Thursday, November 14, 2013

'Elementary' in Motion: Mycroft is Back!!

"The Marchioness" -- ELEMENTARY on CBS
lt to rt: Mycroft Lucy Liu, Rhys Ifans, Jonny Lee Miller
Thurs. Nov. 7 (10:01 – 11:00 PM, ET/PT)
Photo: Jeff Neumann /CBS
©2013 CBS Broadcasting, Inc. (used with permission)
Quick Note: I waited on this recap to make sure it wasn't going to be posted on Yahoo. They have been having some tech difficulties, so my usual recaps are not being posted at the moment. Until I can post on Yahoo, I'll be posting these on my blog. The downside is that I don't get paid for these. The upside is that I get to upgrade the recaps to include gifs and tweets, and I can say whatever I want! You can find my past recaps here and here Please enjoy!

 "The Marchioness" may be the most awkward episode of Elementary to date. Awkward in a good way, that is. Hilariously awkward, in fact.

 The episode begins with Sherlock sharing some of his deep thoughts with his addict group. In the middle of a thought, Sherlock's brother Mycroft shows his face.



This sends Sherlock into a bit of a rage out in the hall, with Sherlock exclaiming that he wouldn't have shared anything at all had he known Mycroft was there. After a bit of arguing between the two brothers, Watson decides to welcome Mycroft with an extremely awkward "hug."


Turns out Mycroft is visiting from England to enlist Sherlock's help with his "friend," Nigella Mason. Nigella is actually Mycroft's former fiancée, with whom Sherlock "engaged in several bouts of vigorous sex" right before his brother had a chance to seal the deal with her. Hence, the tremendously awkward un-welcome kiss.



Sherlock can't stand Nigella after she betrayed his brother (with him), and prefers to call her a trollop. She's also a "horse pimp," as Sherlock puts it, selling the sperm of her horse Silver Blaze.

The case involves the murder of a man named Dalton who was handling Silver Blaze's medications. The culprit was also apparently attempting to kill Silver Blaze before Dalton walked in on him. Sherlock finds his first clue at the farm in the form of fingerprints on a nearby tree branch, indicating that the killer is missing a finger. And he looks so pleased with himself!



Sherlock feels vindicated when he realizes that a man named Aguilar is attempting to kill Nigella because she has been selling him sperm from Silver Blaze's brother. Silver Blaze died long ago, and she simply saved hair and blood before disposing of the body in order to fake the tests.

Sherlock's focused work on the case prevents him from thinking about anything else, even eating. Mycroft had to remind Sherlock, like a child, that his food is getting cold. Sherlock hastily grabs a bite, unnerving Watson and Mycroft.

It turns out that Aguilar used a contract killer named El Mecanico, a mass murderer who has been wanted for decades. The only witness to the murder appears to have the same missing finger as the prints obtained from the tree branch, but his prints don't match. They do match a liquor store robber who was murdered and buried under a tree. The man had killed the robber and buried him under a tree, leaving some of his DNA. The DNA belongs to El Mecanico. So, the "witness" is actually the killer!

Meanwhile, Sherlock also deduces something almost as disturbing: Watson slept with Mycroft! This leads to a few additional awkward moments and inappropriate questions from Sherlock. He even pokes Watson's bed with a stick before conversing with her to ensure that Mycroft isn't in there!


Nigella continues to worm her way between Mycroft's and Sherlock's relationship, but they finally send her off so they can spend some quality, albeit awkward, bro time together.



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Wednesday, November 13, 2013

'Person of Interest' in Gifs: Badass Carter Channels Badass Reese!

"Endgame" -- PERSON OF INTEREST on CBS
Tuesday, November 12 (10:01 – 11:00 PM ET/PT)
left to right: Taraji P. Henson, Laz Alonso
Photo: Giovanni Rufino/Warner Bros. Ent. Inc.
© 2013 WBEI. (used with permission)
Last week, Carter (Taraji P. Henson) had just learned that Quinn (Clarke Peters) is the HR boss. This week, on the ominously titled episode "Endgame," she becomes the badass we all knew she could be in her journey to take down HR and avenge the murder of her boyfriend Cal Beecher (and her new rookie partner, Laskey).
The Machine spits out 38 numbers, all members of HR. Reese (Jim Caviezel) inquires whether the Machine "blew a belt," but it's more likely that something big is going down (and because the Machine is "not a lawnmower," as Finch replies). Finch (Michael Emerson) and Reese realize that someone is attempting to take out HR. We see that Carter is the vigilante when she tells everyone she knows to lay low and smashes her phone. The look on her face shows a heavy burden.

Before asking Elias (Enrico Colantoni) to lay low, Carter has him talk to the Russian boss, Peter Yogorov (Morgan Spector). Of course, Elias puts his own flair on it, leaving a bullet in Yogorov's food.

We soon learn what all the secrecy is about when Carter steals a shipment of Russian drugs with a grenade launcher, a punch in the face for one of the drivers, and the universal sign for "on the ground, before I shoot you with this gun" for the truck's copilot.

Oh, and Carter stole Reese's grenade launcher to pull off the stunt!
It's all a ploy to make the Russians conclude that HR has stolen the drugs, and to make HR think that the Russians want to kill them for stealing the drugs. HR also thinks that "the man in the suit" is behind the whole thing, trying to start a war between the two groups. HR is willing to go to war if the Russians do indeed attack them, which is exactly what Carter makes them believe when she shoots at Quinn with a ginormous rifle. It's at this point that the Machine begins spitting out numbers for the Russians as well.

Meanwhile, the episode goes heavy on Carter flashbacks, making viewers believe that this could be her swan song. One flashback involves her PTSD-inflicted ex getting a bit violent.

In the present, that cutie-patootie ex, Paul (Laz Alonso), has gotten help and is doing well, and Carter has entrusted in him the safety of their equally nice-looking son, Taylor (Kwoade Cross). She calls them for what seems like "one last time," knowing the danger she faces.

Carter's ex
Carter's son
Fusco (Kevin Chapman) attempts to help out, but Carter leaves him high and dry after a few sweet sentiments about trusting him more than anyone else. Carter thinks she can take them on by herself and keep everyone else safe, having had saved up all the surveillance evidence she needs, as well as a sworn statement from a witness. It's enough to obtain an arrest warrant for Quinn, and now all she needs is to find the right judge. Unfortunately, she makes the wrong choice, and the judge (Paul O'Brien) immediately calls Quinn.
Meanwhile, Reese and Shaw (Sarah Shahi) go out to help all the Russians HR have rounded up, but they're too late: Carter has already called in the FBI, and they save the Russians and arrest a large number of HR members. All neat and tidy!

When she arrives at the judge's house, she walks right into the trap: Simmons (Robert John Burke), a few other HR goons, and a tarp, all ready for her body. But then something beautiful happens: she basically let's them know that she's not stupid enough to actually trust anyone, then Reese shoots his way through the door, and they drag Quinn out to take him to the FBI. Unfortunately, there will be plenty of dirty HR cops on the way there.

And... many fans did not want it to end there, what with the teasing of Fusco's possible demise in the previews!
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Tuesday, November 12, 2013

'Person of Interest' in Motion: The Original Gang is Highlighted

"The Perfect Mark," PERSON OF INTEREST on CBS
lt to rt: Kevin Chapman and Taraji P. Henson
Tuesday, Nov. 5 (10:01 – 11:00 PM, ET/PT)
Photo: Giovanni Rufino/CBS
©2013 CBS Broadcasting Inc.
Quick Note: I had the animated gifs for the following recap completed last week, but I waited on the recap to make sure it wasn't going to be posted on Yahoo. They have been having some tech difficulties, so my usual recaps are not being posted at the moment. Until I can post on Yahoo, I'll be posting these on my blog. The downside is that I don't get paid for these. The upside is that I get to upgrade the recaps to include gifs and tweets, and I can say whatever I want! You can find my past recaps here and here Please enjoy!

"The Perfect Mark" episode of "Person of Interest" brings all of our favorite original characters back to the forefront. Finch (Michael Emerson), Reese (Jim Caviezel), Carter (Taraji P. Henson), and Fusco (Kevin Chapman) all see some action. Some fans love the whole crew, including the new characters, while others want everything back the way it used to be.
Finch sees a hypnotherapist about his resentment of Reese... actually, he's just trying to scope out his latest number, Hayden Price (Aaron Staton), hypnotherapist of the rich and powerful. Problem is, he's not actually certified. Nope, he's really a con man, hypnotizing people into giving him their private info so he can make bank off their stupidity.

The gang learns just how deep Price will sink into the weeds for a con when he cheats a poor sap out of $50,000 for a fake dealing in which Price and a "Det. Decker" (James Joseph O'Neill) fake kill each other in front of a their very freaked out mark. Then Price proceeds to con the other con man, Decker, out of $30,000 of the stolen money.

Price makes one huge mistake, however: stealing from HR by intercepting one of their money-laundering efforts. HR attempts to take him out, but Reese and Shaw are there to put a stop to their first attempt. Reese even punches one of them out after shooting him!
HR launders money through an antiques dealer named Sven (Carsten Norgaard) by having Sven pay millions of dollars of HR money for a worthless autographed baseball, sold by someone representing HR. They are essentially paying themselves, cleaning the money in the process. Price intercepts the email telling Sven which ball to buy, and he ends up buying a real one. Then he sells it to some kid for five bucks, but that kid is actually working for Price.

Simmons (Robert John Burke) tasks Carter's rookie cop partner Laskey (Brian Wiles) with killing Sven after the bungle, but Fusco and Carter take care of faking his death with a nice "bloody" picture. Carter tries to have a say in the blood-spatter design, but this is Fusco's territory: he's going for a "hollow-point special motif."

When Simmons realizes the bungle was caused by Price, he orders Terney (Al Sapienza) to get the ball from Price before killing him, and orders Laskey to kill Price's girlfriend Natalie, who finds Reese "creepy" (What?!). Reese and Carter take care of it, with Reese intervening by slamming Terney over the head with a stool (a gif of that can be found at the bottom of TV.com's article), while Carter punches Laskey in the face (love the way she looks as if she's "just had it" with the kid, below). This is all an attempt to set Price and Natalie free and blame the screw-up on "the man in the suit."

It's a bit annoying to see Price walk free, until we learn that Natalie is also a con woman, and cons Price out of the real ball. Supposedly, the jerk really loved her, which is usually impossible for con men at Price's level of douchebaggery. Ha! Take that scumbag!
Later, Terney creeps up on Carter and Laskey while they are talking about the case. Just when the rookie is becoming more likeable, this happens:


Carter immediately shoots Terney in retaliation, and Terney finally gives up the identity of the HR boss, Quinn (Clarke Peters). Carter had just trusted Quinn with her suspicions about HR's involvement in her boyfriend (and Quinn's godson) Beecher's death. If only she had known Quinn was behind the whole thing before spilling her guts!


The episode also included a fantastic Reese-Carter fist-bump. Rather than reinvent the wheel, I direct you once again to two fantastic gifs that Tim Surette over at tv.com created (both are at the bottom of the article on that page).
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Monday, November 11, 2013

'Grimm' in Gifs: Major Gross-out Time!

GRIMM -- "A Dish Best Served Cold" Episode 303
Pictured: (l-r) David Giuntoli as Nick Burkhardt,
Russell Hornsby as Hank Griffin
(Photo by: Scott Green/NBC)
Airdate: Friday, November 8 on NBC (9-10 p.m. ET)
© NBC Universal, Inc. (used with permission)
Quick Note: Yahoo! TV is continuing to have some technical troubles, so I've decided to begin writing my recaps on my blog, at least temporarily. The downside is that I'm no longer being paid for them, but the good part is that I can say whatever I want, and I can also upgrade all of my recaps to animated gif recaps. You can find my Yahoo! TV versions of all of my special recaps here, and you can find last week's Grimm recap, along with an explanation of what happened here. Please enjoy!

"A Dish Best Served Cold" is one of the most disgusting episodes of Grimm ever made. Some fans thought it was a little much, while others just kept the realization that it was all fake at the the forefront of their minds.

The episode starts out with a shirtless, muscly Nick doing a treadmill workout in the doctor's office. That was a very smart way to start the show, as the women of Twitter shared a collective swoon. Behold:




The second smartest way to start off an episode of "Grimm" is a scene between "Monrosalee" that is so cute-sweet-adorable, that many women are suddenly stricken by oochy-coochy-cuddle syndrome. Monroe and Rosalee go out to dinner, and Rosalee steals Monroe's appetizer for fear that the strapping vegan wolf-man may "fall off the meat wagon."




She doesn't realize it at the time, but Rosalee has actually saved her handsome Blutbad from a horrible death. The kitchen is full of Bauerschwein (pig-people), and the head chef has been packing a special kind of mushroom into that appetizer, which is deadly only to Blutbaden.



The toxic black despair mushroom normally affects carpenter ants, but for some reason, it also affects Blutbaden the same way, despite obviously different physical attributes. That's OK though, because it's fun to pretend that there are toxins that can cause wolf-men to climb up trees and howl until their stomachs explode from bloat. Well, maybe not fun, but definitely gruesome and horrible. 

Sped up for those of you who are eating as you read this



Unfortunately, Monroe knows two of the murdered Blutbaden, Sam and Ned (he also mentions Hap, in a nod to a previous episode), and boy is he furious! He wants to kill those pigs, but Nick helps him stop the guy through more peaceful means to avoid having our favorite Blutbad Wesen go to prison for the rest of his life.

Nick pretends to shoot Monroe dead in an effort to keep him from killing the chef ( but actually so the chef will not retaliate against Monroe). Then Monroe's Blutbaden friends threaten the chef with a horrible death unless he ends the Bauerschwein-Blutbaden feud and confesses to the murders. Monroe adds his own sentiment, forgetting he is supposed to be dead.





The chef finally confesses, lest he become bacon for the hungry wolves. A well-timed Beggin' strips commercial (dogs yelling for BACON!!!) and a corny line from Renard ("and this little piggy went to jail") sent some Twitter fans into a frenzy. 



Meanwhile, Nick is still turning into a zombie every now and then, becoming a sickening bluish-white color, and staring off into space. He doesn't seem to think that's a big deal. What is a big deal to him is moving back into his home with Juliette. Monroe helps him pack his things by stacking all of his boxes in front of his face, then removing the top one to reveal his friends, throwing him a surprise party!


The cake that Bud's wife made for the party is of special note, because it's just so darned gorgeous and yummy-looking.

Renard is searching for Frau, thinking that she may attempt to vie for the family business now that he had his own brother Eric murdered. He doesn't realize that Adalind took Frau's Hexenbiest powers for herself, which involved Stefania murdering Frau. Renard's spy searches for Frau, finding Adalind instead, and Adalind is much more conniving and evil than Frau ever was. The only thing that can make Adalind break out in bloody tears is learning that her beloved Eric is now dead.



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Monday, November 4, 2013

'Grimm' in Motion: Nick Gets a Bad Case of 'PTZD'

GRIMM -- "PTZD" Episode 302
Pictured: David Giuntoli as Nick Burkhardt
Photo by: Scott Green/NBC
Airdate: Friday, November 1 on NBC (9-10 p.m. ET)
© NBC Universal, Inc. (used with permission)
Quick Note: Yahoo! TV gave me a new assignment to write some Grimm gif-caps (as in, recaps with animated gifs). My first gif-cap, for the premiere episode of Season 3, can be found here. I thoroughly enjoyed writing it, and was very happy to learn that they wanted another one for the second episode.

Unfortunately, they were unable to post it due to a tech glitch. Amazingly, they gave me permission to post it on my own site! The reason this is so amazing is because it was a work for hire piece. So, they own the rights, but are giving me permission to post it anyway because of all the hard work I put into it on Friday night, creating all the gifs and gathering the awesome tweets. YAY! Please enjoy!


Last week on Grimm, zombie-Nick was just about to unleash some fury on a family with young children. This week, on episode "PTZD" (Post-Traumatic Zombie Disorder, ha!), Nick's friends are getting closer to finding him and administering the cure.

The family quickly realizes that a maniac is hunting them, and run upstairs to where the father has hidden a gun. They barricade the door, but it's no match for Nick's Grimmed-out strength. Monroe and Hank finally find him, but his super-senses allow him to stop everything they throw at him. This will have to be hand-to-hand combat!
Monroe and Hank lure Nick out to the family's barn, and trap him using the cartoon-classic faulty floor trick.

Capt. Renard, Juliette, and Rosalee show up to help, but Renard and Monroe are forced to woge into Wesen form if they're to have any chance at stopping Nick. Nick ends up smacking Juliette (uh-oh!), but Rosalee plunges the cure into his stomach when he's distracted. Nick won't be cured so easily, however: he requires a second shot.

Nick finally wakes from zombie-dom, aching and completely baffled. Later in bed, Nick becomes cold and white. Juliette tries to revive him by slapping him a couple of times, before resorting to calling 911. He revives on his own, feeling fine other than the nasty sting from those slaps. Will this be an ongoing problem?
Initially, everyone believes that Nick only fought with and scared a few people, but it turns out someone had died from wounds inflicted during the bar fight. The entire gang decides to keep the death a secret from Nick while he recovers. Renard hides a surveillance tape from the bar, hoping nobody will discover the truth. Renard also sees to it that the person responsible for this entire mess, his brother Eric, is killed in an "accident."

Nick eventually finds out that someone died, and insists on turning himself in. Everyone attempts to talk him out of it, and Renard shows him the surveillance tape, hoping he'll realize that he was not himself. It works; Nick decides to maintain the secret.
Meanwhile, Adalind still has a few more grotesque steps to take in her quest to regain her Hexenbiest powers. The first step is to take the dead flowers gathered from the poppy field in the previous episode and put them in the body of her fellow Hexenbiest, Frau.
The next step is to sew Frau's body shut, then cut the nasty string with her teeth.
Later, Stefania cuts Frau's body open once again, and orders Adalind to put some of Frau's disgusting blood in a large jar for take-out. Luckily, Adalind doesn't have to eat the stuff; she only has to rub it on her belly, because it's oh-so-good for the skin (and the fetus).

Here, I am editing the original article to add that I did not include a gif for that last paragraph because the graphics were lame. She rubs on "blood" that looks like raspberry jelly, and it turns into a jelly-skull. I will, however, add another funny tweet (I actually went right up to the word limit on the original article because of all the great tweets I just had to include):
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