Unsane: An Underdog Movie of 2018

If there was one movie in 2018 that stood out from the rest with all the superhero movies, it has to be Unsane. Let me just say that Unsane was insane.

The film is about Sawyer Valentini (played by Claire Foy), who's had a troubled history of moving away from her stalker and decides to get help and talk with a counselor. But after her appointment, she unknowingly signed papers for her to be committed to 24 24-hour stay at Highland Creek Behavioral Center.  She tries to get out, even calling the cops and her mother, but they can't do anything.

She develops a friendship with Nate Hoffman (played by Jay Pharoah), a patient at Highland; that doesn't start too well but ends up maybe being more than just friends. But when Sawyer sees her stalker, David Strine (played by Joshua Leonard), posing as one of the orderlies, she has an outburst, repeating whether she's insane.

But she plays to David's game after he killed Nate and even Sawyer's mother. Sawyer breaks David down to the point where he follows her orders because he cares for her so much that he would do anything for her to rape a patient in front of her.  But as he performs, Sawyer attacks escapeescapets caught again by David and drives her to his place through the woods. But she escapes again, and he goes after her again, but as she gets caught again, she stabs David in the neck and kills him.

After Sawyer is back at work, he seems to be okay, but when she thinks, she spots David again a few feet away from where Sawyer is eating. She soon walks up there with a knife until she sees it isn't him. She runs out and drives off.

"Unsane" is a fantastic work that asks if the lead character is insane or not. It starts slowly and builds up to an intense and dramatic high. Claire Foy gives another fantastic performance as Sawyer, and her chemistry with Pharoah is excellent. It feels like a documentary, and one of the astonishing facts about this movie is that it was shot from an iPhone 7. It has the Cookoo's Nest feel to it. Steven Soderbergh, who directed the film, gives another masterpiece once again.  If you haven't seen "Unsane," find the time to see it.

Overall, I give it a 9/10.

You can find "Unsane" on Blu-ray, DVD, and digital.

Top 10 of 2018

2018 was another great year for television. Here's my top 10 list of television shows this year.


Top 10 Comedy

1. The Good Place
2. Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt
3. The Marvelous Mrs. Masel
4. Barry
5.  GLOW
6. Insecure
7. Life In Pieces
8. Superstore
9. The Conners
10. Marlon

Bonus: Great New, AP. Bio, New Girl, One Day At A Time, Better Call Saul, Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Shameless, Rick and Morty, Champions.

Top 10 Dramas

1. This Is Us
2. The Americans
3. Killing Eve
4. Chicago (Fire, PD, Med)
5. Westworld
6. The Blacklist
7. The Crown
8. Jessica Jones
9. Daredevil
10. Good Girls

Bonus: Billions, Walking Dead, Arrow, Supergirl, Black Lightning, Ozark. Doctor Who, The Handmaids Tale.

Top 10 New Comedies

1. The Last O.G.
2. Barry
3. A.P. Bio
4. The Conners
5. Rel
6. Murphy Brown
7. The Komisky Method
8. Champions
9. Single Parents
10. The Cool Kids

Top 10 New Dramas

1.Manifest
2. FBI
3. New Amsterdam
4. The Adventures of Sabrina
5. The Little Drummer Girl
6. Homecoming
7. Good Girls
8, Charmed
9. All American
10. Bodyguard

I'm so looking forward to what's ahead coming in the new year. The one thing I'm looking forward is the return of The Blacklist, which premieres this Thursday and Friday. Not to mention the return of Brooklyn Nine-Nine and Life In Pieces (whenever the hell CBS will give it an air date). Plus I can't wait to see what's gonna happen on The Good Place as the season comes to an end. FBI has been a huge improvement since the pilot and I hope CBS will give it a shot for a second season. As much as I enjoyed the return of Roseanne this year, I'm loving The Conners even better.

Here's to a new year!

Christmas With The Huangs!: Fresh Off the Boat "Cousin Eddie" fall finale

It's one of the best Christmas episodes of Fresh Off the Boat that I could remember, even the one from last season. Here's a recap!

As Christmas is near Jessica and Louis begins their traditional family Christmas routine, but Eddie wants to go visit Nicole in New York City. But Jessica won't allow it and makes Eddie do what they normally do from decorating the Christmas tree to a family photo to even going to the Nutcracker, but it turns into a battle of mom vs son.

Eddie tries to ruin and get out of the tradition from volunteering at the shelter and brings a friend over too, but Jessica wouldn't give in playing along to Eddie's game. But when Jessica realized that her angel on the top of the tree is broken, she lost it and canceled Christmas.

Jessica talks to Eddie and tells him that the reason why she does these traditions is that it worked so well with him as a baby. And after that, it was like they grew closer this holiday season and not only fixed Jessica's angel but performed the classic holiday tune "Christmas In Hollis" by Run-DMC, which was classic!!

Meanwhile, with Marvin and Honey went to visit Nicole in New York City, Louis allowed the kids to bring a friend over to their house for Christmas. As it was easy for Emery, it was hard for Evan to figure out who he can bring over because he has so many people that he calls his friend. Even Louis couldn't help and learned that Evan got his decision making from him. But it was a Christmas miracle from It's a Wonderful Life as Emery got all of his friends to come over. That was till Evan decides to send them home because Emery was his best friend.

"Cousin Eddie" was not only hilarious but it hit the holiday family spirit on the head. The title of the episode never made sense, but it was by far the best Christmas episode that I could remember. I just love the mother-son battle between Jessica and Eddie and learning the reason why Jessica does these traditions just makes you grab some tissues.  It was a strong episode with great character development, writing, and performances from the cast. Overall, I give this episode a 9/10.

You can catch Fresh Off the Boat when they return with new episodes on Friday, January 11 at 8/7c on ABC.

The Blacklist Season 6 First Five Minute Clip Premiere

Twas five days til Christmas and the one thing we get is a sneak peek from the season premiere of the two-night premiere of The Blacklist.

In this clip, during a bank robbery, it seemed that this group ruined Red's plans.


Here are the first five minutes of the premiere:

You can catch the two-night season premiere of The Blacklist beginning Thursday, Jan. 3 at 10/9c and Friday, Jan. 4th at 9/8c on NBC.

Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt Season 4, Part 2 Premiere Date + Clip

In the final season of Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, Titus is Living Single and loving it.

The Netflix comedy will begins its three-year run on January 25. But to help tide us over till that day comes the streaming service has released a clip from the midseason premiere and it's pure hilarious and pure magic (boy).

Like as Kimmy gave us Little Girl, Big City earlier this season, Titus' inner sitcom titled "Magic Boy" is naturally a sense of what the world looks like from his perspective. And I'm sure that we all want to go there.

The final six episodes of the beloved series, Kimmy is as resilient as ever but realizes that being an adult is about more than just putting the past behind her. It's finally time for her to choose between helping her friends. Titus, Jacqueline and Lilian, and helping someone she's never put first before: herself. The season also includes a double-sized "Sliding Doors" episode that explores how the main characters lives might have been different if Kimmy had never been kidnapped.

Here's the clip:

You can catch Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt with all three and a half seasons on Netflix now.

Prepare for What's Coming: Supergirl Elseworlds, Part 3

After two nights of full of excitement, drama and super amazing moments; Part 3 of Elseworld ends with Supergirl that not deals with some life changes but something more is coming. Here's a recap!

Continuing from where we left off in Arrow as Barry and Oliver learn that Deegan changed reality once again and has become the black-suited Superman. Oliver gets a chance to escape from him by calling his bluff to have him save the citizens. They come up with a plan to find Cisco but got sidetracked when they meet with The Mointer and learned that all of this is a test to see who's strong and willing.

As Barry and Oliver find Cisco and convinced him to help him us his power to get them into Earth 38, to get Clark and Lois' help. Kara is trapped by Deegan and uses not only Oliver and Barry's friends to help him but Alex as well. Kara talks to Alex and convinces her that she's not this kind of person and describes her sister and what she means to her. Alex helps Kara get free and meets up with Deegan but Barry, Oliver, and Clark make it back in time. 

Clark and Deegan fight, while Kara, Barry, and Alex located the book and gives it to Clark to help refix reality. Barry gets his powers back, Oliver returns to normal, but Deegan gets the book back and the team devices a plan. Barry and Kara use their speed to slow down time, while Olver meets with The Monitor and asked to help change history as both Barry and Kara are the sign of hope for the world.

Just as Barry and Kara are about to burst into flame, time slows down and Oliver takes his shot at Deegan and stops him. And both Barry and Kara are still alive after going mack 7 speed. After things changed back, Deegan's face is deformed and sent to Arkham in Gotham. Kara and Clark have a nice moment and learns that he and Lois are moving back to start a family. But a call from Kate Kane to Oliver gets worried about a friend that Deegan is making in Arkham and that friend is Psycho-Pirate. And a short teaser to what comes next fall "Crisis on Infinite Earths."

"Elseworlds Part 3" was a fantastic episode ending but a nice cliffhanger to what comes next year. This episode really gave a strong character development, mainly between Oliver and Barry as those two grew closer as friends and Oliver grew more as a person that shouldn't wait but have hope and go with it. Maybe he and Felicity will finally get back together. But let me just say this that this crossover was like the perfect freaky Fridays meet bosom buddies moments for Barry and Oliver that I enjoyed too much. Another thing, I WANT TO SEE BATWOMAN AS A SERIES!!! Ruby Rose killed it and gave us just enough to see her character and Gotham that this would work. Please make it work CW! MAKE IT WORK!!!

I thought there were some good moments for Kara too. When she convinces Alex the help her and describe how her Alex stands up to what she believes that gets her to be her own person. Also, the moment with Clark at the end was a good enough moment to know that it was like passing the mantle down of saving the world. Yeah, I may not like how it was done after seeing Clark get his butt kicked many times in this crossover but it was effective enough that I enjoyed it. And not to mention with what's coming next year that maybe that other Kara could be used in that situation. I don't know. I'm just guessing.

Overall, I give this episode a 9/10. I give the crossover event a 9/10.

You can catch Supergirl when it returns in January.

Moving Up: Superstore "Managers' Conference"/"Shadowing Glenn" Fall Finale

"Managers' Conference" 

When Glenn gives up two tickets to a Cloud 9 managing conference, Amy and Jonah take it after learning it's an all-paid trip with the works. As they get there, it is his to get in, but Jeff gets them in by sneaking them in with other IDs. As they try to leave, Amy learns that the managers get free stuff and take advantage of it.

Jonah tells Amy that she should go for a manager position, and after meeting a couple of managers who don't think their workers should get high wages. After that, ma, maybe she should go for a managing position.

Garrett and Dina fight over who can wrap gifts for their customers best. As soon as they had the perfect wrapping on a blessing, they were done.

Glenn asked Mateo for his social security number,r as it showed in the records that it belonged to someone else. This worried Mateo that this could be the last we see him. But when Glenn asked again, Mateo gave him another set of numbers, and when Glenn checked it out, it was right.

"Managers' Conference" was a hilarious episode that felt like a fall finale. This episode should have ended up being the fall finale with the Christmas moment of Glenn helping Mateo. From Garrett and Dina to Mateo and Cheyenne, I couldn't get enough of watching these rich and well-developed characters play to each other. Good writing and performance make the frecareeres as good as they would be in an episode of Superstore. Overall, I give this episode an 8/10.

"Shadowing Glenn" Fall Finale

In the fall finale, Amy decides to go for managing training and asks Glenn for approval. But he decides to train her in the comedy version of Karate Kid. He teaches her what he knows, but Amy doesn't think she needs to know all this since she thinks she knows what to do.

That was until Amy made a mistake with one of the orders and tried to get the shippers to ship them back. But Glenn comes and saves the day and gets the other orders returned.

Cheyenne and Mateo decide to go into the business together and come up with a funny name, Cheateo. It may or may not work. But I would think it would be fun.

Meanwhile, Dina is looking for a new career and gets Jonah to help after he was the one who called out while Amy watched Glenn's managing video. After turning down almost every job, there might be one that she would be good at.

"Shadowing Glenn" was a well-written, well-performed episode. The cast puts on a tremendous performance. Amy and Glenn's storyline gives that Karate Kid at work feel to it. Lauren Ash's performance was terrific, And even Cheyenne and Mateo's storyline could beat its best this season with them working together to run their own business. Overall, I give this episode a 9/10.

You can catch Superstore when they return in March next year and catch up with episodes on NBC.com and the NBC app.