Life In Pieces Canceled After 4 Seaons

Well, it's the end with the Short family. 

Deadline has learned that CBS has announced on Friday that they've canceled Life In Pieces after four seasons.

Life In Pieces revolved around one big family, The Shorts; their sometimes awkward but ultimately beautiful milestone moments as told by the various members.

Created by Justin Adler; the show had literally had one of the best family sitcom casts, fronting by Dianne Wiest and James Brolin. Along with Betsy Brandt, Zoe Lister-Jones, Colin Hanks, Angelique Cabral, Thomas Sadoski, Dan Bakkedahl, Niall Cummingham, Holly J. Barrett, Giselle Eisenberg, and Hunter King.

The current season is averaging a 0.84 demo rating and 5.8 million total viewers, which is down 24, and 10 percent from Season 3.

I'm very disappointed that CBS has canceled this show as it's literally one of my favorite comedies on the network.  I had such high hopes; even though the series has just aired its fifth episode of 13 in its current season.  Well, I'm gonna treasure each of the remaining episodes of this season.


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

Fresh Off The Boat and Single Parents Renewed By ABC

On Friday, ABC announced that Fresh Off The Boat and Single Parents have been renewed.

Fresh Off The Boat will be renewed for a sixth season. Coming off a nicely wrapped up Season 5 that could have gone either way of being renewed or canceled. The Constance Wu and Randall Park lead stars portrayals parents of a rap-loving high schooler Eddie (Hudson Yang), with younger brother Emery (Forrest Wheeler) and Evan (Ian Chen). Along with Lucille Soong plays the wheelchair-bound grandma who always knows more than the rest of the family. 

Single Parents will be renewed for a second season. Coming off what I would call an amazing first season. The Taran Killam stars along with Leighton Meester, Brad Garrett, Kimrie Lewis, and Jake Choi. The series co-created by Elizabeth Meriwether and J.J. Philbin. 

I'm so thrilled for both shows getting renewed. I was hoping for FOTB to get renewed but the season finale really left me wondering if they would get a season six. As for Single Parents, it's one of the best new comedies of the year. The writing and the cast ensemble is outstanding.

Love in the Air? Chicago Fire "No Such Thing As Bad Luck"/"Until The Weather Breaks"

"No Such Thing As Bad Luck"

Boden meets a blast from his past during a rescue, while Cruz gets an award for his service with the CPD. Here's a recap!

During a house fire call, Boden meets a high school friend, but Casey and Severide think she might have set it up. Well, Boden got to the bottom of it and, later on, learned that her son was the one who set the fire as he was addicted to drugs. Boden gets between him and her, sees him drop the gun, and offers help at a drug rehab center.

After his heroic duty with Chicago PD, Cruz was awarded a commendation for his work. But after he learns about the award, he ignores Severide's orders during that house fire call. Later, when heiss about to get his commendation, he knows that Severide will be the one to give it to his play and sing it on his jacket.

Kidd and Otis thought they had made a colossal mistake when they learned that the dog statue was Molly's good luck charm, and giving it away had caused lousy luck. Herrmann gets word of the IRS auditing the bar. Kidd and Otis try to get the statue back, but when they bring it up at the firehouse, the figure is broken, and later that night,t Herrmann tells them that things are good to leave the statue broken.

Severide and Kidd's relationship takes an awkward turn as some think that Severide has stayed at the bar until Kidd leaves. Foster is in it and tells Severide that maybe he will give her space.

The episexcellentery is good. I thought that Boden's high school friend was going to go after him in a fatal attraction meets fire t, but it wasn't and well written. I couldn't get enough of the humor storyline of the hunt for the dog statue. And I think Severide is learning not to be so protective as he could win Kidd by not being always there. Overall, I give this episode an 8/10.

"Until The Weather Breaks"

Chicago Fire is back with an exciting new episode that will not only play with your heart but leave you on the edge of your seat. 

I enjoyed the episode "Until The Weather Breaks" as it's probably one of my favorite episodes of the season; I could reach up there in bottle episodes on this show. Firehouse 51 gets a surprise visitor, a kid hiding in the firehouse. Everyone tries to comfort the kid from Brett, Casey, and even Tuesday, but the reason is the real thriller as the kid was a witness in a murder, and one of the shooters happens to find him and looks for him.  But that got stopped when Otis called out on his game, and everyone tried to get him out and away from the kid, but thanks to Severide and Brett, the guy was caught.

Also, in the episode, there is more Severide and Kidd drama, leading to Kidd learning that Foster helped Severide deal with his feelings for Kidd. Casey wants to take an adventurous trip around the world, while Severide doesn't like the idea; Brett thinks it's fantastic and cute. She even asked Casey if he was down for a group trip. Why not?

"Until The Weather Breaks" is probably one of my top ten episodes of this season. It had an outstanding balance of dramatic and humorous moments that I can't get enough of. We get some good character development with Casey and Brett (not a lot), but Otis is affected by the gunman coming into the firehouse. Overall, I give this episode a 9/10.

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

Heroic Moment: Chicago Fire "Fault in Him"/"Move a Wall"

"Fault In Him"

Casey gets a close call to death, while Severide helps out with someone's career and a 51 member has a chance to win $10,000. Here's a recap!

When Casey and truck 81 are on a call of a suicide attempt; when they break in the house the cops found the body and no one else. That was until Casey heard something and walked into danger with the dead guy's brother aiming a gun at him and shoot but the gun jammed and Casey made it out alive. The rest of the shift he tries to ask why did this happen to him. Brett tries to help him even asking the Chaplin to help but that didn't go so well. Casey eventually talks to Boden; got probably what he needed from him that he needs to keep moving on.

Severide was asked by Grissom to help make him look good in front of a group of city officials; that's even letting him show the officials a tour of Firehouse 51 and even witness of what they do on a daily basis. After digging dirt and all, Severide gets word from Grissom that he's good and will keep his job.

Mouch receives the winners from the raffle and Otis won third place and will get a sports package. That lead to knowing that the package was tickets to the Blackhawks game and a chance to win $10,000 dollars if he can make a goal.  After getting somewhat trained for this Otis finally go up there and missed on the first one, came close on the second and scored on the third.

It seems Brett's relationship with the Chaplin is over after he tells her that he has to stay neutral. It wasn't Casey's fault but in some mind, I think Brett kind of blames him. But this makes a push for Brett and Casey to start a relationship.

"Fault In Him" was a very good episode, with a lot of strong character development and building. I very much enjoyed Casey's story in this episode and what he went through after that event was very good. Even when he was thinking of calling Gabby; it had me on the edge telling him don't do it. After all the bad blood between Grissom and 51, it was so what nice to see things calm down and worked together. Hell, the Otis storyline was hilarious; even had me up on my feet cheering when he made that last goal attempt. Overall, I give this episode an 8.5/10.

"Move A Wall"

When something goes wrong on a call, two firefighters will bump head with one another. Plus an investigation leads to a shocking undercover scam. And 51 gets a makeover, will it look better than before? Here's a recap!

When a call to an apartment fire, Casey gets upset with Herrmann for acting irresponsibly when he had the fire hose across the street and a car drives by dragging Ritter. It turned into a heated match between the two and soon Herrmann gets the understanding of what's really going on with Casey; as he's still dealing from the event from the previous episode. But after an accident call of a car and truck was a safe rescue, both Herrmann and Casey forgave one another.

During that apartment fire, Kidd notices in the apartment rooms that had a hidden room behind the couch and saw pillows, blankets, and even a doll. She gets this bad vibe that something ain't right and talks with Upton about it; but by the time they get there the room was completely gone from the fire. But talking with the neighbor, they looked into the mail and found a name and an address; there they not only found the kids but also stopped the bad guy that was using the foster system in a scam.
Herrmann apparently gave Cindy permission to decorate the 51 quarters. After taking in all the suggestions, Cindy finally comes up with a look that no one loves. Herrmann had to eat his words and yet might be sleeping in the dog house for a while.

"Move a Wall" was a fine real dramatic episode. This really was a Herrmann episode with him dealing with Casey and Cindy. I thought that Kidd and Severide story was fantastic; at the end, you could see there were still sparks between them which lets hope they can get together.  Overall, I give this episode an 8.5/10.

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

Denying the Inevitable: Chicago Med "More Harm Than Good"

A mysterious drug brings two patients that the doctors can't understand; while a Rhodes questions his father's surgery. Here's a recap!

When two patients come in the ED after taking a mysterious drug that literally puts them in severe pain; Ethan, Nataline, and Dr. Charles try to help them; but they don't want help. As one dies, Natalie tries her best to help the other one before she dies too, but still won't accept. Charles tries to figure out a way to get a court order but Natalie forces her patient to take the medicine that could stop the deadly drug from working. Even though it was wrong, Charles gets the patient to not only take some meds to help ease with the pain but get her on the treatment too; even though it just delay what they learned was a suicide attempt in a cult to save Earth.

Will not only deals with Natalie's new boyfriend, Phillip; but deals with a patient that's questionable about his involvement of kidney donation to his brother. After doing research, he's convinced that it's illegal and tries to get Goodwin to stop it. But by the time he chats with the patient he realizes that it could be alright.

Conner and Ava are at it again, but this time it's all Conner as his father is back in the ED; learns that his stint in his heart had a malfunction and needed surgery again. Rhodes's dad isn't too pleased about it and even threatens the head of the hospital about her contract. Conner tries to apologize to Ava but she tells him that he should apologize to the other things he's accused her of doing. She even tells him that him breaking up with her was still hard to get over. Now I'm back on her side now.

Ethan's sister returns to the ED but with Bernie. Bernie needs surgery but also needs to find a job and a new place for him, Emily and their baby to live. After coming to his senses, Ethan apologizes to Bernie about his actions and tells him whatever he needs he'll do it. Probably shouldn't have said that as Bernie asked for the blue pills.

"More Harm Than Good" was such an interesting episode. The stories were as interesting; even I believe kicked off to stories that we'll see by the end of the season. The medical case of the week was a real thrill; that had me on the edge of my seat even after learning the reason for the patient. I do feel the Conner and Ava story has run its course and I just hope it really comes to an end, even though the two won't be back in Season Five.

The Ethan and Bernie story was at times funny, but too a serious turn when Bernie asked Ethan for blue pills that just disliked him more. I see where Will was going and probably should have taken a better approach about Phillip with Natalie but that story of the kidney transplant was a very good story and even if the outcome wasn't what we expected. But I do stand with Will about Phillip and that he shouldn't have lied to Owen. Good story, good character development. Overall, I give this episode an 8.5/10.

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

A True Mystery Event: Chicago Fire "What I Saw"/ Chicago PD "Good Man" One Chicago Crossover Event

When lockboxes from apartment builds have been mysteriously missing, Chicago Fire and Chicago PD team up to solve in this crossover event.

"What I Saw"/"Good Man" was not your typical usual action-packed crossover episode event that we've had watched in the past six years. When Firehouse 51 gets a late call of an apartment fire, the building happens to be missing the keys from the lockbox. The issue pulls in Chicago PD that wants to one of 51, which happens to be Cruz, to go undercover at another firehouse and find the suspect. As Cruz goes to another firehouse, after watching each member; he's shocked to learn who it was and it lead his death.

Voight and the team take on the case and tried to get things in order; and learned that the firefighter wasn't a criminal at all, but instead trying to help these kids that were part of the firefighter program. These kids were trying to get out of a local gang that they've been a part of since they could remember. Atwater helps the kid get a confession from the gang leader about killing the firefighter and got him.

This was a way different kind of crossover episode vent than we are used to and I'd enjoyed it. It felt like a real mystery procedure. The performances from each of the show's cast were very good and the writing/story was good too with good character development and plot. Overall, I give this episode an 8,5/10.

You can catch Chicago Fire Wednesdays at 9/8c and Chicago PD Wednesdays 10/9c on NBC.

There For Each Other: Chicago Fire "The Plunge" "It Wasn't About Hockey"

"The Plunge"

When on a call, an accident occurs that hits close to home for one firefighter, while threats make one paramedic scared. Here's a recap!

When on a call, Herrmann and his crew rush but are followed by a wild driver who causes an accident. The crew stops and rescues what Herrmann learns was a teenager and saves him before the car bursts into flames. Later on, the aftereffects take Herrmann on an emotional spin and take it out on his son by punishing him for a dent in the car that happened two months ago. Soon, Herrmann's wife learns, and even Herrmann confronts his son and apologizes for his actions.

Froster deals with harassment from Shaw after she turns him down again. Soon, she and Brett get a call from Lakeshore about questionable actions from someone.  Foster not only tells Brett about the situation with Shaw but also Boden, and he tries to help but can't change the boss' mind at Lakeshore. After a call, Foster confronts Shaw and is outspoken about what he has down to her that not only the nurses and doctors hear but also the boss. As soon as Foster leaves to meet with Brett, Shaw runs out, and just as he threatens her, the entire Firehouse 51, with Boden speaking to Shaw and telling him to watch his step. He backs off and is gone for good!

Meanwhile, the team prepares to take the polar plunge in Lake Michigan and even tries to use tactics like taking cold showers, etc.  But the morning/afternoon of the event, everyone gets there, including Foster, and all raced to the water. Also, Casey and Severide get their bromance on by hitting the clubs, Kelly-style.

"The Plunge" was a fantastic episode with some great drama moments with Herrmann and thrilling moments with Foster and Brett. That scene when 51 comes to represent Foster was powerful. And I can't leave out a lot of humor from preparing for the polar plunge, but Casey and Severide had me smiling and laughing as it reminds me of the bond between Geroge Clooney and Anthony Edwards on ER. Strong character development with Foster and Herrmann. Even good writing for this episode. Overall, I give this episode an 8.5/10.

"It Wasn't About Hockey" 

"It Wasn't About Hockey" was the episode I have been waiting for since Gabby left Chicago Fire. We've seen Casey, Severide, and Dawson have their moment to shine, and this time, as I was hoping for Brett to have her episode to shine, it was a triple duty of women's power with not only Brett but Foster and Kidd. 

As Brett, Foster, and Kidd prepare for a Valentine's Day weekend together at Brett's mother's cabin, things take a turn when Brett and Foster witness a bus accident and must help save not only two teenagers but a farmer, too. There was no signal to call for help and no one for miles; they had to rely on their training and try to keep everyone alive. Soon, Kidd gets there and helps, and later, the hockey coach and player make it back with the police, ambulance, and firefighters. 
Meanwhile, with the girls gone, it's chili night at 51, with everyone battling to make the best chili and win the money pot. As everyone fixes their dish, even Casey and Severide get in on the action, but in the end, it isn't anyone from 51, as Brett and Foster's stand-by paramedics, who won it. Shocking to all. 

"It Wasn't About Hockey" might be one of my favorite episodes of the season. As I said earlier, I've been waiting for this episode since Monica Raymund left the show so we could see Kara Killmer get her time to shine. But it was even better with the teamwork of Killmer, Miranda Rae Mayo, and Annie Ilonzeh. The character development was good, and even the writing was good, with enough action and humor to balance the episode. Overall, I give this episode a 9/10.

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