Sunday, January 29, 2017

Timeless "The Murder of Jesse James"

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Not only does this episode was a lot of fun to watch, but also it dived deeper into someone from the past.

Our three main characters face their not so good moments in the beginning of the episode, Wyatt meets with his wife's killer. Rufus gets a kiss from Jiya and news that she'll be operating the time machine (but not too soon) and Lucy dream of having a bad conversation with her sister.

They get a call that Flynn has gone to April 3, 1882, for which was the date that Jesse James was murdered by his own crew, for a pardon from the government. But before that even ever happen, Flynn stops James' crew from killing him and instead Flynn kills the crew, offers him a drink and ask for his assistants.

When Lucy and company get there, they were a bit too late. So with no clue what to do and being a couple steps behind, a dazed and lost Lucy figures out who they could help them, U.S. Marshall Bass Reeves, aka The Lone Ranger. They also get to meet his side kick Grant Johnson. Wyatt does call him another name, but insults him because it means stupid or slow.

Anyway, the Lone Ranger and crew set off to find Flynn and James. With no clue what Flynn was doing, we do get an understanding in the present after Jiya does some okay testing of driving the time machine. She looks into the video history files of what she could learn from and finds someone who is declared to be dead after a bad accident. It turns out to be someone Rufus worked with before Wyatt and Lucy came.

Flynn and James gets to the place and soon they are getting attacked with gun fire. Flynn tells James to stand down, while he goes and has a talk with the person. That person happens to be the same person that Jiya saw in the video and has worked with Rufus, Emma. She appears has a lot of electronics for someone in the 19th century. Flynn offers her out of here and for to help him. They leave while given Jesse James a deadly gun that he has never used before and waited for Lone Ranger and crew to get there.

As they get there, Rufus was shocked and amazed that Emma is alive. Soon James starts shooting up the cabin, hitting Grant and killing him. Wyatt and Bass goes out there as Wyatt shoots James in the shoulder. Wanting to kill him, Bass talks him down but Lucy shoots James in the back as history calls it but this time in a different way.

After that event, Lucy gets the award money for killing Jesse James from Bass. He tells her and the guys that he doesn't believe in killing but holding the law to those that broke it and that they should face it. Rufus tells him that he should tell his stories so people will remember them, because someone like Disney would have someone else known as The Lone Ranger and someone like Johnny Depp playing his sidekick (EW!!).

As the crew gets back, Rufus tells Mason and Agent Christoper about Emma's alive and is with Flynn. Soon, Mason joins with Jiya at the time machine lifeboat and discusses what she had done and threatens her. But they move on with Rufus watching almost all of their conversation. After that, Wyatt comes to Rufus asking to use the Lifeboat to do something...kill his wife's killer for which will be an adventure for next Monday's episode.

If I had to use one word to describe this episode...fun. It was just down right run to watch this episode and the writing was so damn good. It kept me amazed and interested. Coleman Domingo was amazing as Bass Reeves, "stunning" as one person who watched it with me calls him. Annie Wersching playing Emma, was a really good choice, even though she didn't have a lot of lines, only a few but her expressions really can say it all. I recommend to everyone to watch this episode, this is popcorn episode viewing my friend! Popcorn viewing episode!!! Overall, I give this episode a 9/10.

You can catch and watch Timeless Monday nights at 10/9c



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Saturday, January 28, 2017

A Wesen Twist: Grimm "El Cuegle "




When you hear baby snatcher, you would think of one of the most important things that...well...takes and eats the,m but not this kind. This one monster of the week has a dt side to him.

I would have to say that I'm pretty excited to get back to the Monster of the Week episode now, and "El Cugele" happens to be a memorable one. Let this be a lesson to new parents who are expecting or have a baby that taking too many photos can be a bad thing.

When a man, known as the "El Cuegle," looks for a baby, he searches the internet, primarily social media websites, hunts them, and takes them away. Nick, Hank, and Wu are brought to investigate, and after tracking him down and taking him to the station, the guy tells them that he's only doing what's good.

See, when the guy is a woman, he has three eyes (one sees the past, the other the future, and the other the purpose). He explains that the reason why he's doing this is that he's trying to prevent those babies from doing someone dangerous in the future (like he tells them that the baby will kill both his parents 18 years from now). Creepy right?  What would you do, let him go and do what he's supposed to do, or lock him up and let what the future lays for that baby? A genuine Sophia's choice.

The El Cuegle escapes and rushes to the baby again, but Nick and Hank stop them in a real old-fashioned buddy butt-kicking mode and kill him after falling from the house's second floor. But before dying, he mentions "the bears." Now, unless he's telling us about the Chicago Bears winning the Super Bowl next year, I would think he was just talking crazy. Still, he was talking about the blanket that the baby has been wrapped in, which was also seen in the future when the older version of the baby shoots his parents.

First, I could see why he would want to shoot his parents (mainly his dad for being a total dick to his mother and not believing in her). But this was an interesting case to watch.

In this episode, the scene with Nick, Hank, and Wu talking with Renard is golden. One of the funniest moments in the episode (wait, it's the most comic). The second would be Monroe telling Diana how Nick looked like Renard. The other funniest scene was Renard and Meisner at the station continuing their conversation from the previous night.

Another thing: Diana telling Rosalee and Monroe that there's more than one baby or something she couldn't tell. But there are more babies, which leads to what I think is the most remembered moment of this episode (besides Nadalind): the Monrosalee scene. Rosealee and Monroe are discussing trying to step back from what they've been doing. What Monroe tells her is simply beautiful and heartwarming, too. We want nothing but happiness with their soon-to-be big family.

Third thing: I don't know about all of the Nadalind fans out there, but I loved that scene when they returned to the loft (I prefer Fome). We got a nice scene with Adalind and Nick together in their Fome Sweet Fome! Yes, I'm going to say it.

Final thing: Even Eve eavesdrops on Nick and Adalind in their conversation in the underground. She seems to be feeling increasingly, and I think Juliette is popping in and out. She seems to lose her wedging powers like when Adalind lost hers in Season 4. But while under the tunnel, she seems to get the urge to grab that stick and gets burned on her hand a symbol and soon draws on the wall. We might see her art in the next episode.

This episode was excellent, with a lot of good, some creepy, and funny moments. The writing was fantastic, and the actors, even those playing El Cuegle, were excellent and believable. I didn't lose interest throughout the story, and it left a creepy ending. Overall, I give this episode a 9/10.


You can catch The Final Chapter of Grimm on Friday nights at 8/7c on NBC.


Friday, January 27, 2017

Conviction "Bridge and Tunnel Vision"

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In the episode, "Bridge and Tunnel Vision," When Hayes investigates a 10 year old case, she finds out that her boss was the one who convicted them and wants to get him back.

Hayes decides to go after Wallace's career making cases called the Prospect 3. The case was of three boys, Mike, Brian and Seamus, that were convicted of raping and assaulting a woman, Zadie Daniels, while on her way from work.

Hayes thought that this will be a great way to stick it to Wallace and when he comes up to see what they were working on, she decides to tell him about another case. But that secret didn't last too long when her mother comes up for a visit and spying on her too. Wallace thinks that the case was a slam dunk, but something wasn't adding up.

They learned that Zadie had lied about the whole rape thing, because she had an affair with a married guy. But the hit on the head with a brick was from someone, just so happens to be one of the boys. There might be a new problem as the days get closer, the team looked into background info on the boys and Brian was the one with a history of hitting women.

Hayes gets him to confess, while Mike and Seamus were free. Even though it might be a win for Hayes and her team, she doesn't quite enjoyed it as she told the press of the closed case to the media and soon Zadia gets mobbed with them asking about her lying.

This episode wasn't that bad. The case for this epsiode was good. But as I said about it in the pilot, ABC doesn't need to push the Scandal style sexy soap drama for this show. It can be better with central grounded characters. Overall, I give this episode 7/10.

You can catch Conviction Sunday nights at 10/9c on NBC.

Wednesday, January 25, 2017

Companions and Lovers: Victoria "Ladies In Waiting"/"Brocket Hall"

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"Ladies in Waiting" 

I think the best word to describe this episode would be nature. As in you can't mess with nature that it should take it's time. That's what went running through my head after watching this episode.

As Queen Victoria takes her role on, her family from uncle, mother's boyfriend to even some of the caretakers have taken their plan to make sure that she loses her position, making her look crazy, just like her grandfather. But also the Whig Prime Minister Lord Melbourne resigns because he feels that he lacks the requirement of mandate in the parliament.

Of course, this doesn't go so well with Victoria because he's the only person that she can trust out of all the rest of the people around her. Robert Peel comes in it doesn't quite go so well and everything that he would suggest, she just turns it down, like letting go a few of her lady friends because they're married to the opposite party. With that in mind, Peel leaves and Melbourne comes back and takes his position as the Prime Minister again.

I thought that this was a suitable episode. The performances from actor were good. The reason I think that the word nature comes into play of this episode was that no one wants to let Victoria do her own thing and yet her uncle and Sir John tries to mess with her, it just seems that they're messing with the nature of her abilities. But with Melbourne leaving and then coming back, it sets things right with her. I enjoyed this episode and thought that the writing was very good. Overall, I give this episode a 8/10.




"Brocket Hall"

"Brocket Hall" probably one of the most interesting match making episodes I've so far.

As everyone around Victoria trying to get her to marry, thinking that being an independent is a problem and that she needs a man to help control her. But she tries to turn them down, her uncle King Leopold of Belgium tries to get Lord Melbourne to go with it, but he doesn't think it's right for her to be force into marriage.

We do see Victoria express her interest in having a romantic relationship Melbourne but he turns her down in a nice way. Later the two of them do dance at a costume party, after dancing with other men, who are trying to win her over, failed anyway later on.

Melbourne and Victoria danced and it just seemed to click just watching them. He wants her to choice someone who makes her happy long term, as he tells her later on.

Meanwhile, Victoria confronts Sir John about taking a pay and leave the court, along with leaving her mother, for which he takes. But finally Victoria and her mother finally bonded for what looks to be the first time since. Finally, that guy was really getting on my damn nerves with how he acts around, thinking he's all high and freaking mighty.

This episode really centers around it's historical moments like in this episode during the Newport Rising, Victoria learns about one of the house staff's nephew was one of many setting to put to death by hanging but stop it and instead exile them to Australia, showing that her reign of power can be a merciful one.    

The show ends in one of the best moments of a first meet, as Victoria plays the piano,  who pops up and catches her by surprise, her cousin Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, who pretty much looks nothing like what she remembers or describes.

I enjoyed this episode pretty much the same as the previous episode. The performance was good, just watching Coleman and  Sewell on screen is just amazing to watch. Also I've been amazed from Nell Hudson in these last couple of episodes, her character, Miss. Nancy Skerrett, just seems interesting to know more and more as she's quite different than the rest of the house staffers.  The directional visuals were amazing even during that scene when Victoria meets with Melbourne was wonderful. Overall, I give this episode a 8/10.

You can catch Victoria on Masterpiece Sunday nights at 9/8c on PBS.



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