Part 2 of me trying to catch up on TV, and to be honest, I’m quite proud of my efforts, considering in two weeks I’ve watched everything except The Flash, Arrow and Legend’s of Tomorrow. Its not like I’ll give up without a fight, though the changes of someone finding me in my room with my brain all turned to smush is highly likely, so can someone please warn my mother??
NCIS: LA Season 8 E01-06
So the beginning of season started with a double episode, which results in the team heading to Syria to catch an arms dealer. During the operation, their helicopter was shot down, and Kensi was injured, losing a lot of blood and going into a coma. Poor Deeks was just about to propose but has to put it on hold while she recovers in the hospital and comes to term with the permanent aspects of her injury, and whether she can ever be an agent again. While this is happening, the Undersecretary of Defense takes over the NCIS office in order to catch the mole that has evaded NCIS for a while. Of course, Hetty confesses to being the mole, gets arrested and taken DC, only to make a deal with the Secretary of Defense to catch the mole in 90 days. Once she gets the office back in her hands, she gets Sam to go talk to Carl Brown, a man they had arrested for being the mole, but now think was working for someone else. Turns out there was, a lovely lady called Natalie Grant. And amidst all of this, Nell and Anna (now working as a US Marshall) pair up with Deeks while Kensi is in the hospital recooperating. You really feel for Deeks in the episodes, not sure how he should be helping Kensi and worrying if he can do this for her, it’s going to be interesting to see what Kensi can do post-hospital.
Quantico Season 2 E01-05
So much happens in the first 5 episodes, and yet, it’s petty easy to summarise. Turns out that Alex never really gets fired from the FBI because Miranda has a plan with the CIA director to place her at the CIA training facility, called The Farm, to spy on instructor Owen Hall and see whether he is recruiting people for a group called The Faction or the AIC. To make matters more complicated, Ryan also joins her there for the same mission and Nimah and Shelby are their handlers. They’re starting to navigate their relationship as well as look into Owen, his CIA operative daughter Lydia, and fellow classmates: MI6 agent Harry, South African layer Dayana, Mexican photographer Leon, business woman and mother Leigh and Asian-American pastor Sebastian. Each week, they learn a new skill and somehow, get to cleverly apply it to whatever and whoever they’re investigating that week, but it seems that someone else in the house has been investigating them as well, and Harry catches onto their shenanigans as well.
Now in typical Quantico fashion, The Farm stuff all occurs a year ago, and currently, the G20 Summit in Manhattan has been hijacked by a group called the Citizens Liberation Front, holding over 1700 hostages in a 5 block radius. Of course, dear old Alex is in the blockade but not a hostage, so does all she can to get to the bottom of it, while Raina, Ryan, Lydia and all their CIA recruits are in the building too. After Alex calls Miranda, Miranda tells the Front that Alex is inside, and they demand Eric Boyer, a recently pardoned hacker to be brought inside, in exchange for 1600 hostages. The hostages are released, but Miranda asks Shelby to bring in Will Olsen to find out what they want with a hacked, and Shelby is tipped off that Miranda is part of the Front. Episode 5 ends with Will talking to Miranda saying that he wants to be a part of the Front as well and Alex finding Lydia, somehow escaping from the Front’s hostage hold. 
Now I don’t really know what to believe, because the writers and directors have a way of manipulating the audience to believe something, only to turn around the next episode and have the characters change sides. But I’m keen for this; I really want Miranda to be bad, I just feel she’s a lot better as a negative character than positive one.
Supergirl Season 2 E01-04
SHE’S BACK! I was very happy to have Kara and her gang back on TV and apart from a few niggling things that I don’t like, we’re off to a great start. We’re finally introduced to Superman, have a new love interest for Kara in the form of Mon-El from Daxam, Krypton’s sister planet (which is so obvious, anyone could have spotted it), Lex Luthers’ adopted sister, Lena Luther (who appears to be nice, for now), and a new evil organisation, Cadmus, aiming to destroy aliens and give humans superhero powers. Cat Grant decides to leave Cat Co (which I still can’t get over), Jimmy Olsen becomes the new Cat, Kara decides to become a reporter, Winn leaves Cat Co and gets a job at the DEO and Alex starts a friendship *wink wink* with NCPD Detective Maggie Sawyer who deals with alien and metahuman cases. Also, Hank discovers that there is another female Green Martian in National City, just adding to the confusion that already exists for him. All in all, I think it was an alright start but there are three things that annoyed me. Number 1 – after pining for Jimmy for the latter half of the first season, Kara gets chance to finally date him only to realise that she is confused and thinks they’d be better as friends? What? Talk about leading a man on, that’s so not fair for Jimmy! Number 2 – After Kara totally friend-zoned Winn last season, how is he suddenly so ok with being totally involved in her life when hardly a few months ago, he was in love with her? And finally Number 3 – Why on EARTH would you get rid of Cat just when she really started becoming a true mentor to Kara? Kara needs someone to help her along the way, someone who doesn’t know she’s Supergirl, and now they’ve taken that away. Either way, the episodes are still fun an Kara is still bubbly and loveable, so guess I’ll be sticking it out for the rest of the season. 
How to Get Away with Murder E02-07
Alright, so here’s what we’ve learned so far in the flashforward scenes: Annalise comes to her home at night to find it up in flames and a body being removed from it. She finds Ollie and tells him to wipe her phone as she gets arrested and Bonnie is alive as well. Turns out that there is one more person that was found in the house as well, and it turns out to be a Laurel, who gets taken to the hospital and they find out she’s pregnant. Meanwhile, we find out that the dead body is male, Ollie tries and fails to get a hold of Connor and Michaela manages to find Asher safe. Annalise is getting charged with arson and first degree murder and turns out that Wes is the one giving the cops information to get Annalise, in exchange for immunity. So we’ve now narrowed the dead people down to Frank, Connor, Nate or some other male character, but I’m getting worried for Connor at this point. I also think it could be Nate, because she was exceptionally emotional during it all, showing emotions only someone would feel if they lost someone they truly loved
The episodes: Annalise goes through a bit of shit when the Board tries to suspend her for all the flyers getting put up around campus, but after they find out she slapped a client, they have her licence suspended and are only willing to have her reinstated as a professor when she admits to being an alcoholic and starts getting help for it. It doesn’t stop there, Nate breaks up with her, we finally get a bit more background about her miscarriages, her marriage and her relationship with Frank and she lets the Keating 5 finally tell her about how they really feel. Relationship wise, everyone knows about Asher and Michaela, Ollie and Connor break up, date others for a bit but then end up hooking up again, and Wes breaks up with Meggie and starts having a secret relationship with Laurel. Frank has been on the run, but is trying to prove that he wants to come back home to help Annalise, but his methods are a bit dd. He kills the hitman/PI Annalise hired to find him, ends up killing Bonnie’s incarcerated father, sleeps with Bonnie then ditches her, frames Charles Mahoney for his fathers murder (taking Wes off the suspect list, even though Charles has an alibi) and rocks up to Laurels house after being thrown out by Bonnie and hearing Laurel say that she loves Wes. All up, Frank is a little messed up and once I learned about his stint in jail and his relationship with Annalise and Sam, I’m really confused as to whether I like him or not. All in all, the season is as twisted and gripping as the last, and I’m assuming that in the next few weeks, we’ll be caught up to the flashforward scenes, and we’ll know who’s really dead.
NCIS E02-06
You’d think after having such a good cast for 14 years, NCIS would struggle with adopting new characters and having the same chemistry with them as their predecessors, but for once this was not the case, at least in my opinion. The last 5 episodes were filled with Nick Torres and Alex Quinn getting used to their special agent roles now as well as the dynamics the team already has. We also learn a bit more about Alex Quinn and her backstory, and MI6 agent Clayton helps them on a case or two. Gibbs’ headslap makes a comeback and McGee proposes to Delilah in the NCIS elevator, which were lovely moments, incorporating little pieces of the show together to make the viewers realise that although there may only be a few original cast members left, the show is the same as before. 
Agents of SHIELD E06
So many things were answered in this episode, I was actually quite pleased with the episode, didn’t leave me scratching my head like it usually did J So we finally learn what happened the night Robbie turns into Ghost Rider – Robbie takes Gabriel with him to a street race, only to get ambushed on the way but a gang/hitmen, resulting in a crash. He actually dies on the scene, while Gab is seriously injured, but they’re saved when the devil comes and offers a chance for Robbie get revenge and kill the men that did this to them. Robbie tells Gabriel all of this on the Quinjet, whilst in hiding with Daisy, as Director Mace tries and succeeds to find them. After getting in a fight, and gab telling the Ghost Rider to stop beating up Mace, the director finally agrees with Coulson to use Robbie to hunt down Lucy after Fitz discovers a link between Roxxam, Zero Matter and Dark Force (remember season 2 of Agent Carter) and a lab that has the power to successfully allow the machine they were creating to work. But here, we find out that Eli is the one that had killed everyone in order to get the book and the power that came with it. 
After Joe discovered that Eli had killed the rest of their team members, he ordered the hit on Eli, only for Robbie and Gab to be in the car instead. Eli finds out and beats Joe into a coma but doesn’t end up find out where the book is, and thus, ends up in jail. But the episode ends with Eli entering the machine, the experiment working and him stepping out, creating a block of carbon out of thin air, something scientifically and physically impossible. This stuff is so messed up, but dammit I’m hooked.
Once Upon a Time E06
Hahaha I’m completely losing it with this show because each week, it’s getting more and more ridiculous. This week, we meet Captain Nemo and his first mate Liam, who just happens to be Hooks little half-brother. Bth the past and present stpry lines are unnecessarily complicated, but in the end, Liam forgives Hook and everyone is alive and well in Storybrooke. The main ending for this story is that Hook and Henry’s relationship is slowly building and together, they get rid of the shears – and Hook tells Emma what he did, which she forgives (very logically might I add). In the other, non-interesting stories this week, Regina, Snow and Charming rescue Archie, Emma helps Aladdin help Jasmine fix Agrabah and the Evil Queen manages to somehow get the shears and give them to Rumple (who wants to use them on Belle and the baby) and the Evil Queens all she wants is Rumple to herself (and they kiss which is so gross on so many levels) and Snow’s heart. Basically, nothings changed, complicated as ever. 
The ones that weren’t worth mentioning: Supernatural E04 (Dean deals with his mum needing space and is too cute), The Walking Dead E02 (All about Carol and Morgan, kinda boring but we see The Kingdom and it’s King Ezekiel… weird), The Big Bang Theory E07 (Amy and Sheldon decide to move in together!).
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