The Tough Decisions: Champions "Opening Night"/"Deal Or No Deal" Season Finale/Series Finale

"Opening Night" 

With opening night coming, Michael not only is worried about his play but also if him and Gregg would make a couple. Priya comes for the show but also hangs with Michael and helps him with what Vince can't help. But she's visiting for another reason, that's to ask Vince if he's okay for Michael to go back with her to Cleveland.

At first, he didn't agree, but after watching her and Michael connect so well that he allowed it to happen. But when Michael hears about the news from the dean of the school, makes a counterpoint about the decision. But Priya lets Michael stay with Vince and Matthew.

Meanwhile, Matthew tries to be a bad guy when he tries to give each of the gym staff evaluation reviews. When he helps Dana, he gets her into the staff's group chat, which didn't go so well. But Dana changes with the help from Matthew and now everyone is on the group text chat, including Vince.

"Opening Night" was hilarious but also served some light heart moments between Vince and Matthew on the decision of Michael going back home. Both storylines were each as hilarious as the other, but I very much enjoyed the character development from Matthew. The writing was strong and the performances from the cast was as good as before. Overall, I give this episode a 8.5/10.

"Deal Or No Deal"

As Matthew finally graduates from high school, Vince gets an offer of a lifetime.

With Matthew graduating from high school, Vince has an idea of expanding the gym with a little help from his old high school friend. When Vince meets with him, the tables have turned when he gets an offer to be a manager for a St.Louis Cardinals minor league team.

Vince tells Michael about the offer, they agreed not to tell Matthew about it til after their dinner with Gregg. But that all went down hill when Gregg accidentally tells Matthew about it. Matthew gets upset and attacks Vince, who runs down to the gym. After being separated by the staff, Vince tells everyone about the news and that he's going.

Later on, Michael and Gregg seemed to have broken up, as Gregg is on a new show about family drama. But as Michael talks with Matthew about Vince, he just couldn't forgive him. But a noise coming from Matthew's room got their attention and Matthew shoots the intruder in the leg, that happens to be Vince.

At the hospital, Vince tells Matthew and Michael that he's staying and they continued on to be a family that tries to order nachos from the hospital cafeteria.

This episode was funny, strong and seemed to be close to a finale as it would be if the show had ended. The relationship between Matthew and Vince seemed to be the real focus and the strongest storyline of the episode. The performance between Holm and Favreau was amazing along with Totah as well. Overall, I give this episode a 9/10.

You can catch Champions OnDemand and on the NBC app.

UPDATE: As of Friday, TVLine has reported that NBC has officially cancelled Champions after it's first season. I'm just furious of the news that this show, that didn't get a lot of promotion time, even for the final two episodes that were placed on Friday nights to burn off. Champions is an amazing show, just like Timeless and Great News, and deserves another season. It's got a great ensemble cast, strong writing and character development. But as with Timeless, I'm hoping the show gets picked up by another network or streaming service (COME ON NETFLIX!!!). It's been reported by TVLine that Universal Television is shopping around to other outlets.

Let's hope. Let's hope.

The CW Premiere Dates.

The CW becomes the second broadcast network (after NBC) to reveal their premiere plan for the 2018-2019 TV season, which features it's first-ever Sunday night lineup.

Following a two-night broadcast of the 018 iHeartRadio Music Festival on Sunday, Oct. 7 and Monday, Oct. 8 at 8/7c, the new season will officially kick off on Tuesday, Oct. 9th with The Flash' Season 5 premiere at 8/7c and the sophomore outing of Black Lightning at 9/8c. 

One week later, the real Sunday Funday begins with the Season 4 premiere of Supergirl at 8/7c followed by the series premiere of the network's long-gestating Charmed reboot at 9/8c. 

Here's the full rundown of the CW premiere dates.

Tuesday, Oct. 9

8/7c The Flash

9/8c Black Lightning

Wednesday, Oct. 10

8/7c Riverdale (season premiere)

9/8c All American (series premiere)

Thursday, Oct. 11

8/7c Supernatural (Season Premiere)

9/8c All American (premiere encore)

Friday, Oct. 12

8/7c Dynasty (Season premiere)

9/8c Crazy Ex-Girlfriend (final season premiere)

Sunday, Oct. 14

8/7c Supergirl (season premiere)

9/8c Charmed (series premiere

Monday, Oct. 15 

9/8c Arrow (season premiere)

Thursday, Oct. 18

8/7c Supernatural (new episode)

9/8c Chamred (premiere encore)

Monday, Oct. 22 

8/7c Arrow (new episode)

9/8c DC's Legends of Tomorrow (season premiere)

Thursday, Oct. 25

8/7c Supernatural (new episode)

9/8c Legacies (series premiere)

Midseason: Jane the Virgin, The 100, iZombie and Rosewell, New Mexico. 

Cancelled: Valor, Life Sentence and The Originals

NBC Premiere Date: The Good Place, Blindspot, #OneChicago and This Is Us

NBC was the first broadcast to announce their premiere plan for the 2018-2019 TV season and now the network will kick it off with Monday, Spet 24 with the return of The Voice leading into the new thriller Manifest.

The network's No. 1 hit This is Us, launches Season 3 the following night, Tuesday, Sept. 25th.

The #OneChicago Night will kickoff Wednesday, Sept. 26 with Chicago Med kicking off followed by Fire and PD.

Also The Good Place will return Thursday, Sept. 27th with a special 1 hour episode, which will lead into a special two hour Law & Order SVU. NBC's regular Thursday lineup kicks off the following week.

Still not word on Timeless and Champions getting renewed yet.

Here's the complete fall game plan:

Monday, Sept. 24
8/7c The Voice
10/9c Manifest (new series)

Tuesday, Sept. 25
8/7c The Voice
9/8c This Is Us
10/9c New Amsterdam (new series)

Wednesday, Sept. 26
8/7c Chicago Med
9/8c Chicago Fire
10/9c Chicago PD

Thursday, Sept. 27
8/7c The Good Place (1 hour premiere)
9/8c Law & Order: SVU (2 hour premiere)

Friday, Sept. 28
10/9c Dateline NBC

Thursday, Oct. 4
8/7c Superstore
8:30/7:30c The Good Place
9/8c Will & Grace
9:30/8:30c I Feel Bad (new series)
10/9c Law & Order SVU

Friday, Oct. 12
8/7c Blindspot

Friday, Oct. 26th
9/8c Midnight, Texas

Midseason: A.P. Bio, Brooklyn Nine-Nine, The Blacklist, Good Girls, Ellen's Game of Games, American's Got Talent: The Champions (New), The Titans Games (New), Abby's (new), Enemy Within (New), The Village (New) and The InBetween (New).

Cancelled:
The Brave, Great News, The Night Shift, Rise.

Change of Heart: Shades of Blue "Good Police" Season Premiere

The season premiere of Shades Of Blue was as intense and chilling as it could be and leaving us with some shocking moments.

After getting a quick recap on how we got here, we see Harlee speaking in front of a council about how to NYPD is dirty and even talking about how herself has been involved too. But we jump back three weeks proper to that event and see Harlee, Loman and Woz trying to get the drug dealer that's dealing and had that kid who shot Woz in the season finale. That was until gun shots were heard and the three headed over there.

As they come to the scene, Harlee and Woz see mainly everyone dead, while Loman chases someone that was running from the back of the diner. As Harlee checked the back, someone runs out the back and she chases him. He stops and turns and with a moment look Harlee shot him thinking that it was Stahl, but it wasn't.  Loman comes just after the shots and helped Harlee out, the same way she helped him out in the pilot.

Harlee tries to help figure out who would come in a shot an officer til she thinks that it had to do with the Intelligence unit doing. After the funeral of the police officer from the diner, Harlee and Loman tracked a suspect to take him in and questioned him, but the Intelligence gets in the way and gets to Woz asking for an exchange between Harlee's suspect and Woz's drug dealer that he's trying to get.

After Woz tries to get Harlee to turn her suspect in, she follows the orders but changed her mind and doesn't exchange like Woz was hoping she would do. Instead, she takes him to protective custody with James talking to him about it. As soon as Harlee meets with Woz in his garage, she talks about how it's the intelligence unit that got their own shot.

But as Harlee heads home, she gets a call from James about how they need to meet and that it was about what their suspect has to say. But when she heads there, she seems to be followed by a taxi and quickly she pulls over and follows a man in a hat that looks like someone, maybe Stahl. She follows him from the subway and out but loses him. She walks out and gets a taxi to meet with James til police cars were rush over and she too rush over to see that the suspect was killed along with James too.

This episode was so good with the intense, dramatic moments and the shocking final moments. But mainly I was moved with some of the scenes that mimic from the pilot episode from Loman helping Harlee out after she accidentally shot the suspect to what she did helping Loman out. Also the Woz-Harlee scene in his garage and the thunderstorm coming too. It does feel the show is coming to an end along with going back to the events that will lead up to Harlee testifying in court. Anyone thinking that some might not survive? I didn't see Woz in court with Harlee and others. Overall, I give this episode a 8.5/10.

You can catch Shades of Blue Sundays at 10/9c on NBC.

Shades of Blue Season 1 and 2 recap

We're just less than eight hours til the season premiere of the final season of Shades of Blue. If you haven't seen the last two seasons of the show, here's a quick recap.

In season one where it all started, we meet Detective Harlee Santos, who's a corrupt cop with the Street Crimes squad in the NYPD's 64th Precinct in Brooklyn, Just as things were going well with her, she gets caught by the FBI agent Robert Stahl. He makes a deal with her in exchange for shorten sentencing she turns in her Lieutenant, Matt Wozniak.

But Wozniak sense someone has been snitching in the group and tells Harlee about it in private, because he trust her. It not only drives Woz and Harlee crazy but it puts their team in a stressful time when a member of the team gets killed, because Woz thinks he was the one who's been talking with the FBI.

If that wasn't enough for Harlee, her ex-boyfriend and the father to her daughter comes back and gets release from jail due to bad evidence. He wants to meet with his daughter and Harlee as well. But Harlee pays him in cash to stay away but that wasn't going to happen at all.

It finally goes down with Stahl taking Woz, but the ending left a huge cliffhanger when Harlee confronts her ex's and he tries to rape her but she snaps his neck.

Season 2 was even more character driven than the first season with a whole lot of twist, turns and personal.

Just after Harlee snaps her ex's neck, she takes him out and digs his grave. But she gets a phone call and joins with Woz and explains to him that what she had to do was all for her kid. She asked him how he got away from Stahl and he tells her that he works for him now trying to get someone for him, who that would be seemed to be the Boss of New York, but that wasn't til Stahl tells them that he wants Councilwoman Julia Ayres, who killed his partner long ago.

It's been nothing but back and forth between Woz and Stahl til Stahl got the best of Woz and mailed his wife photos of his secret life as a bisexual.

As Harlee and Woz worked together to get Ayres the best they can, Stahl digs into Harlee's life, connecting with her daughter and searching for her father. He figures out that Harlee had killed her ex and tries blackmail her more and more, but she turned the tables on him when she informed the FBI of what he has been doing, for which he gets fired.

Things take a turn when Woz and the team get taken out with guns shots firing at them, hitting Woz's son. After things got really personal and Woz gets Ayres but not after she was elected Mayor. But it turns tragic twist when Woz gets shot point blank at the office and Stahl kidnaps Harlee, who happens to have a fetish for her, but she kicks his butt and tries to escape leaving with an intense cliffhanger.

Shades of Blue has been delivering week in and week out some of the best drama in the last two seasons on television. Not only does Jennifer Lopez and Ray Liotta gives great performances but the show's cast delivers too. With strong stories, it delivers with moments of character development and the twist and turns just leaves the audience stunned.

You can catch the season premiere of Shades of Blue tonight at 10/9c on NBC.

Real World: Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt "Kimmy is.....Little Girl, Big City!"/"Kimmy Has a Weekend" Season Premiere

"Kimmy is...Little Girl, Big City!" Season Premiere 

The first episode of the fourth season was hilarious and even caught an eye of a surprise moment at the end. But I'm still laughing at salads.

When Kimmy is asked to fire a co-worker, she tries to find a way to do it. But it's her way that it turns into a sexually harassment lawsuit against her. After talking with Titus about no only the first time she learned boundaries but also his sexually harassment with a man and a puppet for a job. Kimmy comes to conclusion that she knows how to give everyone a happy ending.

In the meantime, Titus and Jacqueline comes up with a TV Show, The Capist, to get Michael's attention, for which it did. As he gets some pointers about how to use a hammer, Titus invites Michael to a shoot of one of the episodes where he will be with Greg Kinnear. After making Greg go along with it, Michael enjoyed it. But it was Kinnear that enjoyed Titus' act that he asked him to write up a script for it.

Not to mention, Lillian, who's boyfriend had died, try to full fill his dying wish to spread his ashes at a country club in the city. But she couldn't get in, so she tried the next best thing: make the 1 percenters think that she's got bags of cocaine to snort.

"Kimmy is....Little Girl, Big City!" was hilarious many times whether it's Kimmy's way of trying to fire a co-worker or Titus trying to get Michael to fall in love with him again. I did think that Lillian's story might have been short than the rest but it was funny and heartwarming at the same time. But most of all the ending of the briefcase of money that was handed off to someone from that puppet. I'm thinking that puppet is after Titus. And I just have to say that the "Little Girl, Big City" theme song was as catchy as it's original theme song and not to mention that after watching the episode I'm still humming that tune.

Overall, I give this episode a 9/10.

"Kimmy Had a Weekend"

Put this episode on your list of Kimmy-Titus best episode list.

Just as Kimmy plans to be at work on the weekends, she learns that no one would be there if she shows up and takes her first weekend off from her job. She finally learns about binge watching and watches a parody of "Lipstick Jungle" with Titus and Jacqueline.

Soon after, Kimmy wants to explore the weekend life of spending and having fun and brings Titus along from shopping and getting a nails and a massage. But she realize that not everyone gets treated the same whether it's the workers at the spa changing their names everyday to seeing that being white she can get away with anything, even Jacqueline with getting a white man into Hollywood over Titus.

Speaking of Jacqueline, she's been living at Kimmy's office since she has no money and loaning her apartment to people. As she stayed with Kimmy, she gets word from her son that he needs to come home after an incident. She tries to get the man that's staying at her place out and even though it didn't turn out the way she had hoped it would go down, she still got guy out by sending him to Hollywood to do movies like La La Land 2, which would probably win the Best Picture.

But leaves a nice shocking cliffhanger of seeing a familiar face is seen as a DJ in a murder documentary.

This episode was hilarious from the start to finish, mostly Kimmy and Titus having a weekend of fun and spending really won me over. Whether it's the binge watching weird TV Shows to having drinks with Titus and Cherryl, it was just a half hour of fun. I put this episode in my list of fin Kimmy-Titus episodes. Overall, I give this episode a 8.5/10.

You can catch Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt on Netflix.

The Palace of Love: Life In Pieces "Video Piercing Model Hangover"/"Sixteen Spanish Car Leak" Season Finale

The season finale of Life In Pieces was, at times, what you would think, and some came off as a complete shock. Here's a recap!

The first half-hour of "Video Piercing Model Hangover" was hilarious, with moments you would want to rewatch again. Whether trying to get a "Thank You" card from Matt and Colleen that turned into a video message or Sophia making a solid case for her parents to get her ears pierced, which would lead to having Tim outdo her.

But the winner for this episode would be John being the model for the senior citizen's latest gadgets, from the chair lift to the blood pressure monitor that alerted John's high blood pressure. And Jen and Greg, waking up after a hangover from a school auction, see their daughter doing stuff by herself, from making her cereal to getting water for them. It leads to Greg and Jen to have more time, which leads to Jen being pregnant.

The second half hour, "Sixteen Spanish Car Leak," was just as hilarious as the first and probably even better. Matt and Colleen won this episode with their storyline of having a baby after learning their surrogate is pregnant (and it's not theirs). The news leads them to buy a new car, which opens up to having a baby, and they announce after Sam's sixteen birthday that they're going to adopt, but Jen's pregnancy announcement from Lark ruined but brought the family together.

Speaking of Sam's sixteen birthday, when Sam thought that her family had forgotten her birthday, she spent the day with her boyfriend, after a lovely day was about to turn into a night of first. But her parents and family caught every word as she entered the dark house to surprise her. I guess the surprise was on both of them, But just before the party, Joan wanted to explore the world with John and tried to get them to learn to speak Spanish for their Spain trip. Instead of just using an app to help translate, they wanted to know it the old-fashioned way, which became a nightmare when buying stuff at a Spanish market. They went with the translating app.

The season finale was just as hilarious and memorable as the previous episodes. It will also explain why this show is one of the best family sitcoms on television, with fantastic writing and an ensemble cast. The ending of the episode, with everything playing to the song "Listen to the Music" by The Doobie Brothers, with all the love each other brings, makes you satisfied with smiles. I couldn't be more happy with what the next season will bring (even if it's coming in mid-season next season).  Overall, I give this episode a 9/10 and the season a 9.5/10.

You can catch Life In Pieces, as they'll return for a fourth season next year.