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Returns tonight on AMC at 9pm. Can’t wait!!!

This show is on Showtime and a must see. I finished the series and it will hook you. It’s only one season, but has 10 episodes.

Judge Michael Desiato is what you would call a fair judge. He tries to help people and makes the best judgement he can in his court room. His judgement is not followed when it comes to his family. He starts to do everything he would not normally do.

Michael’s teenage son Adam is faced with an accident that will change his life forever. Adams hits a motorcycle rider, tries to help the rider who is a teenager, but panics and leave the scene after calling 911. Adam stops for gas on the way home. Adam gets home and puts his bloody clothes in the washing machine. Adam takes a shower. Adam does everything but stays at the scene until the police arrives. He makes so many mistakes.

When the judge gets home, he finds Adam in a panic. Michael finally gets the story out of Adam, and realizes he has to go to the police station; Adam needs to turn himself in. Micheal and Adam get to the police station wanting to do the right thing. Michael decides to go in first to let the police know what had happened, but sees the parents of the teenager that was killed; and realize the father is the leader of a dangerous crime family. Michael then decides to leave the police station and not turn Adam in.

Each episode after that continues with Michael trying to cover up for Adam. In each episode, Michael gets deeper and deeper. Michael gets more people involved as the season goes on. Michael has decided to take the fall for his son’s action. He will do everything he can to protect Adam.

The last episode was a big surprise that must not be missed. It’s like everything coming in full circle. Didn’t give you a lot of details, so you can enjoy it yourself. If you don’t have Showtime, you will miss out on a great show. It would worth the free trial.

Season Five is back!! You can watch on Hulu.

Season One thru Five

I must say, I thought I would never watch this show. With shows on hiatus right now, I had to find something to watch. I must say, it was a great choice. I could not stop watching to write each season separately.

Noah and Alison. What a pair. They start out meeting for the summer on the island that Noah and his family is visiting for the summer. Noah’s family – his wife Helen and four kids I will say. They are staying at her rich family’s summer house. Noah is a professor and Helen owns a store. They have the lives where they can let the school finish for the kids and spend the entire summer away from home.

Alison is someone who you will have to get to know in the seasons. She is a local from the island and spends her summers working while the rich families have fun. Alison is no stranger to hard work and is a waitress at the local restaurant there. She is married to Cole who has a local ranch and gives lessons to the rich kids. Alison is also a very troubled soul. She and Cole had a lost and have never gotten over it. She spends her entire life trying to correct the mistakes that were made.

Noah is someone who I believe to be honest but makes so many mistakes. He spends his whole life making up for what he has done wrong to his family. You get to know him a lot better after the first episode. He is complex yet simple. He is gentle yet rough.

The entire series is about how families are torn apart by tragedy and no one gets over it. Each season goes through members of the family at are effected by it. Believe me, it is not the life that most of us have and we definitely don’t have the same problems. But looking through the lenses of their lives is refreshing.

In the end, the show comes to a complete circle. What happened in prior generation does effect the future generation in this show. You will see that most things can be solved if the person lets it. Very good writing for the show and you will be pleased with the outcome.

Season One. If you have not watched this show, you may want to give it a try. It’s on HBO; and is not a very long season.

It starts out with Grace, a well known prominent doctor who you would think had the perfect life. She is married to Jonathan, who is an oncologist. They have a son, Henry, who is the only child.

Grace meets Elena at a fund raiser meeting. Elena shocks the entire group of women when she does the unthinkable; breast feeds her baby while sitting at the table during the meeting. The other women in the group gasp like it was a sin, but Grace acts like it’s not a big deal, even though she looked uncomfortable. Elena does not fit in with the group and the women try to act nice to her.

From there, Elena does a lot of inappropriate things in front of Grace. Grace has several encounters with Elena; and does not understand why Elena is so obsessed with her. Grace complains to Jonathan but he does not take it seriously.

It’s the night of the fundraiser party and everyone is there. Something happens that night that will change Grace’s for life forever. All the twist and turns of the show will keep you on edge until you figure out what really happened.

Season Seventeen

Episode One – Four. The first few episodes of Grey’s Anatomy takes us to the reality of the Covid 19 pandemic. I’m so glad that they decided to address this issue. It’s so real to see how the hospital admission has changed; how the staff is effected by our new normal.

Meredith is working non stop helping hospital patients. Her kids are with Amelia while she works. Meredith catches Covid and is the hospital on a respirator. She starts having dreams of Derek and George which makes you think she is on the verge of dying. She needs to pick a new person that would make decisions for her when she can’t. Alex is that person but is out of the country, so she chooses Dr. Weber. She gets really bad and looses consciousness. Her friends are fighting to get her in a new trial but at first, Dr. Weber refuses but laters gives in when he sees her not waking up.

Other members of the cast continue to face the realities of Covid 19 and patients dying. They are dealing with having to tell the families that their loved ones have died. They are also afraid of catching the virus themselves. The show is looking into the seriousness of wearing a mask, social distancing and the care the patients have to get once they encounter the virus.

Great season so far and will be worth watching.

Season Four

This is one of Netflix’s original shows. This is where we meet Princess Diana and Margaret Thatcher in the first few episode. Very interesting women.

Meeting Diana was not what I had expected. Prince Charles is not the nicest person and didn’t even want to marry her. In all the movies we have seen, it made it look like they were so in love. Well, this show reveals he only marries her because of his father and mother. His family thought she would be the best pick for him over Camilla. It was a rushed proposal and took Diana by surprise. She knows nothing about him and he knows nothing about her. Diana’s secret is also revealed. The family thinks they will grow to love and care for each other over time. Charles is only thinking of Camilla.

Margaret Thatcher is not what I imagined either. She is a very strict to the book person. She is only interested in work and getting everything right. The best part about her so far was when she fired her entire cabinet. She hired new fresh faces from the old angry men she had when she first got the job. She brought them in her office one by one and fired them. She has a soft spot for her son Mark over her daughter, Carol. Mark went missing in the Sahara Desert for six days and she was devastated as most mothers would be. The two are twins but she says out loud the Mark is her favorite. She sees her daughter as weak and wants her to toughen up.

So far, those are the two characters that are interesting. I’m sure more Princes and Princesses will be introduced in this season. Try the show; start from Season One.

Season Five of this show began on October 27th. What a way to bring back the season, good job!! They waste no time digging into the COVID 19 pandemic and racial tensions in the country today.

Randall is the key to start to the season. They are living in the start of the pandemic with Beth checking Randall at the door with hand sanitizer, and Randall having to take his clothes off before entering the townhome. Randall states later that she has turned in Dr. Fauci; great compliment. They watch the release of the video of George Floyd and are like most devastated by the outcome. On top of that, it’s the Big Three 40th birthday coming up; and Randall has declined to go. Randall and Kevin are still not speaking because of the exchange they had at the end of season four. Kate does her best to reach out to Randall and feels rejected.

Rebecca gets lost and it brings all the Pearson children together. Kate lets Randall know that their mother is missing and he goes off to the cabin. When he gets there, Rebecca has been found and resting. Randall is very cold towards Kate and especially Kevin. Randall goes to see his mother to make sure she is fine; discovers that a medicine she is taking made her have a relapses. After figuring out Rebecca’s problem, Randall turns to leave. He is ready to get back to his family. I don’t think at this moment he considers the Pearsons as his family; just my opinion. Kate is devastated that Randall is leaving and tries to talk to him. She is upset about everything going on in the world with the racism and does not know what to do. Randall turns to to her and ask her what her concerns are. He states that she was never concerned before and that the family never talked about racism. Randall reveals that he carried that burden alone. Kate is so upset and uncomfortable and doesn’t know what to say. Randall says that he is “exhausted and is done trying to make this family feel comfortable.” Those are powerful words. It needed to be said. I may even use that line in the future.

Kevin is the most clueless of all. He is so wrapped up in himself and the pregnant Madison that he does not even know what’s going on in the world. He tries to talk to Randall but it was all about him and the new babies coming. Randall does not spend a lot of time talking to him. They will need to work out their problems this season.

This was part one of a two parts. Everyone needs to watch this episode because it hits home for a lot of people. I commend NBC for taking on the issues of COVID 19 and race. And they are even wearing mask!!

I finished the final season of Greenleaf and it was touching to say the least. From the beginning of the show, Grace has gone through a lot with her mother. She could never figure out why her mother was so hard on her.

Well in the final season, it’s revealed that the Bishop James is not her real father. Being the good man he is, James excepts Grace as his daughter which took a lot of stress off her. She discovered she has a new half brother, Aaron.

We also discover things about Grace’s long lost son, AJ. Grace had given him up when he was a baby and he is having a hard time with that. When she found AJ after being released from prison, he was not happy to see her. AJ has other secrets also. You will have to watch and find out. I did notice that the same luggage Grace came with in season one was the same luggage she left with in season five. That was a nice touch or I’m I the only one that noticed that.

In the end, the family becomes stronger and realize that it’s okay to need each other. Cherish your family, it’s all you have to depend on.

I kind of stumbled on this show and it turned out to be a win. Catherine of Aragon is the Princess of Spain. She was sent to England at the beginning of the show to marry the future prince of England, Arthur. She arrives in England on a rainy day leaving behind the warm climate of Spain. From the start, she was not happy with the surroundings. It was cold and lifeless compared to bright surroundings of Spain

The entire first season is about her marrying a prince so she can become the Queen of England one day. She goes through so much with the royal family, especially the mother of the King, who does not think she is fit and that Catherine brings a curse to the kingdom.

Catherine does have her own secrets she is keeping from the King in her pursuit to get married to the son Harry after the death of Arthur. She is determined and would do everything in her power.

If you want a quick watch and is looking for something new, this may be the show for you. It’s not mind boggling with minimum effort to watch so don’t expect much.