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Fight for Office Justice: Powerless "Van v. Emily: Dawn of Justice"

It's a battle for the office, who'll win in this great battle between Emily and Van?

When Emily ask Van to move from the cubical office to a real office, Van denies her. But when she get the Corp's approval, its game on on who gets the office. Emily challenges Van to the Green Arrow archer game for the office, but before the game could begin, Jackie, Teddy, Ron and Wendy explain to her why he should win instead of her, mostly because he'll act like a big baby.

When the game begins, Emily pretends to lose the match until Van really got to her and showed off how good she really is. But after a quick time out, Emily shows off one more time and with heavy confidence she actually misses and loses the match against Van, but instead of just losing big time, Van gave everyone new chairs, donuts and even Emily's office as well.

Emily didn't take losing at all and tries to come clean to Van after looking through his childhood trophies that his family has been babying him his whole life. After the truth bomb, she apologies for her actions and the two made up.

Meanwhile, Teddy builds a super crush on the newest superhero in town, Green Fury. He tries to get her attention by falling off the roof again, but gets picked up by the Olympian. Tries to use the Green Fury signal like Batman but that didn't work at all until  he was walking with his girlfriend, Hannah and gets her purse stolen that Green Fury came and stopped the robber. Teddy makes a fool of himself to both Hannah and Fury.

"Van v Emily: Dawn of Justice" was another good episode between Emily and Van, maybe not top of the list so far but it's there along with the others. Hudgens and Tudyk really show comedy chemistry and not to mention Danny Pudi's character falling in love with Green Fury played by Natalie Morales, who plays the superhero very well. The writing was good, it could have been a little better but it had some memorable moments. Overall, I give this episode a 7/10.

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

Health Challenge: Kevin Can Wait ""Quiet Diet"

When Donna challenges Kevin to get his cholesterol down so he could go to Mets Fantasy Camp, Kevin plays a trick on her.

"Quite Diet" is another Donna and Kevin going at it situation that I enjoy watching from time to time. When Donna and Kevin need to get a check up for their insurance, if they have a lower cholesterol levels their premiums go down but not they're paying a lot. Donna tries to motivate Kevin into eating healthy by offering him to go to Mets Fantasy camp if he's levels are low.

Kevin tells Donna that he can do it and soon gets Chale's help in on it and uses his cleanser that he has used when he was a chubby kid in a photo and his own pants. After the next couple of days and sweaty nights, Kevin makes it to test day and surprising passes it, which does shock Donna and learns that she has high cholesterol.

After the test results, Donna goes on an extreme health plan, but Chale lets her on what Kevin has done and later plays his little game as she pretends to give Kevin what he wants from a second wife if she dies. But he catches on and admits to what he did and how he fooled her with the cleanser. The two agree and tried the cleanser out and at the end they were getting over the heavy sweats and moving into the hallucinations where Donna saw a six-pack abs Kevin and Kevin saw Donna as a taco.

I thought this was a very good and funny episode. I thought that James and Hayes were hilarious and probably one of their funniest situational episodes together. During most of the episode I couldn't get enough of what they would do after each other would have died from getting a second spouse. Also the ice cream thing was also pretty funny too and clever as well and we get to learn that Chale was an overweight kid, which was kind of fun for Kevin to make fun of but also bonded them as well. The writing was good. Overall, I give this episode a 8/10.

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

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Unforgettable: Chicago Justice "Dead Meat"/"Double Helix"/"Lily's Law"

"Dead Meat"

When a cop is found murdered in a tub at a motel, the case leads to one of Stone's cases that he lost. But as they always say, the second time is the charm, right?

"Dead Meat" was a perfect episode story between Stone and the man he tried to bring down years ago but never did—a bit of cat and mouse at will.

When the State's Attorney's office gets called of a dead cop in a motel, it leads to them a butcher owner who had previous encounters with mostly Antonio and Stone. But for Stone, he feels like he has gotten him now and not only goes for the case but tries to bring the previous case to court as well.

When a knife from evidence is out, Stone goes by people's accounts and stories. After he questions the suspect in court about how he didn't know that a former worker was in the barn at the time of a fire, he was trying to save the pigs and told of the technique he uses for which Stone remembered how the latest victim had died.

Stone and Anna talk with the suspect and his lawyer and bring in the wife of the previous case to see him say that he killed her husband. Stone throws in a deal and tells them his theory of the murder went down, and after showing photos of the victim, the suspect takes the deal and admits that he had killed the wife's husband, too.

This episode was excellent as we learned more and more about how Stone works in the business and what he had learned from his father. I thought the writing was terrific, and the acting between Winchester was also excellent. Overall, I give this episode an 8/10.

"Double Helix"

In a chilling case, Stone faces an issue that's another flash from the past, and a mother tries to get her daughter back.

When Antonio inspects a warehouse, they find the dead body of a woman in a freezer. Later, they learned that the victim was pregnant, and her baby was stolen. The question relies on who took the baby and whether it is okay.

After searching around, they looked into the victim's workplace and even the yoga class, where a group of friends mentioned an ex-boyfriend. They headed to the boyfriend's apartment, where he explained that he was shut out of her life six months ago but always tried to get back together. They returned to his apartment when they found out that he had connected with her, but it was his girlfriend who linked and mentioned that the victim was with one of her pregnant yoga friends, Dawn.

When they get to Dawn's place, she has the baby, but after she lets them in and puts the baby down, Antonio sees that the baby's face is blue. They arrested her and tried her for murder, but it also opens up the case of genetics because Dawn is the daughter of a murderer that Stone not only convicted as his first high-profile case.

The considerable debate was about genetics and whether it must be passed down to the next generation. In this case, for Stone, it doesn't, and proved that she did. She wanted a child because she couldn't have any. She was convicted of two counts of murder.

Meanwhile, Dawn's father tries to get a new trial as new evidence has come out saying that Dawn killed the woman he was convicted of. When it was Stone's turn to speak, he didn't do much til he let a big got you on him with that if she had committed the murder, his plea deal was a whole lie and not to mention that four other murders were in Indiana that he did for which he asked that he would be tried there because in Indiana there is the death plenty.  He was sent.

"Double Helix" was an excellent episode; not only did it open up the genetics conversation (for which it isn't that old of a conversation), but it was an excellent debate on and off screen. Also, Joelle Carter's performance was amazing as we learned about her situation getting her child back and her history of her father being the cause of her pill-popping, which it wasn't. This would be another memorable episode. Overall, I give this episode an 8.5/10.

"Lilly's Law"

This episode might as well be the most conversational this season.

When one of the jury members asked to leave because it had become stressful, she was later found dead in the Chicago River with duct tape around her hands and mouth. This case will go Stone fighting for the victim like any before.

When investigating the victim's death, they found that her ex-husband had been text messaging her over 60 times in three days before she had died, with most of them very threatening and demanding messages about how a lousy parent she is and how she shouldn't be on the jury for the trial.

After reviewing everything they gathered, Stone and the team go after the ex-husband for all the bullying he's done to her and give her the thought of killing herself, which she did. Soon, Stone goes to the one person who would know all, the son. He asked him about his mother and if he loved his mother. Not to mention using his cell phone and showing the jury a video message to his mother about how he hated her and all that, but he confessed that it wasn't he that meant to say those words that it was written out for his dad to make him tell them.

When the jury found the ex-husband guilty, in one of the most shocking twists, the judge changed the jury's verdict and let the husband go free because the jury let their emotions get in the way of this case. My jaw was down to the floor when I saw that happen.

Ultimately, Stone tries to change a law that makes text messaging a rule, calling it Lilly's Law. In the meantime, in the end, he goes to an old friend's place to make amends to her because he didn't speak up about the beatings she got in a previous relationship.

This was one of the most shocking and disturbing episodes yet. The ending to the case was a shock, but I think what Stone did, from proposing a new law to making amends to an old friend, helped settle the "oh my god" moment. I thought the case was terrific in this episode, as everyone played very well. Winchester and Carter's characters stood out in this episode very well. The writing was excellent, too. Overall, I give this episode a 9/10.

You can catch Chicago Justice on Sunday nights at 9/8c on NBC.

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