when Erin comes by, she knew that he was found dead.

She really took a toll about it and I don't blame her, I would do the same thing if I was trying to help someone out too. Charles tries to explain to her that what she did was the best that she could and that sometimes psychology gives them an illusion.

Meanwhile, Choi gets a patient from jail after he was supposed to have been stabbed by another inmate but it turns out the guy was looking for a place to stay at the Med Inn. Choi tries to play him and send him out but at every moment he had, the guy comes back with another medical case from "hurt myself" or him coughing out blood from Rhode's patient's ear rings. But after chatting with Goodwin, he took to heart and excepted the patient.

Manning and Halstead gets a case where a patient, who's having some setbacks, was in need of a kidney transplant. The problem is that he's also suffering from heart issues too. When the patient's brother comes by, he really doesn't want him there because he's upset that his own brother won't give him his kidney.

There was a problem, his brother was HIV positive. With every option that Manning and Halstead had, it didn't go as well as they hoped. But when the brother tells him about his situation, the patient asked if he could have his brother give him the kidney HIV or not. Or course, Halstead says no and Manning thinks there's a possibility that it could work.  

Manning looks around, with every option that she could think of they turn her down. When Halstead talked to her about it, there might be one option that could work and that was to transmit a syringe that the patient's brother will use and use the same one and inject it into his brother's blood system. Anyone think that this was a bad or good idea? Maybe bite them back?

Also to note: Rhodes and Charles (Dr. Charles' daughter) seem to be hitting it off and decide to go out to have dinner. April not only finds out that her illness is back but also she's pregnant. But with this kind of illness, Halstead tells her that there's only one medication for it but also gives the baby a possible defect too. After deciding not to take the medicine, Halstead talked to her about it. I think she'll take the medicine.

I thought that this was another good episode. It brought in a lot of emotions from Reese's reaction to Danny's death to April's health decision. Plus the emotions of anger and worried from Choi and Manning/Halstead storyline. But it sends the episode off on a good funny and warming note (like in The Blacklist) with Halstead singing to friends and family at his home welcoming party. But as Halstead was singing we see him and Manning looking at each other smiling.

Overall, I give this episode a 8.5/10

You can catch Chicago Med when it returns Thursday, Jan. 5th at 9/8c on NBC.

The Answer Is....The Blacklist "Dr. Adrian Shaw No. 98 Conclusion"

In the fall finale, did Red tell what we knew all a long or was he just blowing smoke?

The episode picked off where it left in the previous, Kirk's men were setting up to get moving to take him and Liz out of the hospital. Red tells Liz to get out twice and well doesn't do it, but she tries to talk Kirk down.

Kirk won't back down as he doesn't believe the DNA test show that Liz isn't his daughter. Kirk's men devise a smoke screen to get everyone out and put the hospital on lock down. There the crew goes and takes Kirk and Liz, but Tom gets into one with them and as he was about to choke to death, he replied the guy's question with more of a "can you hear this now?" way with a gun to the guy's head.

But probably the most entertaining couple of scenes was the car chases when Tom was chasing Kirk and Liz and stopped and guns go a blazing. Tom thought he would sneak underneath the ambulance but gets caught until he was saved by Ressler and Samar.

Red's plan was coming along slowly. Taking Dr. Shaw and getting her to find a "patient zero" for him. This patient was cured from he same disease that Kirk has. As soon as they find it, Red grab Kirk's doctor and looked as the medical file of the patient, that he also treated.

So Tom and Dembe picked up "patient zero" who happens to be an ADA. As they taken her, Red made a deal with Kirk for exchange for him for Liz's release. Of course, Kirk takes it and the exchange was made and the fun for Kirk really began there as they strapped Red to the chair and injected medicine that causes pain (remember season 1?).

Injection after injection, Kirk ties to get Red to talk. It seems that they've used a lot and yet Red can still tolerate the pain. Red has told him about a cure but doesn't believe a word til in the middle of their talk the van arrives with the ADA herself. They tested her and proves that she's a match, but still Kirk didn't believe it and tells them to take her and run more test.

Kirk and Red talked more and asked him the question that we all wanted to know, is Liz his daughter. Of course, he dodges the question but at one point, he tells Kirk "what do you want me to say? yes, she is. Elizabeth is my daughter."

And soon, when they were alone they'd talked about Li's mother and Red asked him about how was she like. After Red tells him about how she was assigned to him and probably assigned to Kirk as well. Then Kirk was about to put another injection into Red until he stopped and Red tells him something that we couldn't hear and then stops.

Liz, after being taken and almost killed but saved by Ressler and Samar, get there with Ressler with no Red or Kirk insight. Cooper is informed by Ressler and Samar that Shaw was part of Red's plan to help Kirk.

Later with Liz and Tom at their home with the baby, they get a visitor, Red. He comes in and waits til Liz turns around and sees him. She asked where Kirk is and he replies "gone." Red holds the baby and as they look at her, Liz tells him that she wishes her dad was here to see this, he replies, he would too.

I thought that this episode was another outstanding one. It had enough of action, the car chase scene, to pull over the hump and great character performances from Spader and Ulrich Thomsen (Kirk). Even the ending where Liz and Red look at the baby was beautiful and a relaxing moment for now in the series. Of course, I would be satisfied with the answer I got, but did Red tell the truth or was he just telling Kirk what he wants to hear? And what the hell did he tell him before sitting down? I do think that Red is Liz's father, but of course, this is the Blacklist and things can really change just like that. I think when the show is getting down the end, we'll know a lot more.


Overall, I give this episode a 9/10.

You can catch The Blacklist returning Thursday, Jan. 5th at 10/9c on NBC.

NBC Renews The Night Shift

Well, it looks like good vitals for NBC's The Night Shift.

TVLine has learned that the past summer's #1 drama has proven enough to have steady vitals that it's been renewed for a fourth season.

Averaging 5 million total weekly viewers and a 1.0 demo rating, the drama has beaten out shows like CBS' Zoo (4.5mil/0.7) and Fox's Wayward Pines (2.4mil/0.7). Not to mention that the medical drama has been undeafted in it's Wednesdays at 10pm time slot this summer, opposite of CBS' American Gothic and ABC runs.

In it's third season finale, the show left us with everyone character's fate in the balance to one thing or another, from TC getting blasted to the staff at the hospital quieting their jobs due to new management.

"Week after week, The Night Shift tells incredibly engaging and emotional stories that draw us into a unique world," NBC Entertainment president Jennifer Salke said in a statement. "We are delighted to renew the show for an exciting fourth season and look forward to continue working with such a great cast and executive producing team."

Past Friends: Chicago PD: "Some Friend"

When someone ask, "Is this going to be a conflict? And you says "No." It's going to be a conflict and a pretty good one at that for Al.

This episode dives into a murder case of a girl found at a former major league baseball player's house but when they find her, he was no where. When they checked the place out, Antonio finds a photo of Al and the suspect, there asking if this case will be a problem. Of course it will.

Throughout the episode, we learned that Al was a protector for the suspect and his friends. We learn about Al's past with this guy and the things that he has done to help him. You can really feel that Antonio seems to be riding on Al a bit.

The team finds out that the suspect was trying to help the victim, who was a prostitute. They went back and forth from the victim's pimp to back to the original suspect. Til Al finds out from the suspect's daughter that he used her phone to make a call, another friend. Then Al talks to the suspect an asked him to tell him how it happen. It was an accident that she fell backwards hitting her head on the edge of the table.

Meanwhile, Burgess and her new partner has had one hell of a day. Not only did they made the call of the murder case but also was tried to talk to a suspect on a hit and steal at a diner. Turns out the person was a cop and she had one bad experience that send her down a bad path and into a life of what you see in this episode. Burgess tries to help her, by letting her go but her partner wouldn't. So instead, she hangs out with her til she is released.

This was a good episode. It's an episode that I probably won't remember as much like the others like the previous episode. The cast was really good and Billy Burke too. I did find the Halstead and Lindsay storyline interesting with the flowers, did Jay send those? Could it be her father?

Overall, I give this episode a 7/10.

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

Two Sided Story: Blindspot "We Fight Death on Thick Lone Waters"

In the second to last episode before the fall finale, as the team goes undercover things take a shift turn.

When the FBI takes on a case and gets Weller and Jane to go undercover mission, but the mission takes a south when guns and bombs go off. While the team gets two suspects, Weller and Jane are missing.

Back at headquarters, the ADA is there waiting get his hands on the team once again. But he gets involved in this case. Reade and the ADA interviews the female suspect while Nas interviews the male, who by the way told one hell of a story from his point of view. He made Weller look like a weak defenseless person, and Jane too.

While during the interview, they get information that this mission that they were doing was for a man named Marco, one of the top 10 FBI most wanted.

Reade and Zapata goes out and checks out an area but spots Jane on the road, picks her up and takes her back. There she tells them what REALLY had happen. Weller took on Marco, by jumping into his boat while Jane was left behind.

Nas, Reade and Zapata head back to find Weller and bring in the money. Weller and the scientist, that they kidnapped, escaped. But they didn't go too far. Weller looks for Marco and just as he was there, Nas and Jane get there and soon take Marco done. Apparently, Marco was the man that meet with Jane, Weller and the other two at the warehouse.

Meanwhile, Zapata tells Reade about what she took the knife in the Jones case, thinking that it was his but it was his friend's. The two argued about it but she got it back in time and Reade got his friend a one way ticket out of the city.

Nas gives Patterson a gift of the access to all the stuff that Nas has in her basement. I guess she thinks she's moving up.

This episode was really good. I enjoyed the second suspect's story from his point. I thought it brought a lot of humor (for me) to laugh and I did laugh my pants off too. I guess Weller seems to be in a love square type of relationship: Allison, Nas and Jane. There's something there and it's kind of freaking me out.

Each actor gave a really good performance. So was the writing as well. And it leaves to the the biggest cliffhanger for the fall finale, Phase II is about to begin!

Overall, I give this episode a 8/10.

You can catch Blindspot Wednesday nights at 8/7c on NBC.

Bones Final Season Teaser

Well, it's here.

TVLine has gotten an exclusive first teaser of the final season of Bones. And Booth is going to go all out to get his family back.

In the season finale, Brennan was kidnapped and in the surprising twist it turns out that kidnapper is Zach. Oh yeah!

Even if it's a 30-40 second teaser, it kind of gives me a touching moment when they put previous clips throughout the season.

Here's the teaser:

You can catch the final season of Bones Tuesday, Jan. 3rd at 9/8c

Hope and Feeling: Timeless "The Alamo"

When Flynn travels back to The Alamo, Lucy, Wyatt and Rufus travels there learning only feeling and hope when things change once again.

This might be one of the fun and most interesting episodes so far. The series does amaze me week after week of the story and the well known historian characters.

After a freaky night that Rufus had with Rittenhouse, he confronts Conner about it only to tell him that he needs to do his job. Meanwhile, Wyatt was about to be transferred because he has not done his job taking out Flynn, but before that could happen the staff spotted Flynn heading back to 1836, The Alamo.

Of course, Flynn tried to make a deal with Mexican President General Antonio Lopez da Santa Anna to help to take Texas, only three days before the actually end date.  But as Lucy, Wyatt and Rufus gets to the Alamo, Flynn gets in there and kills William B. Travis just before he was writing his :Victory or Death letter."

The Mexican army was speeding up the process, something that Flynn didn't want to happen and asked Santa Anna to let the women and children go, but he wasn't gonna take any order or advise from Flynn.

With Travis dead, Wyatt tells Lucy to write it, even if she couldn't remember a lot of what was said. While that was going on, Wyatt was advising James Bowie about how to handle the Mexican army and told Bowie about his sacrificing for the good and how he lost his friend in the war.

As the war starts, Rufus tries to breaks a stone floor where there's a underground passageway so that the women and children could run safe. And soon Lucy figures out what to say after listening to Wyatt speak about how it can't come from the mind set but how it feels from the heart and boy did that get the ball rolling.

As they were about to leave, Wyatt saves a young John William Smith and gave him a letter and ordered him to deliver it. By the way that Smith kid will soon became the first Mayor of San Antonio.

Lucy, Wyatt and Rufus made it back with Lucy and Rufus telling Agent Christopher that they won't go on any more missions without Wyatt. Wyatt gets to stay and inform his old army buddy about the bad news but they rekindled and hope to see one another.

Lucy gets back home and tries to reconcile with her mother, who they had an argument about her job, wedding and her father. Well, she tells Lucy about her father, that he's a professor and is outspoken person. But she handled her a folded note, but we don't get to see or know who it is. My guess would have to be Flynn.

This episode had a lot of really good things, one being that we get to learn more about Wyatt, him recalling his last duty in the army. Another was just watching and listening to Davy Crockett. Yeah I might be a fan, watching old series with my grandfather. Each of the characters dealing with finding hope and feeling, which I would think is a moral to the episode. With what Lucy had to do with writing the letter, Wyatt's speech not just to Lucy but to Bowie too.

Overall, I give this episode 8.5/10.

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