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“In Plain Sight” (2008 – 2012)

Television/Action/Thriller

61 Episodes

Created by: David Maples

Featuring: Mary McCormack, Fred Weller, Nichole Hiltz, Todd Williams, Lesley Ann Warren, Paul Ben-Victor, Cristián de la Fuente, Rachel Boston

Mary Shannon: Since 1970, the Federal Witness Protection Program has relocated thousands of witnesses, some criminal, some not, to neighborhoods all across the country. Every one of those individuals shares a unique attribute, distinguishing them from the rest of the general population. And that is, somebody wants them dead.

There is no doubt that there are far too many scripted television series being produced than any one person can watch from week to week without making it a full time job. So it is great when something surfaces that did not get an airing here in New Zealand, then turns up on a secondary source such as what is considered an old fashioned medium, the good old DVD. I am pleased to say that is exactly what has happened with “In Plain Sight” (2008 – 2012), a vehicle for the excellent character actress Mary McCormack who came to fame as Howard Stern’s wife in “Private Parts” (1997), then going on to appear in a variety of projects. Here McCormack gets to not only play drama, but comedy as well as kicking ass as a US Marshall, a cleaner female counter-part to “Justified” (2010-2015) if you will.

The series itself revolves around Mary Shannon (Mary McCormack), a Deputy United States Marshal attached to the Albuquerque, NM, office of the Federal Witness Security Program (WITSEC), more commonly known as the Federal Witness Protection Program. Shannon must find ways to balance her professional life of protecting witnesses, her professional relationship with her work partner as well as her problematic personal life.

This is for all intents and purposes an episodic show with procedural elements that begin and end in the same episode (with few exceptions) much like many shows of its ilk. What “In Plain Sight” does extremely well is to balance the main characters personal life with her working situation in a way that leaves you wanting more – it really is less about being a US Marshall than it is about a daughter, sister, partner and lover, struggling with life as well as dealing with people who have been shunted out of their own lives many times because they have been in the wrong place at the wrong time.

The very defining thing that I found to be different from other shows that revolve around either the police or crime or both are the characters that have been created as well as the magnificent casting that has occurred to bring these to life as well as inhabiting them with some honesty that can be lacking in other generic shows.

Firstly, the main character Mary (Mary McCormack) is a completely capable officer, a nonconformist and uninterested in typical feminine wiles. Mary has trust and abandonment issues that lead her to have difficulties with relationships due to a difficult childhood resulting from her father’s abandonment and her mother’s alcoholism. Secondly there is Marshall (Fred Weller) who is a fifth-generation Deputy U.S. Marshal, Marshal Mann is Mary’s partner, as well as her best friend, and occasionally appeared to desire more than her friendship as the series progressed. He seems to know a little about everything, what Mary calls “useless information”, and is rarely ever speechless. The only time this has ever happened was in the season-three episode “Whistle Stop”, when he discovered Raphael and Mary had broken up, leading her to declare him “verbally impotent”. Friction between Marshall and Mary occurs at times, often due to Marshall’s cerebral approach and Mary’s gut instinct, though both are extremely protective of witnesses and each other. Lastly there is their boss Stan McQueen (Paul Ben-Victor), : As chief inspector for WITSEC’s Southwest region, Stan is Marshall and Mary’s boss who is flexible and a stand-up guy, quickly backing up both Marshall and Mary when they hit trouble. Stan likes to stick to official WITSEC doctrine as often as possible and is reluctant to bend the rules without authorization.

That leads us to Mary’s relationships at home, these are lead by her mother Jinx (Lesley Ann Warren) who is an alcoholic as was abandoned by her bank-robbing husband to raise her two daughters alone. Finally there is Brandi (Nichole Hiltz) Mary’s younger sister who is very much her mother’s daughter and the baby of the family. She lives in the moment and was originally involved with a shady man named Chuck. Despite this, she looks up to Mary and, at times, sees her as an example. She also tends to be the more mature figure in her relationship with her mother. Brandi is loyal to a fault, but is slowly developing a conscience independent of others’ approval.

My stand outs as well as scene stealers for the entire series are the well cast Nichole Hiltz and the amazing as well as legendary Lesley Ann Warren who not only are foils for Mary McCormack, keeping her on her toes not only in character but she cannot afford to fall asleep or coast with these two as scene partners because they are that good in their jobs. They both know their own characters inside out, they breathe them, with what could have been cut out archetypes, these two actresses from very different generations own them as well as feeling plugged in to what they need to do in each scene they appear in. This show is worth watching just for them.

The series is very well directed, mostly by Dan Lerner, but eagle eyes will spot episodes directed by veterans, as well as film directors such as John Badham, Ernest Dickerson, Stephen Hopkins and various other great television directors – this leads to well rounded and inventive episodes. Not only that but they are also able to bring the best out in not only the cast but the crew who work behind the scenes. I am a big fan of many of these directors and after watching episodes that could be humdrum in others hand you will appreciate may of these, particularly if you binge this show, like I did.

If you are looking for a new cop show that is just waiting to be discovered then I recommend this highly, it will keep you entertained with fairly simple storylines but it is the characters that will keep you coming back with all of them facing real growth through the four seasons that are available right now.

“In Plain Sight” seasons 1 to 4 are available now in a box set on DVD now.

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typingtess · 2 years ago

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NCIS: Los Angeles Season 13 Rewatch: “Fukushu”

The basics: The father of an LAPD detective, a highly respected Japanese-American veteran, is the victim of a hate crime with OSP on the case.

Written by: Kyle Harimoto wrote “Omni”, “Merry Evasion”, “Chernoff, K”, “Command and Control” as episode 150, “Granger, O.”, “Ghost Gun”, “Kulinda”, “767”, “Se Murio El Payaso”, “Assets”/“Liabilities”, “Venganza”, “Superhuman”, “One of Us", “Let Fate Decide” (season 11 premiere), “Decoy”, “Answers” , “Watch Over Me” and “Cash Flow”. He co-wrote “Three Hearts”, “Leipei”, “Humbug”, both ends of the “Matryoshka” two-parter, “Smokescreen” part two, “Searching”, “A Fait Acompli” and “A Tale of Two Igors”.

Directed by: Dennis Smith directed “Fame”, “Standoff”, “Rocket Man”, “Cyberthreat”, “Exit Strategy”, “Patriot Acts”, “Out of the Past” part one, “The Livelong Day”, Between the Lines”, “Deep Trouble” part two, “Black Budget", “Black Wind”, “Blame it On Rio”, “Defectors”, “Matryoshka” part one, “Granger, O”, “The Queen’s Gambit”, “Hot Water”, “From Havana With Love”, “Plain Sight”, the lighthearted “Monster”, “Superhuman”, “One of Us”, “Smokescreen” part one, “Decoy”, “Mother” (episode 250), “Alsiyadun”, “The Bear”, “Angry Karen” and “Signs of Change”.

Guest stars of note: Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa is Craig Tanaka, Christopher Sean is LAPD Det. Jack Tanaka, Jose Yenque is Capt. Carlos Fuentes, Sebastian Sozzi is LAPD Det. Matt Guerrero, Obi Ndefo is Joyner, Dashiell Connery is Jason Quinn, Peter Holden is Benjamin Strauss, Michael Fitzgerald is Billy Strauss, Tyler Capri Clark is Molly and Duncan Campbell is back as Agent Castor.

Our heroes: Take out the trash.

What important things did we learn about:

Callen: Has no use for the Strauss father and son. Sam: Wants Fatima to use her instincts but not be distracted by the circumstances. Kensi: Can shoot a man centermass at 1,250 meters. Deeks: Took a post-lawyering vanlife tour where he saw great places, great people that are at odds with the hate he sees in the attack. Fatima: Sick of the hate in the streets these days. Rountree: His sister is his world. Kilbride: Learned as a child his father protected their Japanese neighbor’s belongings for two years and carries that forward..

What not so important things did we learn about:

Callen: In Napa so missed the NCIS: LA Combine. Sam: Benches 225 pounds 20-times in the NCIS: LA Combine. Kensi: Can jump 21-inches in the NCIS: LA Combine. Deeks: Sprinting in the NCIS: LA Combine. Fatima: New to the Village People. Rountree: Judging the NCIS: LA Combine. Kilbride: Will have Kensi at his six if there is one seat left in the Humvee.

Where in the world is Henrietta Lange? No mention.

Who's down with OTP: Kensi and Deeks have long discussions about racism and agreeing to adopt a child with a different race. Callen spent the weekend in Napa with Anna.

Who's down with BrOTP: Callen hurried home from Napa to help on the case (pal before galpals).

Fashion review: Working out, Sam is in a black long-sleeve tee, black shorts, socks and Nikes. Kensi is a black tank top and camo leggings. Deeks is wearing a light grey tank top and darker grey jogggers. Rountree is in a charcoal grey tee-shirt and black shorts. Working, Callen is in a dark blue button-down shirt. Sam is in a long-sleeve black crewneck sweatshirt. Kensi is in a red tee-shirt. Deeks is in a medium-blue tee-shirt and light grey jeans. Fatima has on a lovely dark blue long-sleeve blouse over a medium grey turtleneck. Rountree is wearing a seafoam green tee-shirt . Admiral is in a dark blue three-piece suit, white shirt with a blue check pattern and a dark blue tie with white dots.

Music: “AWOL” by Every Time I Die plays while Callen and Sam are entering the Strauss-Quinn home. “Watch Out!” by Kazou is playing at the end as Det. Tanaka’s video goes viral.

Any notable cut scene: Yes and if you have the DVDs, it is with the “Subject 17” episode. Callen and Sam drive up to the building where Jack Tanaka is holding the men who hurt his father. Putting on their tactical gear, Callen is not happy that they are going in heavily armed and in their vests. Sam reminds Callen that Jack is a highly trained member of LAPD’s robbery-homicide division. If Jack Tanaka is not in his right mind, they can’t take any chances. Callen and Sam enter the building.

Quote: Sam: “We know you'd much rather be out there on the street finding these people.” Det Tanaka: “No, I don't want to do that. If I want the men that beat my father prosecuted, I can't be anywhere near this case.” Fatima: “Wow, you have incredible restraint.” Det. Tanaka: “ Yeah, well, people, uh, friends of ours, they would use words to describe Dad like "kind, funny, loving." Only word I would ever use to describe him is "discipline." Sam: “I respect your father even more now.” Det. Tanaka: “Yeah. Well, if my lack of discipline let whoever beat him off the hook, my old man would never forgive me.”

Anything else: An older Japanese man is fishing at the beach with little success. As he returns to his truck, he is almost run over by a young woman in a Jeep racing down the beach. She apologizes as she flies by, distracted by her phone.. Shaking his head, the man gets to his truck, only to be badly beaten by two men in dark hoodies. While the older man takes the worst of it, he is able to pull out a knife and cut one of his attackers in the lower leg.

Short credits.

In the gym, the team is working out (that hasn’t happened in a while). Sam is lifting while Rountree spots. Kensi is working on her jumping skills. Deeks is running – joking about being faster than any cornerback in the NFL Combine. At Alabama, Caleb Castille played cornerback. Rountree didn’t think the sprint even counted – he thought Deeks was just warming up.

Kensi’s jump was 21-inches, typical of defensive tackles at the NFL Combine. Those men usually way 300-pounds plus but Kensi wants to know if any of them can shoot a man at centermass from 1,250 meters. They cannot. Sam is up to 14-reps lifting at 225 (another Combine test). Sam gets 20 – legit for an NFL linebacker. Sam is disappointed he can’t do LA Rams superstar Aaron Donald’s 35 reps. Kensi asks if linebackers can hit a man centermass at 1,250 meters.

The Admiral pops up on the gym plasma, driving in to the office. He thinks the US Military would like to limit the number of people who can shoot a man centermass at 1,250 meters. Kensi should be humble that she has that sort of training, not bragging about it. She immediately apologizes. That said, if there is one seat left in the Humvee, the Admiral is leaving Aaron Donald behind because he wants Kensi on his six. Deeks thinks the Admiral is encouraging Kensi.

Sam asks if they have a case. The older man at the beach is Lt. JG Craig Tanaka was nearly beaten to death at Dockweiler Beach. He’s going in for his second surgery – at 73 this is going to be a dicey surgery. Tanaka served on the USS Walke during the Vietnam War. The team is disgusted. With Callen in Napa, expected back later that day, Fatima is going with Sam to speak to Tanaka’s son Jack, an LAPD Detective. Kensi and Deeks are on their way to the crime scene, Rountree is going to meet with the Admiral in Ops when he arrives.

In Ops, the Admiral is looking for a sit-rep. Craig Tanaka is in surgery. The EMTs found the fish knife Tanaka used to fight back. He has his name engraved on the knife. The blood is human but not Tanaka’s. The Admiral notes that the bad guys got more fight than they were expecting.

At the boatshed, Fatima is disgusted with the hate crimes going on in the world. Sam points out that Fatima is living that life becoming a more religious Muslim. Fatima agrees. Growing up in Beverly Hills, despite what “Beverly Hills 90210” showed, there is a large Persian community. She never felt different at high school. Since she started wearing the hijab, some people yell terrible things to her but they’ve never been violent. Sam thinks some of the violent people start by yelling terrible things at people. What matters to Sam is not letting his personal disgust get in the way of the case but Fatima should follow her gut instincts.

On the way to the crime scene, Kensi is making food recommendations to an obviously distracted Deeks before suggesting drugs. Kensi calls him back, saying she knows he’s mad. He’s not mad, he’s sad. Beating a 73-year old man in America – how does that happen? Kensi is sad, mad and disgusted too. Deeks talks about the six-month walk-about he did after being a lawyer. He got in a van and just went everywhere – he loves the country, the ocean, the mountains, the big cities and the small towns. It was great. And now he’s investigating the beating of a 73-year old man because of his background.

Rountree updates the Admiral in the Admiral’s office, Lt. Tanaka is out of surgery. When he doesn’t leave the office, the Admiral asks if Rountree needs anything else. He does – why is OSP investigating this case? The Admiral tells Rountree that Lt. Tanaka volunteered at the National Submarine Memorial, West.

Rountree still doesn’t think that’s why they were assigned the case. The Admiral requested the case as a hate crime against a Japanese Naval Veteran. Asking Rountree to sit, the Admiral explains that he grew up in Oregon with a best friend named Ralph Sakamoto. The Sakamotos would cook a huge Sunday dinner for the Kilbrides. One day, the Admiral asked his Mom about the dinners. She explains that when the government imprisoned Japanese Americans during WWII, people started looted Japanese family homes. Admiral Kilbride’s father sat with two shotguns every night for two years on the Sakamoto’s porch to make sure nobody stole from them. Rountree thinks the Admiral’s father was quite the man. The Admiral agrees. “What kind of son would I be if I didn’t track down the son of a bitch who did this to Lt. Tanaka.”

Castro brings Det. Tanaka to Sam and Fatima. Sam apologizes for taking Det. Tanaka away from the search for his father’s attacker but Tanaka makes it clear, he wants this case to stick. He can’t be involved in the investigation. Fatima admires his restraint. While people would use words like “kind” or “fun” or “loving” to describe the senior Tanaka, his son would use the word “discipline”. Det. Tanaka knows his father would never forgive him if he let his lack of discipline impact the case. Sam is impressed.

Explaining that his father was a creature of habit, working his garden, working as a volunteer at the base in Seal Beach, fishing at night, meeting up with his buddies and having a few beers at the end of the day, Det. Tanaka is sure this is a racial hate crime. Fatima asks if the younger Tanaka has any proof. Proof is NCIS’s job, not his.

Kensi and Deeks arrive at the crime scene. She figures the start of the attack was a cowardly kick to the back or sucker punch. They figure the bad guys saw Lt. Tanaka fishing and took action. Despite how big the population in LA is, an older man would be alone fishing just before sunset most nights.

Rountree pops up to Sam and Fatima on the plasma with a witness, a jogger, who saw two men in hoodies and jeans near the beach. They stuck out to her. Sam thinks the idea that two attackers beat a 73-year old man makes them bigger cowards. Fatima gets a call. The Commanding Officer of Seal Beach wants to talk to NCIS about Lt. Tanaka. Since most CO’s wouldn’t know the volunteers at the base, this is something.

With the witness statement, Kensi and Deeks are going to “run up the hill” to check where the jogger could see the man. Kensi complains about running up the hill until she gets about a step ahead of Deeks before calling it a race. He won’t race “with the world’s biggest fifth-grader.”

The Seal Beach CO makes it clear if he was in Los Angeles, he’d be fighting in person for Lt. Tanaka. There isn’t a person working at Seal Beach the CO holds in higher regard than Lt. Tanaka. While Lt. Tanaka has the title of volunteer docent, he takes those volunteer duties more seriously than some of the CO’s commanders do with their assigned duties. “He is a wealth of knowledge and inspiration to every sailor and officer on that base, including myself.”

At the hospital, a Lt. Tanaka is unconscious in his bed, out of surgery. Rountree updates Sam and Fatima on his condition. Knowing that nobody at the base would have a grudge against Tanaka, they agree it was not a targeted attack from someone in the Navy. In his financials, Rountree found that Lt. Tanaka has been doing some carpentry for an LLC for the prior three months. He’s been working at a restaurant renovation for the last two-weeks. The job was delayed because someone threw a brick through the restaurant’s window. With Callen on his way to the restaurant, Sam will meet him there while Fatima returns to Ops.

In the spot where the jogger saw the two men in hoodies, Kensi sees a ramp that would get them to two different highways. This was a premediated attack, not just a random hate crime. Deeks thinks they could have followed Tanaka to the beach from someplace else.

Callen and Sam arrive at a restaurant in a neighborhood that was gentrifying. Speaking about higher rents, Sam talks about the cost per square foot. Callen checks out. Sam can’t believe Callen left Napa and Anna to help on the case. Callen notices all the hand craving Lt. Tanaka was doing. Sam asks what Callen knows about carpentry and it seems he knows a lot. In one of his foster homes, the mother was an alcoholic but her husband was a carpenter and a good one. He’d make custom tables in his workshop and Callen would hang around. Sam makes a joke about a rival carpenter taking on Callen and his foster dad which leads Callen to believe Sam missed him. A freshly painted wall catches Sam’s attention.

Back at the office, Fatima updates a traveling Kensi and Deeks. Jack Tanaka did not know his father was working but it didn’t surprise him, his Dad would pick up jobs like that over the years. Lt. Tanaka is improving. Still touch and go but his vital signs are looking better. Finishing with Fatima, Kensi and Deeks talk about their adoption plans and that they were open to adopting a child outside of their race. Deeks is worried that he knows nothing about another race’s experience. Kensi agrees – they don’t share the a culture but they could give someone a home where they are loved. They would need to understand the child’s background, how the world perceives the child. “Nothing would break my heart more if they never felt like they fit in with us or anyone else who looked like them,” Kensi says.

With some x-ray equipment, Callen and Sam see racial slurs under the fresh coat of paint. Leaving the restaurant, Callen is talking to the owner. Lt. Tanaka told the owner about the brick thrown through the window but didn’t mention the racial slurs painted on the wall. Rountree checked for Sam, no security cameras near the diner. There is a street artist working nearby who doesn’t want to help Callen and Sam until Callen shows him the racial slurs on the wall.

The street artist thinks Lt. Tanaka is going to be angry. Callen and Sam are surprised the artist knows Lt. Tanaka but the two are friends. The artist is expecting Lt. Tanaka anytime. Sam breaks the bad news about the attack. Remembering that the red paint he’s using was found in the street behind the diner, the artist turns over the can to Callen and Sam.

With the crime lab running prints on the paint can, Rountree wonders what was going through Lt. Tanaka’s mind when he saw the wall of the diner. He is sure Tanaka wanted retribution but he just painted over the hate and went about his job, probably fearing he’d be fired for the attack. Fatima recalls a few weeks prior being called names by a racist in North Hollywood. Rountree says there are only two times in his life where he felt race didn’t matter – playing sports and being part of NCIS’s OSP. It all about a common goal – like when the aliens come for the planet. Fatima’s tablet beeps. The prints on the paint can match Jason Quinn.

In the bullpen (with people walking behind them – a first in a while as well), the team agrees that Lt. Tanaka was targeted. They wonder if Tanaka spoke to Quinn about the slurs on the wall and things escalated. Fatima and Rountree pop-up on the plasma. Quinn’s roommate is Billy Strauss. The Strauss family were the longtime owners of the diner but lost the business. Going after Tanaka, Strauss and Quinn went after the wrong guy. They wouldn’t go after Tanaka at the diner – it would be too easy to connect to the Strauss family.

Quinn just used his credit card at a coffee shop. Kensi and Deeks are off to find Quinn, Callen and Sam are on their way to check out where Strauss and Quinn live.

As Quinn leaves the coffee shop, Kensi says “I’m NCIS” and we all know what happens. Quinn flees on his motorcycle, Kensi follows in the SUV and Quinn winds up on the ground after hitting a picnic table.

With music blasting from the Strauss-Quinn home, Callen and Sam enter the building. Just a lot of loud music and tossed around furniture. There is hot fast food on the floor – whatever happened in the apartment, Callen and Sam just missed it.

Quinn asks Kensi and Deeks not to hurt him. Deeks would like to hurt him but won’t. Kensi wants to know what Quinn is talking about. 20-minutes earlier, Quinn heard Billy Strauss being beaten by someone saying they were a cop. Quinn admits to breaking into the diner but Strauss painted the walls. He was also not part of the attack, Quinn said Strauss did that alone. When Kensi and Deeks tell him there was a second attacker, Quinn makes it clear, he wasn’t that man.

Callen and Sam quickly figure out that Det. Tanaka attacked Billy Strauss. Callen asks Fatima to call the hospital and find Det. Tanaka. Wondering how Tanaka knew about Billy Strauss – NCIS did not share that info with him – Callen and Sam think the detective somehow hacked into their systems.

In the office, Rountree is working on a sewing table near the wardrobe when Fatima arrives. She cannot find Det. Tanaka. Rountree cannot find how Det. Tanaka could hack into their systems. A check of their systems shows no intruders. Fatima starts to laugh at Rountree’s set-up – he doesn’t fit in the sewing area. Unhappy, Rountree points out the rest of the team has fabulous chairs and desks. The Admiral has a glass office and Hetty has a throne room. Fatima admits using the Pilates reformer in the gym. The arriving Admiral found someone using the expensive Pilates reformer to be a good thing.

Rountree makes a pitch for a personal workspace. The Admiral talks about offices, with room, maybe plants – all things that are never going to happen. He doesn’t understand the wardrobe area – it looks like the back of a Village People show. Fatima doesn’t understand the Village People. The Admiral thinks two intelligent, young NCIS Agents could find a new home for the wardrobe and set up their own work stations. Fatima gets a call. Det. Tanaka is not at the hospital. The Admiral realizes who beat them to Strauss.

Deeks points out that the prints on the spray can went to the crime lab. A Detective Guerrero accessed the information from the LA Sheriff’s Department. Deeks wants Castro to pick up Guerrero, who is still at the Sheriff’s Department offices. Kilbride will tell Guerrero’s supervisor that NCIS Is working on a cold case so Guerrero doesn’t tip off Det. Tanaka.

At the boat shed, Deeks and Kensi confront Guerrero whose sister once dated Det. Tanaka. The two broke up but Guerrero and Tanaka stayed friends. They surf together, saw a Rams game together, saw the Foo Fighters together. Kensi and Deeks agree what happened to Lt. Tanaka is disgusting but they want to stop Det. Tanaka from making things worse. His career was over, his life doesn’t have to be.

Guerrero admits all and adds that Det. Tanaka doesn’t just have Billy, he has Billy’s dad. It was obvious that Billy’s dad was behind the attack on Lt. Tanaka. Knowing NCIS was just a few minutes away, Det. Tanaka grabbed the Strauss men and took them to an old gang hideout Guerrero knew was empty. He provides Kensi and Deeks the address. Kensi updates Callen.

Callen and Sam enter the hideout. Finding Det. Tanaka with the gun on the Strausses, Det. Tanaka is completely cooperative. The Strausses want help but Callen thinks they should be grateful they’re only tied up. The Elder Strauss goes on a rant about law enforcement taking the other side but Callen just walks away.

In Ops, Fatima and Rountree are sad that Det. Tanaka is going to lose his career. She asks if Rountree would do the same for his father. “Hell no, not for my dad.” Fatima notices he doesn’t talk about family much. Rountree explains that his family isn’t like Fatima’s. All that matters to Rountree is his sister – “she’s my everything.” Fatima wants to meet her. Rountree agrees. They’re off to get some pizza.

Closing up one of the storage units in the armory, Deeks talks to Kensi about the elder Strauss being so full of hate and poisoning his son that something like this happens. Lt. Tanaka should be out there fishing and Kensi thinks he will be soon. She knows they can fill a child with love and happiness and not hate and anger. They’re off to do a Peloton class.

The Admiral bring Det. Tanaka to see his father. While the Admiral wants to wait outside, Det. Tanaka invites him in. Lt. Tanaka would be thrilled to see an Admiral in person. The Admiral says that tough fathers are hard to kill – he knows, he had one.

Det. Tanaka knows the Admiral thinks he did something stupid but the younger Tanaka wanted to stand up against two-years of hate crimes against Asians. The Admiral believes a highly-decorated detective could do so much more than what Det. Tanaka did that day. Det. Tanaka videoed the Strausses. He posted it to a number of social media sites before Callen and Sam arrived. It was important that others understand that men like his father are not from a weak and docile community. Det. Tanaka had the skills and training to fight back. If one beating is stopped by what Det. Tanaka did, he is good with what happens next.

“The Way of the warrior is a resolute acceptance of death,” Det. Tanaka tells the Admiral. The Admiral recognizes the Miyamoto Musashi quote. Lt. Tanaka starts to stir. He asks if the his son arrested the attackers. Det. Tanaka tells his father the attackers were caught by Admiral Kilbride’s team. As Lt. Tanaka starts to salute, the Admiral gives him a kind but firm “as you were” – there was no need to salute. It was his honor, the Admiral explains, to work the case. Lt. Tanaka goes back to sleep.

The video plays of the Strausses on phones across Los Angeles.

What head canon can be formed from here: Listening to Admiral Kilbride speak, I’m not sure he’s an Oregon guy. Maybe decades with the Navy and working in southern bases gave him his sound but Gerald McRaney’s Mississippi roots can be heard. That all said, the episode gave some depth to the Admiral’s character with a father who may have been tough but who did the right thing for people who couldn’t protect themselves.

Deeks’s doubts about his possible parenting skills were all over the episode. There was also a peek into the Rountree family tree. Dad is out of Rountree’s circle of trust, a circle that is just Rountree and his sister.

Fatima and Sam speak of their histories with racists and bigots. Rountree talks about it too but in the positives of sports and OSP being about your skills and not your race or religion.

Episode number: Episode two of season 13, 282 overall.

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adamwatchesmovies · 4 years ago

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The First Deadly Sin (1980)

I gave The First Deadly Sin a chance. For a while, I embraced it despite the flaws. I tolerated the slow pace, believing it was deliberate; a way to build up tension. I liked Frank Sinatra as the veteran cop but eventually, I had to cave. The movie's dull.

Detective Edward Delaney (Sinatra) is weeks away from retirement when he notices a strange series of murders. He becomes determined to get to the bottom of things despite the higher-ups urging him to relax and wait it out until retirement, and his wife (Faye Dunaway) lying in the hospital, slowly dying.

This is a generic "serial killer" meets “the veteran cop’s last job” thriller but in slow motion. Delaney goes around picking up clues and slowly piecing things together while a killer we don’t care about bides his time. Meanwhile, you're (at best) mildly interested in whether Faye Dunaway’s character will ever get out of bed. You're not anxious wondering who the next victim will be. You're not horrified by the murders. There's no reason why this movie needs to be 112 minutes long.

To keep myself invested in this review, I'll shine a spotlight on some of the bizarre and unfortunate choices that drag this film down. Firstly, the killer is not interesting. Think of some great serial killers we've seen on the silver screen. The guy from Seven; Hannibal Lecter and Francis Dollarhyde from Red Dragon; even Jigsaw or that creep from The Cell. They all have two things in common. First, they have an identity. Even if they don’t have a name, something about their methodology makes them stand out. You wonder what makes them tick. There’s nothing to the sinner in this picture. He kills with a mountain-climbing hammer and then cries about it. Big deal. I was more interested in why the camera was constantly obscuring his face than his mental state. David Dukes (who plays the killer) isn’t a cop working next to our hero or someone visiting his elderly mother in the room next to Delaney’s wife’s; his identity is not a twist, so why pretend like he's hiding in plain sight?

Another problem is our lead. Compare this film's cop on the edge of retirement to the one in Seven. Morgan Freeman's character was partnered up with a newcomer. Why? Because old men like Frank Sinatra don't do well in chases or fight scenes. You know exactly how their final confrontation will end because there's no way this detective could go toe-to-toe with anyone, least of all a lunatic who works out and kills people compulsively.

While your curiosity might be peaked enough by the mystery to keep you going, the side characters are the best part of the film. Delaney is helped by a number of interesting men and women while on the case, including a coroner who isn’t very excitable, even when it comes to dead bodies being exhumed (James Whitmore), a victim’s widow (Brenda Vaccaro), and a museum curator who really wants to help the investigation (David Dukes). They bring excitement to the table by serving as backdoor resources for our hero who is cut-off by his superior at the police headquarters.

In the end, the dramatic moments fell flat because I didn’t care about the characters. Many scenes are supposed to be heart-wrenching but add nothing to this bloated plot. This was Sinatra’s final performance. It's not an embarrassing choice but the picture's a letdown. No one cares about this movie and you can tell by the bare-bones DVD release it's received. Not even subtitles or a trailer! I've got to throw extra tomatoes at those who put together the cover. It gives away a large chunk of the mystery! The first few scenes do too (meaning you're sitting there waiting for everyone else to catch up) but that's beside the point. The First Deadly Sin is completely forgettable. (Fullscreen version on DVD, June 16, 2015)

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fearsmagazine · 4 years ago

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ANTIDOTE - Review

DISTRIBUTOR: Uncork’d Entertainment

SYNOPSIS: Sharyn is admitted into a hospital for an emergency surgery, but she wakes up in a bizarre medical facility where patients are treated like lab rats as mysterious doctors are trying out a cure for all ills. The clinical research is brutal -- human endurance is put to the test and she must find a way to escape or continue to be used as a human Guinea pig.

REVIEW: ANTIDOTE is a horror, mystery, thriller, that plays out like a twisted version of “It’s A Wonderful Life, with a somewhat equally optimistic ending. Instead of the main character having to go back to review their life, they are faced with trauma and curl therapy sessions with a demented therapist as they try to figure out the issues with their life.

The grizzly special effects help balance out the minimalistic location where much of the story takes place, Many of the visual aspects offer clues as to the true nature of Sharyn’s situation then clues from the plot or dialogue. At its core ANTIDOTE feels like an episode of “The Twilight Zone,” or maybe more like “Tales From The Crypt,” given its violent nature. However, the more optimistic ending places it more in the league of “The Twilight Zone.” I wouldn’t go so far as to say there is anything groundbreaking with the story, but there is a fresh redesign on the elements that should keep the view guessing as to what is going on and where the story is heading.

I enjoyed Ashlynn Yennie’s performance. She creates this level headed fighter who is doing her best to think and fight her way out of this nightmare. Even as the mystery is revealed as to the “why” behind her peril, you perceive the sincerity of her repentance allowing you to accept the plot points that build to the climax. I enjoyed the other actors as well but their characters were a bit flat even though this is Sharyn’s story.

Director and co-writer Peter Daskaloff keeps the film moving at a nice space as I never felt bored or checked the time. There are some graphic effects sequences that he does an excellent job of piecing together so they look realistic. He nicely exploits this limited location so it feels like a massive labyrinth that the characters are trapped in and you are left guessing as to what Sharyn might encounter as she explores other areas. He skillful job of hiding the clues in plain sight to provide the viewer with “wow” moments as he peels back the layers.

I enjoyed ANTIDOTE. It features a talented cast, a compelling score, interesting production values, and an effective visual narrative. Clearly not a studio picture, but a solid film that I would be proud to have in a festival. Be interested to see what Peter Daskaloff does next.

CAST: Ashlynn Yennie, Louis Mandylor, Scott Alin, Yorgos Karamihos, Augie Duke, Christos Vasiloppulous; Elli Rahn, and Olive Hoffman CREW: Director/Screenplay/Producer - Peter Daskaloff; Screenplay - Matthew Toronto; Producers - Alexi Stavrou & Ashlynn Yennie; Cinematographer - Lucas Pitassi; Score - Ryan Harrison; Editor - Vanagan Gaboudian; Special Makeup Effects Artist - Maurie Davidson OFFICIAL: N.A. FACEBOOK: N.A. TWITTER: N.A. TRAILER: https://youtu.be/yH8P-puEO-0 RELEASE DATE: On Demand & DVD May 11th, 2021

**Until we can all head back into the theaters our “COVID Reel Value” will be similar to how you rate a film on digital platforms - 👍 (Like), 👌 (It’s just okay), or 👎 (Dislike) Reviewed by Joseph B Mauceri

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letterboxd · 4 years ago

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Seeing is Believing.

The relentlessly hellish 1985 war film Come and See has marched to the number two spot on Letterboxd thanks to a stunning restoration, digital availability and pandemic-panic. Aaron Yap surveys the community’s reviews of Elem Klimov’s “mortar-blast of a masterpiece” for insights into its importance—and our psychic states.

War is hell—fundamentally the principle behind every anti-war movie, but there’s arguably never been one that conjures this state of being as convincingly as Elem Klimov’s 1985 Come and See (‘Idi i Smotri’) does. And it’s a hellscape that appears to be wildly resonating with the Letterboxd community—the film has now unseated The Godfather to take second place in our Official Top 250 Narrative Feature Films list, just behind Parasite.

For those yet to surrender to this mortar-blast of a masterpiece, Come and See plunges the viewer into the chaos and devastation of the 1943 Nazi invasion of Soviet Belorussia. Based on Klimov and writer Ales Adamovich’s own experiences during World War II, and the accounts of genocide survivors, it’s almost an anti-anti-war film. There are no professional actors. No battle scenes. No digestible history-pedia plot beats. No heroic feats of courage. Our guide into the harrowing void is a fourteen-year-old partisan adolescent named Florya (Aleksey Kravchenko).

Joining a troop of resistance fighters against his mother’s wishes, he embarks on an unnervingly subjective odyssey that leaves him a shrivelled, visibly aged husk by the end. It’s without question one of cinema’s most heart-breaking, unforgettable transformations.

Come and See is not a standard art picture per se. Klimov’s vision contains traces of Andrei Tarkovsky’s poetic, deep-dream sensibilities—many images assume otherworldly, psychedelic qualities that lodge in our mind and occasionally temper the pools of screaming despair around it. But the film is also as immediate as the lacerating scald of a flamethrower to the face. It possesses the grubby, cult-ish midnight-movie energy of something you should probably not be witnessing.

Awareness of the film’s infamous production lore—the plan to hypnotize Kravchenko, the use of live ammunition and real Nazi uniforms—only adds to the whole unshakeably surreal experience. Perhaps only Threads comes close to its singularly nightmarish, nearly unbearable grip.

While the film’s detractors point to a certain misery-porn obviousness (“a Disneyland dark-ride”, writes Nick), the majority of Letterboxd reviewers are unable to deny the sheer, overwhelming, scorched-earth impact of the film:

“It’s just so utterly fucking relentless.” —Andrew

“I am shaken to the core. Come and See is the only war film anyone needs to watch.” —Matt

“It is—through and through—a physical experience. It can be felt all the way to the bone. At a certain point it just stops being a movie, it leaves the screen and begs to become a part of you.” —Anna

“It’s no joyous or action-oriented trip of entertainment: it is authentic horror, flawlessly filmed. Be prepared.” —Edgar

“The most horrifying non-horror horror film of all time.” —Anton

In a more measured take, Mike D’Angelo questions the value of recreating this savage piece of history: “It’s undeniably powerful—so much so that it’s pretty much the sole memory I retained from my first viewing—but enduring it a second time made me more sympathetic toward the ‘some things are too monstrous to function as art’ camp than I’ve generally been in the past.”

Likewise, Robb struggled, preferring a more nuanced depiction: “I don’t want the easy release of thinking that there are strictly good and evil people. I want to know how all-in-all normal people, not monsters, commit monstrously heinous crimes. The alternatives, of just having throat-stomping scenes one after another, feels to me like an evening at the feelies.”

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To be clear, Come and See isn’t some underrated, recently unearthed discovery. It was released in the United States in 1987 and officially submitted as the Soviet entry into the Foreign Language Film category of the 58th Academy Awards. It’s been featured on Roger Ebert’s “Great Movies” series, and best-of lists from Empire and Sight & Sound magazines.

In Hollywood, the likes of Steven Soderbergh and Roger Deakins have been vocal in their praise of Klimov’s film. “What I saw will stay with me forever; it is a masterpiece not only of filmmaking, but of humanity itself,” Sean Penn once said. Films such as The Thin Red Line, Schindler’s List and Saving Private Ryan all owe a little something to Come and See in their respective cinematic representations of WWII.

But as we’ve seen in the recent surge of Studio Ghibli viewing—and with Soderbergh’s Contagion back in March—it’s sensible to hypothesize that the combination of increased media availability and a tumultuous socio-political atmosphere can contribute to the most dramatic of Letterboxd activity spikes.

Our data shows a clear correlation between Come and See diary entries and screenings of the stunning Janus Films 2K restoration that appeared in select theaters earlier this year—a big spike, in particular, after the screening at New York’s Film Forum on February 21. And Criterion Collection’s DVD, Blu-ray and digital release—a true revelation for those who’ve only ever watched the film via the 2003 Kino Lorber DVD—has positively pushed the film into the stratosphere, with a huge jump in numbers in late June, and holding steady ever since.

Given present circumstances—an out-of-control global pandemic with no discernible end in sight; Nazi sentiment and systemic racism still thriving in plain sight—Come and See’s petrifying apocalyptic wallop may not exactly be comfort viewing, but it does serve as a sobering, industrial-strength reminder that this is definitely not The Good Place and we should be concerned. As Lizzy asks in her ominous review, “What urges could turn men into such beasts?”

The film’s original title is the agreeably pointed Kill Hitler (“I think that’s beautiful” —Muriel). But its current beckoning, lifted from the Book of Revelation, is the more provocatively accessible invitation of the two: once you come and see, you can’t unsee Come and See.

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Images courtesy of the Criterion Collection.

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kurtty-drabbles · 4 years ago

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Postwoman au (Part III)

N/A: So, here we go. Show don´t tell is one of those things I want to perfect and I hope I can do ok here.

@dannybagpipesarecalling @djinmer4 @bamfoftheundead @muninandhugin

Going to a new job is always brings new sensations. Hopes. Maybe even dreams. And Kitty Pryde would like to say she´s ready to begin this new journey with a big smile. "Oh God, what the hell I get myself into?!" she says as her mirror shows her reflection with a nervous smile and swallows hard as once again Kitty is in the waiting room- the waiting room has no signal of the big wedding and in exchange, there´re magazines covering the new sensation. A Hollywoodian celebrity is dating a mutant- inhales and exhales.

Is all Kitty can do. The receptionist appears to be a succubus- is not something to point out, but, the receptionist looks way too much Like Gloriana If, and is a big if here, wasn´t be the eyes. Her eyes are too unnatural to belong to Gloriana- and well it gives ideas as if this is a look a succubus would dig or if is about her "dates"

"Good morning, Miss Pryde, right on time...good, he loves people that are punctual," she says with an upward smile. She types something really quick in her laptop. Once the laptop gives a small sound more or less like "Blink" the receptionist gives her total attention to Kitty. "Mr. Krampus is in room 23. He´s moving out thanks to his work...he´ll need space" and she gives her a key. And nods as if this end the conversation.

"What? how I get to room 23?" Kitty asked confused. And the receptionist has a resting bitch face- or, maybe, the receptionist thinks poor on Kitty´s intelligence and Kitty will have none of that- she punches the table site separating Kitty and the so-called succubus hard. The succubus couldn´t care less.

Kitty holds the key and channels all her unfamous "mean cat spirit" to deal with this situation. "Listen, How in the hell I´ll go to a room 23 if ..." the words die off as Kitty is teleport right away. The succubus shakes her head and continues to do her work.

"Pff, mortals"

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Room 23 is an oval room. The prominent colors are coffee-colored and a soft tone of blue. And a curious sight caught Kitty´s eyes- not the many strange objects that must remain nameless for now- it was the window...It is dark and snowing, yet, Kitty is 100% certain of the weather. "But...it was sunny this day...what happened?" and she looks at the window to see snow, and what appears to be a village. "Did I time travel or teleport?"

"The latter, Katzchen!" a voice whispered in her ear and is more than enough to cause Kitty to jump in her feet and gest away from the space she was, even if was a little-and turning to see her boss would be a good thing if this was a normal situation. Now, all Kitty wants to is one thing- "AHHHH I´ll not torture children" she exclaims.

Inwardly, Kitty will slap herself for being so brash. She had a big speech about this and even rehearsal that with Doug, and yet, she goes to the most cliche. For shame!

The woman pulls the Davi star out of her shirt and looks at her so-called boss. "Did you heard me? I´ll not torture children!" and if Kurt was seething and ready to mayhem, well, he´s looking perfectly calm as he takes a small candy, unwrapped, and eat it.

"Oh, I was wondering when you would found out" his smile is too charming for one who works as a tortured and Kitty´s hair goosebumps. "Ok, let´s make things clear. You´re not here to torture kids nor people. I´m. I need you to help my agenda and sometimes deliver things to the others" his golden eyes look at the key on Kitty´s hand- a small key that looks ordinary and plain- "and only that"

"Oh, but you´ll torture people? Great...want me to bring coffee to you too?" Kitty took a small knife and points at Krampus. The deity/fairy is too amused. Too amused and Kitty won´t speculate about why the man seems to happy to see a knife pointed at him.

"I´d not torture the innocents, Kitty, I torture those who have wicked souls. The children I took...is not little ones who watch porn or forget to do chores...no, I´m talking about kids who killed their younger brother, pets just because" and with a snap of his fingers the room changes and images of a young boy drowning a baby is showed much to her displeasure.

"I´m not a monster, Kitty, mere a force to punish the wick. Nothing more or less." Krampus concludes. His golden eyes seem ancient now. And an animalistic smile plays off. "I can show more of my victims...A man who shot his entire family for money. A woman who tried to murder her lover and his wife..." and Kitty raises her hand.

"STOP"

"That´s my work, Kitty...I see this every day and I´m very good in what I do"

"Could have told me" she faces him. Gritting her teeth as the room finally returns to normal. "I didn´t like to know what you do ...by a friend"

"Galaticus indicate you....this is new to me, and you´re right. I should have been more honest" his tone is full of mirth. "Do you still want to work with me?"

Yes?

No?

"Will I not have to torture anyone?"

"Yes, like I said...I only need you to organize my agenda and deliver things...only this"

Kitty exhales and slowly lower the knife. "If I stabbed you...would you felt any pain?"

"Oh, I would feel something but not what you´re imaging"

"Uhm...I think is what I´m imaging" she says holding the key closer now. _____________________________________________________________________________________________

By perchance Doug has an old movie about Krampus- well, old is an ambiguous term to use. The movie has not even 5 years old but as is the first Krampus movie...and the first to get not so favorable reviews...is easy to believe the movie is ancient-and Jubilee, Kitty, Bobby and Doug are invited to watch the movie.

"So...you´re working with Krampus?" Bobby asked bemused. "And Galaticus indicated you?"

"Yes...I have a magical contract if you want to see" Kitty responds a bit grumpy. "By the way, how are Scott and Jean?"

"Oh...yes, how are the couple?" Jubilee pipes as Doug is putting the movie on the DVD player.

"Scott and Jean are rightly pissed. They even refuse to use Prof X´s honeymoon vacation...instead, Doom...yes, I know...even they´re shocked, Doom over a nice honeymoon vacation to them and well, they´re traveling to Paris, Italy and Spain. I know, odd"

Doug then sits on the couch. "Odd love confessions aside...the movie will begin, let´s watch Kitty´s future working with Krampus"

And they silently watch the movie, especially the final part, where Krampus put all members of the family in a snowglobe.

"Well...Kitty, please don´t put us in a snowglobe"

"Speak to yourself...I can be in a snowglobe"

"Bobby, shut up"

And Kitty wonders if perhaps Galaticus hates her.

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Krampus is cleaning his tools when his friend, Santa, arrives at his office offering some snacks. "So, still wanting to keep Kitty as your secretary?" and Krampus stops what he was doing to gaze seriously at the old man´s piercing eyes.

"She really had no idea what I was...that was really new to me...and as I mentioned before...yes, I´ll keep her until the contract breaks"

"You think you two may get along?"

"I think she´ll have questions. I think she won´t bide her will to mine and that" Krampus licks his dry lips and shows all his teeth in a big grin. "and I like that very much....way better than the last one"

Now Santa scowls him. "You mean that poor and delusional witch from the wind ways who wanted to sleep with you and turn you in her personal dog? No shit, Sherlock"

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Amanda Szardos screams in fury when she got the word that Krampus got a new assistant. "A plain woman like her? Replace me?" and Amanda has to plot, has to be the smartest because she still needs Krampus to do her bidding and sex is not a viable coin for trade anymore.

"Then... the best thing to do is sabotage her work and Krampus will return to me"

#Postwoman au #kurt wagner #Kurt!Krampus #Kitty Pryde #Kurtty yet #Yes the keys are teleportation device #always anti amanda #yes Krampus enjoys some BSDM and knife play #and Kitty will have lots of questions #Krampus likes people like Kitty more than Amanda #even if Krampus did slept with Amanda

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weerd1 · 5 years ago

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Star Trek DS9 Rewatch Log, Stardate 1909.28: Missions Reviewed, “Extreme Measures,” “The Dogs of War,” and “What You Leave Behind.”

(Note: as we are in the last nine episodes which run as a continuous storyline, these three will be summarized together.)

Kira and Garak return an ailing Odo to DS9, and his condition is far worse than Bashir expected. Odo asks Kira to return to Damar so she doesn’t have to watch him die, and so Kira’s grief won’t be the last thing he sees. Bashir and O’Brien reveal their plan to Sisko who though angry, gives his approval. They also reveal they have Romulan mind-probes to use if the Seciton 31 agent does not want to be helpful. Soon enough, Sloan himself arrives, and Bashir springs his trap. Realizing he’s cornered, Sloan triggers a suicide device.

Bashir stabilizes him, but they have about an hour before he dies. Bashir re-rigs the Romulan probes to create a mind meld, and he and O’Brien go into Sloan’s brain to find the material. At first there is little resistance, but the longer they stay the worse it gets until they are shot by a “guard.” They realize that must symbolize where the information is. Trying to enter, they find themselves awakened by Sisko, who puts and end to it. In his quarters, Bashir tries to read, but the book just starts over again right where he left off, and he realizes they are still in Sloan’s brain; Sloan can’t replicate what Julian has not read yet. He gathers O’Brien and returns to “the room,” finding Sloan inside surrounded by documents. O’Brien finds the cure for Odo, but Bashir does not want to leave given all the other information.

O’Brien talks him out, and they wake up, really this time, as Sloan dies. Bashir replicates the cure and saves Odo. Starfleet however does not want to share the cure with the Founders, and Sisko follows those orders, asking Odo not to do it either. Odo mentions how the Federation wrings their hands about a Section 31, but they still allow them to do the dirty work, and accept that work. On Cardassia, Damar’s resistance cell is in trouble when betrayed by one of the officers he tries to recruit. Soon, it is just Damar, Garak, and Kira hiding in the basement of Garak’s childhood home, tended to by Mila, the servant to Garak’s father Enebran Tain, and likely Garak’s mother. The ailing Founder decides to pull Dominion forces back into Cardassian space, solidifying their position, and allowing them time to build more ships and Jem’Hadar and extend the war. The Federation Alliance decides not to let this happen, and prepare to invade Cardassia. Kai Winn takes Dukat, whose sight is restored, back in, and the two plan to take the book of Kosst Amojan to the Fire Caves to release the Pah-Wraiths. Quark gets a message from the Grand Nagus that he’s going to be made the next Nagus, and begins to plan. Brunt shows up, ready to suck up, and tells Quark about the various reforms Zek has made, like taxes and wage guarantees and free healthcare.

Quark vows to return Ferenginar to it’s corrupt, greedy glory. Ezri and Bashir begin to talk about whether or not they should pursue a relationship. Initially they decide not to ruin their friendship, but soon they are making out in a turbo lift. The Nagus arrives, and reveals that he thought he was talking to someone else when he named Quark Nagus…Rom. Rom becomes the Grand Nagus and Quark vows that HIS bar will always be the greedy and corrupt tribute to what Ferenginar should be. Dukat and Winn find the right place in the caves, and reading the right spell, they burst into flame. They await the moment. O’Brien makes the decision that he will return to Earth after the war and take a teaching position at the Academy. Kasidy reveals to Ben that she is pregnant.

The invasion of Cardassia begins. On the planet, Damar reveals he is alive, and the people begin to rise up against the Dominion in the name of Damar. In response, the female Founder orders a city destroyed. She promises every act of betrayal by Cardassians will result in another razed city. Jem’Hadar forces find and capture Darmar, Kira, and Garak.

They are about to be executed. The Alliance fleet enters Dominion space and the fight is on. Things are not going well for them. Winn on Bajor proposes that Dukat drink with her to celebrate, but he realizes too late that she has poisoned him and his death is the sacrifice that brings forth Kosst Amojan. Just as the Jem’Hadar are going to gun down Damar and crew, the Cardassian guards turn on the Jem’Hadar, and declare their allegiance to Damar. They prepare to raid the headquarters. In space, the Cardassian fleet turns its guns on the Breen and Jem’Hadar, turning the tide. The Alliance fleet pursues the Dominion to Cardassian orbit. There are thousands of ships and orbital emplacements there. The fight is not over but becomes a stand off.

Given the Cardassian change of sides, the Founder orders the elimination of all Cardassians on the planet. The world begins to burn. The rebels hit the HQ, but Damar is killed in the process. Kira and Garak make it into the control room, and Garak kills the last Weyoun.

The Founder refuses to call off the attacks on Cardassia or surrender the fleet, telling them they will have to fight to the last Dominion soldier. Odo beams down from the Defiant, linking with the Founder, curing her in the process. In the seconds they are bound together, he negotiates a treaty between Dominion and the Alpha Quadrant. The war comes to an end. The alliance beams down to find the Dominion has killed 800 million Cardassians. Odo reveals the Founder will stay and face war crimes trials, but he will go back to the Great Link and cure his people, teaching them about the Solids. Kira asks when he will come back. He reveals he won’t.

On DS9, everyone gathers in Vic Fontaine’s lounge, realizing it is likely the last time they will all be together. Worf takes the position as Federation ambassador to the Klingons. Garak has stayed behind to rebuild Cardassia. O’Brien gets ready to leave to Earth. On Bajor, Kosst Amojan returns, but rather than come into the Kai, he reanimates Dukat, restoring him to his Cardassian form.

Sisko senses it from the station, and goes there. Dukat/Amojan disintegrates Winn as she tries to stop him, distracting him enough Sisko can tackle him, and taking the book, knock Dukat, himself, and sacred evil text into the flames. Sisko is suddenly in the Celestial temple. Sarah/Prophet is there and tells him that he has fulfilled his duty, Dukat will forever be imprisoned with the Pah-Wraiths on Bajor. But Ben’s corporeal form has been destroyed. He is now to stay in the temple and learn, so he may one day return to Bajor as Emissary. He reaches out and brings Kasidy into the temple, telling her what has happened, but telling her to make sure everyone knows Benjamin Sisko, The Emissary, promises to return.

Kira takes Odo back to the Great Link, where he changes his appearance to look as if he is in a tuxedo one more time and bids her farewell. He steps into the dying link, and it begins to heal around him, but he can no longer be differentiated from his people.

Kira returns to DS9 where she has assumed command of the station. She finds Quark has started a betting pool on who will be the next Kai, which she immediately shuts down. Quark realizes he’s going to have to stay crafty to keep ahead of the new station commander. “The more things change the more they stay the same,” he says. Kira sees Jake Sisko, standing on the upper level of the Promenade, where he and Nog (Kira’s new Ops officer) used to look down on the others. Now he’s looking out, toward the wormhole, knowing his father is in the Celestial Temple. She joins him there, and the two look out as we pull away. Deep Space Nine, formally Terok Nor, hangs in space at the mouth of the wormhole, and as it has for the last seven season…it waits.

I’m not sure how you mourn a show that ended two decades ago, that you know is on Netflix, or that I know I have upstairs on DVD. It’s a show I can revisit anytime I want to in any amount, and dammit, I am sad it is over. I want more, I would watch all of these people carry on tomorrow if I could. We’ve lost some of them, but dear lord how this all ends, enough to satisfy, but I would return to Bajor in a heartbeat if they announced it.

There are some things here I might have done differently. I still think Kira should have killed Dukat rather than Sisko, and with all the talk of the Alamo, it seems like the final battle of the show should have happened at DS9, surrounded by insurmountable numbers of Dominion ships, but perhaps that would have been too much like the battle that opened Season 6. The culmination of the Damar storyline, from “Cardassian Bridge Officer” to Dominion toady, to hero of Cardassia is so pitch perfect as to need the climax on his world. The fleet battle so ridiculously epic to this day, despite 20 years old effects, you need it to be where it is so you can cheer when the Cardassians turn, and be horrified when the Dominion turns its guns on Cardassia…formerly the villains. What a change from the first episode, and what a journey.

What a journey for the Ferengi as well, as Rom goes from “Pit boss” to Quark’s brother to engineer to Nagus. Or Nog as he goes from child thief, to Cadet, to DS9’s operations Lieutenant. Garak, as the plain, simple, tailor with a mysterious past to the defacto ruler of a smoldering Cardassia. As great as all the main character arcs where, those supporting characters are what really makes DS9 great. Brunt, Weyoun, Martok, Sloan, Cretak, Winn, Bareil, the list goes on. A couple of particular things I took away from the finale, the final battle between Sisko, Dukat, and Winn struck me this time as a nearly beat for beat homage to the final scene of the Classic Series’ second pilot “Where No Man Has Gone Before,” where Kirk has to face his friend Gary Mitchell who has developed god-like power along with ship’s psychologist, Dr. Elizabeth Dehner. The dynamic where Dehner realizes she’s wrong as she watches Gary force Kirk to bow to him as a God is remarkably similar to Winn watching Dukat do the same to Sisko. More on that in a minute. Another character note I love, and something I missed 20 years ago, Worf becomes Ambassador to the Klingons…the same position once held by Curzon Dax. What a fascinating extension of his relationship to Dax, even as Dax’s current host Ezri has chosen Bashir.

Kira Nerys: Former freedom fighter, who may have delved into terrorist one time too many. Woman of faith, surrounded by a scientific world. Woman who owns her sexuality and her femininity, and is perfectly happy to kick your ass when you need it. A woman we watch grow from ready to kill every Cardassian she sees to co-liberator of their world. Who loved and lost a Changeling, but whose love will set the stage to bridge Odo’s people with the Solids. Who served next to her Emissary, and stands now in his place waiting for his return. Rewatching DS9 absolutely reinforced my feelings that Kira Nerys is Star Trek’s best character.

Hindsight allows me to see what DS9 foreshadowed in television as well. Complex characters in morally ambiguous situations; long story arcs dependent on you seeing each chapter, and each episode leading into the next; women as leaders and peers who are not marginalized by the story; a brown man who is presented as a good father AND as the Messiah: Deep Space Nine is not just progressive for its time, it helped define what television would become. It’s continuity replicated in a thousand binge-worthy streams on Netflix like “Stranger Things.” Representation for women on shows like “Jessica Jones,” or “Game of Thrones” or of course “Star Trek: Discovery.” Though honestly, we have perhaps not learned enough from DS9, as there has never been another character quite like Benjamin Sisko, and all he represents. We can still learn from that; as I have said many times in this rundown, “Star Trek is always relevant.”

So now it is over, and I find that yes, DS9 holds up pretty well 20 years later. It’s still ahead of its time in some ways, and in those things that aren’t, serves as a roadmap of where we have been, demonstrating why we needed to move beyond such tropes. But in questions of faith, what it means to be human, and how one doesn’t have to be perfect to be better, nothing quite examines the human condition like DS9 does; and that’s why, hands down, at least for now, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine is the very best Star Trek has to offer.

NEXT VOYAGE: After 173 episodes, 124 pages, and 71,819 words about DS9, how is there a Next Voyage? Join me one more time for my review of “What We Left Behind,” this year’s DS9 documentary. But let’s face facts: I will never be done talking about DS9.

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Santa Fake Movie Review

https://youtu.be/CZgULmbrghQ SANTA FAKE came out on DVD and digital on December 3. It is a great movie to enjoy with the family over Christmas break! My spouse and I and our three children just watched the copy I was sent to review tonight. In this title, Pat Kelley (Damian McGinty, "Glee"; Celtic Thunder) is an undocumented immigrant from Ireland. He was orphaned as a child and managed to travel over to NYC. He finds a job working at a bar/pub and his boss (John Rhys-Davies) becomes like a dad to him but Pat's place of employment is not his boss's only business. One night, the boss instructs Pat to take two suitcases a few blocks away to the train station and will be paid a large sum for his work. The boss tells him he must not open the suitcases. Shortly after, Pat is walking down the street and almost becomes paranoid about those he encounters on the street being out to get him or being part of the police. In a panic, Pat boards the bus and ends up traveling all the way to Santa Fe, New Mexico. He calls the boss to tell him what he is done. Not too long after, Pat calls his boss again and his boss tells him that he knows where he is, presumably from the payphone number he is calling out on, and is sending two of his henchmen to get Pat with the assumption that Pat has already spent what was in the suitcases.

Pat is taken by Ms. Ortega, the owner of a bed and breakfast he is staying at, to the local mall to buy new clothes. While there, he stumbles into a job at the mall as a Santa Claus and discovers that this may allow him to hide in plain sight with wearing a costume if the henchmen are on their way. Pat plays the part of a mall Santa very well, but will it be enough to keep him safe? I wasn't sure what to expect with this movie because I hadn't heard anything about it from friends or television. It was a great film. We all liked it in my family. There is singing and a bit of adventure and suspense with the feels of the heartwarming holidays wrapped into one. SANTA FAKE features an all-star cast including Damian McGinty (“Glee;” Celtic Thunder), Heather Morris (“Glee”), John Rhys-Davies (Lord of the Rings, Indiana Jones), Judd Nelson (“Empire;” The Breakfast Club; St. Elmo’s Fire), Jeff Fahey (“Lost;” Alita: Battle Angel, Machete), Tony Amendola (The Legend of Zorro; “Stargate;” Blow; Annabelle), Gary Farmer (Dead Man; “Longmire;” “The Red Road”), Soledad Saint Hilaire (Real Women Have Curves; Ocean’s Thirteen), and Pancho Moler (“Ray Donovan;” “American Horror Story”). Also on its way in Santa’s sleigh, as companions to the film, are the EP “Songs of SANTA FAKE” by Damian McGinty, “SANTA FAKE: The Movie Soundtrack,” and the children’s picture book: SANTA FAKE: You Are Never Alone at Christmas, which will be available in e-book and print. Run Time: Approx. 86 minutes Rating: Not Rated FOR MORE INFORMATION Twitter: @SantaFakeMovie Instagram: @ santafake_official Facebook:facebook.com/SantaFakeMovie/ Read the full article

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NCIS: Los Angeles Season Eleven Rewatch: “Mother”

The basics: Someone from Hetty’s past puts the team in danger.

Written by: Eric Christian Olsen and Babar Peerzada - first writing credit for both men.

Directed by: Dennis Smith directed “Fame”, “Standoff”, “Rocket Man”, “Cyberthreat”, “Exit Strategy”, “Patriot Acts”, “Out of the Past” part one, “The Livelong Day”, Between the Lines”, “Deep Trouble” part two, “Black Budget", “Black Wind”, “Blame it On Rio”, “Defectors”, “Matryoshka” part one, “Granger, O”, “The Queen’s Gambit”, “Hot Water”, “From Havana With Love”, “Plain Sight”, the delightful romp that was “Monster”, “Superhuman”, “One of Us”, "Smokescreen” part one and "Decoy".

Guest stars of note: Peter Jacobson is back from season 10’s “No More Secrets” as Special Prosecutor John Rogers, Carl Beukes as Ahkos Laos, Nitya Vidyasagar as Natasha Ali, Todd Jeffries as Barrett Fimmel, Brian Leigh Smith as Bomb Tech Aaron Roberts. Episode co-writer Babar Peerzada plays Oratile Wallace, the man who approaches Hetty in the cemetery.

Our heroes: Get put through the ringer by Eric Christian Olsen in episode 250.

What important things did we learn about:

Callen: Will deal with whatever woes are coming Hetty’s way as a family. Sam: Fell in love with the country when he joined the Navy. Kensi: Pulls Deeks from a fiery, explosive death. Deeks: Door-surfing away from a fiery, explosive death. Eric: Call him Carmen San Diego because he traced a call made with a sat-phone that was routed around the world four times. Nell: Realizes what is happening occurs when someone plays God in the lives of people they say they love. Hetty: Brought up Callen and the anti-Callen.

What not so important things did we learn about:

Callen: Draining three-pointers. Sam: Doesn’t judge a fish by his ability to climb a tree. Kensi: Surprised Deeks shops at Walmart. Deeks: Stares at security cameras at Walmart. Eric: Wants to be high-fived or told he is a genius when he discovers secret files. Nell: Finds it is faster to high-five Eric to get it out of the way. Hetty: Still has the courtside Lakers tickets.

Who's down with OTP: Kensi and Deeks are having a family, home schooling the kids, teaching them French and surfing as they live in a van right after Kensi hits the restroom. Eric has to work a little to get Nell back into saving the day and away from looking at what Hetty’s done with a critical eye.

Who's down with BrOTP: Sam wonders why Callen does what they do.

Any pressing need for a young FBI Agent: Any and all help would have been greatly appreciated today.

Who is running the team this week? Hetty but as the center of the case, a returning John Rogers has some pull. He also has some evidence against Hetty’s past actions.

Fashion review: In the gym, Callen is wearing a blue tee-shirt with grey gym shorts. Sam is in a black tee-shirt with black and red long basketball shorts. Kensi is wearing an off-white sleeveless cut-off tee with black leggings. Deeks is in a grey tank top, dark blue joggers and a backwards blue baseball cap. Eric wears a white tank top and oh-so very short red shorts. For the majority of the episode, Callen wears a blue button-down shirt. Sam is wearing a plum long-sleeve tee. Kensi is wearing a long-sleeve v-neck tee. Deeks is a medium blue long-sleeve sweatshirt. Eric is wearing a red rugby top with blue and off-white stripes – I think that’s a new addition to the Eric Beale style book. Nell is in a dark dress – she’s in Ops for the entire episode and often with the power out - it is hard to see. Hetty wears a dark blue suit. In the cemetery, she wears a spectacular blue/grey herringbone trench coat with a cameo broach.

Music: “Fourth of July” by Sufjan Stevens is playing in the enclosure in the warehouse, drawing Deeks in. An instrumental portion of the song is playing as Laos dies.

Any notable cut scene: No, but the DVD had a 3-minute vignette about the episode. Executive producers R. Scott Gemmill and Frank Military thought the 250th episode was a good place for a mythology (hey, an old X-Files line where Military was a guest star/vampire back in the day) episode about Hetty, writing by ECO and his friend Babar Peerzada. Military said that when a non-staff writer writes an episode, they are not usually involved with the show’s history – they do more a standard case-of-the-week hour. Having this deep dive into the show’s history and Hetty was “cool” according Military.

Callen, according to Gemmill, goes into the episode to save his “mom” and “finds out your parents had nine other kids just like you.” The idea was to throw the characters into “a spin” that keeps them interesting not only to the audience and the writers but also to the actors.

Hetty is an interesting character where those around her think she’s their “best friend” but she also has an agenda that is much bigger than that. She is committed to “the cause” but not everyone knows what the cause is. Hetty’s actions are the personification the question of the ends justifying the means It makes the characters more interesting – they think what they’re doing is right but do they have the right to do it.

Quote: Nell: “This is what happens when you try to play God in the lives of those you say you love.”

There are a ton of great lines – both deadly serious and unbelievably funny in this hour.

Anything else: A bright red Porsche pulls into a gated mansion in the Hollywood Hills. In the driveway is a restored Ford Mustang convertible, a military-style Hummer and a motorcycle. An older man leaves the Porsche and uses voice activation to open to front door. “Welcome Home Mr. Fimmel,” the security system replies and he’s inside.

Grabbing a beer from the fridge, he’s surprised to see a tea cup with a tea bag sitting on the kitchen island. Opening the weapons drawer on the island – probably not a common upgrade on the typical island – he finds his guns are gone. Taking a knife from the kitchen’s knife set, he walks to the living room.

At the top of the stairs, with the sunlight behind him, is the intruder. Fimmel pretends to know the intruder, promising to kill him and his whole family. As the intruder walks down the stairs, Fimmel does recognize the man. “You, you died,” Fimmel tells the very not-dead man coming at him with a machete. Fimmel takes a weak hack at the intruder who not only brushes it away but winds up taking the knife from Fimmel. Asked by Fimmel what the intruder wants, the man answers “everything.”

The team is playing basketball – Kensi and Deeks vs. Callen and Sam. Winner gets Hetty’s courtside seats that night for Lakers-Clippers. Giving Callen the ball, Deeks allows “age before beauty.” Callen sinks a three-pointer. After dribbling for a while, Deeks passes to Kensi who is fouled by Callen. She misses, Callen calls the shot clean.

Kensi gets two free-throws. After she successfully shoots the first one underhand, Eric arrives dressed in very tight red gym shorts and a white tank – very 1970’s gym teacher complete with whistle. After trying to imply he was left out for his great skills, Eric is calling them to Ops with a security breach. Sam passes Eric the ball who obviously is unfamiliar with the basketball.

Up in Ops, Nell has the security camera outside the office’s driveway on the screen. A woman wearing all black is sitting the driveway with a square box, about 12X12. Sam thinks she’s lost but Nell points out the woman is staring directly into the security camera. Deeks says he does the same thing when he shops at Walmart. Callen doesn’t understand why, Kensi didn’t know Deeks shops at Walmart. He thinks they should talk more.

The woman starts writing on the box. Turning it to the camera, she wrote “Hello NCIS”. Callen orders a perimeter set up around the office. The box could contain a bomb.

Callen, Sam, Kensi and Deeks are at the office door while the woman is still focused on the camera. Kensi grabs the woman, who is brought into the office and taken, with Deeks, for fingerprints. Bomb expert Sam thinks he’s over his union quota for defusing bomb.

In interrogation, Deeks is impressed the woman did not speak the entire ride over. Kensi notices scaring from burns on the woman’s face and right hand. She is not talking in interrogation either.

The box is inside the office with a member of the bomb squad when John Rogers walks down the hall. Callen and Sam are surprised to see Rogers. Rogers says he was only there because someone promised sandwiches. The bomb squad tech announces there is no bomb in the box but “you might have preferred a bomb.” Inside was an amputated hand with a knife through it.

After Sam makes a joke about Callen’s exes while Callen reads the note with the hand: "Through me you go into a city of weeping; through me you go into eternal pain; through me you go amongst the people lost.” Rogers would have preferred a bomb. An arriving Hetty recognizes the quote – it is from “Dante’s Inferno”.

Eric can’t find anything on the woman with the box. He’s checked US and international databases – “she’s a ghost,” according to Callen. Rogers points out she’s a ghost with the classified location of the office. Sam doesn’t believe in ghosts. Nell, however, believes Eric can find the woman’s background. He’s already found the “owner” of the severed hand. Barrett Fimmel was CIA, head of covert operations from 1998-2008 in North Africa and the Middle East. He led a destabilizing force, which Sam translates as running an assassin team. Eric corrects Sam – Fimmel, a former Marine, trained the assassins in methods like car crashes and drug overdoses.

Callen asks what happened in 2008 to cause Fimmel to leave the CIA. He retired to become a private contractor, working for the top bidder. “Less oversight, more money,” according to Kensi, who is still at the boat shed with Deeks. Sam wonders if the career move was worth his hand. Either dead or being held hostage by the “sociopathic poet”, the team needs to find him. With the woman not talking, Callen and Sam are off to interrogation.

As Callen starts an interrogation, the woman is writing on the desk top with her finger. After Callen passes her a note pad, the woman scribbles something that Sam photographs and sends to Eric.

Callen and Sam join Kensi and an annoyed Deeks in the main room of the boat shed. Deeks can’t understand how they interrogated the woman for two-hours with no response while Callen said two words to start the interrogation and is suddenly sharing. Sam tells Deeks not to worry, “I don’t judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree.”

Eric and Nell pop up on the plasma. The woman wrote the address of two locations in Los Angeles. One is a warehouse downtown, the other is an estate in the hills. Both are owned by a shell corporation based in Liberia. Deeks’s guess was Bette Midler. Both properties are off the LA grid – no power from the electric company, not water from the city. They are completely self-sufficient. Kensi jokes about preparing for the zombie apocalypse. Sam thinks it is something worse. Kensi and Deeks are off to the hills, Callen and Sam are going downtown.

In the warehouse, there are some desks tossed on their sides and file cabinets in the middle of the room. There are no lights.

Kensi and Deeks enter Fimmel’s home. He goes upstairs, she’s checking out the first floor.

Deeper in the warehouse is a screen showing the bombing of a home somewhere from what looks to be a drone or military jet’s camera. Sam can’t figure out the location – Afghanistan, Pakistan or Syria. Callen thinks Fimmel ran his business from this location – Sam points out the amount of high-end tech in the building that was all beat up and pulled apart. A phone rings – Sam tries to find it.

In the house, Kensi finds the tea cup – now without the tea bag. Instead, it is filled with blood. Deeks wonders if Kensi is speaking metaphorically like the tea cup is filled with wine like the blood of Christ. She’s not.

Sam finds the ringing phone in a box. After checking for bombs, he opens it. The phone is in what is likely Fimmel’s other hand. Callen answers, identifying himself. “My brother, I am you when the pennies drop,” the voice on the line tells Callen. “Once the favorite son, now a fallen angel.” Callen is sorry to hear that and asks about Fimmel. The man on the phone says he saved humanity from Fimmel’s transgressions.

In Fimmel’s bedroom, Deeks calls for Kensi.

The man on the phone asks Callen to “tell Mother, I’m coming home.”

Kensi enters the bedroom and is stunned. Fimmel’s body has been cut in half. His upper body - torso, handless arms and head - are “sitting” on top of the white bedding in a pool of blood. AHKOS is carved into his chest.

In Ops, Nell provides a rundown on the word Ahkos. It is from an ancient Greek dialect that in its more accurate translation means “the grief of the people.” Callen brings up the fallen son, mother statement. Hetty pops on the screen. She is mother, the message was for her. Sending Eric a file, Hetty provides the background on an Ahkos Laos. As a child, he was sent to Botswana because his parents believed he was “devil born.” Hetty assures the group he was not.

Hetty saw a young boy who was misunderstood looking for what everyone is looking for in life. Callen says “a mother” but Hetty disagrees. Laos was looking for a home, an identity, “and something to keep the darkness at bay.” Hetty took him in, trained him. Everyone is working hard not to look at Callen.

In 2006, Laos was part of a black site military R&D project run by Fimmel. The knife in Fimmel’s hand was the last gift Hetty gave Laos – a parting gift. His file has him dead for over ten years. John Rogers pops up on the big screen. The woman in the boat shed gave him another address – the Hollywood West Cemetery. While Callen and Sam were ready to go, Rogers notes the instructions for the address included “For Mother Only”. Hetty is going with a tracking lapel and Callen and Sam running overwatch duties.

At the cemetery, Hetty has not only the tracking lapel but the overwatch spray. Sam notices that Hetty is not pleased.

Back in Ops, Eric traced the location of the phone that called the severed-hand, routed off a sat phone that sent it around the world four times. He also found LAX security video of the woman in the boat shed leaving the airport. Her passport is a fake from Canada but her name is listed as Norma Baker. Her flight was in from Pakistan. Kensi and Deeks are off to visit the location where the call to the phone was made, Eric is going to send the passport details to Rogers.

Sam asks Callen if he can ask a “real talk” question. Callen says no – “real talk” questions means Sam wants to know something deep and important from Callen and right now he’d just like to work. Sam asks anyway – “do you love what we do? Is this what you wanted to do with your life?” Callen does not think sitting in a cemetery waiting for a psychopath to kill “my coworker” was a life plan. Sam talks about his life in the Navy, how it made him fall in love with the country. He became a SEAL to protect the country and the world for Michelle, for his children, “God willing for their kids.” Sam wants to know if Callen ever asks himself why he does this job. He started doing it so young he knows no other life. Callen doesn’t have kids, doesn’t talk about having kids. Why would he do their job?

Standing alone, Hetty remembers sitting in a museum, reading “Dante’s Inferno” to the young Laos. A man walks up to Hetty. She asks, “where is he?”

At their workstations, Eric and Nell are waiting for an update from Rogers when all the power goes out. The entire system goes down. Nell orders emergency protocols.

Rogers interrogates Norma Baker who is really Natasha Ali, daughter of Zakir and Ayesha Ali, born in Pakistan. He asks about the scars on her face and right hand. She calls them the scorched earth of US policy. “Henrietta’s debt has now come due.”

Kensi and Deeks pull up at a warehouse in an area full of warehouses. As Deeks is about to crowbar open the warehouse’s door, Kensi is able to pick the lock to the warehouse garage entrance. The warehouse is largely empty in the front. In the rear, they find an office filled with papers, file cabinets, an old desk with equally old desk lamps.

Kensi finds a large bulletin board with a map of LA and dozens of pins in different locations, all connected with red string. As Kensi takes a look at the map, Deeks sees something in the distance. She takes a photo of the map while Deeks investigates what’s in the distance.

Everything has gone to hell in Ops. There is auxiliary power but comms are down, trackers are down. Eric calls Callen and Sam on a landline – he’s heard from Rogers, this isn’t a meet, it is something else. As Callen and Sam get the call, a helicopter flies over the cemetery. Callen runs on foot to Hetty, Sam takes off in his car trying to track the helicopter. Callen finds Hetty’s handbag, along with her phone and a photo of her with Laos on the ground. Sam crosses by. Callen realizes Laos is going to kill Hetty.

Deeks makes his way alone to a structure built inside the warehouse. As with all key Kensi and Deeks moments in the last few seasons, Sufjan Stevens is playing in the background. This time, “Fourth of July” with the lyrics “”What could I have said to raise you from the dead” playing as Deeks walks into the structure.

Kensi removes a pin from the map – one on the California coastline. She sees something under the pin and starts pull at it.

Deeks picks up piece of cardboard with the words “The path to paradise beings in hell.” Written on it.

Pulling away the map, Kensi sees a photo from the wedding. She calls to Deeks.

Moving the piece of cardboard away, Deeks sees the wiring for a bomb and a countdown clock in a glass-covered case. The door behind him slams. He’s got less than 15-minutes before the bomb explodes. He yells for Kensi as she screams for him.

Eric tells Callen he thinks the office was hit by an EMP while Kensi explains to Sam that Deeks is trapped in a room with a bomb. Callen and Sam aren’t sure what they’re supposed to do. Callen orders Eric to find Hetty’s lapel pin. Sam has Nell calling the bomb squad to free Deeks. The bomb squad’s ETA is 15-minutes. Eric cannot connect to Hetty’s pin or the overwatch spray.

Sam wants direction from Callen. Callen has Eric tell Rogers to interrogate faster. With 15-helipads to their west and 200 to their east, Callen and Sam are going east.

The room is nearly soundproof. Kensi asks Deeks how much time is left on the clock. Just over 11-minutes makes the ETA “the wrong side of 11.”

Knowing that the country hurt Ali, “maybe orders, maybe an accident,” Rogers understands her anger. Laos, however, is not some idealist looking to take down the country. He is on a personal vendetta against Hetty. Rogers wants to know why Ali is helping. Explaining that eight years ago at her brother’s wedding – a joyous time for all – their home was bombed. She lost everything and everyone. A drone “wiped out” everyone she loved. Laos dragged her from the rubble. He not only saved her, he trained her.

The helicopter with Hetty had no tail identification and no transponder. Hetty’s lapel pin comes on line – it is the middle of Echo Park Lake. Callen wants to know what that means. Eric has three options – the helicopter crashed, someone in the helicopter found the lapel pin and tossed out or some in the helicopter tossed Hetty out.

Sam is working with Kensi on the phone, warning her to keep Deeks from touching any of the bomb wires. Deeks can’t touch any of the wires – they are under thick glass. After not being able to understand what Kensi is asking about the bomb, Deeks shoots out the door’s window. They are nine minutes left.

Callen wants to go to Echo Park Lake. Sam does not – he does not believe Laos set all this up to throw Hetty out of a helicopter in the middle of the day. Sam is sure Laos’s men found the lapel pin and tossed it. “You want to take that chance?” Callen asks. Sam says the bigger risk is stopping the chase to look at the lake. They are going downtown.

Rogers is sympathetic to Ali’s losses. The US had inaccurate information about her father. Rogers passes how the inaccurate information about her father came to the US’s attention.

Calling Callen, Eric tells him there is a body in Echo Park Lake. Sam turns the car around – they’re going to Echo Park Lake.

Deeks is trying to open the case holding the bomb with no luck. Trying to shoot it causes the bullet to ricochets around the room holding Deeks. He won’t be doing that again.

As Callen and Sam pull up to Echo Park Lake, Eric has news. Hetty’s overwatch signal was picked up just west of downtown for a second. Callen sees the body in the lake isn’t Hetty. They’re going downtown.

While driving, Sam asks Kensi if Deeks can identify any of the bomb components. C-4, three mercury switches, two batteries from cordless drills. Deeks can’t disarm the bomb. Looking around the warehouse, Kensi sees the walls are lined with bombs. They need the bomb squad now.

As the lights are flickering in Ops, Nell notes that this is what happens when you try to play God in the lives of those you say you love. Eric gets Nell back into what they’re doing. Eric is trying to cross reference Hetty’s last known location with downtown helipads.

The bomb squad is still six-minutes away and still too far away. Kensi is near tears telling Nell that it isn’t good enough as she tries to use an axe on the door with no luck. Deeks has her stop. Explaining that sometimes he wakes up unable to breathe because the world is so terrible, he feels claustrophobic – his chest is caving in and he thinks he’s going to die. Kensi is stunned. But then he looks at her – usually drooling on herself and snoring like a chubby dachshund – and knowing that she’s there and she chose him. That makes him relax, find peace. When he looks at her, he sees the two of them so he can fall asleep. Kensi is crying – this can’t be the end. He tells her it is OK, she’s the best thing that ever happened to him. They share I love yous.

Deeks wants her to leave the warehouse. She suddenly has an idea – telling him not to go anywhere. He’s not sure where he’d go.

Ali pushes the file back at Rogers. The file was provided by the State Department. Laos was the source for the incorrect intelligence about Ali’s father. Laos made her father out to be a high-level target, he knew the family wedding would happen on the day of the bombing. She calls the file lies. Rogers knows now the file was wrong but Laos wrote it. He was the monster who killed her family. Ali thinks everyone involved is a monster. Rogers may agree but there will be no justice for Ali’s family if Laos kills Hetty. Rogers promises justice for Ali if he can spill Laos’s blood and seek justice against Hetty. Ali provides the location – the Century History Museum. Nell calls that in to Callen.

The museum is being renovated. The lions exhibit where Hetty read to Laos as a child is still there, being restored. Laos greets an arriving, hooded Hetty – “home sweet home.” He speaks about the lion – the king – eating his prey – peasants – and wonders if the king has become “a ruined thing.” Laos still has his machete as he asks about the place of a ruined king.

Kensi brings the Audi into the warehouse. She tells Deeks she wants to have kids with him. “What, we’re making babies?” he asks. Taking a rope from the back of the Audi, she wants to sell the house, buy a Sprinter van. They can teach the kids how surf, speak French and pick berries. Deeks doesn’t speak French and worries about poisonous berries. Deeks thinks their kids should be in school. Tying the rope to both the door and the back of the Audi, Kensi explains how they will homeschool the kids in the van.

With just under three minutes left, Deeks thinks this is a terrible plan. The home schooling or the rope, Kensi asks. Both, Deeks thinks. It is a bad plan but a worse plan is “scraping your remains off the celling.” Deeks agrees.

His only happy memories are sitting on the bench with Hetty as she read to him. He asks if she has nothing to say to him. She does – she’s the one who put him on this path and she’s sorry. “A mother doesn’t abandon her child,” Laos says. Hetty claims he was taken from her. Furious, Laos reminds her a mother’s job is to protect. She fed him “to the jackals.” She talks about the number of lives he’s taken – the number of women and children. When she apologizes again, he yells at her to stop saying that. His heart is black.

In an alleyway outside of the museum, Callen and Sam pull up. While Sam exchanges fire with the men, Callen jumps out of the passenger’s seat and into the back of the museum.

Kensi and Deeks exchange one last round of I love yous as Kensi gets into the driver’s seat and revs up the engine. Deeks talks about living in a van before noting this is a terrible idea.

At the lions exhibit, Laos asks why Hetty “enslaved” him in this life. Hetty explains that the life gives them purpose, meaning and gives to others in the world. “That others sleep peacefully in their beds at night because creatures such as you and I stand ready to commit violence on their behalf.” Laos thinks that is a lie Hetty tells the demons she created. Hetty says they are also the lies she tells herself. Laos believes the two of them betrayed humanity. A debt that can only be paid in their blood.

Kensi drives the Audi out of the warehouse, dragging the door and Deeks strapped to it behind her. When the door opens, the bombs in the warehouse start to go off. Deeks tells Kensi to go faster as the fire is all around him. Flattening himself on the door, Deeks misses a few fireballs as Kensi drags him to safety. Once clear of the building, Kensi runs to Deeks, jumping on his as he tries to free himself from the door.

Just as in “Deliverance”, she lands on top of him with explosions all around. Also as in “Deliverance”, Kensi needs to pee and Deeks is pretty sure just did.

Callen goes through the museum, shooting all of Laos’s men and shooting them again just to make sure they are dead. He did this in “Lange, H.” when he and Sam went to rescue Hetty. Walking into the lions exhibit, Callen is knocked off his feet by Laos. Holding the machete over Callen, Laos tells his “brother” that he was warned about rescuing Hetty. As Laos is about to lower the machete into Callen, Hetty stabs Laos several times from behind.

As Laos collapses, he asks Hetty if she’s proud of what she brought into this world. Callen just stares. Hetty cradles the dying Laos and recites from “Dante’s Inferno” with Sufjan Stevens playing. Dying, Laos recites the end of the section Hetty use to read to him. He finally dies.

Ali provides Rogers with all the information Laos made her memorize - missions, ghost hits, illegal trade enforcement and the people who ordered the actives. Rogers promises Ali her cooperation will be considered when she’s sentenced. Looking at the list, Hetty’s name appears several times. Rogers seems pleased.

Finishing a scotch in her office with Callen, Hetty regrets not protecting Laos. Callen asks from who – the military? Fimmel? She thinks herself. Callen believes she did all she could for Laos – someone she loved. Hetty does not know how to instill morality when she is not sure she has her own. She failed him – he was not suited for their life. Maybe it is not the life for Callen. Or for any of them.

Callen talks about Sam’s questions earlier in the day. After a big case, two or three-days later he goes to where it all happened. He watches as real life happens – a guy with a dog, a couple holding hands, kids playing. All the violence and chaos has been replaced by a life Callen helped give them. He thinks that world is worth fighting for – it all makes sense. Callen tells Hetty she never failed him or the team. She is worried she already failed the team – she’s just waiting for the pennies to drop. If that is true, Callen says they will deal with it as family.

Leaving, Callen turns and asks Hetty “how many of us are there?” Hetty doesn’t answer. Callen leaves.

What head canon can be formed from here: There are nice callbacks to past episodes in 250. This is the first real full team episode of the season. Laos isn’t a surprise since season four had Grace, another one of Hetty’s troubled youths turned badass NCIS agents.

There were callbacks to the explosion in “Deliverance” (which sold me on the Kensi-Deeks UST), “Lange, H.” (when Callen rescued Hetty) and “Hit List” (when Rogers was introduced as someone out to get Hetty).

Episode number: 250. That is 23 more than JAG, the show that started this all, 136 episodes fewer than the mothership and 123 episodes more than the New Orleans sibling. It was episode 10 of season 11.

#NCIS: Los Angeles Rewatch #NCIS: Los Angeles #NCIS: LA #NCIS Los Angeles #ncis la

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The Jeffersons: Sorry, Wrong Meeting (Comission by WeirdKev27) (Black History Month)

Welcome on up! HAPPY BLACK HISTORY MONTH! Yup i’m going to spend a good chunk of the month celebrating the best and brightest in black characters in animation, amid valentine’s coverage in the first half and a few bits of the usual stuff throughout. But i’m still throughly dedicated to showing off some of the finest media about black struggles and starring black characters, and going through it the best I can as a white dumbass. If I slip up or misinterpret something, never be afraid to call me on it, but I feel I can still try my best to honor these amazing characters who’ve brought such joy to my life and these wonderful stories. So starting us off is a commission from Kev that’s been sitting in the queue for far too long. And it’s not due to lack of intrest: While before today I’d never seen an episode of the Jeffersons, I had seen the live performance of an episode done for that live with norman lear thing nbc did in 2019, and it was excellent and piqued my intrest. But with me never thinking to get the dvd’s, and not having Starz nor really wanting starz, there was no real easy way to stream it. But a few episodes were on DailyMotion, so I was fine with reviewing it for Kev and giving this series an honest try and the fact the episode dealt with white supremacy, at a time where we’d JUST gotten rid of a bigoted, white nationalist backing, piece of shit president, I was naturally all for it, I just never thought to clear space on my schedule and by the time I was scheduling things better, I purposfully saved it for this month as while the Klan isn’t as prominent, assholes like them sure are. And given the Captial Riots last month with sedionsits shitheads proudly waving the confederate flag around, I’d say this episode is even MORE relevant than ever.

But before we can dive into why this one is so good, yeah i’m not going to hide it this is a really fantastic episode of television, we have to talk about the series itself. The Jeffersons was created by Norman Lear, a progressive and prolific television writer and producer who is a legend in the business for damn good reason. He created All in the Family, which shattered norms and standards for the time, and would go on to create Sanford and Son, Maude and Good Times, all to massive sucess. However this show came about because the Black Panthers showed up one day at his office to raise a valid point: While he did have black characters in his tv shows they were mostly poor and barely scraping by, with his two black lead sitcoms dealing with characters in object poverty. And while this was still a worthy subject to tackle.. they were absolutely right there should be a counterbalance to that, to show the obvious truth black people CAN be successful. Norman agreed and set to work. Norman already had the perfect lead for that: George Jefferson, an opinnated dry-cleaner with several sucessful stores. George was, and still is, a fascenating character with lairs: being cranky and curmodgenly as you’d expect with some fairly average sitcom quirks: He loves money, often overspends on flashy stuff to revel in his sucess, snarks at his maid and likes to scheme as a sitcom character can. He’s also in the early seasons a bigot himself, not really fond of white people or interacial marraige, which naturally makes living next to an interacial couple and their daughter marrying his son thorns in his side. But as far as I can tell from looking on wikipedia he does soften with time and grow as a person and by this episode he’s fine putting up with both his neighbor Tom, said guy married to a black woman and his goofy british neighbor, if snarky as hell because hey, that’s who he is. I bring this up for reasons related to the climax, trust me.

So eventually the Jefferson's moved on up to that deluxe apartment in the sky, hell of a theme song, and got into their own adventures with the aforementioned supporting characters.. and so here we are. And after the cut we’ll take a look at just why this sitcom is awesome, why I desperately want to get some dvds for it at some point now or a starz trial, and how much the klan sucks.

We open at the Jefferson’s Deluxe Apartment in the Sky. where his wife Wheezy and aforementioned maid Florence are preparing to take a CPR class.. which were that possible I certainly would after this episode, as I feel Florence is right in stating it’s a skill everyone should have. She also remarks that George had every employee at his drycleaners take it, even if it was because he got an insurance writeoff. But hey, doing something that can help your workers and customers in an emergency even if i’ts just to save money is sitll better than MOST businesses these days so props to him. There’s also naturally some banter and it’s really damn funny. As with my Darkwing Duck reviews,, I won’t be going into it bit by bit, but it’s good stuff and holds up REALLY well. To me that’s the mark of a good sitcom, one that can show it’s age.. but still make you laugh, think or cry all the same. So yeah in less than a scene the show had won me over. So as the ladies depart for CPR class, George’s peace is soon interupted by Harry Bently, british person and wacky neighbor. Aka me if I were british and lived in the 70′s. He returns a tv guide, last weeks hence why he’s done with it, and ther’es some schtick and what not before Tom Willis runs in, upset because he’s been robbed. They took all his stuff, and while he’s thankfull his wife’s gone for the week so she didn’t have to be there for this, he’s obviously worried and suggests forming a building watch to prevent this, with Harry on board. George.. has no time for this nonsense, and after making a joke about Florence in curlers scaring them of, bredguringly agrees to attend if someone else starts it then slams the door on them once their out the door. At CPR, our heroines volunteer enthusastically and meet the cpr dummy. resuscannie.. I don’t know how to spell that and frankly I don’t wanna because she is FUCKING terrifying.

She looks like she’s going to come to life and strangle me. She looks like a hollowed out corpse doll a serial killer makes. She looks like something Charles lee ray would rnasfer into. She looks like Micheal Meyers grandmother. She looks like the corpse of Jason’s mom come back for revenge. She looks like sue sylvester transferred herself into an auton. Look I could go on, but the series does make jabs at the thing and most cpr dummies are objectively terrifying, so fair play to them. After some more gags, things.. take a turn. Part of what makes this episode so effective to me is this turn. It starts with, and even goes back to after this for a bit, some sitcom gags and cliches.. but it lulls you into thinking this will be an average episode... so when the instuctor asks two men to go next, an older man and his college age looking son refuse to participate.. and their reason is he refuses to touch anything tha’ts been touched by a ... well he uses a certain word and let’s just say you know what it is, I know what it it is and if I could’ve reached inside my computer and choked the life out of hte man, I fucking would’ve.

Yeah turns out these two are KKK, with the older asshole leading the local chapter and their about as reasonable or likeable as you’d expect with Wheezy BARELY holding Florence back from giving them a well deserved thrashing, and only doing so because it’d both sink to their level and because they’d just use it as more fuel for their racist bullshit. And that’s WHY this works so well: It seems excactly like a normal episode.. until it suddenly isn’t. Until suddenly things are a lot darker, a lot more tense, but the easing into it means it still feels like the same unvierse. To me the good “very special episodes”, are the ones that use this: that ease into the heavy topic before punching you in the face with it and tackle it with nuance and skill. A Diffrent World has a TON of episodes like this, and it’s why it’s one of my faviorite sitcoms: it tackles a lot of really heavy topics with a steady brush and while it can be heavy handed, sometimes heavy hands are necesary to carry a heavy topic. The racists showing up suddenly also fits because Racists hide in plain sight. You don’t know someone you know is prejudice or some stranger is till they reveal themselves. They could show up any time anywhere and you can’t be ready. And I cant possibly claim to know what that’s like, but I’m sad that in this nation of ours this shit has never, and probably will never go away. So it fits that our antagonist shows up out of nowhere, having until now perfectly blended in with the other suited white guys in the class. Naturally, the instructor orders them to fucking leave and naturally klan monster makes some big white suprimacist speil. And being a sitcom he runs into Tom, with Tom mistaking him for talking abotu the crime and White Supremacist mistaking Tom for a fellow racist. Tom decides to invite george.. and while it’s clumsily framed as a wacky sitcom misunderstanding.. it’s very clear things just got VERY dangerous.

Speaking of George he’s awoken from his nap by the ladies who are both still worried and while he goes into his usual digs on florence, and questions why she needs her bat... he instnatly sides with her and prepares to go kick some racist ass once he finds out what happened. It’s a nice shift, as it once again breaks the tranquil normalcy of this sitcom with the violence of racisim. And while there was no phsyical violence form the asshole.. to me racisim itself is still a form of violence. Thinking you are suprerior to another race just because your skin’s a diffrent color and wanting them gone or not to be near you is in itself violent to me. And while Wheezy again has good reason for holding George back, tihs is just what the fuckers want, Geroge is also right: right NOW it’s talk.. but how long before they start burning stuff on thier balcony or come for htem in the night? there’s.. no easy answer her, no easy solution.. just a man fearing for his life justifably whose probably been through this time, and time, and time again, dealt with his buisnesses being vandalized and his life being threatend and probably been beaten some too JUST for being a black business owner. So it’s understandable he’s fucking fed up and just wants them gone. Tom naturally invites him to the meeting., and harry agrees, botht hinking i’ts just a floor meeting and not a disguised KKK Rally.

So at the meeting, the KKK Fuck does his spiela nd tries to assure them that “what you’ve heard about us is wrong”. And again this si part of what makes the episode resonate: guys like this try to make themselves seem resonable. THat “Their not racist” their the right ones and your wrong for wanting equality. It’s why these movements gain traction, they tap into people’s inner ugliness and disastifaction with life and give them an easy target for it. It’s what the president did for four years, i’ts what his sycophants at fox news CONTINUE to do: try and present being a racist, homophobic, xenophobic peace of shit as a viable and stable option when all it makes you is a racist , a coward and a dinosaur who can’t accept change or things difffrent than you. When this guy eventually goes into a rant, as George showing up triggers it and Tom and Harry dont’ take his shit for as econd, with tom proudly mentioning his black wife, and both holding George back for the same reasons Wheezy did with Florence, he talks abotu them “taking our property and destroying our homes”.. and it all sounds EERILY like when Tucker Carlson went on about property damage during the black lives matter protests last year... and as a wise tucan in a suit once said, fuck you tucker. And as John didn’t say but I certainly will, I Hope you choke on your own spray tan you racist seditionist prick. My point is this sort of rhetoric, trying to frame black people as the enemy.. never fucking went away and is on cable news every night. It was in our white house for four long years. It won’t go away and probably never will and everyone of every race has to be on guard to find these pricks and make sure their message is drowned out with love. And that’s what makes this whole thing relevant: that these pricks hide in plain sight and mask their arugments with civlities.. but at the end of day are just hateful monsters who just want a scapegoat for their problems or even may just hate because it’s easy, or because they just wnat to and don’t need an excuse to be the worst human garbage imaginable.

It makes what happens next all the better: Asshole has a heart attack, HORAY, and no one knows CPR since the kid walked out on the class with his dad before they actually learned it. George relucntantly sighs.. and knows what he has to do. He goes and saves the fuckers life. And that, friends, is why I brought up George’s racist past and i’m glad I knew about it giong in: because it shows how far he’s come. From hating white people.. to saving the WORST of the WORST of white people. He regrets it of course, saying the guy should’ve died, and that he won’t be greatful and he’ll just keep on hating.. but his friends point out the truth: George was the bigger man. He saved the life of a man who hated him just for existing and who’d gladly have him lynched if he could and was trying to run him out of his rightful place in the building, because it was the right thing to do. Because that fucker sure as hell wouldn’t. Because despite being a monster.. it’s still a life.. and he can waste it however he pleases.. but he’ll now ALWAYS know a black man saved it. George may regret his decison.. in the dark, where no body would blame him for letting the fucker die or even know he could’ve saved him until he got home, and his wife would’ve barely blamed him, he still choose to save the worst of humanity proving depsite his curmodgnley nature, he’s some of the best of it. It dosen’t change the asshole, he leaves on a gurney telling his son “You should’ve let me die”. George is unsuprised and leaves with his friends. And I do like this: the racist dosen’t MAGICALLY change because he’s saved by a black man, he’s still a fucking monster. And that is what sets him apart from George: Whiel George was a bigot, he not only never went as far as this monster, but he changed. He learned to let go of his hate as it was eating him alive, and while he certailnly and rightfully won’t let go of his resintment for white people, he’s accepted he can’t hate ALL of them for what some did to him. This asshole has no such excuse and no such growth, he probably died being the same miserable piece of shit he was , resenting forever a black man saved him. And that’s hwo it should end.. youc an’t save everyone and you can’t change a person that dosen’t want to. George changed only because he wanted to and he realized he was wrong evne if he’s loath to admit it. This guy wont’ and never will becuse some racist pieces of shit just will never accept the truth that all people were created equal.

His son though clearly has, thanking George before he leaves, and later as the rest of the meeting, realizing what these people are and what they plan on, leave as the assholes right hand man tries to continue said son refuses to acknowlegde him rips up the poster and leaves. See the old man not changing worked.. but so too does this.. showing some simply dont’ know better and some CAN change.. but like George.. they have to WANT to change. Only you can change you. And hopefully it’s for hte better.

This episode was excellent as i’ve made clear, and I don’t have honestly much to add to it. It was a pleasure and black lives matter.

#the jeffersons #george jefferson #wheezy jefferson #black lives matter #black history month #norman lear

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Top Ten Tuesday // Screen Adaptations I LOVED, Ones I NEED & And Ones I NEED NOW – Page to Screen

I’m a lover of screen adaptations

Look we had a run of ones that weren’t…great. But the last few years have more than made up for it!

Honestly, it’s just made me more excited for screen adaptations to come!

The rise of limited series have made it even more possible for the industry to get our favourites right.

I must admit, lately I have become someone who usually even prefers the screen adaptation. But that being said, some of my favourites have been ones I hadn’t even read the book for first!

But I really do think that the watch first, read later thing works for me. If I see a screen adaptation coming out for a book I haven’t read yet, then I’m not someone who rushes out to read the book first.

In fact, I will purposely wait until after I’ve seen the adaptation because nine times out of ten it means I’ll be able to appreciate the adaptation for what it is instead of constantly holding it to the high standards of the book. If I go in relatively blind first than I don’t know what I’m missing. Ignorance is bliss, as they say.

So in this post I’m going to be listing five adaptations I have seen and LOVED, Some of which I haven’t even read the books for yet! Shhh, I’ll get to them, five I NEED to happen and how I would want them handled.

And of course it wouldn’t be a Grey Top Ten without some honourable mentions at the end, this time of screen adaptations that are coming but that I’m impatient for and want NOW.

If you would like to buy any of the following books please consider using my Book Depository Affliate link!

Past Top Ten Tuesdays

Top Ten Tuesday // Fave Short Stories and Anthologies – Magical Doors, Radical Women, Villains and the Ultimate Heart Break

Top Ten Tuesday // My Back List Books – I’m Publicly Shaming Myself

Top Ten Tuesday // Audible and Overdrive Are My Lords & Saviors – My Audiobook TBR

Screen Adaptations I LOVED

│To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before│Jenny Han│Screen Adaptation│

Lara Jean: I wrote five letters, so don’t go feeling too special. Peter: You wrote five love letters? Lara Jean: Yeah. Peter: Damn, Covey, you’re a player.

This one is the most recent one I’ve seen and I adored it!

Lara Jean is sweet and adorable and Peter is everything a teen girl could dream of.

I recently read the book in December and I think the movie did it justice.

Also Lana Condor played Lara Jean perfectly. Like every little detail was just right. I loved discovering that after seeing the film because it made me appreciate it even more.

│Big Little Lies│Liane Moriarty│Screen Adaptation│

Madeline: They say it’s good to let your grudges go, but I don’t know, I’m quite fond of my grudge. I tend it like a little pet.

Big Little Lies captivated me from the first fucking episode.

This is another one where I saw the adaptation before the book and this is actually one of those times where I couldn’t tell you which one I prefer. Maybe it’s just been too long since I’ve consumed either?

I really loved how the story is told and I was obsessed with it, jamming it down everyone’s throats after I binge watched the show.

I need season 2 like, yesterday!

│Sharp Object│Gillian Flynn│Screen Adaptation│

Amma Crellin: Don’t tell Momma

This limited series made me want to die. But in the good way.

It just—I was not ready in the slightest.

Amy Adams fucking killed it as Camille and deserved all the awards. She’s become one of my favourite actresses because of it.

I’m even willing to possibly watch the Woman in the Window because she’s in it even though the author of book is absolutely a dumpster fire.

Everything about Sharp Objects was a knife to the throat.

I need to read the book SOON!

│Dumplin’│Julie Murphy│Screen Adaptation│

Willowdean: As far as I’m concerned, a swimsuit body is a body with a swimsuit on it.

I cried so much watching this film. Like sobbing, I couldn’t stop.

It was what Sierra Burgess should have been but could never be.

Also it features one of my fave actors Bex Taylor-Klaus and their v. fake teeth.

I haven’t read the book but i probably won’t read it because it doesn’t seem as good as the film.

│Love, Simon│Becky Albertalli│Screen Adaptation│

Emily: As soon as you came out, you said, “Mom, I’m still me.” I need you to hear this: You are still you, Simon. You are still the same son who I love to tease and who your father depends on for just about everything. And you’re the same brother who always complements his sister on her food, even when it sucks. You get to exhale now, Simon.

Hello and welcome to my favourite film, possibly of all time.

I would have sobbed while watching this the first time but I was in a packed theatre so I had to settle for subtly tears. But GOD DAMN IT if that wasn’t the most perfect film.

Okay so it wasn’t perfect, there were some things that weren’t the best BUT we finally got a LGBTQ+ film where nobody fucking dies. That’s a win for me.

I just loved it so much I bought like the collector’s edition of the DVD it’s ultraray or something, I have no idea but I sobbed through the whole re-watch.

It’s just the perfect movie for when you’re sad and need cheering up.

Screen Adaptations I NEED

│Sadie│Courtney Summers│Limited Series│

I wish his darkness lived outside of him, because you have to know it’s there to see it. Like all real monsters, he hides in plain sight.

So everyone knows this book has become one of the best audiobooks of all time. I mean, I haven’t listened to is yet but I have zero doubts.

But I think Sadie would also make the perfect limited series, think Big Little Lies and Sharp Objects.

Perfection.

│The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo│Taylor Jenkins Reid│Limited Series│

“Don’t ignore half of me so you can fit me into a box. Don’t do that.”

I cried when I finished the book and had to come to terms with the fact Evelyn Hugo isn’t a real fucking person because she should be and Reid made her feel realer than any person I actually know.

Also I changed my middle name to Evelyn to honour her.

This would make an amazing limited series! Can you tell I love limited series yet?

Honestly I just want to be one step closer to make Evelyn as real of a person as possible.

Also the actress MUST be queer and Cuban. I won’t have it any other way.

Basically I just want the adaptation Jamieson @ Jamishelves described.

│Dangerous Girls│Abigail Haas│Film│

Wouldn’t we all look guilty, if someone searched hard enough?

This book was so un-put-downable I could scream.

Honestly it was one of my favourite reads for 2018 and I read a lot of good books last year.

I would love it to be filmed documentary style. I think it would be really cool to do it that way as if it’s a real crime being covered.

I don’t know, I just want it.

│Genuine Fraud│E. Lockhart│Film│

For anyone who has been taught that good equals small and silent, here is my heart with all its ugly tangles and splendid fury.

Jule is honestly a fucking monster and I need to see her on my screen.

I don’t know how I want it, I just know I need it.

│All For The Game│Nora Sakavic│Netflix Series│

“Fight because you don’t know how to die quietly. Win because you don’t know how to lose.”

My co-worker and I have gone over what we want from this screen adaptation so many times and it includes a Netflix series, Troye Sivan and Alison and Renee need to be canon and NO WHITE WASHING!

But also I’m in love with Jamieson’s @ Jamishelves casting.

Honourable Mentions

Screen Adaptations I Need NOW

│The Rook│Daniel O’Malley│Stan Series│

“You look like Cinderella,” said Val in awe. “Yeah, if she’d been into bondage and had Christian Dior for a godmother.”

I was scrolling through the Stan (Australian streaming service) Facebook page, when I saw a trailer for a new series they have coming out called The Rook.

Boy, was I surprised to find out that one of the very first books I ever read because of Goodreads, specifically because of Emily May’s review, was being made into a screen adaptation.

I loved the plot and the world and our main character.

It was whip smart and magical and thrilling. It was such a great genre cross-over and I loved every second of it.

I can’t wait for the series and I am in physical pain because they haven’t actually announced a release date yet. I cry.

Writing this post made me want to reread it, so I read it in April for a readathon!

│Shades of Magic│V.E. Schwab│Film Rights Sold│

“I apologize for anything I might have done. I was not myself.” “I apologize for shooting you in the leg.” said Lila. “I was myself entirely.”

My love for this series will never die, and neither will my mum’s.

After all, she took Lila’s name as her own middle name when she changed her name earlier this year.

We basically have matching literary middle names now because you can’t tell me that Lila and Evelyn aren’t the most Slytherin women you’ll ever read.

I feel like I’ve been waiting for this screen adaptation forever and I’ll probably still be waiting for it forever.

But I don’t care because there is hope and I need it.

Also I want Piera Forde as Lila Bard.

│Grishaverse│Shadow & Bone│Six of Crows│Leigh Bardugo│Netflix Series│

“When everyone knows you’re a monster, you needn’t waste time doing every monstrous thing.”

I’m so excited I could scream!!!!

I mean I haven’t read the Shadow & Bone series yet but I have read Six of Crows like every other person and their dog.

Things I want;

No white-washing

No straight-washing

And give us FAT NINA, you cowards. Barbie Ferreira, preferably.

Dark

V. v. dark

Also check out Jamieson’s @ Jamishelves post on this.

│The Raven Cycle│Maggie Steifvater│Series Rights Sold│

“Way back before you were born, Calla and Persephone and I were messing around with things we probably shouldn’t have been messing around with—” “Drugs?” “Rituals. Are you messing around with drugs?” “No. But maybe rituals.” “Drugs might be better.” “I’m not interested in them. Their effects are proven— where’s the fun in that? Tell me more.”

I’m currently reading this series and it’s just so brilliant.

It has to be big on characters! yes, the world is magical and incredible but the characters should always be first.

Also I wanna see lots of the psychics because they’re fucking funny and wise and honestly I just need Persephone and her whimsy self.

The relationship dynamics between all the members of the Gansey Gang are important. Don’t fuck with it. Any of it.

Past Top 5 Tuesdays

Top 5 Tuesday // Books I Would Save In A Fire – Fuck Everything Else, Let Me Save My Books…And Cat

Top 5 Tuesday // Incredible Introductions – An Excuse to Share More Quotes

Top 5 Tuesday // Character Driven Books – The Books with My favourite Monsters

I have thought about these far too much

What screen adaptations have you loved? What ones have you hated? What ones do you want to see? Which books did you want to never be touched by Hollywood at all?

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