Rock but Solid Start: This Is Us "Deja Vu"

This episode was so beautifully written and performed.

"Deja Vu" is a beautiful episode that dives into two main storylines: one the fact that Kevin tries to put off the memories of his father during the shooting of his film along with Sylvester Stallone. When Kate get star struck with Sly, she mentions their father to him and it gets Kevin, who apparently hasn't grieved over the death of his father. And while filming the action scene when he saves Sly's character, Kevin gets a flashback of the night of his father's death and soon trips and breaks his bad leg.

The second story would be Randell and Beth meets with Deja Vu, who's brought to their home after her mother was arrested for charges. Things get dramatic quickly when Beth picks up Deja's mother's cigarettes and blows up in anger. Soon, Randell has Deja sit down with him and Beth as he tells her the story of how he was adopted into a family and hoping that she would embrace the adventures of a new life with a new family.

This episode was beautifully written with heartwarming moments with emotional turns. The performances from Sterling K. Brown and Justin Hartley were amazing. Even Stallone's performance, I think deserves an Emmy nod for Guest Appearance. Overall, I give this episode a 9/10.

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

"This Is Us" Cast Joining the Tonight Show After Super Bowl

Just if you just can't get enough of the Parsons (and who can't?). Expect a second helping when they join Jimmy Fallon on The Tonight Show Live in Minneapolis, Minn.

The stars of This Is Us, Milo Ventimiglia, Mandy Moore, Sterling K. Brown, Chrissy Metz and Justin Hartley, will appear in the post Bowl episode with Fallon along with the Super Bowl Halftime Show Justin Timberlake and Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson.

The Tonight Show will be filmed at Minneapolis' Orpheus Theatre, and will be preceded by a new episode of This Is Us as well at the late local news.

A.P. Bio New Comedy Series Coming to NBC.

There's a new series coming to NBC, from the executive producers Seth Myers Mike O'Brien and Lorene Michaels comes A.P. Bio.

The series is about Jack Griffin (played by Glenn Howerton), who's a philosophy scholar who missed his dream job. So instead of getting a job at Whitlock High School, teaching Advanced Placement Biology. With a class filled with honors students, Jack plans to misdirect Principle Durbin (Patton Oswalt) in order to use the students' talents to get back at his job-stealing nemesis.

The series will make a special premiere preview airing Thursday, February 1st on NBC.

Here's a promos:

Life In Pieces "Reading Egg Nurse Neighbor"

From telling about a different version of the chicken and the egg to a mother reading her own "fifty shades" style novel to people, this week's episode of Life In Pieces was a hoot.

"First Story: Reading with Joan"

When Joan leaves John mysterious, he figures out what she's up to and brings the family to her book reading, which happens to be a "Fifty Shades-style novel. With the family all excited, Joan wasn't and started to get stage fright. Finally, John gets everyone to leave, even though he was the one who threatened them to come in the first place. Joan reads her novel, and with the steamy scenes read out loud, the family hears, and after five seconds (with Greg lasting ten seconds), they leave quickly.

"Second Story: The Chicken and the Egg"

After Colleen reads the story about a chicken who ate Lark and Sophia, Sophia gets Matt and Colleen to tell her a story about the Chicken and the Egg that's about the same thing as what they're going through when trying to have a baby. Half of the report shows many animated farm animals in the Shots. After ending with a cliffhanger story, Colleen and Matt decide that after admitting to being scared of IVF, they should go for it.

"Third Story: Tim Hires a Nurse"

As Tim tries to decide on which nurse to hire from a line of resumes, Heather doesn't think some of them are right for the job. Tim doesn't like how she butts in and makes the final decision, but in the end, she does when Tim hires Cindy, a nurse who gets the job done and does magic as well. After apologizing to Heather, Heather tells the whole thing to Cindy, and she quits. So, I guess it's back to the drawing board.

"Four Story: New Neighbor"

When Greg and Jen get a wake-up call from a neighbor's dog, they assume it's the new neighbor. Trying to make a good impression first, they come over with story-bought brownies, and the two get along great and even comment about the dog that happens to be on the other side of them. When Greg and the neighbor go over to confront the dog owner, the new neighbor happens to give her his two cents and threaten her to shut the dog up, or it dies. Not only does that scare the dog owner, but Greg, too, tells Jen about it. The next day, Greg goes over to the dog owner's house and tries to apologize about the whole thing but doesn't accept the flowers and later sees the new neighbor watering the garden.


"Reading Egg Nurse Neighbor" is a good episode that had some excellent, memorable moments, from Joan reading her novel to Tim thinking that he had hired the nurse he wanted. The one story was The Chicken and the Egg, which had a good message about life and making the tough decision of IVF. It also showed excellent character growth between Matt and Colleen. And the animated story was perfect. Overall, I give this episode an 8/10.

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

Supergirl Mid-season Promo

Just a week away from the mid-season premiere of Supergirl and here's a look at Brainiac 5 from the Legion of Super-Heroes in a photo and new extended trailer episode titled "Legion of Superheroes."

In the episode, as she still struggling to heal from her injuries inflicted by Reign, Supergirl remains in a dreamlike state , unable to be reached Mon-El recruits one of the Legion members, Brainiac 5 to try to bring her back.

While that is going on, Reign continues her rampage on the city so the DEO teams up with the Legion of Superheroes to try to stop her. The episode is directed by Jesse Warn and written by Derek Simon and Eric Carrasco.

Supergirl returns with new episodes Monday, January 15th at 8/7c on The CW.

Here's the extended trailer:

Leap into Faith: The Good Place "Chapter 22: Leap to Faith"

Just when you thought that things could go wrong, it goes so so right.

Picking up from the cliffhanger from the previous episode, Shawn meets with Michael. Just when things start to intense, you would think that it's probably that Shawn figured out what Michael was doing, but turns out that he still thinks that phase two is a success. And gives Michael a promotion for his success.

Soon, Michael summons Eleanor, Chidi, Tahani and Jason and tells them (once again) that they're in he bad place in front of Shawn and a metal handcuffed Janet, who's drunk from the metal. Eleanor and the gang are pretty confused thinking that Michael went behind their backs but Eleanor thinks that Michael is still on their side.

With the town celebrating, Michael gives Eleanor, Chidi, Tahani and Jason a big celebrity roast, making fun of them one person at a time, and then throwing the biggest trash party in town, because it was going to be no more after. Soon, Vicky, who's been trying to get Michael to tell Shawn that she gets credit for the success, sees Michael talking into Janet's ear and tries to get Janet to tell her what he told her, not to mention trying to take the cuffs off her.

As soon as morning rise and the last song was to be played, Michael and Shawn sees that the gang is leaving on the train to the middle place. Upset about it, Shawn gets everyone on the train, that includes a troubled cocooned Vicky, who admitted that she tries to take the cuffs off Janet. When Michael gets Bad Janet to scan the place for the mortals, no one was found and soon the trains leaves.

As the train leaves, Eleanor, Chidi, Tahani, Jason and Janet were all underneath the train. Eleanor looks at Michael and gives one of the shocking most heartwarming moments of the episode as he was really with them. After a hug-fest, Eleanor explained how they, mostly her, figured out the clues that Michael left for them from mentioning Kierkegaard to Derek Borties, who's actual name is Blake Borites of the Jacksonville Jaguars and Jason's favorite QB, as signs for them to do like get Derek to drive the train to Mindy St. Clair making Shawn and them feel that they left.

This is the genius of what The Good Place is all about with great creative writing and strong characters that really enjoying but also gives you those twist and turns of is this happening. "Leap To Faith" might be the best episode so far this season, as this season has been a home run. Ted Danson, once again, shines in this episode playing Michael that you really don't know if he actually turns on Eleanor and the gang or not until the very end. I very much enjoyed this episode a lot. Overall, I give this episode a 10/10.

You can catch The Good Place Thursdays at 8:30/7:30c on NBC.

The Blacklist Abraham Stern (100th episode) Interview clips

We're just a couple of weeks away til the milestone 100th episode of The Blacklist. It's amazing that this show has made it this long on television and it's something to cherish. With that in mind, here's some interview clips from the cast about the show making it to 100 episodes and about the episode.

The Blacklist 100th episode will air Wednesday, January 17th at 8/7c on NBC.