Parson No Fly Zone This Is Us "The Fifth Wheel"

"This Is Us" returns from a it's holiday hiatus and returns with one of the most overwhelming emotional episodes of the season. But just one thing: Stay away from the Parson's No Fly Zone.

After being arrested and placed in a rehab center, Kevin and the family (mainly Kate, Rebecca and Randall)  talked into a therapy session about Kevin's addiction, where true feelings come out. Kevin comes out to Rebecca of how she favors Randall while Jack favors Kate growing up. Meanwhile, Miguel, Beth and Toby have their therapy session about living with the Parsons.

"The Fifth Wheel" comes in strong from start to finish with excellent writing. If you are have been watching this season, you could instantly understand the meaning of the title for the episode. The performances from the cast from Justin Hartley and Mandy Moore was outstanding with full emotional driven. Not to mention that Brown and Metz gave a great performance to, mostly coming during the therapy session that really stood out from the episode.

I'd very much enjoyed this episode from start to finished. The performances from Hartley and Moore deserve award nominations for this episode, with their performance from the therapy session to the end of the episode of why Kevin really doesn't get the love or extra attention that Kate and Randall gotten. The writing was outstanding that should be considered for award consideration.

Overall, I give this episode a 9.5/10.

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

This Is Us "The 20's"/"The Most Disappointed Man"

"The 20's"

"The 20's" was a fun and emotional episode as well. Watching a lot of flashbacks of the ten year olds of Big Three trick or treating to learning about a death and then flashing forward to their twenties. Kevin, in his twenties, tries to steal a role from a roommate, Randall and Beth are soon to have a baby and a get a surprise for the first time parents.

Meanwhile, Rebecca, who signs up for Facebook, posts her first granddaughter photo, but gets a message from an old friend. Miguel messages her to see how she's been doing in the last eight years, probably since Jack's death or so.

Overall, I give this episode a 8.5/10.

"The Most Disappointed Man"

Just as Jack and Rebecca are about to adopted Randall, the judge somehow doesn't support it. But after Rebecca gives a convincing speech, the judges grants them the right to adoption. William, even though has been clean, pleads guilty on drug charges but when the judge visits him in jail, he offers to reduce his sentence and to get some help. But in return, William must keep the judge's promise, for which he did, until he gets news about his cancer diagnosis.

Randall takes Deja to visit her mother in prison, but the mother declines the visit. But when Randall visits, the mother tells him that she plans to take her daughter back.

While that was going on, Kevin and Sophie's relationship takes another dive and continues to drink and take abuse the pain meds again. And Toby and Kate tells Kevin about their pregnancy announcement and was consider to get married at city hall but decided to have a big one instead.

"The Most Disappointed Man" was another amazing episode that gripped with emotional storytelling. The performances from Mandy Moore and Ron Cephas Jones steal this episode by far from the other cast members, who also did an amazing job. The writing was strong. Overall, I give this episode a 9/10.

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

This Is Us "Still There" /"Brothers"

This Is Us just keeps getting better and better.

"Still There"

"Still There" is another amazing episode that shows really good character growth. Randall and Deja connect with what they have, which is anxiety and invites her to what helps him the best to deal with that running. Also standing up for her was a real moment for Deja to see how much Randall cares for her.

Meanwhile, after having knee surgery, Kevin continues on using pain meds, leading up for the character for a spiral. And Kate finds out that she's pregnant. Also we get to see how Rebecca stands up to her mother, calling her a racist and coming to terms on how right Rebecca is about Randall.

Overall, I give this episode a 9/10.

"Brothers"

With the announcement of Kate's pregnancy from Kate and Toby. Kevin drinks and tries to get more refiles of his pain meds. But with his involvement of Sophie's auction, it don't go well and makes a huge mess between them.

But the storyline has to be when Jack takes Kevin and Randall out camping and learning about his father dying at the same time. Jack may not want to say goodbye to him, but Rebecca made the effort to meet along with Kate as well. But later we see Jack looking at a photo of him along with others in the army. But it turns out that in Jack's childhood, we get to learn a shocking news that Jack has a brother, who makes an appearance when Jack awaits their father at a bar drinking.

"Brothers" is another great accomplishment episode that showed emotions, mostly into the fatherhood. It did struck a personal note for me to say the least. Milo's performance was amazing as he has always shown, along with Hartley and Brown's performance as well. Overall, I give this episode a 9/10.


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

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.