This Is Us "The Trip" & "Last Christmas"

"The Trip"

After watching this episode, I wanted to give Mandy Moore and Sterling K. Brown a hug because their performance in this episode was unbelievably flawless.

After a chaotic Thanksgiving, Kate, Kevin and Randall travel to the family cabin to collect some of their stuff because Rebecca was going to sell it. Trying to talk to Randall of what their mother had done wasn't really working, but the one solution that helped him was Kevin's co-star's ex boyfriend's mushroom juice that did the trick.

When Randall drank mushroom juice, he started to hallucinate seeing Jack fixing the roof and having a conversation about what Rebecca has done to him. It had that feeling of "It's a Wonderful Life" meets being high, in a way.

But anyway, Jack tells Randall that what they've done a lot for him and he shows him visions of what she was during a family game time. She looked happy, but Randall tells her straight a list of why she had ruin his life about not telling him about his father, William. At one point, Jack shows him what was really going on with Rebecca in those days, a mother of three, with a free caring husband, trying to keep everyone safe. We see her running to doors and windows and locking them with tears of fear. It was literally the best scene out of the whole episode.

In those flashbacks, Rebecca talks to William about Randall and talks about wanting to meet his dad but when it got overwhelming for her she left. It wasn't til near the end after her, Jack and Randall were at the karate class that she wrote a letter to William that she thinks it the best that he doesn't meet his father but sends him a photo at the age of eight years old.

This was a remarkable episode, probably one of it's best so far. The performances from Brown and Moore left me with emotions that really made me think of family but also why the mother is literally the heart and soul of the family. It literally made me want to give them hugs and also my mother and grandmother too.

I didn't really care for too much of Kevin inviting his co-workers from the play too much because it never really brought enough interest like Randall's. But it was an okay storyline. I didn't think that co-star was going to be his girlfriend anyway (liked to but didn't).

Overall, I give this episode a 9.5/10

"Last Christmas" 

Nothing bad happens on Christmas Eve, but there are a few surprises.

In "Last Christmas" might be one of the most interesting Christmas episodes in recent time. It had the joyfulness, emotion and even some shocking moments too.

On Christmas Eve, Kate has her appendicitis taken out. With Rebecca and the family worried about her, she told Kate that when she get out she'll be holding a piece of pine from a fake Christmas tree to rpove to her that bad things don't happen on Christmas Eve.

As the family waited, Rebecca spots Dr. K in the hospital as a patient. He tells her that he's got a mass in between the heart and lungs that having surgery is a life or death thing. But after spending some time with Rebecca, Jack, Kevin and Randall, who gave him a snow globe, Dr. K had the surgery and came back fine.

In the present time on Christmas Eve, Kate had her mom with her at the lap band surgery and during the questions and answers, Rebecca learned some stunning information about her. They both answered opposite answer to each question. On the car ride home, the two weren't talking as much but thanks to Miguel, the Christmas spirit was brought back in them.

Kevin  had to go to Sloane's family for Hanukkah, since he owe her one after they slept together, they lost the leading lady of her play and she told her mother that she's dating The Manny. Fear to tell her family about the play, Kevin had this idea when he sees her tell the kids about the history of Hanukkah, that she should star in the play. She accepted.

Randall and his wife was at an office Christmas party. When Randall's wife heard that Randall bought a boat, she asked him to give it back. He finds the co-worker and sees that he's about to jump off the building. But Randall tries to talk him down about life, family and his kid, but when his wife comes by he sees that he's gone and thinks that he jump off, but really he was in the building walking somewhere else. That worries me a bit.

William was at his support group and talked about how he was going to spent probably his last Christmas with his son and family. Then comes the next guy, Jessie, who happens to know William, personally. They use to date a year ago. The two kind a settle their differences and went to Randall's house for Christmas party.

When Randall and his family got home, everyone started to come like it was suppose to have happen. Everyone came, even Toby makes a surprising visit and tells Kate that he'll change because he wants to be with her and that he loves her. The two had a thing upstairs, which didn't quite settle for Toby because he was pretty exhausted. After a whole lot of fun, things were slowly winding down, as Randall takes the kids to bed, Toby gets up to help and collapses. There we see someone in surgery, with tubes and such, and then we see Toby and the surgeons shocking his heart.  

This was a very good and memorable episode. There were some interesting and surprising moments like William having had a relationship a year ago, Randall talking to a co-worker from jump off that apparently wasn't. And Toby falling down and seeing him getting his heart started. The entire cast did a tremendous performance. The writing was so good that each story plot was equal good as the other.

Overall, I give this episode a 9.5/10

You can catch This Is Us when it returns on a special time Tuesday, Jan. 10 at 10/9c due to President Obama's Farewell Speech on NBC.

Thrill of the Chase: Blindspot "Nor I, Nigel, AKA Leg in Iron"

The return of Blindspot literally was on a breathless, edge of your seat episode. Let's get to the recap.

The episode last night picked off right where we left off in the fall finale, after a brief recap of what had happen, we come to Patterson and Borden after we heard the gun go off. Who was it? It was Patterson who gets shot, but for the fans out there, she was saved by Borden as she was taken to be treated.

Meanwhile, after Jane zipped Roman (zipped is the name of the brand that erases memories), she takes him in a car and tries to get him back to the FBI but when he wakes up later he puts on a fight. Jane tries to explain to him who she is and what's going on. But he just wouldn't listen and runs off with the car leaving Jane behind.

Jane gets back to the FBI and not only are Weller, Nas and Zapata looking for Patterson, they're now looking for Roman. They track the car and try to call on the phone in the car. They located him and picked him up but with Sheppard's men there too, so there was gun battle.

When they bring Roman in, they try asking him questions on the whereabouts of Borden or Sheppard, but nothing was getting through in his memory. But when FBI Director Pennington shows up he gets Nas to leave the building as her department is no longer available because of 12 FBI agents had died in that blast at the compound.

Meanwhile, Patterson wakes up and tries to take down Borden, who was washing his hands after fixing her wounds, but Sheppard pulled a gun behind her. Instead of killing Patterson, Sheppard tries to get what she knows about her and Phase II. After being tortured by poking in her ears and getting hit with a pipe to the face, Sheppard left it to Borden take over after getting word about Roman.

Soon, Weller, Zapata and Jane tries to figured out where Borden took Patterson. After a couple of leads, and a garage repair shop lady, they found where Borden has Patterson at and headed over there. When they get there, they triggered a bomb that blasted the car a couple of feet. The three gets out and Borden runs into the woods along with Weller, while Zapata and Jane get Patterson.

Weller catches Borden and the two battle it out. Amazing on Borden combat skills, he literally kicked Weller's but and even taken his handcuffs and used it against him, tying him up. Weller asked him why does Sheppard want him alive as Borden responds to him that he'll know soon.

Everyone seems to be on okay terms after the events that just took place. Weller comes by to give Patterson flowers, as she is still working and finds something interesting to show him. But after she should him it, Weller gets out a cell phone that Nas gave him and she tries to crack the code, for which she did and found a files, for which shows a video of the layout tattoos on Jane. And there's one single tattoo that in the video but she doesn't have on her now, a tiger on her neck.

Also to add: Reade had recovered well and was sent home, thanks to the help of Zapata. But it got awkward or relieved that he kisses her after checking up on him at his home. But she resist it and left to go back to work. Reade finally has feelings for her and I thought she does to for him but I guess she just wants to be friends. I guess those signs of them looking at each other funny kind of thrown me off a bit.

I couldn't enjoy this episode a lot more than it already was that the first fifteen minutes of nothing but a breathless thriller ride. At least no one died and that Phase II. I feel that Sheppard is going to get Roman back soon, I don't think it will last working with Jane and the FBI. That tiger tattoo that Patterson and Weller found, what could it mean and why did Sandstorm not ink it. As creator Martin Gero said over a year ago during the TCA press tour about there were going to be more tattoos that are hidden than seen. I think it has to do with Sandstorm and one of their Phase II or something even bigger than Phase II. The writing for this episode was really good and the acting from the cast was so good even Ashley Johnson gives a really good performance so far. Overall I give this episode a 9/10.

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

Chicago PD "300,000 Likes" and "A Shot Heard Round the World" Fall Finale

No other show does a two-hour event quite like Chicago PD. When they do not like this fall finale, it's like watching a made-for-TV movie event, and this one was remarkable with one story plot that centered it: Antonio's farewell.

Let's jump into the first hour, where a witness in a trial was found dead. ASA Stone (from Chicago Justice) asked the Intelligence Unit to find the person who did this, or Tuxhorn (the man on trial) would walk out.

Everything was pointed out by the victim's friend, who came to the country together to have a better life. When they found the same gun used on the victim, they took him in, but he was soon let go because his fingerprints were on it. But he did leave some clues about a call about his diplomat papers, but it was a fake call that probably was set up by the killer.

In the meantime, Tuxhorn was released on bail, but Erin kept an eye on him occasionally. They get that Tuxhorn's brother is out of rehab and capture him while dealing. He tells Voight that he hasn't killed anyone, but he was going to do something to the victim but stopped.

After looking back, I found that Tuxhorn's sister was the one who shot the witness and hid the gun in the victim's friend's place. Also, she was put back in jail by her brother, Tuxhorn, and boy, did that give Erin a nice smiling sendoff.

Also, Burgess gets a new partner who isn't quite right for her. At one point, they made a stop when a guy drove past a stop light, and it turned out the guy was wearing some pretty uncontrollable stuff. It was so embarrassing for the guy that Burgress' partner took the video that was used from his police camera, took the video from his phone, and posted it on social media. Of course, that upset Platt to the core.

And one more: Stone offered Antonio a job in his investigation team because of the mistakes. At first, Antonio declined, but Stone tells him Voight signed the papers, but that wasn't true. Voight tells Antonio that he recommended him to Stone and said that a sergeant once told him that, at one point, you need to move on to other things. Voight was ready to move on. He tells Stone that he accepts.

Coming into the second episode, it feels like it picks off a few hours later or so.  Halstead and Erin are having breakfast with Bunny. She has something to tell Erin about something, but as they are about to talk, their radio that an officer has been shot.

When they got there, almost everyone got there, but by the time they had a search, the suspect was gone. The officer who got shot was dead when he got to Med. The Intelligence Unit looked at everyone who would have a grudge against the CPD and got one suspect, but it turned out it wasn't him at all.

They soon get a lead, leading them to an alley where a cop car is parked, and with everyone from Jay, Erin, Adam Burgess, and other officers, something doesn't feel or sound right with Halstead. Their walkie-talkie was going in and out, and the suspect was carrying and using it, which quickly shot one officer in the head and after turned into hell in high water. And yet again, the officer was dead when she got to Med, and the suspect got away.

There was one suspect they assumed it was because of his hatred towards cops, but people proved where he was at the time. After looking more and more at this, this wasn't just a rookie but someone who knows cops and tactics. They think this was a former cop or a cop that went nuts.

It all leads to one person, a former cop's son, who happens to have joined the CPD but left because his mind wasn't right. His father was killed in the line of duty, and Voight and Al remembered that. They searched for him at his mother's place, and when she gave them his address of an apartment, they found a dead roommate and a room full of papers and plans.

They got an address to where the suspect lived before he moved (his childhood home). Voight called and talked to the suspect. He demanded everyone from SWAT, etc., to be there because he would blow them up if they were to go. Still, Voightt tried talking him down about it, which led to Voight telling him about his father, who died on duty too, but the kid wouldn't listen, and soon after, Voight tells Al to take the shot, which kills him.

After everyone meets the visual site of where the fallen officers are remembered, we see Voight looking at his father's name, the suspect's mother at her husband's, and Antonio looking at Julie (the detective in Season One who was shot and killed in the first episode). But mostly, it was the moment of remembering the two officers who got shot in this episode that felt a lot of emotion just by watching everyone from PD, Fire, Med, and Justice there.

Soon after, Antonio and Halstead had a moment and went to Molly's for Antonio's farewell or more of good luck. Everyone was there, and Burgess, who had a rough day with her partner leaving after the event, talked to Voight about a job opening, and she took it like a bolt of lightning. Burgess has finally made it to the Intelligence Unit.

But it left a big cliffhanger when Erin met with her mother again. She tells her that she has an emergency to say to her that her father is in town and wants to see her. WOW!!

These two episodes were great. It truly felt like watching a TV movie. The writing was excellent, along with some performances from Jason Begne, Sophia Bush, and Jon Seda. Now, after this, I wonder what Erin's dad is like and what kind of stuff he will bring in this second half of the season. And Burgess is finally in Intelligence; I feel she won't have an excellent first day there. Overall, I give it a 9/10.

You can catch Chicago PD when they return for a crossover event with Chicago Fire on Tuesday, Jan. 3, beginning at 9/8c, but bear with new episodes on Wednesday, Jan. 4 at 10/9c on NBC.

The Good Place "Chapter 8 & 9: Most Improved Player" & "....Someone Like Me as a Member (Fall Finale)"

"Chapter 8: Most Improved Player"

After telling Michael the truth at the end of the previous episode, Eleanor must face the consequences and see if she belongs in the Good Place.

The episode starts out in the same opening as the pilot did, but in this case Eleanor was waiting for Michael to talk about what this serious situation of her mistakenly being here. When Michael calls her in, they discuss about who she really is but Eleanor tells him that he got the name and her death right expect the rest of it.

Michael ask Janet to get her file but since she's still rebooting after being killed, she keeps handing out cactus and pointing out to different objects. Even playing with the ferns like a cat was hilarious. It was later after Michael interviewed Tahani and Jianyu, Janet finally got Eleanor's file and instead of bring in Chidi in Michael calls back Eleanor to go over.

While going over her file, Michael sees something good in her file of a time when she took her niece to the mall, at times because her mom wasn't being  good mother, to get charro dogs, a hot dog between two charros wrapped around with slim jim sounds heaven.  But when Michael came across about t-shirts in her file, Eleanor didn't want to talk about that but more about the charro dogs.

Michael told her to tell the story on the t-shirts. It happened when she was living in an apartment with two other friends and she asked one of them to borrow a dress but she declined to offer it to her, so Eleanor went in her room to try the dress but when it came time to zip it, it ripped. So she put it back in it's plastic bag and back in the closet. The next day her friend puts her dress on and is in shocked about the rip and sues the dry cleaners for it, taking them out of business, but that wasn't the end of it as she finally got the the t-shirt part which was her idea but her other roommate took the idea and made the t-shirts that has "Dress Bitch" on them, for which the people on the internet were calling her.

After hearing that, Michael calls Trevor from the bad place and tells them that they have the Eleanor they are looking for and ask to pick her up. When Trevor comes, played by Adam Scott, he tries to cause hell for Michael as in playing mean jokes like flaming snakes in a can of nuts.

Ready to take her to the bad place, Michael ask Trevor to give Eleanor some time to say some goodbyes. After telling Chidi, Tahani and Jianyu goodbyes, she gets on the train, for which was hot inside. Chidi talks to Michael about Eleanor and opens up about how he was helping her become a better person, but Michael doesn't give MVP to anyone and that's when Chidi yelled out, "maybe there should be."

Michael rushes to stop the train and pulls Eleanor out of it until they figured out what really was going on. But Trevor pulls out his card and tells Michael that he has the other Eleanor, for which she comes out from the train and says hello, while Eleanor, Michael and the rest were in shocked.

This was another really good episode. There were a lot of hilarious moments from Janet and the cactus to even Trevor and his bull shirts attitude, for which Adam Scott is amazing and also amazed of the truth cube that Michael has when he used it on Eleanor. Who wouldn't want one of those? And even there were moments like when Eleanor was being questioned by Michael and saying goodbye that there were times I felt emotional in a way that I hoped she would stay (not in a crying boohoo way or grabbing the issue kind of moment). The writing was so good along with the actors too, everyone playing a good part in this episode. The cast was MVP of this episode. Overall, I give this episode a 9/10.

"....Someone Like Me as a Member"

Will she stay or will she go? I know that kind of sounds corny but it's the only thing I could come up after watching this episode.

Michael and Trevor figured out how both Eleanors got mixed up. They were both at the same place at the same second that they died: Real Eleanor was trying to save Fake Eleanor from the truck but got hit. And also that when they went to the good place and bad place that they don't have files on either one of them with faces.

After figuring it out, Trevor wants to leave and take the fake Eleanor to the bad place, but Michael doesn't want that to happen and tries to make a deal with him. So Micheal offers Trevor and his gang to stay until they figure out what to do, while that goes on fake Eleanor and Chidi shows Trevor and real Eleanor her home. Finally we learn that there are stairs to the bedroom, which has a button to opens and it pops out.

Later the four of them go out for dinner and while learning about each other fake Eleanor notice how close Chidi and real Eleanor has gotten quickly. With those two getting along it makes fake Eleanor jealous and probably thinking that she's going to the bad place. She lets those two go and checkout the art while her and Trevor talk and while drunk she accepts on going.

While that was playing out, Michael tries to entertain with Trevor's gang and need Tahani's help him with the negative attitudes. He offers them music and had a dance party, but it went south when they took over the music machine and put in racist comments from famous people, like President Nixon.

The next morning fake Eleanor wakes up with a horrible hangover as Chidi explains that the people from the bad place asked for the hangover filter to be turned off. Chidi tells her that Michael set up a meeting soon and they can walk together, but she tries to distance from him again. We see flashbacks from the episode of her dodging people of joining a group, paying for group tickets or being a team player at work. But Chidi tells her that he'll always be there for her because they're both in it together and that brings a smile to her face and something that she's probably never felt before.

At the meeting, Trevor tells Michael that fake Eleanor decides to leave but when it was her turn to speak, she tells Trevor that she wants to stay. Trevor wasn't pleased but tells Michael that he'll get "Sean" in on this and that turned a corner for Michael and beg him not to go to "Sean (the one that makes the final decision)." But Trevor doesn't like "Sean" either and ask Michael to make a deal and that deal was nothing and tells him and his friend "to get the fork out of here." BOOM!!

This was another outstanding episode that deliveries so well on both humor side and emotional side. As much as we seen Eleanor's past and present, I believe that she deserves to be in the Good Place. She tries to hide her feelings of jealously while watching Chidi and real Eleanor connecting so well. Those flashbacks reminds me of me back when I was in grade school and high school but I wasn't a speaking person with anyone.

Both Kristen Bell and Ted Danson was outstanding once again. I couldn't get enough of him trying to be nice to the people from the bad place or even hearing him tell Trevor "to get the fork out of his place." That one gave me goosebumps with joy. Also they left a really nice cliffhanger when Jianyu dis caught by Tahani as she was in his secret room and figures that he is not a monk. I can't wait to see what happens next. Overall, I give this episode a 9.5/10.

You can catch The Good Place when it returns Thursday, Jan. 5th at 8:30/7:30c on NBC.

Kevin Can Wait "Kevin's Bringing Supper Back" & I'll Be Home For Christmas...Maybe"

"Kevin's Bringing Super Back"

When Kevin realizes that spending time with family isn't what it seems to be anymore, he tries fixing it the best why he can, his own way.

When Kevin offers to get the kids up for school instead of Donna, she tells him it's not that easy that there will be words and such. But when Kevin does it, there might have been some difficultly at first but with a blow horn that all changed.

Even when Kevin tries to make pancakes for the family, none of them had time to sit at the table and eat like a family. He described Donna as a opossum eating at a garbage can when she was eating her breakfast quick before going to work. Kevin tries with a bit a family game night.

When the family gets around for Monopoly, let's just say it didn't turn out the way Kevin had imagined it or even bubble soccer. After talking with Donna about it, he got an idea for a Sunday family dinner. During the dinner things bubbled up again with arguments but when Kevin set it straight about  how this is the only family they've got. And after things began to be humble.

But when Kevin went to get a beer, he gets a call from his friends about how they got Billy Joel tickets. Kevin tries to play it cool when Donna came in and tells him that Jack has a cool game, but she figured out about Billy Joel thanks to a text message from one of the wives. She told him that he has a choice to make and of course, it's with Billy Joel. It was a good 2 minutes of concert playing and Kevin singing along too.

This was a really hilarious episode of a dad who wants to get this family connected again. About time we see the whole family this time, since it's been a while. The part when Kevin blow horns the kids was hilarious also making them breakfast and seeing Donna eating her breakfast fast was another. Even the bubble soccer was another one too. Overall, I give this episode a 8/10.

I'll Be Home For Christmas...Maybe

When Mott's wife leave for the holidays, Kevin steps up and helps Mott and his seven kids prepare for Christmas.

Kevin and Donna join Mott and his wife for a night out. They learn that she checks her phone many times because of the babysitters quit middle of their job. She explains how hard it is to raise seven kids, but when Kevin opens up his mouth about it that upsets her and she runs off.

With Christmas just around the corner, Donna believes that this year will be the year that she'l get her list done. She ask Kevin to get the lights out but they were tangled and was too lazy to do it. But he gets a call from Mott to help him with the kids by babysitting them. It turned into a day of terror to a night of success for Kevin as he got the kids to behave so well.

Meanwhile, Kyle comes over and helps Donna out. He expresses that he has nothing to do for Christmas expect watching Home Alone at his place...all alone. After Kyle fills in for Kevin and helps out with Donna from decorating the Christmas tree, telling Jack about the birds and the bees (mistakenly for just the bees), and  hunting a Christmas tree.

But all things had to come to an end , Mott's wife finally came back with gifts and a disappointing looking Kevin too. But when Kevin went back home and saw what Kyle, Donna and the family were doing, there was only one thing left for him to do, put up the Santa and his sleigh up on the roof, like many years before. Because it wasn't a Gable Family Christmas til Kevin falls off the roof.

I enjoyed this episode a lot more than I first watched it. I watched it three times and after the second or third time it was really enjoyable. The writing was good and so was the actors as well. The family swap seemed to be an old story but this one really sticks well. Kevin James and Erinn Hayes were really good. Overall, I give it a 8/10.


You can catch Kevin Can Wait Monday nights at 8/7c on CBS.

Helping and Serving: Kevin Can Wait "The Power of Positive Drinking" & "The Fantastic Pho"

The Power of Positive Drinking

When asked to talk to his daughter about sticking with her classes than working, Kevin gets roped into the bar tending business.

When Kendra takes extra shifts at the pizza place instead of focusing on her classes, Donna tells Kevin to talk her about it when he's asked to help serve a guy beer. But when he gives the man his beer Kevin also listens to the guy's problem and then gives him some advice. After getting a big tip from him and recommending what to order to a couple of guys, Kevin gets a job as the new bartender.

Kevin turns into a Sam Malone meet Tony Robbins kind of bartender. He gives so many life changing advises to people that he ignores Donna with her problems, trouble at work and having her wisdom tooth taken out. After saving enough money to buy a smoker, Donna asks Kevin to stop, but the guy couldn't as he feels he can help people.

It turns worst for him when he forgets to pick up Donna. She calls him at the bar but when he answers he thinks it's some dude prank calling him and calls her a loser. After apologizing for the mishap, Donna tells him to quit his job, but Kevin doesn't want to.

As he waits for his last paycheck, he dreams of him being the Tony Ribbon's figure of the place and tries to change even Chale's lifestlye by walking on hot coals (bad idea!). But after picking up his last paycheck, more people came to him for advice and Kevin just took it and helped.

It wasn't til Kevin came home that everyone was there waiting Donna, Kendra and his buddies. It turns into an intervention and he hears the bad things that happen from his brother who got fired and banded from Citi Field stadum to even the two people he first gave advise to which turned out one losing her boyfriend and friends and the other his home and job.

Trying to put his spin on it, Donna gives him the ultimate warning: taking back the smoker. Kevin admits he has a problem but doesn't know what to do and gets a hug from everyone.

This was by far the funniest episode of the season. There were so many hilarious one liners and  such that I couldn't stop laughing. I could literally rewatch this episode multiple times and still laugh at the same jokes. For one when Donna tells Kevin that her wisdom tooth is bothering her and ask him to talk to Kendra, he tells her that maybe it's a sign from God to...you know... Also the Tony Ribbons thing was funny as well. Even the end where he tries to get out of a situation with advice but couldn't. Overall, I give this episode a 8.5/10.

The Fantastic Pho

In this episode, after quitting the last couple of jobs due to management being at a young age, Kevin tries to think of what he wants to do to make some money as it turns into one of his passions...food.

After sampling some cheese at a local grocery store, where he's a security guard, Kevin gets called into the manager's office, who happens to be a young guy who took over from his father. He calls him telling him that he doesn't like him taking cheese samples, even though the lady offered some. After that Kevin had enough and walked out, but not without taking some cheese and kissing the lady too.

Kevin meets with Donna at a Vietnamese restaurant, he tells her about he lost he last job. He's also worried about the place that he's in as he doesn't like foreign foods, but when he tried the restaurant's pho soup, he was in heaven.

The next day he got the idea of what to do with his life and that was going into the food truck business. Bring in the guy from the restaurant, he tries to get some investors going, which means getting his buddies involved and Donna. After trying to convince, he gets everyone's approval.

The food truck business turns out to be a success, but any success goes, there's a down fall and boy does the downfall show up fast. Kevin goes around talking with people waiting for food or eating and hands out cards calling him the CEO of the company. But when his partner ask him to do something, it begins a backlash. That backlash would end up his partner leaves after not taking something out of his soup.

That lead to Kevin making his own Pho soup that turns out to be a no go and headed into an emergency meeting with his investors, where he talks about serving his brother's firehouse chili. After trying to find something new to served the people, Donna tells Kevin that he should give the business up and to his partner, but the guy turned him down because he got his own truck. That lead to pitching the food truck idea to his former boss at the grocery store, for which he accepted. And Kevin and Donna celebrated with cheese and kissing the same cheese sampler lady.

This episode was okay but it wasn't as like the previous episode. There was humorist moments like the first scenes of the episode where Kevin walks out and stuffs his face full of cheese and kiss the cheese sampler lady. But this episode was a predictable as it comes. This happens to be another forgettable episode that's once seen, will forget later on kind of thing. Overall, I give this episode a 6/10.

You can catch Kevin Can Wait Monday nights at 8/7c on CBS.

Kevin Can Wait "Hallow-We-Ain't-Home" & "Who's Better Than Us?"

"Hallow-We-Ain't-Home" 

In this Halloween episode, Kevin and Donna decide to skip given candy to children and have a night to themselves, but their plan doesn't go so well.

It's Halloween and Kendra and Chale are taking Sara and Jack trick or treating at a truck and stuff. When Donna gets home from work, she wishes that they could skip the holiday by which Kevin agreed and came up with a plan.

That plan was to turn off all the light and pretend that they're not home. Donna gives a funny example of when McDonald's doesn't take his order late at night and because of their arches go dark.

When the plan was set, they get things ready and watch a movie, when the first doorbell ring comes, Donna had a hard time letting it go but after it pasted it was smooth sailing. But when another group of kids came at the door, they'd played hard ball and tried everything but Kevin gets caught.

Those kids puts shaving cream on their van and takes Donna's welcome sign too and gets away in a get away car with their parents. That upset Donna and  both her and Kevin went to go get it. But when they get there it was literally a trap as they got caught and started getting hit with eggs. They rush into the kids playhouse, where they get trapped as the kids wrapped duct tape around the house.

Donna and Kevin tries to figure out why their neighbors would do such a thing until Kevin realizes that it was his fault. He borrowed the guy's leaf blower and used it in his pool and got damaged and also calling his wife "Big Booty Judy."

Soon Kevin apologizes to Donna about all of this mess. He tries to break her welcome sign twice with both knees but became unsuccessful, but also hilarious. That's when he ran and broke the door open landing on his shoulder. Soon the neighbor shined a light at them and after Kevin apologizes to them they kept throwing eggs at them again.

After a wild night Kevin, Donna, Chale and Kendra got to a fast food place and was waiting for someone to take their order until they closed the lights. That's when Kevin bang the dashboard and said we're going to Queens.

This was as a hilarious episode as if you could watch it maybe once or twice and then forget about it. Yes, I thought it there were hilarious moments from Kevin explaining to Donna their plan to hide from tick or treaters to the him and Donna at the neighbor's backyard and getting egged. It was enough to fill my evening of a treat. The B-story wasn't much at all, just a cheap laugh of big guy and little guy and their girlfriends. Overall I give it a 7/10.

"Who's Better Than Us"

In this episode, Kevin bumps into an old partner of the NYPD, or should I say his last partner before he retired, but when he sees a new guy in his partner's life, things get weird.

After working at the retirement home as a security guard and having pizza with the guys, Kevin bumps into an old buddy of his from the force. It's Jimmy (played by Adam Sandler) and the busted some balls with one another.

Later, Jimmy's partner walks in, Kevin looks at him and when Jimmy went to do something, he asked if he has ever heard of him. Of course, he responded with a no. Kevin tells him all the crazy stuff that Jimmy might have told to him, but he has no clue. When Jimmy got back they left and left Kevin in a bit of a jealous mood.

Back at home, Kevin confronts to Donna about it and she gives the idea of accidentally calling him and see if he wants to hangout. She tires to help Kevin with ideas of where to go but their sign language wasn't as sharp as any.

As the two hanged out at the batting cages, Kevin tells Jimmy that he doesn't trust his new partner. After feeling what Kevin was talking he asked him to come to a party where he had to give a speech about someone important. When Jimmy's new partner comes back after being a clown at a child's birthday, he knocked a couple of baseballs too like a pro.

When Kevin gets to the party, he thinks that the speech was going to be about him but when Jimmy gives his speech it was about his partner. Kevin makes a fool of himself and gets up on stage and talked about how he was a good friend too, but no one carried.

Kevin came back home and soon Jimmy knocks on the door. Jimmy tells Kevin that he was upset how he retired like that without given him a heads up. Soon their friendship was good after a night of karaoke. After they performed, Jimmy's partner got up and sang an opera piece. And if that wasn't enough, while watching a game, the two were amazed of the wings they were eating that it turns out that it was Jimmy's partner who made them as they might have found a good use for him.  

I liked this episode as much as the other episodes. It's got that same story of someone jealous over their friend's new friend. Adam Sandler was good, was it his best on television not quite. There was some good humor from Donna sign language to Kevin on what he and Jimmy should do while on the phone. Also that karaoke scene was pretty good too. Those two does shoe chemistry at times. Overall, I give it a 7.5/10.

You can catch Kevin Can Wait Mondays at 8/7c on CBS.