Sunday, April 8, 2018

Crying on My Mind: A. P. Bio "Rosemary's Boyfriend"

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When Jack gets a knock at his door, he doesn't expect to see who will be reputation there. At the same time, the students face the life of caring for babies that aren't like any other babies. Here's a recap!

Just as Jack starts his morning off, he gets a knock at the door with a surprise to him: his mother's boyfriend. Brandon comes with gifts of flowers and condoms and hopes his mother will be there, but sadly, he doesn't get the memo of her death. All of this pisses off Jack, and even to make things worst for him, Brandon asks if they could both be at her grave and have a good cry moment.

Jack takes his issues to his students, who are dealing with the crisis of being parents with loud artificial babies. Trying to get some ideas from them, he separates them into two groups to reduce the noise. But Sarika finds Brandon's daughter, Sadie, a lawyer, and Jack visits her to talk about her dad, but soon has sex.

The next day, Jack brags about his one night with Sadie and tries to use it on Brandon, hoping that would piss him off. But it doesn't, and it just grows him closer and more pleasant, for which Jack tries to sucker punch him but fails and gets taken down.

The following day, Jack returns to class and talks to the students about what had happened. He suddenly snapped and took every baby in the school and had them go for a swim, which got those babies quiet and made him think that Brandon wasn't such a wrong person.

Meanwhile, Stef gets asked out by the janitor, who turns him down and tells him that her friend Mary has a crush on him. He confronts her about it and turns her down, but she isn't going to take it. He tries to get him to fall for her but instead gets the other janitor to fall in love with her. She then turns the tables on him about how her friend Stef has a crush on him.

"Rosemary's Boyfriend" was a much better episode than last week. It had good humor and wit, not to mention good character development. I couldn't get enough of watching how Jack deals with his students dealing with their artificial babies. Michael Gross was excellent, not Emmy award-worthy, but still good. All in all, I give this episode an 8/10.

You can catch A.P. Bio on Thursdays at 8:30/7:30 on NBC.

Thursday, April 5, 2018

Serious Circumstances: Chicago Med "Lock It Down"

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When a baby is missing at Med, the place goes on lockdown, which leads to severe circumstances.

As Halstead treats a baby and is about to send him up for more tests, it turns out that the baby has gone missing, and leads Goodwin to lockdown Med til the baby is found. Goodwin gets Dr. Charles and Reese to help understand who would take the baby and where they would take it. As they search the hospital, Charles and Reese express their opinion that the person could be a mother who had lost her child before, and searching for records leads to one person who happens to be caught on camera dressed as a nurse.

She thought that she went to the newly built OB/pediatrics ward, but it turns out that she was in the old building holding the baby. Charles tries to reason with her, but Reese not only reasons with her but lies to her when she takes the baby, and the CPD takes her.

With the lockdown in effect, it doesn't do well when a trauma patient needs a cardiologist, but instead gets Ethan and April trying to fix the guy's heart. They face-time Rhodes and Bekker, who are at a banquet. While it's not going well from Rhodes's end, he heads to Med as Bekker instructs  Ethan on working the patient's heart; Rhodes sneaks into the building in an old passage that leads him to the hospital and performs a successful job on the patient.

But it didn't end there when Noah's patient couldn't breathe, and he wasn't around, let alone any other doctor. It leads Maggie to make the unthinkable but rational decision to help first, trying to tube the patient but couldn't, and that leads to placing a tract in her throat. It doesn't go well when the patient has suffered from a stroke due to the lack of oxygen. It doesn't look good for Maggie, as she's suspended for a week.

But it could get worse for #Manstead fans as both seem to be coming into good terms, and planning to talk about what had happened in the last couple of weeks turns worse for them. When they treat a patient suffering from respiratory issues, they learn that their cancer has grown and that there isn't much they can do. But when Natalie tells Will that there is an experimental drug to help shrink the tumor and thinks it's the best treatment, Will shoots her idea down.

Natalie pursues the idea with the patient and wife and gets the treatment going, but later, the patient goes into cardiac arrest and dies. Later, Goodwin learns about what happened and the experimental drug used, and Halstead blames Manning for it. It pissed off Natalie that he did it, and when the test results showed that the drug didn't kill their patient but helped shrink the tumor down. Will tries to give the credit to Natalie, but Natalie doesn't want it and tells him that she wants to be respected as a doctor and not be protected, even if they are in a relationship. But it put their relationship on a break for now (I hope).

"Lock It Down" was another intense episode that put the doctors and nurses of Med in tough decisions and circumstances. The character development was good, along with the writing. I thought Maggie and her decision as a nurse to put a tract for the patient was fantastic storytelling and should start a discussion: why can't nurses tube or tract a patient? Also, not to mention the storyline of Dr. Charles and Reese, as she learned that Charles talked with her father as a patient and wouldn't tell her. It also opened that she could or couldn't be like her father after she lied so well to the mother who stole the baby. And the #Manstead storyline takes a dramatic turn as their relationship takes a break. Not only does it hurt as a fan, but I also understand where Natalie is coming from, seeing how Will has protected her in the work area. Hopefully, he will change. And not to mention Rhodes and Bekker, as Rhodes still has a thing for her. But what the hell was that look between Rhodes's father and Bekker that seems very questionable?

Overall, I give this episode a 9/10.

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

Tuesday, April 3, 2018

Search and Get: The Blacklist "The Capricorn Killer (No. 19)

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With ever so close to catching Tom's killer, Liz gets called to a cold case from her past that has reopened.

After the death of the detective that was helping Liz in the case, an eye witness has come forward and identified the man who did it as Ian. It's just one step close for Liz to bring that man to justice for Tom. But instead of bring the witness back to D.C., she gets assigned to a cold case that asked for her personally to help on.

Known as The Capricorn Killer, it's one of Liz cold case that she has yet to solve and dives back in thinking the the killer has returned. But looking at the evidence of the sword and where it was made, gave that they are messing with a copycat.

As they got close to the suspect, but escapes, Liz believes that the copycat is a former officer and gets help from Red on getting documents of former officers. That would lead to one officer and has Liz follow him til he spotted her and taken her to a cabin in the woods where she meets with her own therapist. She tells Liz how she's been trying to find a way to get her into her side of things, in a way like Reddingotn. But that quite ended when the FBI showed up and she escapes with Liz following her. But Liz let her get away and in hopes that they would work together as part of her network team (like father, like daughter, right?).

In the meantime, Red tries to get to Ian to make an exchange waver, for which Ian wants Red to stop the witness to make it to D.C. Red did that as Aram transfers the man but gets ambushed and taken. Aram feels terrible and tells Liz that he's working to find him til she tells him that the witness is already dead, but really isn't as Red still has him for control over Ian, but mark his words that soon things will get small for him and when he figures out who Ian is, he'll strike.

Of course, with the witness gone Liz is upset and mad at what happen and when she talked to Red about it, she asked him if had anything to do with it. We all know that he did and that soon, maybe in the next episode that she'll figure out and the boiling point between them will go another high point.

This episode was another good one with it building up to where Red and Liz's relationship will go again after this episode but also even though it might be far now, but closer to Ian as well. Anyone thinking that Ian could be a long lost brother of Raymond or Liz's mother? He must be someone that's high on the crime rate to try to take down Reddington. But that scene with Aram and Ian was not only intense but when Aram tells him to back the hell off I jumped off my seat screaming "hell yeah!" Overall, I give this episode a 8.5/10.

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

Sunday, April 1, 2018

Jealously Name Calling at Needle Party: Life In Pieces " Graffiti Cute Jewelry Shorts"

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From a new job to a jealous family member to even a needle party, this week's episode of Life in Pieces was funny from start to finish.

"Graffiti Cute Jewelry Shots" was another hilarious episode from Greg's new job at a company where he has to work with millennials and tries to fit in with them by writing something terrible about himself. But it worsens when the boss gets fried, and Greg takes his job. Sophia gets jealous of Lark when everyone in the family thinks she's so cute during Easter and tries to get them to think she's pretty, too, but it doesn't turn out how she hoped.

Meanwhile, Joan accidentally gives Jan a necklace that belongs to Heather. The relationship between Jan and Joan is at a perfect point, but Joan asks for the chain back after Heather and Tim guilt her into taking it back. With Matt and Colleen trying IVF, it's hard to use shots, and with Matt not perfect doing them, Colleen asks Tim to give them to her, but their needle party turns into a special relationship of needle pointing.

This episode might be one of my favorites so far. The performance from the cast was good; the writing was good, and the characters developed well. I've enjoyed this episode a lot that I recommend you to watch it where ever you can watch it. Overall, I give this episode a 9/10.

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

Changing Ways: Champions "Lumps"

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When the gym has a declining in female members, Vince has to complete against an all female members gym.

After seeing that there has been a decline in female membership at the gym, Vince learns that another gym has taken most of their members in an all female gym called Lumps. Vince tries to talk with the owner but wouldn't come to terms of what he was asking so that lead to sending Ruby into the gym to try and convince the members to join champions. But it didn't turn out the way they had hope for as Ruby wasn't just a member but also a trainer as well.

Vince learns from Michael what the gym really needs (mainly television that airs SVU reruns). Meanwhile, Michael tries to get out of math, due to his poor grades, but when getting help Dana it just turns to helping her relationship issue.

"Lumps" was a good half hour of fun and entertainment that's filled with laughter throughout the episode. The performance from Holm, Feimster and Totah were amazing as each had their best moments whether it's Vince talking to Michael about math or trying to win back the female members as his gym. Ruby trying to convince but gets convince herself to join Lumps and Michael trying to skip math lessons and helping with his knowledge of relationships. Overall, I give this episode a 8.5/10.

You can catch Champions Thursdays at 9:30/8:30c on NBC.


Party, No Party: A.P. Bio "We Don't Party"

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As Jack tries to win his ex-girlfriend over by helping with her fundraiser, the bio class tries to have a night to remember at the same place where Jack's party is held.

"We Don't Party" was a good episode with good moments and bad moments. Mainly, the thellousyyd moment was mostly between Jack and his ex-girlfriend friend Friewhere IreIi thought that Jack would have the upper hand in out-smarting the doctor with what we've seen throughout the season—even the teachers who came to the party didn't have much to do but comment. Even Mary's meeting a man who happens to have a thing for dressing up toes was weird.

 The good moments came with the AP Bio students having their party at the same place as Jack's at Victor's house. Whether it's watching the students drink and dance to music li, listening to Heather about cutting someone, or Victor comforting his friends about being scared to drink and yet taking a shot.

Also, watching Patton Oswalt's character trying to go to the party, even though he wasn't invited, had little to no effect on the story and was still funny.

Even though this might not be the best episode, it has its funny moments, but you will probably forget this episode after it's done.

Overall, I give this episode a 7/10.

You can catch A.P. Bio on Thursdays at 8:30/7:30 on NBC.


Thursday, March 29, 2018

#OneChicago Chicago PD "Profiles"/ Chicago Fire "Hiding Not Seeking"

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Not only is Chicago PD celebrating its 100th episode, but also, why not make it big with a two-night #OneChicago crossover with Chicago Fire as well? Go big or don't go at all, and they sure went big for this crossover.

Chicago PD: "Profiles"

When PD and Fire are about to watch Platt talk on a morning news program, a bomb goes off in the middle of the interview. Platt seems to be okay and tries to save one of the journalists who's badly hurt by moving her to another room til Severide comes in and takes them to Cruz to lead them outside.

The Intelligence Unit dives in with a lead of a journalist leaving the building after dropping off a package. When they meet Uhim, he gets blown up from aAbomb'smailbox. Another lead led to a suspect who knows about IEDs. He is brought in, not involuntarily, and is kept in their custody until he's clear, even though he's getting killed on social media.

The suspect hunt leads the unit to a Chicago newspaper that fired a journalist, Sheppard, for wake news that the victims wrote Describing the suspect's house; he wasn't there, but Voight walks into the rooms where he sees photos and plans for his next move.

Upton soon gets a lead where someone has a connection with their suspect, and he points Voight and Antonio to ask for help from Boden and House 51. Boden thinks they will need Severide, but they need Brett and Gabby, who happens to have a connection with George. But Boden says no and leaves with a cliffhanger for Chicago Fire.

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Chicago Fire: "Hiding Not Seeking"

Picking up where CPD left off, Voight and Dawsontrys tell teBoden that Gabby and Brett will have to do their thing while they sneak in and upload the guy's computer. Boden gives the okay and tells Voight that he wants to be there when it happens, which he agrees.

Gabby and Brett make their way to George's house and tell the guy that they're doing a health reassessment for all heart condition patients, which gets him to agree to let them in. While they take his pulse and ask him questions, Ruzek sneaks in and uploads the guy's computer. But when George gets a visit from someone, Brett and Dawson get out in time along with Ruzek.

Both Ruzek, Dawson, and Brett get out safe. Soon after,r House 51 gets a call of an explosion, where Severide and Boden meet with the knight riding Halstead coming in on a motorcycle. Severide shows Halstead the piece that blew up and got Voight on call.

Later, Boden and Severide know where the suspect might be hitting his places. Their lead lends them to a house where they find Sheppard's supplies and bombs. They searched all over his place and computers, and as soon as a new message was intercepted by Burgess and Upton, the CPD and CFD headed to what they thought was the newspaper building, but the place was the translation station.

Casey and Severide's team get there and try to get everyone out safely and find Sheppard. Soon, they spot him, and along with Voght, Halstead, and Boden, they rush to Sheppard and stop him from killing the editor of the Chicago newspaper that fired him. 

Things went pretty smoothly; everyone celebrated at Molly's, and not to mention that Brett and Antonio got the spark again and made out in the car. Also, Kidd and her boyfriend ended their relationship as she didn't want to meet his sister. But I also couldn't stop talking about Severide as well.

This crossover event was fantastic and had everything you would want in a crossover. This was probably one of the best since "A Dark Day" and "8:30 PM," not to mention "Three Bells" and "A Little Devil Complex." I couldn't get enough of the Voight and Boden scenes, which you don't get to see a whole lot. Not to mention, Jay Halstead riding a motorcycle was awesome!!! The writing and the performance of the cast were terrific. It felt like a movie event, not to mention a bit of tribute to Chicago for the milestone episode for CPD. Overall, I give this crossover event a 9/10.

You can catch Chicago PD on Wednesdays at 10/9c and Chicago Fire on Thursdays at ten/9c on NBC.