Our Air: This Is Us "Our Little Island Girl"

Last week's episode of This Is Us was another brilliant and beautiful episode of the season. Here's a recap!

As Beth and Zoe drove to visit to check on Beth's mother after learning she bruised her hip at school. We see not a warming mother that we would imagine but a mother that is driven to make her daughter and niece be the best; considering that Zoe's work isn't what she calls potential but when she learns that Beth was laid off from work, she starts to help her find another law firm.

Throughout the episode, we see a flashback of a young Beth going for ballet and trying to get her parents to agree to let her join a top ballet academy. While she's trying her best and making a few mistakes, she sees what would be her competition. But at home, she and Zoe learn of Beth's father diagnosed with lung cancer and things start to go from "go for your dreams" to "stop dreaming" and think about the future for which she did and goes to a college meet and greet where she bumps into Randall.

Back to the present, Beth confronts to her mother and not only tells her about why she doesn't bring her girls to visit but that she could have been a great ballet dancer. Her mother agrees and thought that she did it for the best just like her own mother did it for her. Later as Beth comes home, she tells Randall that she knows what she wants to do next: ballet teacher.

"Out Little Island Girl" was such an amazing, beautiful and strong episode. The performance from Susan Kelchi Watson was outstanding and I would consider it to be an Emmy nomination for it. Not to mention that Phylicia Rashad's performance was stunning and we got to see how and why we see Beth as she is as a realist and not like Randall or her father. The episode had strong writing and character development for Beth and her mother. Overall, I give this episode a 9.5/10.

You can catch This Is Us returns next Tuesday at 9/8c on NBC. 

NBC Renews Chicago Med, Chicago Fire & Chicago PD

Looks like NBC will be sticking put in the Windy City.

On Tuesday, the network announced that it has renewed Chicago Fire, Chicago PD and Chicago Med.

Chicago Fire has been picked up for an eighth season, while Chicago PD and Med will return in their seventh and fifth seasons.

"We remain in awe of the job Dick Wolf, our producers, casts, and crew do in creating some of the most compelling television today," NBC's Co-Presidents of Scripted Programming Lisa Karz and Tracey Pakosta in a statement. "The Chicago franchise is a lynchpin of our schedule and we're thrilled that audiences have embraced out Wednesdays with such incredible passion for these shows and characters."

Both Med and Fire are each averaginb a 1.3 demo ratng thus far this season. It's currently tie for second among all NBC dramas, trailing only This is Us. Chicago PD averages 1.1 demo rating, ranking sixth.

In total viewers, Med, Fire and PD rank No. 24 among NBC dramas, drawing 8.4 million, 8.1 million and 7.2 million weekly.

You can catch Chicago Med, Fire and PD Wednesdays at 8/7c on NBC.

Chicago Med "Old Flames, New Sparks" Episode Preview

Here's a preview of this Wednesday's episode of Chicago Med titled, "Old Flames, New Sparks."

"Olf Flames, New Sparks"

Natalie and Will grow further apart; while Dr. Charles struggles to come to terms with his feelings towards his ex-wife. The personal issues between Rhodes and Bekker continue to cause problems at the hospital.

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Oh man! Seems like Dr. Charles will be doing everything to help his ex-wife. I still have hope for Natalie and Will and that they are going to have to work together if they want to get back together. I still have hope! As for Coner and Ava, I'm starting to see it now from Ava with how she's been acting and I just love the intense drama between these two.



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

Life In Pieces Gets Premiere Date

Well, finally the wait is over!

On Monday, CBS has announced the premiere date for Life In Pieces. The date is set for Thursday, April 18, TVLine has learned.

The fourth season comedy will kick off with two episodes, airing at 8:30 pm and 9:30 pm, before settling into it's regular 9:30pm time slot on Thursday, April 25 (which is currently airs Niva Dobrev's hit comedy Fam, which will wrap up its Season 1 run by that time).

Season four is described, the Short family, "welcomes a few new family members and weathers an unexpected health crisis" in the new episodes, and "some long-hidden secrets are revealed in an unexpected way." 

Back in August, TVLine reported exclusively that Joey King (the real-life sister of Hunter King, aka Life in Pieces' Clementine) will recur in Season 4 as Morgan, a pregnant 17-year-old who plans to place her baby with adoptive parents Math (Thomas Sadoski) and Colleen (Angelique Cabral).

Life In Pieces also stats Dianne Wiest, James Brolin, Zoe Lister0Jones, Colin Hanks, Betsy Brandt, Dan Bakkedahl, Niail Cummingham, Holly J. Barrett,, and Giselle Eisenberg.

After hearing the news, I'm literally on cloud nine as I think that Life in Pieces is CBS best comedy right now. From the beginning when I heard and saw the first trailer that this show brilliant and it really has proven after three seasons that it's my top list of comedies to watch. 

Triple Dragon Cleanup: Brooklyn Nine-Nine "The Honeypot"

As Jake help Holt search for a new assistant, Amy helps out with the team of cleaning their desk. Here's a recap!

As Captain Holt goes through and interviews candidates as his Gina's replacement, Jake offers his help and gives his acceptance. Later Jake finds the perfect candidate, which later after hiring him Jake feels that he's a spy from John Kelly. In order to find out that he is a spy, they had to distract him so Jake could copy the guy's laptop drive.

After what took so long, Jake finds nothing but it was soon that the guy would come to him and Holt and confess that he's a spy for Kelly. Soon the three devise a plan to get Kelly but as the plan goes in play, Holt and Jake get doubled crossed or did they as Holt comes up with a backup plan called Triple Dragon and gave his demands to Kelly of what he wants or he'll turn tapes and recordings of him. The 99 is back!!

Meanwhile, Terry notices that everyone's desk is a bit messy and while everyone agreed they asked for someone to help with that problem: Amy. Amy gives them orders of how to get things organized, but no one wants to throw out anything because it gives them joy. Soon Amy decides to go hardcore and gets everyone to put their non-important stuff in trash bags and set them on fire.

But when she sees Terry's suspenders still in his desk, Amy learns the real meaning of keeping those suspenders because they were for him when he passed the lieutenants exam that he didn't pass. The next day, Amy puts the lieutenant's books for Terry to study and taking the test again.

"The Honeypot" was another marvelous and hilarious episode. By the time the show ended, I wanted more and more. From the Holt and Jake's taking down an assistant that is spying on them, which I enjoyed a lot to Amy ship shaping the team's messy desk, which at first I didn't think would be all fun but it turned out to be better than what I thought it would come out to be. It gave a nice moment with Amy and Terry as he opens up why he keeps his suspenders. Strong character development plus the writing and the performances were awesome too. Overall, I give this episode a 9/10.

You can catch Brooklyn Nine-Nine Thursdays at 9/8c on NBC!!

Brooklyn Nine-Nine "The Honeypot" Episode Preview

Here's a preview of this Thursday's episode of Brooklyn Nine-Nine titled, "The Honeypot."

"The Honeypot"

Jake and Holt clash over the merits of a new hire in the 99th precinct. While Terry, Amy, Rose, and Charles try to do something about the cluttered bullpen.

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You can catch Brooklyn Nine-Nine Thursdays at 9/8c on NBC!

Chicago Fire/Chicago PD Crossover Event: "What I Say"/"Good Men"

Here's a preview of this week's two-hour epic crossover event between Chicago Fire titled, "What I Saw" and Chicago PD titled, "Good Men."

Chicago Fire: "What I Saw"

In the first part of the crossover event with Chicago PD, a spate of robberies comes to light after a firehouse lockbox key goes missing. CPD's Voight has suspicions that a firefighter may be involved, and with Boden's support, he recruits Cruz to go undercover and help sniff out any suspicious activity.

Chicago PD: "Good Men"

In the second part of the crossover with Chicago Fire, using information from CFD's Cruz, Intelligence chases down the robbery crew that's been using the lockbox key. Voight is under pressure to bring the crew to justice without tarnishing the reputation of a murdered firefighter who might have been involved.

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I literally can't wait to see this crossover!! I hope we get to see Halstead riding his motorcycle again. That was total badass.

You can catch the two-show crossover event Chicago Fire at 9/8c and Chicago PD at 10/9c Wednesday on NBC!