ABC’s The Good Doctor season two episode 13 comes from director Brian Shin and was written by David Straiton. Titled “Xin,” episode 13 will air on Monday, January 28, 2019 at 10pm ET/PT.
Season two episode 13 will feature guest stars Jennifer Birmingham Lee as Mia Wuellner, Vered Blonstein as Lana Moore, Alex Plank as Javier Maldonado, Emily Kuroda as Sunny Lee, Sheena Chou as Teresa Moon, and Vedette Lim as Grace Lee.
The series’ season two cast is led by Freddie Highmore as Dr. Shaun Murphy and includes Antonia Thomas as Dr. Claire Browne, Nicholas Gonzalez as Dr. Neil Melendez, Hill Harper as Dr. Marcus Andrews, Richard Schiff as Dr. Aaron Glassman, and Tamlyn Tomita as Allegra Aoki. Christina Chang is Dr. Audrey Lim, Fiona Gubelmann is Dr. Morgan Reznick, Will Yun Lee is Dr. Alex Park, and Paige Spara plays Lea.
The “Xin” Plot – Dr. Shaun Murphy, Dr. Morgan Reznick and Dr. Audrey Lim treat a woman with autism and a delicate brain condition while navigating the complicated relationship she has with her roommate, who is also on the spectrum. Meanwhile, Lea and Shaun are still figuring out their friendship and roommate status.
The Good Doctor Season 2 Plot:
Dr. Shaun Murphy, a young surgeon with autism and savant syndrome, relocated to San Jose, California, to join the prestigious St. Bonaventure Hospital’s surgical unit. Alone in the world and unable to personally connect with those around him, his only advocate, Dr. Aaron Glassman, challenged the skepticism and prejudices of the hospital’s board and staff by bringing him in to join the team. Shaun’s world has begun to expand as he continues to work harder than he ever has before, navigating his new environment and relationships to prove to his colleagues that his extraordinary medical gifts will save lives.
Hill Harper, Nicholas Gonzalez and Christina Chang in ‘The Good Doctor’ Season 2 Episode 13 (ABC/David Bukach)Fiona Gubelmann, Alex Plank, and Vered Blonstein in season 2 episode 13 (ABC/David Bukach)Christina Chang, Nicholas Gonzalez and Vedette Lim in season 2 episode 13 (ABC/David Bukach)Vedette Lim and Sheena Chou in ‘The Good Doctor’ season 2 episode 13 (ABC/Jack Rowand)Antonia Thomas and Will Yun Lee in season 2 episode 13 (ABC/Jack Rowand)
John Travolta, Bruce Willis, Melissa McCarthy, and even Donald Trump made the list of nominees for the 2019 Razzie Awards. Razzie voters had the difficult task of narrowing down the worst of 2018’s films and performances to five nominees in each category, selecting Gotti, The Happytime Murders, Holmes & Watson, Robin Hood, and Winchester to compete for the dishonor of being named 2018’s Worst Picture.
The annual Razzie Awards always take place the evening prior to the Academy Awards. This year’s no exception as the 39th Annual Razzie Awards will be held on February 23, 2019, with the Oscars following on February 24th. Unlike the Oscars, it’s unlikely any winners will put in an appearance to pick up their trophy valued at less than $5.00. Most actors don’t acknowledge their wins, however Sandra Bullock, Halle Berry, and Tom Green have all demonstrated they have a sense of humor by attending the awards ceremony. Bullock even brought DVD copies of her “winning” film, All About Steve, to pass out to attendees.
Razzie Awards Nominees:
Worst Picture
Gotti
The Happytime Murders
Holmes & Watson
Robin Hood
Winchester
Worst Actress
Jennifer Garner / Peppermint
Amber Heard / London Fields
Melissa McCarthy / The Happytime Murders and Life of the Party
Helen Mirren / Winchester
Amanda Seyfried / The Clapper
Worst Actor
Johnny Depp (Voice Only) / Sherlock Gnomes
Will Ferrell / Holmes & Watson
John Travolta / Gotti
Donald J. Trump (As Himself) / Death of a Nation and Fahrenheit 11/9
Bruce Willis / Death Wish
Worst Supporting Actor
Jamie Foxx / Robin Hood
Ludacris (Voice Only) / Show Dogs
Joel McHale / The Happytime Murders
John C. Reilly / Holmes & Watson
Justice Smith / Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom
Worst Supporting Actress
Kellyanne Conway (As Herself) / Fahrenheit 11/9
Marcia Gay Harden / Fifty Shades Freed
Kelly Preston / Gotti
Jaz Sinclair / Slender Man
Melania Trump (As Herself) / Fahrenheit 11/9
Worst Screen Combo
Any Two Actors or Puppets (Especially in Those Creepy Sex Scenes) / The Happytime Murders
Johnny Depp & His Fast-Fading Film Career (He’s doing voices for cartoons, fer kripesakes!) / Sherlock Gnomes
Will Ferrell & John C. Reilly (Trashing Two of Literature’s Most Beloved Characters) / Holmes & Watson
Kelly Preston & John Travolta (Getting BATTLEFIELD EARTH type Reviews!) / Gotti
Donald J. Trump & His Self Perpetuating Pettiness / Death of a Nation & Fahrenheit 11/9
Worst Remake, Rip-Off or Sequel
Death of a Nation (remake of Hillary’s America…)
Death Wish
Holmes & Watson
The Meg (rip-off of Jaws)
Robin Hood
Worst Director
Etan Cohen / Holmes & Watson
Kevin Connolly / Gotti
James Foley / Fifty Shades Freed
Brian Henson / The Happytime Murders
The Spierig Brothers (Michael and Peter) / Winchester
Worst Screenplay
Death of a Nation, Written by Dinesh D’Souza & Bruce Schooley
Fifty Shades Freed, Screenplay by Niall Leonard, from the Novel by E.L. James
Gotti, Screenplay by Leo Rossi and Lem Dobbs
The Happytime Murders, Screenplay by Todd Berger, Story by Berger and Dee Austin Robinson
Winchester, Written by Tom Vaughan and The Spierig Brothers
The CW’s season 14 of Supernatural continues on January 24, 2019 with an episode titled “Damaged Goods.” Season 14 episode 11 was directed by Phil Sgriccia from a script by Davy Perez.
The season 14 cast includes Jensen Ackles as Dean Winchester, Jared Padalecki as Sam Winchester, Misha Collins as Castiel, Alexander Calvert as Jack, and Samantha Smith as Mary Winchester. Mark Pellegrino is Nick, Jim Beaver plays Bobby Singer, and Danneel Ackles is Anael. The show’s executive producers include Robert Singer, Andrew Dabb, Phil Sgriccia, Jeremy Carver, Eugenie Ross-Leming, and Brad Buckner.
The “Damaged Goods” Plot – HOW DID WE GET HERE? – Dean (Ackles) spends some bonding time with Mary (Smith) and Donna (Briana Buckmaster). Nick (Pellegrino) finally finds the answer he has been searching for. Sam (Padalecki) is left to make an unimaginable choice.
Sam and Dean have matched wits with monsters, demons, Heaven and Hell. But in the show’s thirteenth season, the Winchesters were thrown into a terrifying alternative universe–an apocalyptic world where they were never born, all while training Jack, the son of Lucifer, and trying to save their mother. The final battle with Lucifer and Archangel Michael (Christian Keyes) could alter the lives of The Winchesters forever, and creates a new threat for Sam and Dean.
In the show’s thirteen season, the Winchester brothers started with our heroes losing everything; the Angel Castiel dead by Lucifer’s hand, the birth of Lucifer’s offspring Jack and their mother that they just got now trapped to an alternate dimension. Reeling from their losses, Sam and Dean try to adjust to the new normal, with a Nephilim (Jack) now in tow. But they’re not quite prepared for the powers this half human, half angel exhibit. And, due to his feelings of guilt over Mary lost in a different universe, Jack takes it on himself to find Mary and bring her back, knocking the Winchesters and himself across the universes.
The Winchesters ultimately fight Lucifer and get their mother back – with a surprising ally: Gabriel (Richard Speight Jr.)! With the help of Gabriel and the promise of reuniting Lucifer with his son, the Winchesters and the angels devise a plan to return to the Apocalypse world, save Mary and Jack, and prevent the evil archangel Michael from breaching the gap between universes. But Lucifer isn’t one to be trusted, but with no choice the Winchesters have to accept one of the most powerful beings to take on their greatest enemy… potentially dooming themselves in the process.
Season two episode 13 of CBS’s popular action drama SEAL Team is set to air on Wednesday, January 23, 2019 at 9pm ET/PT. The episode titled “Time to Shine” was directed by Christopher Chulack from a script by John Glenn, Spencer Hudnut, and Mark Semos.
Season two episode 13 guest stars include Derek Mio as Takahashi, Peter Macon as Master Chief Wilke, Edward Kerr as Captain Edwards, and Michael McGrady as C.O. Harrington. Adam Gibson, Brandon Morales, and Sal Lucio also guest star in “Time to Shine.”
The SEAL Team cast is led by David Boreanaz as Jason Hayes. Max Thieriot is Clay Spenser, Neil Brown Jr is Ray Perry, and AJ Buckley is Sonny Quinn. Toni Trucks plays Lisa Davis, Jessica Paré is Mandy Ellis, and Judd Lormand is Lieutenant Commander Eric Blackburn. Tyler Grey plays Trent in a recurring guest star role.
The “Time to Shine” Plot – Bravo Team desperately works to save Sonny from a life-threatening situation, after he becomes trapped in a submarine torpedo tube during a clandestine mission off the coast of North Korea.
The SEAL Team Plot:
SEAL Team is a military drama that follows the professional and personal lives of the most elite unit of Navy SEALs as they train, plan and execute the most dangerous, high-stakes missions our country can ask of them. Jason Hayes is the respected, intense leader of the Tier One team whose home life has suffered as a result of his extensive warrior’s existence. His team includes his trusted confidant, Ray Perry, the longest-tenured operator with whom Jason shares an ingrained shorthand; Sonny Quinn, an exceptional, loyal soldier with a checkered past who still combats self-destructive tendencies; and Clay Spenser, a young, multilingual, second-generation SEAL with insatiable drive and dedication.
Vital to the team’s success are troop commander Lt. Cdr. Eric Blackburn, who serves as a leader and confidant both on and off the battlefield; CIA analyst Mandy Ellis, who has sacrificed everything in her drive to root out evil and take down terrorists; and Lisa Davis, a no-nonsense, take-charge logistics officer and unofficial den mother responsible for outfitting the team with the necessary gear for each mission. Deployed on clandestine missions worldwide at a moment’s notice, and knowing the toll it takes on them and their families, this tight-knit SEAL team displays unwavering patriotism and fearless dedication even in the face of overwhelming odds.
Freeform’s Siren stars Eline Powell (‘Ryn’), Alex Roe (‘Ben’), and Fola Evans-Akingbola (‘Maddie’) teamed up at the San Diego Comic-Con to discuss season two of the mermaid drama. Season two will introduce more mermaids to the town of Bristol Cove, and during our interview, the three Siren stars discussed what else is in store when the series returns on January 24, 2019.
What can you tell us about this love triangle in season two?
Eline Powell: “It’s fair to say that we’ve laid such foundations in season one that I would be shocked if nothing was left of that. I think it only gives us a platform to build on. I think perhaps if we all neutralize our struggles a little bit – Ben with the song, and Maddie with her home situation, and Ryn with her new situation – maybe time allows for things to grow.”
Alex Roe: “I think the way that they’ve built it so far in season one is really interesting. They haven’t jumped into anything too quickly. You’re just letting these connections build, and now, as you’re saying, a lot of the characters are quite broken. (Indicating Fola) You’ve got your mom coming back to town and you’ve got to deal with that. I’ve got the siren song in my head and I’ve got to deal with that. And, both of them have left so I’ve got to deal with that. You’ve got to deal with entering a new world. And then more mermaids might be coming to town so not only do you have all this to deal with, more mermaids.”
Fola Evans-Akingbola: “And they’re also going to probably be nice to look at.”
Siren‘s character-driven and not just a “mermaid” show. It’s about friends and relationships. Is that what grabbed you in the first place?
Alex Roe: “For sure.”
Fola Evans-Akingbola: “I think the combination of both. I think it’s exactly what you’re saying that it’s about the relationships and exploring how difficult and out of the ordinary circumstances affect relationships and people. But honestly the mermaid mythology was exciting to me. I think it’s such a universal mythology. All around the world there’s some kind of either water goddess or mermaid myth. And so, I was really excited to see how the writers and creators would manifest that in a TV show in a way we’ve not seen before. And I think we do that.”
Eline Powell: “I’ve got to say for me the take on the mermaids was really cool. And also, then to draw it to the point of seeing our world through someone brand new, through their eyes – someone who’s never experienced humans before. I did really like the mermaid aspect of it.”
Alex Roe: “I think that’s what pulls you in. This different take on the mermaid legend pulls you in and then I think the experience that the town is having because of that really keeps it going.”
Eline Powell, Alex Roe, and Fola Evans-Akingbola in ‘Siren’ season 2 (Freeform/Ed Herrera)
We learned from the showrunner that mermaids don’t laugh. Is it hard for you to keep track of what mermaids do and don’t do?
Eline Powell: (Laughing) “Honestly I’ve got a little book. It’s not that I don’t think they laugh, to be fair Ryn’s just not had a situation that’s particularly, to Ryn, funny. Ryn’s been very funny to other people. But I just think it would be great if it was different to how humans do it. I know that chimpanzees can laugh and enjoy tickling. Dolphins can laugh. They express it in a different way.”
Alex Roe: “I think you have to do some crazy laugh, like if your whole-body shakes!”
Eline Powell: “Right! It’s just interesting, isn’t it? I try to keep track of those emotions. I don’t discount them just because they’re human. I just try to not think logically. ‘Oh, she’ll laugh now. She’ll cry now.’ I always try to think what could be completely different but still you can kind of relate to what she’s feeling.”
Season two of Starz’ trippy series American Gods just released a new official trailer. The two minute video features new clips from season two which will premiere on Sunday, March 10, 2019 at 8pm ET/PT, 21 months after the season one finale.
The series is based on Neil Gaiman’s book, with Gaiman executive producing season two along with Jesse Alexander, Craig Cegielski, Scott Hornbacher, Ian McShane, Stefanie Berk, Christopher J. Byrne, and Padraic McKinley.
The season two cast is led by Ricky Whittle (The 100) as Shadow Moon and Ian McShane (Deadwood) as Mr. Wednesday. Emily Browning (Sucker Punch) is Laura Moon, Pablo Schreiber (Orange is the New Black) is Mad Sweeney, Crispin Glover (Back to the Future) is Mr. World, Orlando Jones (Sleepy Hollow) is Mr. Nancy, and Yetide Badaki (This Is Us) is Bilquis. Bruce Langley (Deadly Waters) is Tech Boy, Mousa Kraish (Transparent) is The Jinn, Omid Abtahi (Damien) is Salim, and Demore Barnes (Waco) is Mr. Ibis.
Returning guest stars include Cloris Leachman (Raising Hope) as Zorya Vechernyaya and Peter Stormare (Fargo) as Czernobog. New to the world of American Gods are Sakina Jaffrey (House of Cards) as Mama-Ji’, Dean Winters (Divorce) as Mr. Town, Devery Jacobs (The Order) as Sam Black Crow, and Kahyun Kim (Adam Ruins Everything) as New Media.
The American Gods Season Two Plot:
American Gods is a one-hour drama adapted from Neil Gaiman’s best-selling novel about a war brewing between Old Gods and New Gods: the traditional gods of mythological roots from around the world steadily losing believers to an upstart pantheon of gods reflecting society’s modern love of money, technology, media, celebrity and drugs.
We were forged in God’s image, but the Gods are also made in ours — and in Season Two the battle moves inexorably toward crisis point as the destinies of gods and men collide. While Mr. World plots revenge for the attack against him in Season One, Shadow throws in his lot with Wednesday’s attempt to convince the Old Gods of the case for full-out war, with Laura and Mad Sweeney in tow. A council at the House on the Rock explodes into chaos, sending deities both Old and New on quests across America that will converge on Cairo, Illinois forcing Shadow to carve out a place as a believer in this strange new world of living gods — a dark world where change demands commitment, and faith requires terrible sacrifice.
Emily Skeggs and Marcia Gay Harden star in ‘Love You to Death’ (Photo by Courtesy of Lifetime Copyright 2019)
When a child is sick, a mother will do anything to care for him or her. When the child is not actually sick and the mother is forcing her to sit in a wheelchair and take medication via feeding tube, that is a case of Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy. Lifetime’s latest movie, Love You to Death, starring Marcia Gay Harden and Emily Skeggs, dramatizes a true crime case of Munchausen by Proxy.
Camile (Harden) and Esme (Skeggs) are fictionalizations of Dee Dee and Gypsy Rose Blanchard. Gypsy Rose ultimately got a boyfriend to help her kill her mother so she could escape. Harden and Skeggs spoke with Showbiz Junkies about Love You To Death, which airs Saturday, January 26, 2019 at 8pm ET/PT on Lifetime.
Were you aware of Munchausen Syndrome before this film?
Emily Skeggs: “I’m a true crime fanatic. I love it. I was very aware. I love the case. I was very fascinated by the case for a long time, this specific case, and I actually had friends who recommended the documentary to me. I had friends saying, ‘You absolutely need to play this girl when the scripts come out,’ and I did. Then I did.”
Marcia Gay Harden: “Not at all. No, not at all. I’d never heard the word Munchausen and I’d never heard of the case. It’s not that I’m not interested. I just have kids. I wasn’t paying attention so when it came out, it was electrifying to me to read this story, to read about this relationship and to try to understand what it was. That’s when thank goodness Emily’s a little detective because she sent me all the stuff, the podcasts she had. It was fascinating and yet still for me, there are so many unanswered questions. It’s still very difficult to understand.”
What questions do you still have even after playing her?
Marcia Gay Harden: “I wish I had a journal of Camile’s, or Dee Dee Blanchard’s, where she talked about ‘today I forced my daughter to sit back down in the chair and she wanted to walk. I’m going to have to really think about these decisions that I’m making.’ I wish I had an understanding of the potential reflectiveness of the character on what she was doing. And you don’t get that from the interviews. You don’t get that from the documentary. You don’t get that from the trial. What you’re getting is always going to be her perspective, her perspective wanting to be set free in 10 years or however many years, her perspective of what it was like living in this home.”
Do you think she would have been self-aware to the extent she’s forcing her? Would she have rationalized she had to protect her daughter from hurting herself?
Marcia Gay Harden: “That’s the question about Munchausen’s, right? Are you aware that you’re doing it and that they’re not really sick, or have you forced yourself to believe that they are really sick? And that answer we don’t know yet because we don’t have it yet from the real Gypsy.”
Emily Skeggs: “I don’t think anybody knows enough about the disease. It’s something that there’s not a lot of awareness about. There’s no protocol. I keep saying this but there’s no protocol for how to handle Munchausen by Proxy and how to treat it and how to identify it and what to do if you think someone has it. There’s no support system there for it and so I think in a lot of ways these women were failed by the system that we currently have.”
How did you create your characters’ looks?
Emily Skeggs: “We had an absolutely phenomenal hair and makeup team on this project. We were up at 3am putting bald caps on. We were putting incredible wigs on Marcia, pieces, eyebrow pieces.”
Marcia Gay Harden: “My furry eyebrows.”
Emily Skeggs: “These things that you don’t think really would make a difference and it really transformed us.”
Marcia Gay Harden: “It’s true. You can approach characters internally. You can approach them externally. In this case, I think they both really had to meet but for me, the internal didn’t make sense until I had the external on. It was like her armor. It was what she moved through the world, and I’m sure the same for Ems. Until you have the wheelchair, who is it, right? Who is Gypsy? All those things made such a difference.
It was a really fast shoot, but everybody just dove right in. We had a great producer, two great producers, Jordan and Jon Davis, and then Alex (Kalymnios) our director. Alex was really interested in the variant perspectives. That’s what she, I think, really loved paying attention to. The end, them in the pool, it’s so beautifully shot. It’s so beautifully envisioned, especially that freedom of her.
At the beginning, if you look at the shots, the shots are crowded in the beginning. There’s a lot of stuff in a lot of the home. Every shot is crowded with stuff. And then it starts to get less and less and less till the end. It’s just single heads and backgrounds. It’s really beautifully thought of. It feels more like, to me, a movie. It is a movie.”
Emily Skeggs: “Like an indie. We shot it like an indie in a way. It was funny too. I think the bald cap, I spend a lot of time I feel hiding behind my hair.”
Marcia Gay Harden: “I know. We’re both playing with our hair all day.”
Emily Skeggs: “My bangs, my bangs. But when you take that all away and you’re stripped down, you’re really vulnerable in a way. What’s interesting is I felt like that vulnerability really helped me with the character, but then by the end of the shoot, I felt like I loved my bald head. I found a strength in just owning who I was at face value and not hiding behind my hair. With a character that’s incredibly sick and sad, it’s pretty amazing to be able to walk away from something like that feeling stronger and like you know yourself a little bit better.”
Was there ever talk of really shaving your head?
Emily Skeggs: “Yeah. Here’s the thing. I’m not Natalie Portman. I can’t shave my head and, truthfully, as a woman in this industry, get away with it.”
Marcia Gay Harden: “You were also busy.”
Emily Skeggs: “I’m also busy.”
Marcia Gay Harden: “She was doing other things that she couldn’t have that shaved head for so it didn’t make sense. Other people it does make sense, but you were doing Broadway. She had other things going on.”
Emily Skeggs: “Yeah.”
You got the best of both worlds.
Marcia Gay Harden: “She truly did.”
Emily Skeggs: “Yeah, and we actually used my real hair in the movie and that was part of the choice as well. They wanted to be able to have the versatility of having the bald cap versus my real hair.”
Sophie Skelton (Brianna Randall Fraser) and David Berry (Lord John Grey) in ‘Outlander’ season 4 episode 12 (Photo Credit: Starz)
Lots of plot packed into season four episode 12 of Outlander, so let’s get right into it. The episode picked right back up with Roger (Richard Rankin) doing the ‘warrior challenge,’ as I call it, being beaten and struck with weapons. He’s pretty far down the line when one of the Mohawk warriors gives him a tomahawk chop, literally, in the shoulder. In a large amount of pain, as anyone would be, he drops to the ground clutching the wound. Since he doesn’t get back up, the tribe deems him a captive once again.
In Wilmington, Fergus (Cesar Domboy) enlists the help of some of the town’s Regulators to concoct a plan to break Murtagh (Duncan Lacroix) out of jail.
At River Run, Lord John Grey (David Berry) invites Brianna (Sophie Skelton) into the parlor to give her some rather weighted news. Steven Bonnet (Ed Speleers) has been captured! Brianna, looking as if she’ll faint, asks for details and Lord John shares all he’s been given. Bonnet’s expected to hang by the neck in a week’s time.
Brianna turns as she’s leaving the room and tells, not requests, that she’ll see Bonnet before he hangs. Naturally, Lord John is stunned. Bree gives Lord John no time to react before walking away.
Lord John follows her out on the front porch and immediately voices his protestations to the remotest idea of her taking the trip, much less watching a hanging, in her condition. Bree tells him she has no desire to watch Bonnet hang; she wants to speak with him. Lord John continues to voice his objections and Bree pulls out the letter Jamie (Sam Heughan) left her that Lord John delivered. Lord John reads the letter and it’s Jamie begging her to NOT seek revenge or murder of Bonnet herself. Bree agrees but also says the only way she can get to forgiveness is to speak with Bonnet directly.
Just as the betrothed couple reach an accord, the baby kicks. Lord John asks to touch her belly and gets the first feeling that there is indeed a person under all that fabric.
At the Mohawk camp Shadow Lake, Roger is used as a servant and charged with delivering wood to all the campfires. His arm is in a sling because of the wound he sustained, and the sling is the only treatment. He loads some wood into a basket he can hang around his neck.
As Roger’s heading to one of the long houses, a female of the village with a bairn in her arms walks up to speak to him in French. The woman, Johiehon (Sera-Lys McArthur), gives him some herbs to chew that will help with his pain. As this small gesture of kindness gives Roger the slightest reprieve from his situation, Kaheroton (Braeden Clarke) is watching nearby. He walks over to break it up.
Back in Wilmington, Brianna and Lord John exit the carriage. Brianna takes a breath and Lord John can see she’s unsteady at the sight of the town and the flood of memories that greet her. He offers her words of comfort and they speak of Claire (Caitriona Balfe) fondly. Bree hopes she’ll return to help deliver the baby and Lord John shares he misses her, particularly when he’s ill and appreciates her care. Lord John is always such a soothing presence in any situation, even the most chaotic.
In the village, Roger continues to make the rounds to the fires to drop off more logs. As he reaches Kaheroton’s fire, he gives Kaheroton great offense by pointing to the spot in order to confirm the location he told him to drop the logs and interrupting him when Kaheroton is finishing explaining Roger’s next task. Unfamiliar with the Mohawk protocols, Johiehon has to step in to prevent Roger from getting another beating. She explains that Roger could not possibly know their ways, so he was not deliberately giving offense.
A village elder, Tehwahsehwkwe (Tom Jackson), approaches and determines Roger should be placed in a prisoner hut. Roger is unceremoniously thrown into the hut and hits the ground on his bad shoulder. The slight reprieve gives him time to finally eat the herb that Johiehon gave him for the pain. As he’s shoving the herb in his mouth to chew on as she ordered him to do, another prisoner makes his presence known. A priest, Father Alexandre Ferigault (Yan Tual), explains what the name Roger keeps hearing them call him means. It means dogface due to his beard. The priest informs Roger that he’s in Shadow Lake located in New York. Roger then asks why the Father’s in the prisoner hut. The good Father just simply replies that he fell in love.
In Wilmington, Marsali (Lauren Lyle) enters the apartment she occupies with Fergus and notices him doing something at their table. Marsali is quicker on the uptake than one might believe, and she picks up on what Fergus is doing before he has a chance to deny it. He admits freely that he’s planning to break Murtagh out of jail. She shocks him when she says “good.”
She starts talking things out with him, but Fergus begins to voice doubts in his ability to pull it off. Marsali is quick to tell him he CAN do this and free Murtagh with the help of local Regulators. They both reflect on how much they miss Jamie and Claire at just that moment. Jamie’s good at breaking people out of places, he has done it many times in Fergus’ life, and Marsali voices that she knows Claire had done the same for Jamie out of Wentworth prison.
They agree it’s time they take Milord up on his offer to join them on Fraser’s Ridge. Getting out of town will be imperative once the deed is done, whether it’s successful or fails.
Father Ferigault relays to Roger his tale about how he fell in love with a healer in the tribe after he fell ill a couple of years back. Being a man of the cloth, he saw the union as unholy and a complete affront to his vows of devotion and chastity to the church. Roger thought that the tribe was angry that this union produced a child, the very child Johiehon carries. The Father explains the tribe welcomed the union and the baby openly, but his downfall was when he refused to baptize the baby. The priest feels he would damn the child if he, as a fallen priest, pollutes a blessing upon the child given his fall from grace.
Roger puts two and two together and realizes it’s the woman who gave him the herb for his pain that’s carrying the baby. Roger asks if the priest still loves her, and the priest admits that he does in breathtakingly lovely detail. Roger admits to the priest that he completely understands what he means. The hut door opens and Mohawk braves barge in, strip the priest naked, and remove him from the hut. The priest begs Roger to pray for him as he’s pulled away.
Roger’s left alone in the hut and starts to dig at the back of the hut so he can escape. He hears the priest scream so stops his digging for a moment but continues right away until he hears the warriors coming back. They open the door and throw the wounded, naked priest to the ground and leave.
Roger hurries over to see how the priest is after his ordeal and notices his bleeding is from the removal of his entire ear. Roger cleans the wound a little as the priest screams into the furs he lays on to muffle the sound. Being a good son of an adopted reverend, Roger offers comfort to the Father by praying for him aloud. He then gives him some water from the bucket in the hut.
Roger asks what happened once the priest’s able to sit up and talk. The priest explains he was asked again to baptize the baby, and again he refused. Hence the reason for the removal of his ear. He’s been given until morning to change his mind and baptize the child. Roger asks what would happen if he doesn’t do it, and the priest describes the punishment of burning feet. He would be put on a slow and low burning pyre. The priest admits to having seen the punishment exacted on another man before. He confides in Roger that the condemned man took three days to die.
Roger’s completely aghast at all of this. Roger tries to help by offering an alternative approach to sort of fake the baptism of the child since there’s no chance the Natives understand the official right as the church would have it. The priest understands Roger’s motives but says he can’t do that either. The priest views the entire situation as punishment for his fallen behavior and broken vows.
Roger calls him an idiot and Roger goes into profound detail for the reason he can say that the priest is an idiot. Roger explains he has been a supreme idiot about Brianna and the path he’s taken since Brianna first rejected his proposal. Then the idiocy of chasing her across the ocean, and all the activities that led him to be a captive in the Mohawk village. The story includes his escape and standing at the stones. He, once again, was a supreme idiot for not taking the opportunity of freedom.
The good Father realizes Roger does understand how he feels. Roger then goes into his future of ‘looking out for number one’ as the saying goes. Roger’s such a nice guy that he can’t fully wrap himself in that cloak, but right now he’s angry about his entire ordeal so he’s paying it lip service – at the very least. (It’s the standard reaction of most people given any extremely painful emotional situation.)
His speech convinces the priest to help him dig the hole to escape from the village. The digging is something unique to the show; they don’t do that activity in the book.
The pair dig throughout the night and into the morning, but they only get so far in their efforts. They both realize they’re out of time. The priest decides to sacrifice himself so Roger can continue to dig and get away. Roger’s extremely against the priest doing all this. After Kaheroton takes the priest away to receive his punishment for rejecting the third offer to baptize the baby, Roger’s distressed but regains his determination to dig his way out of the hut and escape.
In Wilmington, Lord John and Brianna head toward the prison where Bonnet is being held. (We know Murtagh is in a different cell as well.) The jailhouse is surrounded by a line of blasting powder by someone as Lord John and Brianna arrive. Mostly lawful in his endeavors, Lord John had sought the approval of the Governor to have the audience with Bonnet so the soldiers are aware and ready for the couple to enter the jail.
In the book there wasn’t any such approval from the Governor – a week is not long enough for such activity. And in the book the head of the jail was corrupt and in smuggling league with Bonnet. Fergus finishes his task of lining the jail sides and back walls with powder, so it’s on to phase two. Brianna and Lord John head into the cells but Brianna stops Lord John from going all the way with her to the cell that holds Bonnet. She wants to face him alone, but Lord John will not let her out of his sight. He tells her he’ll remain within earshot if she needs to yell for any reason at all.
Lauren Lyle as Marsali in ‘Outlander’ season 4 episode 12 (Photo Credit: Starz)
Fergus and Marsali are waiting in a nearby wagon holding all their belongings. A few of Murtagh’s Regulator friends come walking down the street, and a few more join them, and eventually Fergus leads the group to the jail to execute the plan. The six men point pistols at the two guards to force the guards to open the door and allow them to enter the locked building.
Brianna enters the cell where Bonnet is chained to the wall. He recognizes her face and ‘other things,’ as he puts it, when she asks him if he remembers her. Irish charm wraps his every response to her in their exchange. She reveals her pregnancy to him from under her cloak, and he claims many ‘whores’ have tried to foist their burdens on him. Brianna tells him the baby is his and she wants nothing from him. She makes it completely clear the baby will never know his name, or even be aware of his existence. She leaves out the part about it could be Roger’s baby, of course.
In the book, she has a very similar conversation with him but it takes place down in cells beneath a warehouse. The warehouse is set to explode to cover the corrupt local captain’s exploits with Bonnet in the smuggling work they share. In the book, the captain knocks Lord John out and frees Bonnet from his cell. In the show, Bonnet remains in his cell through all the conversation with Brianna and the escape activity for Murtagh. Before Brianna leaves Bonnet’s cell in the show, he pulls a large gem from his cheek and gives it to her for the baby’s sake. She doesn’t want to take it initially, but, apparently, she struck a cord and he requests she take it as a dying man’s last wish – if she doesn’t want to take it for the baby.
As Lord John’s waiting for Bree to come down the hall of cells, the six men enter to execute their escape plot to free Murtagh. Lord John, no slouch in protecting himself, slams one of the men to a wall before he recognizes Fergus pointing a gun at his face. Lord John lets the other man go and asks what is going on. Fergus informs him of their intention to free a prisoner. Fergus also informs the other men that they should not harm Lord John but that his allegiance is to Governor Tryon as well.
The band of Regulators get the keys to the cells and make their way down the hall to Murtagh’s cell and free him. Brianna walks up behind all of this, much to Murtagh’s distress at seeing her. She informs him she was seeing Bonnet and didn’t know he was in jail. As everyone comes down the hall again, Lord John sees the situation in full as Murtagh emerges from the dark hall. Murtagh is equally unhappy at seeing his Lordship and that he brought Bree to the jail in the first place.
A back and forth about Murtagh or Lord John escorting Brianna back to River Run ensues. Eventually Murtagh is overruled by committee and common sense, given he’s wanted, and Lord John is under Governor Tryon’s protection. The news comes from one of the Regulators that the powder has been lit so they all need to get the H-E-double hockey sticks out of dodge before the place blows. (My own summary of things..lol)
Brianna insists they pick up the unconscious guard before leaving so he’s not killed in the blast. The party exits the building as Bonnet attempts to retrieve the keys from where the Regulator dropped them just outside his cell. The explosion covers the group as they scatter like ants abandoning a mound being covered with water. Murtagh and Fergus head to where Marsali waits with the wagon and hide in the back as she heads out of town.
In the book, the warehouse is blown and it’s Bonnet who picks up an unconscious Lord John and drags Brianna along before the place blows up. He didn’t pick up Lord John out of the goodness in his heart, it was because Brianna wouldn’t go without him. And Bonnet had come back to make sure she got out of the warehouse for the baby’s sake, not her own. After they escaped through an underground tunnel, he gave her the gem for the baby. As mentioned, Murtagh wasn’t in the books at this point so naturally things had to unfold differently between the book and show.
In the show, Lord John and Brianna are stopped by the soldiers in search of the escapees. Lord John doesn’t offer any information to aid in their search, and this makes Brianna happy. As I said, mostly honest Lord John. He’s also pragmatic when needs be.
At the Mohawk village, Roger has been hard at work on his escape hole and has succeeded at getting it completed. Roger gets out of the hut as he hears the priest screaming on the burning pyre. Roger makes his way out of the village because everyone else’s attention is on the priest. As Roger tries to make his way through the woods, he argues with himself about every scream of the priest. He declares himself a stupid fool and runs back toward the village, certain he’ll be caught when he does return.
He arrives to see the priest tied to the stake and standing on a pyre with a low-burning fire at his feet. Johiehon is standing in emotional agony before the burning man, holding their child, watching the man she loves tortured mercilessly. Roger, unable to stand the scene any longer, bursts forth from his hiding place in the forest to run into the gathering, grab a small barrel of whiskey and throw it on the fire at the man’s feet. Without a gun to put the priest out of his pain, the faster engulfing flames are the next best option to stop the prolonged agony of the man.
Johiehon, unable to bear the thought of living without the man she loves, puts her baby on the ground, walks into the flames, and steps up on the pyre to wrap her arms around the priest. They burned together. Everyone’s left in shock at her actions. Kaheroton picks up the child and other warriors grab Roger. Kaheroton cares for Johiehon and will now raise her child. The warriors take Roger away and as they were walking, he says, “That’s it, lads. Take me back to the idiot hut.”
In the book, the priest was burned on a typical fast-burning pyre and Roger did not escape the hut, hence the need for the show to put him back in there. Johiehon did burn with the priest of her own choice, but she handed her child to Claire in the book instead of placing it on the ground. If Claire was there at that time in the book, then, yes, Jamie and Ian were too. As you can see by the preview for the next show, they do find the village. We will anxiously await the season finale, which should be a very plot heavy and action-packed conclusion to season four. Je Suis Prest!!
The mid-season premiere of The CW’s Riverdale ended with a cliffhanger which threw fans into a tizzy. Is Archie Andrews really, truly dead? He’s survived so much over two and a half seasons, but it appeared in season three episode nine as if a bear attack did him in. His eyes were glassy and fixed as he lay unresponsive, however Riverdale characters have survived seemingly fatal attacks in the past.
The plot description for season three episode 10 doesn’t mention Archie, however his “death” is sure to be addressed in the episode airing January 23, 2019. Titled “The Stranger,” season three episode 10 was directed by Maggie Kiley from a script by Brian E. Paterson.
The cast of season three includes 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, and Luke Perry is Fred Andrews. The third season also stars Ashleigh Murray as Josie McCoy, Casey Cott as Kevin Keller, Mark Consuelos as Hiram Lodge, Skeet Ulrich as FP Jones, Charles Melton as Reggie Mantle, and Vanessa Morgan as Toni Topaz.
The “Chapter Forty-Five: The Stranger” Plot: SAT PREP – With SAT’s around the corner, Alice (Amick) and FP (Ulrich) urge Jughead (Sprouse) and Betty (Reinhart) to stop investigating G&G and start focusing on their SAT prep. However, when Alice takes things one step too far, Betty is forced to come face-to-face with someone from her past. Finally, Jughead makes a bold move against the Gargoyle Gang.
Alexander Skarsgard (Big Little Lies, True Blood) and Jesse Eisenberg (Zombieland, Now You See Me) team up to play cousins in the dramatic thriller, The Hummingbird Project. The Orchard’s just unveiled the official poster and trailer for the 2019 theatrical release from writer/director Kim Nguyen (Eye on Juliet) which finds Skarsgard sporting a new look.
In addition to Skarsgard and Eisenberg, the cast also features Salma Hayek (How to Be a Latin Lover) and Michael Mando (Better Call Saul). Writer/director Kim Nguyen’s behind the scenes team includes director of photography Nicolas Bolduc, editors Nicolas Chaudeurge and Arthur Tarnowski, production designer Emmanuel Frechette, and costume designer Valérie Levesque.
The Hummingbird Project currently sits at 63% fresh on Rotten Tomatoes. Variety describes it as “an entertaining vehicle for vivid performances by both actors,” and The Arts Desk calls it a “quirky, bitter-sweet fictional take on the extremes that stock market types will go to make a fast buck.”
The Orchard is planning on releasing The Hummingbird Project in theaters on March 15, 2019.
The Plot:
In this modern epic, Kim Nguyen exposes the ruthless edge of our increasingly digital world. Cousins from New York, Vincent (Jesse Eisenberg) and Anton (Alexander Skarsgård) are players in the high-stakes game of High-Frequency Trading, where winning is measured in milliseconds. Their dream? To build a straight fiber-optic cable line between Kansas and New Jersey, making them millions. But nothing is straightforward for this flawed pair.
Anton is the brains, Vincent is the hustler, and together they push each other and everyone around them to the breaking point with their quixotic adventure. Constantly breathing down their necks is their old boss Eva Torres (Salma Hayek), a powerful, intoxicating and manipulative trader who will stop at nothing to come between them and beat them at their own game.
Poster for ‘The Hummingbird Project’ starring Alexander Skarsgard, Jesse Eisenberg and Salma Hayek.
