Episode from 11-8-2015

I’m sorry that you won’t be seeing my post about last week’s episode for a while. There were issues with my TV tuner. It made the perfectly good channel come in all glitchy so I recorded it on VHS. This means that I’m now two episodes off with the Good Wife blog of mine until I get caught up on tapes. Meanwhile, I’ll be creating a new blog in the future (or past, since it can be awhile before you see updates here) about the show CSI: Cyber and I have no idea just how disconnected these blog posts will be with each other. I’ll never know when I’ll update any of them, except for my Survivor blog which remains updated every Wednesday (typically, at least).

My TV show watching has been affected by me adding a second list of shows to watch and alternating between the two lists. This is mainly so I can watch Survivor: Palau on DVD and update my TV blog every time I roll and watch an episode of that. Seems interesting that watching a Survivor episode would cause me to update my TV blog, but that’s the kind of weird person that I am. Anyways, you may be interesting in knowing that I will still move what shows I can from the newer list to that list. This means that once Survivor: Palau is on the older list, I will get rid of the newer list until I start watching another Survivor season on DVD again.

Meanwhile, you might be wondering about what Thanksgiving episodes I’ll have to watch. If I can get the right shows watched beforehand, I will want to see the first season Thanksgiving episode of 8 Simple Rules. They did a Thanksgiving episode every season. Meanwhile, I’ll also have to watch the season 7 NCIS Thanksgiving episode sometime this month. I will not have to roll for it. I’ll just have to watch it at my earliest convince. I think that season was the first time they did a Thanksgiving episode on NCIS. But I’m not entirely sure about that. I did watch the episode and will wait to watch the Christmas episode right after before adding it back to the list.

I tune into my FOX affiliate and see that they aren’t showing football so this won’t affect shows on their network at all. My ABC affiliate is coming in. Hopefully this will stay coming in and won’t affect my shows at all.  Now with a football doubleheader today, I tune into my primary CBS affiliate and they are on commercials right now. I check my secondary CBS affiliate and they are also on commercial. The game is between the Broncos and the Colts. Or, at least I think the team from Denver is the Broncos. The epg says that shows will be half an hour behind today. But, will it be just half an hour or will it last longer? The Colts are winning. It appears that both of my CBS affiliates are showing the same game. Meanwhile, Christmas commercials have started and I have to add them to my list as it isn’t December just yet.

The scores changes so that the score is tied as it was before the Colts got ahead. I watch a Simpsons rerun in the meantime. I check back the time of the game again and the score is still tied. The score changes and this puts the Colts in the lead again. I switch back to the Simpsons. The Colts are still winning when I check the score again.

I have the feeling that the game will last longer than 6:30 Central. Remember, the game would actually have to end at 6:26 or sooner in order for the delay to be exactly half an hour behind because they have to air four minutes of commercials after the game finishes for some odd reason.

The Simpsons ends and I will probably watch what I can of Bob’s Burgers. I still don’t know if I’m ever going to create a blog about that show or not. What I do know is that it is one of the few shows that’s already renewed for next season. Meanwhile, I will have to create at least 25 posts of my CSI: Cyber blog before that can happen. And I haven’t started that blog yet, although I will. I don’t know if the episode from tonight will be blogged about yet.

The game has ended on CBS. I’m guessing that the Colts won, although I haven’t seen the final score just yet. Meanwhile, I’ll have to figure out what shows to record on what mediums since shows are a bit off of the planned delay. I just want to make sure that at least CSI: Cyber is on tape so I can blog about that episode later. Today’s episode will be on the laptop as that was my best option this time. Also, I’ll be sure to post updates on TV shows on DVD that I’m watching when/if there is something to update you about it.

Today’s episode is brought to you by 36 minute delay. We begin with a video of a person being killed. The killer wants to get rid of all American aid workers in this country that he’s in. We also see more of the Russian kid whose name I can’t remember.

In segment two, Elizabeth’s brother comes to visit. He is here because of the international crisis. It seems like every episode has an international crisis. I guess they have to, but that doesn’t happen in real life. It’s hard to sum up most of what happens.

In segment three, there is more between Elizabeth and her brother. They go fishing using strange poles. Henry also deals with more relating to his Russian students. The one named Ivan is possibly gay and he wants to avoid problems that it might cause. Can you really kill someone for being gay in Russia? While some people may find this country to not like gays, at least we don’t kill people for being that way. Ivan decides to commit suicide.

In segment four, Henry deals with more of the Russian students of his. They are able to track down the ISIS terrorist who was responsible for killing the American. Many people gather in the situation room and watch the situation unfold.

In segment five, while Elizabeth wants to try to capture this terrorist, the orders are given to take it out. Jason has a strange reaction to it. He gets all excited. Elizabeth talks more to her brother about what has happened. There’s not much to say here.

On the next Madam Secretary, there is a former racial crisis being brought to light again. You do have to wonder if sometimes they overuse current events in TV shows episodes. I guess as long as they do it well it is fine, but it’s hard to tell for sure why they do this so much. Of course, if I had a show, I’d probably use current events in it. Well, they were at least once current events. But that’s enough of that. For now, this is Adam Decker signing off.

Episode from 1-17-2016

You may notice in my blog that I talk about the football games on before the show starts. You might be wondering which football team I root for. While I do root for a team, I haven’t said what it was because it would reveal things about me. Incidentally, they have not played a game close to six since their season started in the fall. Well, I live around the Illinois side of the St. Louis area. I root for various St. Louis sports teams more often than not. That means that I would root for the Rams. Now the Rams are leaving St. Louis for LA. This leaves me wondering something: should I still root for the Rams? Just because they are leaving doesn’t mean that I should automatically stop rooting for them. Besides, I don’t have a back up team. I’m not rooting for the Bears. I hate Chicago.

This makes me wonder, should I be a free agent? Which team would I root for? I think that I should just continue rooting for the Rams. If I want to find some other team to root for, I will. But I don’t know how. I mean, of all the football teams, who would I want to root for? I’m not sure that I feel strongly any way. If you want to know me as a free agent, then wait until March Madness happens. I would have a team for March Madness, but my alma mater is almost never in the tournament so there’s no one for me to root for. Or is there? I can tell you later how my back up team pleased me by winning the tournament. Since I don’t know how to find a replacement football team to root for, I might as well just stick with the Rams. Besides, I might move to LA myself. I would like to become a writer.

You might be wondering why I haven’t updated you on the TV show watching that I’m doing with shows on DVD. The last update I had on that was when I removed Moonlight from the list. After that happened, I haven’t changed the list in any way and am still watching the same things. I even have to wait to get caught up some on the tapes that I’m watching of recorded shows. I really hope that I can continue with the list and change it more. Don’t be surprised if I end up talking about it in two different blogs. That might be a plan for the future. But will it happen? That I don’t know yet.

I flip to my primary CBS affiliate and there is a game of Pittsburg versus the Broncos. This is a play-off game and it is expected to last until 7. Hopefully, it won’t last any longer than that. Pittsburg (are they the Steelers?) is winning the game. I check FOX and they are airing the movie Vantage Point. I guess they are done with football this season. My secondary CBS affiliate is airing the same game. I guess it is whatever postseason game that they typically always air. This will create a planned delay of CBS primetime this Sunday (which, if we are lucky, will only be an hour and not longer) and I wonder if this always happens once a year and I’ve never paid attention to it before. No CSI: Cyber this week, but I will share the link to that new blog in the near future.

Announcers prove that the team from Pittsburg is in fact the Steelers. They are still winning the game, but the Broncos are closing the gap. I saw some of the game between the Packers and the Cardinals last night. I had to record SNL or I’d risk missing church. (I was late a bit for church anyways, but I doubt I would have made it at all watching the whole show live.) The Cardinals won that game. I don’t know if I might root for any of the teams in the championship. I might just root for the Steelers in the future, but I could wind up rooting for any team. I’m kind of a free agent, if I don’t keep rooting for the Rams. If the Steelers don’t end up winning this game, well, then I’m still not sure who I’d root for, although I’m not sure if I’d change even if they do win.

Since FOX shows are airing on time, I’m going to watch them instead of the game. I will check the game on the score from time to time. I will google it if I miss who wins (although I might just make an assumption. But, this time I would know who won and lost in the future as it isn’t a regular season game.) A rerun of The Simpsons is on first. I wonder if they’ll put The Last Man on Earth at 6. They might, but I’m not sure if they air anything at that time.

The score is somehow unchanged as I keep looking back at it. Normally I see the score change. Typically, though, the score changing doesn’t affect who is winning. And I typically only root for the winning team because that means the game will end. The score has it so that only one single point separates the winner from the loser. So will the winning team change?

I missed a lot of the game as when I check the score again, the Broncos are now winning by a lot. Time is running out and I don’t think that the Steelers are actually going to win this time. I don’t know who I should be rooting for now.

Well, to make a long story short, the Broncos won the game. I hope that shows are starting on time. They mentioned a post game show, which could throw the schedule off. But is it just for the West Coast? Or will it be brief?

Today’s episode is brought to you by 62 minute delay (tape delay made it just a bit longer than was planned). We begin with neighbor problems for the McCords as one of their neighbors has a complaint about them. You know, this is the type of thing that should have been more important before this episode. Anyhoo, once again Elisabeth is on her way to solve an international crisis.

In segment two, we learn that this diplomatic ambassador in this country I’ve actually never heard of is relieved of his position by Elisabeth. But does he accept this? Well, things get very interesting when he takes the president of this country hostage.

In segment three, the crisis unfolds, even though we don’t see it from the inside. Elizabeth wonders what this has to do with Buddhism. She can’t learn anything about it to know what to do. Meanwhile, a brunch with neighbors that the McCords have planned start happening.

In segment four, Henry and that one assistant that I think is named Blake talk to the neighbors about the positive effects of having them as neighbors, but not everything goes well. Meanwhile, it is hard to tell what is going on in the crisis in that one country that I don’t even know what continent it is on. I just know that it’s not North America or South America due to the time change they mentioned and it isn’t Australia either.

In segment five, we see more of Nadine and her son. I can’t tell what all happened between them and I don’t know if we’ll see more of them or not. The McCords are able to stop the need for the car outside their house to be running all the time. The man responsible for the foreign president being held hostage is dead, apparently, and it seems like he might have helped others in terms of advice. There are no scenes from next time, so I don’t know when we’ll be back with new episodes. Until this, this is Adam Decker, signing off.

Episode from 11-1-2015

Well, I hope that the time change helped me with sleep. You might not know or care but I have insomnia at times. It typically doesn’t affect my life that much, although it can make me tired at all times throughout the day except for when I’m lying in bed trying to sleep. I typically use weekends to catch up on sleep, but this doesn’t always work.

I check my primary CBS affiliate and they are not airing football tonight by the looks of it. I check my secondary CBS affiliate and they are airing a football game. The Raiders are playing the Jets. The Raiders are winning by a lot. You can bet that this game will be shown to its completion. I check my FOX affiliate and they are showing football. I wonder if this might cut into the fifth game of the World Series tonight. At least I don’t have to worry about missing new FOX shows since there won’t be any tonight. I typically watch The Simpsons, Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Family Guy, and the Last Man on Earth. There are times that I watch Bob’s Burgers, although I don’t always watch that. I will be watching the ABC shows Quantico and Once Upon a Time, provided that ABC comes in where I live.

Now the game on FOX has the Seahawks playing the team from Dallas. I think that the Seahawks are just barely winning. I then check ABC and it is coming in. Yay! Hopefully it will stay a good reception when the shows I watch are on. There are no changes in the games that I know of as I continue to watch them. I’ll let you know who ends up winning them. I don’t know what they would do if the football game on FOX isn’t over by 7, when the baseball game is about to start. Maybe if they had known for sure that there would be a World Series game on Sunday, then they wouldn’t have aired football that day at all. But, I’m sure that things will work out in the end. I’m not sure what I’m worried about yet.

The Raiders are still winning their game on one of my CBS affiliates. It looks like their region is likely to show shows on tape delay today. But my other CBS affiliate will be airing shows on time. This means that I must start a new blog about CSI: Cyber once it airs at its normal time on both affiliates. I can only do this for sure when I know that shows are different. If you are interested in this, don’t be worried. I’ll be sure to share the link here when I create it. In fact, if you are reading this, I might have already created this blog.

Well, 60 Minutes has started on time on my primary CBS affiliate. The football game is still on my other CBS affiliate. Also, I’ve decided that this new blog of mine will just be about CSI: Cyber and not be about the rest of the CSI franchise unless a new or existing show is connected to it. I cannot tell the progress of the Cowboy/Seahawks game on FOX so I don’t know who is winning. I wonder if I should create this new document right now. I probably will.

I am glued to the long segments of the on-time 60 Minutes, so I’m unable to get an update on the scores of either football games that are on the air. I’ll probably check the scores online, just to be sure. Remember that I will not be blogging about tonight’s CSI: Cyber episode. And I’ll probably have to create the blog link without the colon. Oh well. That’s not the baddest type of grammar out there. I’ll be well at it when I can. Get it? The final score of the game on my other CBS affiliate has the Raiders winning as I expected. The Seahawks are still winning the game on FOX, although the score has changed.

I’m not sure if I’ll be able to tell what the delay on the other CBS affiliate is. Maybe I will just ignore it. But, I’ll see if I can figure it out. It shouldn’t be too hard to figure out, right? We’ll see if I mention it or not. I’m sorry that there are some people who had to put up with a delay this week.

The Seahawks won the game on FOX. So all I have to do is figure out at some point how long the delay is on the CBS affiliate that I’m not watching. Meanwhile, I should probably get to the actual point of this blog post pretty soon.

Unfortunately, I had issues with the recording of the show on my laptop. The program was far too glitchy. I have no idea why this problem happened. So, I will have to watch the beginning of the episode online and see the rest of the episode on the VHS that I recorded. Also, glitchy should be a word, Word. A lot of the words I use should be. This will further make this and my Good Wife blog off of each other. But, the new blog that I’ll make is certain to cause problems as well.

Today’s episode is brought to you by either 17 minute or no delay. We begin with some more Russian politics in the show. Alison has joined her school’s newspaper. Henry is still talking to the Russian student to figure out something of some sort or another. I’m not sure that I’ll care about this first act as much this time. The fate of Ukraine is in the hands of Elizabeth. Also, how many works of fiction are about preventing World War 3? I should google that sometime.

In segment two, people in Elizabeth’s office talk to people about things. The Russian guy, Demitri, is working undercover with Henry. Matt talks to someone about how they should act on something instead of wishing that they had when they hadn’t. Or, at least, I think it was Matt.

In segment three, Alison is mad at her mother because Elizabeth doesn’t pay that much attention to her. Stevie confirms this when Elizabeth talks to her about this. So Elizabeth then talks to Alison about how she is cherished. A bunch of dramatic stuff happens that is hard to understand. Someone of somewhat importance has died. Elizabeth is wondering how to be a better mother. We then get to the plane crash of the Ukraine plane. I remember this from future episodes I’ve already seen.

On the next Madam Secretary, the brother of Elizabeth is disobeying an order to evacuate. Of course, I’ve already seen that episode. I’ll be sure to post about it later. There’s not much else to say. I just hope that I can get caught up on the other two episodes that I have on VHS. At the slow pace at which I post these blogs, you have to wonder why it would even be a problem. For now, this is Adam Decker, signing off.

Episode from 1-10-2016

Remember when I had posted an episode out of order because it related to Christmas? Well, this meant that I could wind up posting episodes after it before I got back to the ones in the right order. Now typically I write a post and wait to publish it but leave it largely unedited from the time frame I wrote it. You should see the rest of last year's episodes over time. It all depends on what happens. But since this episode had some Christmas stuff in it as well, I might as well get to publishing it, even if it is now March.

During December, I didn’t watch any of the shows from my list of shows to watch on DVD and mediums close to it. Since the New Year has started, I will be able to get back to watching them. Now some of what I have to catch up on is recorded episodes of this show, Madam Secretary. I will probably have to abandon the list at some point and just get caught up on old tapes. If you need a refresher, the main lists of shows that I’m watching, besides the stuff on VHS, is VeggieTales VHS, Thomas the Tank Engine, Farscape, The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh (recorded episodes on a VHS tape), and 8 Simple Rules. There is actually another list at the moment that I’m slowly trying to move over to this one. As soon as the right show from it can be transferred, I’ll basically get rid of that list. I’ll let you know when that happens, if it does at all.

When it comes to this show airing again, I don’t know when it or any of the Sunday CBS shows will return to the air. I know that the ABC shows that I watch are on hiatus for now. I also know that FOX has changed up its Sunday schedule. The Last Man on Earth is gone and we don’t know when it is coming back. Brooklyn Nine-Nine is moved now to Tuesdays where I’m not sure that I’ll be able to watch it. Cooper Barrett’s Guide to Surviving Life and Bordertown are now the shows that are airing. Now, it is possible that I would give up the Simpsons if the first show is bad and Family Guy if the second show is bad. Both shows would be given up for pretty much the same reason: jumping the shark. With the Simpsons, they run out of enough material in a single episode at times. And Family Guy has had terrible episodes recently. We’ll see what happens because if CBS shows on Sunday are gone for a while, then I’m pretty much stuck with them except for if NBC airs good primetime on that night.

The Golden Globes air tonight. Now I never understand why they always air new programming against the Golden Globes. Maybe it is because it airs too soon into the New Year. But other award shows don’t have counterprogramming. I mean, nobody schedules new shows against The Super Bowl, The Oscars, The Emmys, The Grammies, The Tonys, or other shows like that that I know of at least. Typically, there are reruns on other channels when award shows are on, except for the Golden Globes Awards, which I never understand.

I will be watching The Golden Globes, so don’t expect that much of an update on sports. I could tell that there was a game on FOX between the Packers and the Redskins. I couldn’t tell who was winning since I can never tell the score on FOX. Meanwhile, neither CBS affiliate of mine is airing sports this week. Cue the Hallelujah Chorus! I can finally start my blog about CSI: Cyber. Today’s episode will be the first episode that I blog about, although there are two other older ones that I will also blog about in the future. I’m not going to watch or record FOX shows tonight. I don’t care about ABC shows and since I watch all of the CBS shows (but not always 60 Minutes), I will record them since I blog about all three now. I don’t know what future blogs I might create. It’s possible that I do one on Bob’s Burgers, but I don’t know yet if I will or not.

There’s not much that I can tell about the sports game. They mentioned only being on its third quarter. I wonder what delayed the game so much. I read that Bob’s Burgers was supposed to start again tonight. If it was, it isn’t now. I mean, the EPG has the OT instead of Bob’s Burgers. I’m wondering if their shows will even start on time. It would be interesting if it is on tape delay. That typically doesn’t happen on FOX, although it has on rare occasions.

There’s an episode on my laptop recorded off of the TV tuner that is corrupt. This is one of the problems with using that method. All goes well with the recording, but when you try to play it back again, nothing loads. If things go well enough, then you can delete it instantly. If it doesn’t, you have to find alternate ways on deleting it and those methods don’t always work. But problems with the TV tuner is why I have two episodes of this show on VHS when it could have and should have been on my laptop instead. At least I knew of the problem in advance and was able to record on VHS. Otherwise, I would have had to watch it online, which I don’t like doing.

I watch more of the game on FOX. I still can’t tell who is winning or if there’s a tie. I also don’t know how much game is left for them on the clock. I doubt that I’ll tell much about it. I’ll probably just look up the score later online. Also, are we in postseason football now? Are the only games that are on between those potentially going to the playoffs?

The game delayed primetime on FOX as I thought that it would. I will add the score soon. Meanwhile, I should just focus on the blog at hand, but won’t until the next paragraph. The Packers won the game that delayed primetime on FOX. I don’t know what I would have done during a normal week when The Golden Globes aren’t on the air. I might have live blogged CBS Sundays and isolated FOX shows to a VHS, which I like doing when there is tape delay that messes things up. But I just ignored FOX shows entirely this time. I still don’t know my opinions on two of their shows so maybe it is good that I missed things. We’ll see what happens in the future.

Today’s episode is brought to you by no delay. We begin where we left off in the previous episode that I posted a while back. The bomb or whatever thing has killed the Russian president whose name I can’t remember. The US president and Elizabeth are okay. Henry is trying to help his spy friend get out of Russia and he wins would in Sweden for some odd reason. I’ve never been to Stockholm, but I hear that it’s captivating. Alison will get kicked out of her school unless her parents are able to do some volunteer work. They still have Christmas stuff set up in their house kind of like we do here.

In segment two, not much happens. Elizabeth is needed to help astronauts in some way. I didn’t fully understand all of that. Maybe I will later. Meanwhile, Henry is still trying to help his spy friend from earlier. Once again, I suck at summaries. That’s why I’ll probably never have a blog about my life. I can’t tell stories about myself.

In segment three, Elizabeth talks to a Chinese national about the astronaut situation. It seems as if she’s using veiled insults and threats to say why they should help. There was a great quote about it, “You have a peculiar way of asking for a favor, Madam Secretary.” Anyways, we learn of Demitri’s death. There is also an op that looks like it went badly.

In segment four, a bunch of stuff happens. Elizabeth convinces people to help. “If you think I’m bluffing, you little son of a bitch, try me.” “You were bluffing about the White House pulling our troops out, right?” “Of course I was.” Yet another great quote in this episode. I just hope that I didn’t mess it up. People seem defiant at the space station and seek to help people.

In segment five, we are glad that China, Russia, and the US helped get the astronauts rescued. Henry and Elizabeth were able to help their Alison with her school problem. The situation in the end seemed to take care of itself. Henry decides to quit his job with the NSA. There are no marital problems with him and his wife.

On the next Madam Secretary, US diplomats are used to different problems, but not of weird people. Well, that’s what I gathered from the strange and unusual promo. It didn’t quite make sense to me. For now, this is Adam Decker, signing off.

Episode from 10-25-2015

For the moment, the TV watching that I’m doing with shows on DVD hasn’t resulted in any changes. That means that I’m still watching the same things that I have been. You know, it is weird. What’s weird? The TV watching habits of mine are weird. During the regular season, I almost always watch all three hours of primetime each night of the week. I also record shows on my laptop to watch later. Then there’s the shows on DVD that I have which also includes recorded shows on VHS from this season (in case three good things are all on at once) and other shows on VHS that I have collected. So I watch a lot more TV then I probably should. But, at least I get to keep writing a blog about TV in general.

Three of my blogs relate to a particular TV show. The other one relates to TV in general. It’s possible that I might create another one about a different TV show. In fact, as long as tape delay is weird on CBS Sundays, you might see me create a blog for any show that airs after this one on Sundays. If the time slot of this show ever changes or this gets cancelled, then I don’t have to worry about replacing it with the next show on at 8/7 Centrals on CBS on Sundays unless I already have a blog about it anyways. Plus, I could always wind up creating a blog about Bob’s Burgers in the future. The main problem with that one is that I’m not sure how I’d fit an apostrophe into the blog link. I don’t think that they’d let me put one in there so I’d have to go without.

I turn on the TV to see what is on right now. I check my primary CBS affiliate and they are showing the news so I don’t have to worry about sports delay on that channel. I check my FOX affiliate and they are showing a game between the Giants and the Cowboys, I think. I can’t tell who is winning due to me not having a widescreen TV. I never have that problem on CBS. Only on FOX does my lack of a widescreen TV cause a problem for watching football. I check my secondary CBS affiliate and they are showing a different news show. Shows will be on time today on CBS. Yay! The game on FOX becomes tied between the two teams.

It looks like ABC is coming in for me today which is awesome. I always hate missing shows, whether it be on ABC or another network. But I have missed more than enough of Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Once Upon a Time, and Grey’s Anatomy. Hopefully, I’ll be able to see them on a regular basis this season as I prefer. Since 60 Minutes is on time, I’ll be watching that show and flipping at times to the football game on FOX. I might not get who wins, unless I look it up. I’m not entirely sure that I have the right teams that are playing. Also, for this episode at least, CBS might have finally gotten a journalist to replace Bob Simon on 60 Minutes. I figured that they would probably wait until the next season started before finding a long term replacement for him. His death was unfortunate and I do wonder if it helped prompt Bob Schaeffer into retirement.

From what I can tell, the New York Giants have won the game against the Dallas Cowboys that was on FOX. I’m a bit distracted by the bright orange sky caused by the sun setting where I live. I’m also going to have to record certain shows for my mother and myself. I always typically record this show and blog about it during watching it. It may not be the best method for blogging, but it is the only method that allows me to watch and record other shows on at the same time. The orange sky is turning red and pink. I probably should have taken a picture. Oh well. I have others.

Today’s episode is brought to you by no delay. We begin with an article on the cat fight as it has now been called between Elizabeth and the Russia woman, whoever she is. I should remember her name, but I don’t. Now is it just me or are they trying to put too many subplots in this season? Anyways, somebody has pictures of Stevie and the president’s son in bed.

In segment two, there is more on the picture that has not been officially released yet. But, it is leaked online and someone calls Henry about it when he is on a live show of some sort. I’m a bit confused wondering what the opening scene has to do with the rest of the episode right now.

In segment three, we get to see Elizabeth talk with some sort of foreign girl about something that I don’t understand that well. Elizabeth and Henry talk to the president and his wife about what to do regarding the picture. The president seems to be upset at Elizabeth over various recent events. There is an important bill that people are voting on that relates to the foreign girl. I don’t fully understand all of what is going on.

In segment four, Jason doesn’t like the football team since they are mean towards his sister and himself. Anyways, the picture situation was revealed to be caused by a former secret service agent who was looking for revenge in some way. The president makes amend with Elizabeth and Henry.

In segment five, Stevie talks with the former secret service agent about the picture and other events. They pretty much wrap things up in terms of that storyline. She doesn’t want either of them to judge each other based on one event.

On the next Madam Secretary, the whole Ukraine/Russia thing is talked about some more. There’s also some sort of execution maybe. It’s hard to tell for sure. Maybe Elizabeth is trying to prevent one from happening. We’ll see next time or whenever that episode’s blog post is. For now, this is Adam Decker, signing off.

Episode from 10-18-2015

Since it is October, that basically makes it Halloween month to me. Well, me and a lot of other people. So will I be able to watch various Halloween episodes that I have to watch next in order on the stuff that I’m watching on DVD? Well, I was able to watch one of them, but I’m not sure that I can reach any of the others in time. We’ll see what happens with that. I was able to watch the 8 Simple Rules Halloween episode that the first season has. Can I get other episodes related to holidays watched at the right time? We’ll see if that happens or not. Meanwhile, I’m wondering how I’ll keep this blog and my Good Wife blog updated at good times when I have one more post for that blog than this one. It’s possible that I could always use my TV tuner to record an episode of this show while I use a VHS to record an episode of that show. That would even things out temporarily. I just know that this show would have to have one more episode than that show for things to even out for a while.

I check my FOX affiliate and am confused at what they are airing as it doesn’t match the epg. But I don’t think that they are airing sports at this time. I check my primary CBS affiliate and they are showing a game between the Green Bay Packers and the San Diego team that is currently tied. I tune into my secondary CBS affiliate and they are showing the same game. Since they are still on the third quarter, this does not look hopeful for the game ending at a good time. But, it could look good for the creation of a future blog, should the delay be an hour or longer. Is a player in the game really expecting an eighth child? Well, his wife is.

FOX is now showing what it said it would be airing at this time. This probably means that their shows will be normally airing with no sports from 6-7. Sport games are always shown to their competition (expect in certain regions where they know the game can’t be turned around to the losing team) so people will know what the final score is. There have been some mistakes or intentional removals every now and then. Like one time, I saw them move a sports show to a cable channel except on the west coast. I’m not sure why they did that, but it probably pissed off people who didn’t have that channel on the east coast. Say what you will about sports delays, at least they never screw advertisers, even if that means screwing viewers. At least people with DVR should know by now to expect this and plan ahead.

Neither of my ABC affiliates are coming in at the moment. It’s a shame too. I like Quantico, but I’ve only been able to see the first episode so far. Also, I’m tired of always missing Once Upon a Time. Meanwhile, I’m into every CBS and FOX show. Good thing that I can record shows to watch later while watching something else live. And, I don’t mind missing 60 Minutes or Bob’s Burgers when it doesn’t work in the schedule. Why is the game running this long?

I switch to FOX to watch Bob’s Burgers at 6, although I think I missed the first act. Green Bay is now winning the game. Also, I’m not going to mention what team is the only football team that I root for as that would reveal local things about me. I live in Central time zone. That’s all you need to know. You don’t need to know where in Central time zone I live. Also, the epg is wrong and they are not showing Bob’s Burgers right now. I’m not interested in whatever it is they are showing. It looks like The Grinder, but I could be wrong about it.

There’s still no ABC for me to watch. I’m hoping that it improves by 7. What’s the name of the San Diego team? I don’t think that I know the names of all the football teams. The score has changed, but the Packers are still winning. Also, it looks like some CBS affiliates are airing a different game that will probably end sooner. That won’t affect the possible creation of a blog for me as it has to be my affiliates that are airing different delays in order for this to work. I wonder if I’m more interested in football than I think that I am. I say that my interest only lasts from 6 Central on Sundays until the game ends, but I might be more interested than that. I just hope that I’m not boring the reader of this blog.

How do they do the scoring in football games anyways? It seems weird to me. I’d look it up, but probably not understand it. I mean, I couldn’t even understand Backyard Football, although we did get and play other Backyard sports games at this house of mine. I think that we might still have some, but I’m not sure. I doubt that we could play them on the new computers that we have. The other game has ended so I don’t know how that could be affecting shows in their regions. Maybe they’ll just air at the planned 30 minute delay. But I still don’t know if they can get in the rest of this game here on my local affiliate at a good time. The game is pretty close.

At 6:30, they are airing last year’s Halloween episode of The Simpsons. It seems a bit early to air Halloween episodes like they are planning this year. Couldn’t they wait until next week? Well, I guess there’s the World Series which could potentially be interesting if the Cubs are in it. (It would be interesting regardless of who’s in it. Some of the teams have never even been in the playoffs before, if my information is correct.) Also, the name of San Diego’s team is the Chargers. I’ll have to remember that in the future. The score has changed and the Packers are still winning. There just might be some luck of this ending before 7, but I’m not sure if it will or not.

I find out that while they are airing a Halloween Simpsons episode, it isn’t a Treehouse of Horror special. Has this ever happened before? This seems unprecedented. Does this mean that there won’t be a Treehouse of Horror this year or will this replace it this year?

There might be some hope for ABC coming in this week after all. Meanwhile, I’m almost certain that shows on CBS where I live will be on an hour long delay or close enough to it. That means that they’ll probably be no new CSI: Cyber. The game ends with the Packers winning. There’s then the obligatory four minutes of commercials before the start of 60 Minutes. I just don’t see them airing CSI: Cyber this week, unless they are randomly airing a dumb rerun at a really late time. Remember when they aired a Mentalist rerun at a 59 minute delay?

I might miss the beginning of this episode due to the delay being weird. But, since it is a good enough delay, I won’t be isolating it to VHS and will be able to watch it live, unlike last week’s episode. (Well, I won’t watch it live, but I’ll be able to keep up with it easier and record it on my laptop as I typically would.) I still don’t know about a new blog or not. If they air a rerun or no episode at all, then I will create one about CSI: Cyber. But I don’t know yet if I will. I just hope that I figure out what time the delay was at.

Today’s episode is brought to you by 58 minute delay. We begin with the death of a notable figure in some country, Russia, I think. Jason gets all good grades on his report card. He uses this to ask permission to try out for the football team. The death of the person gets people in Henry’s class talking as some of them are from that area. This seems to be the point of the episode thus far.

In segment two, we have all of Elizabeth’s team in Russia. Why do they all have to be there? I’m not sure. A girl tricks one of her staff into taking a picture with a man who is evil in some way. Is this anything like the Jane Fonda controversy? I still don’t understand why that was such a big deal. I don’t think that I’ll ever know why people hate her. And if you see a chain email about her, most of it isn’t true. I do wonder why some random things are even controversies.

In segment three, there’s more of the tent in the building that keeps out spy stuff or something like that. People try to figure out how to solve the picture situation. Jason wants to play football in order to make friends at his new school. There’s also a random Russian person in trouble.

In segment four, the Russian person in trouble is someone that Henry is investigating as he is a student in his class. Remember that Henry is NSA. You know, as long as you have nothing to hide, is it a problem for the NSA to spy on us? Well, they knew I was going to say that. Anyways, the widow of the Russian leader is convinced that Elizabeth and her team are working with people from Ukraine. You know, since this show is in a different reality than our world, it is interesting how they have the same problems. So there might be further problems regarding this outside of this episode. Also, there are problems with the subtitles, it appears.

In segment five, it doesn’t seem like much of the Russia issue is resolved, so they will probably get back to that in future episodes. There is something up with the student, but we can’t tell just what yet. Henry goes to confession about that. Maybe it’s the Lutheran in me, but I’ve never understood the point of these private confessionals. Also, the guy who caused a problem now stands up to the guy with the dog. You know which guy: the douche bag. The problem with the air force one airplane has more information revealed about it. It turns out that the hack was a big problem and a warning sign of what could come in the potential future. Where was it that this problem had happened at?

On the next Madam Secretary, it appears that the romance between Stevie and the president’s son will come to light. Who revealed it? What purpose with this serve on the show? And will be resolved in just one episode? Those questions might be answered next time, some other time, or not at all. For now, this is Adam Decker, signing off.

Episode from 12-13-2015

I know that I don't update this blog as much as I should. But, I do have a lot of episodes prepared to be blogged about. You should now see this blog more linked up to my blog about The Good Wife from this episode forward. I decided to jump the gun and publish the most recent to air episode in this blog while it was still December as it was a Christmas themed episode. This should put this blog more on par with The Good Wife one for a while, at least. I just need to get caught up on tapes. So enjoy the blog post published early due to it relating to Christmas.

I have no idea when the next new episode of Madam Secretary will be. They could be waiting a while. I might even give a play by play update of each Sunday that happens without a new episode. In fact, Undercover Boss will be returning in this show’s place like last year until it can replace The Amazing Race until that show returns for its spring season. Also, last week’s CSI: Cyber was preempted. If this show ever ended, I’d probably talk about the sports CBS shows sometimes before the start of The Good Wife on that blog of mine. In fact, I might do that should a new episode of this not be on but that show is. I used to like Undercover Boss, but I stopped watching when they decided to air the moronic opinions of an employee about autism that had nothing to do with the rest of the episode.

I tune into my primary CBS affiliate and they are set on airing shows on time as football is not on it. I check my secondary CBS affiliate and they are airing a Broncos/Raiders game. There is still a lot of game left so they will certainly be airing things on delay. Meanwhile, if one of my channels once again doesn’t record well on my laptop and the other one does, I’m just going to use the other channel that is on tape delay as I’m sick and tired of having to put shows on tape. I’m three posts behind now and two of them are because of that stupid problem. I check FOX and they are showing a game of the Packers playing a team I believe to be the Seahawks. As usual, I can’t tell who is winning. Football is expected to last until seven on this network.

The game is not actually against the Seahawks. It is against some Dallas based team. The Packers are winning the game against them. Since shows will not be delayed on one of my affiliates, I will be watching 60 Minutes at a regular time. Also, the Raiders are winning the game on CBS.

I miss checking the games during a 60 Minutes break and the game they were showing on my other CBS affiliate is over and it is airing a delayed 60 Minutes. I missed the score, but the OT says that the Raiders, I believe, were the winners. But I could be wrong and would have to check the score to know for sure. Also, what the heck does OT stand for? It seems to have no meaning to its name. What kind of name has no meaning? My name has a meaning. It means that my parents were uninspired in some way and decided to name me after the very first man. I don’t know who won the FOX game as of yet. I miss 60 Minutes trying to catch the score. I could wind up googling the score. But I don’t have to. The Packers ended up winning the game. Thank you CBS sports updates.

Today’s episode is brought to you be either 28 minute or no delay. We begin with a flashback of the current Russian president killing the then current now dead Russian president since she didn’t like him helping with the west. It appears as if Russia and the US are possibly at war, but maybe are just in some other type of fighting. Anyways, I think that the Russian guy that Henry was training is in the ranks of the Russians successfully.

In segment two, we have more of the Russian thing with the spy revealing his information to Henry about where the US and Ukraine should strike. Meanwhile, while it isn’t that important to the episode, I have to remember that the 10^th episode of the second season that aired on December 13^th 2015 is a Christmas episode. This is for future rewatch of the show, should there be any. I think that this is the first holiday related episode of Madam Secretary. Elizabeth and the president’s team try to prevent World War 3 from happening. Speaking of which, how often is that the plot of an episode of a show? I hope that World War 3 never does happen. Meanwhile, in another cliché, the Russian president thinks the wrong person is the traitor.

In segment three, the Russian president thinks that Ukraine is responsible for the hack of Air Force One. How did she find out this information? Is it something that she’s guessing? By finding stuff that her doctor did, they find out that she may have killed her husband and are looking at ways to prove this so that they can take her out of power. Also, I forget when this was, but they watched video of her singing at one point.

In segment four, there are tense moments as the US and Russia try to talk about peace. The Russian president, whose name I can’t remember (hence me referring to her as the Russian president) knows about a spy and wants them to give him up. There are tense moments regarding this. The planned extraction of the spy fails.

In segment five, we learn that there was an agreement over giving up the Russian spy as part of negotiations with the Russian president. There is then a strange closing segment where I guess we are lead to believe that something bad might have happened to the US president. There are no scenes from the next episode, so I guess we’ll have to wait until sometime next year to see what happened. I don’t think that they would have killed off Elizabeth, but I’ll have to wait to see for sure what happened. They might have killed or tried to kill the Russian president. For now, this is Adam Decker, signing off.