Sunday, October 21, 2018

Superstore "Costume Competition" Preview


Here's a preview of Thursday's Halloween episode of Superstore titled, "Costume Competition."


"Costume Competition"
When an employee costume competition is announced, Amy and Mateo aren't afraid to play dirty to win first prize...a paid day off. Meanwhile, Glenn is preoccupied by Cloud 9's new automatic cart collector and Garrett is tormented by an annoying Halloween novelty song. 




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You can catch Superstore Thursdays at 8/7c on NBC.


Chicago PD "Fathers and Sons" Preview


Here's a preview of Wednesday's episode of Chicago PD titled, "Fathers and Sons."


"Fathers and Sons"

While undercover, Ruzek discovers that his father is working for a suspected drug dealer and is forced to ask the question: is his dad involved?



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


Chicago Med "When You Don't Know" Preview


Here's a preview of Wednesday's episode of Chicago Med titled, "What You Don't Know."


What You Don't Know"

When things become complicated, Will is forced to lie to Natalie. Ethan and April find out some compromising information about Emily's boyfriend and Ava is unsure of what do do with a patient who is refusing treatment.



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You can catch Chicago Med Wednesdays at 8/7c on NBC.


Chicago Fire "A Volatile Mixture Preview


Here's a preview of this Wednesday's episode of Chicago Fire titled, "A Volatile Mixture."


"A Volatile Mixture"

While working alongside a journalist, Casey does some digging into the cause of a trailer park fire. Boden hits his breaking point wile Mouch, Herrmann and Cruz work to figure out why Molly's isn't performing up to expectations.


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You can catch Chicago Fire Wednesdays at 9/8c on NBC.

Acceptance: Chicago Fire " This Isn't Charity"

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It's Herrmann's first day as Lieutenant at 51. Will he be good? Here's a recap!

It's Herrmann's first day as the engine's Lieutenant. It doesn't go as well. He gets a beef with one of the firefighters who's not pulling his task and making jokes.  Herrmann comes to Boden for advice and tells him to do what he thinks is best, which is to get that guy's transfer papers ready.

Mouch gets a visit from Ritter and learns he decided to leave the firehouse. Mouch asks Ritter to come on to 51. Herrmann and Mouch begged Ritter to join; they told him why they thought he was a firefighter who got back up and kept going. He accepted.

Severide meets Stella's blast from the past friend, who feels he may not be over her. After Severide tells her what he thinks, we see it too. After she turns down his offer to go to a party at his cabin, he comes over to look for her to change her mind.

Casey and the team deal with grenades going off in the city. They learn that the widow of a Vietnam soldier had kept them; they tried to sell them, thinking that they were just toys. They were the real thing. Searching around the neighborhood, Casey gets a sighting of kids playing with grenades for a movie they're filming. Just as he gets there, the kid pulls the pin. Just as he lets go, Casey, in a split second, throws it in the pond.

And Brett sees what Foster is capable of.  They get a call of an accident at a gym where they know a girl who has broken a part of her shoulder.  Foster thinks that the kid is taking PEDs. She thinks the mother is the one doing it. Foster asks the doctor to run a drug test, but he disagrees. Brett tries to help Foster move on, but she won't. Foster gets a call from the mother and finds that she's on PEDs. Foster and Brett headed to the gym to confront the coach, who admitted he did even though he called them vitamins. Brett apologizes to Foster for not backing her up and mentions that her former partner would jump through hoops, too. 

"This Isn't Charity" was an excellent episode with good character development for Foster, Herrmann, and Stella. The grenade storyline was a thrilling plot, but also I think the bigger storyline was watching Brett and Foster's partnership grow and Stella and Severide's relationship takes an awkward turn. I don't think it's over with that guy. He'll be back.

Overall, I give this episode an 8.5/10.

You can catch Chicago Fire on Wednesdays at 9/8c on NBC.


Scary Reality: Fresh Off The Boat "Workin The 'Ween"





It's another Halloween episode, will Fresh Off the Boat top it off this season? Here's a recap!

"Workin the 'Ween" is basically what the episode stands for, the Huangs working on Halloween one way or another.  Louis was hoping for him and Jessica to go out on Halloween but instead she accepted Honey and Marvin's request to babysit their daughter, Maria. Kind of devastated, Louis makes the best of it and dresses up while babysitting from Mario to Sylvester the cat.

Honey gave Jessica a list to follow to work with the baby, but Jessica and Louis believes they know how to parent a baby; but it turns out they are totally wrong. They come clean about their past parenting with Eddie and Emery with their pacifier. Jessica thought Eddie was weened off of it. But Louis confronts that it was he that gave him the pacifier back and weened him off a few months later.  And it was the complete opposite for Emery as Jessica paid her mother. But Evan didn't need any help as he's was the perfect child.

But after they couldn't get the Maria to calm down; they dressed up like Honey and Marvin as soon as Honey and Marvin got back from their date. Jessica apologizes for what had happen, but Honey was okay with it and didn't revoke Louis and Jessica's godparent status.

Meanwhile, Eddie is working at a mattress store with his boss (George Wendt). He works on Halloween and his friend Trent comes over that night, basically scared to go to the cemetery alone. And with Louis and Jessica babysitting, Emery and Evan handle the trick or treaters at home as Mulder and Scully. They come upon a girl who's trying to take more than one candy.  When the fourth time came, Evan had had it and slap Emery to sense and denied the girl: but turns out that she was one of quadruplets and got the house all egged up.

This was a very funny episode that had some hilarious moments and some that didn't quite work out. The ones that did were Jessica and Louis babysitting. It was a real strong character development for their characters I thought. Also Emery and Evan as Mulder and Scully was funny watching them debating one another about this tick or treater that keeps coming for more candy. Perfect choice for a show that was so popular at that time.

I really didn't care for Eddie and Trent's storyline as it was okay. It did show some of those elements of past Halloween movies of being scared and that was coming from Trent. It just didn't work out for me.

Overall, I give this episode a 8/10.

You can catch Fresh Off the Boat Fridays at 8/7c on ABC.





















Saturday, October 20, 2018

A Weird Goodbye: Superstore "Toxic Workplace"


It becomes a question whether Cloud 9 is a toxic workplace plus someone decides to transfer. Here's a recap.

When Amy and Jonah try to keep relationship hidden from their co-workers, Kelly has informed Glenn that she wants to transfer to another store. This gets Glenn to try to fix it by given Kelly the golden vest and employee of the month.

Kelly opens up and when she tells Glenn that she thinks that this place isn't a health work environment. But seeing that his employees are fighting each other, he calls for a staff meeting to fix it. Glenn tries to get everyone to learn but all that happen was Kelly got made fun of while everyone was doing impressions and Sandra losing her boyfriend to Carol because he was with her first. 

Kelly and Jonah talked after that open mic meeting and he helps her get Glenn to sign her transfer papers. And later as Jonah and Amy headed to the car, it was hard for Amy to stop arguing with him. You just can't turn it off.

"Toxic Workplace" was a fantastic episode. There were so many moments from Amy and Jonah carpool karaoke discussion to the employees doing impressions of Kelly, which I think Dina did the best one. But the one scene winner goes to when Dina interferes and stands up with Amy to Jonah calling him a rejected American Girl doll and telling him that she use to masturbate to him...everyday.
But this was Kelly Stables last episode and it was sure one to remember as they say goodbye the way Superstore can. It was basically a goodbye episode for that character if you look at it again, again and again.

Overall, I give this episode a 9/10.

You can catch Superstore Thursdays at 8/7c on NBC.