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THE BOY THAT NEVER WAS Episode 4

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#this is merlin in the vet fic

Yes, YES!

I love Simon Calllow.

Actually the stupid one seems to be the wife frankly, not Harry. 🙁

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The Boy That Never Was (episode 3)

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The Boy That Never Was - episode two

‘Robin’s behaviour grows more mysterious when she begins to surreptitiously Google a woman called Eva Doyle.’ IMDB synopsis.

Robin hasn’t got to irritating me yet (unlike Colin’s previous dramatic outings with annoying female lead characters) but there’s still time. Her brother gets himself into a spot of bother at the end of this one which I’m hoping doesn’t take us away from the main thread of the story which is about their dead(?) son.

There’s quite a lot of flashbacks which might vex some but they were okay and unlike those in Dead and Buried and The Killing Kind actually furthered the narrative and provided more context.

Colin is once again doing a good job of making me feel sorry for his character, despite Harry doing some stupid shit but given his fragile mental state I get it. Oh and no shock, he looks hot either as a carefree Bohemian style painter or rocking the lean mean shaven haired look of the traumatised parent.

However, I did eye roll at the idea this couple are have money worries, not living in that house they don't! However, that’s a common failing on TV and in movies, people living in places and you wonder how they can afford it based on what you understand of their situation. If he can remain a painter whilst she's the main breadwinner living in a place like that, this couple are not close to hard up.

Spoilery thoughts below.

Present day they’re in bed, Robin’s searching for the woman she saw on the CCTV, she seemingly knows her name - Eva Doyle. Cozimo phones Harry to say he saw Dillon, he must come and get him, then hangs up. Harry goes to Ollie to say he needs help to get to Morocco without Robin knowing. Initially he refuses but Harry reminds him that he knows about his past with drugs, it’s a shit move but it works.

Present day they’re in bed, Robin’s searching for the woman she saw on the CCTV, she seemingly knows her name - Eva Doyle. Cozimo phones Harry to say he saw Dillon, he must come and get him, then hangs up. Harry goes to Ollie to say he needs help to get to Morocco without Robin knowing. Initially he refuses but Harry reminds him that he knows about his past with drugs, it’s a shit move but it works.

He tells Robin the gallery called and has a spot for him. She’s about to do a big pitch for a job, before he leaves the next morning he hides his phone down the sofa. In Morocco it seems colder less warm and welcoming, his shaven haired look is a reminder he’s a different person now, he heads to Cozimo’s, can he take him to the woman with red hair? Cozimo heads off down the narrow back streets.

Next we cut to Robin who messages Ollie to say Harry has lost his phone, he tries to fob her off (poorly), she knows where he’s probably staying she will message the place. Naturally Ollie is crapping himself and heads off to see her.

In Morocco we find Cozimo on a beach, he’s clearly deranged. He tells Harry that Dillon is dead, suddenly his angry nurse who has tracked him down with another man scolds Harry for taking Cozimo out the house, they get into a shoving match, Harry wants to know what’s wrong with his friend. I would have thought it fairly obvious.

Back in Dublin, Ollie is around at Robin’s he confesses all, she’s panicking they need to go get him, it’s no good for his head, she tells Ollie she’s pregnant. Harry is back at Cozimo’s, the nurse is more friendly now, she explains he has vascular dementia, he talks about Dillon a lot even now, he even thinks he sees him sometimes, you can see Harry quietly stressing out.

Ollie says he will go and bring Harry back for her. Morocco at night in a bar, Fadoul (the police guy we saw in the first episode after the quake) is watching football with his mates.  Harry is there he gets into a row with him over not continuing the search for his son, and to no one’s shock he’s promptly arrested.

Ollie arrives and goes to Cozimo’s to ask about Harry, finds out he’s in jail, as he goes inside a bloke seems to recognize him. We get a flashback to a club where Ollie is buying drugs, he then leaves the club and gets accosted by police who find them and drag him off and lock him up. Harry spots him being arrested and calls out.

Present day, Harry is pissed off Ollie is there, he tells Harry to shut it he’s trying to get him out, he should be bloody grateful it's not his wife (yet). Ollie tries to bribe Fadoul who bats the money aside and walks off. No dice. Ollie phones home, NOW they have a problem. Robin arrives in Morocco, they head straight to a lawyer friend of hers, we find out that Harry stupidly picked a fight with Fadoul after the quake, filed a complaint against him and got the dude demoted. Wonderful! Now he’s getting his revenge. Trying to bribe him didn’t help but she can get him out.

Robin goes to see Harry and quite rightly she’s exasperated, she tells him she has to get him home, he tells her about Cozimo and seeing Dillon. She cries, she can’t do this all again, they need to put this baby first, she needs some air and goes outside, we then get a flashback of them all at Cozimo’s dancing. She’s watching Harry having a great time, she less so, Robin seems distant standoffish, leaning against the wall out of the way, he’s encouraging her to call in sick but she says her boss is over there so nope. She walks away as he carries on dancing, her boss is staring at her, Cozimo is watching all this, he looks concerned. Inference is clear, she was having a fling with her boss. He’s American and looks a bit like Harry but way less hot. The boss and Robin exchange words briefly on the balcony upstairs, he asks if she’s okay, they talk about Harry and how he always likes to have a good time.

Present day, she walks away from Cozimo’s door and back to the station, police guy is told by his boss to let Harry go, lawyer is there turns out she went to school with the police commissioners daughter. Whilst Harry is being released Fadoul warns him if he sees him again he will find a way to bust his arse back into jail. Yeah get the fuck out of there and go home you had a lucky escape!

Back at their hotel, they’re packing to leave, Harry wants to stay and look for Dillon, she begs him to come home, Cozimo had dementia, he lives in the past like Harry then stops herself, he finally relents, the fight has gone out of him, he’s ready to come home. Poor Harry, he looks so tired and dejected, okay yeah he’s been stupid and irrational but given the circumstances I understand why.

Oliie has taken the bags downstairs to get out the way, as he steps outside the hotel he gets caught by the bloke who saw him earlier and bundled into the back of a van by an accomplice which drives off. Seems like his past is catching up with him too and at a most inconvenient moment. What I want to know is why didn’t he just run back into the hotel? He stood a far better chance of escaping! This was kind of dumb and irritating, a sign of things to come? Hope not.

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Glastonbury 2024 Lineup, Set Times, and Clashfinder for Each Stage

Raph_PH, CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0, via Wikimedia Commons Fans can now navigate potential clashes between sets and find out which stages their favorite artists will be performing on. Glastonbury organizers have released the full set times across each stage for this year’s festival. Notable performances include Little Simz before Coldplay on the Pyramid Stage on Saturday, and LCD Soundsystem ahead of Dua Lipa’s Friday slot. The 2024 edition of Glastonbury will take place from Wednesday, June 26, to Sunday, June 30. Headliners include Dua Lipa, Coldplay, and SZA, with Shania Twain in the Legends Slot. Here are the set times for the main stages across Friday, Saturday, and Sunday: Friday Pyramid Stage Justin Higuchi from Los Angeles, CA, USA, CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0, via Wikimedia Commons - Dua Lipa: 22:00 - 23:45 - LCD Soundsystem: 19:45 - 21:00 - PJ Harvey: 18:00 - 19:00 - Paul Heaton: 16:15 - 17:15 - Seventeen: 14:45 - 15:45 - Olivia Dean: 13:15 - 14:15 - Squeeze: 12:00 - 12:45 Other Stage - Idles: 22:15 - 23:30 - D-Block Europe: 20:30 - 21:30 - Anne-Marie: 18:45 - 19:45 - Bombay Bicycle Club: 17:15 - 18:15 - Confidence Man: 15:45 - 16:45 - Headie One: 14:15 - 15:15 - The Snuts: 13:00 - 13:45 - Annie Mac: 11:30 - 12:30 West Holts Stage - Jungle: 22:15 - 23:45 - Heilung: 20:15 - 21:30 - Danny Brown: 18:30 - 19:30 - Sugababes: 16:55 - 17:55 - Noname: 15:30 - 16:25 - Squid: 14:00 - 15:00 - Asha Puthli: 12:30 - 13:30 - Sofia Kourtesis: 11:00 - 12:00 Woodsies - Jamie xx: 22:30 - 23:45 - Sampha: 21:00 - 22:00 - Declan McKenna: 19:30 - 20:30 - Arlo Parks: 18:00 - 19:00 - The Vaccines: 16:30 - 17:30 - Kenya Grace: 15:15 - 16:00 - Remi Wolf: 14:00 - 14:45 - Lambrini Girls: 12:45 - 13:30 - Voice of Baceprot: 11:30 - 12:15 The Park Stage - Fontaines D.C.: 23:00 - 00:15 - King Krule: 21:15 - 22:15 - Aurora: 19:30 - 20:30 - Dexys: 18:00 - 19:00 - This Is The Kit: 16:30 - 17:30 - The Mary Wallopers: 15:15 - 16:00 - Barry Can't Swim: 14:00 - 14:45 - Moonchild Sanelly: 12:45 - 13:30 - Lynks: 11:30 - 12:10 Acoustic Stage - The Bootleg Beatles: 21:30 - 22:45 - Scouting for Girls: 20:00 - 21:00 - Tanita Tikaram: 18:30 - 19:30 - Dervish: 17:00 - 18:00 - Stornoway: 16:00 - 16:40 - Red Hot Chilli Pipers: 15:00 - 15:40 - Josh Rouse: 14:00 - 14:40 - Angie McMahon: 13:00 - 13:40 - John Smith: 12:10 - 12:40 - The Burma: 11:30 - 12:00 Avalon Stage - Skindred: 23:05 - 00:20 - Kate Nash: 21:35 - 22:35 - Haircut 100: 20:05 - 21:05 - Lulu: 18:35 - 19:35 - Frank Turner: 17:05 - 18:05 - Billie Marten: 15:40 - 16:40 - The Deep Blue: 14:20 - 15:10 - The Bar-Steward Sons of Val Doonican: 13:00 - 13:50 Left Field - Billy Bragg: 21:00 - 22:00 - Sprints: 19:50 - 20:30 - Seb Lowe: 18:40 - 19:20 - Big Special: 17:35 - 18:10 - Trampolene: 16:30 - 17:05 - Radical Round Up: Billy Bragg, Bow Anderson, Charlotte Church: 15:00 - 16:00 - Debates: Israel Palestine: Hope and Solidarity in Action with Ahmed Alnaouq, Na'amod, Rachel Shabi, Shaista Aziz, John Harris: 13:30 - 14:30 - Debates: Trans Liberation Now! With Hiba Noor, Noah Lonergan, Sabah Choudrey, Travis Alabanza, Shon Faye: 12:00 - 13:00 Arcadia - Amelie Lens: 01:50 - 03:00 - HAAi B2B KI/KI: 00:45 - 01:50 - Joy Orbison: 23:40 - 00:40 - Arcadia and the Wadjuk Noongar - Warraloo Ceremony: 23:30 - 23:40 - Fatboy Slim: 22:00 - 23:30 Saturday Pyramid Stage - Coldplay: 21:45 - 23:45 - Little Simz: 19:45 - 20:45 - Michael Kiwanuka: 17:45 - 18:45 - Keane: 16:00 - 17:00 - Cyndi Lauper: 14:30 - 15:30 - Ayra Starr: 13:15 - 14:00 - Femi Kuti: 12:00 - 12:45 Other Stage - Disclosure: 22:30 - 23:45 - The Streets: 20:30 - 21:30 - Camila Cabello: 18:45 - 19:45 - Bloc Party: 17:15 - 18:15 - The Last Dinner Party: 15:45 - 16:45 - Tems: 14:15 - 15:15 - The Staves: 13:00 - 13:45 - Jamie Webster: 11:45 - 12:30 West Holts - Jessie Ware: 22:15 - 23:45 - Masego: 20:30 - 21:30 - Black Pumas: 19:00 - 20:00 - Nitin Sawhney: 17:30 - 18:30 - Corinne Bailey Rae: 16:00 - 17:00 - Alogte Oho & His Sounds of Joy: 14:30 - 15:30 - The Skatalites: 13:00 - 14:00 - 47SOUL: 11:30 - 12:30 Woodsies - Gossip: 22:30 - 23:45 - Sleaford Mods: 21:00 - 22:00 - Yard Act: 19:30 - 20:30 - TBA: 18:00 - 19:00 - Fat White Family: 16:30 - 17:30 - Soccer Mommy: 15:15 - 16:00 - Mannequin Pussy: 14:00 - 14:45 - High Vis: 12:45 - 13:30 - Kneecap: 11:30 - 12:15 The Park Stage - Peggy Gou: 23:00 - 00:15 - Orbital: 21:15 - 22:15 - The Breeders: 19:30 - 20:30 - Lankum: 18:00 - 19:00 - Arooj Aftab: 16:30 - 17:30 - Otoboke Beaver: 15:15 - 16:00 - Bar Italia: 14:00 - 14:45 - Kara Jackson: 12:45 - 13:30 - Johnny Flynn: 11:10 - 12:10 Acoustic Stage - Ocean Colour Scene: 21:30 - 22:45 - Ralph McTell: 20:00 - 21: Read the full article

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Nhận định bóng đá Everton vs Tottenham Hotspur, 2h ngày 4/4/2023

Nhận định bóng đá Everton vs Tottenham Hotspur, 2h ngày 4/4/2023 tại nhà cái dagathomo. Dự đoán tỷ số bóng đá giữa Everton vs Tottenham Hotspur, 2h ngày 4/4/2023.Everton sẽ đối đầu với đội khách Tottenham Hotspur tại Goodison Park trong trận đấu ở Premier League vào thứ Hai này.Bạn có thể tìm thấy những dự đoán, thăm dò ý kiến người dùng và thống kê của chúng tôi về trận Everton vs Tottenham Hotspur tại đây - cộng với tỷ lệ cược trận đấu mới nhất.Everton sẽ chơi trong trận đấu này sau trận hòa 2-2 ở Premier League trước Chelsea.Trong trận đấu đó, Everton kiểm soát bóng 31% và tung ra 12 cú sút về phía khung thành, trong đó có 3 lần trúng đích. Đối với Everton, các bàn thắng được ghi bởi Abdoulaye Doucouré (69') và Ellis Simms (89'). Ở đầu bên kia, Chelsea có 20 lần dứt điểm và 7 trong số đó đi trúng đích. João Félix (52') và Kai Havertz (76') ghi bàn cho Chelsea.Everton của Sean Dyche đã phản lưới nhà 6 lần trong 6 trận trước đó của họ. So sánh số bàn thắng được ghi vào lưới họ trong khoảng thời gian đó lên tới 10 bàn.Trước cuộc đụng độ này, Everton đã không thể giành chiến thắng trước Tottenham Hotspur trong 4 trận gần nhất tại giải VĐQG.Trước đó, Tottenham Hotspur đã hòa 3-3 trong trận đấu với Southampton ở Premier League.Trong trận đấu đó, Tottenham Hotspur kiểm soát bóng 50% và thực hiện 17 lần dứt điểm với 3 lần trúng đích. Đối với Tottenham Hotspur, các bàn thắng được ghi bởi Pedro Porro (45'), Harry Kane (65') và Ivan Perišić (74'). Ở đầu bên kia, Southampton có 19 cú sút trúng khung thành với 7 lần đi trúng đích. Ché Adams (46'), Theo Walcott (77') và James Ward-PrTHER (93') ghi bàn cho Southampton.Tottenham Hotspur của Cristian Stellini đã chuyển đổi tổng cộng 8 lần trong sáu trận đấu gần đây nhất của họ. Số bàn thua mà họ phải nhận trong cùng những lần đụng độ đó là 6.Nếu chúng ta nhìn vào các cuộc đối đầu trong quá khứ của họ kể từ ngày 13/09/2020, sẽ có rất ít sự khác biệt giữa các câu lạc bộ với việc Everton thắng 2 trong số các trận đó, Tottenham Hotspur 2 và 2 hòa trong thời gian quy định.Tổng cộng, 21 bàn thắng đã được ghi giữa họ trong suốt các trận đấu đó, với 8 bàn trong số đó cho The Toffees và 13 bàn thuộc về Spurs. Đó là con số bàn thắng trung bình mỗi trận là 3,5.Trận đấu trước đó của giải đấu có sự góp mặt của các câu lạc bộ này là trận đấu ngày 11 của Premier League vào ngày 15/10/2022 khi kết thúc trận đấu với Tottenham Hotspur 2-0 Everton.Vào ngày hôm đó, Tottenham Hotspur kiểm soát bóng tới 62% và thực hiện 21 lần dứt điểm, trong đó có 7 lần trúng đích. Các bàn thắng được ghi bởi Harry Kane (59') và Pierre-Emile Højbjerg (86').Everton có 4 lần cố gắng ghi bàn với 0 trong số đó đi trúng đích.Trọng tài là Paul Tierney.Andy Lonergan (Vấn đề đầu gối) và Andros Townsend (Chấn thương dây chằng chéo) sẽ không thi đấu cho huấn luyện viên Sean Dyche của Everton.Huấn luyện viên của Tottenham Hotspur, Cristian Stellini, có nhiều vấn đề về khả năng sẵn sàng cần giải quyết. Yves Bissouma (Gãy mắt cá chân) và Rodrigo Bentancur (Vỡ dây chằng chéo) sẽ bỏ lỡ trận đấu này.Ở đây, chúng tôi đang nghĩ rằng Everton sẽ phải chơi tốt để ghi bàn vào lưới đội hình Tottenham Hotspur này, những người sẽ có thể giành chiến thắng.Với suy nghĩ đó, onebox63 lừa đảo cho rằng đây sẽ là một trận đấu rất cạnh tranh với chiến thắng 0-1 cho Tottenham Hotspur khi tất cả đã được nói và làm.

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That colour looks so good on him👍

Morocco looks great.

Harry finding out brother-in-law Ollie is being a very stupid boy.

Colin Morgan in The Boy That Never Was (episode two)

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ACT Brumbies 2023 Super Rugby Pacific Fixtures, Squad and Live streams

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ACT Brumbies 2023 Super Rugby Pacific Fixtures, Squad and Live streams

ACT Brumbies 2023 Super Rugby Pacific Fixtures, Squad and Live streams All Brumbies Super Rugby games in 2023 are streamed in Australia via Stan Sport, while one Saturday night game a week is broadcast on free to air on Channel 9.

The ACT Brumbies is an Australian professional rugby union team based in Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, the team competes in Super Rugby and named for the feral horses which inhabit the capital’s hinterland.

The ACT Brumbies are excited to announce the club will host trial games in rural NSW in February, two double-headers featuring both of the club’s senior sides headlining an epic rugby roadshow in the heart of the Brumbies region.

ACT Brumbies Super Rugby Pacific Fixtures

Date Fixture Venue Kick-off Broadcast 24 February 2023 Waratahs vs Brumbies Allianz Stadium 5:05pm Stan 5 March 2023 Blues vs Brumbies AAMI Park 7:35pm Stan 11 March 2023 Brumbies vs Reds GIO Stadium 2:35pm Stan 18 March 2023 Brumbies vs Moana Pasifika GIO Stadium 5:05pm Stan 24 March 2023 Crusaders vs Brumbies Orangetheory Stadium 7:45pm Stan/Nine 1 April 2023 Brumbies vs Waratahs GIO Stadium 10pm Stan 7 April 2023 Reds vs Brumbies Suncorp Stadium 10pm Stan 14 April 2023 Brumbies vs Fijian Drua GIO Stadium 10pm Stan 28 April 2023 Hurricanes v Brumbies Sky Stadium, Wellington 10pm Stan 7 May 2023 Rebels v Brumbies AAMI Park 10pm Stan 14 May 2023 Brumbies v Highlanders GIO Stadium 10pm Stan 20 May 2023 Force vs Brumbies HBF Park 10pm Stan 27 May 2023 Brumbies vs Chiefs GIO Stadium 10pm Stan 2 June 2023 Brumbies v Rebels GIO Stadium 10pm Stan

ACT Brumbies Super Rugby Pacific 2023 squad.

The ACT Brumbies have confirmed their 36-man squad for the 2023 Super Rugby Pacific, with 27 of the group returning from last season.

Prop: Allan Alaalatoa, Fred Kaihea, Sefo Kautai, Tom Ross, James Slipper, Harry Vella

Hooker: Billy Pollard, Lachlan Lonergan, Connal McInerney

Lock: Nick Frost, Tom Hooper, Cadeyrn Neville, Darcy Swain

Backrow: Jahrome Brown, Charlie Cale, Ed Kennedy, Luke Reimer, Rory Scott,Pete Samu, Rob Valetini

Halfback: Ryan Lonergan, Klayton Thorn, Nic White

Flyhalf: Jack Debreczeni, Noah Lolesio, Nathan Carroll

Centre: Hudson Creighton, Chris Feauai-Sautia, Len Ikitau, Ollie Sapsford, Tamati Tua

Outside-back: Declan Meredith, Jesse Mogg, Andy Muirhead, Ben O’Donnell, Corey Toole, Tom Wright

Waratahs to take on Brumbies in opening trial of 2023.

The NSW Waratahs have today confirmed the opening trial match of their 2023 Super Rugby Pacific pre-season campaign, when they take on the ACT Brumbies on February 4 in Griffith in regional NSW. It’s a further win for country NSW Waratahs fans with the match against the Brumbies following the previously announced fixture against the QLD Reds on February 11 in Narrabri as part of the annual Santos Festival of Rugby.

Brumbies vs NSW Waratahs in Griffith on February 4

Brumbies vs QLD Reds in Narrabri on February 11

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SLYTHERIN: "When you kill a king, you don't stab him in the dark. You kill him where the entire court can watch him die." –Jay Cocks + Steven Zaillian + Kenneth Lonergan (Amsterdam Vallon: Gangs of New York)

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Well surely that's not going to last long given the circumstances lol.

But by God isn't he lovely. ❤️

The Boy That Never Was | Episode 3 This scene made me feel sick but also LOOK HOW HAPPY HE IS

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Lizabeth Scott and Dick Powell in Pitfall (André De Toth, 1948) Cast: Dick Powell, Lizabeth Scott, Jane Wyatt, Raymond Burr, Byron Barr, John Litel, Jimmy Hunt, Selmer Jackson. Screenplay: Karl Kamb, based on a novel by Jay Dratler. Cinematography: Harry J. Wild. Art direction: Arthur Lonergan. Film editing: Walter Thompson. Music: Louis Forbes. André De Toth's Pitfall is a noir-tinged cautionary fable about midlife ennui. Married to his childhood sweetheart, Sue (Jane Wyatt), John Forbes (Dick Powell)is bored with his job at an insurance company and with his suburban life in general. But then he gets a case involving the recovery of the assets of Bill Smiley (Byron Barr), who is doing time for embezzlement. The sleazy private eye Forbes has hired, J.B. MacDonald (Raymond Burr), has tracked down some of the loot to Smiley's mistress, Mona Stevens (Lizabeth Scott). Forbes decides to pay her a visit, but not before MacDonald, with a nudge-nudge, wink-wink, urges him to put in a good word with Mona about him. Forbes's visit to Mona will turn into an affair that earns the enmity of not only MacDonald, who is obsessed with her, but also Smiley, whose jail term is almost up. The whole thing ends with a couple of corpses and a badly damaged marriage. De Toth handles it with a minimum of sugarcoating on the life of the Forbeses, even though they have a cute little boy named Tommy (Jimmy Hunt), and with a great deal of suspense as the hulking MacDonald, well-played by Burr in his heaviest heavy mode, gets Forbes more deeply involved in his relationship with Mona -- despite the best efforts of both Forbes and Mona to put an end to it.

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COLIN MORGAN as HARRY LONERGAN The Boy That Never Was, Episode 3

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The Boy That Never Was - episode one

‘After their son is presumed dead in a Moroccan earthquake, a couple’s world is turned upside down when they spot a boy in Dublin, leading them on a desperate search for the truth.’ IMDB synopsis.

Well it’s actually Harry who thinks he’s seen his son, fingers crossed this turn out to be a better dramatic outing than Colin’s last two offerings (The Killing Kind, Dead and Buried).

Kerr Logan is in this and Simon Callow, Kerr was in The Killing Kind and was one of the few decent things in that and I've always liked Callow. Never watched Toni O'Rourke in anything before.

The Moroccan tourist board must be happy (quake aside lol), Dublin looks bleak and uninviting in comparison but I’m sure that was deliberately done to symbolise their traumatic change in circumstances.

Harry and his wife are clearly grappling in different ways with the loss of their child and she’s doing a better job at least superficially, but we get to understand this episode why Harry has unravelled and refused to let go of a lot of the raw grief and trauma.

I had a few minor gripes but not enough to detract from an enjoyable opening that could go in lots of interesting ways. I’ve never read the book by the way so come into this with no preconceptions.

Colin looks great but I prefer his post Morocco look of clean shaven and close cropped locks, they show that lovely profile and feel fitting for where Harry is mentally when they return home. No more carefree artist sporting a Bohemian look, those days have gone.

Spoilers below.

We open on a happy family scene in Morocco, mum (Robyn) is off to work, Colin (playing Harry her husband) looks adorable with Dillon their little boy who is only a few years old, I say ‘boy’ but it looks like a girl to me (and it is according to IMDB) which is a bit disconcerting initially but I got used to it. Colin is rocking the Bohemian painter look.

They’ve befriended ‘Uncle Cozimo’ out here, played by the ever reliable Simon Callow. Seems Harry’s a painter, an impoverished one probably, they usually are looking like that, he’s sold a painting apparently but not for much money, still he’s happy and who can blame him. He’s living this great life in a sun drenched exotic city whilst his wife has the career (we find out she’s an architect). Robyn’s brother (Ollie) is also there (visiting?), they all seem close.

One day this all changes when Harry asks a neighbour to keep an eye on Dillon and quick nips down the street to Cozimo’s house to collect something. Suddenly the ground is shaking and he runs back home as the buildings start falling around him, he collapses in the street as the whole area becomes a mass of dust and rubble. He picks himself up, his house has gone. Wife arrives she’s frantic as they search picking through the rubble, listening for any sounds, Dillon their son is under there! It looks hopeless.

3 years later

We see Harry and Robyn waking up on a cold, grey, dark bedroom, they’re clearly no longer in Morocco, the mood is sombre, they need money apparently, he’s going to see a studio today, she thanks him. She watches a video of her son on her phone, it’s his birthday. Harry has shaved his beard off, his hair is really short, he still looks good, but then it’s Colin, he looks good in any situation.

Belying the idea they’re scraping around for cash, we see them living in a large period featured house, outside of the city, they’re busy refurbishing the place, taking wallpaper off walls, choosing paint colours etc. Ollie turns up to help decorate, she has a flashback to them scrabbling through the rubble, her questioning Harry and discovering he left their son, she’s furious. I realise she’s grief stricken but he won’t be the first parent that has done something like that and how often is an earthquake going to happen? But I get it right then you just want to blame someone.

Back to present day and Harry’s at the station when he thinks he spots his son holding a woman’s hand on the platform opposite, he chases after them but when he gets over to the other side they’ve gone. That night, Robyn has made a cake for Dillon, she tells him she’s pregnant, he looks shell shocked, he hugs her then steps back angry and upset WTF is she doing with the cake business! He walks out, she blows out the candles, crying, he’s outside by the pool (yeah they have a pool too outside and it’s not a paddling sized one).

Another flashback to after the quake, a police chief (Fadoul) is telling them that there’s no hope, the authorities are going to start clearing the rubble, he’s trying to be sympathetic. Harry does something you should NEVER do abroad to any police official, he starts accusing them of being corrupt saying they’re only wanting to clear it quickly so they can build new housing. Uh oh you just know this will come back to bite him on the backside.

Ollie is there comforting her, she’s sobbing that his dad should have been there. We then see them at Cozimo’s, he and Robyn are talking, he made a stupid mistake he tells her but he had no clue what would happen (exactly!). Robyn says she wanted to go home when Dillon was born, he says no you wanted this too, you’ve both been happy here, you’ve never made a mistake in your life (I find that difficult to believe).

Present day she goes to the studio by the pool, yeah they have a studio for Harry to do his painting alongside the main house, this place is HUGE, I mean come on this couple are not hard up, either he’s selling more artwork than we realise or she’s raking it in (presumably the latter). She sees all the sketches he’s been doing of Dillon year on year, she goes to check on the medicine cabinet and finds his meds not taken, alarm bells are ringing.

We get another flashback of her pulling him off the digger as they start work to clear the rubble and she’s begging him to come home, she’s accepted it he clearly hasn’t. Finally he does and asks if they can leave and they hug.

Back in what we now realise is Dublin she’s tracking his phone, he’s in the city, she goes to find him, he’s at the station in a bar. Colin looks really good in this shot, he admits he thinks he saw Dillon, she’ll think he’s crazy, he’s looking for CCTV footage as proof. She’s calm, she asks about his meds and is he having another episode, he gets a bit defensive, she says okay if she gets the footage (how?) then we can let this go right?

We then see her telling her brother in a park, she tells him I think it’s happening again. She brings the footage back, we see another flashback of Harry taking someone’s child from a playground thinking it’s Dillon, obviously some serious shit when down between them coming back and now.

She tells him this can’t happen again (rightly so), if he’s to be part of this new baby’s life she needs him to be healthy. They go through all the footage well into the night, they don’t see anything, he says he will be a better dad with this one, he won’t ever let them down. She reassures him ‘you were the best dad Harry’ which is sweet and true he does seem like he was a doting daddy but of course that guilt is ever present for leaving him and they never found the body.

Then whilst he’s making tea, she spots the woman with the child and whilst he’s preoccupied she drops that particular folder into the recycle bin (she’s going to delete that right?), and reorders it to list so he doesn’t notice. He comes back finishes searching, of course can’t find anything and starts to cry, she hugs him close, he says he wanted her to see him too, your heart breaks for Harry so the first episode comes to an end.

Why did she do it? Was it really Dillon? Seems like she may have recognized the woman or was it simply that she didn’t want him to spiral chasing shadows? The first episode opens up interesting possibilities for where they could go with this, there’s a few gripes like how on earth did she obtain the footage so easily and really how did he immediately recognise his son? Although I guess he based it on his yearly sketches and so that’s possibly more explainable.

Another issue I have is that when we get back to Dublin we’re meant to believe they’ve got financial problems yet they’re living in this huge house out in the country with a pool and art studio. Seriously only wealthy people on TV and in movies can afford to have hubby a struggling painter whilst she’s an architect and live this kind of life, and it bugs me, they’re NOT financially struggling as any normal person would know it.

I feel sorry for both of them in different ways, Harry clearly unravelled understandably so given he feels guilt about what happened, she’s pulled herself together and is trying to get on with her life whilst still missing her son terribly and trying to hold her marriage together. She’s dealt with Harry as best she can and clearly they’ve both been through some extreme shit, but now we’ve got this supposed sighting of Dillon and there’s her behaviour with the deleted file setting up an intriguing storyline, lets hope it builds on this promising opening.

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He looks great long hair or short, beard or clean shaven, he's just scrumptious.

I really want to go to Morocco after seeing the trailers.

how am I going to cope when this show airs and colin morgan looks like THAT

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Black LGBTQ+ playwrights and musical-theater artists you need to know

These artists are producing amazing, timely work.

By Marcus Scott Posted: Friday July 24 2020, 4:56pm

Marcus Scott is a New York City–based playwright, musical writer, opera librettist and journalist. He has contributed to Elle, Essence, Out, American Theatre, Uptown, Trace, Madame Noire and Playbill, among other publications. Follow Marcus: Instagram, Twitter

We’re in the chrysalis of a new age of theatrical storytelling, and Black queer voices have been at the center of this transformation. Stepping out of the margins of society to push against the status quo, Black LGBTQ+ artists  have been actively engaged in fighting anti-blackness, racial disparities, disenfranchisement, homophobia and transphobia.

The success of Jeremy O. Harris’s Slave Play, Donja R. Love’s one in two and Jordan E. Cooper’s Ain’t No Mo’—not to mention Michael R. Jackson’s tour de force, the Pulitzer Prize–winning metamusical A Strange Loop—made that phenomenon especially visible last season. But these artists are far from alone. Because the intersection of queerness and Blackness is complex—with various gender expressions, sexual identifiers and communities taking shape in different spaces—Black LGBTQ+ artists are anything but a monolith. George C. Wolfe, Tarell Alvin McCraney, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, Robert O’Hara, Harrison David Rivers, Staceyann Chin, Colman Domingo, Tracey Scott Wilson, Tanya Barfield, Marcus Gardley and Daniel Alexander Jones are just some of the many Black queer writers who have already made marks.

With New York stages dark for the foreseeable future, we can’t know when we will be able to see live works by these artists again. It is likely, however, that they will continue to play major roles in the direction American theater will take in the post-quarantine era—along with many creators who are still flying mostly under the radar. Here are just a few of the Black queer artists you may not have encountered yet: vital new voices that are speaking to the Zeitgeist and turning up the volume.

Christina Anderson A protégé of Paula Vogel’s, Christina Anderson has presented work at the Public Theatre, Yale Repertory Theatre, Penumbra Theatre Company, Playwrights Horizons and other theaters around the U.S. and Canada. She has degrees from the Yale School of Drama and Brown University, and  is a resident playwright at New Dramatists and Epic Theatre Ensemble; she has received the inaugural Harper Lee Award for Playwriting and three Susan Smith Blackburn Prize nominations, among other honors. Works include: How To Catch Creation (2019), Blacktop Sky (2013), Inked Baby (2009) Follow Christina: Website

Aziza Barnes Award-winning poet Aziza Barnes moved into playwriting with one of the great sex comedies of the 2010s: BLKS, which premiered at Chicago’s Steppenwolf Theatre Company in 2017 before it played at MCC Theatre in 2019 (where it earned a Lucille Lortel Award nomination). The NYU grad’s play about three twentysomethings probed the challenges and choices of Millennials with pathos and zest that hasn’t been seen since Kenneth Lonergan’s Gen X love/hate letter This Is Our Youth. Barnes is the author of the full-length collection of poems the blind pig and i be but i ain’t, which won a Pamet River Prize. Works include: BLKS (2017) Follow Aziza: Twitter

Troy Anthony Burton Fusing a mélange of quiet storm ‘90s-era Babyface R&B, ‘60s-style funk-soul and urban contemporary gospel, composer Troy Anthony has had a meteoric rise in musical theater in the past three years, receiving commissions and residencies from the Shed, Rattlestick Playwrights Theatre, Atlantic Theater Company and the Civilians. When Anthony is not crafting ditties of his own, he is an active performer who has participated in the Public Theater’s Public Works and Shakespeare In the Park. Works include: The River Is Me (2017), The Dark Girl Chronicles (in progress) Follow Troy: Instagram

Timothy DuWhite Addressing controversial issues such as HIV, state-sanctioned violence and structural anti-blackness, poet and performance artist Timothy DuWhite unnerves audiences with a hip-hop driven gonzo style. DuWhite’s raison d’être is to shock and enrage, and his provocative Neptune was, along with Donja R. Love’s one in two, one of the first plays by an openly black queer writer to address HIV openly and frankly.  He has worked with the United Nations/UNICEF, the Apollo Theater, Dixon Place and La MaMa. Works include: Neptune (2018) Follow Timothy: Instagram

Jirèh Breon Holder Raised in Memphis and educated at Morehouse College, Jirèh Breon Holder solidified his voice at the Yale School of Drama under the direction of Sarah Ruhl. He has received the Laurents/Hatcher Foundation Award and the Edgerton Foundation New Play Award, among other honors. His play Too Heavy for Your Pocket premiered at Roundabout Underground and has since been produced in cities including Los Angeles, Chicago, Des Moines and Houston; his next play, ...What The End Will Be, is slated to debut at the Roundabout Theatre Company. Works include: Too Heavy for Your Pocket (2017), What The End Will Be (2020) Follow Jirèh: Twitter

C.A. Johnson Born in Louisiana, rising star C.A. Johnson writes with a southern hospitality and homespun charm that washes over audiences like a breath of fresh air. Making a debut at MCC Theater with her coming of age romcom All the Natalie Portmans, she drew praise for empathic take on a black queer teenage womanchild with Hollywood dreams. A core writer at the Playwrights Center, she has had fellowships with the Dramatists Guild Fellow, Page 73, the Lark and the Sundance Theatre Lab. Works include: All the Natalie Portmans (2020) Follow C.A.: Twitter

Johnny G. Lloyd A New York-based playwright and producer, Johnny G. Lloyd has seen his work produced and developed at the Tank, 59E59, the Corkscrew Festival, the Samuel French Off-Off Broadway Short Play Festival and more. A member of the 2019-2020 Liberation Theatre Company’s Writing Residency, this Columbia University graduate is also a producing director of InVersion Theatre. Works include: The Problem With Magic, Is (2020), Or, An Astronaut Play (2019), Patience (2018) Follow Johnny: Instagram

Patricia Ione Lloyd In her luminous 2018 breakthrough Eve’s Song at the Public Theater, Patricia Ione Lloyd offered a meditation on the violence against black women in America that is often overlooked onstage. With a style saturated in both humor and melancholy and a poetic lyricism that evokes Ntozake Shange’s, the former Tow Playwright in Residence has earned fellowships at New Georges, the Dramatist Guild, Playwrights Realm, New York Theater Workshop and Sundance. Works include: Eve’s Song (2018) Follow Patricia: Instagram

Maia Matsushita The half-Black, half-Japanese educator and playwright Maia Matsushita has sounded a silent alarm in downtown theater with an array of slow-burn, naturalistic coming-of-age dramas. She was a member of The Fire This Time’s 2017-18 New Works Lab and part of its inaugural Writers Group, and her work has been seen at Classical Theatre of Harlem’s Playwright Playground and the National Black Theatre’s Keeping Soul Alive Reading Series. Works include: House of Sticks (2019), White Mountains (2018) Follow Maia: Instagram

Daaimah Mubashshir When Daaimah Mubashshir’s kitchen-sink dramedy Room Enough (For Us All) debuted at the Rattlestick Playwrights Theatre in 2019, the prolific writer began a dialogue around the contemporary African-American Muslim experience and black queer expression that made her a significant storyteller to watch. She is a core writer at the Playwrights Center in Minneapolis as well as a member of Soho Rep’s Writer/Director Lab, Clubbed Thumb’s Early Career Writers Group, and a MacDowell Colony Fellow. Her short-play collection The Immeasurable Want of Light was published in 2018. Works include: Room Enough (For Us All) (2019) Follow Daaimah: Twitter

Jonathan Norton Hailing from Dallas, Texas, Jonathan Norton is a delightfully zany playwright who subverts notions of post-blackness by underlining America’s obscure historical atrocities with bloody red slashes. The stories he tells carry a profound horror, often viewed through the eyes of black children and young adults. Norton’s work has been produced or developed by companies including the Actors Theatre of Louisville (at the 44th Humana Festival), PlayPenn and InterAct Theatre Company. He is the Playwright in Residence at Dallas Theater Center. Works include: Mississippi Goddamn (2015), My Tidy List of Terrors (2013), penny candy (2019) Follow Jonathan: Website

AriDy Nox Cooking up piping hot gumbos of speculative fiction, transhumanism and radical womanist expression, AriDy Nox is a rising star with a larger-than-life vision. The Spelman alum earned an MFA from NYU TIsch’s Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program and has been a staple of various theaters such as Town Stages. A member of the inaugural 2019 cohort of the Musical Theatre Factory Makers residency, they recently joined the Public Theater’s 2020-2022 Emerging Writers Group cohort. Works include: Metropolis (in progress), Project Tiresias (2018) Follow AriDy: Instagram

Akin Salawu Akin Salawu’s nonlinear, hyperkinetic work combines heart-pounding suspense chills with Tarantino-esque thrills while excavating Black trauma and Pan-African history in America. With over two decades of experience as a writer, director and editor, the prize-winning playwright is a two-time Tribeca All Access Winner and a member of both the Public Theater’s Emerging Writers Group and Ars Nova’s Uncharted Musical Theater residency. A graduate of Stanford, he is a founder of the Tank’s LIT Council, a theater development center for male-identifying persons of color. Works include: bless your filthy lil’ heart (2019), The Real Whisperer (2017), I Stand Corrected (2008) Follow Akin: Twitter

Sheldon Shaw A playwright, screenwriter and actor, Sheldon Shaw studied writing at the Labyrinth Theater Company and was part of Playwrights Intensive at the Kennedy Center. Shaw has since developed into a sort of renaissance man, operating as playwright, screenwriter and actor. His plays have been developed by Emerging Artist Theaters New Works Festival, Classical Theater of Harlem and the Rooted Theater Company. Shaw's Glen was the winner of the Black Screenplays Matter competition and a finalist in the New York Screenplay Contest. Works include: Jailbait (2018), Clair (2017), Baby Starbucks (2015) Follow Johnny: Twitter

Nia O. Witherspoon Multidisciplinary artist Nia Ostrow Witherspoon’s metaphysical explorations of black liberation and desire have made her an in-demand presence in theater circles. The recipient of multiple honors—include New York Theatre Workshop’s 2050 Fellowship, a Wurlitzer Foundation residency and the Lambda Literary’s Emerging Playwriting Fellowship—she is currently developing The Dark Girl Chronicles, a play cycle that, in her words, “explores the criminalization of black cis and trans women via African diaspora sacred stories.” Works include: The Dark Girl Chronicles (in progress) ​Follow Nia: Instagram

Brandon Webster A Brooklyn-based musical theatre writer and dramaturg, Brandon Webster has been a familiar figure in the NYC theater scene, both onstage and behind the scenes. With an aesthetic that fuses Afrofuturist and Afrosurrealist storytelling, with a focus on Black liberation past and present, the composer’s work fuses psychedelic soul flourishes with alt-R&B nuances to create a sonic smorgasbord of seething rage and remorse. He is an alumnus of the 2013 class of BMI Musical Theater Workshop and a 2017 MCC Theater Artistic Fellow. Works include: Metropolis (in progress), Headlines (2017), Boogie Nights (2015) Follow Brandon: Instagram

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THE 10 BEST MOVIES

1. Moonlight

ES A romantic tale, a mother-and-child story, a tale about being shut off from the world until you understand it is extremely unlikely forward except if you go along with it. Barry Jenkins' Moonlight connects on numerous levels, but on the other hand it's a work of shocking delicacy, an image that scopes you up like a wave and drops you, tenderly, in a spot you never expected to be. Three great entertainers play a solitary character, Chiron, at different stages throughout his life—from his childhood in Miami to his adulthood as a road toughened street pharmacist—yet the image flaunts an off-the-diagrams number of wonderful supporting exhibitions as well, from any semblance of André Holland, Naomie Harris, Mahershala Ali and Janelle Monáe. Each little, wrapping subtlety includes right now.

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Servitude was nullified in the U.S. in 1865, however as of late as 1967 it was as yet illicit in certain states for interracial couples to wed. Jeff Nichols' film recounts to the narrative of Richard and Mildred Loving (played by Joel Edgerton and Ruth Negga), a white man and a lady of shading who battled the antimiscegenation laws in their home state, Virginia, and won. Nichols' flawlessly controlled methodology causes the Lovings' story to feel quick and essential. It's likewise an update that change regularly occurs in the edges.

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5. Loving

Adjusted from Shusaku Endo's epic, Martin Scorsese's Silence is a grave, beautiful motion picture about the idea of confidence and the significance of God. That is a great deal to handle, however on the off chance that anybody can deal with it, Scorsese can. Andrew Garfield and Adam Driver give finely created, exceptional exhibitions as seventeenth century Portuguese Jesuits who travel to Japan to spread Christianity. Their story, as Scorsese tells it, is reflective and melancholic, an intricately lit up supplication book of ruthless excellence.

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Casey Affleck stars as a disenchanted, lamenting maverick who out of nowhere ends up endowed with the consideration of his high school nephew. That is the "what occurs" of Kenneth Lonergan's Manchester by the Sea, however the film's tough, unobtrusive enchantment lies in the "how"— the way Lonergan and his entertainers catch the manner in which individuals talk, and what they care about, in a way so itemized, it's practically Dickensian. Like the entirety of Lonergan's motion pictures, this one permits you to live with characters until they feel like individuals you know. In some cases they're individuals you don't care for without question. In any case, by one way or another, before the end, they're your kin.

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8. La La Land

A few days, this world simply doesn't appear to be sufficiently large or liberal enough for a cutting edge melodic. Yet, with La Land, Damien Chazelle has cut space for one, and the world is better for it. Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling play singing, moving sweethearts with all of Los Angeles as their dream play area. Nothing turns out precisely as they plan, yet that is the clashing appeal of this glowing, kind picture. It's a film in affection with a city and with adoration itself.

9. Everybody Wants Some!!

Richard Linklater has called this happy curve of a film—an in depth of the misfortunes of a gathering of school baseball players in the days going before the fall semester, around 1980—a "profound continuation" to his 1993 Dazed and Confused. It's that and that's only the tip of the iceberg, a friendly and light parody that catches the quintessence of a wide range of young wants, both those that are effectively recognizable and the all the more hurting, unnameable kind.

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In Jaume Collet-Serra's shrewd, tense lady versus.- nature spine chiller, pro surfer Blake Lively outsmarts an extraordinary and horrendous animal of the profound. Some of the time the best motion picture joys have nothing to do with grants lure. To ruin one of Jean-Luc Godard's preferred adages: All you requirement for a motion picture is a young lady and a shark.

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I've had time to muse on this for a while and I prefer the shaven haired look on him in this one. I love the contrast in light between the warmth of Morocco and the cold icy blue tones of Ireland. It seems entirely appropriate that he shaved his lovely locks off when he returns, people tend to do that when something traumatic happens in their lives.

Colin Morgan in the trailer for The Boy That Never Was