Strong Love: This Is Us "I Call Marriage"

Love, divorce, reunions and griefs touch this episode through and through.

"I Call Marriage" is another beautiful installment of how Jack and Rebecca's love for each other shows on screen. To me, I just want to give them the biggest bear hug every time I seen them at an heartwarming moment. Nevertheless, there are serious concerns ahead for Randle and happy moments for now with Kevin and Kate.

Let's start off with Jack and Rebecca, who we see in the past that they just got married and Jack's best man and friend, Miguel gives the best man speech. The speech becomes what is true about the newly happy couple but years later when Jack and Rebecca meet up with Miguel and his wife for the first time since they've been busy with their own things and kids, they get news about them two getting a divorce.

Jack later asked Miguel how did they know, Miguel responded that it just sort of happens. Jack thinks of something very nice and romantic for Rebecca to prove that their love isn't dying that every day is a new adventure. He takes her to their first apartment where they lived (how lovely right?). But before taking off, Rebecca and her band gets the word that they're gonna play more but she has to get Jack's approval after all e's putting in more hours and letting her still follow her dream. But that will be for the next episode.

Along with that, Kevin and Sophie finally reunited after 12 years apart. He tells her that he still wants to be with her but for her, she doesn't seem to want to go down that road again. After all, she was in a dark time when they divorce from moving back with her parents.  But after being stuck in the subway, calming her down, things might look bright for them after all, she did come back to their restaurant and spot.

Toby visits Kate for the day and is introduced to Duke, the one that has hit on Kate since she got there, and the two had a nice chat (nothing violent). But after hearing what he said, Toby decided to take a day and try some of the classes along with Kate, making her feel awkward but the two talked and it was about time that Toby tells her that she needed to give instead of take, take, take most of the time. I've realized that a lot through this season, even though a small amount has been giving. But Toby pulls out his grandmother's wedding ring and I guess you can all it a proposal.

Randle on the other hand, is dealing with grief and other things. Trying to suck it up might be the best used to describe him in this episode. When his oldest daughter is up late with William learning about chess because she's in a tournament that day, he plays out that William will be fine and lets move one.  Then comes work and when it came to him and his co-worker trying to settle a deal with a client, he wanted to be there more than his family and supporting his daughter. Good news, he missed the meeting and went to his daughter's match, for which she won. But it's the way he's been treating the girls, his wife about William that really gets me that he must be in denial but also showing signs of something else like shaking in his hands.

I enjoyed this episode enough to say it might be one of my favorite because I loved Kevin/Sophie story and not to mention Jack and Rebecca as well. The writing was good, there was a lot of really good moments that made me laugh, like Kevin telling Sophie about how he's Facebook friends with her under a different name.

Overall, I give this episode a 9/10.

You can catch This Is Us Tuesday nights at 9/8c on NBC.

Rivaly Holy War: Kevin Can Wait: "Unholy War"

When Kendra and Chale set their wedding date, Kevin tries to schedule it with the father of their church, but a former childhood rival comes in and tries to get that date as well. It becomes a holy war.

As Kendra tells Donna and Kevin the date of their wedding, they try to get that date approved by Father Phillip. But a longtime childhood rival, Terry, comes by and tries to get the same date. The two go out on their best church behavior to do many good things for the church and Father Phillip, from fixing the light to cleaning the floor with floor waxing mobile.

At the same time, Chale video messages his parents in London, but when Kendra comes in, it just seems that they don't approve of her at all. When Chale and Kendra discuss it, they both tell each other that both of their parents don't seem to approve of them at all and try to rethink the wedding date but rethink it and keep the original date.

But when Kevin fixes the confession door and shuts it, Terry comes in the other and confesses about his sins and tells Kevin the story about his evil heart. At that point, Kevin rethinks it and tells Donna, who had made four lasagnas, told her that they have to give that date to him.

But when Donna tells Terry's wife about the date and how sorry they are about Terry's heart, she tells Donna that he doesn't have a heart condition. Kevin confronts Terry as they collect money, and the two take it outside and battle it until Kevin gets knocked over the steps. And the two of them never got the date later on as Kevin confessed to Father Phillip.

"Unholy War" has been very much enjoyable. There were plenty of humorist moments. Kevin tries to unaccept Kendra's wedding date with a Mets game, but it turns out to be an away game. Kevin and Terry are going at it with the floor cleaning mobile and even Kevin and Donna with the lasagna, that it's one word instead of two.

Kim Coates was excellent as Kevin's childhood rival, Terry. The two played each other very well. Also, Hayes and even Ryan Cartwright were amazing. Cartwright's performance acting like Kevin was hilarious. Overall, I give this episode an 8/10.

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

(Grimm fans, Claire Coffee will be on next week's episode.)

Save My Bad Back: Kevin Can Wait "Choke Doubt"/"The Black Out"

"Choke Doubt" 

When Kevin saves someone's life from choking, he doesn't take any credit from it but when he hears that his brother saved a cat from a fire then the tables have turned.

"Choke Doubt" has some funny moments but it's mostly comes from the storyline between Donna and Chale when they help figure out the stuff for the wedding. While Donna knows what her daughter wants to have at her wedding, Chale seems to know too and it becomes a battle.

The moment when they were trying to figure out flowers and a dress one of the funniest moments.

As for Kevin and Kyle, there was some humor and the rest was plan nonsense to watch. Even the two got on morning television and Kevin still couldn't let it go and tries to call the guy he saved but the connection was breaking up on the phone. It really didn't do enough for me to enjoy as Donna and Chale.

Overall, I give this episode a 7/10.

"The Black Out"

When Donna invites new friends over to the house, one of them a chiropractor. Kevin goes in to get his back adjusted and comes out with more pain than he did before.

"The Back Out" was one of the best episodes. Both storylines were great and so was the cast at their best. Kevin and Donna dealing with news friends, they may seem to like them but when Kevin gets his back adjusted it's no more with him. Donna thinks he should stick it out, but when she gets her back adjust she understands completely but wants to stick it out because they were up for a weekend at their friend's beach house. That kind of fell through when both Kevin and Donna were spotted at another chiropractor in the same building as their friend.

Meanwhile, Chale needs to decide who's his best man at his wedding and the one guy pulling the audition was Kyle.   Kyle tries to win Chale over that he can be the best man by making a list of what he likes and dislikes and also dressing up the part as it was best describe as an albino husky that got trapped in the late 90's early 2000's.

I'd enjoyed this episode much more than the previous episode. There were so many good scenes from Kevin getting back adjust from the friend to trying to take his jacket off in his bedroom and rolls off the bed where Donna finds him on the floor thinking that he was looking for M&Ms. And even when Kyle come out looking like that albino husky with blue eyes and tight, tight pants on.

Overall,  I give this episode a 9/10.

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

Friendly Boss: Powerless "Wayne Dream Team"

Can you combine being a boss and friend with her team? Emily tries to balance it out.

This week's episode deals with when Emily and her team get word of their latest idea, the umbrella, and get the go-ahead to be made and tested. Emily tells Van that her team will finish it before the end of the week, but after they tested it out, there was a setback, and Emily wants them to work on it more. But when the Fantasy Superhero League draft is about to begin, she tries to be nice about it.

She asked Sam Greene from HR for help and caused even more trouble when she asked to block the Fantasy League website but stopped the internet, except for LinkedIn. The team decides to investigate it and try to get the internet back but figures out it was HR or Van and mess with Van's photo job that he had done.

When Sam sees it, he orders everyone to watch an anti-bullying tape for punishment. But Emily tells him he was harsh about it, but then he spills the beans about how she asked him to block the fantasy site. So she asked Sam that instead of having everyone watch the video, she'd watch it that lasted for 24 hours.

The team sees how long she has been in the room watching the video, and after she's been twitching, they pull her out of there. They calm her down and accept her as a boss but will get to know her as a friend. As they worked on their fantasy superhero league picks, she picked Crimson Fox over Batman. (I would say it was the wrong move! I never go against Batman, but since I've seen Crimson Fox in the first episode, it was a good choice.)

"Wayne Dream Team" was another hilarious episode. The writing was excellent, with such great scenes from Emily and Jackie getting breakfast/lunch or Emily trying to make a whiplash nose after Van told them how great she whipped her team into shape, which sounded awkward. Hudgens and the cast were outstanding once again, and even though it's only been the second episode, I'm placing this show in my top five favorite new comedies of the season. Even Van and Jackie's storyline about Van being cut out of the Dream Team photo was great, too.

Overall, I give this episode a 9.5/10.

You can catch Powerless Thursday nights at 8:30/7:30 on NBC.

Sleepless in Portland: Grimm "Bed and Breakfast"

This week's episode of Grimm had that Bates Motel feel to it with a good amount of fear and some memorable hilarious moments.

"Bed and Breakfast" may not be to anyone's like but it sure did play to mine. It served a really good monster of the week of an Alpe, a wesen who can't sleep goes around a hotel and sucks the melatonin off of their victims so they can sleep.

For Nick and Hank to capture this Alpe, they're going to need bate and who wouldn't be perfect for that, Monroe! Bring in Monroe was the highlight of the episode that just brought that Nick and Monroe bromance that we all love through the past five seasons.

As Monroe gets set, he goes to be and as Nick and Hank watch from outside with a camera in the room, they see the camera moving, Nick and Hank get in there just in time before that Alpe sucked Monroe's head but didn't get there in time when it paralyzed him with it's breathe.

As Hank and Nick get in there, it was gone but found a hidden passage way and followed it, leaving Monroe still paralyzed and him yelling for Nick to help him. Hank and Nick chase it to another room and ran after who apparently was the manager, who happen to be a wesen but the wrong one they're looking for. When Monroe was finally fit to walk and talk he meets them and then went back into another tunnel and chased it to another room a different room.

With suspects going from the manager to the old man who probably lives in that hallway, it really kept me guessing until it was finally....the hotel owner.

After a nice chat of options to give her, she tries to attack Nick but stumbles and falls on the edge of the table dead from head injury.

Meanwhile, Nick takes a closer look into those symbols that Eve drew in the tunnel. With Rosalee and Monroe looking up what they all mean, they went with what they knew of the seven circle figures. With Monroe and Nick gone to do their thing, Rosalee and Eve went on and figure out what this calendar could mean with a program that Rosalee had.

Trying to line the planets up with the calendar, there seemed to be nothing in the past that matched it but when it went into the future say March 24, 2016, all planets lined up. Mark your calendars Grimmsters!

Other note: Sean gets a visit from Black Claw demanding to still go with the plan, but he refused and ordered him out. Sean meets with Meisner again but this time, Meisner warned him about Black Claw attacking him. With a little help, Renard kills both that guy he met and the officer that was with him. The one thing we heard from Meisner after that was that was on the right side and then left.

This was a very good monster of the week episode. I'd enjoyed it like it. Like I said, it had fear and plenty of humor to go around. I couldn't get enough of the scenes with Monroe where he's in his room, where he meets with the Alpe, when Nick tells the paralyzed Monroe that he has to go after it. I literally couldn't stop laughing. And I'm pretty happy that we finally got to learn what those symbols mean now and it finally played off knowing the date of it too. Didn't have much Renard/Meisner time or Nick/Adalind time either, which happens to upset Nadalind fans. I might have been disappointed but it would have been too much. And besides, next week's episode will be something to tune in for anyway.

Overall, I give this episode a 9/10.

You can catch Grimm Friday nights at 8/7c on NBC.

The Blacklist "Natalie Luca (No. 184)"/"Isabella Stone (No. 34)"

"Natalie Luca (No. 184)" 

I love a really good deadly virus thrilling story, I know I'm weird, but it just brings everything to a whole meaning. And this episode was just that exception.

"Natalie Luca" is a fascinating episode with memorable characters and moments. It's got that throwback to such virus TV movies to even I thought the Mary Tyler Moore Show.

We continue from the previous episode of Red's accountant, who was murdered, gets Liz and the FBI to find the person who killed him. But down the road they found out that he was taken out from a deadly disease and that this suspect turns out to be a carrier that has been part of a corporation experiment since she was a litle girl.

This suspect, Natalie, goes by the name Typhoid Mary. Her and her partner, a scientist, who's trying to figure a cure for her. But the FBI gets closer and when they catch her, they handed her over to not the Hazmat team but the Corporation that she escaped from but her partner get there in time but gets killed. The two have one of those romantic moments that you just get pulled into.

Even Red gets into an articulation with a foe that he has known. Red grabs Tom and has him as his secret assassin that everyone has heard of but is really fake. The foe tries to take Tom from Red but it was a distraction to get Red to meet with his foe. There was a nice monologue from Red about death that was so chilling.

But later, Red makes a stop to see Natalie about who had her and her partner kill his associate and she tells him the name "Isabella Stone." For which is what the next episode is about.

I'd enjoyed this episode a lot. As I said before I'm a sucker for very good deadly virus thrillers and this one comes close to it to say the least. I loved the story and there's some montage like The Mary Tyler Moore Show when Samar sees Aram's paycheck that he makes more than her and later on she gets a 16% bump thanks to Aram. The writing was good. Overall, I give this episode an 8/10.

"Isabella Stone (No. 34)"

Talking about a lady who wants to take down the great Reddington.

"Isabella Stone" is the continuation from the previous episode, as Red's world is being threaten, he knows that everything has been coming from Isabella Stone. Red tells Liz of Stone as the next blacklister but in this case, not only was she taking down his business but she's been doing some horrible things as well in the past. Kill two birds with one stone, right?  

In the search for Stone, Ressler gets a call about his brother needing heart surgery. It's a nice backstory for Ressler but it really didn't do much at all if it was going to bring him and Samar together to so.

Stone tries to take out Red's two known associates, one in Europe and the other in the states. One in Europe, is with his wife at a casino, when he plays cribs, he gets drugged by Stone's people and she drags him up to his room where his wife is dead and he is out cold. She frames him for murder but Red get there and gets him out but he dies from gun shots from the police.

The other is a well know entrepreneur (who suffers from ALS), when Stone gets to his business dinner, word gets around that he has been taking money from criminals, like Red. Stone later takes him back to his house and demands him to say what she wants him to say, but by the time he was going to, Liz and FBI get there and Stone pushes the guy in the pool.   Liz recuses him and Stone is in FBI custody.

In the meantime, Tom gets word that his father has died in a plane crash. He wants to find out what happen 30 years ago. As much as I would agree with Red that the past is the past, I would want to be in Tom's shoes and find out who my father was and what had happen in that accident that made him disappear years ago.

This episode was not only good but there's a side of Red that we've never seen before. He's losing a lot of his associates in the last couple of weeks and it seems that he's going to go rouge more than ever. This seems to be coming from after Kaplan's so-what-death. But there was a very nice moment that Red and Liz had near the end that I really enjoy with the coo cu clock that's a gift for Agnus. But also Red did take Stone is his own hands once again, I don't know how long Cooper has the temper for this anymore. I think it'll blow up pretty soon.  Overall, I give this episode a 8.5/10.

You can catch The Blacklist Thursday nights at 10/9c on NBC.

Blindspot "Droll Autumn, Unmutual Lord"/"Devil Never Even Lived"

"Droll Autumn, Unmutual Lord"

The team tackles two serious matters, one a terrorist coming to the states hoping the doctors can give his son a new heart and helping Roman, either one sounds a point for total danger. 

When the team comes to learn that a terrorist is in the country, Weller and the team track him down but finds him with the CIA Deputy Director Keaton, hoping for an exchange his son gets a new heart while Keaton gets information. That turned south when the guy's son passes away and threatens for revenge. 

And believe me it was a revenge on Keaton and his kid, who happens to be at her basketball game. Keaton, Weller and team head toward the school, where the basketball game is taken place. Of course, Keaton gets one of his agents to take her out but the guy's men took his agent out, but Keaton's girl ran off. 

It turns into a search and meet when Keaton and Weller made contact with her. Meanwhile, Jane, Reade and Zapata looking for the bomb. Reade and Zapata finds it and later Patterson disarms it by jamming the phone signals. 

As the bomb is disarmed, Keaton finds his daughter but is taken hostage. Talking, trying to make a trade for him in exchange for her. Just as they were going to switch, Jane shoots the suspect saving Keaton's ass. He does tell her thank you, but I wouldn't forgive what he did to Jane too.

As this was going on, Roman gets treated to see where he is mentally as he relives dreams of his time as a child, locked in a cold cell. Nas gets a therapist on it and it seems to help. But after things approve a little, a tattoo has been solved when Roman is playing a game.

Zapata and Reade's relationship seems to be okay for now. They don't seem to want to talk about their kiss an episode back. But after the day they had and had a couple of drinks at the bar, Zapata give Reade to another person who has an interest for him and she leaves.

This was a good episode. It tends to be one of those episodes that deals with one thing and ends up being another. I enjoyed it like the other stand alone episodes that really didn't go anywhere til the end of the episode. Love the action, love the tension between Jane and Keaton, even though I feel like Keaton should be dumped in hot oil for what he did to her. Overall, I give this episode an 8/10

"Devil Never Even Lived"

When word of the leopard tattoo was solved it gave a clue of what Sheppard might be planning next and it leads to someone that Roman knows...personally. 

I thought this was a very good episode. Even though it was a gamble to use Roman out in the field. Jane suggest that Roman goes out there in the field to go to where he got weapons for Sheppard before. Weller thinking it's  a bad idea, but the therapist thinks he would be okay. 

After making the deal and revisiting old love, the plan backfire on the team. The team seem to have their moment as they planted weapons for Sheppard to take but by the time they get there all were gone.

But the shocking part came at the end when Jane came over to Weller's place, trying to cheer him up after Alison said she was moving away. Jane and Weller talked and talked about how he played basketball and just as Jane sees a photo and spots Sheppard. Weller sees it and tells Jane that he knows her. 

This was a better episode than the previous one. I thought the writing was very good and that it had Roman involved with the plan. Even though they didn't get Sheppard, we do know that Weller finally says that he remembers Sheppard. I thought the acting was good as well. Kind a hope that Roman's love interest would have lived, maybe that could have helped him along the line personally. Overall, I give this episode a 8.5/10.

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