Life In Pieces "Thirty-Five Teacher Escape Lottery"

From staying positive for a birthday to playing a game at home and trying to indict someone, this week's episode of Life in Pieces showed a lot of perfect moments.

"Story One: Jen's Birthday" 

It's Jen's 35th birthday, and she's unhappy about it. Greg tries to keep things positive and gives her another b-day card showing Clementine's picture. Greg thinks that having Clementine as Lark's babysitter would be great, but not to Jen. As Jen goes with Lark and Clementine to the park, she sees that Clementine is great. Things take shape when Greg, Jen, Clementine, and Lark go out for Jen's birthday, and the waitress accidentally thinks that Clementine is Lark's mother and Jen is Lark's grandmother. Jen drinks her way through her birthday cake, happens to have 53 on the cake, and soon falls asleep at the table.

"Story Two: Teacher's Pet"

Just as Heather and Sophia get going, they see Tyler and his friend, who happens to be Sophia's science teacher. What looked gross at the beginning for Sophia begins a special treatment from the teacher. But Tyler couldn't take his friend's kids, as they were acting out of control with him. So he had to break it up, and her teacher punished Sophia. But that all changed when Sophia bought flowers for her teacher and had them made by Tyler, and of course, she took stock.

"Story Three: Escape House"

When John wants to bond with his boys, he decides to get into the Escape house game that has been a hit around town. The game takes place in John's bedroom, and as soon as the game starts, they are locked from the inside and must find a way to get out, but when they see a moving van outside with the guy and crew taking John's stuff out, they realized that they're being robbed and they were with nothing left in the house.

"Story Four: Lottery"

After having lunch with Joan, Colleen is not only upset about being with Matt's mother but also that her lottery ticket was stolen from her and blames it on the valet guy. Matt thinks she had misplaced it and asked his mother to lie and say that she had found the ticket but wouldn't. So when Colleen and Matt drive back to the restaurant and ask for the valet guy, he doesn't work there after he quits. Matt tells Colleen that she has to acknowledge that she lost things, and she walks away, but Matt comes driving back after he finds the ticket in the car and asks her to forgive him. She did, of course.

This episode was excellent and funny most of the time. I find each one to be as humorist as the last one, but I enjoyed Jen's Birthday and the Lottery. The writing of this episode was excellent, and the performance from the cast was once again amazing. Overall, I give this episode an 8/10.

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

Victoria Season 2 Trailer and Clips

Just about a month away til the season 2 premiere of Victoria on Masterpiece. Here's some trailer and behind the scenes clips of season 2.

And even though we might get to see it air in the United States, here's a trailer for the Christmas Special that'll air this Christmas on ITV.

You can the second season of Victoria Sunday, January 14th at 9/8c on MASTERPIECE on PBS.

Twas the Night: Chicago Med "Naughty or Nice"

Twas the holiday in the air at Chicago Med, and all the doctors and nurses were doing their best to bring in the holiday cheer.  Okay, I'm not Charles Dicksens, but give me a little credit for coming up with that passage for this week's episode of Chicago Med.

With Christmas just around the corner, the doctors and nurses at Chicago Med face challenges that will define their professional and personal values. Let's start with Dr. Charles as he gets news about Kellogg, the man who shot him, was found dead in prison. The new Goodwin thinks that Charles should take a couple of days off to clear the air but instead takes on a patient who comes in pretty loony. But when Dr. Choi learns that the patient killed a priest, it doesn't settle with Charles as the patient freaks out and shocks him with the electric pedals. Of course, Charles tries to treat the patient the way he wanted to try with Kellogg, but after a check-up from Reese, who feels very bad about Kellogg's death, Charles takes Goodwin's offer to take a break.

April and Noah butted heads while taking care of a patient that has a sister who's a bit bossy. April tries to help Noah with the orders, but Noah sees she doesn't think he knows it. Seeing that the patient has the same symptoms as other patients in Chicago, it turned out with the help from Robyn that the Christmas tree that the patient got inflected with back bacteria from lousy soil. Weird, right? But in the end, April and Noah do forgive one another and have a nice moment looking at the brother and sister that they helped.

Manning and Halstead were faced with the challenge when it came to informing a health risk and Manning treating a pregnant woman for a check-up and coming to find out that it was Braxton hicks contractions.  Meanwhile, Halstead meets with the pregnant woman's husband, who looks pale as a zombie and gets a workup with the results showing that he has the Zika virus. The husband admitted to Halstead about being away with another woman and demanded not to tell his wife about it because the husband is a lawyer. Halstead tells Manning about it, and Manning tries to talk to the wife as they leave, but Halstead comes in with the last-second save as he calls the CDC to handle it.

Meanwhile, while it's Robyn's first day back, she works with April and Noah on the outbreak case. She seemed to hear noises in her office, thinking that her mental state wasn't well again. But after running a test with Reese, it showed nothing wrong. It turned out to be nothing, and I learned that the noises from her office were the air events getting fixed.

While Robyn was working and worrying, Rhodes took on a patient who fell off the ladder and had his organs move in places where fecal matter was in the patient's lungs. But he and Bekker team up to fix the patient, and as one of the nurses says, they like Jordan and Pippen. I second that with their perfect chemistry, even though there still seems to be some bad blood there.

Not to mention, Goodwin faced the challenges of the hospital's broken system once again when Santa, who was waiting in the waiting room, died, and his family got a $1600 bill. Goodwin takes it with the Troll and feels they should pay for it. Goodwin took it to the board and got the bill taken off. But the Board didn't like the way Goodwin did that and might be thinking of removing her from her job.

"Naughty or Nice" was an exciting, intense (at times) and joyful hour of television. There was excellent character growth and a perfect continued storyline of Charles and even Reese with the Kellogg story. I thought that this was Dr. Charles's best episode. Even though I love the #Manstead story, I like the chemistry between Rhodes and Bekker. I can't wait to see where these two, along with Robyn, will go. The writing was so good, and the performance from Platt was excellent. Overall, I give this episode an 8.5/10.

You can catch Chicago Med when it returns Tuesday, Jan. 2nd at 10/9c on NBC.

24th annual SAG Awards Nominations

The nominations for the 24th annual Screen Actor Guild Awards were announced Wednesday and HBO's Big Little Lies and Netflix series GLOW led the field with four nods. 

The 2018 SAG Awards will be simulcast live on both TNT and TBS on Sunday, Jan. 21st with the first ever host hosted by The Good Place star Kristen Bell.

Here are the nominations:

Drama Ensemble

Game of Thrones
The Crown
Stranger Things
The Handmaid's Tale
This Is Us

Drama Actress

Millie Bobby Brown, Stranger Things
Claire Foy, The Crown
Laura Linney, Ozark
Elisabeth Moss, The Handmaid's Tale
Robin Wright, House of Cards

Drama Actor

Jason Bateman, Ozark
Sterling L. Brown, This Is Us
Peter Dinklage, Game of Thrones
David Harbour, Stranger Things
Bob Odenkirk, Better Call Saul

Comedy Ensemble

Black-ish
Curb Your Enthusiasm
GLOW
Orange Is the New Black
VEEP

Comedy Actress

Uzo Aduba, Orange is the New Black
Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Veep
Jane Fonda, Grace and Frankie
Lily Tomlin, Grace and Frankie
Alison Brie, GLOW

Comedy Actor

Anthony Anderson, Black-ish
Aziz Ansari, Master of None
Larry David, Curb Your Enthusiasm
Sean Hayes, Will & Grace
William H. Macy, Shameless
Marc Maron, GLOW

TV Movie or Miniseries Female Actor

Nicole Kidman, Big Little Lies
Reese Witherspoon, Big Little Lies
Susan Sarandon, FEUD: Bette and Joan
Jessica Lange, FEUD: Bette and Joan
Laura Dern, Big Little Lies

TV Move or Miniseries Male Actor

Benedict Cumberbatch, Sherlock
Jeff Daniels, Godless
Robert De Niro, The Wizard of Lies
Geoffery Rush, Genius
Alexander Skarsgard, Big Little Lies

Stunt Team

Game of Thrones
GLOW
Homeland
Stranger Things
The Walking Dead

Victoria Renewed for Season 3

After we've seen Jenna Coleman's Victoria ascended to the throne and married Prince Albert, ITV has ordered a third season for the hit royal drama show, the Official Twitter account announced.

The new season will follow the next chapter in the monarch's eventful life and will see Coleman and Tom Hughes, who plays Albert, both return. The second season, that aired on ITV in the fall, averaged 4 million viewers, which was down slightly down from the first season.

Creator Daisy Goodwin said that season three will begin in 1848, a "hugely dramatic and eventful" time for the royals as revolutions across Europe created uncertainty around the monarchy. "Viewers can expect more drama than ever before in the third series," she added.

PBS airs Victoria and will air the second season in January. Questions on whether the Christmas special will air this December in the US is unknown, but it will air on ITV. Here's a trailer.

Homeland Season 7 (2018) | Official Trailer | Claire Danes & Mandy Patin...

Here's the first trailer for season seven of Homeland. Things get very intense this season.







Homeland returns this February on Showtime.

Supergirl Cast This Is Us Actress Who's Connected to Reign.

Kara may have gotten her butt handed to her by Regn during the fall finale of Supergirl, but a new development in 2018 could turn that around in a good way.

TVLine had learned exclusively that Krys Marshall (This Is Us) will recure in the second half of the CW drama's third season. Marshall will be playing Julia Freeman, a 20-something musician  living near National City who holds clues to Reign's true identity.

It's not clear on how Julia will play into the fight against Reign, but when the former executive producer Andrew Kreisberg told TVLive that "Supergirl is about to face her greatest nemesis in the three years that we've been doing the show... so it's going to take all the allies that she can muster to take Reign down."

Along appearing on This Is Us, Marshall has had small screen credit that includes roles in One Day at a Time and How I Met Your Mother.

Supergirl returns Monday, Jan. 15 at 8/7c with a reun of news episodes, befoe handing the time slot ove to DC's Legends of Tomorrow on Monday, Feb. 1. Supergirl will return on Monday, April 16 until it's season finale on Monday, June 18th.