Never Give Up on a Friend: Chicago PD "The Thing About Heroes"

This week's episode of Chicago PD was as solid of an episode as they could have been for the second episode of the season.

When a van parks in a no parking area of a festival in Chicago, it explodes. The FBI and the Intellgence Unit works together to find who is behind the bombing and where the next bomb is set to go off.

When the team knows who's behind it and what country they are from, Burgess thinks that her friend and an CPD officer would help because of his background. That would be nice until they find out that he has been gone without a trace since the bombing and that doesn't look good for him at all.

The CPD points the blame to the officer and Burgess is the only person who believes that he didn't do it. And proves she did when she found out a place he was renting and keeping a notebook full of notes and photos like he was actually undercover being a part of a terrorist group. Sadly the officer was stresssed from not only the media that the CPD laid on him but the bullying as well he was suffering from his partner and captain, he takes his life and shoots himself in the head in front of Burgess.

But that notebook helped stop the second bombing in the end. But not it didn't end for Burgess who told the officer's parents how a hero he was. But it was confronting the officer's partner that really was a scene to see as she told the guy what she thinks and that his daddy won't be around to have his back. It did cause some riffs in the CPD that Hank had to tell her to let it be.

Hank did confront Woods about the CPD should give full honors to the officer but Woods doesn't think so at all. The two had a nice chat and Woods is amazed how Hank has been dealing with all of this and he tells him that it takes time to make a move and I'm sure we will be waiting when that happens.

"The Thing About Heroes" was really a good episode and mostly from the performance from Marina Squerciati that really stood out through the episode. The writing was so good and at times simple to follow but the twist that the officer was working undercover was a wow moment. Overall, I give this episode a 8/10.

You can catch Chicago PD Wednesday nights at 10/9c on NBC.

Chicago PD "Reform" Season Premiere

The season premiere of Chicago PD was not your typical season premiere that we have seen in the past four seasons, but it does make a stamp that a new chapter for the series has begun.

The episode opened up to a very well-respected look back at Erin Lindsay's time on the show from the beginning to the end of last season. With only the two men in her life, Hank and Jay, it was at times emotional, no matter how many times you would watch it.

The episode begins with Hank talking about how the absence of Erin will be a mess, and it will not be the same. I feel that he was not only talking to her about it but to us, the audience, as well, and just trying to get through some of those thoughts is just so confronting.

When Hank gets a call about a gun exchange going down, the team assembles and tries to take them down, but it doesn't go as they had hoped. But when Halstead was chasing the suspects, he heard someone screaming and went in to find Upton with a girl who got shot.

They take the girl to Med only to get a small hope for her to recover, but it turns out she didn't, and the worst part is that the bullet came from Halstead's gun. With that, not only the media and the community but also Alderman Ray Price (Wendell Pierce ) is pushing hard to get Halstead fired, and even the new reform package set for the CPD isn't helping at all, either.

Hank and the team searched for the one suspect who could help clear Halstead from this, and the only clue to allow them to find him was to see if the suspect had a wound on his stomach. It took a while for the team to find him, and some very uncomfortable scenes, including Ruzek and Atwater trying to ask two kids a couple of questions.

The team gets help from a former squad member, Antiono Dawson, and does undercover work. He soon gets the suspect, turns him in, and gets Halstead out of the hateful media that Price has done. And even though Halstead was clear, he still apologized to the mother and gave her her daughter's necklace.

Meanwhile, Burgess is back, and she's got a new man in her life. Ezek found out the hard way as he was trying to not only buy her another beer but ask her out again.

Antiono is officially back with CPD after being at the State's Attorney's office got boring. Yeah, we could say that.

As I said at the beginning, this episode seemed like the beginning of a new chapter for the series. Erin is gone, and things are changing for the intelligence unit, just as Hank told Jay that she's gone and we need to move on.

I very much enjoyed this episode a lot. Not only the performances from Beghe and Stoffer were terrific, but also Mykelti Williamson and Wendell Pierce as well. The writing was so good as well. Overall, I give this episode a 9/10.

You can catch Chicago PD on Wednesday nights at 10/9c on NBC.

Supergirl Season 3 Sneak Peak clips

Tonight's the night for the season 3 premiere of Supergirl. Here are a few clips from tongiht's episode.

You can catch the season premiere of Supergirl tonight at 8/7c on The CW.

Future to Come: The Blacklist "Smokey Putnum (No. 30)" Season Premiere

The Blacklist is back and it feels so good and after watching this episode you'll not only feel like your having fun but something to look forward to in the season to come with a shocking moment.

"Smokey Putnum" was probably one of the funniest and enjoyable season premiere episode since the season premiere of season two. As Red's empire is gone thanks to Mr. Kaplan's doing, Red is making ends meat by stealing cars to pay for the rent at a hotel. He doesn't really show that he's emotional hurt but enjoying it until the FBI needs a new Blacklister for the new director of the FBI.

With that in mind, Red and Liz go on this fun and hilarious trip as bounty hunters to find Smokey Putnum, who happens to own money he stole. As soon as they pick him up, they run into neo Nazi gang and take him away from Red and Liz. Unfortunately, they would get Smokey back in return but after a couple of runway attempts, Smokey goes to his court hearing.and Red gets his money.

Now that being said, it wouldn't be The Blacklist without some twist and turns and in this case a couple makes it even more memorable. For Red, you would think that from what Liz believes that he was scared after losing his empire that was totally out of the question. After Somkey goes to court, Red not only bails out Smokey but bails out the plaintiff too and gets them to work for him.

Meanwhile, with Red and Liz almost having all the fun, Ressler was having a bit of fun too. After the events in the season finale, knocking down Nationa Secutiry Advisor Hitchen and getting Henry Prescott to help clean it up. Cooper gets word about Hitchen and Ressler and Samar go to investigate it. But Ressler gets a bit nervous throughout until things were clear that it turned out to be an accident. But that didn't lead Ressler to breathe with a side of relief because Prescott found out who Ressler were was and not who he said he was and going to be doing some favors for a while. Welcome to the dark side Ressler!!

The other twist and turn comes near the end when Liz comes home and sees Tom is back. They both had somethng to tell one another. When Liz goes first to tell Tom that Red is her father, he back away and moved the suitcase that Mr. Kaplan had him pick up. After that he just tells Liz that he loves her and won't be going anywhere but we see a flashback of Red and Dembe charging into Liz's apartment with guns and a bloodly Tom is on the floor and we see Red shooting. What the hell?!! Just as soon as Tom comes back we see a future event yet to come that could end his fate?

This episode was amazing, funny, and so enjoyable. After a couple of seasons of dark events, this was so nicely light in tone. The performance between Spader and Boone was hilarious in one way and another was just breathtaking in another. They really have a great chemistry. Not to mention in this episode that Aram and Samar are now an item and it looks like it won't be an issue for Cooper. I did enjoy watching Ressler going itno the dark side. Welcome to Liz and Red's world my friend. I can't wait to see where this season will go. It's gong to be a blast.

Overall, I give this episode a 9/10.

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

Chicago PD Season 4

With less than 12 hours until Chicago PD's big season premiere, here's a recap of season four.

Season 4 begins with the investigation of a missing suspect that murdered Hank's son. Things got dicey to the point where we thought Hank would be done. That was until they went to Hank's spot, where he takes terrible guys to get them to confess and dig to find the body. We know that he had killed the guy, but by the time the whole CPD was digging the place up, there was nobody at all. That might have been the little help from Erin, and after that, it gave one of the best moments between Hank and Erin.

There were a lot of significant cases that really took the characters and show to new heights. The one that really stood out was the four-show crossover between Fire, Med PD, and the newly canceled Justice. That was basically a damn blockbuster movie, to say the less. That blew me away, and I had a hard time processing what was happening because it was so emotionally good.

Antonio left CPD to join Justice, but when season five begins, expect him to return home—but to a very different home.

The relationship between Erin and Jay was taking a new turn, even with one another living together at her place. Just when you thought things were going well for them, a shocking surprise comes along with a blast from Jay's past: his wife, who happens to not have signed the divorce papers.

But near the end of the season, Erin goes a bit too far, farther than what Hank would have done. When a child goes missing and has the only suspect in questioning, she takes to her own power and tries to get him to confess but uses force with her gun, and that doesn't end well at all. The heads of the CPD had to decide about Erin's future, but an opportunity arose when Bunny, Erin's mother, got caught in a federal crime. The FBI from New York offers Erin a job in exchange for her mother not going to jail, for which she takes and doesn't call or answer anyone near the end of the season finale, not even Jay.

With Season 5 coming, there's new air in this season. Tracy Spiridakos has now become a regular cast member on the show as Det. Hailey Upton was a guest in the last few episodes of season four. Also, a new showrunner has taken the show to a new level by telling stories about what real CPD is going through these days.

I'm looking forward to what Season Five will bring this season. I want to see how they tie Erin's story and how Jay will handle it. That was a total shock when Sophia Bush announced she won't be back for season 5, and yet she told Seth Meyers that she was thrilled about the show getting renewed, and Seth was happy that she would stay on the network as well. But the writings were on the wall in the last couple of episodes of season 4.

The new season of Chicago PD begins tonight at 10/9c on NBC.

This Is Us "A Father's Advice" Season Premiere

The season premiere of This Is Us aired last night and it felt so good to see these characters once again.

It's Randall, Kate and Kevin's birthday and celebrating might not be the way they would have hoped it would be. Randall and Beth are pursuing adopting a baby, but Beth isn't too sure she would want to do that until she rethinks at a time where her and William had a discussion at his favorite spot. While Randall talks to Rebecca about how adopting and asking when did she knew he was theirs and she goes on saying that with every marriage there's one that pushes and it was Jack.

Later, Beth takes Randall for a ride to Williams favorite spot and gives him not only one birthday gift but an idea for adopting. Instead of adopting a baby, maybe adopting an older kid. Seems like it's a go.

Meanwhile, Kevin is having an okay time in Hollywood after filming for Ron Howard, he gets a call from Sophie about how she cant come due to her mother's MS. So that makes his plans with Kate and Toby a threesome birthday date, for which Toby didn't like it.

Toby gets Kate's confidence up for her audition but when she goes to her audition she looks around and thinks back to the pool scene where every girl didn't want to hangout with her. She skips and has birthday dinner with Kevin and Toby, but she tells Kevin before telling Toby about the audition. Kevin tries to make things better with Toby and Kate, but Toby needs Kevin to back off just a bit from Kate just a bit.

After the two argued, Kate stopped them and headed back to the audition. She came in with a lot of confidence and only got a short audition but fought to the manager that she has the ability to sing than just looking a size two until he brings a backup singer to sing and tells her that she can sing but didn't get it and that it wasn't looking who's skinny. For which gave her a goal to set and peruse.

Kevin tells Toby while Kate was auditioning that she was the one that told him that their father died and that they are inseparable. Bur Toby understands that but he wants Kevin to give them a little bit of space. For which he did, letting them go drink their feelings away while Kevin headed back to the hotel to find Sophie there.

Probably the one thing that will stand out through this episode is learning about Jack's death, since that's the one thing everyone has been asking about since season one.

We see how both Jack and Rebecca took time away from one another, thinking that this would be okay until Rebecca comes back to bring Jack home. But after a heartfelt speech from Rebecca, Jack tells her that he's drunk and has been drinking for weeks. He tells her he needs help and he will but just when you think after he shuts the door it was over.

Nope!

Rebecca pushes him to come home. But as we see them driving home, we jump into a scene where Rebecca drives with a small bag (wedding ring and other things I want to say), and later come to seeing Migual calming Randall and Kate about Jack's death and Kate telling Randall they need to find Kevin (while kissing Sophie) to tell him.

But we come to Rebecca driving home and sees the home and turns out the house was on fire and burned badly. What could this be, did Jack had another hard time given up drinking that he drank himself and had an accident?

"A Father's Advice" was an amazing episode that had such great character development, soild writing and performances, manily from Mandy Moore, Milo Ventimiglia, Chrissy Metz, Sterling K. Brown and Susan Kelechi Watson. I really enjoyed the narration of Ron Cephas Jones' William reading/typing up his book that it just seemed to fitting. Was I tearing up through the episode? Yes. This was such a great first episode to start the season.

Overall, I give this episode a 9/10.

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

Supergirl Season 3 Promo: Hero's Journey

Here's a new trailer for the thrid season of Supergirl.

You can catch Supergirl season premiere Monday, Oct. 9th at 8/7c on The CW.