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During a speech in Iowa this weekend, Bernie Sanders criticized the billionaire class and said they "can't have it all." Billionaires would've responded but they were busy this weekend literally having it all. –Jimmy Fallon
Orphan Black concluded its third season with more answers, bigger questions, a cliff hanger, and several clones together. Last season ended with the clone dance party, and this season began with Helena's dream baby shower. In the third season finale, History Yet To Be Written, several clones were together, seemingly out of danger for the moment, at Alison's victory dinner. Afterwards Sarah was reunited with Kira.
The convoluted storyline has often had characters seem to change sides. For much of the finale it appeared there might be a peace between Dyad, Topside, and the Leda clones which included an agreement to share genetic material from Kendall Malone. Then the show suddenly reverted back to the conspiracies of the first season with the return of the Neolutionists, who are far scarier than when Dr. Leekie was around, with Susan Duncan apparently in charge.
This news ended any idea of sharing genetic material, and upset Ferdinand, who really hates "those genetically obsessed zealots." He said they're like ticks, quickly decided that his henchman accompanying him was one, and gave him a bath in sulfuric acid. Ferdinand, incidentally was finally informed that the "dirty clone" he was involved with earlier in the season really was Sarah pretending to be Rachel.
Rachel, meanwhile, spent most of the episode wondering where she was, until Charlotte (the younger clone with a leg brace) showed up, who for unexplained reasons is now with Susan Duncan with no evidence that Marian is around. Rachel's new eye appears robotic, while surprisingly Krystal not only came out of the coma, but still had two eyes. Most likely we will still see her next season but it remains to be seen how she will escape from Dyad, especially if Delphine is really dead.
Delphine was told she would be dead by morning, and spent the rest of the episode apparently saying her goodbyes, suggesting that she might really be leaving the show. In the episode's cliff hanger, she was shot by an off-screen assailant. The episode was written as if it was a final one for Delphine, but on a show such as this we can never be certain a character is really dead.
For the moment it appear that obstacles between Shay and Cosima have been removed and Shay might very well be innocent. She does have a point that Cosima has not been all that honest with her either. Of course on Orphan Black, a person who seems innocent at one moment might be shown to have a connection to one of the conspiracies at any point in the future.
Helena got to both see her old boyfriend and fight Rudy under prison rules, "only one of us leaves alive." Needless to say, Helena won.
The finale left many questions, including who shot Delphine, what the Neolutionists are up to, and what the robotic worm in Dr. Nealon's mouth was.
An interview with Graeme Manson at AV Club leaves the door open for Delphine to return at some point:
The A.V. Club: A lot happens in this finale. There are so many questions, but the first one has to be: Is Delphine really dead? It looks like yes, but there's no body, and yours is a twisty show…
Graeme Manson: Um… yes. Yes, but. Orphan Black is a cliffhanger. For all intents and purposes, Evelyne [Brochu's character] is dead. But there's always a crack of hope in an actor's busy schedule. They can reappear somehow. But we had to make a bold story choice, and it was a story choice that was very collaborative with Evelyne. It's a role that we wrote for her. It's hard to make those big story choices with co-workers that have become your friends, but you got to do it. You got to do it for the good of the show. It's about the whole story; it's not about anything else. I mean, we really went for the strongest choice. And Evelyne was up for dying! [Laughs.] Actors really respond to the strong choices. We had made this decision early on that this was the arc of this season, and that we would go for it with the character as an individual. Go out with a bang.
AVC: Speaking of significant deaths: There was Paul's sacrifice earlier this season, and by the end of this season, every male clone but Mark is dead. You spent a large chunk of this season shading in the male clones' background with Castor… so how finished do we think Castor is at this point? Does this mean Ari Millen won't be back in as significant way next season?
GM: Well, it's every male clone but Mark that we know of. It's a big-picture story, and so obviously we left the door open for Mark to come back. I think we can all look forward to Ari Millen next year…
AVC: This season alone several factions were fighting for and against the clones: Dyad, Proletheans, Topside, Castor, and apparently, the Neolutionists behind all of it, as we found out in the finale. Do you ever feel penned in by the ever-complicating mythology?
GM: Well, I think this year was a lot about Sarah fighting her way toward an understanding through a conspiracy with a lot of factions. At the end of the season, she's cut through that, and she's got one main foe or focus now moving forward. We met Neolution in the beginning with the sort of "pop science" of Leekie. It's been the fifth column this whole time. I think Sarah can move forward next year with a new understanding, and a new focus on a many-layered but single foe.
Manson was also interviewed by The Hollywood Reporter.
Variety interviewed the co-creator John Fawcett:
First you killed Paul, then you shot Delphine — do you just hate happiness?
[Laughs.] I like happiness as much as the next person, but happiness sometimes isn't as dramatic as tragic love stories.
Can you definitively confirm that Delphine is dead, or is there still hope?
I would love to say yes or no, but this is "Orphan Black" and I don't want to say one way or the other … We wanted to leave it in a hanging cliffhanger, so is she dead? Is she alive? I want the audience asking those questions.
Aside from Delphine's shooting, the season finale ended on an uncommonly hopeful note. Why did you want to go that route instead of ending with a cliffhanger this year?
It was really important for us in one of our most complex seasons to end with a lot of answers and feel like we've had some triumph and victory, and be in a place at the end of season three where we could go "now we can take a breather, we can reset." We didn't want to end the season in some giant cliffhanger that meant we were gonna have to start exactly where we left off. We wanted to feel resolution and have more of an emotional ending to season three, so that it gave us a chance to reset for the beginning of season four. We just wanted a very different feel.
On a related note, it's been awesome to see Alison's suburban subplot add some levity this season — how important was it for you to have that balance when the ongoing mythology has been so dark and complex?
One of the things that was fun about season three was the fact that Alison and Donnie became "Team Hendrix" and had their own storyline. It was a different way to approach Alison this season for us, and it was nice, just from a writing standpoint, having a clone character that we love have a very different story to tell that wasn't necessarily linked to the main plot where everything has to be interwoven super intricately. It was nice to be able to use that as a breather and a little bit of lightness. Moving forward, most of the time, we're using elements to set up things that we want to do, that we know are in our plan for season four and five, so that's all I'll say [about Alison's storyline].
Was it always the plan to have the Neolutionists as the ultimate antagonist, or something you decided over the course of making the show?
When we put Neolution in season one, it was to pave the way for this later season. It was definitely part of the big picture. That was definitely premeditated.
What about Susan Duncan still being alive?
That was something that we always intended. That was part of the mystery of the past: the explosion in the lab, Dr. Leekie and the Duncans and young Rachel…
here's been criticism from some viewers over the past couple of seasons that the show's mythology is getting too convoluted, which I suppose depends on how much you appreciate serialized storytelling. Is that kind of critique something you pay attention to?
It always is — we don't wanna confuse people but the deeper you go into a mystery, the more balls you've got to juggle. It's a complicated story. I felt like it wasn't that complicated, but I think the point of this conclusion, coming to the end of this season, was always to be able to go "okay, we got all these answers, so what's next?" and leave the audience peeking into a brand new rabbit hole, and the nice thing about looking into a new rabbit hole is that you get a chance to begin again a little. There's elements that I miss from season one too — Sarah not knowing, at all, what she's facing or what any of this is about, and I think that's a place we always intended to go at the beginning of season four.
How cognizant are you of the need to maintain the mystery but not withhold answers for too long? It seems like a lot of serialized shows have struggled with that ratio after "Lost," where viewers become frustrated that mysteries are just piling on top of mysteries with no resolution in sight.
It was a real issue with "Lost" because it made people very grumpy, and it made me wonder whether the creators knew where the show was going or not. When Graeme and I first started on the show, it was like "let's map out where we want to get to. What's the endgame? What are the tentpoles for however many seasons we want to tell this story for?" And make sure that every step along the way, we're giving enough answers. We may get more questions as we go, but we're giving enough answers to the audience to keep them satisfied that they're not just watching something that doesn't have any conclusion.
Fawcett was also interviewed by Entertainment Weekly.
Game of Thrones also ended its season with questions over the fate of major characters. Unlike previous seasons, the show has now caught up with the published books, so while the books might provide additional clues, there are no definite answers.
The biggest question is whether Jon Snow is dead, or whether he will come back from the dead. Many of the interviews suggest he is really dead, but they are not accepted as final. If something major happens to a character and then an excuse to return them to life is brought about later, it will often feel like a cheat. This can plausibly be done with Jon Snow based upon the world we have seen. There has been speculation from fans about multiple ways in which Snow could have survived, or be brought back by life, with many of them already foreshadowed in previous episodes. Going more meta, I wonder if he will return primarily because he has provided the major point of view of events at the wall. Some of the stories taking place there have been among the weaker story lines, but they would be even weaker without Jon Snow. It is hard to believe that events at the wall will not continue to be of major significance with winter coming.
Stannis Baratheon was not shown to actually be killed making it very plausible that he survived. Going meta with him, it sure looks like his storyline has been concluded. On the other hand, he does have one of the stronger claims to the Iron Throne, and he might still have a role in whatever end game is planned. Maybe he will wind up returning to the wall, although I don't see replacing Jon Snow with Stannis as an improvement to the story.
Arya got to kill a henchman for the Lanisters, but wound up going blind. Either she will have to regain her sight, or become like Daredevil. Otherwise it is questionable how significant her character can be.
Daenerys, after flying away on a dragon, wound up surrounded by a Dothraki horde. Depending on how they respond to her, and whether her dragon quickly recovers, she could either be in grave danger or have a new army at her disposal.
Cersci went from a hated villain to now having an opportunity to be cheered by fans when she inevitably takes revenge. She puts a whole new meaning on "walk of shame." Those who filmed the scene apparently overlooked the problem of different lighting and on Lena Headey's's face and the length of the neck and on her body double's (Rebecca van Cleave) nude body, or else they assumed that nobody would be paying much attention to her neck and above. Margaery continues to be held by the religious fanatics. Natalie Dormer would probably have no qualms about filming her walk of shame, even if it also involved full frontal nudity, without a body double.
HBO's also had two comedies end their current seasons last weekend. Silicon Valley's second season was better than the first. The ending of Veep suggested where they are going next season, probably eliminating the minor issue that the show is named Veep but this season Julie Louis Dreyfus' character played the president. The election ended with an electoral college tie and the characters desperately tried to figure out what that meant. One even questioned if they could look it up in a book. One scenario would be having the House also be tied, with the Senate picking Tom James as president. Presumably he would then chose Selina as his vice president, bringing the character back in line with the show's title.
This would bring things partially back to how the show was first season, with some potential differences. First season the president was rarely seen, especially by his vice president, and Selena had no power or influence. Depending upon how much Hugh Laurie will be in next season, there could be an unseen president or a president with a major role. It would be plausible to have a President Tom James either ignore Selena or make use of her.
Jonah wound up the season looking more respectable, even if as the Testicle Man. It worked out well to temporarily have Dan and Amy play lobbyists and television talking heads (along with a Nate Silver type character), but I wonder if they will be brought back in to the administration next season. At least it certainly looked like Amy would return to the inner circle by the end of the finale.
This week's episode of Hannibal, Secundo, dealt with the making of monsters. This might winding up summing up Will Grahams's entire story. This does not apply to Hannibal as we were told, "Nothing happened to me. I happened." Will traveled to Hannibal's family home in Lithuania where he encountered Chiyoh who is holding in a dungeon the man who apparently killed Hannibal's sister Mischa and fed her to him. Conversations between Hannibal and Bedelia suggest that Hannibal was really to blame. Chiyoh was left to guard him when she would not allow Hannibal to kill him, but ultimately wound up killing him after Will set him free.
Chiyoh was not the only person manipulated into being a killer this episode. After Hannibal stuck an ice pick in a dinner guest's head, Bedelia pulled out the ice pick to put him out of his misery. Hannibal made a point of stating, "Let the record show, you technically killed him." The two are definitely playing a dangerous game with each other, but their ultimate motivations are not clear. Bedelia noted how Hannibal is bringing everyone back together. This episode showed Jack also alive and hunting Hannibal, and soon they will be joined by Chilton, Alana, and the Vergers. Bedelia warned Hannibal that he would be captured, and the two discussed how Hannibal must react when he encounters Will in order to forgive him: "I have to eat him."
Besides playing Dr. Bedelia, Gillian Anderson is also reprising her role as Scully on the X-Files revival. Speakeasy interviewd Anderson about these roles:
It's hard to tell whether Bedelia is Hannibal's prisoner or if she's actually playing him in a way. Where do you think his head is at once they settle into Florence and Hannibal has begun to kill again?
The trouble that I have in doing interviews about Bedelia is that part of what is interesting about her is what we don't know and is about the lingering question marks. If I were to answer [about] my thought my process in it or what I feel is motivating her, where I think she's standing or what Bryan has told me, it completely takes the joy out of it for the viewers. So, I often struggle in interviews to have anything of value to say … because I'm trying to protect the viewer in having a real-time and organic experience rather than being told what's going on.
Everybody wants to know, but it's almost better in not knowing, I think. I'll say that she's intrigued and she's scared and she's in way over her head. But I think where the question mark lies is still within that. Where lies her complicity? Where lies her power? Does she actually have the upper hand without him realizing it? Those are the multi-leveled question marks.
At the end of episode one, which everyone has seen already, Hannibal tells Bedelia she isn't just observing, she's participating. Do you think that's true? How culpable is she especially in that instance?
I think it changes halfway through. Not that she would be able to do anything about the current moment and what is transpiring in front of her, but she recognizes, legally, in that moment, if she continues to live there that the longer she stays, the more she will seem to be complicit in what's going on. I think that is partly why she then starts to do what she starts to do, which I can't talk about. The question that he poses in that moment is a question she works out for herself in that moment. Her reaction to it is what then moves her storyline through the rest of the episodes. That's potentially quite a big turning point...
Duchovny recently said the script for the new "X-Files" made him cry. How did it make you feel?
I think since I've come up to Vancouver [to shoot "The X-Files"], I've become more excited, emotional and embraced the journey we're about to go on. I'm actually really excited. I don't think it initially hit me in the first read, but it was more to do with my needing to compartmentalize and not really address the fact that it was all about to happen until I actually got up here because there were too many other things I have to think about.
We will be seeing more of the cast of Breaking Bad. Vince Gilligan has said that Bryan Cranston will appearing on Better Call Saul, but not until after the second season. There are also reports that Cranston will be directing some episodes.
Aaron Paul will be returning to a regular episodic television in The Way which will appear on Hulu. It is a family drama about a a family involved in a controversial religious movement, produced by Jason Katims and written by Jessica Goldberg. Their past work on Friday Night Lights and Parentood provide promise for this show.
While last week's episode of Hannibal jumped ahead and left open the fates of those left for dead in the season two finale, Primavera centered on Will and flashed back to the aftermath of the bloodbath. There was no indication on screen as to the fate of Jack Crawford and Alana Bloom but I was surprised to see Abigail walk into Will's hospital room early in the episode. I was surprised a second time when it was revealed that Abigail was only in Will's head, most likely representing the part of Will which still wanted to be with Hannibal.
The other key character of the episode was a police officer named Rinaldo Pazzi who had history with Hannibal. Years ago he investigated the murder of a couple who were arranged like a painting. Will explained how Hannibal operated, including how he doesn't leave evidence– as he eats it. The climax of the episode was a search through catacombs. When Will warned Pazzi that he shouldn't be be down there alone, with the warning that Hannibal will kill him (which will probably happen at some point), Pazzi pointed out that he had Will with him.
Will's response summed up the episode: "You don't know whose side I'm on." The problem is that that Will himself doesn't know, and if he was smart he would followed the advice he gave Pazzi and remain home with his dogs (and Alana if she survived). There was another clue as to Will's state of mind when he said at the end of the episode, directed towards Hannibal, "I forgive you."
This still leaves open how each will respond when they actually meet again.
The penultimate episode of the season of Orphan Black, Insolvent Phantom Of Tomorrow, gave more answers, regardless of whether plausible. Allison's days as a drug dealer appear to be coming to an end, but the storyline provided for an unexpected pairing of Donnie and Helena. Helena was disguised as Allison, but under the circumstances it was more useful for Donnie to have the psychopathic killer clone along. The big mistake at Pouch's warehouse was for the drug dealers to first take Helena's tank with her embryos, and then threaten Donny and who they believed to be Allison's children. Helena told them, "You should not threaten babies." She then made them pay for the threat, and then rejoin Donny with the money he had lost, and more. "I got refund, we should go now."
Delphine again showed how terrifying she can be, threatening Shay's life believing that she had given the information about the book to the Castor group. It really didn't come as a surprise when it turned out that Gracie and not Shay had sold them out to please her guy-clone. Seeing Delphine hold that razor blade after Cosima phoned her about Gracie, I half expected Delphine to tell Cosima that it was too late and then proceed to kill, or at least torture Shay. The previews revealed that Shay remains alive, although I wouldn't be at all surprised to find out that there is still more to her than appears.
The biggest revelation took place in London when Kendall Malone turned out to be Sirobhan's mother, who had absorbed a male twin in the womb s0 that she has two cell lines. She was the original cell line for Castor, but they couldn't kill her as planned because she also was the original cell line for Leda, having both male and female cells. Not only are Castor and Leda brother and sister as we learned earlier this season, this would also mean that Sarah along with the rest of the clones and Siobhan actually are biologically related.
If this didn't set up enough for the season finale, Ferdinand and Topside are also back.
Like Veronica Mars, the previous hit from Rob Thomas, iZombie was enjoyable more for its season-long arc and the characters than for the case of the week. By the season finale much has changed, including more people knowing that Liv is a Zombie. David Anders, as usual, made a fantastic villain, this time as Blaine. He had a great racket going, turning people into zombies, and then selling them brains. As opposed to the typical zombie show, the zombies on iZombie kept their human memories as long as they had a steady supply of brains to eat. Now that Blaine is no longer a zombie, will he keep his racket going? If not, where do the zombies he created get their brains, and do we wind up with a zombie apocalypse?
Rob Thomas discussed the finale and second season with E!:
E! News: Blaine and Major have both been cured—are there going to be any complications with becoming human again?
Rob Thomas: Yeah, there will be. Ravi would not have wanted to put that cure on the market yet, and for good reason. There will be side effects. There will be fallout from that. It won't be as easy as boom, you're human again, go enjoy the rest of your life. Blaine will have to try to maintain his zombie world while being human so we're going to have some fun in season two with him trying to pass as a zombie. Imagine him trying to put on white face to convince his clients that he's still a badass who they should be afraid of.
Liv's brother is in critical condition by the end of the finale—how is this going to shake up their family dynamic especially since Liv can't give her blood to save him?
It will have real repercussions next year. We know that the season two opening scene is going to be a really rough scene with her family. They do not understand the decision she made and it's kind of impossible for her to tell them.
More in an interview at TVLine:
TVLINE | There's not one, but at least three major cliffhangers in the finale. Was that always the plan, even before the show was renewed?
Yes. In fact, it's been the plan for a long time. When we offered [Robert Buckley] the role of Major, he called me and said, "Listen, I just want to make sure that I'm not just going to be the boy that Liv pines for, that I'm going to have something to do," and I pitched him the exact ending of the show. I said, "It's going to end like Taxi Driver. You going into the zombie headquarters and mowing people down. You will have gone through this horrible journey. You will have this moment where you get to take out all these enemies." So we were always building to that.
And probably around midseason, we had some ideas on how we wanted to reset for Season 2. We announce our big Season 2 storyline right there in the finale. Vaughan, the head of Max Rager, says, "We're going to take out all the zombies." So that will be a big part of Season 2, and it will make Liv and Blaine strange bedfellows. One of the things that was rough in Season 1 was we loved those two actors on screen together, but part of the season arc was Liv searching for Blaine. We couldn't play them on screen. Next season, you'll see a lot more of them on screen, at the same time, with a common enemy.
TVLINE | Is it safe to say that Blaine as a human, even without his zombie strength and rage, is still not a nice person and a dangerous threat to Liv and Major?
Yeah. We're not going to make him cuddly next year. If you talked to me a few years ago, I would have thought, "Well, how in the world, after him spending Season 1 murdering homeless teenagers, could we ever believe him as anything but evil?" Then you watch Game of Thrones. Somehow, Jaime Lannister has become a sympathetic character even though he threw a young boy out a window in Episode 1. So it can be done, and maybe someday, we will attempt that. But for the immediate future, Blaine is bad.
TVLINE | Can he keep his business going as a human?
That's going to be part of the fun of Season 2. He will need to trick his clientele. Next season, he may be passing as zombie in order to maintain the fear, which I think we'll have fun with.
TVLINE | So instead of tanning, he'll be putting on powder.
It's funny you say that because we already have a scene up on our writers' board in which we will see him getting powdered up in order to appear as a full-blooded zombie.
TVLINE | Major now knows the whole truth. What does that allow you to do that you couldn't before with Major and his relationship with Liv?
Now that they both know, and Major knows what he'd be getting into, we're toying with, could they try a romantic relationship in which no bodily fluids were exchanged? It's sort of a great existential question of, could you have a romantic partner with whom the sexual limits were very, very strict? How would that go? We may explore that.
The Flash is casting a Felicity-like love interest for Barry Allen for season two. Of course we know from those future newspapers who he winds up with, assuming they are from the same timeline.
There were at least two huge scenes on The Game of Thrones last Sunday, with one of the most disturbing deaths of the series and flight on dragons. With the season finale airing tonight I will wait for that before saying more about the show.
Defiance returned on Friday with two more alien threats. Fans of the show probably enjoyed the two hour season premiere. I remain lukewarm, but see more promise this season than in the second season. Knowing the characters after two seasons did make me more interested in the events than I had been at points in the past.
The HBO version of The Leftovers completed the material from the novel in its first season. The above trailer has been released for the second season which moves to a new location, with major changes in the cast. The story moves to Jarden, Texas where, unlike the rest of the world where two percent of the people vanished in a rapture-like event, nobody disappeared in Jarden. I wonder if they play Dillon, Texas in football.
The BBC adaption of Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norell, about half way through in the UK, premiered in the US on BBC America. Reading reviews of the mini-series I found that they all agree that some aspects of the novel did not make it into the television show. The reviewers disagreed as to whether this means that important aspects of the novel were left out, or if this means that what they saw as flaws in the novel were fixed.
The Man From UNCLE will be released in theaters on August 14, 2015. The trailer is above and the synopsis, based upon the 1960's television show, follows:
Set against the backdrop of the early 1960s, at the height of the Cold War, The Man from U.N.C.L.E. centers on CIA agent Solo and KGB agent Kuryakin. Forced to put aside longstanding hostilities, the two team up on a joint mission to stop a mysterious international criminal organization, which is bent on destabilizing the fragile balance of power through the proliferation of nuclear weapons and technology. The duo's only lead is the daughter of a vanished German scientist, who is the key to infiltrating the criminal organization, and they must race against time to find him and prevent a worldwide catastrophe.
Streaming video has greatly changed how many of us watch television. Netflix has dominated this market, but there are additional options including Hulu, Amazon, Yahoo! (primarily notable for carrying the sixth season of Community) and now stand alone subscriptions for HBO and Showtime. Netflix has been expanding worldwide, but they will have new competition when they move ahead with plans to expand to China. Alibaba plans to launch a Netflix-like streaming service in China. About ninety percent of its content will be paid for, either by subscription or payment for individual shows. with the remaining ten percent available for free.
Orphan Black continues at high speed in the second half of the season with Ruthless in Purpose, and Insidious in Method being one of the best episodes of the season. There was the return of another clone as Tatiana Maslany once again played Krystal, the manicurist who fears twins and clowns who was seen in the first episode with Rudy and Seth. This also provided a different situation in which a character got to act as someone else, in this case Felix acting as a straight guy hitting on Krystal. Krystal turned out to not entirely be the bubbly air head as she was portrayed as, although unaware of being a clone, or having slept with clones, realized something is up and was investigating.
Unfortunately this did not work out very well for poor Krystal as Rachel was up to far more than anyone realized, and managed to play everyone against everyone else to get what she wanted, including Krystal's body to hide her escape. It will be good to see Rachel back as a powerful antagonist, but I was hoping she might keep the eye patch.
We found out more about the outcome from last week's grenade dropped by Paul in Mexico. Data was damaged, but Dr. Coady and Rudy survived. Coady revealed that unless they find the cure, the Castor clones will all be dead within one to two years. She understands the underlying structure of the show–when one part of the conspiracy is exposed, there is always another behind it. She asked, "Castor and Leda – I've been feeling this for a while. It's not just two factions is it? Who's in charge, David?"
Alison's Weeds story line continues to be mostly independent of the other story lines but they continue to find ways to fit it into the rest of the show. Previously Cosima had to impersonate Alison. This week the connection is that it is their turn to host Helena, who was also reunited with Gracie.
Next week, London now that we found out a bit of the code in The Island of Dr. Moreau:
In Londontown,
We all fell down,
And Castor woke from slumber.
To find the first,
The beast, the curse,
The original has a number.
And the number is H46239, which I'm sure we will learn more about later.
Hannibal began the third season with an Antipasto which was served to partially reset the show. Instead of Baltimore, the episode takes place in Florence, after a stop over in Paris. It is a much slower episode after the bloody season finale from season two. While it was implied that Will Graham and perhaps others survived, most of the major characters from the first two seasons were not seen. The exception was flashbacks to the final days of Dr. Abel Gideon, which was primarily to provide insight into Hannibal's mind.
Hannibal is traveling with Dr. Bedelia Du Mauirer (Gillian Anderson), who was acting as his wife as she was getting dragged (or in one bathtub scene, submerged) into Hannibal's world. Hannibal asked if she was an observer or participant, and it looks like she is heading to be far more of a participant than she ever intended. That does not stop her from observing and analyzing Hannibal, describing him in a way which was accurate from the start: "You no longer have ethical concerns, Hannibal. Only aesthetical ones."
Of course Hannibal did invite someone over for dinner, and it was obvious as to what that ultimately means.
Community concluded its sixth season with one of its more meta episodes, pondering what a seventh season might be, and ending with the hashtag #AndaMovie. The episode could very easily work as a season finale or as a lead in to whatever Dan Harmon decides to do next. It sounds like he is taking a break, but that Yahoo! would be quite happy to put on another season if he writes it. Getting the cast together for another season might be difficult due to other obligations, suggesting that six seasons and a movie might be the most likely outcome after all, but a seventh season remains a possibility.
Dan Harmon has responded to the question saying, "I told Yahoo, 'I can't think about writing a movie until I miss Community," Harmon said. "They wanted to turn around a do a movie immediately, and Yahoo can get it done. They're like the NSA." Joel McHale will have a guest role on the X-Files revival, and when on Conan seemed more interested in a movie. Making matters more difficult for a seventh season, Gillian Jacobs and Ken Jeong have roles in other series. Both Annie and Abed were leaving at the end, but it was left open whether they might later return. Personally I'd watch a show centered around Jeff and Annie, along Abed, the Dean, and any other characters who are still available.
Dan Harmon discussed the finale:
That was a rather emotional finale, and true to Community form, very meta. What were you hoping to accomplish with the season ender?
It was a meta explosion. I never know what it is I want to say, I just know of areas I want to explore. Community was the show that commented on itself the whole time, and for the last episode of Season 6 the goal isn't to lure new viewers, so might as well really lean into this thing and talk about what's on everybody's mind, since the conversation about Community has always been more intense than the conversation about the characters. So we had the characters talk about the future of the show as if it were a show. Other than that, it had a pretty traditional structure: It was an excuse to explore possibilities, only to realize there's absolutely no way we can control anything. Also if we want these characters to continue to grow, they're missing a huge part of their life right now. Annie is an exceptional person. I want Annie to taste the world.
Jeff Winger had the most idealistic dream of everyone staying at Greendale as faculty colleagues. That actually would be a device you could use for another season–but that would mean that none of these characters get to really grow or ever leave.
I do agree with Winger that that show makes more sense than the one I originally pitched, because then they all have a reason to be together. They would have a reason to have meetings, and then it would be Boston Public set at Greendale.
Annie and Abed leave the group at the end of the episode to pursue their dreams. Why them?
I think Britta's future can still be found at Greendale and I don't think there's anything sad about that. She lived in New York. She was the wild horse that galloped around and then came slinking back to community college. So she has sown her oats and still needs to grow up, just like Jeff does. In the original idea, there were three characters – Abed, Annie and Troy – who represented the younger stories you might encounter at a community college. Those are stories about transitions. Other stories can be about falls from grace. They were wayward youth. On the off chance that it's the last image of the show that we ever see, I felt more comfortable with the image of Abed and Annie going off to an airport, where they might go anywhere or do anything. It made me feel better about the eternity of the show.
Let's talk about the Annie and Winger relationship and that kiss. There's still a big age gap between the two, but on an emotional scale they're on the same level.
Yeah, with each passing year it gets a little less creepy. I did just marry a 29 year old at 42. And in real life, Allison Brie is 43. No. I just wanted her to read that and freak out. I have no idea how old Allison is. Age aside, it's more an issue of how much life experience you have had. Do we really believe in our heart of hearts that the current version of Jeff Winger and the current version of Annie Edison would be happily ever after if they ever got together? Or is it more likely their souls are intermingled and there is such a thing as true love that is genuinely star crossed? This person hasn't lived their life yet. I'm comfortable with the realization that he's genuinely in love with her, but that's a separate thing from whether that's actually good for her.
This episode has the feel of a series finale, but you had to leave the door open in the event of a seventh season or a movie. Are you leaning toward the movie option?
We've exploded into these successful shrapnel. Dr. Ken is now Dr. Ken. Allison has probably got her eye on movies. Gillian is working on a Netflix show. If there was some magical way of guaranteeing that everyone could come back all at once, let's do it. But it would be a lot easier to put together a movie project and get them all on board than to say, "Let's give it one more season!"
You made a point of not changing Community's language or content this season, even though you were no longer confined by broadcast standards. But you ended up with two "fucks" in the finale!
I did! It was kind of unintentional. That one that Jim [Rash, as Dean Pelton] does is adlibbed. As soon as he said it, the entire cast started laughing, but I edited around it. As for Britta's I should have bleeped it… it's weird to have two "fucks" on that one.
The show, especially the Chang and Dean Pelton characters, was more grounded this season.
I think it was more emotionally grounded, but structurally, ironically everything was a lot looser. I think I've become a victim of my own story structure. The lack of a clock at Yahoo, a really strict one, allowed for something I think the show needed in order for it to continue to feel healthy. A certain randomness. The stories don't resolve the way you always think they might. There are these strange slingshots around the sun. The wedding episode ends randomly with Chang being the hero. I was a little more British this year.
If I buy a Honda CR-V [which played a major role in Season 6, particularly in the episode "Advanced Safety Features"] and drop your name, do you get a cut?
I'm still waiting for my jacket. I told them I wanted the Honda jacket that Jim wears in the episode.
The last episode ends with a faux Community board game advertisement, which ends up diving into your own stream of consciousness. You even did the voice over. Is that a snapshot of how you were feeling as the season ended?
Well, I certainly did that voice over just two days ago. Everybody had to talk me into doing it. I kept saying, "It's not funny if it's me." Then I tried it. That is my throat catching in a genuine way. But I don't know, I want to wait and see. I've never had a relationship this long. I've never done anything for six years, except drink.
The cast of Gilmore Girls, along with the show's creator Amy Sherman-Palladino got together at the ATX TV Festival. Unfortunately there is still no plans for the long-rumored movie reunion, but hope was kept alive. At least the cast still gets along and nobody really objects to working on it. Amy Sherman-Palladino also said she will not reveal the final four words with which she had planned to end the series until she is on her death bed. This remains a mystery as she left the show for the final season, so her planned finale was never aired. The cast did discuss where they think their character would be today.
John Noble has been cast as Sherlock's estranged father on season four of Elementary.
The Nebula Awards winners were announced. The award for best novel went to Annihilation, by Jeff VanderMeer. The full list of winners is here.
Outlander ended the first season like ending a book, moving on to new things but without a television cliff hanger. Note that even though it was divided, everything which aired so far is considered the first season, based upon the first book in the series. The episode concluded the arc with Jaime's capture and rape by Jack. Jack even demanded that Jaime "Say my name!" I half expected Jaime to respond with "Heisenberg." The topic of changing time did come up in the finale, and it will be interesting to see how this plays out as Outlander is a totally different type of time travel story compared to shows such as 12 Monkeys.
Ron Moore spoke with Deadline about the season finale of Outlander and the plans for next season. The comparison to the recent rape scene on Game of Thrones was also noted:
DEADLINE: The May 17 episode of HBO's Game of Thrones featured a rape of the Sansa Stark character that erupted into controversy for a show already drenched in sex and violence. Airing so close to that, how do you think what happened there will impact reaction to the Outlander finale?
MOORE: Obviously we wrote the finale, shoot it, and put in the can a long time ago and the rape of Jamie by Jack Randall was always a part of this story. Suddenly I'm talking about our show and we're stepping into a cultural moment where that Game of Thrones scene has suddenly grabbed everybody's attention.
To be honest, I still haven't even seen it. I'm behind in my Game of Thrones and I have yet to catch up on it so I keep sort of defying comparisons as a result. But I will say, it's just one of those things you can't control. You never know exactly what pop cultural moment a show is going to step into. Sometimes it happens and there's nothing else around it, sometimes you're sort of moving into the stream where something has caused a wake and that's kind of where we are at this moment.
DEADLINE: While you haven't seen the Unbowed, Unbent, Unbroken episode of Game Of Thrones with the rape, having seen the sandstorm of a controversy it blew up into, did you think of toning down the finale?
MOORE: I've never even thought that for a second. This is our show. We stand by it. I stand by it. We made our decision. We're ready to show it to the audience and we'll see what happens, but no I never even thought about that…
DEADLINE: The season ended on what is basically the end of the first book in Diana Gabaldon's series – is that going to be the strategy for each season going forward?
MOORE: The general plan is probably to try to do a book a season. Some of the books are bigger than others so we've definitely had conversations about, "well, you know, at some point we made need to split a book into two seasons," but right now we're not there yet so the plan is to do Dragonfly In Amber for Season 2.
DEADLINE: Are we going to see more changes from that book for Season 2 of the show?
MOORE: There will be twists and turns that aren't in the book. The second book is more complex than the first book is. It's a little tougher challenge to adapt it. It takes place in France and it deals with the Jacobite Rebellion. It's much more political, it weaves in and out of actual historical events. There's more complexity, just in terms of how Diana structured the story in Paris, in particular, as Jamie and Claire try to change history.
DEADLINE: What's going to be different?
MOORE: It's an urban setting and you're dealing with aristocracy and the court of Louis XV so it's a whole different thing. It's not going to look anything like Season 1, so you're really kind of prepping and shooting a whole new TV show into the second year. It has a lot of, you know, "oh my God, what can we do," those kind of moments to it…
DEADLINE: You've worked on and led a number of shows, now that the first season is over on this one, how has Outlander been different for you from a creative standpoint?
MOORE: Well, it's a very different experience, you know? Galactica was something where I took the old show and then decided to revamp it and reinvent it. But it was kind of something that I was making up in the writers room as we went along and I literally didn't know where it was going season to season. It was a process of invention and discovery all the way along the road right up until the end. This project is different, it's an adaptation so there is a roadmap – this is where we're going. The challenges are very different. It's the first time I've done an adaptation like this.
Just from a strictly producing standpoint, it's been the most challenging thing I've ever done. The story aspect and the writing aspect has just been a very different game from what I've done before. It's trying to maintain the spirit of the book, it's trying to keep these characters, trying to maintain this story and making changes along the way because you have to make changes along the way. It's trying to get back to that, and hopefully you're able to serve two masters, the fans of the books and those who've discovered the story through the show.
More on next season at TVLINE:
TVLINE | Claire and Jamie are off to France for Season 2. Talk to me about how the show will look next season.
They're going to Paris, and they're going to be dealing with the French aristocracy. So you're already in a completely different planet than where we were with Season 1. Scotland is about heavy stone, rough wood, dark tabletops, smoke and candlelit rooms, and now you're in world of gilt, fine China, glassware and costumes that are made of silks and bright colors.
It's going to be a whole different tone, a whole different…playing the story as much more political. We're dealing with the Jacobite Rebellion. It's much more about deception, and lies within lies, and the gossips and the surroundings of Paris. And dinner parties, and going to the court of Louis the XV — and if you know those books, there's St. Germain, and there's Master Raymond, and there's more of an occult feeling to a lot of that stuff. [Plus], she's pregnant, and he's got the aftermath of Jack Randall.
In probably every which way you can think of, it's going to be different than Season 1 was, which I think is one of the strengths of the series overall: its continuing evolution.
TVLINE | What can you tell me about how Jamie and Claire will navigate that world?
In a lot of ways, [Parisian society] is more familiar to him in certain ways than you would anticipate, because he is a laird in his own life, and he has lived in France, and he speaks the French language. It is a somewhat familiar culture to him. He does know his cousin, Jared, who runs a wine business, and he's been to this place. Claire also speaks French, and she's adapting in a different way, but she still struggles with the roles woman in these times, even in French society.
TVLINE | Do Caitriona Balfe and Sam Heughan speak French?
Caitriona definitely does, because she spent quite a bit of time in Paris, and Sam is learning French. I just heard him at the table read the other day, and I was pretty surprised. He did quite well.
TVLINE | Can you speak to whether Season 2 won't be quite as true to the structure of the novel Dragonfly in Amber as Season 1 was to its source material?
It's just a complicated process of adaptation… The Paris section [of Dragonfly in Amber], the plot is not as clean and simple as the plot was in Book 1. Book 1, for a big chunk of it, is Claire going back in time and trying to get home, and then she's trying to find Jamie, and those are very clean narratives.
The Paris section of Book 2 is just more complex. It's about many more ideas, other characters coming and going. They're involved in something that's more complex Diana [Gabaldon] shifted points of view, herself, in Book 2. So that alone just makes it a more complicated task to make the adaptation. So, yeah, we're still struggling with the same things, with trying to be as true to the book as we possibly can while making it a television series. We always just try to do our best.
Last week's episode of Games of Thrones had a couple of major events, including Cersei finding that a religious movement now has more power than she does. George R.R. Martin discussed his inspiration for The Sparrows in The Game of Thrones with Entertainment Weekly:
"The Sparrows are my version of the medieval Catholic Church, with its own fantasy twist," Martin told EW. "If you look at the history of the church in the Middle Ages, you had periods where you had very worldly and corrupt popes and bishops. People who were not spiritual, but were politicians. They were playing their own version of the game of thrones, and they were in bed with the kings and the lords. But you also had periods of religious revival or reform—the greatest of them being the Protestant Reformation, which led to the splitting of the church—where there were two or three rival popes each denouncing the other as legitimate. That's what you're seeing here in Westeros. The two previous High Septons we've seen, the first was very corrupt in his own way, and he was torn apart by the mob during the food riots [in season 2]. The one Tyrion appoints in his stead is less corrupt but is ineffectual and doesn't make any waves. Cersei distrusts him because Tyrion appointed him. So now she has to deal with a militant and aggressive Protestant Reformation, if you will, that's determined to resurrect a faith that was destroyed centuries ago by the Targaryens."
And there are other, more direct influences as well between Catholic Church and the Faith of the Seven as well, Martin pointed out. "Instead of the Trinity of the Catholic Church, you have the Seven, where there is one god with seven aspects. In Catholicism, you have three aspects—the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost. I remember as a kid, I was always confused by that. 'So there are three gods?' No, one god, but with three aspects. I was still confused: 'So he's his own father and own son?'"
Game of Thrones has diverged from the books this season. The show runners discussed one of the changes seen in last week's episode which I think makes a lot of sense to move the story along–moving up the meeting between Tyrion Lannister and Daenerys Targaryen:
Showrunner David Benioff said pairing these two characters—played by Emmy winner Peter Dinklage and Emmy nominee Emilia Clarke—was one of the twists the producers most eagerly anticipated this season. "We're really excited to see these two characters we love so much finally set eyes on each other," Benioff said. "Creatively it made sense to us, because we wanted it to happen. They're two of the best characters of the show. To have them come so close together this season then have them not meet felt incredibly frustrating. Also, we're on a relatively fast pace. We don't want to do a 10-year adaptation of the books, we don't want to do a nine-year adaptation. We're not going to spend four seasons in Meereen. It's time for these two to get together. It's hard to come up with a more eloquent explanation, but this just felt right. [Varys] puts Tyrion's mission out there [in the season premiere] and the mission ends in Meereen."
Tyrion and Daenerys have not yet met in George R.R. Martin's novels upon which the series is based. But as is increasingly the case on the show, the producers opted to progress the story beyond the characters' stopping point in Martin's most recent book, A Dance with Dragons, in order to maintain an intense TV-friendly pace. Benioff and his fellow showrunner Dan Weiss have previously pointed out they prefer to cap the series around seven seasons.
"There will always be some fans who will think it's blasphemy," Benioff noted. "But we can't not do something because we're afraid of the reaction. I like to think we've always done what's in the best interest of the show and we hope most people agree."
The first real conversation between Daenerys and Tyrion, which occurs on tonight's episode, should be interesting.
Both Ron Moore and George R.R. Martin have dealt with questions of the television works they are involved with differing from the books. Martin recently addressed fans who have been upset with events on the television show which differ from the books, such as the rape of Sansa, on his blog:
How many children did Scarlett O'Hara have? Three, in the novel. One, in the movie. None, in real life: she was a fictional character, she never existed. The show is the show, the books are the books; two different tellings of the same story.
There have been differences between the novels and the television show since the first episode of season one. And for just as long, I have been talking about the butterfly effect. Small changes lead to larger changes lead to huge changes. HBO is more than forty hours into the impossible and demanding task of adapting my lengthy (extremely) and complex (exceedingly) novels, with their layers of plots and subplots, their twists and contradictions and unreliable narrators, viewpoint shifts and ambiguities, and a cast of characters in the hundreds.
There has seldom been any TV series as faithful to its source material, by and large (if you doubt that, talk to the Harry Dresden fans, or readers of the Sookie Stackhouse novels, or the fans of the original WALKING DEAD comic books)… but the longer the show goes on, the bigger the butterflies become. And now we have reached the point where the beat of butterfly wings is stirring up storms, like the one presently engulfing my email.
Prose and television have different strengths, different weaknesses, different requirements.
David and Dan and Bryan and HBO are trying to make the best television series that they can.
And over here I am trying to write the best novels that I can.
And yes, more and more, they differ. Two roads diverging in the dark of the woods, I suppose… but all of us are still intending that at the end we will arrive at the same place.S
The video above has interviews with the cast of Legends of Tomorrow, and the first few seconds shows them in uniform. This includes Caity Lotz returning as The White Canary, and a scene showing The Atom shrinking.
Disney has announced they have discontinued plans for Tron 3. While some fans are complaining, I don't mind. I see the Tron series as something out of the past which which we have moved beyond and no longer need–like another Clinton or Bush running for president. Besides, with Disney owning the movie rights to Marvel and Star Wars they have much better genre properties to develop into movies, such as we have much better politicians to consider for the presidency.
The Community sixth season finale will be on Yahoo this upcoming week. Yvette Nicole Brown will return to reprise her role as Shirley. Then is is six seasons and a movie?
Orphan Black did not advance the overall story very much this week. We don't even know if anyone survived Paul's grenade, but it was confirmed that the military installation was in Mexico. The highlight was another case of one clone impersonating another, in this case Cosima as Alison. Next it is the time for the suburban drug deals to play host family for Helena.
Showtime has doubled the length of the planned Twin Peaks reboot from nine to eighteen episodes.
Jon Hamm should walk away with the Emmy this year for his work on Mad Men. Hamm has also showed other acting talent doing comedy work such as on 30 Rock and Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt. Next he has a more dramatic movie role, string in a political thriller, High Wire Act. From The Hollywood Reporter:
Jon Hamm has signed on to star in the Tony Gilroy-penned political action-thriller High Wire Act. Brad Anderson is directing the film for Radar Pictures.
Set in 1980s Beirut, Hamm plays a former U.S. diplomat who is called back into service to save a former colleague from the group possibly responsible for his own family's death.
Netflix has renewed another show well worth watching, Grace and Frankie, for a second season. Netflix, incidentally, accounted for 37 percent of internet bandwidth during peak hours in North America in March. According to Variety, "YouTube accounted for 15.6% of downstream Internet traffic, web browsing was 6%, Facebook was 2.7%, Amazon Instant Video was 2.0% and Hulu was 1.9%."
In addition to increased viewing of television from streaming sources. podcasts are becoming more popular, with Serial one of the biggest. It has been announced that Serial will have at least three seasons, with the second season coming this fall.
Halt and Catch Fire starts its second season on AMC tonight. Reviewers are saying it has fixed many of its first season problems and the second season sounds worth watching.
Mad Men really did end somewhat like I discussed last week–Don Draper on the California coast, analogous to the season finale of Arrow with Oliver and Felicity driving up the coast. Don even traveled with a woman from Arrow–Caity Lotz, the Black Canary. In this case she played Stephanie, Anna Draper's niece. The choice was probably because of Stephanie knowing Don as Dick Whitman. Spending the episode being called Dick culminated the trend of the last few episodes with Don symbolically as the falling man in the opening titles. By this time Don had given up virtually everything involved with this identity. During the finale he was rejected by his family, who thought that others should raise his sons after Betty dies, and hit rock bottom after talking with Peggy.
In the end Mad Men might be called an eight-year anti-smoking public service announcement and coke ad. Don was moved when he heard Leonard speak. While not as bad off, Leonard's talk of being the person nobody wanted to take out of the refrigerator resonated with Don. In the final scene Don was meditating on a cliff and came up with the idea for the classic coke ad, which even included two girls who looked like the receptionist at the retreat. Up until this point I had one complaint about how the series appeared to be ending. The first half of the final season was all about Don losing his position in advertising and then moving back to the top. It seemed strange to then have Don walk out on it all, even if not comfortable with how the larger company does business, along with being wrong about the future of light beer.
Don's return to advertising was foreshadowed, as was Betty's development of cigarette cancer. The promos showed a previous scene of Roger shrugging off Don's disappearance by saying simply that, "He does that." Stan reassured Peggy by pointing out that "He always does this, and he always comes back." Peggy told Don that he could return and that McCann Erickson would take him back. She even asked, "Don't you want to work on Coke?" Don was asked to fix a coke machine in another recent episode. The coke ad also was the culmination of Don's difficulties over the years understanding hippy subculture. He may or may not really get it at the end, but he understood enough of the philosophy to develop the message of the ad. It clicked with him while meditating. While the message of a coke ad might on one level be somewhat superficial, this was a series which revolved around the advertising industry after all.
While Matthew Weiner has given support to the interpretation that the ending does mean Don returned to do the coke ad, while watching the show it does appear valid to come to other conclusions, such as that Don reached a spiritual awakening which was analogous to the message of the ad, giving him the strength to do other things, as opposed to actually writing the ad. If the show is seen as ending with an open ended question as to whether Don did create the ad, then in some ways the ending could be even more ambiguous than the ending of The Sopranos. With The Sopranos, Tony Soprano was either killed in the diner or lived to continue as he had previously lived. If Don did not create the coke ad, then things were left wide open. He could have returned to advertising, possibly return to raise his children, take a new job elsewhere, or just remain on the road for an indefinite period of time.
Mad Men ended with a happy ending for almost everybody. Pete Campbell wound up far better than expected after he realized he did not have to be a philanderer like his father, and convinced his wife to return to him. (Perhaps they have a daughter who grows up to attend Greendale Community College who looks just like her mother). Joan, who was never the type to live off someone's money to use cocaine in the Florida Keys, returned to work. Her company may or may not succeed, but if Mad Men were to continue we know that Joan would be working somewhere regardless of how long it were to run. While providing an ending, the show also left things open for the characters to move on in other ways in the future. Joan's business may or may not succeed, and things may or may not work out for Roger and Marie in long term.
Two characters who might have the most interesting futures should we see them on a sequel such as Better Call Sally are Sally and Peggy. Sally's future is most in question due to her age. Short term she will help care for her younger brothers while her mother is dying, but we know she will accomplish more long term. A couple of scenarios were already outlined by others for Peggy. She might succeed in becoming Creative Director by 1980, or she might take the route suggested by the head hunter in a previous episode and move on to a great job in a few years after having McCann Erickson on her resume.
In a way even Betty wound up with a good ending for her character. After being disliked by many viewers over the years, she became far more sympathetic after we learned on Mother's Day that she is dying of lung cancer. She is also dying on her own terms, rejecting treatment which in 1970 was probably of little value.
The final moments of Mad Men, which includes where the key characters were at the time, can be seen in the video above, which concludes with the classic coke commercial after Don smiled and a bell went off in his head.
Matthew Weiner discussed the finale at the New York Public Library a few days after it aired. Here are some excerpts from a report on the event from The Hollywood Reporter:
Yes, Don Draper created the Coke ad. The last scenes of the series features Don hugging a stranger at a retreat and meditating with hippies before the episode cuts to the 1971 Coca-Cola "Hilltop" commercial. Viewers can infer that Don returns to McCann-Erickson and creates that ad. "I have never been clear, and I have always been able to live with ambiguities," said Weiner. "In the abstract, I did think, why not end this show with the greatest commercial ever made? In terms of what it means to people and everything, I am not ambiguity for ambiguity's sake. But it was nice to have your cake and eat it too, in terms of what is advertising, who is Don and what is that thing?"
That commercial shouldn't be read cynically. "I did hear rumblings of people talking about the ad being corny. It's a little bit disturbing to me, that cynicism. I'm not saying advertising's not corny, but I'm saying that the people who find that ad corny, they're probably experiencing a lot of life that way, and they're missing out on something. Five years before that, black people and white people couldn't even be in an ad together! And the idea that someone in an enlightened state might have created something that's very pure — yeah, there's soda in there with a good feeling, but that ad to me is the best ad ever made, and it comes from a very good place. … That ad in particular is so much of its time, so beautiful and, I don't think, as — I don't know what the word is — villainous as the snark of today."
Leonard was "probably the most important role in the series." The post-war period in which the beginning of the show is set, "the word 'depressed' was not part of the vocabulary except for doctors, and men certainly didn't express their feelings other than in bar fights," Weiner explained. In casting Evan Arnold, "I needed someone who's not famous and can cry, and really do it. … We believe it right away that he's invisible." He played the role of the everyman, "even if they're not veterans, the alienation that was created by success, political racial tension, the technology — which is, I think, what's happening right now — the isolation, these guys, they're gonna crack. … I don't think there's enough empathy right now in the world."
That hug between Don and Leonard had two meanings. "I hope the audience would feel either that he was embracing a part of himself, or maybe them, and that they were heard. I don't want to put it into words more than that. … I liked the idea where he'd come to this place, and it'd be about other people and a moment of recognition. I don't think I can put it into words, but I knew."
Don's road trip was inspired by The Fugitive. "I thought, 'I want to see Don on his own. I want to do an episode of The Fugitive where Don comes into town and can be anyone,'" Weiner said, pointing to the '60s series. "That netherworld of being on the run — I don't know about you, but I think everyone has dreams of committing a crime and being on the run. Am I the only one? I think it's very common. You're lying!" he told the audience with a smile.
In the history of television, Mad Men is the real thing.
The season finale of The Flash left many things open due to the effects of time travel. Barry went back in time with the intent to save his mother but was quickly waived off by his future self, and he decided not to change the events which led to him becoming the Flash. I was disappointed by this aspect of the episode as presumably Barry gave a lot of thought to this decision. Considering the risks which he had accepted, I would think it would have taken more to convince him to change his mind. Regardless, he decided against changing history at this time, but after he returned history was changed by another event. Eddy shot himself, making his descendant, appear to cease to exist. (It is a shame that Eddy hadn't previously thought to get a vasectomy instead.)
As far as we could see, after Eddy shot himself and Thawne faded away everything seemed the same, other than for the time travel having caused the development of a singularity which threatens to destroy the planet. The annual threats to Starling City which culminate every season of Arrow now seem so trivial. Theoretically once Thawne disappeared everything should have been different and the group wouldn't have been together at Star Labs, but this timey whimy stuff can be unpredictable. We did see a brief image of an alternate Earth Flash helmet from the DC comics and Kaitlin as Killer Frost. Both or neither might ever be seen in the timeline of the television show. There was also an homage to Douglas Adams with Cisco saying, "So long, and thanks for all the fish." Plus his memories of the alternate timeline were explained as being a power he gained when the particle accelerator exploded, possibly foreshadowing him turning into the Vibe as in the comics.
One consequence of this could be that the real Harrison Wells is still alive, never having been killed and having his body snatched by Thawne. Plus should the Reverse Flash return (and does anyone really doubt this will happen) instead of Wells under the mask it might be the face we say before he disappeared.
Andrew Kreisberg discussed the season finale with The Hollywood Reporter:
When did you know Eddie would make this sacrifice?
When we decided to name him Thawne, we hoped the audience would suspect Eddie was the Reverse-Flash because of his last name. We always knew Eddie would be his ancestor, but we weren't quite sure how we would end the season. The way things were moving forward, it felt like it was the best thing to do for his character. Like with Colin Donnell [whose character Tommy died in Arrow's season one finale], it was literally the worst thing we could do to ourselves as writers, producers and friends, because we all love Rick so much both personally and professionally, and we think he's crushed it as Eddie all season. We've all become very close. It's one of those terrible things. The story sort of tells you what it wants to be and as much as it broke our hearts, we knew this was the way the season needed to end…
Will Eddie be back?
The great thing with our show — you saw it with Colin Donnell and with Caity Lotz [whose deceased Sara is returning for spinoff Legends of Tomorrow] — is just because you are dead doesn't mean you're not coming back. Especially in the world of The Flash, which involves time travel and real hardcore science fiction, there's always a way for Eddie to return, and we hope Rick will.
How does Eddie's sacrifice work? Eobard disappears — but everything he did up until the finale still happened?
Our time travel hopefully holds together as much as it can. It doesn't completely obliterate all of their memories of Eddie and everything, but it has the desired effect of "harm to Eddie means harm to Tom Cavanagh's character."
How did you lay the groundwork for Eddie to make this choice?
Eddie has been struggling these last few weeks, hearing about the future and about how there is no place for him in the future. He wasn't going to believe in Wells' interpretation of the future. He was going to make his own decision and he basically decided to recommit to Iris, which only makes his sacrifice that much more heartbreaking. He didn't do it because he didn't have anything to live for. He did it because he had everything to live for.
What does this mean for Tom Cavanagh's future on the show?
Tom Cavanagh will be back. That is not in question. Tom Cavanagh will continue to be a regular…
You've said season two will introduce more Speedsters. Is that going to be a major theme akin to the Rogues in this season?
Yeah. We are going to introduce a few more speedsters next year and a bunch more villains. How they and those villains come about is part of the surprise of season two. We're really excited. [Executive producer] Greg [Berlanti] and myself and [executive producer] Geoff Johns and the writers, the cast, the crew, the directors — we are so proud of this season of television. It really is a high mark for all of us, and we feel a great deal of pressure and anxiety to live up to it because it's been so well received. As proud as excited as we are about everything we've done this year, we really are just as proud and excited for all the things we are planning coming up. Hopefully people will continue to take this ride with us.
This week's episode of Orphan Black, Certain Agony Of The Battlefield, gave viewers the pay off for the set up of the previous couple of episodes which had many slow moments. This included two deaths, Paul and Pupok the Scorpion. Paul's death was foreshadowed in television logic by the manner in which the episode returned to his role in the first season, along with the dream sequence which brought Sarah face to face with Beth. After having ambiguous motives for much of the series, Paul was shown as the good guy. If that wasn't enough to foreshadow his death, the clincher was his admission to Sarah that, "It was never Beth I loved."
In other key developments, Helena returned to help Sarah, after eating the scorpion. Rachel has the key to decoding Duncan's code in the margins of The Island of Dr. Moreau (poroviding references to H.G. Wells in two of the shows I am reviewing this week). Allison and Donnie have gone Breaking Bad-lite, with their daughter walking in on their bedroom celebration in a scene reminiscent of Paige walking in on Elizabeth and Phillip in the 69 position on The Americans (picture here). There will be a longer version of the sequence on the DVD.
John Fawcett discussed the episode with The Hollywood Reporter:
The point of it was to corral all of the Castor [operatives], all of the DNA, all of their research into one room and blow the f—ing shit out of it. So that was his point. Beyond that, you have to see the remainder of the season.
More in that interview, as well as in an interview at TV Line:
TVLINE | Is Paul definitely dead?
I don't know, man… [Laughs] He blew himself up. I think that's cool. I like the fact that Paul is a character that we have not really been able to trust. We never knew where we stood with him. Was he a good guy? Was he a bad guy? Why is he doing the things he's doing? And we've come through the last bunch of episodes to realize why he's making the decisions he's making. And, at the end of the day, he makes the right choice and heroically throws himself on the bomb. Literally. It was the way we wanted to see that character depart.
TVLINE | This is the first series regular character to be killed off. What was it like deciding to say goodbye to Paul and Dylan?
[This] was our plan from the beginning [of] plotting out Season 3. We knew. Dylan knew. It was a bit sad on set, though, I have to say. It was a little sad to see him go. [There were] a lot of feels on set, if you know what I mean.
TVLINE | Should we be questioning whether Dr. Cody and Rudy were actually taken out by that grenade? 'Cause we didn't see any bodies…
[Laughs] Yeah, you should question everything, of course.
TVLINE | Now more than ever, Sarah has so much information about herself and her sisters. What does that mean for her going forward? I felt like Beth, in a way, was telling her to step back. But does knowing all this just make her want to look for answers even more?
Absolutely. It's more important than ever that Sarah gets to the bottom of this — and not just for herself and for the safety of her immediate family. The driving force with Sarah is that she's really had to step up and become the leader. She's gone from being a teenage-runaway-reluctant mother, to having to be not just a responsible mother, but a leader. The one who is keeping the sisters together, and the driving force behind trying to find a cure for Cosima.
TVLINE | There was another death in this episode. Have we seen the last of Pupok the Scorpion?
I can't say that. Listen, Pupok's not really real. Pupok's a spirit animal. Can you really kill a spirit animal? I don't know.
This has been a big year for saying good-by. Not only was it the end for the world of Mad Men, it was the end for Pawnee, the Bravermans, and last week was the final show of Late Night With David Letterman. I'm not giving up hope of seeing Dave on television again–I remain hopeful that he will still get The Tonight Show. He probably will not be hosting the Oscars, but now he does have more free time to hang out with Oprah, and maybe Uma. So far since the finale I have been watching some of the great interviews and Top Ten lists he did in his last month on You Tube. Terry Gross had an excellent interview with his producer Rob Burnett on Fresh Air. You can read highlights or listen to the interview here. I heard it on a downloaded podcast which had an extra not present on the show–an interview with David Letterman from 1981. Among the highlights was Letterman talking about the great comedians of the time as well as new comedians who showed promise, including Jay Leno. David Letterman's last sign off is in the video above, followed by highlights of the show which were aired as the Foo Fighters performed Everlong after David Letterman said good night for the last time on a television program.
While we will not see Pawnee, the Barvermans, the various manifestations of Sterling Cooper, or David Letterman, Scott Patterson has hinted that we might be able to return to another place which is missed–Stars Hollow. A Girlmore Girl reunion remains possible.
Community featured an homage to the elevator scene from Captain America: The Winter Soldier. Both scenes above.
There was one unexpected additional farewell this week. John Nash, whose life inspired the movie, A Beautiful Mind, along with his wife were killed in a traffic accident. The New York Times reports:
John F. Nash Jr., a mathematician who shared a Nobel Prize in 1994 for work that greatly extended the reach and power of modern economic theory and whose decades-long descent into severe mental illness and eventual recovery were the subject of a book and a 2001 film, both titled "A Beautiful Mind," was killed, along with his wife, in a car crash on Saturday in New Jersey. He was 86.
Dr. Nash and his wife, Alicia, 82, were in a taxi on the New Jersey Turnpike in Monroe Township around 4:30 p.m. when the driver lost control while trying to pass another car and hit a guard rail and another vehicle, said Sgt. Gregory Williams of the New Jersey State Police.
Jennifer Connelly as Alicia Nash and Russell Crowe as John Nash are in the picture above from the movie.
Conan O'Brien visited David Letterman on May 17. Neither like Jay Leno. Letterman's final show airs tonight.


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By slowing and absorbing certain wavelengths of light, engineers open new possibilities in solar power, thermal energy recycling and stealth technology
More efficient photovoltaic cells. Improved radar and stealth technology. A new way to recycle waste heat generated by machines into energy.
All may be possible due to breakthrough photonics research at the University at Buffalo.
The work, published March 28 in the journal Scientific Reports, explores the use of a nanoscale microchip component called a "multilayered waveguide taper array" that improves the chip's ability to trap and absorb light.
Unlike current chips, the waveguide tapers (the thimble-shaped structures pictured above) slow and ultimately absorb each frequency of light at different places vertically to catch a "rainbow" of wavelengths, or broadband light. The paper, "Broadband absorption engineering of hyperbolic metafilm patterns," is here: http://bit.ly/1g72Is5.
"We previously predicted the multilayered waveguide tapers would more efficiently absorb light, and now we've proved it with these experiments," says lead researcher Qiaoqiang Gan, PhD, UB assistant professor of electrical engineering.
"This advancement could prove invaluable for thin-film solar technology, as well as recycling waste thermal energy that is a byproduct of industry and everyday electronic devices such as smartphones and laptops." Each multilayered waveguide taper is made of ultrathin layers of metal, semiconductors and/or insulators.
The tapers absorb light in metal dielectric layer pairs, the so-called hyperbolic metamaterial. By adjusting the thickness of the layers and other geometric parameters, the tapers can be tuned to different frequencies including visible, near-infrared, mid-infrared, terahertz and microwaves. The structure could lead to advancements in an array of fields.
For example, there is a relatively new field of advanced computing research called on-chip optical communication. In this field, there is a phenomenon known as crosstalk, in which an optical signal transmitted on one waveguide channel creates an undesired scattering or coupling effect on another waveguide channel.
The multilayered waveguide taper structure array could potentially prevent this. It could also improve thin-film photovoltaic cells, which are a promising because they are less expensive and more flexible that traditional solar cells. The drawback, however, is that they don't absorb as much light as traditional cells. Because the multilayered waveguide taper structure array can efficiently absorb the visible spectrum, as well as the infrared spectrum, it could potentially boost the amount of energy that thin-film solar cells generate.
The multilayered waveguide taper array could help recycle waste heat generated by power plants and other industrial processes, as well as electronic devices such as televisions, smartphones and laptop computers. "It could be useful as an ultra compact thermal-absorption, collection and liberation device in the mid-infrared spectrum," says Dengxin Ji, a PhD student in Gan's lab and first author of the paper.
It could even be used as a stealth, or cloaking, material for airplanes, ships and other vehicles to avoid radar, sonar, infrared and other forms of detection. "The multilayered waveguide tapers can be scaled up to tune the absorption band to a lower frequency domain and absorb microwaves efficiently," says Haomin Song, another PhD student in Gan's lab and the paper's second author.
Additional authors of the paper include Haifeng Hu, Kai Liu, Xie Zeng and Nan Zhang, all PhD candidates in UB's Department of Electrical Engineering. The National Science Foundation sponsored the research.
Gan is a member of UB's electrical engineering optics and photonics research group, which includes professors Alexander N. Cartwright (also UB vice president for research and economic development), Edward Furlani and Pao-Lo Liu; associate professor Natalia Litchinitser; and assistant professor Liang Feng.
The group carries out research in nanophotonics, biophotonics, hybrid inorganic/organic materials and devices, nonlinear and fiber optics, metamaterials, nanoplasmonics, optofluidics, microelectromechanical systems (MEMS), biomedical microelectromechanical systems (BioMEMs), biosensing and quantum information processing.
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Hotel Guest Rating: 7.6/10
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Free hot breakfast, free Wi-Fi, an indoor pool and the airport eight miles away make Priceline guests happy at Comfort Suites North IH 35, which offers free parking and all non-smoking suites.
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The three-floor Comfort Suites has 57 spacious guest suites with mini-fridges, microwaves and coffee/tea makers. Good news: flat-panel TVs mean crisp viewing for you. Park yourself on the sofa bed in the sitting area and surf the internet painlessly with the free Wi-Fi. Get ready to fill `er up at the free hot breakfast with a rotating menu of scrambled eggs, bacon, sausage, potatoes, waffle bar, cereal, coffee, juice and more. Before or after seeing San Antonio, relax in the indoor pool. The hotel also has a hot tub, fitness center and laundry facility. Parking is free.
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The hotel is just off I-35 in Northeast San Antonio. If you're driving from San Antonio International Airport, the hotel is eight miles northeast. Take the kids to see the creatures at the San Antonio Zoo, 10 miles southwest of the hotel. Fort Sam Houston is seven-and-a-half miles away and the River Walk, the Alamo and Tower of the Americas are about 13 miles southwest of the hotel.
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Our guests appreciate the creature comforts like "spacious rooms with Wi-Fi," "ample hot breakfast," and a pool at Comfort Suites North IH 35.
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Verified Hotel Guest from Bryan, TX
July 21, 2015
Family Traveling with Young Children
July 21, 2015
Family Traveling with Young Children
Good breakfast that varies daily. Clean, spacious rooms. Nice pool and hot tub.
The pool was smaller than expected. There was a large, loud group staying at the hotel, which kept my family from enjoying the pool and being able to eat downstairs for breakfast.
Alysia from San Antonio, TX
June 4, 2015
Family Traveling with Teens
June 4, 2015
Family Traveling with Teens
the employees were awesome
the pool was closed for the last couple of days of our stay
Melissa from Houston, TX
April 30, 2015
April 30, 2015
The staff was nice
The parking, location
Verified Hotel Guest from San Antonio, TX
April 19, 2015
Group Traveler
April 19, 2015
Group Traveler
Good breakfast & indoor pool!
Broken toilet seat, no repai man on site, only option was to switch rooms & that is too much trouble once you settle in. Wish this obvious repair was caught by housekeeping before allowing check in.
Norman from Gilmer, TX
March 31, 2015
March 31, 2015
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Edward from El Paso, TX
December 30, 2014
Family Traveling with Young Children
December 30, 2014
Family Traveling with Young Children
Staff were amazing! Courteous, friendly, gave 110%.
Looks run down, walls throughout need to be repaired/apinted. refridgerator was older, did not work well.
Rene from Laredo, TX
November 29, 2014
November 29, 2014
Room was big. Beds and pillows were great. Included mini fridge and coffee. Relatively quiet. No hassle checking in or out. Okay for the price.
The restroom seemed old. Needs renovation. Plus our sink was broken.
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October 2, 2014
October 2, 2014
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Henry from Taylorsville, NC
September 21, 2014
September 21, 2014
Clean room, comfortable bed, reasonable price and friendly staff.
The shower was a disaster. Some hand held contraption was attached that flopped all over the place and made showering almost impossible. I almost bought a new showerhead with my own money. One of the exercise machines did not work.
Good location to visit friends in the area. Northbound access from the street was scary. You had to play chicken with the cars turning left on the side street beside the hotel. There should have been parking lot access from the side street.
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September 17, 2014
September 17, 2014
Customer service the best in San Antonio! Housekeeping did a fantastic job! Staff throughout the different shifts were awesome, friendly, and professional.
I commend the manager on running a well organized team of professionals who get it right. Customer service is a priority here without being superficial. It appears the staff really enjoy caring for the guests. Thank you!!
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