TV: Nikita SE4 EP1

Nikita
Action , Crime, Drama

I always forget that this show can be really damn good sometimes. It tends to have mid season lulls where they just do the regular spy thing but premiers and finales are something this show does really well.

Last we left off, Amanda (Melinda Clarke - The OC, Entourage) set Nikita (Maggie Q - Divergent) up to kill the president or she would blow Michael's (Shane West - ER) brains out with the nano-toxins that she'd infected him with when The Shop gave him the new hand. Niki was going to do it too until Michael told her they'd killed the nanos...which they hadn't (yet). So she refused to kill the president, only to have the president shoot herself in the head! Bloody Amanda! I have to say that I kinda like her style of evil better than Percy's (Xander Berkeley - 24, Being Human).

So Niki ran and has been hunting for a way to prove she didn't kill the president. The team never stopped looking for her, of course! Amanda is one step ahead of them, as per usual, recruiting the FBI agent who is in charge of the hunt for Niki, making this entire episode pretty redundant - except that Niki and the team are back together... sort of.

Alex (Lyndsy Fonesca - How I Met Your Mother, Desperate Housewives) is trying to track down The Shop and from there Amanda's hideout. She's run smack bang into Owen (Devon Sawa - Casper, he also played Stan in Eminem's music video!), or Sam, or whoever he is now. I kinda miss Owen but I have to say that Sawa plays a fantastic bad guy... if that's what Sam really is. I think they will convert him, again, eventually. He wouldn't go back to Amanda would he? I hope not.

Where the hell did Ryan (Noah Bean - Damages) and Birkhoff (Aaron Stanford - Pyro in X-Men: The Last Stand) get the plane? Is Niki going to be ok? Will Michael make it to her before the cops or Amanda do? What is Owen/Sam planning on doing with Alex and why was he at the drop? It's a new season and it looks to be a good one with Amanda being the Big Bad. Pretty exciting stuff!

4 out of 5 scary ass nanobots...

TV: How I Met Your Mother SE9 EP8

How I Met Your Mother 
Comedy, Drama, Romance

How awesome is that promo?! I lol'd!

I love this show and I'll be really sad when this season ends as I've heard it's the last season ever. With that being said, we finally get to meet the mother! I was actually thinking that they might pull a cheeky one over us and get Lyndsy Fonesca - you might have seen her in Nikita - because she also plays Ted's daughter and that clip has actually been recycled; she's all grown up now (see above promo)! But no, they didn't do that... and that's ok too!

So the mother is actually played by Cristin Milioti who you may have seen in The Sopranos, she hasn't done a lot of anything else that I recognize which makes me wonder how she was picked for the role... hrmm interesting. I do like her as the mother though, she is definitely Ted's (Josh Radnor) kinda weird.

The whole Robin (Cobie Smulders) and Barney (Neil Patrick Harris) wedding that's been going on for as long as we can remember, is actually quite amusing. I just had to point out that Barney's mum is played by Frances Conroy who has been absolutely amazing in American Horror Story with her stand out character for me being the horny maid, Moira in the first season. What brilliant versatility! Another guest star that I keep noticing is Curtis, the front desk clerk that keeps commiserating with Ted about his love life. He's played by Roger Bart who I've seen most recently in Revenge but he's been in heaps of other popular shows and movies as well. He's a very recognizable face.

Highlights of the season so far is Daphne played by Sherri Shepherd (30 Rock) and her and Marshall's (Jason Segel) fight over plane, hire car, everything! That road trip is amusing me to no end and Daphne is fantastic! Also, Lily (Alyson Hannigan, Buffy duh!) and Linus! I am finding myself watching out to see if Lily is ever on screen without a drink (I've spotted it once or twice, come on Linus! lol). A little bit of useless info, Linus is played by Robert Belushi and yes, he is Jim Balushi's son. Cool huh!?

I wonder what they are all going to do when this show finishes. We all know how amazingly talented Tony Award winner Neil Patrick Harris is. I have a feeling Cobie Smolders might move over to Agents of SHIELD. Alyson Hannigan made the move from Willow in Buffy to Lily in HIMYM, so we all know she can probably do that again. Jason Segel has his fingers in a lot of pies behind the scenes. What about poor Ted... I mean Josh Radnor?

4 out of 5 teddy bears...

TV: Nikita SE3 EP1

Nikita
Action, Crime, Drama

I loved last season of this show. Based on the French film La Femme Nikita it's about a secret government funded organisation called Division. Nikita (Maggie Q) is a trained assassin and rogue Division agent hell bent on bringing down the corrupt corporation that trained her.

Last season they finally achieved their goal with the death of Division leader Percy (Xander Berkeley) and the ousting of the psych director and Percy's 2IC, Amanda (Melinda Clarke). Unfortunately this meant revealing Alex (Lyndsy Fonesca who you might recognise as the daughter from How I Met Your Mother) as Alexandra Udinov, daughter of the late Russian business magnate Nikolai who along with the rest of his family was murdered by a Division hit team which included Nikita. Nikita ends up rescuing and training Alex and together they took down Division.

Also on Team Nikita; ex-Division agent, trainer and Nikita's partner; Michael (Shane West) and nerd extraordinaire, also ex-Division; Seymour Birkhoff (Aaron Stanford). Fairly recent additions include Alex's partner Sean (Dillon Casey) and the new Division leader and ex-CIA operative Ryan Fletcher (Noah Bean).

So now that Team Nikita is running Division and Percy is dead, what's left to do? Well, there are quite a few rogue Division Agents still out there... It'll be interesting to see whether Division turns them bad and breaks up the group or if they can turn Division into something they can use. Already they are struggling to keep it on the down low and having a couple of internal hiccups.

Wow, Michael got caught first episode by some Chinese guy who wants all the Division agents? Who is he? It was a bit too close there, thank goodness Alex was there to back them up.

Love this show! I hope this season is just as exciting as last season... Amanda is still out there somewhere!

3 out of 5 Mission Impossibles...

[Quote]

Michael: Gimme the gun
Nikita: Why?

Michael: Just give me the damn glock

Nikita: Where are you going?

Michael: To get your engagement ring!