If We Controlled Your Remote… 2/24/17

Have you ever been at a loss as to what to watch? Too many shows to pick from? We’re here to give you our opinions on what we feel is worth watching. Check it out and then let us know in the comments below what you’re choosing for tonight!

Jenny’s Choice

Last week’s Hawaii Five-0 was a crazy emotional one. Dr. Madison Gray walked into HPD, her hands stained with blood, proclaiming she needed help. She swore her name was…well, something other than Madison Gray, that she was a tourist visiting from Wisconsin. Of course, no one (but the shrink who spent a few minutes with her and then said he thought she had multiple personalities) believed her, but things got tense when the blood tentatively came back as former FBI profiler Alicia Brown’s. Thankfully, she was alive when the team went to her house, and she confronted Gray, who finally let her persona slip only for Alicia to see. So Alicia went back to talk to her at four in the morning and nearly sliced her throat, but Gray convinced her she knew something Alicia would want to know and if she broke her out of there, she’d tell her. I assumed it was the name/location of her daughter’s killer. That’s what Steve and the team thought too, when they went to visit the prisoner who Alicia believed orchestrated her daughter’s murder – but he wouldn’t give them any information, choosing to kill himself instead. Gray drove Alicia out to a house in the middle of nowhere, and in it…she found her daughter, alive! The kidnapper nearly got to them, but they fended him off until Steve and the team arrived and killed him. Of course, by then, Gray had left…only to turn up inside Alicia’s house a few nights later with a gun. She gave it to Alicia and said things weren’t over, that she was going to make Alicia a killer, and that her daughter would only be safe if she pulled the trigger. Alicia told 911 she wanted to report a murder. The screen went black, and then we heard a gunshot.

So did Alicia really kill her? Honestly, I don’t know. I would like to think not, because Alicia just got her daughter back and a chance to really move on. But I don’t have a clue. Hopefully we’ll find out for sure tonight! (Unlike when Grover beat the crap out of his former partner in his former hometown and called the police to turn himself and the other guy in, and we never heard anything after that about any repercussions!)

On tonight’s episode, “E malama pono (Handle with Care),” McGarrett and Danny finally track down the missing uranium, which has been used to build a bomb located in the middle of the jungle. Now, they must carefully extract the unstable explosive through treacherous terrain before it detonates. Singer Darius Rucker guest stars as Desmond Abati, the bomb maker. Red Hot Chili Peppers drummer Chad Smith guest composed multiple cues for this episode.

See if the team can extract the bomb safely tonight on CBS at 9/8c.

I’ll also be watching/DVRing Grimm, Last Man Standing, MacGyver, & Rosewood.
 
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Thursday on TV – 2/23/17

Season Finale

  • How to Get Away With Murder (#314/315) – ABC @ 9/8c (2-Hour Season Finale)
  • Project Runway Junior (#210-90) – Lifetime @ 9/8c (90-Minute Season Finale Pt 2)

Series Premiere

Specials/Sports

  • 60 Days In (#214/215/216) – A&E @ 6/5c, 7/6c, & 8/7c (1-Hour “The Full Story–Ashleigh, Sheri, Chris, Ryan,” 1-Hour “The Full Story–Dion, Brian, MonaLisa, Quintin,” & 1-Hour “Where Are They Now?” Specials)

New

  • Baskets (#206) – FX @ 10/9c
  • Beat Bobby Flay – Food Network @ 10/9c
  • Caraoke Showdown (#107) – Spike TV @ 10:30/9:30c
  • Colony (#207) – USA Network @ 10/9c
  • Grey’s Anatomy (#1314) – ABC @ 8/7c
  • Impractical Jokers (#603) – TruTV @ 10/9c
  • LA Hair (#508) – WE @ 9/8c
  • Late Night with Seth Meyers – NBC @ 12:36AM/11:36PMc
  • Life in Pieces (#LIP215) – CBS @ 9:30/8:30c
  • MasterChef: Junior (#JRM-503) – FOX @ 8/7c
  • Mom (#MOM415) – CBS @ 9:01/8:01c
  • My Kitchen Rules (#MKR-107) – FOX @ 9:01/8:01c
  • Mysteries at the Museum – Travel Channel @ 9/8c
  • Nashville (#509) – CMT @ 9/8c
  • Nightwatch (#36) – A&E @ 9/8c & 10/9c (1-Hour Special & 1 New Episode)
  • Portlandia (#708) – IFC @ 10/9c
  • Powerless (#105) – NBC @ 8:30/7:30c
  • Revenge Body with Khloe Kardashian (#107) – E! @ 9/8c
  • Riverdale (#105) – The CW @ 9/8c
  • Supernatural (#1213) – The CW @ 8/7c
  • Superstore (#215) – NBC @ 8/7c
  • Swamp People (#803) – History Channel @ 9/8c
  • The Big Bang Theory – CBS @ 8/7c
  • The Blacklist (#415) – NBC @ 9/8c (Winter Finale)
  • The Great Indoors (#GI114) – CBS @ 8:31/7:31c
  • The Late Late Show with James Corden – CBS @ 12:37AM/11:37PMc
  • The Late Show with Stephen Colbert – CBS @ 11:35/10:35c
  • The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon – NBC @ 11:34/10:34c
  • Top Chef (#1413) – Bravo @ 9/8c
  • Training Day (#TD104) – CBS @ 10/9c
  • Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen (#14037) – Bravo @ 11/10c

ABC

  • *New*Grey’s Anatomy (#1314) @ 8/7c
  • *Season Finale*How to Get Away With Murder (#314/315) @ 9/8c (2-Hour Season Finale)

CBS

  • *New*The Big Bang Theory @ 8/7c
  • *New*The Great Indoors (#GI114) @ 8:31/7:31c
  • *New*Mom (#MOM415) @ 9:01/8:01c
  • *New*Life in Pieces (#LIP215) @ 9:30/8:30c
  • *New*Training Day (#TD104) @ 10/9c
  • *New*The Late Show with Stephen Colbert @ 11:35/10:35c
  • *New*The Late Late Show with James Corden @ 12:37AM/11:37PMc

FOX

  • *New*MasterChef: Junior (#JRM-503) @ 8/7c
  • *New*My Kitchen Rules (#MKR-107) @ 9:01/8:01c

NBC

  • *New*Superstore (#215) @ 8/7c
  • *New*Powerless (#105) @ 8:30/7:30c
  • *New*The Blacklist (#415) @ 9/8c (Winter Finale)
  • *Series Premiere*The Blacklist: Redemption (#101) @ 10/9c
  • *New*The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon @ 11:34/10:34c
  • *New*Late Night with Seth Meyers @ 12:36AM/11:36PMc

The CW

  • *New*Supernatural (#1213) @ 8/7c
  • *New*Riverdale (#105) @ 9/8c

A&E

  • *Special*60 Days In (#214/215/216) @ 6/5c, 7/6c, & 8/7c (1-Hour “The Full Story–Ashleigh, Sheri, Chris, Ryan,” 1-Hour “The Full Story–Dion, Brian, MonaLisa, Quintin,” & 1-Hour “Where Are They Now?” Specials)
  • *New*Nightwatch (#36) @ 9/8c & 10/9c (1-Hour Special & 1 New Episode)

Amazon

  • *Series Premiere*Patriot @ 3:01AM/2:01AMc (Complete First Season Premiere)

Bravo

  • *New*Top Chef (#1413) @ 9/8c
  • *New*Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen (#14037) @ 11/10c

CMT

  • *New*Nashville (#509) @ 9/8c
  • *Series Premiere*Sun Records (#101) @ 10/9c

E!

  • *New*Revenge Body with Khloe Kardashian (#107) @ 9/8c

Food Network

  • *New*Beat Bobby Flay @ 10/9c

FX

  • *New*Baskets (#206) @ 10/9c

History Channel

  • *New*Swamp People (#803) @ 9/8c

IFC

  • *New*Portlandia (#708) @ 10/9c

Lifetime

  • *Season Finale*Project Runway Junior (#210-90) @ 9/8c (90-Minute Season Finale Pt 2)

Netflix

Spike TV

  • *New*Caraoke Showdown (#107) @ 10:30/9:30c

Travel Channel

  • *New*Mysteries at the Museum @ 9/8c

TruTV

  • *New*Impractical Jokers (#603) @ 10/9c

USA Network

  • *New*Colony (#207) @ 10/9c

WE

  • *New*LA Hair (#508) @ 9/8c

6:00/5:00c

  • *Special*60 Days In (#214/215/216) – A&E (1-Hour “The Full Story–Ashleigh, Sheri, Chris, Ryan” Special)

7:00/6:00c

  • *Special*60 Days In (#214/215/216) – A&E (1-Hour “The Full Story–Dion, Brian, MonaLisa, Quintin” Special)

8:00/7:00c

  • *Special*60 Days In (#214/215/216) – A&E (1-Hour “Where Are They Now?” Special)
  • *New*Grey’s Anatomy (#1314) – ABC
  • *New*MasterChef: Junior (#JRM-503) – FOX
  • *New*Supernatural (#1213) – The CW
  • *New*Superstore (#215) – NBC
  • *New*The Big Bang Theory – CBS

8:30/7:30c

  • *New*Powerless (#105) – NBC
  • *New*The Great Indoors (#GI114) – CBS (8:31/7:31c)

9:00/8:00c

  • *Season Finale*How to Get Away With Murder (#314/315) – ABC (2-Hour Season Finale)
  • *New*LA Hair (#508) – WE
  • *New*Mom (#MOM415) – CBS (9:01/8:01c)
  • *New*My Kitchen Rules (#MKR-107) – FOX (9:01/8:01c)
  • *New*Mysteries at the Museum – Travel Channel
  • *New*Nashville (#509) – CMT
  • *New*Nightwatch (#36) – A&E (1-Hour Special)
  • *Season Finale*Project Runway Junior (#210-90) – Lifetime (90-Minute Season Finale Pt 2)
  • *New*Revenge Body with Khloe Kardashian (#107) – E!
  • *New*Riverdale (#105) – The CW
  • *New*Swamp People (#803) – History Channel
  • *New*The Blacklist (#415) – NBC (Winter Finale)
  • *New*Top Chef (#1413) – Bravo

9:30/8:30c

  • *New*Life in Pieces (#LIP215) – CBS

10:00/9:00c

  • *New*Baskets (#206) – FX
  • *New*Beat Bobby Flay – Food Network
  • *New*Colony (#207) – USA Network
  • *New*Impractical Jokers (#603) – TruTV
  • *New*Nightwatch (#36) – A&E
  • *New*Portlandia (#708) – IFC
  • *Series Premiere*Sun Records (#101) – CMT
  • *Series Premiere*The Blacklist: Redemption (#101) – NBC
  • *New*Training Day (#TD104) – CBS

10:30/9:30c

  • *New*Caraoke Showdown (#107) – Spike TV

11:00/10:00c

  • *New*Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen (#14037) – Bravo

11:30/10:30c

  • *New*The Late Show with Stephen Colbert – CBS (11:35/10:35c)
  • *New*The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon – NBC (11:34/10:34c)

12:30AM/11:30PMc

  • *New*Late Night with Seth Meyers – NBC (12:36AM/11:36PMc)
  • *New*The Late Late Show with James Corden – CBS (12:37AM/11:37PMc)

3:00AM/2:00AMc

  • *Series Premiere*Patriot – Amazon (3:01AM/2:01AMc – Complete First Season Premiere)
  • *Series Premiere*Ultimate Beastmaster – Netflix (3:01AM/2:01AMc – Complete First Season Premiere)

Full Schedule

  • *Season Finale*How to Get Away With Murder (#314/315) – ABC @ 9/8c (2-Hour Season Finale)
  • *Season Finale*Project Runway Junior (#210-90) – Lifetime @ 9/8c (90-Minute Season Finale Pt 2)
  • *Series Premiere*Patriot – Amazon @ 3:01AM/2:01AMc (Complete First Season Premiere)
  • *Series Premiere*Sun Records (#101) – CMT @ 10/9c
  • *Series Premiere*The Blacklist: Redemption (#101) – NBC @ 10/9c
  • *Series Premiere*Ultimate Beastmaster – Netflix @ 3:01AM/2:01AMc (Complete First Season Premiere)
  • *Special*60 Days In (#214/215/216) – A&E @ 6/5c, 7/6c, & 8/7c (1-Hour “The Full Story–Ashleigh, Sheri, Chris, Ryan,” 1-Hour “The Full Story–Dion, Brian, MonaLisa, Quintin,” & 1-Hour “Where Are They Now?” Specials)
  • *New*Baskets (#206) – FX @ 10/9c
  • *New*Beat Bobby Flay – Food Network @ 10/9c
  • *New*Caraoke Showdown (#107) – Spike TV @ 10:30/9:30c
  • *New*Colony (#207) – USA Network @ 10/9c
  • *New*Grey’s Anatomy (#1314) – ABC @ 8/7c
  • *New*Impractical Jokers (#603) – TruTV @ 10/9c
  • *New*LA Hair (#508) – WE @ 9/8c
  • *New*Late Night with Seth Meyers – NBC @ 12:36AM/11:36PMc
  • *New*Life in Pieces (#LIP215) – CBS @ 9:30/8:30c
  • *New*MasterChef: Junior (#JRM-503) – FOX @ 8/7c
  • *New*Mom (#MOM415) – CBS @ 9:01/8:01c
  • *New*My Kitchen Rules (#MKR-107) – FOX @ 9:01/8:01c
  • *New*Mysteries at the Museum – Travel Channel @ 9/8c
  • *New*Nashville (#509) – CMT @ 9/8c
  • *New*Nightwatch (#36) – A&E @ 9/8c & 10/9c (1-Hour Special & 1 New Episode)
  • *New*Portlandia (#708) – IFC @ 10/9c
  • *New*Powerless (#105) – NBC @ 8:30/7:30c
  • *New*Revenge Body with Khloe Kardashian (#107) – E! @ 9/8c
  • *New*Riverdale (#105) – The CW @ 9/8c
  • *New*Supernatural (#1213) – The CW @ 8/7c
  • *New*Superstore (#215) – NBC @ 8/7c
  • *New*Swamp People (#803) – History Channel @ 9/8c
  • *New*The Big Bang Theory – CBS @ 8/7c
  • *New*The Blacklist (#415) – NBC @ 9/8c (Winter Finale)
  • *New*The Great Indoors (#GI114) – CBS @ 8:31/7:31c
  • *New*The Late Late Show with James Corden – CBS @ 12:37AM/11:37PMc
  • *New*The Late Show with Stephen Colbert – CBS @ 11:35/10:35c
  • *New*The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon – NBC @ 11:34/10:34c
  • *New*Top Chef (#1413) – Bravo @ 9/8c
  • *New*Training Day (#TD104) – CBS @ 10/9c
  • *New*Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen (#14037) – Bravo @ 11/10c

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If We Controlled Your Remote… 2/23/17

Have you ever been at a loss as to what to watch? Too many shows to pick from? We’re here to give you our opinions on what we feel is worth watching. Check it out and then let us know in the comments below what you’re choosing for tonight!

Kyle’s Choice

Tonight, after The Blacklist midseason finale, NBC will kick off The Blacklist: Redemption. This new spin-off series finds former blacklisters teaming up as part of an elite mercenary group trying to redeem themselves by solving problems governments can’t legally get involved in themselves. Susan “Scottie” Hargrave (Famke Janssen, Hemlock Grove) recruits her son Tom Keen (Ryan Eggold) to join her at the Halcyon Corporation and take on some impossible missions. Scottie’s skilled team also includes Nez Rowan (Tawny Cypress, Unforgettable), hacker Dumont (Adrian Martinez, A Gifted Man) and lethal assassin Matias Solomon (Edi Gathegi, StartUp), who has a bad history with Tom.

This show looks like it’s going to be a lot of fun – like a weekly cinematic action/adventure in the vein of Mission: Impossible or Oceans Eleven. I really like how they’ve brought together all these past characters from The Blacklist – some have appeared on many episodes while others just one or two – and have given them this new world to play in. How will these criminals work together? Can they really trust one another? And what kind of cases will they tackle? I’m looking forward to seeing how the series explores Tom and Scottie’s relationship. He only recently learned that his mother was alive, so I’m assuming we will find out more about why and how she left him as a child while also seeing them form a new bond while working together.

On tonight’s premiere, “Leland Bray,” a routine trip to New York turns perilous when ex-operative Tom Keen is recruited by a mercenary chief to help rescue a kidnapped CIA agent.

See how the new series begins tonight on NBC at 10/9c.

I’ll also be watching/recording Grey’s Anatomy, The Big Bang Theory, The Great Indoors, Life in Pieces, Superstore, Powerless, MasterChef Junior, My Kitchen Rules, Planet Earth II, Top Chef, and Sun Records.
 
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Recap/Review – This Is Us – 2/21/17

This week’s episode of This Is Us (titled: “Memphis”) delved into William’s past while he and Randall took a road trip to Memphis.

Recap
We catch up with Randall and Beth at his psychiatrist’s office. Randall had been hospitalized after his breakdown, and Beth was worried about him and William traveling to Memphis. The doctor clears him for travel, and they prepare for their journey. William says good-bye to his granddaughters before he and Randall take off on the open road.

During the trip, we flash back to William’s early life. His father was killed in the line of duty, leaving William and mother alone. They are very close, which presents a problem for William when his mother leaves to care for her sick mother in Pennsylvania. She wants him to pursue his dreams in Memphis. William plays in his cousin’s (Ricky’s) cover band and their audiences are small until William presents his cousin with a song that makes their band the talk of the town. Soon they are performing for packed houses. One night, William receives a call that his mother is sick. He says good-bye to his cousin and promises to bring him back sixty songs.

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If We Controlled Your Remote… 2/22/17

Have you ever been at a loss as to what to watch? Too many shows to pick from? We’re here to give you our opinions on what we feel is worth watching. Check it out and then let us know in the comments below what you’re choosing for tonight!

Jenny’s Choice

I’m so happy because tonight is the Major Crimes winter premiere. For the first time in its five-season run, it’s airing on Wednesdays instead of Mondays. I’ve got my fingers crossed that the audience will follow it, since this is one of my favorite shows.

When we last left off in September, the arc of the Dwight Darnell/Zyklon Brotherhood murders finally wrapped up. Dwight’s mother learned that his father (Martin Borja, who worked with the City Housing Authority) set the entire thing up, and she agreed to go in wearing a wire to talk to him. Unfortunately for Martin, she was angry enough that he’d gotten their son killed that she grabbed his gun and killed him before the police could rush in. In the midst of all that was a young boy whose mother was killed. Sanchez had become his foster father, but in the finale, they found the boy’s biological grandparents, which meant Sanchez had to give him up, right as the boy had become happy and comfortable with him. The other big story arc for a while has been Buzz working to solve the cold case of his father’s & uncle’s murders. He finally found the guy (with a little help from Rusty) and had him arrested, but it was a little hollow, since the guy had turned his life around and was a stand-up guy, married with kids of his own. And finally, Flynn! Andy had a heart attack just as the episode was wrapping up. What a way to leave off before the five-month break!

I’ve seen tonight’s episode, and it’s a lot of fun and sets up the remaining half of the season. I can’t wait to rewatch it and catch all the other new episodes after this week’s!

On tonight’s episode, “Heart Failure,” when Captain Sharon Raydor and the Major Crimes Division investigate the murder of a young woman found in the LA River, their case is not only impeded by a secretive PI working for a tech industry millionaire, but also by Deputy Chief Winnie Davis (guest star Camryn Manheim), who regards Sharon as competition for the promotion to Assistant Chief of the LAPD.

Learn Andy’s fate and meet Sharon’s competition tonight on TNT at 9/8c.

I’ll also be watching/DVRing Blindspot, The Goldbergs, Hunted, Lethal Weapon, Criminal Minds, Law & Order: SVU, Modern Family, black-ish, Bakers vs. Fakers, Chicago PD, Match Game, & Six.
 
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