Questions for Cast and Creators of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia at Paley Center For Media Panel
If anyone has any questions for the cast and creators of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia at the Paley Center For Media Panel on April 1st, post below.
Attend:
Rob McElhenney, “Mac” / Creator & EP
Glenn Howerton, “Dennis Reynolds” / Creator & EP
Charlie Day, “Charlie” / EP
Kaitlin Olson, “Sweet Dee”
Better Call Saul - Bali Ha'i - Review - "Your payment is, you get to live"
It's hard when you don't know where you fit in in the world. Especially when you go to school for years and invest so much time for a career that you thought you always wanted. But in the end, when you get everything you thought you always wanted, you're unhappy. In Jimmy's case, he has his dream job, the steady paycheck, a nice place to live, a really nice car and of course that cocobolo desk that he always wanted, and yet Jimmy feels out of place. He can't even sleep in his beautifully apartment, nothing feels right. Jimmy decides to go back to the nail salon where he finally was able to fall asleep and feel at peace. The next morning, Kim got the sweetest message on her answer machine from Jimmy. He sang a song, not very well, I think we all agree Jimmy needs singing lessons. The look on Kim's face was priceless, you could see that she was starting to forgive Jimmy.
When Kim got to work you could see that she has been paying the price for that little talk she had with Chuck about her future at the firm. Kim looked miserable, and there is thing worst than being somewhere you're unwanted. Luckily, Kim got a job offer from Schweikart after she lost a court battle with his firm. Schweikart said that he has been watching her since the Kettleman case, and thinks she would make a great fit at their firm. Kim seemed very interested, she had this look of relief of finally being able to get out from underneath Howard's thumb, and spread her wings. But there was something holding her back, and we just don't know what that is yet.
Mike really got in over his head with Nacho's plan to get rid of Tuco. First Hector made a little visit to Mike and told him to say that Tuco's gun was his, so that his nephew would get a lesser sentence. In doing so Hector said that he would pay Mike $5,000, but Mike said he would have to think about it. When Mike declined the offer, Hector wasn't to happy. So he sent a couple men to Mike's house to wait for Mike to get home and scare him. When Mike still wouldn't take the deal, Mike got a visit from the two most dangerous twins in Albuquerque. They didn't say much, well, nothing at all, but they did motion that they were going to kill his granddaughter. When Mike went to have a sit down with the Salamanca family at a restaurant, they had a little chat. It was very a Breaking Bad moment between Mike and Hector. Mike walked in, knowing just what he wanted. Mike wanted $50,000 now instead of $5,000. When Hector heard Mike's offer, he laughed, he said "how about, your payment is, you get to live." I love that line... Mike told Hector that he needed the money more, apparently Hector admired Mike's boldness so he agreed to paid Mike the $50,000 as long as the gun belonged to him. Later when Nacho brought Mike his money, Mike gave Nacho half and told him that his problem is coming back sooner than he'd planned.
When Kim got frustrated at Howard because he wanted her to work through her lunch hour, she played hooky and went to the same bar that Kim and Schweikart had their meeting. While Kim sat at the bar a businessman bought her a drink, and Kim introduced herself as Gusselle, the same name Kim used when she and Jimmy scammed Ken. Moments later Jimmy got a phone call from Kim asking him to come to downtown Albuquerque, Of course Jimmy said yes, not only because he’ll do anything for Kim but because Erin was annoying Jimmy once again. When Jimmy got to the restaurant he sat down next to Kim as Vikor St. Clair, it was the most romantic thing Jimmy could ever do for Kim. Yes, good times or bad in the end Jimmy and Kim love each other, and understand each other. This con was their way of saying I’m sorry on both parts. And hey how cool was it to see how Ice Station Zebra Associates started.
New Girl - Episode 5.13 - Review: "Sam Again"
Jess takes a new job at a "progressive" new school where the principal is dating her ex-boyfriend, Sam. Meanwhile, Schmidt quarantines the roommates in preparation for a meeting at work so that he doesn't contract anything. "It's either a puppet show for kids or propaganda for North Korea." Jess meeting Sam was about as awful as you can imagine as was her reaction to if she had feelings. I understand remembering the good times, but why did Jess immediately freak out over Sam? The scene at his house was painful to watch and all around awkward.
I would love to hear what you guys thought of this episode. It was an extremely awkward episode to sit through and I just didn't get why Jess couldn't get over Sam. She should have just left and accepted the job. It wouldn't have been awkward if she just let it go. None of it made sense to me. Nick apologizing to Sam and antagonizing him, why? "Say the word BEARD!" Sam's plot line was terrible; it added nothing to the plot and makes Jess and Nick look like the villains of the story by mingling in his affairs. I actually agreed with how Sam reacted to Jess bringing brownies. Shrugging off being a terrible person is not funny. In addition, the gang's side plot line fell through and had nothing to follow-up on, it was just kind of there. Hopefully things get back on track with the Schmidt/Cece wedding planning next week. This episode just fell flat to me. Comment below with your thoughts on the episode and tune into New GirlTuesday's at 8/7 central.
New Girl - Episode 5.12 - Review: "D-Day"
On this week's New Girl, Jess offers Schmidt a helping hand with wedding planning duties "aka Decision-Day" while Cece is entertaining a job offer. The problem is Schmidt is overworked from all of the planning and can't manage to stay awake. "Please do not reach for it like you are Winston reaching for someone's breast." Tux fittings, cake tastings, it's all a little much, but Jess was thrilled to help because she likes to be in charge of these big time events. Meanwhile, Nick and Winston argue over who has the more interesting/difficult job. "I'm a cop, I run a bar."
Jess singing "Genie in a Bottle" was awesome and a great way to get Schmidt to fall asleep so that she could spring into action. You knew from the outset Jess was going to over manage this endeavor, but in the end, she always has the gang's best interest at heart. Little did she know, Schmidt's dad, guest star Peter Gallagher, would show up to help with the wedding planning. Schmidt's reaction was priceless! Meanwhile, Winston tries to juggle the bar duties Nick is responsible for and Nick gets his first taste of what it's like to be a cop. "Welcome to hell, Miller." I also find it ironic given Jake Johnson's "Let's Be Cops."
Jess invites Schmidt's dad, Gavin, out on a date and the group must determine what to do. Schmidt decides to outfit Jess with the GoPro camera to face-time with his father. He is bitter over the way his father left his mother and wasn't around for his childhood. Schmidt recognized Cece as the reason he is such a great man while Gavin apologized for his behavior and wished the two the best of luck. In return, Schmidt decided to invite his father to the wedding. Winston and Nick mutually agree that their feud was idiotic and that each others' jobs are difficult in their own right. Overall, a solid episode if only for a few laughs here and there. I would honestly re-watch that scene of Schmidt overreacting as much as I enjoy him saying "youths!" Reading ahead, new outlets are reporting that Megan Fox will be back as Reagan in the future so that drama with Nick is bound to spring up again.Comment below with your thoughts on the episode and tune into New GirlTuesday's at 8/7 central.
Holy crap, Chuck was married, has no sense of humour and can't tell a joke! Well I think we all know that Chuck is a stick in the mud. Enough about Chuck, for now, how amazing Rhea Seehorn was in this episode!
Back in the 1990's yes Chuck was married, and apparently to a lovely woman. One week after Jimmy arrived in New Mexico, Chuck and Rebecca invited him over for dinner. The dinner went beautifully, Jimmy talked about his first week of work, in the mail room at H.H.M, where Jimmy mentioned he met a lot of nice guys and one nice girl, that girl turned out to be Kim. Then the classic lawyer jokes came, Jimmy and Rebecca seemed to really enjoy one another but Chuck just looked annoyed. The best part, after Jimmy left, Chuck tried to tell his wife a sad joke, that I'm not even sure, Chuck understood the punch line.
Let's fast forward about ten years. The past couple weeks Jimmy has been trying to find a way to fix his relationship with Kim. Jimmy's lasted plan was to sue Hamlin Hamlin McGill for extortion. Kim told Jimmy that would be career suicide, she told him, even if she won, who would hire her. Which is true, any law firm would see Kim as a risky hire. Poor Jimmy, everything he has ever done was to make Kim happy. Now, she's clearly unhappy and you could see in Jimmy's eye's that it's breaking his heart. Kim however took matters into her own hands. She started to call different potential clients in hopes to get a large account. Which wasn't working out too well, but she kept plugging along until Kim's friend Paige gave her a call, and Kim nailed a quarter of million of billings. You would think this would put Kim back into the game, but Howard is stubborn and he told Kim that she has enough to do in dock review, so he's going to put someone else on the case. What a jerk!
While Kim was trying to get her career back on track, Jimmy was assigned a very annoying "babysitter" at Davis and Main, named Erin, even I wanted to slap her. It started with Erin proofreading Jimmy's documents, but Jimmy drew the line when Erin almost followed him into the men's bathroom at the courthouse. Speaking of the men's bathroom, Jimmy ran into his old buddy District Attorney Bill. From what it sounded like, Bill was very envy of Jimmy and his new job at Davis and Main. But on the flip side after Bill walked out the bathroom door, you could see Jimmy standing in the bathroom with the saddest look on his face. It's as if he missed his old life, before having to deal with all this drama with Chuck.
With family you never get a fresh start. Yes, Jimmy made several mistakes in the past, but he's trying to build a new life as a lawyer and with someone he loves. But all Chuck sees is "Slippin Jimmy," in fact when Kim asked Chuck if she has a future at H.H.M he started to tell Kim a story about how Jimmy stole $14,000 from their father's store. Now was the story true, we don't know. In his heart, I think Chuck believes it's true. In his mind Jimmy will never match up to what he believes to be an honest man. And by telling Kim that story it's his way of warning her not to get involved with him because Jimmy will only bring her down and break her heart.
Speaking of family, remember Hector from Breaking Bad, he's back. Hector had a little chat with Mike in the cafe about Tuco and their little run - in last week. He made Mike an offer, Hector "suggested" Mike should say that Tuco's gun belonged to Mike. Simply because sweet and caring Hector didn't want his nephew to go away for more time than he deserves, a few years, yes, to teach Tuco to respect his elders, but no more than that. Will Mike take the offer? Who Knows...
Synopsis: Python, the elusive hacker who tussled with Avery's team earlier in the season, subjects the Cyber crew to a series of puzzles. The team must complete the black hat's challenges before time runs out to save the life of Avery's surrogate daughter Grace. Ultimately, the episode ends with the team recovering Grace and Avery shooting Python after he breaks into her apartment.
Review: I'm glad they managed to wrap up the Python storyline before season's end, as we may not be treated to a third season based on the show's ratings this year. The case of the week, reminiscent of the Saw movies, was particularly captivating. Watching the episode, you could feel the race-against-the-clock tension the team was experiencing as they worked to save Grace.
Overall Episode Grade: 8.5 Megabytes Out of 10
Episode 2.16- "5 Deadly Sins"
Synopsis: Jamie-Lynn Sigler (The Sopranos) plays an employee of a social media company responsible for managing site content that has been flagged as inappropriate by users. Driven mad by all the horrible content to which she has been exposed in her work, Sigler's character starts hunting down users who post content that is inappropriate. Hoping to make an example out of them, she posts pictures of their crime scenes online. By the episode's end, Sigler's character ends up committing suicide during a final showdown between her and Avery. The episode's B-plot saw Elijah's ill father confronting Nina, his son's stalker. While issuing her a warning to stay away from the Mundo family, Elijah's dad collapses. During a particularly intense scene, Elijah threatens Nina at the hospital. By the end of the hour, though, we come to find that his words carried little weight, as the sultry bartender sneaks into Cal Mundo's hospital room to leave him flowers while he sleeps.
Review: I thought Sigler was particularly well-cast as the batty vigilante. She alternated between sane and crazy with relative ease. Not working in the episode's favor was the fact that it was reminiscent of the Season 13 finale of the CSI mothership, in which the killer posed and photographed victims based on their violation of the 7 Deadly Sins. Had the original show not done such a similar plot, this episode would have been a particularly inspired hour of television.
Overall Episode Grade: 8 Megabytes Out of 10
Episode 2.17- "Flash Squad"
Synopsis: The Cyber team takes down a Bling Ring-esque group from Los Angeles that hacks into a traffic app so that they may reroute victims and rob them. While in the City of Angels, D.B. bonds with Greer Latimore (Kelly Preston), who offers to whisk him away to Paris (he refuses, but we know Ted Danson is leaving the show after the season finale, so we'll see how that works out). Meanwhile, the Director of the FBI decides to shut down Avery's hacker-for-hire program after Nelson decides to sue the Bureau over their mishandling of evidence in his Stock Exchange hack case, which was mentioned a few episodes back. While Nelson is left unscathed by this development (as the FBI director chooses to drop his charges), Raven's fate is left in the balance, as she faces jail time.
Review: We've seen plenty of Bling Ring knock-off shows in the last few years to last a lifetime. Despite the addition of cyber crime to this case, this episode's plot did nothing to help this pastiche stand out from the pack. However, Nelson's plot was interesting, as it set up a great cliffhanger going into the finale. Also in the episode's favor was D.B.'s plot. Danson and Preston are well-suited for each other. Here's hoping the two run off together in the finale!
Overall Episode Grade: 7.5 Megabytes Out of 10
Episode 2.18- "Legacy"
Synopsis: The team must track down a thirteen year old white hat hacker who has gone on the run to elude a black hat who wants highly classified info gathered by the young boy. After an intense chase, the team manages to make an arrest and save the kid. Meanwhile, Avery reconciles with her ex-husband, Raven waits to learn whether or not she will have to go to prison after the cliffhanger in the last episode, and DB decides to move to Paris to be with Greer. The finale comes to a head when, after months of playing cat-and-mouse games with Elijah, Nina the stalker approaches him with a gun in the parking lot of the team's headquarters. In the ensuing struggle, DB gets shot. The episode then flashes forward to 4 months later. Nelson is promoted to full-time agent. Raven, having avoided jail time, is now working on the team as a consultant. DB finally gets his happily ever after. He is shown to have survived the shooting and is now enjoying life with Greer in the City of Love. All's well that ends well!
Review: Although the case of the week didn't manage to hold my interest, I am glad the show took the opportunity to wrap up all loose ends just in case the show doesn't return next season (which seems probable). It was great to see everyone get their happy ending. I am particularly happy with how the writers ended DB's story. Unlike Gil Grissom, DB has always been such a light and happy character. It was good to see him run off and have some fun. My only complaint about the episode is that Elijah's father's cancer storyline wasn't given more focus. In the brief scene in which the elder Mr. Mundo appeared, he seemed resigned to the fact that he wasn't going to live much longer. For something that has been built up all season, it seemed a little rushed. However, I do understand that the writers had a lot to juggle in this finale.
Overall Episode Grade: 9 Megabytes Out of 10
Questions for the Star Salute to Dick Wolf at PaleyFest
Post your questions for the Star Salute to Dick Wolf at PaleyFest
An evening with Dick Wolf includes: Dick Wolf, Jason Beghe, Sophia Bush,
Torrey DeVitto, Colin Donnell, Ice-T, Taylor Kinney, S. Epatha Merkerson,
Oliver Platt, Jesse Spencer
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