It is Thanksgiving week and much of us are dreading seeing our families on Thursday. Well imagine if you just found out your dead mom is alive and that she walked out on your brother and you all those years ago and now she wants to see you. Well that is what happens on Hawaii Five-0 tonight at 10p on CBS.
Mary Ann McGarrett (Taryn Manning) is back in Hawaii to visit her brother Steve (Alex O’Loughlin) and he tells her that their mother is alive and she wants to see her. Now she has to decide if she wants to see the woman who left her when she was little girl and let her believe that she has been dead for all of these years. It is not an easy decision and she will struggle to make it.
Meanwhile the Five-0 works the case of a recently released teenage computer hacker who was kidnapped and later found dead. Now the kidnappers want his mysterious password and will do anything to get it. Kono (Grace Park) is at the boy’s house looking for the password when the kidnappers break in and hold everyone hostage. She will be caught in the crossfire and the Five-0 will be defenseless to help her. Will the good guys get out or will the bad guys win? You will have tune into find out what happens in this episode that is as much heart-stopping as it is heart-wrenching.
BTW it is so great have Manning back on the show and I hope she stays around for a while.
CBS has made the mistake of pulling the plug on Partners and I for one am very upset about this. Personally I think if CBS were to cancel any of their comedies it should’ve been Mike & Molly. It is Chuck Lorre’s weakest show on the network now, plus I honestly think it would bomb without a strong lead in. Something it has benefited from since its debut. When it comes to Partners, it never had a chance with the time-to-be-put-out-of-our-misery How I Met Your Mother as its lead. When was the last time that show really made you laugh more than it pissed you off? For me it has been a few years. CBS needs a new comedy to survive because with HIMYM most likely ending this year and who knows what the future holds for Two and a Half Men, what will they do? Recently the network has only been able to launch a successful comedy every two years, so they should’ve kept the show and let it find its audience. I think that it was doing and it really found its niche. Oh well, I guess that leaves room for another NCIS or CSI to air on the network. It’s not like they don’t have enough of those.
Here is what the great cast of Partners Tweeted about the cancellation: Sophia Bush: Sadly, it is so. What a fun run it has been. I love @michaelurie @DaveKrumholtz @BrandonJRouth so much. Our producers. Our crew. Thank u all Dave Krumholtz: Thanks for all the support. Brandon Routh: Well, that’s it folks. Our run of #Partners is over. Thanks so much for your love, support, & dedication 2 our show. Much love from us 2 u.
BTW as a big FU to CBS, I say let’s vote for Partners as Favorite New TV Comedy for The People’s Choice Awards!
NBC has asked for 4 more episodes from Guys with Kids bringing the freshman sitcom’s order to 17. Personally I think NBC is making a mistake by not giving the show the back 9 because it has really found its groove and it makes me laugh every week. Unlike a lot of their other comedies.
Over at CBS the network wants two more episodes from Elementary and takes back one from Vegas according to Deadline. Which means now Sherlock will get 24 episodes while Dennis Quaid’s new show is only getting 21. So I guess we can predict which CBS show will be back next season and which won’t.
Brandon Routh has been known for playing a soap stud, a superhero and a super villain, but on CBS’s Partners that airs Mondays at 8:30p he is starring as a Mennonite nurse who is living with his partner Louis who is played by the always entertaining Michael Urie.
So since he has played those type of rolls in the past, last week I asked him what drew him to this role. He told me, “Obviously it is very funny.” Then he elaborated by saying, “Usually when a role comes along that is very opposite what people know me as, I guess with this character, Wyatt is gay. That is playing against a stereotypical type. In essence as we saw in last week’s episode, Wyatt is kind of like Clark. So in that regard, he is similar to characters I have played. So I like the innocence. I like playing those type of characters, finding that aspect of them, bringing them out. Quirky characters appeal to me. And to be working every day on a comedy, makes life more enjoyable.” And our weeks are more enjoyable watching him on this sitcom about different type of Partners. You have Wyatt who is dating Louis. Then there is Louis’ business partner Joe (Dave Krumholtz) and he is engaged to his partner Ali (Sophia Bush). Got it? Good!
What makes Partners work really well as a show is the chemistry between the cast. When I asked him about that, he told me “We all kind of clicked. We are all humble people, who wanted this to be the best project it could be. So grateful that we are in it and we became fast friends.” So when you become fast friends like that, what is like when you have to kiss one them. That person was Sophia Bush and the two have worked together in the past. What did he think of that moment? He shared this with me, “Awkward, you know because I have known her for so long. And she reminds me a lot of my sister, Sara. In all the good ways and not the bad ways.” Now before you are all like poor Sophia, wait until read what she said about it.
While he was pretty emotional talking about that kiss, I had to know more about the emotional Wyatt. Here’s how he described that, “Well it is funny he is the emotional one, but sometimes he lacks emotion. So Wyatt is interesting character to play. I kind have to always check in and go OK, where is this on Wyatt’s emotion meter. Is this a time where he is going to react or is he calm and rises above all of the craziness that happens. It’s cool. It’s a nice thing to be able to do. It makes him unique to everyone else.” The joke about that for people who are missing out on this hilarious show, is that Wyatt doesn’t really show emotion, but he says he does. It’s what I adore most about his character.
Brandon has two jobs now, he is starring in Partners and in real life he is the father to his three month old son Leo with his wife Courtney Ford. He is enjoying working on both of them, and tonight he is getting a second job on Partners. He previewed the episode by saying, “‘Temporary Insanity’ is pretty fun. RoRo (the secretary at Louis and Joe’s company) goes on vacation and Wyatt becomes the temp secretary. So I have a pretty heavy episode and I have a lot of fun. Scenes causing, but not meaning to, trouble between Joe and Louis’ relationship.” Oh no. Don’t worry now that he knows what his boyfriend does for a living in a few weeks, Louis will do the same. Here’s his sneak peek of what is to come, “We go to the hospital. We see him at work. Louis sees him at work and maybe gains a better appreciation for Wyatt’s job as a nurse even though he doesn’t like letting anyone know he is a nurse.” You see Louis tells everyone that Wyatt is a Jewish doctor, I get his confusion Mennonite nurse and Jewish doctor a very similar. Correct?
It is that type of humor that keeps people tuning in every week at 8:30p. If you have never seen this show, then you are missing out on a show that is fresh, funny and fantastic. We all need to start off the work week with a smile and that is exactly what Partners does. Plus they keep putting Brandon Routh in tight revealing shirts, what more do you need? Laughs and a body from heaven! So after dinner, sit down with your partner and watch Partners on CBS Mondays at 8:30p.
Every year TV folk wonder which show is going to get the coveted post-Super Bowl slot and this year it is Elementary scores that goal! The freshman procedural stars Jonny Lee Miller as a modern day Sherlock Holmes and Lucy Liu plays his Watson. Currently it is the #2 new show of the year and I am sure after its special airing on February 3rd, it will become the #1 one.
Personally if I were running CBS, I would have a Two and a Half Men/Big Bang Theory crossover episode. I think that would’ve been a huger success because it already does so well in the ratings. Or maybe a NCIS/NCIS: Los Angeles crossover one because they are the top-rated scripted shows. I don’t know, I just don’t think Elementary is a good fit with the Super Bowl audience. What do you think?
