Wednesday, February 28, 2018

Tuesday, February 27, 2018

Oh man..... Chicago Med "On Shaky Ground"

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Another week, another powerful episode of Chicago Med.

The title for this episode "on shaky ground" is probably the best way to describe the episode with it's well developed storylines and conflicts between the characters. From Natalie help deliver a 26 week baby that was still in it's amniotic sack is still alive and tries to do everything to keep him alive. While Bekker performs open heart surgery on her mentor that request that he be awake for it, but Rhodes has her back and helps her get through it. Reese overcomes her fears when going with Dr. Charles when visiting the Cook Country prison.

And not to mention April and Ethan having difference of opinion about a patient and the DCFS. The patient, who's a runaway from home due to the fact that her father beats her, comes in with unknown symptoms until they find that a cockroach had crawled through her nose and in her head drawn to spinal fluid. The reason she's been leaking spinal fluid was from the blows to the head from her father. April gets to Ethan about to reconsider after seeing that the DCFS system isn't the best thing. And April lets her leave to where she's been staying.

"On Shaky Ground" might be one of my favorite episodes so far this episode with some of the medical storylines that were so fascinating. Both the writing and the character growth was strong and not to mention that DeVitto, DaCosta, Tee and Donnell and Kuhling gave good performances. Overall, I give this episode a 8.5/10.

You can catch Chicago Med Tuesdays at 10/9c on NBC.

"Okay" This Is Us "The Car"

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With the Super Bowl episode being such a tragic event, the episode is a remembrance of the man from the view of the family car. 

"The Car" was a powerful eulogy of who Jack Pearson was as a father and a husband. It just had enough balance of emotion, inspiration, and humor to the previous episode. You see Rebecca and the kids still dealing with the loss but also remembering their father in bits and pieces in time that starts with buying the car and leads to that final weekend. With a bit of help from Dr. K, doing his wise man thing, reminding Rebecca that she's just as strong as Jack and letting her know how much he was scared, too.

After her talk with Dr. K, she takes the kids and Jack's ashes to Jack's favorite tree, which also holds a deep place for Rebecca. She tells Kevin, Kate, and Randall that they should live and not have to worry about who's the man or whose fault it is that leads Jack back into the fire. But the one thing that leaves with a powerful meaning is that Jack was a man who could see into the future, which Rebecca talks about before pouring some of his ashes by the tree.

In the last scene, Jack tells the car dealer he doesn't want to buy a used car. Still, the station wagon means he doesn't have much money to pay for it. Still, all he wants is for his family to be okay, and it ends with Rebecca driving the kids to a Bruce Springsteen concert that Jack bought a couple of weeks ago for them to go and also help her with her fear of driving through the bridge that we see at the beginning she fears.

The writing and the performance of this episode could not be any better. There was depth, and there were well-developed characters, mainly Rebecca, who we see grow a lot. Mandy Moore should be considered for an Emmy role, not to mention Milo Ventimiglia as well. The one scene that stood out was when Dr. K visited and talked with Rebecca, followed by the scene where she and the kids talk about Jack at his favorite tree spot. Overall, I give this episode a 9/10.

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


Monday, February 26, 2018

Timeless Season 2: New Mission Trailer



Just less than two weeks away til the anticipated season premiere of Timeless. New Season, New Mission, New Enemies for #TimeTeam.

Here's not only a new trailer but how the show got to be last season's beloved hit.

You can catch the season premiere of Timeless Sunday, March 11 at 10/9c on NBC. Set your DVRs now or watch it LIVE!


Champions New Comedy Series

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From the creators Mindy Kaling and Charlie Grandy comes a new comedy series, Champions. Vince seems to live the simple life. He's a charismatic gym owners and living the bachelor's dream with his younger brother, Matthew. But as his high school fling Priya drops off their 15 year old son Michael changes everything.

Starrng Anders Holm (Workaholics), Andy Favreau, Mouzam Makkar, J.J. Totah (Spiderman Homecoming), and Fortune Feimster (Life in Pieces and The Mind Project).



You can catch the series premiere of Champions Thursday, March 8 at 8:30/7:30c on NBC.

Kevin Can Wait Season 2 (so far)


With a very questionable kick off to the new season, the second season of Kevin Can Wait has found it's stride.

I will admit that I wasn't too happy about the new change to the season of letting go Erinn Hayes after the first season and killing her character Donna. But I gave the show the benefit of the doubt and see what they had come up that would make sense and when the second season of the show premiered, it was just a huge disappointment. Knowing that she had died and making a joke about her gym membership wasn't the smartest thing to do and I did have a bit of pissing mood and wanting to watch the show.

But I did and down the road the show got better during it's Thanksgiving episode that really set me thinking that this show will work. And soon after I felt the show finally was better than where they were at the start of the season. The stories were good as it still feels that classic sitcom that we're so use to watching back in the day..

Yes, Leah Remini and Kevin James have a great chemistry that you just can't deny. They chemistry brings another energy to the show that may or may not feel that it's a different style of The King of Queens, but hey it works. And not to mention the cast from Taylor Spreitler, Ryan Cartwright that are hilarious and probably my favorite supporting characters on the show.

So far so good Kevin Can Wait is the show to watch Monday nights. Overall, I do give the season after 16 episodes a 7/10.

You can catch Kevin Can Wait Mondays at 8/7c on CBS.

Sunday, February 25, 2018

Black Lightning "Lawanda: The Book of Burial'

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When the town Reverend plans to peaceful march to stop the 100 gang from killing again after Lawanda's death, Jefferson tries to do all he can to stop the march from happening But when that plan doesn't go, he has them go on a detour so he could watch and protect the marchers.

When Jefferson sees someone coming out of the alley with a gun, he jumps into action and stop the man from shooting and shocks him, along with another one who was charging up. Just as things were okay, the march was about to go on til Tobias, who's trying to stop on the orders of Lady Eve, sees what's happened along with that Black Lightning is still alive and shoots but hits the Reverend through and through and even its Khalil too.

With the Reverend doing well, it's Khalil, who won't be as the bullet hit his spinal cord making him not able to walk.

Meanwhile, Anissa tries out her powers, training at the garbage lot and filming it. Later as she researches about genetic mutation, she meets with Grace Choi and soon them seem it hit it off as friends.

I thought that this episode was very good from the beginning to the end. The episode was enough to keep me interested. I thought the performances from the cast was good, each playing equal amount. I've really enjoying Anissa's story arch so far learning her powers and trying to figure out understanding how. Also the nice throwback to comic "The Outsiders" was very good when talking to Grace. Overall, I give this episode a 8/10.

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