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Hawaii Five-0 remembers the internment camps on Oahu |
| December 13th, 2013 under CBS. [ Comments: 1 ]
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December 7th was the 72nd anniversary of Pearl Harbor and tonight at 9p on CBS Hawaii Five-0 takes a look back at what happened after the attack.
While attending a Pearl Harbor memorial event, McGarrett (Alex O’Loughlin) notices an elderly Japanese man take a gun out of his jacket and aim at one of the surviving soldiers from that day. McGarrett stops the man before he can fire a shot and arrests him. When they get back to station, McGarrett asks why he was going to shoot that man and the elderly man explains that he murdered his father at one of the internment camps on Oahu.
At that moment, the man tells his story and we get flashbacks to the days when the Japanese people were being held prisoners because of where they came from. You will see them being dragged from the normal lives and being treated like cattle as they enter the camps. You will hear what people did to get out of there and what it was like to live there.
After McGarrett hears his story, he decides to look into this case that is over 70 years old. He is determined to find the man who murdered that man’s father. Little by little he gets more information about what happened on that day and what we get is information about an atrocity we forget about.
Hawaii Five-0 does an excellent job reminding us what happened in Hawaii 7 decades ago in this very powerful episode that everyone should watch. They say history repeats itself and let’s hope it never repeats the internment camps.
This episode is so special to Daniel Dae Kim, that he wrote this message about it.
Networks often talk about “very special episodes,” but episode 410 of HAWAII FIVE-0 is deserving of that description. Rarely do police dramas delve into subjects like the internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II, but this small and shameful chapter in our history is one that reminds us all of a valuable lesson: that we can never measure an American’s patriotism solely by their appearance or ancestry. I’ve never been prouder of HAWAII FIVE-0, and I applaud our producers for tackling a topic that goes beyond a crime of the week. It is my sincere hope that you find this episode, highlighted by some remarkable performances, as special as we do.
I have to say it is one of the most special episodes that I have seen in a long time, and I, like him, hope you watch it tonight at 9p on CBS.
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Mike & Molly is back better than ever! |
| November 4th, 2013 under CBS, Chuck Lorre, Katy Mixon. [ Comments: none ]
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Mike & Molly is back on CBS tonight at 9p and you don’t want to miss the show’s best season yet.
I have to admit for the last few years, I have used this sitcom to put me to sleep because it did. Well I am happy to say that is no longer the case after watching the first three episodes of this season. I found myself laughing several times. In fact, I laughed more in the third episode than I have in the whole show’s run because it is that freaking funny.
So what is different about this season as compared to the past ones? Well it starts out with Molly (Melissa McCarthy) having a nervous breakdown in front of her class and quitting her job as a teacher. Now she has to find out what she wants to be when she grows up. Tonight she decides she wants to get into musical theater, but that dream won’t last that long. Next week she will be inspired to do something else, but we are not up to that just yet.
Through it all Mike (Billy Gardell) is such a supportive husband and that makes you wish he is your husband. He puts up with Molly, while most men would leave her. It is their sweet relationship that makes this show special. And now it looks like they have finally found the right formula to make Mike & Molly the best show it could be.
Now I don’t want to leave out the supporting cast because throughout the years they have been the wheel that keeps the show rolling. This season Swoosie Kurtz, Katy Mixon, Reno Wilson, Louis Mustillo and Rondi Reed are still the glue that holds this show together. Just wait until the third episode because that is when Mixon will steal the show and I don’t think she should ever give it back!
So if you need a laugh, then tune in for Mike & Molly and find out how truly funny this show can be!
Then at 10p it is time for a major twist on Hostages, one you will never see coming.
Ellen (Toni Collette) and Brian (Tate Donovan) have had enough and they have decided they are going to kill Duncan (Dylan McDermott), the man who has been holding them hostage. Brian has his ideas and Ellen has hers. She will go to an old friend to help her out and that person is someone we have seen before. Who is it? I will never tell, so you will have to tune in to find out.
Here is a little spoiler, someone will end tonight’s episode being stabbed in the heart. Think you know who? The only way to find out if you are correct is to tune in…
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CBS are the Crazy Ones about their comedies! |
| October 18th, 2013 under CBS, Fox, Tyra Banks. [ Comments: none ]
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CBS announced today that they picked up The Crazy Ones, The Millers and Mom for a full season. I get why they are sticking with the funny The Millers and the hysterical The Crazy Ones, but I don’t get Mom.
I love Chuck Lorre and I have tried to like Mom, but the show sucks the life out of you. It is so unfunny and depressing, I can’t even muster up a chuckle when I watch it. I am not crapping you because I watched Monday’s episode with Octavia Spencer and I didn’t even feel the corner of my lips go up once. If I want to watch the story of 30-something, soon-to-be grandmother because her teen daughter is pregnant, recovering alcoholic, who can’t pay the bills, I would watch a documentary on it. But I don’t, I watch comedies to laugh not to feel sorry for the characters in it. So when Mom becomes, a comedy let me know and maybe I will reconsider. To be honest I foresee CBS losing a lot of viewers on Monday, November 11th in the 9p hour because that Chuck Lorre hour is not 1/2 punch. It is even a kid slap.
The network really messed up by not promoting We Are Men as the show it was, and not what they wanted it to be.
UPDATE: The CW has it is own news, they picked up America’s Next Top Model for another season. I want to know what pictures she has on the network executives because why else would they renew this show for another season???
UPDATE 2: Fox announced today that not only did they pick up Brooklyn Nine-Nine for the full season, but that the sitcom will air after the Super Bowl. Personally I don’t think it deserves the honor, but then again I also don’t get the show. I tried, but it just wasn’t for me. To be honest I think Dads is a lot more enjoyable than the Andy Samberg show.
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Halle Berry is returning to TV next summer |
| October 4th, 2013 under CBS, Halle Berry. [ Comments: 1 ]
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Ever since Halle Berry won the Oscar, her movie career has stalled. So I guess that played in her decision to return TV.
She will be storming back to our television sets next summer in the Stephen Spielberg produced Extant on CBS.
Here’s the description from the press release, “Berry will play an astronaut who returns home from a year-long solo mission in space and tries to reconnect with her husband and son in their everyday life. Her experiences in space and home lead to events that ultimately will change the course of human history.”
This is Spielberg’s second show airing on CBS next the summer, the first was the highly successful Under The Dome that’s returning for its second season. From the description of Extant and knowing how amazing Under the Dome us, I think CBS might have a stronger summer lineup than the winter one. I don’t even like Berry and I want to see her new show.
Who knew summer television could be must watch? I guess CBS finally realized it.
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The Millers make a big bang entrance and The Originals details it origins! |
| October 3rd, 2013 under CBS, The CW. [ Comments: none ]
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Tonight at 8:30p The Millers makes its debut and it’s the perfect show for CBS’s Thursday lineup. When I first watched the sitcom, I didn’t like it. Then I watched it again today and found myself laughing out loud several times. In fact, I will openly admit that the show has officially won me over.
Jack (Will Arnett) gets a call that his parents are coming to visit his sister and him because his dad, Tom (Beau Bridges), flooded the basement. He is really not looking forward to their visit, not only because they are the way that they are, but because he hasn’t told him he got a divorce. When he finally tells them the truth, his dad tells him mom, Carol (Margo Martindale), he wants a divorce from her so he can be happy. Now Tom is going to live with his daughter, Debbie (Jayma Mays) and Jack gets his mom. Needless to say both kids are miserable with one of their parents living with them.
Carol is very controlling and has killer gas and Tom is nicknamed Forrest Gump for a reason. So how will the kids handle having their parent live with them? We will have to tune in to find out every Thursday at 8:30p before The Crazy Ones to find out.
Then at 9p change the dial over to The CW for the series premiere of The Originals. Elijah (Daniel Gillies) has gone to New Orleans to see his brother, Klaus (Joseph Morgan). He comes across the witches and finds out that Marcel (Charles Michael Davis) is now ruling the town and won’t let them perform magic. Elijah also finds out that his brother got a werewolf pregnant and now he will do what he can to protect Hayley (Phoebe Tonkin) so that she will be able to deliver his niece or nephew safely. How will Klaus handle being a father? Can the Originals and the Witches take down Marcel and his Vampires? Will Hayley carry this baby to term and what will her pregnancy be like? We will tune in every Tuesday at 8p after tonight to find out.
I might be in the minority when I say this, but I sincerely enjoy The Originals so much more than the show it spun off of, The Vampire Diaries. There is just something so much better about it and I hope that it keeps the feel it has during the season premiere.
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