To Play and Capture: Blindspot ""Fix My Present Havoc"/"City Folks Under Wraps (Fall Finale)"

"Fix My Present Havoc" 

When Roman leads the team to Dr. Margaret Palmieri, the director of a cancer drug trail, who actually is accepting bribes. When they interview one of the trail's participants, Jane and Weller come face to face with his husband: the one eared man.

When  they captured him, they learn that he is Eric Vance, en ex-US Marshal and he reveals that Hirst blackmailed him into working for her by threatening to force Palmieri to withdrawn his husband from the drug trail. He agrees to testify against Hirst if they arrest Palmieri.

But when Palmieri plans to release a deadly virus in order to become rich by selling the cure. But she's stopped by Weller. Meantime, Hirst is on to Reade and his team as she tries to get Reade to fire Zapata from the team. And not to mention that when Vance was put in Witness Protection, she gets killed shorty after telling Weller that Hirst knows that they've been investigating her.

This episode was on thrill ride from beginning to end with the Hirst storyline coming into place. By the end of the episode, I wanted to get to the next episode quickly. Overall, I give this episode a 8.5/10.

"City Folks Under Wraps (Fall Finale)" 

In the winter premiere, in a game of cat and mouse, Hirst tries to stop Reade and his team from exposing her. But Roman demands Weller to kill her now since Vance is dead. The game begins when Hirst frames Patterson for Stuart's murder.

The team tries to get Patterson out and with Rich's help. Patterson and Zapata meet up while Weller and Jane were back at the FBI trying to get into Hirst's office. But when they get caught, Weller gets taken into questioning along with Rich while Reade watches and plays along with Hirst's game.

When Zapata follows the lead from Patterson that found an obtains an audio recording of Hirst killing Stuart. The recording got to be played over the FBI intercom and Hirst is arrested for under. But soon Hirst reveals her people have kidnapped Zapata, forcing Reade to help her escape. Jane and Weller track them and free Reader and Zapata but manage to arrest Hirst again and not to kill her.

Meanwhile, Roman meets Blake's father, Hank Crawford, who's Hirst is employed by. He and Roman get close and hoping that he would help protect her.

But the ending was the shocking moment at the end of the episode, to no longer being blackmail by Roman, Weller tells Jane his secret from Berlin that he killed her daughter.

This was an intense and thrilling episode that was good from the beginning to the end. Even the shocking moment of Weller telling Jane that he killed her daughter was a moment that I didn't think it would come but he had to do it to get Roman off his back. Overall, I give this episode a 8.5/10.

You can catch Blindspot Fridays at 8/7c on NBC.

Protect and Suspect: Blindspot "This Profound Legacy"/Adoring Suspect"

"This Profound Legacy"

When the team investigates a series of arson attacks, it leads them to the kind of the nation of Kazarus, who's being targeted by his uncle, the current king. Weller and Jane must save and protect Vanya from his uncle but by the time that happens at the end of the episode his uncle is dead and he takes the rightful ownership as the king of Kazarus.

Meanwhile, looking for Jane's child has becomes the new hunt over the tattoos. But Roman tells Jane that Shepherd forced her to give up her daughter. But it is revealed at the end of the episode that Weller, who was searching for Jane in Berlin, met with her daughter Avery, who was also looking for her. Could this be what Roman was talking about to Weller about Berlin?

This was a very good episode. Interesting and thrilling at times. Overall, I give this episode a 8/10.

"Adoring Suspect"

Come on, you loved this episode too. Probably one of your favorites?

This might be my favorite episode of the season if you want to watch a very entertaining episode of Blindspot. When Weller goes undercover in Hollywood to investigate a connection to a famous actor Keith Rhodes, to a notorious crime boss. Coming to learn that the crime boss is suing Rhodes's producer as a front to ship Weapons of Mass Destruction all over the world and planning a chemical attack in America. But Weller and Jane stop the attack and arrest the crime boss.

Roman encounters with Blake Crawford again and the two grow closer. Jane decides that maybe it's not worth looking for her daughter and Hirst issues a threat to Reade after he confronts her about the connections to Kevin Loewe. That lead Reade to joining Jane, Weller, Patterson, Zapata and Rich to help bring Hirst down after they have had suspicions for a while.

"Adoring Suspect" has to be one of my favorite episodes of the season, passing the second and third episode of the third season. It was just an entertaining hour that should sides of humor and the dramatic of the show. Overall, I give this episode a 9/10.

You can catch Blindspot Fridays at 8/7c on NBC.

Partnerships and Surprises: Blindspot "Upside Down Craft"/"Gunplay Ricochet"

"Upside Down Craft"

After last week's episode, this one was really one to laugh over.

When Jane and Weller arrest a financial tycoon, his lawyer says that his client was framed by an anonymous hacking group known as the Three Blind Mice. When we learn that Patterson and Rich Dotcom were the former members of the group, but there's a third member out there, Kathy, who has been causing the hacks.

When the FBI questions Kathy, Patterson works her magic and uses a backdoor in the app that she created to help prove Loewe is guilty or corporate sabotage. But soon Kathy realizes that Patterson and Rich were the other Mice and kidnaps them and tries to force them to perform criminal hacks. But Patterson manages to get a signal to Weller's team to rescue them.

Even thought Reade has suspicion that Patterson and Rich were the other members of the Mice, he didn't go forward in pursing them due to lack of evidence and suggest that Jane's new tattoos were to intended to reveal secrets the teams needs to keep hidden.

Later, Patterson continues to investigate the tattoo that Stuart was working on and found out that it was a linked to Van Gogh.

"Upside Down Craft" might be one of my favorite Patterson-Doctom episodes with their rich and comedic chemistry of characters. The episode holds up to be very good in storytelling and not to mention keep you engage to their story. Overall, I give this episode a 8/10.

"Gunplay Ricochet"

"Gunplay Ricochet" was another good hour of television that had not just one but a few very shocking reveals about Jane when they meet a man that they're going after and the most shocking news of all: Jane has a child. And questions begins to ask about how loyal can Reade be when Zapata sees  him with Secretary of State.

Overall, I give this episode a 8.5/10.

You can catch Blindspot Fridays at 8/7c on NBC.

Welcome to The Bad Place: The Good Place "Chapter 4: Rhonda Diana, Jake and Trent"

As the gang gets to the Bad Place, they must pass as on of their own and get into the portal to see the judge. What could possibility go wrong, right?

As Eleanor, Michael and the gang headed to the Bad Place, Michael tells them the plan of how they'll go and get to the portal to see the judge. But they must wear disguises to look like one of them: Tahani as Rhonda, Eleanor as Diana, Jason as Jake Brotles and Chidi as Trent. As they get there, Michael places them in the museum of the first to go into the bad place so they could wait there while he go get the pins that will get them through the portal. Thinking that no one would be coming in there, think again as a celebration would happen soon and Eleanor and the gang would have to mingle.

Meanwhile, Michael meets with Shaun about his plans to go to the judge, but Shaun denies it and shows him what he has in store for the humans. Going to a board room with other board members, Shaun tells Michael that he send a team to go to middle place to get the humans but instead they find Mindy with Derek having fun. As Shaun finds out that the humans weren't there, Michael sneaks out with some of the board members jackets that has those pens.

As Michael runs back to Eleanor and the gang, they happen to see what the celebration was about: the success of the good place and the four robotic copies of themselves. And just as Michael gets to them, some of the people that recognized them and soon Shaun gets there as well. In a sticky situation, the one man saves them as Jason pulls one of his cocktails that he says works and used it to get away.

As they get to the portals, Michael gives three of the pens to Tahani, Jason and Chidi and as they all went in, Michael couldn't find a forth one. That was until Shaun was coming and decides to pull off the Trolley problem and gave Eleanor his pen and pushes her off into the portal.

"Rhonda, Diana, Jake and Trent" was a fun half hour episode that brought a lot of witty comedy of it's props of the Bad Place from iHop to Axe spray (don't try the new Transformers as it smells sweaty and confused) and not to mention the Bad Place museum. Watching the characters blend in with the folks of the bad place was a step up for Chidi, even though he hates to lie, he really just lied with the truth of what torches someone the best: books.

The episode still holds up to be good and still keeps you guessing thinking that they might all go through the portal. But when they do, a surprise and emotional move from Michael in sacrificing his own pen to give to Eleanor and stay behind.

What happens next? Eleanor seems to be the leader of the group now with the guidance of Janet. Will they move on or go back to save Michael? Will we see Michael again? Many questions to ask and just a couple of weeks left for the season.

Overall, I give this episode a 9/10.

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

The Thrill of the Hunt: The Blacklist "Abraham Stern (No. 100)"

Nothing like a milestone episode go hunting for a legendary treasure and give a throwback to a former blacklister.

When Red finds a famous penny that leads to a hidden treasure, he's over the moon for because well he loves a good mystery. But when he gets road sided by Abraham Stern, that penny is gone and Red gets the FBI to get it back. Unfortunately, there just to seem to be one more penny left for Stern to take and it's at a auction.

When Ressler and Samar get there to the auction, they were tipped that the penny might be counterfeit and gets placed in the police evidence lock room. With Stern gone, Red ask for Liz about how he could get something out of the evidence room and after she explains to him about it, she offered to go in there and plant some.

Of course, Liz would help her father no matter what, but in this case she's got a bit of road detour when she killed the man that knows who killed Tom. After cleaning up his apartment, the police get there and see the place clean and as they looked around they found a blooded cloth in the sink trash disposal. So with Red's penny at the evidence along with that bloody towel, Liz goes in there with backup in this case with Glenn.

As Glenn and Liz get there, Glenn suffers a heart attack and Liz goes in there and grabs not only the penny but the towel too. As soon as Red gets the penny, Red meets with Stern and talk about story behind the mystery. Stern tells him about how his father never had everything but when he died he left him with four pennies to find a treasure because he didn't want Stern to be like him. So after talks and gave a split deal, they learn about the pennies and that it gives a map to a place in Denver and a message that leads to the highest security banks in the world. 

As Red gets his team to help Stern, they go in but Stern has other plans with his money and places Red back in the truck. But if you know Red, he never gives up or should I say always has a plan B in place when his team comes in and gets the vacuum to suck up a vent that apparently leads to where Stern's money is placed and when they started grabbing, the vacuum machine turns on and sucks all the money to Red's van.

As soon as things were getting close to done, Red calls Cooper about that Stern is at the National Bank and tells him that he doesn't feel that he should go along with him. But as Red says "I know you always get your man." And they did.

As for Liz, she not only sneaks in the Police evidence lock up but also sneaks in the FBI files and grabs a file of one of the most deadliest blacklisters of all, The Stewmaker. She uses what the Stewmaker did to his victims and used it on the man that she killed. As his body was decomposing, she finds a plastic eye in the drain that has a message or something in it.

When she meets up with Red at a pawn shop, Red gives the only penny left and turned it in for what is Winston Churchill's hat. But the one thing they talked about was Liz pretty much going rouge to find Tom's killer and she asked him for help. Red responded with a yes and a new storyline begins for the rest of the fifth season it looks like.

"Abraham Stern" was, for it to be the 100th episode of The Blacklist, literally one to remember among shows that reach this milestone. It had just the mixture of what The Blacklist is all about with humor and thrilling drama and not to mention the twist of course. Near the end of the episode when Liz and Red talked about how she was handling with one of the men who helped killed Tom, Red talking to her about how dangerous it is. It seems that from that point we come to the opposite of where these two characters were in the pilot. The Red and Cooper scenes were amazing and so funny while the chemistry between Nathan Lane and James Spader was just undeniable and so good. Looks like the fun begins for the rest of the season.

Overall, I give this episode a 9/10.

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

Good Guy, Bad Guy, Good Guy: he Blacklist "The Informant (No. 118)"

It seems that Ressler's troubles are finally catching up to him in this episode.

When a gas attack killed many people at a gathering, Red seems that The Informant is the one that's behind it and gets the FBI team, without Liz, to search for him. Ressler and Samar catches with a suspect that when they catch him, Ressler gets the call from the real Informant and tells him to let the guy go or word of what he did to the National Security Adviser will be revealed.

Of course, Ressler plays to him but stops when Red calls him and wants to talk to him about it. Red had known for a while that Ressler was apart of the informant, hell he didn't think it would last this long. Ressler and Red work together and meet with the judge that happen to get the informant out of trouble and blame someone else. There she tells Red and Ressler and agreed to talk but quickly jumps off out the building, killing herself.

Ressler meets with The Informant in public along with his family and tries to arrest him, but quickly chases him til Red gives the guy a door to the chest. Ressler arrested The Informant and decides to take the consequences of what he did to the NSA, but apparently the Informant died in a car crash fire on the way to prison, thanks to Red.

Ressler and Red chat for a while about what went down and Ressler steals a bottle of whisky, I would believe for what he just went through.

In the meantime, Liz has been a real busybody when it comes to search for the man that was in the room when her and Tom were almost killed. She gets to one guy, who happens to be holding money and gets him to take her to his boss. Now the guy that she meets is the one who happen to be dancing and mashing stuff during that fall finale episode (just to remind you all).

As Liz talks to the guy and demands answers to her questions, the guy attacks her again. But this time, she kills him as he falls into a glass metal coffee table.

"The Informant" was a really good comeback story after the Liz episode the week before. Finally we get a Ressler episode and this one I really did enjoy as he tries to break and fix what he calls a crime. But everyone breaks the rules at some point in their lives,, Cooper, Liz and yes even Red. There were a lot of good moments, mostly between Ressler and Red. Overall, I give this episode a 8/10.

You can catch The Blacklist as they celebrate they're 100th episode Wednesday, Jan. 17th at 8/7c on NBC.

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Redemption Part One: The Blacklist "Ruin"

In the winter premiere of The Blacklist, Liz seeks to peace but comes face to face with a challenge.

After the events in the fall finale, we find Liz living in the cabin in the woods with a dog, trying to seek peace and quiet. But when her dog, Kate, spots someone hurt outside of her cabin she brings him in and helps him. But when a storm is coming and trying to seek help, she gets visitors, who says that they're with the injured man, but really not.

Liz gets that feeling and tries to keep track of them and help the injured man out. That injured man tells her that he's not with them and soon tries to come up with a way to get help. With the transponder damaged and a ranger dead, she faces the challenge of taking them down.

As she takes the injured man out of the cabin, she takes out the men one by one until the leader, who happened to be chewing broken glass in ice throughout the episode, chases her throughout the woods to the ranger station and get soaked in chemicals. But when they come face to face again, Liz let that guy have with a flair gun, burning him to death.

She leaves the cabin and the woods like if she wasn't there: no finger prints or a photo ID. Hell, everyone in town only new her by her alias name. Soon, after Liz drops the injured guy at the hospital she splits and sees Red. She thanks him for not having her followed or protected and tell him that she's going to get revenge for Tom's death. 

"Ruin" might as down as one of the best episodes of the fifth season, or probably of all next to "Cape May." Megan Boone shines through this episode with a powerful performance that I think that is worthy of an Emmy nomination. You can see the physical emotions of this episode for the character as we see her getting back to physical shape and meeting with Tom's mother to take Agnus away in flashbacks. I hate to say that this was a redemption kind of episode but it really is but I would go as far as part one of her redemption process with getting Tom's killer as the final chapter in that story. Overall, I give this episode a 9.5/10.

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