Feelings Vs. Ethics: The Good Place "Chapter 36: Janet(s)" Fall Finale

HOLY MOTHERFORKING SHIRT BALLS!!!!

Week after week, The Good Place has been delivering outstanding episodes, and when you thought the previous one couldn't be topped....think again. Here's a recap!

The episode follows after Janet takes Eleanor and the gang into her void. But there's a slight problem, as Eleanor, Chidi, Tahani, and Jason are all Janets. At least Janet gave them their clothes to tell who's who. 

Michael and Janet go to the accountant's office to see if The Bad Place messed with the numbers system of getting into The Good Place. Looking up Doug's records, it seemed that everything for him was good until they saw that his age went against him. This upsets Michael, and he asks about the last time someone made it to The Good Place....over 500 years ago. 

Meanwhile, things are going so well inside of Janet until Eleanor tries to talk to Chidi about their relationship, and he tries to deny it. But soon, arguing and popping things up (like Janet would do) causes trouble for Janet that could break her. Eleanor soon has an identity disorder and changes into a different person. But as Chidi tries to make Eleanor remember who she is, he soon decides to kiss her, and things turn out okay, and everyone turns back to their rightful bodies. 

Soon, Janet starts to throw Eleanor and others out of her, and the alarm goes off because they are most wanted. Michael decides to fix the system by stealing Doug's file and getting everyone to what is finally The Good Place for now. 

"Janet(s)" is another outstanding, hilarious episode. After watching the first five minutes of the episode, I believe that D'Arcy Cadren deserves an Emmy nomination and an Emmy for her performance and every other award out there!!! Mind-blowing? YES! Hilarious? HELL YEAH!! The writing was so strong and clever. Cadren deserves to be the Performance of the Week. 

Overall, I give this episode a 10/10.

You can catch The Good Place when they return in the new year on Thursday, Jan. 10, at 9:30/8:30 on NBC. Only three episodes are left, and I can not wait to see what happens next.

FYI: If you didn't get the news this week, it has been a perfect week for The Good Place. Not only did they get picked up for a fourth season, but they also got nominated for two Golden Globes for Best Actress in TV Comedy Series for Kristen Bell and Best TV Comedy Series.

The Blacklist Season 6 Promo

With only less than a month til the two-night season premiere of The Blacklist. Here's the first promo for the new season. Will Reddington have to answer for what he had done?

Here's a promo:

You can catch the two-night season premiere beginning Thursday, Jan. 3 at 10/9c and Friday, Jan. 4 at 9/8c on NBC. It will remain on Fridays at 9/8c after the premiere.

The Golden Globe TV Nominations

The nominations for the 76th annual Golden Globes were announced Thursday morning. Here are the television nominations:


DRAMA SERIES:
The Americans, FX
Bodyguard, Netflix
Homecoming, Amazon Prime
Killing Eve, BBC America
Pose, FX

DRAMA ACTOR
Jason Bateman, Ozark
Stephan James, Homecoming
Richard Madden, Bodyguard
Billy Porter, Pose
Matthew Rhys, The Americans

DRAMA ACTRESS:
Caitriona Balfe, Outlander
Elisabeth Moss, The Handmaid's Tale
Sandra Oh, Killing Eve
Julia Roberts, Homecoming
Keri Russell, The Americans

COMEDY OR MUSICAL SERIES"
Barry
The Good Place
Kidding
The Kominsky Method
The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel

COMEDY OR MUSICAL SERIES ACTRESS
Kristen Bell, The Good Place
Candice Bergen, Murphy Brown
Alison Brie, GLOW
Rachel Brosnahan,  The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
Debrea Messing, Will & Grace

COMEDY OR MUSICAL SERIES ACTOR:
Sacha Baron Choen, Who Is America
Jim Carrey, Kidding
Michae Douglas, The Kominsky Method
Donal Glover, Atlanta
Bill Hader, Barry

TV MOViE OR MINISERIES:
The Alienist, TNT
The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story, FC
Escape at Dannemora, Showtime
Sharp Objects, HBO
A Very English Scandal, Amazon Prime Video

TV MOVIE OR MINISERIES
Antonio Banderas, Genius: Picasso
Daniel Bruhl, The Alienist
Darren Criss, The Assassination of Gianni Versace
Benedict Cumberbatch, Patrick Melrose
Hugh Grant, A Very English Scandal

TV MOVIE OR MINISERIES ACTRESS
Amy Adams, Sharp Object
Connie Britton, Dirty John
Patricia Arquette, Escape at Dannemora
Lauren Dern, The Tale
Regina King, Seven Seconds

SERIES TV MOVIE OR MINISERIES SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Alex Borstein, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
Patricia Clarkson, Sharp Object
Penelope Cruze, The Assassination of Gianni Versace
Thandie Newton, Westworld
Yvonne Strahovski, The Handmaid's Tale

SERIES TV MOVIE OR MINISERIES SUPPORTING ACTOR
Alan Arkin, The Kominksy Method
Kieran Culkin, Succession
Edgar Ramirez, The Assassination of Gianni Versace
Ben Whishaw, A Very English Scandal
Henry Winkler, Barry

You can catch the 76th Golden Globes Sunday, Jan. 6th 2019 with host Sandra Oh (Killing Eve) and Andy Samberg (Brooklyn Nine-Nine) on NBC.

Two Different Sides: Supergirl "Bunker Hill"

Things take a darker turn in this week's episode. Here's a recap!

It seems that Nia's dreams are what keeping her awake as what she sees have scared her. One of them happens to be of Agent Liberty pointing a gun towards her. James and Kara notice the amounts of coffee she's carrying and Nia getting scared of a photo of Liberty. Kara talks to her and decides to bring Brainy in; after he tells her and Alex who Nia really is in the future.

Brainy helps Nia of what she sees in her dreams and sees Ben Lockwood's wife in trouble. She's closer to the truth; as Manchester pays a visit to Ben Lockwood. As Kara, Nia, and Brainy pay a visit to Collinwood; they get followed. Kara tries to talk with them, but they take them both to Lockwood steel planet. There Nia saves Brainy and Kara and all three members get taken down.

Kara sees the sign of the building "Lockwood"; calls Alex to tell her that she believes Ben Lockwood is Agent Liberty. Alex tricks one of Liberty's followers and confirms its Lockwood. Kara races to Lockwood's house was too late as Manchester and Lockwood have left and were heading to the steel planet. There Manchester puts a hold on Lockwood but traps Kara too. That was until Lockwood's wife holds him and Nia knocks him out with the 20-pound hook swung to him.
Lockwood and Manchester were taken to prison; but not before Ben starting another conversation that soon builds to the press calling him a human right activist. It even gets President Baker siding with the public ask Supergirl to reveal her identity, but she declined and is relieved of her duties.  
"Bunker Hill" was a strong and intense episode to be the fall finale. It opens up the possibility of what's in store when the show comes back in January.  There were moments to enjoy like Brainy and Nia scenes were great and along with them and Kara there just seems to be a real on-screen chemistry there. With Kara not working with Alex and the DEO, maybe she'll team up with J'onn and his PI team. They do work together. Overall, I give this episode a 9/10.

You can catch Supergirl next week in the three show crossover event "Elseworld" starting Sunday at 8/7c with The Flash, Arrow on Monday at 8/7c and Supergirl Tuesday at 8/7c on The CW.

Choices: Supergirl "Rather The Fallen Angel

Manchester and Supergirl team up, what could possibly go wrong? Here's a recap!

"Rather the Fallen Angel" was a good episode, yet it had some lack in some ways. The lack in some ways was Lena and Adam storyline whether or no that Lean will go through with the testing on Adam as the human subject. And by the end, I couldn't get whether if Adam made progress or not in the testing, but from the look from Lena, it looks like it didn't go well. And her relationship with James seems to be not going well either.

Meanwhile, James makes the decision to join Agent of Liberty's group.  It leads to James being forced to do something he doesn't. But when Manchester and Kara team up to hunt Liberty down; it turned out that Manchester double crossed Kara and J'onn; turning her into Liberty.  Kara does escape and gets not only help from James but Manchester too.

J'onn meets with Manchester and finally, see what he truly is; that he would go to the ends of the earth to find the man that killed his wife. J'onn seemed to have failed Kara and apologizes to her.
Overall, I give this episode a 7.5/10.

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

Fighting Words: Supergirl "Call to Action"

It's Thanksgiving and it seems that Child of Liberty are gonna pull a purge. Will Kara and gang stop them? Here's a recap!

With it being Thanksgiving, the Children of Liberty pull of their own way of the purge by stalking houses of where aliens live and torcher them. After Kara and Manchester stopped a group, Col. Haley orders Alex and Kara to stop investigating it; they did it anyway.

Meanwhile, Lena booked James to a around table discussion TV show; but he doesn't want to do because of his planned hangout with one of the Children of Liberty. It doesn't sit well with Lena and well James didn't go and instead had Kara go on there and discuss with Lockwood. Kara makes a perfectly good argument til Lockwood makes one last statement that got the audience buzzing.

As everyone comes for Kara's apartment for Thanksgiving, they discuss the agenda of Children of Liberty until Brainy brings out one of their mask that happens to have a vision sensor so they know which house to go to. Then everyone leaves to stop the groups even getting help from a dragon.
After his television appearance, Lockwood seems to have a nice Thanksgiving til he gets a call from the television host asking if he would like to host his own TV show. He accepts.

After things calm down, Haley tells Alex and Kara that she'll have the DEO investigate the Children of liberty. But meantime, Lena's Phase II seemed to go wrong with testing a heart that has tumors. But when Lena was trying to destroy the third heart, it wouldn't and moved to the next step: human testing.

Everyone becomes worried about Nia's sleeping too much and asked her about it. She admits that she has narcolepsy but wouldn't accept help from Kara or her mother.  Manchester captures one of the Liberty members and tries to get information. But James gets a call from the guy he was hanging out with and told him he could get him in to see the boss. But he had to be kidnapped to do it.

"Call to Action" was a good episode. It had some good moments that stood out from Lena and James fighting about their different opinions and he not wanting to do the television thing. Brainy and Nia meeting again for Thanksgiving. The dragon that appeared to protect that kid was an amazing and nice reference to Harry Potter. I would be very worried about Nia but I think we'll know more about her in the coming episodes. Overall, I give this episode an 8.5/10.

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

Lost and Reunited: Supergirl "Parasite Lost"

With commanding officer at the DEO, how will this play out for Alex? Here's a recap.

With the episode starting off light and humorist with Kara and the gang having brunch; it was Brainy and Nia's reconnecting interaction that really stole the moment. But things take a turn and worrisome as well with Alex getting a new commander officer, Col. Haley. It seemed that she was going to be bossy with Alex and team but she's like what Alex has been doing.

When Brainy spotted Jensen, Kara and the team learn that Jensen isn't Jensen anymore; now a parasite that gives him absorbing powers and almost taking Kara's powers too. Lockwood placed that parasite in Jensen's ear so he would have a right-hand man.

But when Jensen's powers fade away that's when Lockwood got one of his followers to steal the power jewel from Amadei Derros. Once stolen, Jensen starts taking powers way from aliens that are heading to Derros' awakening and causes chaos for Alex and Kara. Alex talks to Jensen, while Haley wants her to take him out, but reasoning won in the end. Alex and Haley have some discussion about how that event went down, but things got to what we were thinking would happen when they first meet and that was Haley telling Alex how much J'onn wasn't a good man.

Meanwhile, Kara gets an interview with one of the most beloved aliens around Amadei Derros.  He has the power to help humans like a child in a wheelchair that can walk again. Well, after her interview with him, the public was really divided about it. It even got someone from the Child of Liberty to steal Derros' jewel.

But stealing that jewel would put him to death. That's where J'onnn and Kara investigate and learn of his daughter, Natalie.  But it wasn't her that stole it, it was Natalie's mother, who also pulled The Notebook between Natalie and Amadei. After Jensen took the jewel off of him, J'onn and Kara deliver it to Amadei along with his daughter and it turned a joyful moment.

Lockwood mad as hell after the lost; gets a call from James. They talked about working together during Guardian's award ceremony. But James plans to see what Lockwood is all about and maybe find that he's the leader of Child of Liberty.

"Parasite Lost' was a fine good episode. Even though the leading up to Jensen and Alex was okay. It was Kara and J'onn Private Investigation that really took and would love to see more of that in the future. Good character development, writing and the one moment that really stole the episode was Brainy and Nia reuniting since episode two. Overall, I give this episode an 8/10.

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