New Girl Review

I'm obsessed with this show! It's so hilarious. I find myself quoting it all the time. At first, I was a little taken aback  by how quirky the main character Jess is, but she grows on you and you fall in love with her. She's hilarious and just wants to help everyone.

So the show starts with Jess needing a place to live after her boyfriend cheated on her. She goes on Craigslist and finds an add for a roommate. She assumes her roommates will be women, but when she arrives she finds 3 guys waiting for her. This is where we meet Nick, Schmidt, and Coach. They are great. Jess is a very quirky teacher and it takes some time for the guys to adjust. Schmidt does most of his adjusting when Jess' best friend CeCe, who happens to be a gorgeous model, comes to visit. Schmidt is instantly obsessed with her. Coach is replaced in the following episode by Nick and Schmidt's old friend Winston who has come back from playing pro basketball in Latvia.

This group is insane and this show is freaking hilarious. I love it.

The main cast includes:

• Zooey Deschanel as Jessica "Jess" Day
• Jake Johnson as Nick Miller
• Max Greenfield as Schmidt
• Lamorne Morris as Winston Bishop
• Hannah Simone as Cecilla "CeCe" Parekh
• Damon Wayans, Jr. as Ernie "Coach" Tagliaboo

Also, watch out for their BA drinking game called True American. It is so confusing and so funny that even though you barely know any of the crazy rules, you want to grab your closest friends and attempt a game.

I 100% give this show 5 stars...WATCH IT!!!!!!

Shadowhunters Review

Shadowhunters is centered around 18 year old Clary Fray whose world gets turned upside down on her 18th birthday when she witnesses Shadowhunters kill a demon at a club and her mother disappears. Shadowhunters can only be seen by other shadowhunters or people of the shadow world. The shadow world can be summed up with "all of the stories are true." Jace Wayland, one of the shadowhunters, follows Clary because he wants to know how she sees them. They find out that her she is a shadowhunter and her mother has been hiding this from her for her entire life. Clary's mother Jocelyn has been taken by the evil Valentine who is after a power instrument called the Mortal Cup. Clary must learn the ways of the shadow world in order to save her mother and find out who she is. 

The main cast includes:

• Katherine McNamara as Clary Fray
• Dominic Sherwood as Jace Wayland
• Alberto Rosende as Simon Lewis
• Matthew Daddario as Alec Lightwood
• Emeraude Toubia as Isabelle Lightwood
• Isaiah Mustafa as Luke Garroway
• Harry Shum, Jr. as Magnus Bane

Recurring cast includes:

• Alan van Sprang as Valentine Morgenstern 
• Maxim Roy as Jocelyn Fray
• Jon Car as Hodge Starkweather 
• David Castro as Raphael Santiago
• Jade Hassoune as Meliorn
• Kaitlyn Leeb as Camille Belcourt
• Nicola Correia-Damude as Maryse Lightwood
• Paulino Nunes as Robert Lightwood
• Jack Fulton as Max Lightwood
• Christina Cox as Elaine Lewis 
• Holly Deveaux as Rebecca Lewis
• Stephanie Bennett as Lydia Branwell 
• Mimi Kuzyk as Imogen Herondale
• Joel Labelle as Alaric
• Jordan Hudyma as Blackwell
• Shailene Garnett as Maureen Brown
• Lisa Marcos as Susanna Vargas
• Curtis Morgan as Pangborn

This show is crazy and so addicting! The cast brings these incredible characters to life in a thrilling way. Kat is meant to play the role of Clary Fray- she's spectacular. Dom kills it as Jace Wayland and Matt brings Alec Lightwood to life flawlessly. Em is so fearless, sexy, and badass as Izzy it's unbelievable and Alberto makes you desperately wish Simon Lewis was your best friend.

The creators of the show clearly worked very hard to bring this world to life on the small screen and it doesn't go unnoticed. The episodes get more and more thrilling as the season goes on and I cannot wait for season 2! Thank you to Freeform for bringing this awesome series to life. 

I highly recommend watching it!! I give it 5 stars.

PLL #5YearsForward & Shadowhunters Premiers!

Tuesday January 12th is going to be a big day, well evening. 

ABC Family will officially and forevermore be known as Freeform. 

Pretty Little Liars 5 Years Forward will premier at 8 pm EST. 

Shadowhunters will premier at 9 pm EST. 

I'm beyond excited for both of these premiers, but lets start with Pretty Little Liars. Although we know a few things about what will be going on and where the girls are at in their lives, I'm really excited to actually see it. I can't imagine the fact that Hanna is engaged to someone who is not Caleb and who is Ali married to?! I can't believe that Alison was the first one to get married! I'm curious to see what the girls have to say about Charlotte/A being set free. I wonder if Spencer's bangs will grow on me...I want to know what Aria is up to and Ezra as well. 

I'm very curious about who the new "big bad" is this season. The girls seem very scared, but I have a hard time imaging the stakes being any higher then they were/have been the last 5 1/2 years. I mean the girls have watched how many people die and have narrowly avoided their own deaths how many times? Now what's going to happen? I'm also curious to find out where the Liars parents are, because last we saw the moms, they were all trapped in the basement of the DiLaurentis' house. I can't wait to see the girls acting like girls my age or the actress' ages for that matter. 

Now on to Shadowhunters, I am so excited for this show I can hardly contain myself. The promo's for this show were so enticing that I bought the book and I am completely sucked in.Halfway through The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones, I ordered the rest of the series. I'm so pumped. I know the show is going to stick to the books, but they also keep teasing surprises which I'm curious and excited about. I think the only issue I have from the promos is Isabelle Lightwood's clothing. She is a complete badass woman and I think she will be great for girls to look up too, however they have dressed her in very skimpy clothing unnecessarily. She's stunning, don't get me wrong but I would have liked them to cover her up a little more. Maybe they do in the show, I don't really know but we'll see. 

I know in the show everything starts on Clary's 18th birthday, but in the books Clary is 15 and turns 16 later in the week while she is at the Institute (her and Jace in the greenhouse is one of my favorite scenes, so I'm disappointed that it won't be included). Clary also goes off to college to be an art student, so I'm curious as to how that will fit in with her shadow hunter duties. I'm very excited for this show (have I mentioned that yet?!) and I think the cast looks amazing. 

Tune in to Freeform tomorrow night at 8 for the beginning of what is sure to be one memorable night!

Pretty Little Liars Recap - "Game On, Charles " (S06E01)

This episode was insane.

It begins by showing an unknown blonde girl drawing with chalk on the wall of what looks like a dungeon in the doll house wearing the infamous yellow tank top. She hears the Liars making their escape and we find them outside. A/Charles leaves them outside for days without food or water and even in the pouring rain. The girls are doing everything they can to stay positive and support one another, but it's clear they are afraid.

The girls are finally invited back inside. In the hallway they are all knocked out. Aria and the other girls awake on tables in what looks like a morgue. They are all naked and covered only by a sheet. They fear that Charles is making them appear dead to send a message to their families so they stop looking for them. Mona comes in dressed as a candy striper and acting like Ali again. She gives each of the girls something to take for their headaches. She shares that she is scared Charles will throw her in the hole for trying to escape. A message plays asking them to return to their rooms and Mona refuses. A bell dings 3 times and she folds saying they have to go "or else." They stand outside of their rooms and enter one by one- each one screaming when they enter. They don't come out for 3 weeks and when they do they are visibly shaken. Aria even has the pink stripes in her hair like she had when Ali went missing. They wonder where Mona is.  We find out she is in the hole and terrified.

Ali holds a press conference and we find out that all charges against her for Mona's murder have been dropped and Andrew is the prime suspect but he has vanished. Ali begs for Andrew to come forward and for her friends to be freed.When she returns to the house, we find out she is working with the police in hopes of drawing Andrew out of hiding.She gets a call from an unknown number and it's playing a song. They track the call and find out the caller is in the house so the police go to find them. They return and Ali is gone, and there is a broken wine bottle. We find out that Caleb and Ezra called, and she is working with them and Toby to find the girls. Toby distracts the police by leading them too the Campbell Apple Farm.

Ali is contacted by A so the guys let her go into the woods after Caleb gives her a pair of boots with a tracker in them. Ali is lead to a car, she gets in it and the GPS tells her where to go. The guys follow and aren't far behind. She is told to pull over on the side of the road and to check the trunk. She finds a card telling her to change clothes or the girls will die. When Caleb and Ezra arrive, they find the car and Ali's clothes along with her boots pointing them in the right direction. Ali wanders through the woods in the infamous yellow top.

The girls are finally out of their rooms and are clearly very shaken but they band together. They are taken to Ali's room and they realize that Ali A is probably bringing the real Alison. They are putting away things in Ali's room and see news articles in the box and wonder if they are even real. Hanna finds out her mom was hospitalized because she was so worried about Hanna. Aria is putting clothes away and at the back of the closet she sees a message from Mona carved into the wall saying A is going to kill her. Aria gets Spencer to help her and shows her the message. They start plotting to get out.

The night when the generator switches off the girls all run to Charles' secret room and Spencer shows them the video. The girls look around and end up setting the room on fire. Charles is watching and sees Ali in the woods and the fire in the room. He panics. They pull the curtains down and see A/Charles standing behind a plexi-glass wall watching (he's of course in a mask still). They run and find Mona in the hole and work together to get her out.

The boys find Ali in the woods and get ready to leave until Ali hears something. She turns around and they see smoke coming from the ground which leads them to the door. They call the police and break into the dollhouse as the girls are running out. Everyone embraces and it is a tearjerker. Haleb, Ezria, Spoby, and Emison are so sweet. The police explore the dollhouse and find the girl we see at the beginning of the episode and find out she is Sarah Harvey, the girl who went missing around the same time Ali did and Emily met with her friends. She had been there this entire time.

Once Upon A Time - Review

Once Upon A Time is about Emma Swan who is brought to the small town of Storybrooke, Maine on her 28th birthday by her 10 year old son, Henry, whom she had given up for adoption when he was born. She is shocked that Henry found her and concerned about the fact that he went to Boston by himself. She decides to take him back to his town and on the way she notices a story book he is holding on to. He informs her that she is in the story book. Henry tries to convince her that she is the Savior and everyone in the town is actually a character in his storybook and that they were brought to this land because of curse enacted by the Evil Queen in an attempt to get revenge on Snow White. He tells her that she is the daughter of Snow White and the Prince and that only she can break the curse and set them all free. Henry insists that no one knows who they are and time is frozen in the town. Of course she immediately thinks he is crazy.

She takes him to his house where she meets the town Sheriff and his mother Regina Mills, who is also the mayor. Regina is grateful to Emma for bringing him home, but Henry is upset and insists that his mother is the Evil Queen. Emma prepares to leave, but she wants to make sure Henry is ok. After seeing another side to Regina, she decides to stick around for a while and get to know Henry better. This infuriates Regina who is the only one in town who knows Emma is the Savior- or so it seems.

While all of this is going on, flashbacks are occurring to the Enchanted Forrest where storybook characters Snow White, the Prince, the Evil Queen, Cinderella, Prince Charming, Rumpelstiltskin, Belle, Hansel and Gretel, Little Red Riding Hood, the Mad Hatter, King Midas, and more live. In these flashbacks, you see how they lived their lives and all of the events that led up to the curse being enacted.

Main Cast (through season 4):

• Jennifer Morrison as Emma Swan
• Ginnifer Godwin as Snow White/Mary Margaret Blanchard
• Lana Parrilla as Evil Queen/Regina Mills
• Jared S. Gilmore as Henry Mills
• Josh Dallas as the Pauper/Prince "Charming" James/David Nolan
• Robert Carlyle as Rumpelstiltskin/Beast/Crocodile/Mr. Gold
• Meghan Ory as Red Riding Hood/Wolf/ Ruby
• Emile de Ravin as Belle/Lacey
• Colin O'Donahgue as Captain Killian "Hook" Jones
• Michael Socha as Will Scarlet/Knave of Hearts/White King

Recurring Cast & Guests (through season 4):

• Raphael Sparge as Dr. Archie Hopper/Jiminy Cricket
• Jaime Dornan as Sheriff Graham Humbert/Huntsman
• Eion Bailey as August Booth/Pinocchio
• Michael Raymond James as Neal Cassidy/Baelfire
• Sarah Bolger as Princess Aurora
• Julian Morris as Prince Phillip
• Jaime Chung as Mulan
• Sean Maguire as Robin Hood
• Lee Arenberg as Leroy/Grumpy
• Gabe Khouth as Tom Clark/Sneezy
• David Paul Grove as Doc
• Faustino Di Bauda as Walter/Sleepy
• Mig Macario as Bashful
• Mike Coleman as Happy
• Jeffrey Kaiser as Dopey
• Beverley Elliott as Granny/Widow Lucas
• Keegan Connor Tracy as Mother Superior/Blue Fairy
• David Anders as Dr. Whale/Dr. Victor Frankenstein
• Tony Amendola as Marco/Geppetto
• Sebastian Stan as Jefferson/Mad Hatter
• Rose McGowan and  Barbara Hershey as Cora Mills/Queen of Hearts
• Rebecca Mader as Zelena/Wicked Witch of the West
• Georgina Haig as Elsa
• Scott Michael Foster as Kristoff
• Elizabeth Lail as Anna
• Rose McIver as Tinkerbell
• Brighton Sharbino and Elizabeth Mitchell as Ingrid/Snow Queen
• Joanna García Swisher as Ariel
• Gil McKinney as Prince Eric
• Stephen Lord as Malcolm
• Robbie Kay as Peter Pan/Pied Piper
• Christie Laing as Maid Marian
• Sonequa Martin-Green as Tamara
• Jessy Schram as Ashley Boyd/Cinderella
• Tim Phillipps as Sean Herman/Prince Thomas
• Chris Gauthier as William Smee
• Anastasia Griffith as Kathryn Nolan/Princess Abigail
• Alan Dale as Albert Spencer/King George
• Giancarlo Esposito as Sidney Glass/Genie of Agrabah/Magic Mirror
• Zak Santiago and Tony Perez as King Henry
• Benjamin Stockham as Owen Flynn
• Ethan Embry as Greg Mendell (Owen's older alias)
• Kristin Bauer van Straten as Maleficent
• Merrin Dungey as Ursula
• Yvette Nicole Brown as Ursula's voice
• Victoria Smurfit as Cruella De Vil
• Alex Zahara as King Midas
• Quinn Lord as Nicholas Zimmer/Hansel
• Karley Scott Collins as Ava Zimmer/Gretel
• Nicholas Lea as Michael Tillman/Woodcutter
• Eric Lange and Richard Schiff as King Leopold
• Eric Keenleyside as Moe French/Sir Maurice
• Amy Acker as Sister Astrid/Nova
• Noah Bean as Daniel
• Rachel Shelley as Milah
• Jorge Garcia as Anton
• Eva Bourne and Rena Sofer as Queen Eva
• Freya Tingley as Wendy Darling
• William Ainschough and Matt Kane as John Darling
• Benjamin Cook and James Immekus as Michael Darling
• Christopher Gorham as Walsh/Wizard of Oz/Flying Monkey
• Alexandra Metz as Rapunzel
• Sunny Mabrey as Glinda/Good Witch of the South
• Matreya Scarrwener as Dorothy Gayle
• Tyler Jacob Moore as Prince Hans
• Robin Weigert as Bo Peep
• Ava Marie Telek and Pascale Hutton as Queen Gerda
• Nicole Munoz as Lilith "Lily"
• Timothy Webber as The Apprentice
• Bailey Herbert and Sally Pressman as Helga

Overall review: a MUST watch (pay close attention as it all intertwines)

Tune in Sunday nights at 8 PM EST on ABC

Pretty Little Liars Recap: "Pretty Isn't The Point" (S05E21)

The girls search Mike's room for clues and they find a necklace in his gym back that has Morse code on it saying "I'm with you". They are suspicious and assume the necklace is for Ali. 

Hanna hires a pageant coach to ensure that she wins the pageant. Quickly learning that you have to be more than a pretty face to win the grand prize, Hanna turns to Emily for help when she claims that dancing is her talent. 

Emily meets Talia's husband Eric when he comes to work looking for her. She realizes that Talia told him that she was just a one time thing and he believed that he would be with Talia forever. While she's waiting for Hanna, she asks Ashley for advice on what to do. Caleb meets the girls in the dance room and informs them that Hanna's stepsister Kate has signed up for the pageant as well which completely infuriates Hanna. 

 

When she performs her dance with Emily for her coach, she gets infuriated at Kate and ruins her chance. The coach tells Hanna she isn't pageant material and she shouldn't go through with it. Hanna disappears into the hallway and overhears her coach invite Emily to join because she thinks Emily would win. Hanna gets upset and runs away. Emily goes after her but is stopped by Talia. She tells Talia that she and Eric talked and she can't do this with her. She goes after Hanna and tells her that she didn't accept the offer, but that she's going to and she is going to win for Hanna and give her the money for college because that is "what you do when you love someone."

 

Mike interrupts a study session between Aria and Andrew by yelling at his sister accusing her of snooping in his room. Andrew excuses himself and steps outside before Mike flips out on Aria telling her that if she goes in there again she'd regret it. He flips the table before leaving the room and Andrew rushes in seeing a shaken up Aria. She asks Andrew to help keep tabs on Mike and he agrees. Andrew follows Mike into the woods behind Mona's house and sees him leave something in a tree. He tries to find what it was, but he thinks he hears Mike coming back so he leaves.

 

Andrew meets up with Aria at the cupcake shop and tells her what happened. He offers to go back and find out what Mike left and she insists on going. He offers to go with her but Aria declines insiting that she will be fine on her own. He's clearly worried about her staying at the house alone with Mike, but she insists that it will be ok because her dad will be back that night.

 

 

 Spencer finds out that Jonny vandalized Hollis and hadn't been hired to paint the mural. She flips out on him and informs him that she had been arrested for murder and even though the charges were dropped she can't afford to mess up again if she wants to go to college. She reaches out to Melissa, asking if Wren could help her get into Oxford University. Jonny and Spencer make up and go to the college where Toby sees them talking. He's not happy about it and leaves. While Spencer and Jonny are walking down the street, he sees some of his art work from the mural in a gallery window. The gallery owner says that someone brought them by from the school so he owns them and Jonny has no claim to them. When Jonny finds out that one is sold, he decides to get them back. Spencer is determined to help and since he won't let her get her mom involved, she decides to drive his getaway car. She picks the lock for him and brings him cutters for the chains holding up the paintings. While he's getting the last one down, he trips the alarm and the two speed off. While at a gas station, Toby shows up to arrest Jonny. He and Spencer have a heated argument where he tells her to walk away because Tanner is still watching her. She leaves and calls her mom who posts Jonny's bail and kicks him out of the barn. When he returns to the house he tells Spencer what happened and she's upset about him having to leave. After she gives him some packing tape, he kisses her.

Aria goes into the woods behind Mona's house and finds the tree Andrew had told her about. She finds a package in the spot he mentioned and pulls a vile of blood from it. Mike shows up and yells at her causing her to drop the vile and run. She gets in her car and races home, running the house hoping her dad was there. Mike comes in after her and she threatens to call the police if he got any closer to her. Mike tells her the truth about Mona's death. He informs her, that he walked in on Mona taking her own blood and she showed him all of the viles of her own blood that she had been storing. Her plan came from A and she had to fake her death, frame Alison, and then she planned to double cross A when she found out who he/she/they were- then she'd set the record straight and come back and then Spencer, Hanna, Aria, and Emily would be safe and free and Mona would be their hero. Mike was against it and they argued about it but he eventually agreed to keep quiet. Mike was concerned that A had double crossed Mona though because she hadn't shown up to any of their meetings and he visited Ali to see if she knew anything about A or the plan. He broke down crying that the blood was all he had left of Mona and that she had given it to him. Aria held her brother before meeting with her friends to share what he told her.

The girls decide that they need to talk to Ali, and try to figure out what's going on.

















Aired on 2/17/15

Pretty Little Liars - Review

Pretty Little Liars is set in the town of Rosewood, Pennsylvania, and it follows the lives of four girls, Aria Montgomery, Hanna Marin, Emily Fields, and Spencer Hastings, whose clique falls apart after the disappearance of their leader, Alison DiLaurentis. One year later, the estranged friends are reunited as they begin receiving messages from a mysterious figure named "A" after Alison's funeral, who threatens to expose their deepest secrets, including ones they thought only Alison knew. At first, they think it's Alison herself, but after her body is found, the girls realize that someone else is planning on ruining them.

The main cast includes:

• Lucy Hale as Aria Montgomery
• Ashley Benson as Hanna Marin
• Shay Mitchell as Emily Fields
• Troian Bellisario as Spencer Hastings
• Sasha Pieterse as Alison DiLaurentis
• Ian Harding as Ezra Fitz
• Laura Leighton as Ashley Marin
• Holly Marie Combs as Ella Montgomery
• Chad Lowe as Byron Montgomery

Recurring cast includes:

• Janel Parrish as Mona Vanderwaal (promoted to main cast)
• Tyler Blackburn as Caleb Rivers (promoted to main cast)
• Keegan Allen as Toby Cavanaugh (promoted to main cast)
• Lindsey Shaw as Paige McCullers
• Torrey DeVito as Melissa Hastings
• Drew Van Acker as Jason DiLaurentis
• Tamin Sursok as Jenna Marshall
• Nia Peeples as Pam Fields
• Lesley Fera as Veronica Hastings
• Brendan Robinson as Lucas Gottesman
• Brant Daughtery as Noel Kahn
• Julian Morris as Wren Kim
• Cody Christian as Mike Montgomery
• Nolan North as Peter Hastings
• Yani Gellman as Garrett Reynolds
• Bianca Lawson as Maya St. Germain
• Bryce Johnson as Darren Wilden
• Ryan Merriman as Ian Thomas
• Sean Faris as Gabriel Holbrook

Guests include:

• Andrea Parker as Jessica DiLaurentis
• Roark Critchlow as Tom Marin
• Aeriel Miranda as Shana Fring
• Roma Maffia as Linda Tanner
• Vanessa Ray as CeCe Drake
• Ryan Guzman as Jake
• Chuck Hittinger as Sean Ackard
• Luke Kleintank as Travis Hobbs
• Eric Steinberg as Wayne Fields
• Edward Kerr as Ted
• Jim Titus as Barry Maple
• Annabeth Gish as Anne Sullivan
• Paloma Guzman as Jackie Molina
• Chole Bridges as Sydney Driscoll
• Larisa Oleynik as Maggie Cutler
• Sterling Sulieman as Nate St. Germain
• Shane Coffey as Holden Strauss
• Amanda Schull as Meredith Sorenson
• Brandon Jones as Andrew Campbell
• John O'Brien as Carter Hackett
• Miranda Rae Mayo as Talia Sandoval
• Will Bradley as Jonny Raymond
• Reggie Austin as Eddie Lamb
• Diego Boneta as Alex Santiago
• Jim Abele as Kenneth DiLaurentis
• Steve Talley as Zack
• Claire Holt as Samara Cook
• Natalie Hall as Kate Randall
• Teo Briones as Malcolm Cutler
• Meg Foster as Carla Grunwald
• Gregg Sulkin as Wesley Fitzgerald
• Jake Weary as Cyrus Petrillo
• Heather Mazur as Isabel Randall
• Wyatt Nash as Nigel Wright
• Sydney Penny as Leona Vanderwaal
• Nathaniel Buzolic as Dean Stavros

<sup>Overall Rating: a MUST watch (but not alone or in the dark)

Catch Pretty Little Liars on ABC Family Tuesdays at 8 P.M. EST</sup>

Marvel's Agent Carter Recap: "The Iron Ceiling" (S01E05)

In this episode, Peggy decodes a message sent by the mysterious typewriter. It turns out that the message includes coordinates in Russia and suggests that Howard Stark would be there. Chief wants Agent Thompson to go with a team and retrieve Stark. Peggy insists on coming along, but neither of them want her too. She then contacts the 'Howling Commandos' and requests their assistance. When she informs Chief of the Commandos assistance, he allows her to go to Russia.

Peggy is forced to change into her tactical suit in the men's locker room and while she is in there Thompson plays a trick on her and Sousa. He asks Sousa to retrieve something from him on the other side of the room (he had no idea Peggy was in there) and he walks in on her half dressed. She turns around and he sees her bullet wound scars which he recognizes from the picture of the mysterious blonde.

Agents Carter and Thompson head out with 2 other S.S.R. agents to Russia where they meet up with the 'Howling Commandos' who express how much they've missed Peggy. During a talk around the fire, Peggy learns how Agent Thompson received his navy cross during the war and she begins to look at him a little differently. The next day, Agent Carter leads the team into what looks like a warehouse where they find a classroom where a projector is playing a cartoon that is filled with subliminal messaging. As they make their way through the building they find a room full of beds with handcuffs on them. In the room, a little girl is crying and Dum Dum Dugan is stabbed by her. The knife really only gets his vest but she manages to kill Junior before disappearing.

They realize they have to get out of there and on their way to find an exit they run into two men in a cell. One is a scientist and the other a doctor. They show the agents the blueprints they were given by Leviathan's men which are from Stark Enterprises. They were tasked with building the object. Peggy and Thompson free them as they try to make their escape. The four of them end up getting cornered by soldiers, shooting at them. Thompson freezes in a moment of PTSD while the imprisoned scientist holds one of the Commandos hostage- offering him to the Russians. Peggy tries to calm him down but the doctor shoots him. As Peggy fires back at the Russians, the Commandos' burst through the wall to get her and Thompson out of there. Peggy grabs him and tells him to break out of it and focus. They escape-barely- and take the doctor back to the States with them. Peggy says her goodbyes to the Commandos and on the plane ride home she learns even more about Thompson. He tells her that the soldiers he killed were actually coming to surrender and that he buried the white flag before anyone else saw it. He told Peggy about how guilty he felt about what he had done and once they returned to the office, he took her out for a bourbon.

Original air date 2/3/15

Marvel's Agent Carter Recap: "The Blitzkrieg Button" (S01E04)

Ok so in the latest episode, it was revealed that one of the "weapons" that was stolen from Howard Stark is a vile of Steve Rogers AKA Captain America's blood. Howard came back to town and hid in Peggy's apartment, while tasking her with retrieving the vile. He lied to her about it and claimed the object was something that could shut down the entire city if she opened it. Peggy figures out that Jarvis is lying to her about the object, so naturally she opens it after switching it out with a fake one in the SSR lab. Naturally, she is devastated and ends up punching Howard, throwing him out, and telling him that she is done working for him. Peggy keeps the vile and hides it in her room.

 Meanwhile, the new woman on the floor, Dottie, killed the man who sneaked in to kill Peggy- that was a twist NO ONE saw coming. I thought Dottie was this sweet naive girl, but it turns out she's an assassin of some sort. So now Dottie has a revolver, and Peggy has quit her mission.

Also in the episode: the chief heads off to interview a former Nazi and leaves Agent Thompson in charge which went about as great as you'd imagine. He demands they find out where Howard Stark is and Agent Sousa decides to go to the docks to try and get a finger print from the phone that called in the anonymous tip. While he's there, he sees some bums and brings one of them in for questioning. He and Thompson battle it out and eventually get some information from the guy. He tells them he saw a dark haired woman and a well dressed man. In the midst of the interrogation- Sousa opens up to the homeless man about his time in the war while Thompson listens on. Naturally Thompson was cruel and callous with Sousa.

 Peggy runs into Thompson while attempting to sneak out with the vile- and he asks her why she even works there and informs her that women will never have a place other than secretary in the work place. After the chief returns, Sousa looks at the picture of the blond woman and starts coloring her hair in dark. Is he figuring out it's Peggy? Also, the transmitter that the police found starts typing something on the typewriter. I'm afraid that Agent Carter will be mentioned....




(also, Stan Lee was in this episode getting his shoes shined with Howard and Jarvis)

Original air date 1/27/15

Chasing Life - Review

Chasing Life is a show about 24-year-old April Carver, who is a smart and quick-witted aspiring journalist who is trying to make her way at a Boston newspaper. April tries to balance her career with her family – her widowed mom Sara, rebellious little sister Brenna, and her grandmother Emma. April finally lands a big interview for her paper. In order to get the interview, April donates blood (so she can talk to the interviewee) at her estranged uncle's hospital. She passes out but scores the interview, and a date with her hot co-worker Dominic. Her uncle visits her to inform her that they ran tests on her blood and she has leukemia.

Just as everything in April's life has started to come together, this news is devastating and she must find a way to deal with the news, tell her family and friends, as well as fight this cancer. In the midst of all this, April finds out that her father had an affair and has a daughter who lives in Florida.

Now I know a show about cancer should be a major bummer, but surprisingly- this one isn't. While every episode is bound to make you cry (or bawl if you're like me), you are also guaranteed a laugh, and this heart-warming feeling of encouragement. This show makes you want to fight and to appreciate every minute of your life, because it is a beautiful thing. Another thing I like about this show is the family. The Carver family is so relate-able- they are perfect. No matter what happens, they stand by each other and they fight for one another.

The main cast includes:

• Italia Ricci as April Carver
• Mary Page Keller as Sara Carver, April and Brenna's widowed mother and a therapist
• Richard Brancatisano as Dominic Russo, an arts reporter at The Boston Post and April's love interest
• Haley Ramm as Brenna Carver, April's rebellious teenage sister
• Aisha Dee as Beth Kingston, April's best friend and the first person April tells about her cancer

 Recurring cast members:

• Steven Weber as Dr. George Carver, April and Brenna's paternal uncle, who has a romantic interest in Sara
• Scott Michael Foster as Leo Hendrie, the son of a famous politician and a cancer paitient
• Rebecca Schull as Emma, Sara's mother/April and Brenna's grandmother
• Abhi Sinha as Danny Gupta, April's co-worker and friend
• Augusto Aguilera as Kieran, Brenna's boss at an art gallery/tattoo parlor/love interest
• Dylan Gelula as Ford, Brenna's rebellious friend
• Gracie Dzienny as Greer, a popular girl from Brenna's school, who is a lesbian and a love interest for Brenna
• Shi Ne Nielson as Raquel Avila, April's supervisor/rival
• Jessica Meraz as Natalie Ortiz, April and Brenna's paternal half-sister. She is younger than April, but older than Brenna.
• Todd Waring as Bruce Hendrie, Leo's father and a famous politician
• Rob Kerkovich as Graham, Dominic's roommate and Beth's boyfriend
• Merrin Dungey as Dr. Susan Hamburg, April's doctor
• Andy Mientus as Jackson, a fellow cancer patient from April and Leo's cancer support group
• Tom Irwin as Thomas Carver, April, Brenna and Natalie's father and George's brother
• Laura Harring as Olivia Ortiz, Natalie's mother and Thomas' mistress
• Vondie Curtis-Hall as Lawrence, April, Dominic, and Danny's boss at The Boston Post
• Stephen Schneider as Aaron, April, Dominic, and Danny's boss at The Boston Post, who replaced Lawrence

Overall Rating: a MUST watch

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Marvel's Agent Carter - Review

Holy cow Batman, there is finally a kick-ass woman in the lead role of a television show!

For anyone who has been living under a rock, I am talking about Marvel's Agent Carter. Peggy Carter is one bad-ass woman, and I am so in awe of her. Finally there is a powerful, witty, independent, and intelligent woman in the lead role of a television show, in the super hero genre no less, and it is actually about her- not a love story. Obviously as with any show, love is involved, but this one is more about lost love and moving on with life.

It's a nice change of pace to have such a positive role model for girls (of all ages). Peggy does not need a man to get by. She isn't a pushover. She isn't a bitch. She stands up for herself and speaks her mind when she needs to and when it's appropriate, and when it's not- she bites her tongue and takes it like a woman. She is a loyal friend, as evidenced by her basically committing treason, and she is smart. You see, there are a lot of female driven shows all over television, but they are filled with love triangles and the men constantly saving the women. Instead, the show brings to light what it was like for women in the work place after the war, and even how far things have come. It makes me so sad how the men in her office treat her- especially because she is just as good/if not better than they are at what they do.

The main cast includes:

• Hayley Atwell as Peggy Carter
• James D'Arcy as Edwin Jarvis who is Howard Stark's butler and ally to Carter, who will eventually be a tutor to Tony Stark and inspire his J.A.R.V.I.S. artificial intelligence.
• Chad Michael Murray as Jack Thompson who is a war veteran and an agent with the S.S.R.
• Enver Gjokaj as Daniel Sousa who is a war veteran and an agent with the S.S.R. He experiences prejudice due to his crippled leg which allows him to relate to Carter
• Shea Whigham as Roger Dooley who is the S.S.R. chief and oversees agents Carter, Thompson, and Sousa

Recurring cast includes:

•  Kyle Bornheimer as Ray Krzeminski who is an S.S.R. agent
• Ralph Brown as Ivchenko who is Russian psychiatrist working undercover in America for Leviathan
• Alexander Carroll as Yauch who is a young S.S.R. agent Dominic Cooper as Howard Stark who is the father of Tony Stark as well as a founding member of S.H.I.E.L.D.
• Meagen Fay as Miriam Fry who is the proprietor of The Griffith- the boarding house where Carter and Angie live
• Lyndsy Fonseca as Angie Martinelli who is a waitress and aspiring actress that befriends Carter.
• Bridget Regan as Dottie Underwood who is a small-town girl from Iowa who moves next door to Carter and has a secret

Guests include:

• Lesley Boone as Rose who is a switchboard operator working for the S.S.R.
• Kevin Cotteleer as Alex Doobin who is an S.S.R. scientist
• James Frain as Leet Brannis who is a former operative of Leviathan
• Ralph Garman as the radio announcer
• James Landry Hébert as Sasha Demidov who is a Leviathan operative
• James Austin Kerr as Jonathan "Junior" Juniper who is a member of the 'Howling Commandos' who works with Carter
• Neal McDonough as Timothy "Dum Dum" Dugan who is a member of the 'Howling Commandos' who works with Carter
• Devin Ratray as Sheldon McFee who is a truck driver at Daisy Clover who was bribed to aid Brannis
• Walker Roach as the "Captain America" radio actor
• Leonard Roberts as Samuel "Happy Sam" Sawyer who is a member of the 'Howling Commandos' who works with Carter
• Benita Robledo as Carol who is a nurse living in The Griffith with Carter
• Costa Ronin as Anton Vanko who is the co-creator of the arc reactor with Howard Stark
• Richard Short as Percival "Pinky" Pinkerton who is a member of the 'Howling Commandos' who works with Carter
• Erin Torpey as the "Betty Carver" radio actress
• James Urbaniak as Miles Van Ert who is a scientist at Roxxon Oil
• Ray Wise as Hugh Jones who is the President of Roxxon Oil
• Stan Lee cameos in "The Blitzkrieg Button" as a shoeshiner patron
• John Glover cameos in "The Iron Ceiling" as a journalist and friend of Dooley
• Chris Evans appears in "Now is Not the End" as Steve Rogers / Captain America via archive footage from "Captain America: The First Avenger"

Overall Rating: a MUST watch show.









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