Grimm "Tree People"

If a tree kills someone does it make a sound? Yeah I know that's probably a stupid question to ask but that's the one thing I could come up with for this episode of Grimm.

"Tree People" not only brought some memorable humor but also a great PSA on how we should protect out environment.

Let's get to the calendar meaning, as everyone seems to be on mirror buddy watch for now til they figure out what the hell that black skull guy is. With Diana given that it wasn't a dream but  it's something that's real soon and that it's gonna take place through the mirror. So I guess bucket up.

The case of the week might be someone we would love to be the head of our EPA in this country. Talk about a tree warrior who punishes those that harm mother nature. After a couple of killings, one killing a deer and another dropping toxic waste in the woods.

Nick, Hank and Wu do some dirty up too and meets a Kinoshimobe after it was chasing Rosalee. When Nick confronts the Kinoshimobe, he slashes it with his ax and kills it. But the tree that he's protecting, also feeds on dead humans, is pulled and used for that tree's source of food.  

The episode was very good with some memorable humorist moments from Wu telling Monroe how much he'll sleep peacefully the night after killing the kinoshimobe and grabs the big sword showing him how with that. Also Monroe and Rosalee going to bed and seeing a face like image in their ceiling and decides to pant it. Also watching Nick and Adalind checking for monsters in the mirror as Nick shaves but then they both decide that Nick is better off with an unshaven face (I think we all do, right?).

I thought that they hit how much our environment and the woods is important to us catching some very nice images of animals playing and exploring. The monster of the week was pretty cool and not much of a monster monster but one of those good monsters that you would love to have around. Overall, I give this episode a 8/10.

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

#OneChicago Chicago Fire "Deathtrap"/Chicago PD "Emotional Proximity"/Chicago Justice "Fake"

Talk about one hell of an emotional roller-coaster ride!

Wednesday night was the epic four-show crossover of all four Chicago series. It started with the Chicago Fire in "Deathtrap," which opened up with Firehouse 51 getting the call of a warehouse fire that called for every firehouse and ambulance to get there. It was a hands-on-deck situation.


For the first 30 minutes of the episode, it felt like an hour, and that was because it felt so raw, emotional, and movie-like episode. I mean, I was getting teary eyes at times, and my heart was pumping fast. Severide tries to get everyone out as he tries to bust the locked door, and soon, both Squad and Truck go in there.

They get others out, and even Mouch had an accident as well. But the moment comes when Al, from PD, comes to Bowden and tells him that his daughter lives there. He first searches and sees if Dawson has seen her, but no signs at all. Al begs Bowden to go back in there, which Bowden does. He and Severide find her and another person, and with the fire growing and growing, their hearts race, but they make it out.

Both Fire and Med share the hour, treating patients but also treating Al's daughter, with Will and Natalie on hand. Al's daughter was burned 60 percent of her body, and her lungs also suffered smoke burns. Things looked hopeful for her. The episode captured the realness of emotion and shock as Casey and Bowden look at those who didn't make it and wonder who the hell would have done this.

The warehouse owner shows up and soon gets attacked by grieving families and friends. They took him to Firehouse 51 to talk with Bowden and the Fire Deputy about the situation. He tells them that he didn't know it was going to be that many people and the reason why he let people live there was that other places were so high on rent. After hearing the death count up to 36, the owner asks for the bathroom and seconds later blows his head off with a gun. Severide and Susan inspect the warehouse and spot the origins of the fire and that it was arson.

Soon, Chicago PD jumps on the case in the episode "Emotional Proximity" when Voight tries to see Al and his daughter and gets word from Bowden that it is arson. Quickly, Al's daughter takes a turn for the worst, and Will and Natalie jump. In and cut the burns around her chest so her lungs can expand. Things didn't look so good for her, and it didn't as later her condition worsened to the point that her organs were failing.

Voight and the Intelligence Unit pulled everything they had into searching for the suspect. You can cut the emotional intentions with a knife. It was sometimes overwhelming, even in the scene when Erin takes Al's daughter's photo and places it with the others who have died, making in 38 people.

Like insignificant episodes like PD, they balanced out the drama and humor along with an incredible chase scene with Halstead jumping over the hood of a car, which was a nasty ass and one of my favorites. With suspect after suspect, things picked up when they got a video of the suspect leaving the warehouse party and soon figured that he'd be there at the memorial, which he was.

Erin, Halstead, and Ruzek get him moving the alley and right into Voight's hand, or should I see Voight's gun? If you think that would be intense, it was when he and the suspect wrecked in the cage, and he demanded answers, even with a knife to the neck, which didn't do much. But Al storms in and demands to have a word, for which Voight wouldn't allow it. But soon, Antonio gets word from Al that the suspect told him he did it, which wasn't what had happened.


Now, taking the suspect into custody, we jump to Chicago Justice, the first full episode, and look into the series since its pilot episode last season on CPD. Antonio finds out that the suspect didn't tell Al or Voight anything that he had caused the fire and soon tells Stone about it a day later, which doesn't help.

The suspect's lawyer plays Stone like a game and tries to get the trial dismissed. With the fake news report to even that the suspect was even raped by his uncle, but it all comes down to one victim from the fire that triggered him to do what he did.

This whole thing was all about a girl he liked, and asked her out for coffee, but she declined and told him she was busy with other things. He stalks her on Facebook and sees how much fun she's having with other people; he wonders why not him, and so it was all about if he can't have her, then she can't have anything else.

Stone makes his case one last time, and with the suspect's reaction, he is guilty of all charges, from the fire to even the 38 counts of murder. While we hear about the count of Al's daughter, the last scene shows Al in tears as justice is finally done.

This event was one hell of a #OneChicago crossover. It felt like a feature film. The performances from everyone were terrific. Even Bradley Whitford was great. The writing was so solid. I couldn't find anything wrong with it except that I wish it had limited commercial interruptions; that would have been much better for Fire. But Dick Wolf and the gang know what they are doing, and I leave it up to them to do whatever they want. Overall, I give this TV event a 10/10.

You can catch Chicago Justice tonight at 9/8c on NBC, followed by the premiere of Shades of Blue at 10/9c.

Chicago Fire will return on March 21 at 10/9c, and Chicago will return on March 22 at 10/9c. Chicago Med will be following this week at 9/8c on NBC.

The Blacklist Redemption "Kevin Jensen"

The team takes on a personal mission that's rescuing a United States journalist.

"Kevin Jensen" opens a personal mission for Scottie that dives into why she wants to get the team into rescuing Jensen. Learning that she's his aunt and that her son Christopher hung out with each other too so it also got personal for Keen too.

The mission seemed to go like any other mission but when Rom brings in a moving truck to the broader of the country, they spot the secret of hidden guns, Tom bails leaving the team with no guns at all.

Scottie gets in touch with a friend over there and after talking him to agree with a deal (agreeing to give his daughter (who can't sing) a record deal). But when Tom and the gang sees the box that was suppose to be full of guns was just a couple of automatics and handguns not enough, but Tom comes up with a plan of getting in as one of the soldiers and rescue Jensen inside.

Keen and Solomon goes in and after getting Jensen, things take a turn and Nez had to come in and rescue them. Hiding from the cops, they wait til they get the word of heading to the US Embassy, but Jensen needs his laptop and notes at his place, something that he's been working on so hard and while the group was talking he escapes to get his stuff.

Putting everyone there at risk, Keen and the gang gets Jensen back and tries to make it to the Embassy but a roadblock is in front of them and hits them. Tom, with a concussion, gets Jensen out, who's hurt pretty badly. As they get Jensen in the Embassy, Tom goes back and gets his laptop but when he comes up to Jensen, laying on the ground as CPR is performed, Jensen is dead. Not only does it hurt Tom but it puts Scottie in an emotional state that we've never seen her before.

Scottie and Tom meet with the Secretary of State and others and is informed that Jensen was working for the CIA as an agent pretending to be a journalist over there. And that Jensen's mother will never know what he has done, Scottie didn't even tell her about it.

I thought that this episode was pretty good. It did show us Scottie's personal and emotional side, for which I enjoyed watching since this lady seemed to be a cold person from the start. There were some good moments and humorist moments too, mostly from Eggold, Gathegi and Martinez. The writing was good as well. Overall I give this episode a 8/10.

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

Chicago Med "Lose Yourself"

After the previous night of #OneChicago crossover, we get another sad news of one member at Med, but also the doctors and nurses seem to lose themselves in a time where the only thing there is is to step away.

"Lose Yourself" puts our heroes in a tight spot all around with a couple dealing with no help and the other with hope.

Rhodes gets a call of a man fell 33 story building and comes in breathing still and it's a big news cycle too. Rhodes does everything he can to get his patient through all of this and when things look to be in good shape, he goes against Goodwin's wishes to inform the press about it. But speaking too soon ruin the chances no less, after the patient's parents saw Rhodes rescuing him by opening up his chest and help beat his heat again, they asked him to do no more heroic actions. He felt like he could have done more to save him but we know there isn't much there to save.

Reese gets a patient,who comes in as a superhero bring in a stroke patient. The hero faints and talks to Reese about why dresses up, learning his origin story. Trying to get him to think that he doesn't need his costume, she plays a trick on him by having a patient fake an MI in front of his room and gets someone to come and help him. Reese explains to him of her actions for which she tells him that besides the fake MI guy, he came and helped him all on his own and offered him a volunteer job at Med in the waking room.

Choi and Natalie treats a paraplegic that's suffering from an infection. After searching for the cause they spot someone unknown that isn't part of his body, for which he tells them that they're stem cells and he and his wife travels to Mexico to get them put in so he can get movement back in his legs. They inform him of how badly it is to get that kind of treatment without knowing if it's clean or not. But Choi understands and tells Natalie that he has seen many in the army go through this kind of thing.

But the story of this episode has to be April. When things look pretty good for her, but when she came to get her two week OB checkup, things took a turn for the worst as there was no heartbeat in the ultrasound. Losing her baby, she goes through grieving pretty quickly but jumps back to work, losing herself in a case of a 25 year old woman who has a bad infection in the heart. Not telling anyone, including Maggie, she sticks with her patient til things got better. But soon of later you know Maggie will find out and she did and talks to April about it. She gets a DNC and Maggie hangs with her til April's fiance gets there. Damn, it's not a good week for Team Chicago isn't it.

This was a very good episode. The writing was solid and that Yaya DaCosta performance was very good along with Colin Donnell as well. I thought the stories really showed how each character loses themselves in a case of a situation and tries to deal with it in a different way. After the Wednesday crossover, man this hits the heart as well for April. Overall, I give this episode a 8.5/10.

You can catch Chicago Med Thursday nights at 9/8c on NBC.

Chicago PD "Favor, Affection, Malice or Ill-Will"

When Erin gets Olinsky to do an undercover job, things get tight not only on the job but for him as a father, too.

"Favor, Affection, Malice or Ill-Will" was a well-written episode that drove Olinsky into a softer tone than he usually does when it comes to doing an undercover case and going undercover as a hitman to help a father seek revenge for killing the man who killed his daughter.

It drove not only Olinsky to think about his daughters but also got into a heated debate with State Attorney Jefferies about it, but those two made up at the end with a drink and a story at Molly's.

Meanwhile, Ruzek is back and asks Voight for his job back, but instead of returning it, Voight just demoted him to patrol. He can't believe he's going to patrol; Voight talks to Trudy about it and confronts the issue he was trying to avoid working with his ex, Burgess.

Rixton meets with Ruzek a couple of times, and just before Ruzek is cleaning out his locker, Rixton tells him a story about how he worked with his dad, and there's a new position in narcotics and gives Ruzek his job back.

This episode was excellent. I thought we got to see Olinsky in a very different position than he usually faces on the field. He seemed divided and wanted to give that father a second chance so severely. This episode was a better Olinsky storyline than the "Some Friend" episode. Also, with Ruzek back, there were some funny moments, some that you feel bad for the guy, but it was his choice to leave in the first place. But I did the scene at the end with Rixton and Ruzek bonding and giving Adam his job back. I thought the writing was excellent, and the cast was terrific as well. Overall, I give this episode a 9/10.

You can catch Chicago PD when it returns in the epic four-show crossover (Fire, Med, and Justice) on Wednesday, March 1st at 8/7c on NBC.

Grimm "The Son Also Rises"

Talk about a mixture of many wesen into one. WOW!

"The Son Also Rises" may not stand as it's best episode but it had some great moments and also learned about the mysterious calendar as well.

Let's start with Eve and Nick, as Eve decides not to stay with Nick and Adalind so she takes her stay at the spice shop. When she looks into a mirror, she soon spots that dark skull figure that she met in the previous episode. Soon it's hand grabs Eve by the neck, but she woges and bites him. She soon loses balances and is knocked out. Monroe and Rosalee finds her and calls Nick and they meet at the hospital. From there on, Nick stays with Eve (even though he did call her Juliette) until she wakes up.

Meanwhile, an attack gets Hank and Wu to investigate a weird case that involves a Frankenstein version of a wesen. We finally learn that one of the scientist decides to bring his son back to life by using other body parts from the cemetery, it turned into a Frankenstein from hell mostly. But as all monsters, they have to be killed and his father does that.

We get information about the mysterious calendar thanks to Renard. He messages a friend back at his home country for help and tells her about how Diana has been drawing this but won't say anything else. She informs him that what it could be is something that might has to do with Diana if she saw those signs, but wouldn't it be more also with Eve as well.

I enjoyed this episode, it may not be one of the best episodes overall. There are memorable moments from Hank and Wu working together just down right fun to watch ( I feel like for the ending both Hank and Wu become partners and solving crime with Nick and Adalind far away from the mess along with Rosalee and Monroe). Nick and Eve as it just felt like deja vu all over again. Also the most memorable moment comes when Monroe has a nightmare of Rosalee going into labor and having not three but what seems to be more than a dozen and counting. Overall, I give this episode a 8/10.

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

The Blacklist: Redemption "Leland Bray" Series Premiere

The Blacklist Redemption has everything that The Blacklist has but with more fun and thrills to had to it's adventures.

The new Blacklist spin-off The Blacklist Redemption premiered after the winter finale of The Blacklist Thursday and let me just say, I had more fun watching than any spin-off I've seen.

When a CIA operative has been kidnapped along with her son, Scottie Hargraves gets Tom Keen and her team of Solomon, Nez and Dumont together to help rescue her. Both Keen and Solomon puts their differences aside and worked together.

When they rescue the CIA agent, she escapes fearing that the kidnapper still has her son and will kill him. Tom sees that there was a bomb put inside her and learns that she's gone to take her own team out with that bomb. But the team gets there in time and gets the bomb out of her thanks to Keen and Dumont teamwork.

But also, Keen learns that his father is still alive, after learning three weeks ago on The Blacklist that he had died in a plane crash. He tells Tom that he believes that his mother (Scottie) tried to kill him to own his company.

He also wants Tom to work with her as well for which he does after a nice adventurous time with the team and shows him the connection between his disappearance 30 years ago and killing his father connecting to Scottie.

As much as I love The Blacklist and worried about a spin-off (like everyone should be) I really enjoyed the first episode of the series. We get that classic Blacklist mythology hook but added with the thrills and fun of a spy genre drama. I enjoy watching Ryan Eggold and Edi Gathegi scenes together, you just know that their characters hate each other as it's like watching the classic show The Man from U.N.C.L.E. And the editing is another thing too that really draw me into the show with those three scenes at once when they try to kidnap the kidnapper's girlfriend from the pool. I believe this show has a very good premise and would do great down the road. I hope the true Blacklister fans will give this series a chance and that down the road, might be a couple of cameos from Red himself?

Overall, I give this episode a 9/10.

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