Life In Pieces "Treasure Ride Poker Hearing"

From Getting a good Uber passenger rating to learning to get a hearing aid, this episode was another excellent episode of Life in Pieces.

The MVP stories of this episode happen to be "The Pick-Up Artist," as Jen tries to use her niece to get a better Uber Passenger rating, "Queens are Wild," as Joan faces her neighbor who happens to want something in return for her poker game, but what the neighborhood doesn't know is Joan has specific poker skills. Also, the "Hearing and Loathing" comes when John has to face getting hearing aids.

"X Mark the Spot" had some excellent humor moments, but it didn't stand out like the other three stories in this episode.

I thought the writing was good, along with some outstanding performances from the cast in this episode. I liked the character growth in this episode as well. Overall, I give this episode an 8/10.

You can catch Life in Pieces on Thursdays at 9:30/8:30 on CBS.

Life In Pieces "Bunny Single Nightmare Drinking"

From awkward dinner to one hell of a nightmare, this episode of Life in Pieces was another half-hour of many laughs.

"Bunny Single Nightmare Drinking" was an excellent and hilarious episode. The first story of Jen and Greg trying to figure out what her boss' wife's name is was hilarious and memorable. Even with Tyler trying to move on from Clementine, he dates a mother who happens to have children and moves in with him. The funniest part of that story happens to be Tyler and his father, Tim, bonded, and Tim enjoys his son's happiness, which he wasn't.

When it comes to Matt's nightmare of having a child seems so natural as he learns that Colleen is expecting four children and has to move back in with his parents. It was probably the second-best story of the episode.

The last story has Heather thinking that her mom is drinking too much. But it's Heather causing her to drink more as she's trying to spend time with her. Joan admits to Greg and Matt about it and, during that moment, talks about how Heather deleted their shows, even JAG (who, by the way, is way better than NCIS). Joan finally does something about it when she gets a contractor to help fix Heather's house so they can get out.

I very much enjoyed this episode. Each one brought enough laughs and good moments to keep me entertained. The writing was good, and the performances from the cast were just as good as it has been. Overall, I give this episode an 8/10.

You can catch Life in Pieces on Thursdays at 9:30/8:30 on CBS.

Life In Peices "Settlement Pacifier Attic Unsyncing" Season Premiere

The Short family is back and bringing the laughs once again.

"Settlement"

In the first story, after the season finale, when Matt and Colleen got married and had an accident at their honeymoon hotel, they met with the hotel lawyer to settle a settlement. When the lawyer showed them their offer of 2 Million dollars, it was by far the quickest decision they've made, even though Jen was not.

After settling the money, they get the family together and pay them back the best way possible, with a cash grab machine. Next, they announced to the family that after grabbing their money from the cash grab, they'd take that money and head to Las Vegas. There it was, Party City in the rental van, but Jen got the news to Matt and Colleen about their settlement that the hotel filed for bankruptcy.

It was soon after Matt and Colleen told the entry family about the news and asked that they wouldn't open any more champagne and to give them back the money that they grabbed as well. But Tim opened a bottle just after they were done talking.

"Pacifier" 

It's one of the hardest for a parent to do when they try to get their child off the pacifier, but for Jen and Greg, it was memorable.

When Jen and Greg's daughter needs her pacifier to sleep, they conclude that they need to get rid of it with a straightforward idea: send the pacifier to the pacifier fairy. The next day, they told their daughter about how they needed to send her pacifier away or the pacifier monster would come. So they get the family together and throw a pacifier goodbye party, and as soon as the pacifier is flying on balloons, it gets stopped by the power lines, and it's stuck.

That night, the daughter still sees her pacifier hanging from the power line and screams for her parents. Just as you would think that Jen and Greg handled the situation fine, they didn't and are sleeping with their daughter in her crib.

"Attic" 

This third story of the episode seemed to be shorter than the rest as it dives into more of Sophia and her grandpa John.

As Heather and her family lost their home due to a fire, they're living with John and Joan, and Sophia isn't too happy about it. She gets caught by the cops after riding the lawn mower and throwing eggs in the neighborhood. John thinks that she needs to be disciplined and does so by having her go into the attic and see what is making the noises. Just as he checks back with her, she's gone, and he tries to get Tank looking for her.

After freaking out a woman and her child, Joan tells John where Sophia might be where she feels safe, and that means she's at her house (that got burned). Sophia tells him that she doesn't know how to live in any other place besides her own house, and John replies that his home is her home, not to mention that she is her favorite grandchild. The two hugged and left right after the shelves collapsed.

"Unsyncing"  

After announcing their marriage last season, Tyler makes another announcement to his family about how he and Clementine are getting a divorce. Heather and Tim try to find out why and learn that Tyler and Clementine feel that having to talk about boring stuff and having sex five times a week isn't enough.

So Tyler and Clementine have settled. They arranged that they'd still be together as best friends and still have that relationship but only to date other people, which was easy for her and not for Tyler.

As Tyler drives Clementine to her date, he freaks to his parents about how bad the idea is and how good-looking the new guy is.

This episode was excellent. That had some fantastic stories and some that didn't. The one story that stood out was the Pacifier one, as not only Colin Hanks and Zoe Lister-Jones once again are hilarious. Ana Sophia Heger, who plays Lark Short (Greg and Jen's daughter), really stole the story and probably the episode. The other was The Attic, with Giselle Eisenberg as Sophia and James Borlin's Grandpa John having a good, short moment. The Settlement and Unsynicing was okay, but it wasn't as good as the others. Overall, I give this episode an 8/10.

You can catch Life In Pieces on Thursdays at 9:30/8:30 on CBS.

Gut Reaction: Chicago Med "Trust Your Gut"

Sometimes you just got to trust your gut in risky situation.

"Trust Your Gut" literally means what it means when it comes to this episode.You can have all the knowledge you want but it's your gut instinct that will help you figure it out. With one patient, who comes in with a cut on his gut, trying t explain that there's something inside of him. After meeting with Dr. Charles and Reese, the patient pulls out his intestate and rush to the OR to fix, but that wasn't the strange thing at all as the surgeons found a tumor that happens to be vanishing twin syndrome.

Another patient comes in with Dr. Manning and Choi treating who had no clue what was wrong with her at all. The parents blamed her brother for it, thinking it was drugs, but it wasn't. After a harsh moment with the brother and his parents, Choi talks to the brother about him and the drug use. The brother opens up about the pain in his gut after eating a burger and soon after Choi and Manning rush to the OR to stop a transplant to test the liver and comes to a conclusion that the patient and her brother sufferers from OTC or Omithine Transcarbamylase deficiency.

And Bekker and Rhodes butt-heads on the treatment of the patient who just had surgery. When the patient doesn't look so good, Bekker thinks other options that the patient needs now, but Rhodes wants to do it his way and trust his gut that with the treatment he's given will work and it did.

The episode was had so many good moments, that really made you think of the cause with the cases that the doctors were treating. The writing of this episode was so good and kept me interested the whole hour. The performances from the cast was really good and that everyone had equal good performances. Overall, I give this episode a 8.5/10.

You can catch Chicago Med Tuesdays at 10/9c on NBC.

Unleash Crazy Amy!!: Superstore "Christmas Eve"

Unleash Crazy Amy!!!

In this Christmas episode of Superstore, the staff doesn't think that Amy could do anything dangerous after she thinks of the things that she would want to do in the new year. Meanwhile, Glenn tries to show Mateo the true meaning of Christmas in the store.

With Christmas nearing, Amy thinks of the things that she would want to do in the new year to improve her life from getting a tattoo or maybe another haircut. But when the staff doesn't think she will, she tells a story about how she once stole her teacher's car to go to Burger King and left it there. With still no one believing her, Amy calls Adam, her ex husband, to back her up but when she calls she calls him from her daughter's friend's mother place.

Later on Amy begins her Crazy Amy or Cramy and starts the holiday party with booze and hot chocolate. Amy, Cheyenne and Dina look up the lady that Adam is staying thinks that they should go over there, but being under the influence instead of taking a car they take the next best thing....motorized carts!!!  They reach the house and Amy realized what a bad mistake this is but they go in anyway and soon after Adam clarified about the teacher's car, they left after an awkward moment about him dating their daughter's friend's mother. And after both Amy, Cheyenne and Dina left but not without taking some decorations and riding on their carts.

Meanwhile, the Christmas spirit isn't in with Mateo, so Glenna tries to show him the meaning throughout the store. One moment comes when Glenn sees an solider and his wife that he thought he's back to be with his family but in turns out that he is back home after getting high and accidental shot someone but also that his wife's baby might not be his.

After so not so merry moments for Glenn to show, he comes up one last thing that he's been trying to do through this episode, he turns on the Christmas lights there were displayed all over the store with such a warm and tender moment. Mateo thought it was till stupid but Glenn knew he likes it.

Not to mention Jonah and Garrett get into it with gifts to show how annoying they are living together. They take this argument all they way to when they had to dress up as Santa and his elf for a kid to get his photo taken with Santa. Jonah hides out and talks with Kelly about it and soon they go out and gives Garrett some time to be alone as a gift. But also he missed the Christmas lights that Amy thought he would loved.

"Christmas Eve" was hilarious and one to remember for a while. The unleash of Crazy Amy was really good and American Ferrera along with Lauren Ash and Nicole Bloom were amazing and hilarious. Those three have really strong chemistry onscreen. Not to mention watching them riding on motorized cart drunk was funny. The Glenn and Mateo was really good at times and stood out the best when Glenn turned on the Christmas lights. The writing of this episode was very good. Overall, I give this episode a 8.5/10.

You can catch Superstore when they return in January on NBC.

Good Girls trailer

Coming to NBC this February, a new drama crime series that follows three suburban women who are having a hard time trying to make ends meet. When they decide to pull off an unlikely heist by robbing a supermarket, only to discover that they're in the for more than they bargained. Their successful robbery attracts the attention of the store manager after he recognizes one of the women, but for a different reason altogether tied to the money.

Starring Christin Hendricks (Mad Men, ER), Retta (Parks and Recreation), Maw Whitman (Parenthood). Created and executive produced by Jenna Bans (Scandal, Grey's Anatomy and Desperate Housewives).

Here's a trailer:

You can catch the series premiere of Good Girls  Monday, February 26th on NBC.

The Devil is Coming: Supergirl Regin" Fall Finale

I know, Alex, that thing scares the hell out of me, too.

The first episode that I've been building up for, and by all means, this was an excellent one.

After the previous episode's events (two weeks ago), Kara is still dealing with Mon-El and his wife. Samantha is falling behind on her duties at work and with her daughter, and joining Kara's Christmas party with family and friends seems to calm her down.

As the Christmas party was underway, Kara and J'onn got a call of a message at an area site that had a statement that she knows as a Krypton language. Later, they see more and more of these along with people, one example being a street gang getting killed and even trying to attack Edge.

Kara gets help from Thomas Coville about the messages left there, and he tells her that the world killer is coming and will reign upon them. After seeing the signs from Reign, Kara makes her character, and soon, the call is answered.

Kara and Reign meet for the first time, and after a couple of chats, the two battle it out. From the air to the cargo ship, they fight to the streets, where it becomes a public viewing. Reign gives Kara a run for her money as she gets knocked out pretty well, with blood coming from her head, which surprises her. Kara comes back swinging and gives more, but Reigns comes back with more and takes Kara up to the roof of the building. Kara, defenseless, tells Reign that she's not afraid of her, and soon, Reign gives Kara one final punch and lets her fall to the ground, where she is lifeless.

Alex rushes and gets her back to the DEO in the emergency room, where they had to tube her to help her breathe. There, everyone from Winn, J'onn, Mon-E,l, and all watch as they see the Girl of Steel in serious condition.

Meanwhile, on Christmas Day, Sam's daughter comes down the stairs to see her mom, but her mother is gone and leaves with a frightening ending.

"Reign" was the darkest, most intense episode of the season, let alone the series so far. After this season of the character Reigns, the episode builds up more and more even as Kara learns and finally meets with Reign. Reign is probably one of the darkest villain characters in the series. The performance from Odette Annable was terrific, and her scenes with Melissa Benoist were such a thrill of intensity. The writing of this episode was so good. Overall, I give this episode a 9/10.

Supergirl returns with a new episode on January 15th at 8/7c on The CW.