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acephysicskarkat · 4 years ago

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A bunch of disappointments and issues I found in S5 per @therodrigator6‘s request for Grist for the Content Mill.

Note that this is not an exhaustive list, it’s just all I could think of right now.

MAJOR STRUCTURAL ISSUES

Rushed or unfinished redemption arcs. This is most notable for Shadow Weaver (who sort of spontaneously gives up on being Just The Worst offscreen well before her sacrifice) but is also obvious for Catra (gets rescued in E5, is a full member of the team by E8, and this is without appearing in E7) and Hordak (never even admits that waging 25 years of imperialist warfare is wrong, gets forgiven anyway). There’s never more than a minute’s interval between “I’m sorry” and instant forgiveness except in E2, when Entrapta’s past actions actually mean something, and E4, where it just kind of feels forced and awkward and Bow kind of feels OOC.

I wanna mention Catra’s twice just because of how questionably written and rushed it was. Her resentment isn’t really addressed, none of her past actions apart from bullying Scorpia ever matter, Adora just starts to trust her immediately, and her wrestling with her temper is achieved by applying a light coat of sarcasm on a few lines. It’s just really badly done.

Underuse of the ensemble cast. Did Glimmer and Bow do anything between episode 8 and the final battle that wasn’t replicated elsewhere? The failsafe, for example, was something SW already knew about, so while it was nice seeing Bow’s dads again, that whole plot point seemed pretty much useless. Did Entrapta and Scorpia ever interact even though Scorpia literally left her entire life behind for Entrapta’s sake? Was it strictly necessary to only chip exactly the people who might not immediately forgive Catra, plus Spinnerella? Why were so many characters chipped offscreen and popped up for a few seconds in the conclusion just to explain why we never heard about them all season?

Several episodes being essentially dead air for the purposes of character development. “Shot in the Dark” could so easily have been used to have Adora and Catra deal with the issues in their relationship but that would require admitting that their relationship had issues and S5 had no time for that shit.

PETTY QUIBBLING

Adora’s desire to find her family is forgotten about. This would have been really easy to resolve, too: have Horde Prime offer her family, she has flashbacks of the Princess Alliance, the BFS and maybe even Catra and the Horde kids, and is like “I already have one”. I guess it kind of answers it when it says the First Ones are extinct, but 1) Adora barely seems to notice this, and 2) as an answer, it leaves a big old gap related to how Adora even exists if Horde Prime has had to archive memory of her species’ existence. (You can fanwank something but why should you have to?)

The show spent four seasons building up parallels between Catra and Shadow Weaver - they get similar rants about not being trusted in “Light Spinner”, Catra’s S4 outfit has the same asymmetrical sleeves as Shadow Weaver’s outfit, Adora outright compares them in the tie-in - and they just don’t do anything with it. Nobody really recognises or addresses the parallels.

Similarly, the parallels between Horde Prime’s actions late in the season and Catra’s actions in seasons 2-3 are right there and nobody seems to notice, not even Catra. Trying to control people and use them as weapons against their friends? Being willing to destroy the universe to punish your foes, even if it kills you too? REMIND YOU OF ANYONE NOELLE

As @freezingmyblitzballs has already pointed out, the symbolism of Adora’s new outfit representing her friends in different ways is great, but it doesn’t end up meaning anything or being used to drive the conclusion. Rather, the conclusion appears to be that Adora and Catra are just Special because of Mumble Mumble Unconditional Love.

Horde Prime’s vulnerability to magic doesn’t seem to mean anything because it never explains what that means. Is it that only magic can tear apart his possessing spirit? It would’ve been nice to know what that meant before the season finale!

Horde Prime’s religious symbolism can ring a bit hollow since the belief system appears to be “Horde Prime good” and “peace good”. We never see true believers, just Horde Prime and people mind-controlled by Horde Prime.

The Grayskull answer is bad and stupid and doesn’t make sense in the context of Light Hope’s initial introduction to Adora. More than that, why did a question people barely cared about merit more work on wrapping it up than Adora’s quest for her family? And why did it get so little foreshadowing, to the point where Razz appeared to be Mara’s only emotional connection outside the First Ones?

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papermoonloveslucy · 4 years ago

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LIZ LEARNS TO SWIM

June 11, 1950

“Liz Learns To Swim” is episode #92 of the radio series MY FAVORITE HUSBAND broadcast on June 11, 1950 on the CBS Radio Network.

Synopsis ~ George makes a bargain with Liz: If she'll learn to swim, they can go to the beach with the Atterburys for their vacation.

“My Favorite Husband” was based on the novels Mr. and Mrs. Cugat, the Record of a Happy Marriage (1940) and Outside Eden (1945) by Isabel Scott Rorick, which had previously been adapted into the film Are Husbands Necessary? (1942). “My Favorite Husband” was first broadcast as a one-time special on July 5, 1948. Lucille Ball and Lee Bowman played the characters of Liz and George Cugat, and a positive response to this broadcast convinced CBS to launch “My Favorite Husband” as a series. Bowman was not available Richard Denning was cast as George. On January 7, 1949, confusion with bandleader Xavier Cugat prompted a name change to Cooper. On this same episode Jell-O became its sponsor. A total of 124 episodes of the program aired from July 23, 1948 through March 31, 1951. After about ten episodes had been written, writers Fox and Davenport departed and three new writers took over – Bob Carroll, Jr., Madelyn Pugh, and head writer/producer Jess Oppenheimer. In March 1949 Gale Gordon took over the existing role of George's boss, Rudolph Atterbury, and Bea Benaderet was added as his wife, Iris. CBS brought “My Favorite Husband” to television in 1953, starring Joan Caulfield and Barry Nelson as Liz and George Cooper. The television version ran two-and-a-half seasons, from September 1953 through December 1955, running concurrently with “I Love Lucy.” It was produced live at CBS Television City for most of its run, until switching to film for a truncated third season filmed (ironically) at Desilu and recasting Liz Cooper with Vanessa Brown.

REGULAR CAST

Lucille Ball (Liz Cooper) was born on August 6, 1911 in Jamestown, New York. She began her screen career in 1933 and was known in Hollywood as ‘Queen of the B’s’ due to her many appearances in ‘B’ movies. With Richard Denning, she starred in a radio program titled “My Favorite Husband” which eventually led to the creation of “I Love Lucy,” a television situation comedy in which she co-starred with her real-life husband, Latin bandleader Desi Arnaz. The program was phenomenally successful, allowing the couple to purchase what was once RKO Studios, re-naming it Desilu. When the show ended in 1960 (in an hour-long format known as “The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour”) so did Lucy and Desi’s marriage. In 1962, hoping to keep Desilu financially solvent, Lucy returned to the sitcom format with “The Lucy Show,” which lasted six seasons. She followed that with a similar sitcom “Here’s Lucy” co-starring with her real-life children, Lucie and Desi Jr., as well as Gale Gordon, who had joined the cast of “The Lucy Show” during season two. Before her death in 1989, Lucy made one more attempt at a sitcom with “Life With Lucy,” also with Gordon.

Richard Denning (George Cooper) was born as Louis Albert Heindrich Denninger Jr., in Poughkeepsie, New York. When he was 18 months old, his family moved to Los Angeles. Plans called for him to take over his father's garment manufacturing business, but he developed an interest in acting. Denning enlisted in the US Navy during World War II. He is best known for his roles in various science fiction and horror films of the 1950s. Although he teamed with Lucille Ball on radio in “My Favorite Husband,” the two never acted together on screen. While “I Love Lucy” was on the air, he was seen on another CBS TV series, “Mr. & Mrs. North.” From 1968 to 1980 he played the Governor on “Hawaii 5-0″, his final role. He died in 1998 at age 84.

Bea Benadaret (Iris Atterbury) was considered the front-runner to be cast as Ethel Mertz but when “I Love Lucy” was ready to start production she was already playing a similar role on TV’s “The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show” so Vivian Vance was cast instead. On “I Love Lucy” she was cast as Lucy Ricardo’s spinster neighbor, Miss Lewis, in “Lucy Plays Cupid” (ILL S1;E15) in early 1952. Later, she was a success in her own show, "Petticoat Junction” as Shady Rest Hotel proprietress Kate Bradley. She starred in the series until her death in 1968. Gale Gordon (Rudy Atterbury) had worked with Lucille Ball on “The Wonder Show” on radio in 1938. One of the front-runners to play Fred Mertz on “I Love Lucy,” he eventually played Alvin Littlefield, owner of the Tropicana, during two episodes in 1952. After playing a Judge in an episode of “The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour” in 1958, he would re-team with Lucy for all of her subsequent series’: as Theodore J. Mooney in ”The Lucy Show”; as Harrison Otis Carter in “Here’s Lucy”; and as Curtis McGibbon on "Life with Lucy.” Gordon died in 1995 at the age of 89.

Ruth Perrott (Katie, the Maid) was also later seen on “I Love Lucy.” She first played Mrs. Pomerantz (above right), a member of the surprise investigating committee for the Society Matrons League in “Pioneer Women” (ILL S1;E25), as one of the member of the Wednesday Afternoon Fine Arts League in “Lucy and Ethel Buy the Same Dress” (ILL S3;E3), and also played a nurse when “Lucy Goes to the Hospital” (ILL S2;E16). She died in 1996 at the age of 96.

Bob LeMond (Announcer) also served as the announcer for the pilot episode of “I Love Lucy”. When the long-lost pilot was finally discovered in 1990, a few moments of the opening narration were damaged and lost, so LeMond – fifty years later – recreated the narration for the CBS special and subsequent DVD release.

Gale Gordon (Rudolph Atterbury) is not in this episode, but is mentioned by Iris.

GUEST CAST

Hans Conried (Benjamin Wood, Liz’s Swim Instructor) first co-starred with Lucille Ball in The Big Street (1942). He then appeared on “I Love Lucy” as used furniture man Dan Jenkins in “Redecorating” (ILL S2;E8) and later that same season as Percy Livermore in “Lucy Hires an English Tutor” (ILL S2;E13) – both in 1952. The following year he began an association with Disney by voicing Captain Hook in Peter Pan. On “The Lucy Show” he played Professor Gitterman in “Lucy’s Barbershop Quartet” (TLS S1;E19) and in “Lucy Plays Cleopatra” (TLS S2;E1). He was probably best known as Uncle Tonoose on “Make Room for Daddy” starring Danny Thomas, which was filmed on the Desilu lot. He joined Thomas on a season 6 episode of “Here’s Lucy” in 1973. He died in 1982 at age 64.

This begins Conried’s history of playing Lucy’s instructors. Percy Livermore taught her grammar; Professor Gitterman taught her singing and acting.

Herb Vigran (Filling Station Attendant) made his "I Love Lucy” debut as Jule, Ricky’s music agent, in “The Saxophone” (ILL S2;E2) in 1952 and immediately returned in “The Anniversary Present” (ILL S2;E3) to play the same character. He will also play Mrs. Trumbull’s nephew Joe, the washing machine repairman, in “Never Do Business With Friends” (ILL S2;E31) and Al Sparks, the publicist who turns Lucy and Ethel into Martians, in “Lucy is Envious” (ILL S3;E23). Vigran also played the man who sold Lucy and Desi The Long, Long Trailer (1953) and returned to work for Lucy in six episodes of "The Lucy Show” between 1963 and 1966. He died in 1986.

EPISODE TRIVIA

The day before this episode aired, Lucy and Desi were in New York City on their ‘vaudeville tour’ designed to try-out material for “I Love Lucy” and prove to the networks that they had good chemistry together. There they appeared on “The United Cerebral Palsy Telethon” hosted by Milton Berle and aired on NBC.

The script for “Liz Learns To Swim” was basically a remake of “Vacation Time” (aka “A Trailer Vacation To Goosegrease Lake” broadcast on April 29, 1949.

Unlike many episodes of “My Favorite Husband,” “Liz Learns To Swim” has no corollary on “I Love Lucy,” although certain situations and dialogue will be familiar to viewers.

EPISODE

ANNOUNCER: “As we look in on the Coopers tonight, summertime is fast approaching and Liz has roused her self from spring fever long enough to go on a shopping spree for some beach clothes.”

As the episode begins, Liz is showing Katie the Maid what she has bought for her summer vacation, including a skimpy swimsuit.

LIZ: “I want to look good for George. He’s going to see a lot of me this summer.” KATIE: “He’s not the only one!”

In “Off To Florida” (ILL S6;E6) Ricky thinks Lucy’s new skimpy new swimsuit is for Little Ricky!

RICKY: “Hey, look, Ricky! Mommy bought you a bathing suit.” LUCY: “That's mine!” RICKY: “Yours?!” LUCY: “Relax. It stretches when it's on.” RICKY: “See that it does!”

Lucy also buys a swimsuit that Ricky feels is too skimpy when shopping for their California trip in “Getting Ready” (ILL S4;E11).

In looking over their daily mail, we learn that the Cooper’s live at 321 Bundy Drive. Liz gets something from Weeping Willow Ranch, where they spent last year’s summer vacation. It is not a place Liz is anxious to revisit.

LIZ: “One week there and you understand why the willows are weeping.”

In “Vacation Time” from 1949 (the episode upon which this one is based) the resort was named Goosegrease Lake.

Lucy Carmichael visits a dude ranch called Tumbleweed Inn during a 1966 episode of “The Lucy Show.”

Liz wants to go to the beach with the Atterbury’s while George insists on going to the dude ranch. George agrees to go to the beach if Liz will first learn to swim.

Adventure-Loving Lucy Ricardo swam in the chilly Med before pedaling to Nice in “Lucy’s Bicycle Trip” (ILL S5;E24). Fred calls her “the poor man’s Florence Chadwick” an American swimmer known for long-distance, open water swimming and the first woman to swim the English Channel in both directions, setting a record each time.

Liz’s neighbor, Mr. Wood (Hans Conried), teaches her how to swim - without ever leaving the living room! George is doubtful Liz can learn swimming without getting wet, so they agree to a test at the Country Club pool the next day. That night, Liz ‘swims in her sleep’ - nearly drowning!

At the pool next day, Iris (Bea Benadaret) brings Liz some water wings to wear under her swimsuit and fool George. To inflate them, Iris drags Liz to a Filling Station to use their air pump. But the water wings burst, just like Iris’s plan. Iris thinks of a loophole: Liz never promised George she wouldn’t use help - so Iris darts home for one of Rudolph’s life jackets.

Life jackets and Lucy Carter’s inability to swim were integral to “Lucy Rides The Rapids” (HL S2;E4), filmed on location on the Colorado River.

Liz puts on the life jacket and dives into the pool. George agrees to take her to the beach - even though Liz failed to inflate Rudolph’s life jacket. She swam without help! As soon as she realizes it, however....HELP!!!

HELP!!! Lucy pretends not to be able to swim so that Ricky can pretend to save her, all to get the attention of gossip columnist Hedda Hopper in “The Hedda Hopper Story” (ILL S4;E21).

Lucy and Anthony Newley tread water in the Thames River in “Lucy in London” (1966).

Lucy and Desi relaxing in their pool at home in the 1940s.

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cwdcshows · 5 years ago

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Supergirl - S5 E2 - Stranger Beside Me

Does the opening scene/save remind anyone else of the scene in the movie Hancock, where Will Smith's character does the classic superhero-esque save of Justin Bateman's character, by stopping the train, which in turn does some serious damage to the train; and everyone starts asking him, "why didn't you just move the car?" Why didn't she just move the car? It's not like the semi was hurdling out of control and needed to be stopped; the car swerved to avoid the pedestrian, considering the wight, size and momentum of a semi, was it really that much easier to grind it to a halt, probably damaging the semi, rather than scooping up the car? They still could have milked the drama, but I guess they couldn't spring for the special effect. I hope insurance companies at this point have started offering act of Kryptonians coverage.

Is it realistic for Alex and Kelly been together for months without Alex at least knowing Kelly carries an epi pen, much less knowing why or that Kelly has a serious food allergy? What's going on with all the couples doing special breakfasts on the same day? This isn't some of that "Sweetest Day" bullshit, is it? That was about a week or two ago.... James' post CatCo editor career options are running for the senate and a cushy job at the Smithsonian? I find myself going back and forth whether these options are outlandish for the character or actually make sense. On the one hand, James is supposed to have a fair amount of recognition for his work as a photojournalist even before he came to CatCo. But on the other he's basically a neckerchief away from being the Fred of this Scooby Doo dang; and has at least as much public notoriety as a masked vigilante.... "He said he was my brother. At first I didn't believe him, but now I know it must be true." "How do you know?"

So did Brainiac basically reveal that we're presently "sometime in the late dark ages"? Wait, "Hope" is incapable hurting someone, because it goes against its "prime directive"? A)Keep my Star Trek out of your DC; and B) Didn't Hope offer to help Lena kill Kara in the previous episode? They're really doubling down on making this new CatCo boss unlikable. I mean, Christ, you're just going to reassign Kara, your Pulitzer winning journalist, to fucking fashion?? Elitist? Fuck you lady. James already walked for less, Kara sure as hell better be following suit before long, because there's only so much of someone's assholery a person can swallow; and I realize those are a poor choice of words and I don't care. So I'm curious, if Kara didn't do the assignment and got fired, would that still trigger her no-compete clause? I suppose there'd probably some type of word to prevent an obvious loophole like that. Even still, considering how James is fairing, there has to be something better out there. They better not try to flip it around and try to have it turn out that this new boss woman secretly has a heart of gold that we're supposed to sympathize with, because there's not a chance in hell that's going to happen. And no, I have no interest in learning her name; it's bad enough I learned Kelly's So Terrible-Boss owns a company that has developed technology that allows them to mind meld with Martians using contact lenses?

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Ugh, seriously, the kiss ass at CatCo is going to find out Kara's identity, isn't he? It's going to be really stupid if he does, because Supergirl and Superman should be better at, you know, not being easily surveilled... Wait, wiping a person's mind is the greatest sin in Martian Culture? Wasn't that an entire plot line of J'Onn doing exactly that last year? Admittedly they were willing, or at least most of them were; I feel like he's wiped a few minds of people who didn't volunteer, but maybe I'm wrong on that. Awe, and here I was hoping Kiss Ass Dude was going to get eaten by a white-martian. Oh, Terrible Boss' name is Andrea.... Hurray. I'm probably not going to remember that. Way to poke the bear, berating a Luthor. That seems wise. Here's hoping Lena tosses you into the sun. Oh, Christ, "Idiot Jed" is back - just when they finally managed to make Brainy interesting at the end of last season. Come on Brainy, how can you be so "smart" and not comprehend the amount of food a single person can consume in a day? Augh, they're not going to hook up Kara with the Kiss Ass, are they? Please don't. I'd rather she end up with...well, Lena, but I mean, anyone but this douche bag. I see it now, Alex is going to figure out this isn't Kelly when J'Onn's brother doesn't know to be allergic to blueberries. Well, that took all of three seconds. Didn't J'Onn's brother come in through Alex's window? Why did Kara come through the front door? It was awfully nice of J'Onn's brother not to kill Alex, but rather tuck her away safely in a closet. Was that supposed to be subtext? Jesus tap dancing Christ, the whole "It's me, I'm the real one," "No I'm the real one"? Shoot them both, it's a win-win. Ah, Kiss Ass' name is William. Kelly's allergic to...cats............I'm not going there...... Alex could tell the shapeshift wasn't really Kelly the way "it" touched her hand? Get out of here with that bullshit. I thought it had something to do with the ring Not-Kelly was wearing. It's appropriate that I was just reminded of the "Dobler/Dahmer Theory" from How I Met Your Mother - Brainy's walking a fine line between the two in this episode...

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You know, this cover of "Girls Just Want to Have Fun" essentially works during virtually all of the scenes they show while it's play, arguably because those scenes involve women at different places in their relationships - so the shot of J'Onn meditating, especially as the refrain is being sung, seems like a real outlier in this montage; because he's clearly not a girl and I don't think he's all that interested in fun at the moment... Was Nia supposed to look distressed as she turned away from Brainy in bed; or just annoyed? Because it came off as more the former, which doesn't really fit with how her previous scene with Brainy ended; so I'm assuming she was just supposed to be annoyed that Brainiac was still quoting poetry to her. So Billy volunteers at a shelter. That's nice. Still don't want him hooking up with Kara. Augh, what the hell are they doing with Lena.....

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billyagogo · 5 years ago

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<em>The Blacklist</em> boss on Katarina's next move and why she became the spy next door

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The Blacklist boss on Katarina's next move and why she became the spy next door

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Team Red to the rescue! While Reddington (James Spader) was rescued by the end of the second episode of The Blacklist season 7, it’s clear that his kidnapper, Katarina Rostova (Laila Robins), is just getting started. After Reddington escaped, she descended on Dom’s (Brian Dennehy) secluded cabin with her men ready to kill in order to figure out a “big secret” Reddington is keeping. Red won the day after Liz (Megan Boone) and the task force came to his rescue, but Dom ended up in bad shape in the hospital and Katarina vanished. She did turn up in the episode’s final moments… across the hall from Liz and Agnes, posing as their new neighbor.

We spoke to executive producer Jon Bokenkamp about Katarina’s motivations, how Cooper will deal with learning the truth about Reddington, and what’s in store for The Blacklist’s endgame. ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: What can you tells us about the Townsend Directive? JON BOKENKAMP: The Townsend Directive, which we did hear about last season and is very present in the line of questions that Katarina is asking Red, is basically a bounty on Katarina Rostova’s head. If you can imagine a group of enemies who have bound together and pooled their resources and put their money in the kitty. And so the Townsend Directive is sort of this standing order in the criminal community to bring her in, and she knows that she can hopefully unravel or defeat or defuse this directive with information that only Reddington has. And as we saw in the opening two episodes, he is not eager or interested in helping her in any way, despite their history.

Red won’t help Katarina, but he lies to Liz about her being back, and that puts everyone in more danger. What’s behind that choice, and how is that going impact things moving forward? Well, it obviously gives us a big secret with the task force. The audience and Red are one step ahead of Liz and the task force. Does it put them in danger? Probably, but as Red told Liz at the end of episode 2, this is because she and Ressler started overturning rocks and looking into Katarina last season. Just the very whisper of her name brings danger, and I think that the way Reddington would justify it is the less people know, the better. I don’t think he thinks he’s lying to Liz, he’s simply perhaps withholding important information. He would probably see it as protecting both Liz and the task force. It may not work out that way, but I think that’s how he would he would justify it.

Liz may have gotten over this revelation about Reddington’s true identity, but it doesn’t seem like the same can be said for Cooper. How will this discovery, Liz sharing the truth about Red’s identity with the task force, shape Cooper’s story line this season and impact his dealings with Reddington? It’s going to impact the show in a meaningful way, and quite soon. We have a great Cooper story that we’re telling this season. Even all the way back to the first season, we talked about Red and Cooper having a little secret about Kuwait. We’re going to revisit Kuwait very soon, and the nefarious things that happened between Reddington and Cooper back in Kuwait are going to bubble back up and influence how Cooper is feeling about Red not being Red and the task force moving forward with this stranger, this Russsian operative. Cooper is the guy who does the right thing. He’s a moral figure, and he is going to be saddled quite soon with making a decision about what to do with the task force. Cooper and his past are going to get dragged into that decision-making process in a really emotional and personal way.

Katarina’s return also brings Don back into the action. What can you tease about what happens to him? Will he have a larger presence this season? Dom is still alive, barely. And we love Brian Dennehy, so any chance we get to get him onto the show is a blessing. But Don is clinging to life, and with him lives a secret, lives the truth. Yes, we will likely see more of Dom. His story line is not finished. In fact, I would even suggest if Katarina could find him, that would probably not bode well for Red. Don is sort of a loose thread that is dangling out there, posing both a threat to Red in terms of answers that he has and also this big emotional hole for Liz and Agnes, because this is her grandfather.

How does Agnes being back with Liz figure into this season’s story? The table is set for a very strange and unusual familial dynamic. You know Katarina is living across the hall. Daughter is reunited with mom, and Reddington isn’t aware of this. I think we’re we are certainly aware of the fact that Agnes is home and it’s a new dynamic for Liz. She’s a working mom who is juggling all the all the jobs that a working mother does, and yet her super-spy mother is living across the hall looking for answers. Well, that could go in any number of strange and unexpected directions. So, yes, I don’t want to say Agnes is in jeopardy, but I think her story line in coming home presents the show with some really unique opportunities.

The episode ends with the reveal that Katarina is posing as Liz’s neighbor. What does she want specifically from Liz? And what can you tease about what she’ll do next? It’s a little tricky because the search that she’s on, the questions that she’s asking are somewhat enigmatic. It’s not super-clear what it is that she’s asking Reddington for other than this deep-buried truth, and it is something that really only Reddington can tell her. There are other people in his world with the answers, but Reddington is playing this very close. What Katarina is after, the core answers she is searching for, if she were to find them, it would pull at a thread in the fabric of Red’s mythology and unravel things in really the most important way possible. It could unravel everything he’s been doing for the past six and now seven years.

Liz is her access point to Red’s orbit. Katarina living next to Liz and the promise of her inserting herself into Liz’s life is less about Liz becoming a target, although that very well may happen. It’s more about using Liz to try to get information and trying to get answers about Reddington. So Liz, and therefore Agnes, are sort of in the crosshairs. They’re not necessarily her target, but I think we’ve done a nice job of demonstrating just how diabolical this woman is. And on top of that, I think it gives us a lot of really interesting familial territory to cover, and it gives the show a unique way to explore those relationships without being overt about it.

We’re now seven seasons in and Katarina is here, so are you working toward a specific endgame? Do you have a sense of when and how you’d like to end the series? We’ve been concerned about where this series ends from day one. We’ve always been working toward a sort of singular answer to the riddle of why did Raymond Reddington surrendered himself to Elizabeth Keen all these years ago. And it’s something that we talk about almost daily. I feel like with our show specifically, I think it would be impossible to tell the sort of stories that are deeply intertwined, and hopefully still adding up in terms of answers, if we didn’t know where we were going. So we feel that in the room, we sometimes move things along, we sometimes slow things up, but we’re definitely working toward a resolution to this giant enigmatic question that I think is going to be incredibly satisfying and surprising.

The Blacklist airs Fridays at 8 p.m. ET on NBC. Related content: Katarina Rostova’s presence will have a ‘deep impact’ on everything Liz believes in season 7 of The Blacklist Reddington is Katarina’s captive in first Blacklist season 7 photos

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By Jodi Walker

S6 E3 Recap

The Blacklist recap: Two Lies & a Truth with Raymond Reddington

By Jodi Walker

S6 E2 Recap

The Blacklist recap: Liz drops a bomb of betrayal

By Jodi Walker

S6 E1 Recap

The Blacklist premiere recap: Raymond Reddington’s still got it

By Jodi Walker

S5 E22 Recap

The Blacklist finale recap: ‘Drop Dead Fred’

By Jodi Walker

James Spader returns as Raymond ‘Red’ Reddington, a mastermind criminal who teams up with the FBI.

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Chesapeake Shores

Season 5, Episode 2 ‘Nice Work If You Can Get It’

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#chesapeake shores #s5 e2 nice work if you can get it #hallmark channel #photo preview #meghan ory #treat williams #brendan penny #jesse metcalfe #hallmark original series #season 5

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Chesapeake Shores

Season 5, Episode 2 ‘Nice Work If You Can Get It’

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#chesapeake shores #s5 e2 nice work if you can get it #hallmark channel #photo preview #meghan ory #laci j mailey #carlo marks #barbara niven #stephen huszar #emilie ullerup #hallmark original series #season 5

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#chesapeake shores #s5 e2 nice work if you can get it #hallmark channel #first look #photo preview #meghan ory #treat williams #emilie ullerup #hallmark original series #season 5

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#chesapeake shores #s5 e2 nice work if you can get it #hallmark channel #first look #photo preview #emilie ullerup #brendan penny #stephen huszar #barbara niven #meghan ory #laci j mailey #carlo marks #hallmark original series #season 5

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hallmark-movie-fanatics · 2 years ago

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2022 Leo Awards Nominations - Part 2

Some Hallmark Movies and Hallstars have been nominated for for the Leo Awards. Part one of a two part post. Part 2 is covering Television Series.

Night One will air Tuesday, July 5 and will be live-streamed on YouTube. The pre-show will start at 6:45 and the show will start at 7pm. The categories with nominated Hallmark movies/actors will be:

DRAMATIC SERIES Picture Editing Visual Effects Sound Musical Score Production Design Costume Design Make-Up Hairstyling Choreography Guest Performance - Male Guest Performance - Female

Night Three will air Saturday, July 9, hosted live at the Hyatt Regency Hotel. The show begins at 7pm. The categories with nominated Hallmark movies/actors will be:

DRAMATIC SERIES Program Direction Screenwriting Cinematography Stunt Coordination Stunt Performance Supporting Performance - Male Supporting Performance - Female Lead Performance - Male Lead Performance - Female

Best Direction Dramatic Series

Chesapeake Shores/S5 E9 ‘What a Difference a Day Makes - Terry Ingram

Family Law/’Legacy’ - Andy Mikita

Riverdale/’Chapeter Eighty: Purgatorio’ - Steven A. Adelson

The Good Doctor/’Waiting’ - Gary Hawes

Two Sentence Horror Stories/’Crush’ - Kailey Spear, Sam Spear

Best Picture Editing Dramatic Series

Chesapeake Shores/S5 E10 ‘That Old Feeling’ - Dan Krieger

Firefly lane/’You Say It’s Your Birthday’ - Lisa Binkley

Two Sentence Horror Stories/’Instinct’ - Greg ng

Virgin River/’Where There’s Smoke’ - Dari Ellerman

Best Musical Score Dramatic Series

Chesapeake Shores/S5 E9 ‘What a Difference a Day Makes - Hamish Thomson, Matt Rogers

Tribal/’The Kid Had a Gun’ - Mike Shields

Best Costume Design Dramatic Series

Batwoman/’Mad As a Hatter’ - Maya Mana

Chesapeake Shores/S5 E6 ‘Love Is Here To Stay’ - Shanna Mair

Maid/’Blue Sky’ - Lorraine Carson

Riverdale/’Chapter Ninety-Nine: The Witching Hour(s)’ - Rebekka Sørensen-Kjelstrup, Deneen McArthur, Jordan Hintz, Stephanie Pols, Mary Wiserman

Van Helsing/’Lumina Intunecata’ - Beverly Huynh, Nikola Stojisavljevic, Karley Schroyen, Evan Couillaud, Stephanie Shanklin

Best Hairstyling Dramatic Series

Chesapeake Shores/S5 E6 ‘Love Is Here To Stay’ - Linda Nelson

DC’s Legends of Tomorrow/’Speakeasy Does It’ - Dion Farrell, Samantha Armstrong, Graden Van Erkelens, Devan Hunter, Kelly Killburn

Schmigadoon!/’Schmigaddon!’ - Julie McHaffie, Codey Blair, Sandi Hall, Sharan Markell

Best Supporting Performance Female Dramatic Series

Blood and Water/’Blood Brother’ - Fiona Fu

Debris/’Do You Know Icarus?’ - Jennifer Copping

Sweet Tooth/’What’s in the Freezer?’ - Aliza Vellani

Sweet Tooth/’It’s All In Yo9ur Headdress’ - Marc T. House

When Calls the Heart/S8 E7 ‘Before My Very Eyes’ - Loretta Walsh

Best Lead Performance Male Dramatic Series

Chesapeake Shores/S5 E10 ‘That old Feeling’ - Brendan Penny

Day of the Dead/’The Lady Birders of Nepa’ - Christopher Russell

Tribal/’The Kid Had a Gun’ - Brian Markinson

Van Helsing/’Graveyard Smash’ - Aleks Paunovic

Best Lead Performance Female Dramatic Series

Chesapeake Shores/S5 E2 ‘Nice Work if You Can Get It’ - Emilie Ullerup

Family Law/’Legacy’ - Jewel Staite

Motherland: Fort Salem/’Delusional’ - Taylor Hickson

Two Sentence Horror Stories/’Crush’ - Jacqueline Robbins

Two Sentence Horror Stories/’Crush’ - Joyce Robbins

#leo awards #hallmark original series #hallmark channel #hallmark history #hallmark stars #chesapeake shores #season 5 #s5 e9 what a difference a day makes #s5 e10 that old feeling #s5 e6 love is here to stay #s5 e2 nice work if you can get it #brendan penny #emilie ullerup #when calls the heart #season 8 #s8 e7 before my very eyes #loretta walsh

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