There’s nothing absolutely specific about what we’re nattering about this week. For we’re on about the moment in life when you feel you’re just going to crack, that you can’t cope anymore. The catalyst for that could have been anything: bad things going on, the drudge of everyday life, maybe something longer term that you’re struggling with. Heck, you might just having a bad day. So what do you do?...
Hannah failing to show due respect toward the dead made me happy last time, so I loved the beginning of “Only Child” too. She spends the funeral trying to spot famous members of the writing community (“Oh my God, I think I see Zadie Smith”) and learns that, ostensibly gay though he was, David had a wife all this time. The apex of the cringe-comedy comes when Hannah speaks to David’s wife and tries to appear sympathetic but her real desire to discover the fate of her e-book comes out....
After the success of the Madonna episode, it comes as no surprise that the next port of call would be with somebody who has taken the charts by storm and is a household name across the world for her unique style as much as her music. Unhappy with the assignment, Finn requests to be able to tackle another over the top band and with Will’s blessing they take on Kiss....
The music industry is a fickle business and there are very few stars who can be considered the face of a generation and, love her or hate her, Britney Spears was the face of music in the late 90s and early 00s. With a performance at the Homecoming assembly coming up, Will wants the club to focus on more easy listening numbers in the vein of Christopher Cross, while Kurt wants to start a bit of a revolution and do something more up to date, like Britney Spears....
Gotham Season 4 Episode 2 And somehow it all comes together. But Gothamites, we ended strong, really, really strong, and thank goodness the show got a fifth season (even it will be the final season) because with the myriad cliffhangers this week, we would have been hurting if we never got a catharsis from No Man’s Land. Because kids, this week’s episode is a doozy. With Jeremiah teaming up with Ra’s Al Ghul to transform Gotham City into a Hell on Earth, with the bloody ending of the Riddler/Lee Thompkins romance, with the Penguin’s final plan in regards to Solomon Grundy revealed, with Bruce Wayne becoming Gotham’s protector, with Selena Kyle facing a tragic and uncertain future, and with the coming of No Man’s Land and the arrival of new Gotham City villains, the series has reached a crescendo of chaos that is as daring as it is mind blowingly all over the place....
3.2 Secondo And yet, we also knew one other important thing: that Lecter gets caught. No matter how smart he is, someone manages to outsmart him and he ends up subject to imprisonment and the not-so-tender mercies of Dr. Chilton. So we had to assume that the man who put him there – FBI profiler Will Graham – was not just Lecter’s equal, but his superior intellectually. So it was more than a little confusing when it turned out that, for all of Graham’s much touted empathy, the character portrayed by Hugh Dancy initially seemed entirely incapable of the kind of cleverness necessary to bring about the feat we already knew he must....
Yet the truth is I’ve struggled with this one. On the one hand, we’ve never run ‘personal’ stories as a rule, and in particular, getting clicks off such reports feels wrong (I’m offsetting that in this case with a donation to a suitable organisation). But conversely, how can we, and I, stay silent on something so important? About a predatory man, who has dominated the film industry over the past couple of decades, and by many accounts abused that power, ruined people’s lives, and in particular used his power in horrifying ways over women?...
Anyway, will we find out what happened to James and his wife Arla when they disappeared into the barn with Audrey? Is William going to provide answers, or did that whole story line go the way of the dinosaurs? And why did William send Lexie/Audrey back to Haven without accompanying her? How did HE get there? Please tell me this finale is not going to be as confusing as the last one....
Cullen hasn’t lost all hope in the aftermath of Ruth’s death, but he has nothing and no one keeping him anchored in Cheyenne. His job as town sheriff isn’t appealing under Campbell’s rule, and working as railroad chief lost any challenge after his success in building the contraption that’s able to bore through granite and large boulders. His mind is set on putting his time and roles squarely behind him....
Williams starred as charismatic town mayor and former linebacker Lavon Hayes in Hart of Dixie. Black Lightning, however, in which he plays the title character, will be his first superhero gig. Den of Geek was part of a group of reporters who spoke to Williams at last weekend’s DC in D.C. event. Here’s what he told us about landing the role of dad, principal, and superhero Jefferson Pierce… “They didn’t sell me [on the role],” Williams told us with a laugh....
Like its heart-meltingly vulnerable lead Kieren (Luke Newberry), In the Flesh arrives home with no small amount of baggage. The ink on its commission contract was still wet when the first volley of “More zombies? Yawn” comments arrived on the bottom half of the internet, followed in quick succession by a round of “BBC Three? Meh” shrugs and a string of ungenerous speculative comparisons to other shows, films and comics about the dead, be they Walking or Shaun of....
iZombie Season 3, Episode 3 How do you solve a problem like fatal zombie sydrome? Ravi, Major, and the rest of Team Zombie is dealing with that question as Major spirals ever closer to his undead death on iZombie. Surprisingly, Major is the character who seems to be handling it best. Or at least better than Ravi who, to be fair, tends to be casually asked to save the human race on a season-to-season basis....
It is time for the reaping and may the odds be forever in Julianne Moore’s favor. The actress, who most recently played Sarah Palin in HBO’s Game Change (with Woody Harrelson who plays Haymitch in The Hunger Games movie trilogy) and Jack Donaghy’s flame on 30 Rock, is in talks with Lionsgate and director Francis Lawrence to play President Alma Coin in The Hunger Games: Mockingjay. The last two books from the Suzanne Collins book series are being turned to film....
Legends of Tomorrow Season 3 Episode 10 What if Amaya just isn’t that interesting? And that overarching story is great! It’s a really effective vehicle for a solid Sara Lance episode. Unfortunately, the other two story strands of this week’s episode never really weave together: the Sara story is a pretty straightforward horror tale, with imagery lifted from lots of other exorcism media, while most of the rest of the gang just hangs out being funny or trying to help exorcist-receiver (exorcisee?...
Lethal Weapon Season 2 Episode 12 “It’s only a matter of time until your demons caught up with her…” This installment picks up right from the end of the last episode and even though Riggs’ father doesn’t make an appearance this week, his shadow still looms heavy over his son and this episode. Even though Riggs Senior is locked away in prison, he still succeeds in getting under his son’s skin....
That said, Kate’s role in the episode is mainly a facilitator. The facilitator of Claire’s journey to hospital. The facilitator of Sawyer’s chance to grieve. And the facilitator of Jin’s chance to be separated from the others and shoved into a situation with a mad person, again. Elsewhere, Jack spends the episode trying to get answers about what Sayid’s recent dunk in the Lazarus Pit might have done to him – and in an unusual development, he actually succeeds to some degree....
5.12 Commissions and Fees Last season, the death of Ida Blankenship was given a poetic epitaph by Burt Cooper, but its aftermath – her blanket-covered body being farcically wheeled away in the background of a client meeting – was played for laughs. The harrowing scene in which Lane’s body was cut down by Pete, Roger and Don was anything but. The reveal was deftly handled, from the jammed door to using the boys’ reactions to confirm Joan’s fears, to the jarringly empty corridors that greeted Don and Roger’s ebullient return from Dow Chemical....
5.8 The Last Day There’s a whole heck of a lot going on this week, multiple timelines in fact, but really, the episode and possibly the whole fifth season thus far hinges on the heart of one Melina May. This week’s impactful episode goes a long way to prove that May is so much more than a weapon – so much more. She is the heart and soul of the team and this week, the entire survival of the human (and Inhuman) race depends on that heart....
Funny, warm and insightful, Support the Girls centers mainly around Lisa (a fantastic Hall), the eatery’s general manager who deals with a dozen different crises a day and acts as den mother to the young and sometimes impulsive women who work for her, while also dealing with the place’s increasingly surly owner (James Le Gros), the customers themselves and her own personal struggles. Yes, it handles all that in a fleet and humorous 90 minutes....
