In any case, hopes are definitely raised when people realize the shooting star is some sort of craft sent down by the Ark. It could contain supplies, or rations, or weapons. Or a love triangle. In the midst of the excitement surrounding the capsule, Bellamy finally confesses to Octavia that he shot the Chancellor. (Yes, but did he shoot the deputy?) He says he did it all for Octavia—so he could protect her on Earth....
2.6 Fog Of War Me? I totally buy that Finn might do that if pushed as psychologically far as he was, and that he and Clarke’s infatuation with each other may manifest itself in some slightly unhealthy behaviour. Mix teen love with war and factor in that these guys are all convicted criminals who’ve been sent down to die by the adults meant to protect them, and we’re dealing with some seriously damaged people....
Now then. The following clips never fail to reduce me to hysterical tears, even though I’ve watched each one approximately 5000 times. 2. Silent but deadly This episode is called What’s Wrong With Bungle? To which I would have to answer – so, so many things. One of the things wrong with Bungle is his waking up one morning and deciding he isn’t going to bother talking to anyone ever again....
The Americans Season 6 Episode 4 Three people are shot to death at the beginning of “Mr. and Mrs. Teacup.” Elizabeth emerges from the building right before the police arrive and she, Paige, and two other agents take off to safety. She still doesn’t have the sensor. Now five people have been killed in pursuit of it. And yet, this is not the bleakest part of the “Mr. and Mrs. Teacup” by far....
Back at the start of this series of The Apprentice, the trumpeted new feature was the change in just what Baron Alan von Sugar of Amstradshire was looking for. No longer, y’see, was he after an apprentice,. Instead, this time he was on the search for a business partner. Someone with whom he could trust £250,000, in a singular gesture that makes the dragons on Dragon’s Den suddenly look tight....
9.1 The Matrimonial Momentum For one would be an inevitability that would subsequently pose the question – what now? – and the other had the potential to upend the entire series. The progression of both relationships has been deliberately slow, with Sheldon and Amy in particular coming off for the most part well-paced, so what happens when the writers add a climax years before the end of the show? The answer is nothing much, as we were offered a wedding and a break-up in this episode, yet nothing much has changed....
Ayoade and Essex, two very different kinds of men. Watching them try to converse can’t be unlike watching an owl try to mate with a suitcase. Having seen it now though, I just want more. Quick, someone commission a show in which the pair of them team up to fight crime or catch cowboy roofers or conduct a public vote for the nation’s best Center Parcs. Whatever it is, I know I wouldn’t be able to look away....
To calm yourself down, you decide to put on a DVD from your extensive collection. As you insert said DVD into your player and lie back to settle in for the night, something appears on your TV screen that is so gut-bustlingly annoying, you wish you hadn’t bothered. Yup, I’m talking about those anti-piracy advertisements that are cropping up on more and more discs. You know the one I mean… Etc, etc....
The Double is based on Fyodor Dostoyesky’s novel of the same name. A lonely office worker Simon (Jesse Eisenberg), marooned in the same job in the same company for the past seven years, becomes infatuated with a pretty, equally lonely office worker, Hannah (Mia Wasikowska), but is so socially inept that he’s helpless to communicate with her, as he is with anyone else. Ayoade approaches this well-trodden premise with style over substance....
And I’m out. That’s it. I’m done. I wash my hands of The Event. I’ve stuck with the show this long, but now, after the fifth episode with more derivative plotlines and twists and turns, I am going to ditch The Event and stick with the likes of Boardwalk Empire, Caprica and Castle. Well, five episodes in and I still don’t care about any of the characters. They all seem so 2D....
After last week’s promising start, episode two of supernatural drama The Fades had quite a lot to live up to. Having introduced us to the world of the fades and the coming apocalypse, as well as the 17-year-old chosen to stop it, it was time to up the gore count as the ghostly goings on claimed even more lives. In another high body count instalment, Jack Thorne’s (Skins) drama more that lived up to its Supernatural in Grimsby in downers target, with more death, gore and Star Wars quotes than has ever been seen on the Beeb on a Wednesday night....
The Flash Season 4 Episode 9 Oh, DeVoe is good. I’m not sure why he would let Barry know about his new, Dominic-shaped form when he didn’t have to, but framing Barry for his own murder is a new villain move for this show—and one that is welcome after seasons of speedsters who rely on their physical prowess to try to take Team Flash down. It’s moments like these that I wish Julian were still around—not only because I continue to find Dibny insufferably annoying, but because it would be handy for Team Flash to have someone with forensic skills....
2.12 Betrayal Part of the attraction is the show’s impressive ability to entertain visually. For example, Joe is angry at televangelist Kingston Tanner (Tom Cavanagh) for making Joe the object of his attention in an effort to sell a few books, so he decides to send his A-Team of goons off to track down Kingston’s son Preston at his college and have a little fun with him and all his frat buddies....
A unit, unlike any other, who spent the childhood of their four children squatting in homes and living in poverty – second eldest Jeannette wrote her memoir in 2005, sharing the story of her unconventional childhood and her deeply dysfunctional parents with the world. Twelve years later it’s made it to the big screen, helmed by director Destin Daniel Cretton – whose directorial debut was the astonishingly wonderful Short Term 12 (2013)....
1.1 Offred Opening with sirens, a chase, gunshots, a woman and her child being kidnapped… The Handmaid’s Tale gets our attention as a thriller, but does its real damage as a horror – not just an intellectual what-an-existential-nightmare horror, but also the look-out-you’re-in-danger kind. In this adaptation of Margaret Atwood’s 1985 dystopian novel, director Reed Morano makes the nation of Gilead—the radically oppressive social experiment that’s replaced modern-day America—every bit as threatening as a haunted house or serial killer’s lair....
The Highwaymen will star Kevin Costner as Texas Ranger Frank Hamer, and Woody Harrelson as his partner Maney Gault, who came out of retirement to nab the Barrow Gang, according to Deadline. Costner’s (Dances With Wolves, Hidden Figures, Bull Durham, Field of Dreams, JFK and The Untouchables) turn as a Texas Ranger in the History miniseries Hatfields and McCoys earned him an Emmy, a Golden Globe and a SAG Award....
Yes, after five Twilight films, Meyer’s literary canon has not yet been fully mined by Hollywood, and The Host, which was published between instalments of her best-selling vampire saga, is her run at an alien invasion story. Of course, it’s also a supernatural romance story, albeit one with much more intrigue than Twilight. Melanie Stryder (Saoirse Ronan) is one of the rebels, and when she survives an attempt to take her own life, rather than join the Souls, she winds up with Wanderer buzzing around in her head....
That was my dilemma when Vlad gave me a call in the middle of the night and said he was coming to London and asked me if I had time to show him around. What could I do? He had obviously mistaken me for the real thing but I felt it would be discourteous to suggest he tried calling one of his relatives in Translyvania. I told him there would be no problem and offered to pick him up at the airport....
What wasn’t so easy was to imagine that the film would ever get finished. Practically every other day there were rumours that the production was to close down. In all, I think, the company changed hands three times during the production. I heard about it and a few days before it was scheduled to shoot, rang Robin whom I had met briefly a short time before, and asked him if there was a part for me....
