Hello internet! This is the last week for the mid-season finals, which means that we have a little 2 week break before they all start up again, as well as a handful of other shows like Suits, Agent Carter and The 100 that are going to start up in January again. Things are going to get BUSAYYYYYY, so let’s get this party started!
The Big Bang Theory E10, E11
I’m going to start with the show that enjoyed the most this week, and that has to be, without a doubt, The Big Bang Theory. I think for the first time this season, we had two genuinely funny episodes, and most of it had to do with Sheldon. Sheldon and Amy get back together (and Stephen Merchant is pure gold in this episode), and in episode 11, Sheldon gives up his tickets to the Star Wars premier to spend Amy’s birthday with her (frankly, that is amazing, because even I wouldn’t do that for someone!) and finally get physical with her. I think the last scene of the episode where they show similarities between Shamy post-sex and Howard, Raj and Leonard post-Star Wars was absolutely hilarious and I would like to say a big thank you to the writers for finally giving me the giggles I’ve been waiting for all season! Also, as a little extra, The Force Awakens was an amazing movie, JJ Abrams has done the franchise justice and if you haven’t seen it yet, get off your butts and do it now!
Bones E09, E10
Holy shit, I don’t even know where to start! Episode 9 was pretty good, we had Bones and Booth go undercover at an Old Western-style shooting competition and all is well between them. But episode 10 is the one, and it is a perfect way of showing how writers can still be inventive and keep their fan base after 11 years. The episode starts off with a victim – that blows up and puts Aubrey and Hodgins in the hospital. While the rest of the team look for the horrible person who did this, Arastoo comes back to the lab to help and Cam is stuck between trying to get over him and starting something new with Sebastian, Angela’s photography mentor. Anyway, everyone is fine and happy and alive by the end of the episode but then [someone] collapses and the doctors tell the team that [someone] is paralysed thanks to a lethal combination of the medication they were taking and their current condition. That is literally the only way I can tell you what happened without ruining it too much for you, so many feels!
NCIS E11
This episode had a lovely midseason, Christmassy feel to it and I loved it. The episode revolved around Ducky’s past and the mystery behind his half-brother, who no one knows about! The story was very interesting, involving a lovely brotherly-fatherly relationship between Ducky and his brother Nicholas, and the pain that comes with losing a brother, and then finding out he’s dead, and then discovering that he is in fact alive and in America. Everyone has done their part in the episode and the writers still astound me by bringing our facets of a character that we haven’t discovered after watching the show for 13 years. BUUUUUUUT, the best part of the episode was cheating scumbag Jake coming to Ellie for forgiveness and acting like a lost puppy only to have her say that it was over and he should leave. YES ELLIE, YES! DON’T YOU DARE TAKE HIM BACK, HE DOESN’T DESERVE YOU! *rant over*
Scorpion E12
What a ridiculous episode! Ok, I get it; they’re amazingly smart, stupidly daring and huge risk-takers, but seriously? In this episode, the team somehow manage to stop an overflowing dam breaking and destroying a small city by dropping a bomb into it and causing a tsunami wave back up the river into another dam. I don’t care if it was actually theoretically possible or whatever, this shit is getting a little bit ridiculous, I mean come on. At one point Cabe is climbing up a vertical damn wall by spraying on quick-dry cement to make steps (come on, that man is at least 55, there’s no way he can do that), Happy almost drowns and Toby messes up throwing the bomb but it still manages to blow up in just the right way. At this point, I threw my hands up in the air (saying “Aayoo, gotta let go…”) in frustration and just gave up. Oh and to top it off, Walters wins the $15 million funding for his rocket but decides to send up Megan’s ashes in the rocket instead, destroying what he had been working on for the last year. I give up (but will continue to watch the show because that’s what I do) 🙂
Quantico E11
Ahhhhhhh I don’t know if I should not give any spoilers, and make this a terrible review, or just tell you everything that happens!!! Ah screw it, spoilers up ahead, if you haven’t seen the episode yet, then scroll down till you see a picture of a kitten in a little itty bitty wheelchair. Ok so in the present, the team finds out that Simon is the bomber, and find him in a hotel room (where the Democratic delegates, and Caleb’s mum, are staying for a conference) with a detonator clenched in his fist. But, PLOT TWIST, Elias Harper has been blackmailed into framing Alex for the first bomb and Simon for the second and being unable to deal with the pressure of the whole situation, commits suicide! Meanwhile, the FBI find the bomb in the hotel and diffuse it, releasing Simon but PLOT TWIST, there was a third bomb. In the command centre. WHAAAAAAAT?! Go back to Quantico, and Nimah, Alex, Natalie and Shelby are alone for New Year’s Eve at the academy and get invited to Caleb’s house for his family’s Christmas dinner. Long story short, Alex runs into Ryan and his ex-wife on an undercover mission, Shelby meets Caleb’s mother, sees what lengths he can go to reveal the truth about people ad finally learns about what he did when he was in that cult years ago. And that’s when we say bye-bye to Sheleb (or Calby?) And now I need to wait more than a week to see what happens!!!!!
NCIS: Los Angeles E06, E07, E08, E09, E10, E11
After mass watching these 6 episodes to the mid-season finale, I realised how much I really like this show and didn’t know why I took so long to catch up! I feel like each episode had something in it so let’s make a little list and go through them one by one:
- Sam’s old partner, Mark Ruiz, is involved and disappears with a whole lotta explosives
- Deeks and Kensi go undercover into a cult organisation called the Church of the Unknown and it’s creepy and weird as hell, but I think it was a good way of relating it to what is happening around the world in terms of religion and their leaders and followers.
- Remember when Sam recues his Sudanese lover from her psychotic brother only to leave her at the airport by herself while he goes back to his family? Well that story continues when we realise that Jada is miserable here and is doing everything she can to get back to her brother. This is another moment where rather than always taking the side of America/the developed world, the writers have forced us to see the victim’s perspective and how it must be liked to be torn away from your family and being told that this new place their living is “better for them”.
- Man the writers were on a roll with looking at different perspectives! Here we dealt with ISIS but not in the traditional “let’s bomb everyone” type of way, but in terms of young girls being convinced to give themselves up as brides for these terrorists. It kind of hit me very hard because I had ever thought about this part of ISIS’s operation, but it seems very logical and easy for them to convince naïve young girls that their place should be with these men. Oh and to top this episode off, Deeks gets arrested by the LAPD for murdering his old partner
- I can’t believe I’m going to admit this but this episode made me very nervous. Not because Deeks was arrested (let’s be honest here, not for one minute did I think that Deeks would be arrested for long, he’s a main character, come on!) but because things were going so well for him and Kensi, and this could ruin everything. Anyway, Deeks was being accused of killing his partner who was a terrible man who almost killed an informant, and the team had to go into Deek’s past to really figure out if he was innocent. Highlights include everything to do with Mamma Deeks who is just the sweetest and most loving mother. Oh and PLOT TWIST – He actually did kill his partner. HOLY SHIT WHAT?!
- To end this half of the season, we had a nice and jolly Christmas episode filled with cute little moments between all the team members. The only real important scene in this episode was when Deeks reveals to Kensi that he did kill his old partner, and Kensi says that she knew and is glad that he decided to tell her. Look at them being all trusting and mature, they are just the cutest!
And that’s me done for this week! Next week is going to be a little shorty too, I’ll give my review for all the Supernatural episodes I’ve missed as well as the Doctor Who Christmas Special. Merry Christmas everyone, stay safe!
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