Plants and Tech: The Blacklist "Gaia" & "The Lindquist Concern"

In the episode "Gaia," the next blacklist turns out to be a brother nature for the environment, plus Tom makes a bad call when it comes to getting his child.

This episode had me twisting an turning just a bit. The task force goes after an Eco-terrorist who has a connection to Kirk. He takes on those that pollute the air and harm those that have been effected, like his son for insistence. But when he tries to take down a nuclear planet, he's ride there gets diverted by Aram and crash.

But that gave Red help looking for Gaia's wife and son, who happens to know Kirk's doctor. He offered them help in exchange for the doctor. During that scene when they're in the dinner, Red shows his softer and charming side when it comes to give a sweet child ice cream.

But it wasn't all good, Kirk gives Liz a chance to see her daughter, but Tom thinks he can get her back with his own team. That turned out to be a bad idea and Liz paid a bad price for that even though she didn't know that Tom was going to do it.

Not to mention, that Dr. Kaplan was rescued by some stranger, who tries to help her. It seemed so strange at first, but at the end of the episode, it turns out that she's his prisoner.


In the episode, "The Lindquist Concern" this episode was interesting and creepy all at once.

When Red gets Liz and the task force to track down a criminal who targets young inventors with million dollar worthy inventions. He may seem slow and stupid at his workplace, but he's a smart and very intelligent to get away as he seeks whats own to him.

When the FBI caught up to him, he takes his employees in another room as hostages. Samar comes and tries to reason with him but wouldn't do it and he takes a bullet to the chest.

Meanwhile, Red and Liz track down Kirk with the help from his doctor. Red wants Liz to stay back when they go after him at the meet his doctor would be at. When left behind some of Red's crew, Red heads with the doctor to the area to get ready. But Tom went on a tip from Ressler about a guy who knows Kirk and got information.

When Tom called Liz he tells her where Kirk was at, in Russia. Totally different from where Red and Dembe are at and Liz calls to warn them but it was too late as Kirk's car, which came in, blows up. Only a few injuries, Red thanked Liz for her last attempted call.

With only a few more episodes left before the fall finale, I feel they're gonna get Liz's baby sooner, probably in tonight's episode. I just have that feeling.

Both episodes were really good. I thought the blacklist Gaia was really good but the other guy in last week's episode was okay, creepy but okay.

Overall, I give "Gaia" a 8.5/10 and "The Lindquist Concern" a 7.5/10.

You can catch The Blacklist Thursday nights at 10/9c on NBC.

Ill and Gamble: Chicago Med "Brother's Keeper" & "Extreme Measures"

In the episode "Brother's Keeper," the hospital takes on an epidemic when two patients come in with the same condition. Choi and Rhodes take on a patient whose son is ready to let him go but not the patient's girlfriend.

This episode might be a bit overdramatic in its promo, but it was an excellent episode to start. First, I can't forget to mention that there was a TV icon on the show. Daniel J. Travanti, Captain Frank Furillo from Hill Street Blues, had a guest spot as Dr. Choi and Rhodes' patient, who comes in with confusion and needs surgery to remove a tumor. But his son tells them he doesn't want any heroic measures.

But when Choi's patient had difficulty breathing, he heard him say save me and got Rhodes to take him to surgery. Surgery was a success, but when Choi told him about his girlfriend being strong, he made a remark and told him that she was just a gravedigger.

Meanwhile, Halstead and Manning dealing with their patients suffering from the same conditions, which has them thinking of an outbreak of a super bug. Goodwin calls on Dr. Charles's daughter, the newest member of the epidemiology department. Things got scary when Manning's cancer patient wasn't breathing, but finding a blockage in her throat, she got in there and pushed out the puss. It turns out that the cause of this illness was an instrument used on them a couple of weeks ago.

Dr. Charles and Reese handle a case of a boy who resists against male doctors and wants to leave the hospital. Reese talks to him and seems to calm down just a bit. Soon, "his mother" comes, and Reese doesn't think he's comfortable with her. Trying to get him to stay, Reese gets a chest x-ray on him and finds a chip in his chest. Charlies believes that he's part of a drug ring and that the "mother" is his pimp. But he left before they could do anything, but that won't be the last time she'll see him.

In the episode, Extreme Measures," Halstead, Shore, April, and Noah are at a marathon, but someone gets hit by a van. It leaves Halstead in a challenging situation of how to treat him.

When April and Noah are helping at the local marathon, they get pulled into someone who just got hit by a van. No ambulance could get there in time, and Halstead and Shore were a couple of feet away. So Noah tries to perform a chest tube but does it successfully, but not to the approval of Halstead when he gets there.

The four of them try to figure out how to keep him alive. It led Halstead to take a risk that even Rhodes was questioning. When they brought him in, the patient went to surgery, but after, Halstead wasn't sure that this guy would make it. After a while, the patient woke up but couldn't move his legs, which got Halstead upset until Rhodes asked the patient to wiggle his toes, and he did. That leads him to an underwhelming moment.

Dr. Choi treats an elderly patient who hasn't taken all her medicine and appears malnourished, too. Choi tries to open up to her about it, but she tells him he's okay even though the test proves otherwise. It wasn't until her friend came in that Choi asked her about her friend and soon realized that she was not doing healthy money-wise and was trying to make a good impression from what her friend was showing her. Some friend, right?

Manning takes on an eight-year-old girl who's losing her hearing. The test shows that the girl has had old fractures, to which the mother says that it was from the child's father, who says that he'd died. It turns out that the mother lied about the father; he's still alive, but she says she believes that he abused her, and so she took her away from him. That also led to Manning performing another test, which showed she had a condition that caused the fractures. That put the girl's mother in a bad situation as Al and the CPD took her.

Overall, I enjoyed these episodes. Even though "Brother's Keeper" was a bit over-promoted, it was still a perfect hour of drama; Reese and patient were excellent.

"Extreme Measures" was one of my favorite episodes, as it pushed Halstead figuratively and emotionally to the limit of treating and saving the patient.

I've noticed that Choi has been getting exciting storylines with excellent guests.

The next episode will be a crossover event with Chicago PD as Reese's patient returns for help dangerously.

Overall, I give "Brother's Keeper" an 8.5/10 and "Extreme Measures" a 9/10.

You can catch Chicago Med Thursday nights at 9/8c on NBC.

The Lying and Dying: The Good Place "Chapter 7: The Eternal Shriek"

Michael announces that the problem going around the neighborhood was from him and that he'll retire. Eleanor and Chidi tries to figure out how to top Michael from retiring even if it does prevent a murdered...

Michael figures out that he's the one causing the problems in The Good Place and sees that the only way for it to stop was to get on a train and retire. Tahani throws him a retirement party, for which he seemed grateful but mostly bummed out.

Eleanor tells Chidi about how this happen and learned that Michael will be torched . Chidi tells her that she needs to confess about it, but she had a better idea and asked Janet the one awkward question, is there a way to shut her down. And in fact there is a kill switch but if used she will be murdered.

For Eleanor to stay and save was to do the unthinkable. Janet lead Eleanor and Chidi to where she can be shutdown. The two have a hard time pressing the button because of Janet's "human emotion for life." That's where she's pleading to not be killed.

But Jianyu shows up, because he was bored at the party. He sees the button and goes to press it until Chidi pushes him away and presses the button accidentally and Janet is dead. But not gone without a huge announcement from Janet herself in a world screen video of her announcing that shes been murder.

A funeral was in store at Michael's retirement, but we learn that Janet doesn't die, she shuts down and has to learn all over again everything in the universe. Michael announces he won't retire but will stay.
Chidi is nervous as a wreck and we see a flashback of him telling a lie to professor about his shoes and that grew to be unbearable for him to handle. It showed us why he doesn't like lying to others.

Just as Chidi was this close of spilling the beans, Eleanor steps up and tells Michael that the events have been caused by her as she's not suppose to be here.

This was so well performed and the writing was so good. D'Arcy Carden, who plays Janet, really stood out in this episode as she was hysterical during the pleading to Chidi and Eleanor scene and the rebooted version of Janet.

Also William Jackson Harper was great in this episode too. We got to see a little bit of his backstory from his wife to why he can't handle lying to anyone.

Overall, I give this episode a 9/10.

You can catch The Good Place Thursday nights at 8:30/7:30c on NBC.

Life in Pieces Returns Tonight

Tonight is the season premiere of last season's #1 new comedy, Life In Pieces. And if you haven't seen it, it's a must see family comedy.

Life in Pieces follows the chronicles of the lives of three generation of the Short family as they go do their daily lives in Los Angeles.Each episode is told in four short stories as it follows from the point of view of each character based on their own version of events.

The show has an incredible cast with Colin Hanks (Dexter), Betsy Brandt (The Michael J. Fox Show & Breaking Bad), Thomas Sadoski (The Newsroom), Zoe Lister-Jones (Whitney) along with James Brolin and Dianne Wiest.

The series is different than any other family comedy that's been on television. The writing is really good. And if you don't like one story, you can wait til the next story. It's like a sitcom channel suffer.

Where the show left off from last season, Greg quit his job (after we learned what he actually does) after creating the "CryTunes" baby monitor, but learns his wife, Jen, is pregnant with their second child. We find out that John and Joan have been divorced for 35 years and never told the kids. Matt gets back with Colleen after a bad blind date from Jen. He pops the question to Colleen in his parent's bathroom.

You can catch the season premiere of Life In Pieces tonight at 9:30/8:30c on CBS.

Bones Gets It's Final Season Premiere Date

Well, it's really the beginning of the end for a classic.

FOX has announced it's premiere date for the 12th and final season of Bones, Tuesday, Jan. 3, 2017 at 9/8c.

The farewell run will promise to "celebrate the inventive series and bring the storylines of Brennan (Emily Deschanel), Booth (David Boreanaz) and the Jeffersonian-FBI team to a close, allowing the show's loyal fans to say goodbye to these inedible characters."


Fox's press release also teases "the return of fan-favorite guest stars and squinterns, as well as an old flame from one of the team's past" (aka Eddie McClintock's Tim Sullian). Not to mention viewers can also count on a wedding, and epic serial killer storyline" and a new undercover mission set at a lumberjack competition.

Oh, and you'll also see "Booth and Brennan's marriage get put to the test." Oh boy!!!

"From the very first season, Bones was called 'The Little Engine That Could.' So we could not be prouder of ending up as Fox's longest running scripted drama," series creator Hart Hanson said in a statement. "And we got there because of an insanely loyal, loud, lovely, lively audience."

The Newspaper

Friends and Family: Chicago PD "Big Friends Big Enemies"

A shooting at a concert gets the Intelligence Unit investigating, but who they find out is totally unexpected.

This episode was really good at played with emotions very well. We get to see Atwater dealing with this case very personal, because he was the one trying to save a gun shot victim that he knows. The Unit takes took it as a terrorist attack, but it turns out to be a gang attack.

But after chasing social media posts from the shooters of when and where they're gonna be attacking, they take down one suspect that turns out to be in another gang. Voight went to the boss of Latain Players gang and even though he wasn't the one who ordered it, he knows who it was and helped them lour him out.

Turns out that the shooter was just a kid in high school. Shocking to all from Erin to Halstead, Atwater and even Antonio too.

In the middle of this as Burgess and Tay were helping out, they spotted Atwater's little brother at a house where they were checking on. Atwater was shocked but when he came home he really didn't do anything but gave him a look and decided to take his sister and brother to get something to eat.

Also we got to meet the new member on the Intelligence Unit, Jenny, who's replaced Mouse as he went back overseas. There were a couple of funny moments with Voight. I call them priceless.

As I said before this episode played with emotions, mostly with Atwater and other members of the team. But near the end of the episode, we see a scene of people in the neighborhood enjoying, embracing and having fun. It's something that we don't see a lot these days with what's been going on this year. It gave such a nice pleasant example of there's still good things in Chicago.

Overall, I give this episode a 8.5/10.

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