Fox has set a December 4, 2019 launch date for the comedy event series, The Moodys (originally titled A Moody Christmas). The network plans to air the holiday-themed series over three nights, with two episodes airing on each of the three nights.
Episodes one and two air on December 4th followed by episodes three and four on December 9th, beginning at 9pm ET/PT. Episodes five and six arrive on December 10th.
The cast is led by four-time Emmy nominee Denis Leary (Rescue Me) and three-time Emmy nominee Elizabeth Perkins (Weeds). Francois Arnaud (Midnight, Texas, The Borgias), Chelsea Frei (Sideswiped), Jay Baruchel (Man Seeking Woman), Maria Gabriela de Faria (Deadly Class), Josh Segarra (Arrow), Kevin Bigley (Sirens), Gerry Dee (Mr. D), Ulka Simone Mohanty (The Dinner Bash), and Megan Park (The Secret Life of the American Teenager) also star in the event series.
Bob Fisher, Rob Greenberg, and Tad Quill wrote and executive produced the comedy. Fisher and Greenberg also directed the holiday series. In addition, Eric Tannenbaum, Kim Tannenbaum, Trent O’Donnell, Phil Lloyd, and Jason Burrows served as executive producers.
The Plot, Courtesy of Fox:
The Moodys follows a tight-knit, but slightly dysfunctional family of five, all of whom gather in their hometown of Chicago for the “perfect” holiday. From break-ups to arrests to sharing one bathroom, each family member is packing his/her own eccentricities and hiding secrets from the others – as if the holidays were all about carols and eggnog!
The family includes SEAN SR. (Leary), his wife, ANN (Perkins), and their three grown children – DAN (Arnaud), the youngest of the siblings and the “creative one”; BRIDGET (Frei), the middle sister and the “overachiever”; and SEAN JR. (Baruchel), the oldest sibling and “screw-up,” still living at home with his parents.
Watch out, citizens of Castle Rock. Annie Wilkies (played by Lizzy Caplan) is coming to town and she’s bringing her own particular brand of crazy with her. Season two of the Hulu series finds the villain of Stephen King’s Misery arriving in Castle Rock, a town where even the most level-headed residents have trouble wrapping their heads around supernatural/disturbing events.
During our interview at the New York Comic Con, series creator Dustin Thomason discussed choosing which Stephen King characters to incorporate in the series and the possibility of season one characters showing up in unexpected ways in the new season.
The second season of the Hulu series will premiere on October 23, 2019.
Can you talk about the idea of integrating family dynamics and the theme of outsiders arriving in town in season two?
Dustin Thomason: “I think that for me and for a lot of Stephen King fans, the reason that Stephen King is Stephen King is because of his character work, not because of his scares. He’s obviously a master of horror and a master of thrills, but at the same time he’s been elevating the genre for 50 years.
I think that’s what all of us who work under the umbrella of King – and I think so many horror writers…great horror writers – now are working under the umbrella is that you lead with character. You try to understand why you should be afraid for the people that you are afraid for first, and then you start putting them in situations that are really scary. I think for me, even thinking about the canon and things as varied as The Body and Shawshank, those are fundamentally emotional stories. They’re not fundamentally scary stories.
I think that’s the magic of Stephen is that he is really a character writer first and I think a horror writer next. And that combination is what has made him Stephen King.
In season one we showed the audience that not everything is normal in Castle Rock. The idea was that I think there could be a season of Castle Rock that had no supernatural element to it, but I haven’t met that season yet. I think that for me, part of what I love about Stephen’s work, too, is that often he’ll start in a story that seems sort of very terrestrial and then it will turn into a very kind of different story. The Stand is kind of that way. It starts as an outbreak novel and then it transitions into something very different.
I think that seems like part of the exciting challenge of Castle Rock is how do you really ground the audience in some really serious human themes at the beginning and hopefully entertain and make them laugh along the way, but then at some point in the season take a turn into a genre element that I hope sort of resonates thematically with the character work we were doing in the beginning.”
Lizzy Caplan in ‘Castle Rock’ season 2 (Photo By: Dana Starbard/Hulu)
Were there any Easter eggs you included in season one that viewers didn’t catch? Maybe some that you never saw mentioned online?
Dustin Thomason: “You what’s amazing is during the release of season one people were so exhaustive in their coverage of Easter eggs that often they would discover Easter eggs that I didn’t know about. Because part of what’s been fun about Castle Rock is that the crew… We shoot in Massachusetts. A lot of the crew are New Englanders who have a deep attachment to Stephen King and so they throw little Stephen King references into everything – sometimes to an extent that in the editing room I will see them and I’ll be like, ‘This seems like a lot of Stephen King Easter eggs!’
There’s some amazing videos online where people have outlined even Easter eggs I didn’t anticipate.”
Speaking of fan reactions, did you incorporate or pay attention to the reactions to season one going into season two?
Dustin Thomason: (Laughing) “You know, I suppose that when you are doing a second season that is fundamentally about a super fan who has a lot of opinions about the work, there must be some sort of subconscious connection. And by the way, that’s why Stephen wrote Misery was for exactly that reason. I think part of my experience of season one and season two is that in season one there were things that people liked, things that people didn’t like about the ending and all those things. I’m always kind of okay with that because I sort of take a, ‘Well, we did our best,’ approach to it and we’ll continue to try and do our best approach.
I think as a fan myself I like certain things more than other things, and certain episodes more than other episodes of TV. Living with that is sort of part of the job, I guess.”
Will anyone from season one show up in season two?
Dustin Thomason: “Part of the original intention was always to plant seeds and in the way that Stephen has characters pop back up in unexpected places, for characters to do exactly that in Castle Rock. Now, again, some people saw the very, very end of season one with Jackie and the post-credits tag and go, ‘Oh, they’re going right to the Overlook.’ Obviously, we’re not going right to the Overlook. But the question is when, the question is how, the question is what unexpected way will you see her again?
Obviously, everybody wants to know if we’ll ever see Bill (Skarsgard) again. I think that part of what I will say is that we always had the intention of circling back, just not in the way that people necessarily expect.”
How far out do you have a grand plan for the series?
Dustin Thomason: “To me, there’s sort of two ends of the spectrum of that question. And honestly, I think Stephen would be okay with me saying this. There’s the J.K. Rowling end of the spectrum and then there’s the Stephen end of the spectrum. I would say that Castle Rock falls somewhere in the middle of those two, which is to say it’s not like I know, honestly, what the last shot of season eight of Castle Rock is. I don’t. But I know what the plan is and I know what we are seeing about the universe. I know how some of these characters fit into the tapestry of that universe and at a multi-season level where we’re going next.”
When you’re working with these iconic characters from Stephen King, are there ever any you have to push off to the next season that you can’t incorporate into the current season?
Dustin Thomason: “I mean, absolutely. Also, the truth is that because Stephen’s universe has been so widely adapted, it’s not like I can just take every character I want, either. Sometimes there’s that question too.
I think the biggest thing for us though, because we do have so many of the iconic characters and stories, was how do we narrow down which one we’re going to do when? That really is a big, big question for us that is a constant struggle. Do we introduce this character in a small way in this season or do we wait and build an entire season around them? That is a good question in thinking about how we approach each of them.”
A little over a month out from the series’ third season premiere Netflix has finally released a full trailer for the much-anticipated new season of The Crown. Season three finds Oscar winner Olivia Colman (The Favourite) taking over the lead role played by Claire Foy in seasons one and two.
In addition to Olivia Colman as Queen Elizabeth II, the cast includes Golden Globe nominee Tobias Menzies (Outlander) as Prince Phillip and two-time Academy Award nominee and Emmy winner Helena Bonham Carter (The King’s Speech, The Wings of the Dove) as Princess Margaret. Ben Daniels (The Exorcist) stars as Lord Snowdon, Josh O’Connor (The Durrells) is Prince Charles, Erin Doherty (Les Misérables) plays Princess Anne, Marion Bailey (Britannia) is The Queen Mother, Charles Dance is Lord Mountbatten, and Jason Watkins (Hold the Sunset) is Prime Minister Harold Wilson.
Season three of the critically acclaimed biographical drama was written by two-time Academy Award nominee Peter Morgan (Frost/Nixon, The Queen).
Season two of the award-winning series starred Claire Foy as Queen Elizabeth II, Matt Smith as Prince Phillip, John Lithgow as Sir Winston Churchill, Victoria Hamilton as the Queen Mother, Jared Harris as King George VI, Vanessa Kirby as Princess Margaret, and Dame Eileen Atkins as Queen Mary.
Netflix has set a November 17, 2019 premiere date for the third season of the critically acclaimed series.
The Plot:
The Crown tells the inside story of two of the most famous addresses in the world — Buckingham Palace and 10 Downing Street – and the intrigues, love lives and machinations behind the great events that shaped the second half of the 20th century. Two houses, two courts, one Crown.
The third season of The Crown sees a new guard sweep into Downing Street, as Queen Elizabeth (Olivia Colman) and her family struggle to meet the challenges of a rapidly changing Britain. From cold-war paranoia, through to the jet-set and the space age – the exuberance of the 1960s and the long hangover of the 1970s – Elizabeth and the Royals must adapt to a new, more liberated, but also more turbulent world.
It’s Halloween and there’s a real-life monster on the loose in CBS’s Magnum P.I. season two episode five. Episode five was directed by Bryan Spicer from a script by Gene Hong and Tera Tolentino and will air on Friday, October 25, 2019 at 9pm ET/PT.
The episode’s guest cast includes Bobby Lee, Hayden Szeto, Dan Southworth, Shane Miyashiro, Zane Rawlins, Raiden Barrientos, Eve Brenner, Alexa Luczak, Ryder Tadaki, and Kordell Kekoa.
Jay Hernandez stars as Thomas Magnum, Perdita Weeks plays Juliet Higgins, and Zachary Knighton is Orville “Rick” Wright. Stephen Hill is Theodore “TC” Calvin, Tim Kang is Det. Gordon Katsumoto, and Amy Hill plays Kumu. Brooke Lyons appears in a recurring role as Abby Miller.
“Make It ‘Til Dawn” Plot – On Halloween, Magnum and Jin (guest star Bobby Lee) search for a skip-tracer at a Halloween bash, just as Katsumoto tracks an escaped killer who is headed to that same party. Also, Higgins and Rick must spend the night at an allegedly haunted house in order to debunk the notion, and TC and Kumu protect a sacred Hawaiian burial ground.
The Series Description, Courtesy of CBS:
“Magnum P.I. is a modern take on the classic series centering on Thomas Magnum, a decorated former Navy SEAL who, upon returning home from Afghanistan, repurposes his military skills to become a private investigator. A charming rogue, an American hero and a die-hard Detroit Tigers fan, Magnum lives in a guest cottage on Robin’s Nest, the luxurious estate where he works as a security consultant to supplement his P.I. business.
The “majordomo” of the property is Juliet Higgins, a beautiful and commanding disavowed MI:6 agent whose second job is to keep Magnum in line, with the help of her two Dobermans. When Magnum needs back-up on a job, he turns to his trusted buddies and fellow POW survivors, Theodore “TC” Calvin, a former Marine chopper pilot who runs Island Hoppers, a helicopter tour business, and Orville “Rick” Wright, a former Marine door-gunner-turned-impresario of Oahu’s coolest nightclub and the most connected man on the island.
Suspicious of Magnum’s casual attitude and presence at his crime scenes, Detective Gordon Katsumoto finds that he and Magnum are more alike than either of them care to admit. One of Magnum’s biggest supporters is Teuila “Kumu” Tuileta, the unofficial “House Mom” and cultural curator of Robin’s Nest. With keys to a vintage Ferrari in one hand, aviator sunglasses in the other, and an Old Düsseldorf longneck chilling in the fridge, Thomas Magnum is back on the case!”
Season 10 of CBS’s action drama Hawaii Five-0 continues with episode five directed by Yangzom Brauen and written by Rob Hanning and Zoe Robyn. Episode 10’s titled “He ‘oi‘o kuhihewa; he kākā ola i ‘ike ‘ia e ka makaulā” which is Hawaiian for “Don’t blame ghosts and spirits for one’s troubles; a human is responsible.”
Episode 10 airs on October 25, 2019 at 8pm ET/PT.
Guest stars include Lori Pelenise Tuisano, Jonny Berryman, Lisa Kaminir, Iris Wilhelm-Norseth, Derek Mears, Keely Nakama, and Alex Kingi. Blossom Lam Hoffman, Keli’I Aoyagi, Pono Lundell, Hayley Walters, Gianna-Mei Faitau-Pagaduan, Ernest Bailey, Tavita Woodward, and Mileka Lincoln also guest star in episode 10.
Alex O’Loughlin leads the cast as Steve McGarrett. Scott Caan plays Danny “Danno” Williams, Ian Anthony Dale is Adam Noshimuri, Meaghan Rath is Tani Rey, and Jorge Garcia plays Jerry Ortega. Beulah Koale stars as Junior Reigns, Chi McBride is Captain Lou Grover, Katrina Law is Quinn Liu, Taylor Wily plays Kamekona, Dennis Chun is Sgt. Duke Lukela, and Kimee Balmilero plays Dr. Noelani Cunha.
“He ‘oi‘o kuhihewa; he kākā ola i ‘ike ‘ia e ka makaulā” Plot – It’s Halloween and Five-0 investigates a home invasion turned deadly after a dangerous “monster” escapes from the basement. Also, Max (Masi Oka) returns to Oahu with a very special guest.
The Series Description, Courtesy of CBS:
“Hawaii Five-O is a contemporary take on the classic series about an elite federalized task force whose mission is to wipe out the crime that washes up on the islands’ sun-drenched beaches. Detective Steve McGarrett, a decorated Naval officer turned cop, returned to Oahu after Hawaii’s former governor persuaded him to head up the new team: his rules, no red tape and full blanket authority to hunt down the biggest “game” in town.
Joining McGarrett are Detective Danny “Danno” Williams, a relocated ex-New Jersey cop who is committed to keeping the islands safe for his children; Captain Lou Grover, who formerly headed Hawaii’s SWAT unit; Jerry Ortega, the islands’ local conspiracy theorist; Tani Rey, a bold, recent police academy graduate; Junior Reigns, a former SEAL who comes to McGarrett looking for a job, Adam Noshimuri, a friend with old ties to a deadly crime family and Quinn Liu, a former Staff Sergeant with Army CID who was recently demoted for insubordination.
Helping them is Kamekona, a local entrepreneur who has his pulse on the Island; Sgt. Duke Lukela, a trusted member of the HPD; and medical examiner Dr. Noelani Cunha. The state’s brash Five-0 unit, who may spar and jest among themselves, remain determined to eliminate the seedy elements from the 50th state.”
Season two of Hulu’s original horror series Castle Rock explores the backstory of one of Stephen King’s most iconic villains: Annie Wilkes. Kathy Bates won an Oscar for portraying the obsessed fan in the 1990 film adaptation of King’s Misery. Lizzy Caplan takes on a younger version of the character in season two of Castle Rock, debuting on October 23, 2019.
Caplan and her onscreen daughter Elsie Fisher sat down for interviews at the 2019 New York Comic Con. Caplan and Fisher dived into their characters, Stephen King’s Misery, and what happens when Annie Wilkes makes a stop in Castle Rock.
What can tell us about your characters in general in season two?
Lizzy Caplan: “Annie Wilkes is one of Stephen King’s better-known villains played, of course, by the iconic queen Kathy Bates who nailed it. For me, I was a huge fan of the movie well before this came along. But what I personally love so much about that character is that she isn’t just this evil woman. She’s kind of fun and charming and strange and funny and child-like and warm. She has a good bedside manner. She’s many, many things. I actually think that’s what makes her the scariest of villains.”
Elsie Fisher: “Yeah, and I’m her daughter. I play Joy Wilkes, her daughter. I think Joy grew up with Annie and is loved by her very deeply. Castle Rock does something to people, for sure. But, also, Joy’s going through puberty and she’s a teenager. She’s trying to discover who she is. I don’t think Annie likes letting things go.”
Lizzy Caplan: “Literally and figuratively!”
You don’t view her as evil though, right?
Lizzy Caplan: “No.”
Elsie Fisher: “I don’t either.”
Lizzy Caplan: “I mean, I really don’t think that’s my job to judge her as this kind of person. It’s my job to figure out why she thinks the decisions that she makes are the right decisions and why she is, in her own mind, the hero or the only moral person in the room.”
Elsie Fisher: “I’m in the middle of re-reading Misery right now and I don’t know. Knowing Castle Rock and viewing her through a lens of sympathy, it’s like she’s really not like… She does awful things but she’s not a bad person.”
Lizzy Caplan: (Laughing) “Munchausen or Stockholm.”
Elsie Fisher and Lizzy Caplan in ‘Castle Rock’ season 2 (Photo by: Dana Starbard/Hulu)
Did you rewatch Kathy Bates’ performance?
Lizzy Caplan: “I did. I did. It’s strange. I think I had my first moment of, ‘Oh god, maybe I should have done something different,’ when we were shooting episode 10. It was too late.”
Elsie Fisher: “Slightly.”
Lizzy Caplan: “Yeah. I was a fan of the first season of the show and a massive Misery fan. I feel like, obviously, I’m doing something that’s my own interpretation of a character that is seared into all of our brains by Kathy Bates. I think getting too far away from that I would have been bummed as a viewer. I want this Annie to feel like she could potentially one day become that Annie.”
Can you talk about how sometimes when Annie’s trying to protect the people she loves, she makes bad decisions?
Lizzy Caplan: “Yeah, that’s pretty much Annie’s driving force. Her intentions are on paper kind of good. She wants to protect her daughter. It’s just how she goes about doing it and what she perceives as a threat is not always what others might perceive as a threat.”
And Joy also tries to protect her mom.
Elsie Fisher: “Yeah. I think when you want to protect someone you love, you’re often put into situations that could be very… Like, there is no right answer so you just have to do whatever your instincts tell you to do. But, I mean, hopefully you can walk away from bad situations and learn love and grow from it.”
What do you find in the horror genre that you can’t really do anywhere else?
Lizzy Caplan: “That’s a good question. I feel like horror and period pieces are the two genres that can sneak in really current social commentary and dress it up as something else so you get your message through. Like, Get Out, Us…there’s all of these examples of this. And so, I think it’s really special in that way.
I have to admit until I met my husband I kind of dismissed the genre. He schooled me and now I’m a massive fan. I really get it. I think it’s kind of the most exciting genre right now.”
Elsie Fisher: “I have to agree. The genre is very versatile. You can do so much with it.”
Lizzy Caplan: “It’s like you have your fun sort of slasher ones which aren’t necessarily saying anything, but then movies like Hereditary you walk out and if you really think about it it’s like inherited trauma… The Babadook, like mental illness. It’s the smartest way to say something.”
Elsie Fisher: “And invoke an emotional reaction.”
Lizzy Caplan: “Amen.”
Do you have a favorite moment in season two between the two of you that you’re really proud of as actors?
Elsie Fisher: “I have a lot of favorites.”
Lizzy Caplan: “I do, too.”
Elsie Fisher: “The finale.”
Lizzy Caplan: “Yeah. We were really in it for the finale, big time. That, and also the first day of shooting which was us singing together in the car. That was really fun.”
Elsie Fisher: “I know. That was a great way to start.”
Lizzy Caplan: “It really was. We were strangers and you were only 11.”
Elsie Fisher: (Laughing) “And now I’m 12.”
It doesn’t seem like you bonded at all.
Lizzy Caplan: (Rolling her eyes) “No. Child actors, am I right?”
How did you develop that mother and daughter bond?
Lizzy Caplan: “We just got really lucky. We genuinely really dig each other. You never know. Whether it’s a mother/daughter relationship or you have to have a romantic relationship, you don’t know if you’re going to vibe or not.”
Will we get the backstory about Annie’s husband?
Lizzy Caplan: “Oh, you mean the husband that they talk about in Misery? We don’t talk about that. That happens I guess somewhere between this and then. I don’t know who would marry her.”
Annie is so set in her ways. How does she react to the crazy events in town?
Lizzy Caplan: “I think this is one of the more complicated things. If I were to think of creating a show like this, I would give up after my first brainstorming session because it seems really complicated to try to have an unreliable narrator/protagonist like Annie who’s struggling with what is real and what isn’t on her best day and then you put her in a situation where actually insane stuff happens that a person who’s totally sound of mind would also be questioning their sanity. There’s so many layers to that and that’s what our season’s kind of doing, hopefully well.”
Is that inching her toward the Kathy Bates version of Annie?
Lizzy Caplan: “Well, you see in the trailer that she is medicating herself. I’m speculating but I think it’s safe to say that Kathy Bates’ Annie – the Misery Annie – is no longer doing that.”
Do we find out why she developed this fascination for Paul Sheldon and Misery Chastain?
Lizzy Caplan: (Smiling) “Maybe.”
How much did you know about your characters’ journeys before you took the roles? Did they tell you everything or did you learn it as you were going through the season?
Elsie Fisher: “I had a phone call with Dustin (Thomason) before I took the role. He kind of went over the over-arching story, although there were many surprises along the way for sure. But, like, I don’t know. I never had a clear path in mind for Joy for where she was going to go and what happened to her along the way. It was just figuring it out per episode and taking it scene by scene.”
Lizzy Caplan: “I knew how the first handful of episodes were going to go and kind of the main goal of Annie Wilkes. As far as specifics, it’s a leap of faith to do a television show. It’s really rare to get all of your scripts before the end.”
Would you prefer to know more or do you like being surprised?
Lizzy Caplan: “I do think about having the luxury of having all 10 scripts in front of you and how kind of wonderful that would be.”
Elsie Fisher: “You could do more intentional stuff.”
Lizzy Caplan: “Totally. Because the way it’s usually done, we maybe know the first four or five episodes and then you have no idea what’s coming. I think it’s exciting. It’s more exciting to read those scripts, but I think it’s inevitable to think, ‘Oh, if I could just go back to this scene…’ But, it’s just the nature of TV.
I’ve done a lot of TV shows now and kind of used to it. You get that one moment when you kind of feel like a viewer of the show when you get your first new script and get to see where your character’s going.”
The CW’s Legacies season two episode two found Hope reintroducing herself to Landon and Alaric, neither of whom remembered they’d ever met before. However, by the end of the episode an emotional Hope let Alaric in on the truth. And episode three’s teaser and plot description hint at the return of the attraction between Hope and Landon.
Season two episode three was directed by Michael Allowitz from a script by Brett Matthews and Adam Higgs. “You Remind Me of Someone I Used to Know” will air on October 24, 2019.
Legacies stars Danielle Rose Russell as Hope Mikaelson, Jenny Boyd as Lizzie Saltzman, Kaylee Bryant as Josie Saltzman, and Quincy Fouse as MG. Aria Shahghasemi is Landon Kirby, Peyton Alex Smith is Rafael Waithe, and Matt Davis is Alaric Saltzman.
“You Remind Me of Someone I Used to Know” Plot – THE SALVATORE SCHOOL VS MYSTIC FALLS HIGH — As the Salvatore School prepares for its annual football game against Mystic Falls High, the latest monster to arrive in Mystic Falls sets its eyes on one of the students. Landon (Shahghasemi) and Josie’s (Bryant) relationship is put to the test when a player from the opposing team catches his eye.
Elsewhere, Lizzie (Boyd) enlists MG’s (Fouse) help learning more about Sebastian (guest star Thomas Doherty), and Alaric (Davis) goes head to head with Professor Vardemus (guest star Alexis Denisof).
The Season 2 Plot:
Last season, viewers were thrilled to tap into a whole new passion for The Vampire Diaries / The Originals universe, when the third installment in the franchise launched with Legacies. Set in the Salvatore Boarding School for the Young and Gifted, Legacies told the story of the next generation of supernatural beings as they learn what it means to be special in a world that may never understand. Typically a school for vampires like MG (Fouse), werewolves like Rafael (Smith) and witches like twins Lizzie (Boyd) and Josie Saltzman (Bryant), the kids and their beloved headmaster Dr. Alaric Saltzman (Davis) were stunned to come face to face with a series of monster and creatures they had only ever heard of in myth and lore. A dragon. A gargoyle. The Headless Horseman.
The evil behind the real-life resurrection of these formerly fictional beings proved to have a horrifying connection to the school’s newest student, Landon Kirby (Shahghasemi). This led his first and only love, Hope Mikaelson (Russell), the school’s shining star, to sacrifice her place at the school — and in the world — to protect Landon from a terrible fate.
Season two will show us a world without Hope Mikaelson and all the chaos that goes along with it. All the while, Hope will be trying to find her way back to the school she has learned to call home and the friends she has learned to love like family. It will be filled with new monsters and more romantic and emotional surprises than ever.
In a rare occasion for The CW’s Supernatural, an episode’s end carried over exactly to the beginning of the next as Season 15 episode two – “Raising Hell” – was a continuation from the premiere. We picked up where we left off as Sam (Jared Padalecki) and Castiel (Misha Collins) discuss how they’re supposed to tackle the issue of keeping all of the townsfolk in Harlan, Kansas in one place as the people begin getting restless.
They’re unable to avoid letting slip a few people, and these guys don’t get a particularly pretty end as the ghosts on the other side of the barrier possess them to use them as hostages to get the heroes to put off the warding around the town. Oh, and the leader of the ghosts is Francis Tumblety – you might know him as Jack the Ripper. However, easily the most uncomfortable point of the episode arrived in the form of Rowena (Ruth Connell) and the returning Arthur Ketch (David Haydn-Jones), both of whom have a strange sexually-charged attraction the moment they set eyes on each other.
Rowena’s been summoned to make a soul bomb, much like the one she’d made in Season 11, in order to trap the ghosts into it. Ketch proves his usefulness by bringing in guns that use iron flakes that don’t harm the possessed victim.
We then get our customary ‘Dean Winchester is a total jerk’ moment when Castiel approaches him to apologize for not warning them about Jack, which eventually led to Mary’s death and over to now where they stood. However, Dean (Jensen Ackles) blows off Castiel’s apologies by saying he doesn’t care about him, or anything for that matter, because Chuck made everything out to be immaterial; whatever he made was a lie. Castiel argues the relationship they had was never a lie, but Dean ditches him to sulk some more. He then accompanies Ketch to investigate the disappearance of two hunters, when our very own former prophet Kevin Tran (Osric Chau) shows up to save Dean and Ketch from ghosts.
It turns out Chuck’s been a lying jerk longer than we thought, and he’d never sent Kevin to Heaven way back in Season 11 as we’d thought; instead, Kevin only just escaped Hell. Dean’s plan of using Kevin to stall the other ghosts’ plan doesn’t work, so he and Sam have to confront Jack the Ripper’s ghost to save Kevin from being devoured by him. While they originally believe their plan to ambush the ghosts with Rowena’s soul bomb worked, it turns out Ketch had been possessed this whole time. Dean thinks fast and shoots him with iron bullets, allowing Rowena to capture all the ghosts.
Still, this was far from a victory as Ketch is sent to the hospital, and there are millions of souls that keep coming out and will eventually get past the warding. Plus, poor Kevin is now trapped seemingly forever because Belphagor (Alexander Calvert) points out that any soul that has been to Hell isn’t allowed in Heaven (Bobby and John were exceptions because God liked the Winchesters back then), so Kevin decides to walk the Earth because the alternative is to go back to Hell.
Kevin bids the Winchesters farewell, filled with heartfelt sentiment and even an “I love you” before he fades away – we might have seen the last of this prophet on the show, who knows? In the meantime, Sam still holds some optimism while Dean wonders how they’re supposed to keep all the other souls at bay.
Over on the B-story, we have the return of Amara (Emily Swallow) who’s enjoying Reno way too much, before Chuck pays her a visit. It’s revealed that the shot Sam took on Chuck really did work, and Chuck isn’t doing well at all. He needs his big sister’s help, but Amara is far from welcoming. It’s also revealed that Chuck and Amara’s retreat didn’t have the positive result we’d thought, and Amara has come to realize Chuck will always be the narcissistic jerk who had locked her away. So, she decides not to heal him and abandons Chuck to be left alone, now with his powers significantly diminished. Finally, it appears as if Chuck and Sam have some sort of a connection now, as both of them feel the pain in the wound at the same time. If the past is any indication, this won’t lead to anything good for Sam in the long run.
The CW’s Riverdale season four episode two found Veronica headlining an “All That Jazz” number, Betty supporting Jughead’s decision to leave Riverdale High for prep school, Cheryl butting heads with the new principal, and Archie being a supportive best friend to pretty much everybody. Up next, season four episode three titled “Dog Day Afternoon.” Episode three was directed by Greg Smith from a script by Ace Hasan and Greg Murray and will air October 23, 2019.
The season four cast is led by KJ Apa as Archie Andrews, Lili Reinhart as Betty Cooper, Camila Mendes as Veronica Lodge, and Cole Sprouse as Jughead Jones. Madelaine Petsch is Cheryl Blossom, Marisol Nichols is Hermione Lodge, Mӓdchen Amick is Alice Cooper, Ashleigh Murray is Josie McCoy, Casey Cott is Kevin Keller, Mark Consuelos is Hiram Lodge, Skeet Ulrich is FP Jones, Charles Melton is Reggie Mantle, and Vanessa Morgan plays Toni Topaz.
The “Chapter Sixty: Dog Day Afternoon” Plot – BETTY AND CHARLES CONFRONT EDGAR EVERNEVER — Things take a dangerous turn when Betty (Reinhart) and Charles (guest star Wyatt Nash) track down Edgar (guest star Chad Michael Murray) and his Farmies. Archie (Apa) and Veronica (Mendes) hold a car wash fundraiser at Pop’s to raise money for the community center. Elsewhere, Jughead’s (Sprouse) first day at Stonewall Prep doesn’t go as planned. Lastly, Cheryl (Petsch) learns a dark family secret from Nana Rose.
The newest addition to Fox’s Animation Domination lineup has scored a second season order. Bless the Harts, created by Emmy winner Emily Spivey (Saturday Night Live), picked up a season two renewal after airing just three episodes.
New episodes of season one currently air on Sundays at 8:30pm ET/PT between The Simpsons and Bob’s Burgers. The new series is averaging 3.3 million, according to Fox.
The voice cast of season one includes Kristen Wiig, Maya Rudolph, Jillian Bell, Ike Barinholtz, and Kumail Nanjiani. Creator/writer Emily Spivey executive produces with Oscar winners Phil Lord and Christopher Miller (Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse). Wiig, Seth Cohen, and Andy Bobrow also executive produce, and Bobrow serves as a co-showrunner with Spivey.
“Bless the Harts is an incredibly sharp, yet sweet, series that complements the FOX Animation Domination block perfectly,” said Michael Thorn, President, Entertainment, FOX Entertainment. “It simply doesn’t get much better than having a comedy anchored by talent like Kristen Wiig, Maya Rudolph, Ike Barinholtz, Jillian Bell and Kumail Nanjiani. We want to thank creator and executive producer Emily Spivey, whose unique voice and personal experience brought this family to life, as well as executive producers Phil Lord and Chris Miller, and our partners at 20th Century Fox Television. We are thrilled to watch the Hart family experience more adventures, mishaps and boxed wine for another amazing season.”
The Season 1 Plot:
“In the series, Jenny Hart (Wiig) is a single mother supporting her family working as a waitress in the small town of Greenpoint, NC. While Jenny’s the head of her family, she’s often at odds with, or scheming with, her lottery scratcher-obsessed mother, Betty (Rudolph), and her witty, creative daughter, Violet (Bell).
Jenny’s doting, eternal optimist boyfriend of 10 years, Wayne Edwards (Barinholtz), is the love of her life and a surrogate father to Violet. He’s a charming dreamer who may never hit the big time, but he’s not going to give up the fight. Jenny’s even got a bit of divine power in her corner, as Jesus (Nanjiani) regularly appears to her while she waits tables at neighborhood restaurant The Last Supper. In the end, the Harts may not have much, but they may just have everything they need.”
