Tuesday, January 23, 2018

Black Lightning "The Resurgence" Series Premiere

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After watching the pilot of The CW's latest DC Comic series Black Lightning, it left me jolting for more (no pun intended).

"The Resurgence" opens up the story of Jefferson Pierce, who's been retired from his duty as Black Lightning nine years ago after seeing the effects of what it had on his family, returns to being the vigilante again after seeing what the community has become with his daughter arrested for protesting, getting pulled over for a crime that he didn't commit due to racial tensions.

But the final straw that made him return was his daughters, Jennifer and Anissa, gets into trouble and kidnapped from Will, a member of the local gang called 100. Jefferson reunites with Gambi, his mentor and friend, and helps him become Black Lightning with a new suit. After rescuing them, couldn't find Will's boss Lala.

But Lala got picked up and brought to the head of the 100, Tobias Whale. Whale gives Lala instructions to kill Black Lightning.

The final scene of the episode ends with Anissa, who's suffering from the trauma that she'd witness, activates her own powers that causes her to break the sink in half. 

The episode really got me interesting in the show. I may not know a lot about Black Lightning but after watching the pilot, I'm interested in learning and seeing where the show takes the characters. The show got a lot of attitude and really depicts the real world social issues. Cress Williams is amazing in the pilot and not to mention just watching Marvin "Krondon" Jones III as Tobias Whale was pretty stunning. And James Remar as Peter Gambi, Jefferson's mentor and friend, gives a good performance and portrays the character like an Alfred type.  Overall, I give this episode a 9/10.

You can catch Black Lightning Tuesdays at 9/8c on The CW.

Monday, January 22, 2018

Timeless Season 2 Returns in March

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Looks like the next time trip for Timeless will be this spring as Season 2 will premiere Sunday, March 11th at 10/9c on NBC announced on Monday.

Ending the freshman finale with a shocking revelation that Lucy's mom is Rittenhouse! Flynn's been arrested and something is happening to Jiya! The season two opener, titled :The War to End All Wars," will find Lucy, Wyatt and Rufus traveling to World War I as seen in a TVLine exclusive.

The season premiere will introduce a new recurring character: Nicholas Keynes (played by Michael Rady ("UnREAL's")), who is an American solider in WWI. After getting badly injured during battle, Keynes is carried to a farmhouse, where he is cared for by Emma (Annie Wersching) and Carol (Susanna Thompson), who want to save his life. Though he seems helpless at first, Keynes is much more formidable than he initially appears.

Also coming into Season 2, our time traveling heroes will explore the Salem Witch Trails and Hollywood circa the early 1940s.

The series, that was once cancelled and brought back, will follow a three hour American Ninja Warrior special: USA Vs. The World, which will air at 7/6c that night.


Wake Up!! Supergirl "Legion of Superheroes" Mid-season Premiere

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After the fall finale ending, Reign makes her way in the city delivering justice with no mercy, can Kara wake up before things get out of hand?

We jump two days after the events of the fall finale to find Kara in a coma and yet in a subconscious dream of where she feels comfortable: her loft. She soon gets a visitor, Brainiac 5 to help guide Kara out of her dream, but when it turns out that she can't get out, she must find a way out.

Meanwhile, Reign makes her way in National City in a big way, calling everyone that she's only here to bring justice and show no mercy to those that do crime. With Mon El and his Legion team can't help, Alex and J'onn do what they have to do to stop her, even it is using a secret kryptonite weapon.

After failing, Mon-El and team step up and battle with Reign in the oldest fashion battle: playing with Bon Jovi in the background. As the battle presses on, Kara notice Brainaic 5 talking battle tactics while still in her dream and after he tells her what's going on, she finds the way out of accepting that Kara is loved over Supergirl and wakes up.

Soon, Kara comes in and battles with Reign again, but quickly stabs Reign in the neck with the kryptonite weapon and runs off. Reign then is healed at her own fortress, until she learns that she has a team and one person that could also help Conville. 

Kara comes with peace with Mon-El and thanks them for their help. Her and Alex talk about their thoughts on the events that just happened.

"Legion of Superheroes" was a good episode that had balance of humor and intense drama at times. Brainaic 5 brings in the comedic side to the story and I very much enjoyed watching him working along Kara of the others. J'onn's scene with Lena was another classic moment as he had to fill in for Kara while in a coma. As much as he hates it, we love it. The story was very good at times as it showed out hero trying to get out of her subconscious mind. All she needed was to realized that she's loved over Supergirl. The performance from the cast was amazing, mostly Jesse Rath as Brainaic 5 that really stole the episode.

Overall, I give this episode a 8.5/10.

You can catch Supergirl Mondays at 8/7c on The CW.

Sunday, January 21, 2018

Never Lie: Life In Pieces "Goose Friends Auction Fog

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From asking to break things off to being jealous of someone's new friend and making a crappy beer, here's a recap of this week's episode of Life in Pieces.

Story One: Jen Gets Goosed

When Clementine returns with Lark, she asks Jen if she could break up the band with Tyler. At first, she didn't, but when she did, she got to fill in for Clementine and played and sang. Jen receives the singing bug once again. But things got weird with Tyler, and she had to face her first time breaking up with a guy.

Story Two: Hello Donna, My New Friend

When Heather meets with Joan's new friend, Donna, things get a bit jealous of how they are acting with each other. So when she pulls someone older to be her friend, it becomes almost like Heather has a second mother.

Story Three: Silent Auction

Tim and Heather are about to prepare for an auction, and Matt wants to put one of his paints up for the silent auction. But Tim doesn't think anyone will bid on it and tells Colleen that he was last year who bid and won the Panting. When the night of the auction comes, Matt brings out his signature painting that's just his signature. As the auction starts, Matt's painting doesn't seem to get any bidders, and that worries Tim until someone bids on it; that bidder happens to be Matt, but Matt learns that Tim bought the painting last year.

Story Four: Beer Buddies

When Greg finished making his beer brew, everyone seemed to like it but John. John, telling the truth instead of lying like the rest of the family, decides to help him out, and when that batch is made, it is worse than before, but John loves it, even though it is still wrong. Greg takes that as an accomplishment because his dad never lied to him.

"Good Friends Auction Fog" was an excellent episode. Three of the four stories in this episode stood out, while the other was a lightweight story. "The fourth story stood out along with the first story. The performances from the cast were good. Overall, I give this episode a 7.5/10.

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

Friday, January 19, 2018

Can't Be With You Blindspot "Hot Burning Flames"

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After last week's episode, seems that Weller and Jane's relationship might be in trouble.

After Weller told Jane about how he killed her daughter, things don't seem to be well with them as she takes her way over his way during a new mission when a couple of nuclear weapons were stolen. When they figured out who was the one that got them in, they take him in and he spills that they have his kid and threaten him if he don't obey their orders.

After a couple of missteps, Weller and the team get on track and tracked down where the boy was at and saved him, but Jane gets shot pretty badly but nothing through the vest. But they get another shot that lead them to an airport and just missed the aircraft that left, expect Weller is on it and tries to stop the bomb. After the bomb is stopped, the suspect still arms the weapon with her remote and drops it down, but Weller killers the suspect and dives off to stop the weapon with the remote.

After all of that, when Weller meets with Jane at home, she tells him that she can't be with him and gives him his ring and walks out. But another shocking moment comes at the end when a girl was revealed to be Jane's daughter that apparently most of come back to life.

"Hot Burning Flames" was a good episode, good storyline mostly focusing on Weller and Jane's relationship and the shocking moment at the end. Overall, I give this episode a 8/10.

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

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

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"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.


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"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"

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"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.




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"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.