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Coven of Darkness

Episode Recap #52: Coven of Darkness Original Airdate: June 17, 1989

Starring: John D. LeMay as Ryan Dallion Louise Robey as Micki Foster Chris Wiggins as Jack Marshak

Guest cast: Maria Ricossa as Lysa Redding Maurice E. Evans as Gareth Winslow Mark Wilson as Brother Shannon Jason Blicker as Danny Catherine Disher as Crystal

Written by Wendy Rodriguez Directed by George Bloomfield

As the second season finale opens, we join a witches coven already in the midst of a ritual around an altar. They are praying to Satan to find an item they claim has been stolen. A voice tells them to follow the right hand path.

Cut to another house, with a white magic coven gathered and Micki and Jack are in attendance. One brother reveals they have something called a Witches Ladder, a talisman tied in nine knots and bound by the power of a warlock. They have used it to amplify their powers. But Jack and Micki have told them it was cursed by Lewis, so they give it to Micki.

Outside, Jack thanks Gareth, the coven leader. He says Lewis' coven was determined to wipe out theirs. Micki asks if Lewis' coven is still active, and he is unsure. Jack doesn't think they should count them out. Gareth says the Ladder is the most powerful, and any coven with it would be most powerful. Micki shakes Gareth's hand, and he says he senses occult power in her. They leave. Suddenly, one of the member is attacked.

Back at Lewis' old coven, this man is tied down and being tortured by Lysa, who wants to know where the Ladder is. He tells her it is now at Curious Goods, and Lysa kills him.

At the store, Jack is telling Micki about what true magic really is. He wants to start with a simple trick.

Danny, a friend of Ryan's, comes in and tosses him the keys to the Mercedes, having tuned it up. Ryan pays him and Danny asks him to go out clubbing tomorrow. Danny leaves and a woman enters. It is Lysa. She knows Ryan's name and shakes his hand, "accidentally" cutting his palm. She gives him a handkerchief to stop the bleeding. Lysa asks about the Ladder, and Ryan wonders why Gareth would have mentioned that. She says she is a psychic researcher and has been investigating Lewis and his ties the occult. She claims Lewis killed her sister. Ryan says the Ladder is safe. She says she's been destroying items cursed by Lewis. Ryan is skeptical and goes to get the others.

Jack is in the basement teaching Micki. Ryan comes to tell her about Lysa's claims, but when they return to the store, they see Lysa leave.

The dark coven is then performing another ritual, with a figure representing Ryan covered with the handkerchief with his blood. Seems they will torment him until the Ladder is returned. A pin in the figures head gives the sleeping Ryan a headache. They they cast a fever onto him. Ryan wakes in pain, and Micki hears him. Ryan is tormented, Micki rushes to him but he snaps at her goes to the basement for the Ladder in the vault. Jack wakes up, as well. Ryan finds the Ladder, and Micki and Jack go to him. Micki's love for Ryan temporarily breaks Lysa's hold. She collapses and says someone with great power interfered.

Later, Ryan claims to be fine. Ryan is worried the Ladder is affecting him. Jack tries to calm him but Ryan is angry and upset. He heads back upstairs. Jack goes to research anything he can, and Micki remembers Ryan mentioning a pendant Lysa was wearing.

Lysa sends Crystal out, and then reconnects her hold on Ryan. She calls Ryan and tells him to leave the store, saying he is a danger to Micki and Jack. She tells him to meet her and hangs up. Jack makes sure the vault is locked up.

Jack calls Gareth, and asks about the pendant. He says it belongs to the leader of the Black Coven, a Black Witch. Gareth tells Jack that Lysa was Lewis' second in command. Gareth hears a noise and hangs up to investigate. He opens the door and finds a pentagram in blood, with knives stuck in the door. No one seems about, so he looks around, and the body of Shannon swings down, then an upside down cross appears and bursts into flame.

Ryan meets Lysa and gets in her car. She claims to be scared, and offers Ryan a cup of coffee. A too-trusting Ryan drinks it. He's worried about Micki and Jack, but she tells him the Ladder will control him. Lysa asks if he has anyone to stay with and Ryan mentions Danny, so she starts her car.

Jack is reading up and Micki calls out for Ryan, Jack tells her he left sometime in the night. Then tells her about Gareth's information. Jack tells Micki to call Ryan's friends, but Gareth arrives and says he's been trying to reach them but their line is dead. He says Lysa has reformed Lewis's coven and killed Shannon. Maybe they have Ryan, too.

At Danny's shop, Crystal has brought a car in to be worked on. Danny flirts with her, she leaves. Ryan wants to go but Danny calms him and tells him to lay down.

Micki finds an article Lewis had on Lysa being arrested for graverobbing. Jack figures she's out on parole. Gareth wants to use the Ladder to fight Lysa, but Jack doesn't want to use any item. Jack mentions Micki breaking Lysa's hold once, and Gareth thinks she can do it again. Micki is not so sure.

At night at Danny's, he closes up and wants to go out. He goes to Ryan, no noticing the trunk of Crystal's car opening. Ryan is feverish and Danny wants to call him a doctor. Suddenly, Danny is attacked by hooded figures as a confused Ryan watches.

Gareth is teaching Micki how to use her latent powers. Jack finds that Lewis gave Lysa a sculpting tool, and Gareth says she uses it to carve her victims in wax. Between that and the Ladder, she could destroy them all. Micki is taught more.

At Danny's, Ryan awakens next to Danny's bloody body and panics.

Gareth has Micki lighting candles and thinking of Ryan protected in white light.

Lysa arrives at the garage, and Ryan thinks he killed Danny, Lysa lies that the Ladder made him do it and they need to get it back before it gets worse.

Micki recites a protection spell to help Ryan, Gareth helping her. Saying as long as the candles burn, Ryan will be protected.

Lysa drives Ryan to Curious Goods, saying he has to lie to them so they don't get suspicious. Then lies that they will destroy the Ladder, and she'll dispose of Danny's body and no one will know. Ryan says he will know. He goes inside, prodded by Lysa.

Inside, Micki is still casting the spell to help him. Ryan comes inside, sees them, but slips down to the vault. He finds it locked. Micki keeps doing as Gareth teaches her, with Jack watching. Ryan uses a hammer to break the lock, so Jack goes to investigate, then calls to Micki and Gareth, who rush down. Ryan goes to find the Ladder, Jack tries to expose Lysa, Ryan fights him off, then Micki and Gareth. He runs the Ladder out to Lysa. Gareth goes to confront her, and Lysa uses the Ladder to kill him. She takes off with Ryan as Micki rushes out.

At the Black Coven, Lysa has them all gathered with the Ladder, promising the return of darkness and the deaths of White Magicians. Ryan lays nearby, feverish.

Micki helps Jack upstairs and tells him Lysa killed Gareth and that Ryan left with her. Jack says their only hope is the White Magic altar. Micki doesn't think she has it in her, but Jack says she is Ryan's only hope. She goes back to reciting the spell Gareth taught her, again and again, as the candles burn low.

Lysa makes wax figures of many White Magicians, using the Ladder to enhance her power.

Micki nears the end of the spell. Ryan is slowly seeing what Lysa has truly done, to him, and to Danny and to Gareth. He hears the coven below. Micki tells Jack she knows Ryan heard her. Jack says now they have to go after Lysa, to help Ryan.

Lysa and her coven use the Ladder in their ritual, but Ryan appears and knocks one of them out. Micki keeps chanting, a spell to turn Lysa's spell back upon her own coven. Lysa feels it, but keeps at it, handing figurines to each member. Micki keeps chanting. Ryan, hiding in a cloak, comes through the line and surprises Lysa, grabbing the Ladder. He yanks it from her as Micki chants, turning Lysa's spell against them. Ryan holds it and uses it to stop the coven, killing Crystal. Lysa tries to kill Ryan, but the Ladder tosses her out the window to her death. At Curious Goods, Micki collapses into Jack's arms.

Later, Micki comes to. Jack says she is lucky, as Ryan comes up to her, seemingly okay. Jack thinks Micki has exhausted her powers in one night, at least temporarily. Ryan thanks her for saving him. He kisses her forehead, and Micki realizes he brought the ladder back, and Jack says also brought the sculpting knife. Ryan says at least Danny and Gareth didn't die in vain. Jack tells them to go sleep as he heads to the vault. Micki is worn out but goes over and opens the spell book again.

My thoughts:

Quite an interesting episode. Liked the delving into Lewis' old coven and his fellow black magicians, especially Lysa. Also glad they explained why Lysa hadn't shown up until now.

Danny was a sudden good friend of Ryan's, just created to be killed off. Not sure who else they could have used, but very convenient.

Ryan being pulled into Lysa's spell is a different take on someone trying to get their hands on an antique. Also always thought this possession thing was kind of an opening to a door that the dark powers use to get Ryan even more in the season three opener.

No Johnny here. You'd think Jack would have called him for more help against Lysa and the possessed Ryan.

Micki having some latent White Magic is a good twist, but I don't think they ever address this again in season three. Maybe if the show had gone on longer they would have. Could have even shown Micki join the White Coven.

Like that they get two items back, but lots of death to get to that point.

I feel bad for Ryan. The episode ends with Micki having a weird look on her face, but as we know, Ryan is the one who suffers the most at the beginning of the next - and last - season.

Great strides have been made from the start of the show to now. I feel like the episodes are more mature, deeper. But boy, a real downer of an episode to come.

Next week: The Prophecies - Part 1

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Netflix's Persuasion has been been ripped to shreds. I'm saying I told you so, no one asked for or wanted another version of a Jane Austen novel made into a movie. The comments are brutal.

Persuasion: Netflix viewers call out ‘cringey’ dialogue in new Jane Austen adaptation

Jacob Stolworthy - 7h ago

But, those who have seen the film, which is directed by Carrie Cracknell, are urging viewers to steer clear – and are highlighting specific lines of dialogue as evidence as to why they should do so.

In the film, Johnson’s character can be heard saying: “Now we’re worse than exes, we’re friends.” She also describes herself as “an empath” and, in one particular scene, states in reference to people’s looks: “It’s often said, ‘If you’re a five in London, you’re a 10 in Bath.’”

”Haven’t we as a society suffered enough!?!?!!” one Twitter user asked after viewing the film, with another writing: “Jane Austen crying shaking throwing up in her grave after Dakota Johnson said “now we’re worse than exes, we’re friends” in Persuasion on Netflix.”

One Austen fan added: “The thing everyone’s missing about Netflix Persuasion is that the dialogue would be cringey even if it was a modern romcom. It’s not me being an Austen purist, it’s just bad.”

The critical reception has been extremely frosty, also.

“The PERSUASION embargo is up so I can finally say that it is the worst Austen adaptation I have ever seen,” Bustle’s Morgan Leigh Davies wrote on Twitter. “Absolutely inexcusable. Abolish Netflix. Abolish Dakota Johnson.”

Meanwhile, The Independent’s film critic Clarisse Loughrey agreed that Johnson is “woefully miscast” in the film, adding that: ”At no point do you ever get the sense that anyone’s actually read Persuasion.

“For those with even the slightest affinity for Austen’s work, it’s vaguely mortifying to watch – seeing one of her most beautifully moulded protagonists, a sorrowful vessel hounded by the ghosts of lost love, stripped of her poetry and reduced to an Instagram caption about the pitfalls of millennial dating.

Loughrey gave the film one star, as did The Guardian’s Wendy Ide, who called the film “a travesty”.

The Telegraph critic Tim Robey, in his two-star review, said that Cracknell’s adaptation “comes with almost a total disregard for its supposed source material”.

Brian Viner, writing for Daily Mail, called the film “torture” and “truly dreadful”. He added that the decision to repeatedly have Johnson’s Anne look to the camera to break the fourth wall shows a “wilful misunderstanding of the book”.

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And Now the News

Episode Recap #29: And Now the News

Original Airdate: October 14, 1988

Starring:

John D. LeMay as Ryan Dallion Robey as Micki Foster

Guest cast:

Kate Trotter as Dr. Avril Carter Kurt Reis as Dr. Kevin Finch Fran Gebhard as Bradley Ian A. Wallace as Nurse Swanson Alex Karzis as Craig Eddy Henry Ramer as Radio Announcer Stephen Black as John Gibson Shaun Austin-Olsen as Clarence Stone Wendy Lyon as Mary Fraser George Buza as Hulk Maniac

Written by Richard Benner (as Dick Benner) Directed by Bruce Pittman

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We open on a stormy, rainy night outside of a hospital, technically a psychiatric institute for the criminally insane. Inside, a doctor Finch is trying to cure a hysterical woman of her snake phobia by holding snakes right in her face while pushing her to confront why she is scared of them. He feels like she made a breakthrough.

Another doctor, Dr. Avril Carter, enters Ward B, which has some very deranged patients. She watches as a man yells out the window of his door. An nurse says he will get the patient some drugs, but Carter says no, the man has to face the psychiatry board in the morning and she doesn't want him drugged. The patient continues to freak out.

Another patient goads the nurse about always following the doctor's orders. The man gives the patient his medication.

In her office, Carter removes an antique radio from a safe. It is playing music, but is not plugged in, in fact the wire is frayed.

Dr. Finch brings Mary, his snake-phobia patient back to her room. When she asks if he thinks she'll be released, he says he believes so, since she was never a threat to anyone but her father, the root of her phobia. After her door is locked, she notices the radio, now on her table.

Finch tells a different nurse his treatment with Mary might be a break-through for other similar patients. He invites the nurse to his office for a drink.

Mary goes to bed and listens to the radio. It tells her the news: thousands of snakes are loose in the institution - especially her ward. Mary gets up and moves her sheet and sees many snakes. She screams, they are coming out of everywhere in her room. She screams again as the radio taunts her. She ends up dying of fright as Dr. Finch and the nurse rush in. As they take her away, the radio goes on to say that Dr. Avril Carter will find a cure for serial killer Craig Eddy, the psychotic from earlier. Carter hears the broadcast.

She goes to Eddy's room and treats him, knowing the curse on the radio will help. He calms as she talks to him, beginning to cry. She holds his head, telling him he is cured.

At Curious Goods, Micki comes in with the mail. They have a postcard from Jack saying he'll be back in a week. There is also an answer to their mailer, telling them about the antique radio. Seems the man who bought it, Joseph Damian, died in the institution. The lawyer who wrote said the man checked himself in with the radio. They decide to investigate the hospital.

At the institute, they ask the nurse about the doctor in charge, Dr. Finch. She thinks he'll be replaced by the up and coming Dr. Carter, who is sort of a super star in the psychiatric field. And Finch has lost some patients, she thinks they were scared to death.

Micki and Ryan meet with Dr. Finch, asking about Joseph Damian, who came in with a radio they would like to buy back. He says he can check the file, but he never met the man. Micki asks if they can look around, but Finch is reluctant. He is curious about the radio. Micki says it could hurt someone. The doctor is still suspicious, and shows them the door.

Outside, Micki and Ryan try to come up with a way to get back inside. Micki wants to call Jack, but Ryan says they need to work it out. He thinks he'll sneak in at night. Micki is unsure.

Later, Craig Eddy is told he is being released to a standard prison. He isn't sure of his sanity, but Dr. Carter says he won't hurt anyone again. He smiles and leaves. Carter is goaded by another patient, Gibson, who wants a turn with her miracle treatment. She doesn't think he can be cured. He threatens her, intimating that he knows something. She walks away.

That night she visits Dr. Finch in his office. He is obviously a bit distraught over Mary's death. Carter asks if he wants to talk about it, he says no. He says he was asked to give her time off to speak at a convention. He jokes that the Nobel Prize could be next. She think he's jealous, but he says just wants some of her luck. She says it is just a business, she takes on the tough cases to get noticed. He mentions the release of Eddy. She says he's cured. Finch doesn't think he could be cured, especially not so quickly. He demands to know what she did. But she doesn't bite, instead taunting him with Mary's death. She says he's lost six now. She leaves.

Micki drops Ryan off and he scales the chain link fence to the institute. As he goes over the top, he hits the electrical current and is shocked and falls, his foot getting caught and saving him from hitting the ground.

Inside, the nurse rushes Ryan on a gurney, telling another nurse to get Dr. Finch.  She finds him with a patient who is afraid of fire. Finch has a match in front of the quaking man and snaps at the nurse. She leaves. He continues his treatment.

Ryan comes to as Dr. Carter examines him. She asks if he knows who he is and what day it is. She says he is lucky. As the attendant unties him, Ryan makes an excuse about pledging a fraternity, so he had to climb the fence. Carter is wary, but tells Ryan she won't call the police.

Outside, Ryan comes upon Micki and tells her about the fence. He seems in good shape for his ordeal. He tells Micki that Dr. Carter might be someone to look into. He also wonders if someone who is not a patient could have the radio. They head back to Curious Goods.

Inside the institute, the radio tells Dr. Carter that she is about to make a breakthrough with John Gibson, the man who goaded her earlier and is highly violent and dangerous, a serial rapist. She waits for the radio to tell her what to do with him.

Micki can't find any information in Jack's files to help. Ryan finds that Dr. Finch has published a lot of papers on fears and phobias, specifically those who end up in violent murders or death. They think they should talk to Carter, since maybe Finch has something to do with the radio, with all his patients dying.

At the institute, Finch continues to work on the patient with the fear of fire. The man is terrified. Carter shows up and Finch sends the patient off. He snaps at Carter. She says she is going to work with Gibson, but he says no. The man is too violent. She asks why he doesn't like her. He said he doesn't trust her or her methods, she's too quick, cures people too easily. She asks again for the records, he says no. She says she will go ahead without his approval. He says he'll get her fired. She snaps back, telling him he is worse, his patients are actually dying at his hand. He steams as she leaves.

Micki, posing as a journalist looking to interview the rising Dr. Carter, sneaks past an open door. She is startled by a patient and then is comforted by Gibson, who says he isn't like the rest of the patients. She is still unnerved.

Carter continues to take notes from the radio on curing Gibson. The radio says to stay tuned, they have news on another violent death. Ryan paces outside, waiting for Micki.

The patient afraid of fire wakes up when he hears Dr. Carter in his room. She says he deserves an award and places the radio in his room. She leaves and it plays music - at first.

The nurse tells Micki to stay away from Gibson. Carter appears and allays Gibson while scolding the nurse about the security on the ward. She takes Micki to her office.

The radio has a news broadcast that the institute is on fire, burning out of control. The patient freaks out, seeing smoke and flames. He begs for help. He screams as he sees his room burning, then he is on fire himself. He tears the safety grate off his window, throws himself out and dies on the ground below, as Ryan watches, helpless.

Later, the man's body is removed by ambulance as Micki approaches Ryan. She says she was barely able to ask a couple of questions of Carter before she was called away. Ryan says another patient is dead. They leave, hoping to come back to finish the "interview" tomorrow.

Finch says the coroner believes the patient was dead before he hit the ground. In the patient's room, Finch asks the nurse about the radio he saw earlier. She says he didn't have one. When he asks if anyone else was there, she remembers Dr. Carter came and offered to help. He rushes out.

Carter listens as the radio tells about the patient’s death. It says he was the first of three deaths that night that will lead to a cure for the rapist Gibson and Carter winning the Nobel Prize. It also tells her how to deal with Gibson. As Finch calls to her, she hides the antique.

Finch knows she did something, knows about the radio. She plays dumb. He starts to put the pieces together about her involvement in his patients' deaths. He wants to know what she is doing. Then he hears the static of the radio and as he bends down to pick it up Carter hits him with a lamp.

She rolls him on a gurney into the room of the patient who is utterly insane. Finch tries to fight, but the crazy man pulls him inside as Carter locks the door. The patient kills the doctor. Across the hall, Gibson has watched this all play out. Carter finds a business card on the floor for Micki at Curious Goods. Gibson then asks her if it feels good to kill.

The phone rings at the store and Micki answers. Someone on the other end pretends to be Finch and says he has the radio. He tells them where to meet and hangs up. We see it is Gibson, being led by Carter. Carter says he has her permission to hurt Micki, that it is for the best. He is confused by her giving him the okay.

Micki and Ryan arrive, and she goes on her own, since the doctor would recognize Ryan. She goes to where "Finch" told her to meet him. It is a dark and abandoned part of the hospital. Ryan dons some rubber gloves to again scale the electric fence.

Micki goes down the creepy hallway, calling out for Dr. Finch. She starts to get wary, no one is around. She hears breathing, but before she can react, Gibson pulls her into a room and throws her onto a mattress. She screams as they struggle. Micki fights the crazed man.

Ryan successfully gets over the fence and goes to find Micki, but the security lights go on so he runs.

Micki continues to fight Gibson, a rough struggle between the two of them. She hits him with a piece of wood and stuns him. Ryan rushes into the ward she is in, hearing her screams. Micki, battered, stumbles away as Gibson slowly comes to. Ryan punches Gibson but Carter appears and hits Ryan over the head, knocking him out. Carter and Gibson leave with an unconscious Ryan as a shocked and freaked Micki tries to get her wits about her. Micki finally rushes out, calling to Ryan. She sees them bring him into the institute and rushes off. 

Carter and Gibson have Ryan tied up next to the radio as it begins to play. Micki slowly makes her way to the building, gathering nerve to go inside.

Carter says Ryan's death has to look like an accident. The radio tells her that she will soon have her success over Gibson's mental issues after the next news broadcast, about another death at 11:55 pm.

Carter plans to electrocute Ryan and use his death to restore Gibson's sanity. She has electrical paddles ready, but the power goes out. They go to investigate. Ryan struggles to free himself. The nurse tells them a breaker is out, but they are working on it, so they go back. Another nurse asks this nurse if she has seen Carter and Micki listens in.

Back in the room, as Carter goes to electrocute Ryan, Micki rushes in and pushes the woman, who stumbles into Gibson, electrocuting him instead. Micki and Ryan try to escape as Carter approaches them with the paddles. But the radio announces her death, since she was unable to give it three deaths to cure Gibson. It tells her their deal is off and as she grabs it in anger, the radio electrocutes her, as well. The room lights up and Micki and Ryan hide themselves. The radio, unharmed, says it will be back with another offer after a musical number. Micki slowly touches it then picks it up. They leave.

At the store, Micki and Ryan, battered and weary, bring the radio down to the basement. Micki asks how long they can keep doing this, that they both almost died. Ryan asks if she wants to stop. She says she knows they can't stop, but when will it get easier? Suddenly, the radio comes on with a breaking story. It has a way to recover cursed antiques harmlessly, if certain conditions are met. Freaked out, Micki tossed the radio to Ryan as the episode ends.

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My thoughts:

A great episode with an interesting antique. By helping Carter cure some of these patients, while some people die for her to do so, are people saved in the future from these insane maniacs now being cured? Hmm...

I like that we get to see Micki and Ryan on their own, with Jack away. Ryan makes a dumb move with the electric fence, but he still wants to try and get this item back themselves, without having to bug Jack for help. I like it.

The scene where the rapist attacks Micki is hard to watch. The performances are gritty and real and Robey definitely gave it her all there. She seems to be in genuine distress at the end. Scary stuff.

Kate Trotter is always great, and she gives Avril not only the hard, take no gruff edge of a woman determined to do whatever it takes to get ahead, but a bit of a soft side, as well. When she is forced (?) to kill Dr. Finch by giving him to the maniac, we see some glimpse of remorse, however short-lived. She is human, even if it is just barely.

One of the best bits of this one is the very end. The antique doing a sort of last ditch effort to avoid eternity in the vault by offering up a way to get other cursed items back, with minimal fuss and muss. Zoinks - that is scary stuff! Not only is it speaking to them, but the curse is definitely aware of Micki and Ryan and what they are doing. Interesting.

Next week: Tails I Live, Heads You Die