Wednesday, April 18, 2018

What's your Breaking Point? Chicago PD "Breaking Point"

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What is your breaking point? That's the one question that's asked in this episode not just to capture a suspect but also during an investigation for a member of the Intelligence Unit.

When an Alderman is found murdered, Voight and the team try to investigate but gets pressure from the victim's family, due to their political status in the neighborhood. But as their investigation leads to the victim's son's doing, he gets shot in the process and gets Voight to realize that what they have is a drug business problem with local gangs.

The team gets a tip about a shooter and takes a suspect in, but instead of talking he doesn't give a whole lot. Voight and Al think that the suspect is covering for someone, which Voight gives the guy the boot but followed and placed a microphone in his coat and when he calls someone talking about how they are close and informs his cousin Lamar about it.

The both capture both Lamar and his cousin and try to get them to spell. None of them do, Lamar doesn't take the blame and his cousin does but Al and Voight pulls off the question" what's his breaking point?" Which happens to be that the cousin has sickle cell anemia and needs special pain relief but holds it to him to talk or he won't get it, so he talked blamed it on his cousin Lamar.

Meanwhile, Al is being questioned and investigated about how a witness seen him and another woman, Erin, dumping a body at a construction site. Al asked Voight for help with money but he wouldn't help due to the money being a trust fund for his grandson. But Voight gives his word to help him out no matter what, but when it comes down to the end of the day the question that hangs to Al is what's his breaking point? That kid they got to talking was his sickle cell, for Voight it's Erin, but what's Al's?

"Breaking Point" was a very good episode with exciting drama, mainly between Al and Voight as Woods tries to bring down Voight for anything. Hell, even Ruzek can't get anything from Woods, as his talking goat. But the case of the week was good but not as strong like the others, but given the car chase scene was a killer to watch. I can't wait to see where this is going how Voight and Al will handle this and if their partnership/friendship will be in jeopardy. Overall, I give this episode a 8/10.

You can catch Chicago PD Wednesdays at 10/9c on NBC.

Tuesday, April 17, 2018

Captures and Secrets: Supergirl "Both Sides Now"

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With searching and confronting who is known as Purity, Kara and the team get a dose of who she really is, but also secrets are revealed in this episode.

As Kara and the team locate where Julia Freeman was, they confront her, thinking that she may attack. When she freaks out and gets scared, her alter Purity comes out and attacks with sonic waves. But the team fights back and takes her back to headquarters.

Things takes a turn when Kara wants to confront the real Julia, thinking that she can come out and help. But Purity won't allow that and plays to Kara's hopes, which pisses Alex and wants to do it her way of getting answers.

Things get thrilling when Purity escapes and trace her to the subway where Kara and the team confront her again but this time prepared for her sonic powers. But J'onzz, Alex and Mon-El try to get everyone to safety, Kara and Purity battle, only to have Julia come back in mind. That was until Reign comes and takes her to her fortress to learn who she really is.

While in this episode, Mon-El and J'onzz have a man to man chat about marriage and secrets as it's between his love for Kara and stone face relationship with Imra. J'onzz gives some heartfelt advise and Mon-El confronts Imra about his secret but in return she returns a secret of her own, the real reason why they are here.

"Both Sides Now" was a thrilling of an episode with good character development and performance from mainly Krys Marshall as Julia Freeman/Purity, with such thrilling and chilling And not to mention the bond between J'onzz and Mon-El was not only a heartwarming moment but solid character development and watching Mon-El opening up to Imra about his feelings and then get a twist from her was a total shock. I'm thinking that they're there to help Kara or maybe that both Kara and Mon-El are meant to be. I guess we'll find out soon. Overall, I give this episode a 9/10.

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

Monday, April 16, 2018

Surrounded by Friends, and Family: Supergirl "For Good"

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While the search for the World Killers are underway, it seems that the attacks between Lena and Edge have gotten a bit deadly.

After learning about the World Killers in the previous episode, Kara has these strange nightmares about them. Learning that they might have come on Earth the same way as Reign. Winn and the team search for anything meteor showers in the last 30 years and anything bazzair incidents in the last couple of years. Later Winn shows four suspects that have been in deadly accidents that they came out alive and unhurt. Kara sees one of them and points out the one that she's seen in her nightmare.

Meanwhile, the tensions between Edge and Lena have just gotten serious after Edge's car was hijacked and had to jump out before it drove off the road and exploded. Edge blames it on Lena, while she has no clue what he's talking about. But Edge gets payback for poisoning her coffee.

After being saved by both Alex and Kara, Lena figures out who's been pulling this against Edge...her mother. She visits the warehouse where her mother is there waiting for her hoping that her clues would lead her, which it did. Her mother tells Lena that she plans to stop Edge and finish him after what he had done to her.

Lena tries to stop the attack before her mother could by confronting Edge about what's going on, who's the real person to blame and get a confusion from him about him poisoning her. But it's Edge, he wouldn't do it til it acutely happens with Luther drone attacking. Plus Lena's mother coming and bring out the warsuit.

Kara comes and battles with Lena's mother, but gets help with Mon-El and the two, along with the help of the drones, takes her down. Lena chases Edge but Jimmy comes in as Guardian and knocks Edge to the ground. Lena gets her recorder back that has Edge's confession on it and everything seems to be on a good note after that.

But during the episode, Alex helps Samantha with her problem of not remembering and losing time. With all the test that Alex has process for Sam, it turns out that nothing is wrong with her.

"For Good" was a good episode, had a good mystery story between Lena and Edge about who's attacking who. The Alex and Samantha storyline was really good. The performances was good from the cast and the writing as well. Overall, I give this episode a 8.5/10.

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

Making Friends and Celebrate: Champions "Vincemas"

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When Vince and Matthew plan on a weekend camping trip for Michael, it may not be the kind of trip for Michael to go.

"Vincemans" was another installment of great character development, writing and performance from he cast. The episode deals with how Michael tries to fit in and make news friends because Vince gives him advice and wants him to be like he was in high school, but it leads to Michael joining an Indian group that aren't really who they seem to be, mainly going clubbing at night for example.

Also with Vince planning to be gone for the weekend, Ruby and the crew plan for a "Vincemas" event but Vince learns about it and makes one hilarious of a scene when coming up behind a partying Ruby about how Vince isn't hear.

Overall, I give this episode a 8.5/10.

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


Best Buddies: A.P. Bio "Durbin Crashes"

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This episode was one of Patton Oswalt's best ones yet.

As Durbin hears the rest of the teachers talking about how they love a hit sci fi show, that seems to be Midnight, Texas, and wants to ignore any spoilers because he hasn't seen any of the episodes yet due to his wife not ready to watch it with him. After asking Jake for advise about the situation, he takes what Jack agrees and implies it, which leads to him getting kicked out of his house and living staying with Jack.

But when he stays with Jack, it because one weird stay as Durbin has sleeping walking issues and also tries to be Jack's wingman when meeting his former ex high school girlfriend, who happens to be split with her boyfriend. Jack tries to fix it between Durbin and his wife but it turns that they are both weird and lets Durbin stay for another few weeks.

Meanwhile, after getting his students to search Devin with disturbing words to get it trending, the students had a better idea that would help Jack but also get them to learn Biology, which was to find a way to plant murderous evidence on Devin. But after it seems to go well and too much learning, Jack stops it and gets them to use google to search Devin with disturbing words connecting to him.

"Durbin Crashes" was a good episode, mainly watching Oswalt's performance really stood out with good character development and just darn funny. Even the students trying to come up with a way to plant a murder on Devin was pretty funny with the way how they pursued Jack to allow it. Overall, I give this episode a 8/10.

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


Sunday, April 15, 2018

Searching and Confronting: Life In Pieces "Sitter Dating Sister Mattress"

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This week's episode of Life In Piece was another full of funny moments.

Whether it's from Greg and Jen finding the perfect babysitter from an email online babysitting app, that quickly lands awkwardly for both the sitter as she's a bit wacky. But Jen and Greg make it awkward as they act like they're picking a first online date that lands them back to watching Lark again. Even Sam and Heather's story of learning about Sam's boyfriend, who seems terrific, turns out that he wasn't too faithful and had more than a few girlfriends.

The two best stories of the episode were Matt learning that Colleen's sister would be a surrogate for their baby but thinks he might have slept with her one night years ago. But when confronted about it, they didn't and announced to the family until Greg realized that he had slept with her more than four times.

And when Joan and John search for a mattress for their bed, it turns into an all-day, trying out and testing each one. Overthinking is more like it, and watching Joan sick and tired of it puts the situation between her and John as something downright funny.

This episode was satisfactory; like other episodes, it made me laugh and connect with related stories. There was good character development, and the performances from the cast were good, too. Overall, I give this episode an 8/10.

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

Saturday, April 14, 2018

A Trouble Friendship: Chicago PD "Payback"

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When a robbery turns into a homicide, the intelligence unit will investigate to find out that the suspect is someone close.

When Ruzek and Atwater meet up with Ruzek's CI, Ray, who happens to be a former cop, trying to get information. They get a call of an apartment robbery that also turned homicide when a little boy got shot in the head while just laying on the couch.

The investigation lead to a Latin gangs, but it seems that the Intel that Ruzek and Atwater got was false and questioned Ray about it. But the investigation lead to another way that all of this could be connected to a dirty cop, who happens to be in the narcotics unit, who's had records of making connections to gang members. But it turns out that the cop happens to be set up after she realized that she let her Intel use her place a couple of times. That Intel happens to be Ray. 

Ruzek and Atwater try to stop him as Ray was packing up at his boat but Ruzek crashes his party and the two meet face to face as he tries to get Ruzek to shoot him. But that wasn't going to happen as Ray was bluffing to Ruzek about having a gun thanks to Atwater tough tackles.

Meanwhile, it seems that Al's luck isn't going the way that he or Voight was hoping for as Voight got inside information about the witness who saw Al and Erin dumping that body. Al remembers him, who was trying to break into his car that night, and wants to see him. But Voight won't let that happen as he doesn't want him to jeopardize this.

Voight meets with the witness, who thinks that he was selling drugs but was just lending some money from a friend and not to mention spotted him at an addiction group meeting. Al gets worried and tries to call their bluff by filling out his retirement papers, but later on Al battles with demons as he plants drugs in the witness' car and gets busted for it. But word gets to Trudy and Voight that Al's pension has been on hold.

"Payback" was a good episode from start to finish. It may not be one of the best episodes this season but it sure was entertaining and satisfying to watch. I find the character development between Ray and Ruzek okay as there wasn't much to go on but just that it seems that they were former partners but never really give why Ray was like this to Ruzek. Overall, I give this episode 8/10.


You can catch Chicago PD Wednesdays at 10/9c on NBC.