Jeffrey Dean Morgan as Negan in ‘The Walking Dead’ season 7 (Photo Credit: Gene Page/AMC)
The official season eight renewal announcement came during The Walking Dead‘s two hour special, The Walking Dead: The Journey So Far. Airing on October 16, 2016, the two-hour special provided a season-by-season recap of the events leading up to the season seven premiere. Per AMC, the eighth season of the popular zombie apocalypse series will premiere in 2017 and will include the series’ 100th episode.
The much anticipated premiere of season seven, which will finally provide the answer as to who Negan killed in the season six finale, will premiere on October 23, 2016 at 9pm ET/PT. As in previous seasons, The Walking Dead will be immediately followed by the live aftershow, Talking Dead. The Walking Dead‘s been ranked as the #1 series among adults ages 18 through 49 over the past four years.
“Eeny, meeny, miny, more,” said Charlie Collier, president of AMC, SundanceTV and AMC Studios, echoing Negan’s words. “What a joy to partner with Robert Kirkman, Scott M. Gimple and some of the hardest-working people in television to bring The Walking Dead to the fans. And, most important, thanks to those fans for breathing life into this remarkable series right along with us.”
The series is executive produced by Scott Gimple, Robert Kirkman, Gale Anne Hurd, David Alpert, Greg Nicotero, and Tom Luse. Season seven’s cast includes Andrew Lincoln, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Steven Yeun, Christian Serratos, Norman Reedus, Danai Gurira, Michael Cudlitz, Lauren Cohan, Sonequa Martin-Green, Ross Marquand, Chandler Riggs, and Josh McDermitt.
The Season Seven Plot: The first half of Season 7 sees the group fractured, broken, bereaved, and picking up the pieces while living under the thumb of oppression. Negan will have successfully brought the survivors under his will, brutally convincing them to live under his rules with a deadly and horrific example of what happens if they don’t.
HBO’s just released the teaser trailer for Big Little Lies, an upcoming miniseries that will premiere sometime in 2017. The miniseries reunites Wild director Jean-Marc Vallée and star Reese Witherspoon and is based on the novel of the same name by Liane Moriarty. The cast list boasts some big-name actors including Witherspoon, Nicole Kidman, Shailene Woodley, Laura Dern, Alexander Skarsgard, Zoe Kravitz, James Tupper, and Adam Scott. David E. Kelley adapted the novel for the miniseries and is executive producing along with Kidman, Witherspoon, Vallée, Gregg Fienberg, Bruna Papandrea, and Nathan Ross.
The Plot of Liane Moriarty’s Novel: “Madeline is a force to be reckoned with. She’s funny and biting, passionate, she remembers everything and forgives no one. Her ex-husband and his yogi new wife have moved into her beloved beachside community, and their daughter is in the same kindergarten class as Madeline’s youngest (how is this possible?). And to top it all off, Madeline’s teenage daughter seems to be choosing Madeline’s ex-husband over her. (How. Is. This. Possible?).
Celeste is the kind of beautiful woman who makes the world stop and stare. While she may seem a bit flustered at times, who wouldn’t be, with those rambunctious twin boys? Now that the boys are starting school, Celeste and her husband look set to become the king and queen of the school parent body. But royalty often comes at a price, and Celeste is grappling with how much more she is willing to pay.
New to town, single mom Jane is so young that another mother mistakes her for the nanny. Jane is sad beyond her years and harbors secret doubts about her son. But why? While Madeline and Celeste soon take Jane under their wing, none of them realizes how the arrival of Jane and her inscrutable little boy will affect them all.”
Ben Affleck’s The Accountant easily took the top spot at the box office over its first weekend in release. The action thriller rang up $24 million which was way above most pre-release estimates. Directed by Gavin O’Connor (Warrior, Pride and Glory) and starring Affleck and The Punisher‘s Jon Bernthal, The Accountant earned high marks from ticket buyers who awarded the R-rated film an ‘A’ according to CinemaScore. Critics weren’t as impressed with the film, with RottenTomatoes registering a 50% rating on October 16th.
The Accountant came out on top but another studio release over the October 14th weekend had the dubious honor of snagging the #13 spot on the worst opening weekend list for films that debuted in 2,000+ theaters. Max Steel, directed by Stewart Hendler (Sorority Row), finished outside the top 10, scrapping up a mere $2 million during its opening weekend.
Lana Parrilla, Robert Carlyle, and Sam Witwer in ‘Once Upon a Time’ (Photo by Jack Rowand / ABC)
ABC’s Once Upon a Time season six episode four picks up the story with Hyde now freed from jail and hunting down Jekyll along with help from the Evil Queen. Titled ‘Strange Case’ and airing on October 16, 2016, the episode begins by showing off Gold’s (Robert Carlyle) new haircut. He looks much more handsome and the Evil Queen (Lana Parrilla) is impressed. He won’t say why he did it and tries to kick the Evil Queen and Hyde (Sam Witwer) out of his shop, but Hyde needs a cameo necklace and isn’t willing to offer anything in exchange. Gold’s unable to kill Hyde and Hyde knows it, so he simply takes the necklace he wants. Hyde says the stories will all be playing themselves out – even if Gold doesn’t like it. Before they leave the Evil Queen agrees not to hurt Belle, but Hyde doesn’t.
David (Josh Dallas) is busy whipping up a ton of pancakes and other breakfast goodies for Emma (Jennifer Morrison), admitting it’s because with Hook moving in he and Snow won’t see her as much. Emma promises the new housing arrangement with Hook won’t change anything. As Snow (Ginnifer Goodwin) and Henry (Jared Gilmore) head off to school, Regina and Jekyll arrive to announce Hyde’s escaped. Hyde left the cameo in Jekyll’s room to taunt him.
Flashback to Dr. Jekyll and the woman who owned the cameo, Mary (Elizabeth Blackmore). Mary introduces her father, Dr. Lydgate (Jonny Coyne), to Dr. Jekyll (Hank Harris) because Jekyll has created a formula that will separate a man’s personality in two – disconnecting the man from the beast. Jekyll needs Dr. Lydgate to help him with membership in a scientific organization in order to obtain backing for his formula. Unfortunately for Jekyll, Dr. Lydgate says no. Mary’s father believes Jekyll’s work is too dangerous. After they leave, Rumpelstiltskin shows up and says he has a way to get Jekyll the backing he needs. Jekyll tells him the serum isn’t quite finished and so Rumple finishes it for him, asking how far Jekyll is willing to go to get Mary to notice him. Jekyll drinks the potion himself and begins screaming.
Hook (Colin O’Donoghue) is all packed up and Belle (Emilie de Ravin) laughs because he only has one chest’s worth of clothing and possessions. He gives Belle a bit of mermaid magic, a shell she can use to call him whenever she needs help or is in trouble. Gold boards the ship and Hook is ready to attack but Belle stops him. He warns them Hyde has escaped and he’s there to protect them. Hook and Belle want Gold to leave, but before he goes he puts a protective spell around the ship so that Belle can’t leave and Hyde can’t get to her.
Snow’s happy to be back teaching school and she meets Shirin (who is actually Jasmine in town to look for Aladdin) by literally bumping into her in the hallway. They exchange pleasantries, with Snow sort of explaining how she got to Storybrooke.
Emma, Jekyll, David, and Regina learn that Belle is now trapped on the ship. They don’t know why Hyde would go after Belle, and David and Emma head out to track down Hyde while Regina goes to ask Gold for help.
And once again we’re back in time with Rumple escorting ‘Hyde,’ who is confused as to why he doesn’t look like Jekyll, to Mary’s family’s party. Rumple explains it’s because he’s just part of a man; the part Jekyll wanted to hide from the world (which is why his name is Hyde).
Hyde introduces himself to Mary and her father as Jekyll’s friend. Mary goes to fetch a drink and Hyde attempts to blackmail Dr. Lydgate for his help.
The Evil Queen and Hyde show up at Dr. Jekyll’s lab, knock out Grumpy who is on bodyguard duty, and check out what it is that Jekyll’s working on.
Regina compliments Gold on his new haircut and can’t believe he resisted the Evil Queen. She tells him Jekyll needs his help with a new serum to destroy Hyde for good.
Back in time, Rumple wakes Jekyll and tells him his other half is very persuasive. Jekyll’s now a member of the scientific academy, just like he wanted. But, there’s still the matter of Mary. If Jekyll swigs more serum, then Hyde can return and sweep Mary off her feet. Jekyll can’t believe his other half has a name, and he asks Rumple what it is he wants. Rumple wants the serum and if Hyde appears again, then Rumple will know for sure it works.
Back at the lab, Regina and Gold arrive to find Jekyll’s work has been destroyed. Jekyll blames Gold for unleashing Hyde in the first place but Gold puts the blame squarely back on Jekyll’s shoulders. Fortunately, Jekyll hid away some of the formula from Hyde and Regina’s excited to see if it works. Gold grabs Jekyll’s heart, saying the serum will be used on Hyde because he needs to protect Belle and his unborn child. Regina is forced to pour the serum on Rumpelstiltskin’s dagger. He tells her she can’t rid herself of her darkness and neither can he. He leaves after tossing Regina Jekyll’s heart.
Hook’s keeping Belle company on board his ship, suggesting they crack open a bottle of rum. She reminds him she’s pregnant, and he looks a bit lost as to further suggestions. Jekyll barges in and tells Hook and Belle that Gold took the serum because he has an arrangement with Hyde and the Evil Queen. Belle sends Hook to help Emma who’s hunting for the Evil Queen, and now it’s just Jekyll and Belle on the ship. He tells her about Mary and how Hyde destroyed their love.
Flashback to a foggy night with Hyde dressed in tails and top hat and Mary wanting to know more about him. He tells her about Jekyll’s feelings for her, but she doesn’t want to be with him. Jekyll’s work dictates he put aside passion and desire and she wants to give into both. She is definitely attracted to Hyde, telling him everyone else was afraid of him at the party but she wasn’t. She wants to know why he’s so free and he doesn’t really know. They kiss, deeply and repeatedly.
Emma and David are searching the forest for Hyde, discussing pancakes and Hook as they look. Emma’s the first to realize they’re not alone and quickly she’s on the attack. She misses when she tries to shoot him with the magically enhanced Taser thing, and Hyde’s able to turn his attention to David as David attacks. Hyde easily tosses David through the air and takes off, only to run smack dab into Gold’s dagger that was covered with serum. It doesn’t work because Hyde knew what Jekyll was planning. Hyde switched vials, tossing the real one to the ground at Gold’s feet. Hyde now has Rumple’s dagger and forces him to take him to Belle.
Gold and Hyde appear at the ship and Gold threatens him, telling him he better not harm Belle. Hyde says there’s a twist: he’s not the monster Gold needs to worry about.
Flashback to Mary’s house and it’s Jekyll who’s in bed next to her when she awakes. She’s confused and frightened, wondering how he got in her room. She wants to know what happened to Hyde, and Jekyll figures out that means Mary brought Hyde into her bedroom – and into her bed. Mary asks if Jekyll hurt Hyde and she figures out he took the serum. She tells him she’ll never love him, calling him weak and mad. They fight and Mary is pushed out the window, falling to her death. Jekyll takes the serum yet again and becomes Hyde. He’s still holding the cameo when he’s found in Mary’s bedroom by her father.
Belle listens to Jekyll’s story and realizes she’s in trouble. But before she can call for Hook’s help using the shell, Jekyll throws it to the floor. She stabs Jekyll and runs but can’t leave the ship. Gold and Hyde are on the dock, but Gold doesn’t understand Jekyll’s on the boat and is attacking her. Hyde, on the other hand, knows exactly what’s going on. Jekyll is going to kill Belle to make the Dark One pay, and Hyde is fine with it because he still wants revenge for Mary’s death.
Fortunately, Hook heard Belle’s call before Jekyll broke the shell. He knocks Jekyll down but Jekyll fights back. Hook gets the better of him, and Jekyll’s speared through the stomach but not dead. On the dock, Hyde begins to command the Dark One but as Jekyll dies, so does Hyde. Hook saved the day! Gold gets his dagger back just as Regina arrives. She believes it was the serum that killed Hyde and Jekyll, but Gold figured out the only foolproof way to kill the doppelgänger is to kill the original. If Regina dies, so does the Evil Queen.
Emma asks Regina if she’s okay and she’s definitely not. She has to die for the Evil Queen to die, and Jekyll still had the capacity for evil even though he supposedly separated himself from it. That means the evil can grow back in Regina at any time. She tells Emma that if she’s not strong enough to keep the evil out, she wants Emma to promise to take care of her.
Gold and Belle have a short heart-to-heart. He wants to make a fresh start and Belle says he keeps finding new ways to create misery for the people around him.
Flashback to shortly after Mary died and Hyde’s trying to convince Rumple he didn’t kill Mary and that Jekyll did. Rumple’s angry that Hyde is so weak and Hyde wants to know why he did this. Rumple won’t tell him.
In Storybrooke, Gold finally reveals the reason behind his actions. He sought out Jekyll to get rid of the feelings he had for Belle. He wanted a way to get them out of his mind. Belle’s upset he locked her on the ship, upset she was almost killed by Hyde, and she tells him she doesn’t need his protection. She also says he cut his hair for himself, because he was tired of looking at the man in the mirror. He almost walks away but then returns to warn her their unborn child will have a mark on his head. If she wants what’s best for their child, she’ll return to him. It won’t be out of love; it will be out of necessity.
Bojana Novakovic and James Marsden in ‘Westworld’ episode three (Photo by John P. Johnson/HBO)
HBO’s Westworld season one episode three provides an answer to one of the key questions surrounding the hosts who populate the park. Airing on October 16, 2016 and titled ‘The Stray’ after a host who’s wandered off by himself, the episode begins with Bernard (Jeffrey Wright) and Dolores (Evan Rachel Wood) engaged in another private chat. She assures him she hasn’t told anyone about their conversations and he gives her Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, suggesting she read one specific passage. Dolores says it’s like the other books they’ve read; they’re all about change. She asks after his son and Bernard doesn’t want to talk about it. She returns to reading more from the book and ends with the sentence, “Who in the world am I?”
Back at home in Westworld, Dolores discovers the gun she dug up at the end of episode two is in one of her dresser drawers. It was the gun the Man in Black dropped while dragging her to the barn and she only found it because Bernard told her to remember its whereabouts. She begins to cry as she has a vision of the Man in Black, and then she opens the drawer again. This time the gun is no longer there.
William (Jimmi Simpson) wanders down the main street of Westworld, observing the citizens. He sees an outlaw’s just been brought in and is about to be turned over to the Marshal for the reward. Suddenly the outlaw makes a break from the jail, shooting his way down the street. Jimmi watches all this but doesn’t act until one of the prostitutes is taken hostage. Jimmi’s about to shoot the outlaw in the back when the bad guy turns around and shoots him first. Even though he’s knocked down by the bullet, he shoots the outlaw dead and Clementine (Angela Sarafyan) gives him a juicy kiss for saving her.
Logan (Ben Barnes) waltzes up and is happy William got shot (or “popped his cherry”). William can’t believe he was shot and it actually hurts, but Logan reminds him the bullets can’t kill him. William decides what he really wants to do is go on an adventure and track down a wanted outlaw for the bounty.
At headquarters, Theresa Cullen (Sidse Babett Knudsen) is nervous about the upcoming launch of the new narrative, telling Bernard that Dr. Robert Ford (Anthony Hopkins) has carved out a huge area of the park for whatever it is he has planned. She also tells him that if there’s still a problem with the hosts, he needs to let her know now.
Elsie (Shannon Woodward) is questioning Rebus (Steven Ogg) about why Walter changed his program and killed fellow hosts rather than being the victim. Walter went off script and was talking to someone he couldn’t see while killing hosts who had killed him in previous storylines over the years. Elsie gets an alert that a stray host is roaming around in the park and Bernard tells her to go find it.
Elsie and Stubbs (Luke Hemsworth) team up to find the stray host. Stubbs is armed and Elsie jokes he could play cowboy if he wanted to, but Stubbs says he’s not taking any chances around the hosts. He even sleeps with the gun.
On Westworld’s main street, Teddy (James Marsden) and Marti (Bojana Novakovic) mow down a wanted man, handcuffing him to a pole while they have a drink at the saloon before collecting the bounty. Teddy pays off Maeve (Thandie Newton) because she complains about the body outside, and she has a flashback to seeing Teddy at the administration building, naked, with other hosts being washed by technicians.
Teddy looks up from his drink to see Dolores passing by outside. She drops a can of food again, and they take off for a little private time away from the rest of Westworld. It’s a quiet moment for the two hosts, and Dolores wonders if there’s something more out there. She asks if there’s anywhere else they could go and he says there’s a place down south where the mountains meet the sea. They could get a fresh start there and Dolores says she wants to be with him there. Teddy promises someday he’ll take her. Dolores latches on to the word “someday,” saying it’s what people say when they mean never. She wants to go right now. They kiss and Teddy says he has reckoning to do before he can be with her. He doesn’t deserve her right now, but he hopes he will soon.
Night falls and they ride back to Dolores’ home, and once again we hear gunshots ring out. It’s a replay of the events from episode one but we only hear the gunshots this time around and never see the action.
Back at headquarters, Dr. Ford tells Teddy he’s died 1,000 times and Ford asks if there’s anything he aspires to. Teddy says maybe soon he and Dolores will have the life they deserve. Dr. Ford tells him that will never happen. Dr. Ford asks if he’s ever thought about running away with Dolores and Teddy says he can’t yet because he’s not worthy. Dr. Ford remembers Teddy wasn’t given a backstory and finally decides to give him one. He uploads a new narrative to Teddy that involves a villain named Wyatt. Wyatt is truly evil and claims to have been able to hear the voice of God. Teddy recalls that Wyatt has some pretty strange ideas.
Back in Westworld, Dolores is walking down the street when she’s harassed by three men (one of whom is Rebus). She tells them she needs to get home and is finally saved by Teddy. The guest with Rebus decides he wants something easier and they walk away without a shot being fired.
Teddy and Dolores are once again outside of town by themselves, but this time he’s teaching her how to shoot a gun to defend herself. She tries to squeeze the trigger but can’t. He tells her some hands weren’t meant to pull a trigger just as the Marshal and his men ride up to tell Teddy they might know where Wyatt’s hiding out. Teddy is the only man who’s ever taken him on and lived. He says goodbye to Dolores, promising he’ll come back. Another kiss (this episode is a romantic one for Teddy and Dolores) and he’s off with the Marshal to track down Wyatt.
A bunch of men are sitting around a campfire arguing about who should chop some wood. They are put on pause as Elsie and Stubbs walk up, talking about how these hosts have been on a loop since the host they’re looking for went missing. None of these men can even chop wood for the fire because none of them are authorized to handle a weapon. Elsie and Stubbs check out the tent belonging to the missing host and find figures he’s been carving, each with some special design carved into it.
Teddy and the bounty hunters are discussing Wyatt and how he makes masks out of the faces of the men he’s killed. Teddy recalls how he wasn’t always a bounty hunter and that at one point Wyatt was his sergeant and his friend. Wyatt disappeared and came back with twisted ideas. He told Teddy the land belonged to something that was yet to come, which didn’t make sense to anyone.
Teddy and the men come upon hosts tied to a tree and covered with flies. Wyatt killed these people and left them there to rot. And then suddenly one of them coughs – he’s not dead and it’s an ambush! Teddy, Marti, another guest, the Marshal, and the Sheriff are in a fierce gun battle and the sheriff volunteers to take the guest back to town as Teddy, the Marshal, and Marti advance toward Wyatt’s men.
Elsie and Stubbs are hot on the trail of the missing host and Elsie’s still trying to figure out what the carving on the figure she brought with them means. Stubbs figures out the markings on the figure look like Orion.
Anthony Hopkins and Jeffrey Wright in ‘Westworld’ (Photo by John P. Johnson/HBO)
Dr. Ford is working with a host when Bernard asks to speak with him in private. Bernard wonders if maybe they misdiagnosed the original problem because there’s more going on than just flashbacks to previous adventures. Bernard explains that the hosts have been talking to the same imaginary person named Arnold. Dr. Ford doesn’t seem too shocked by the news, telling him they worked there for three years before the park even opened. He had a partner named Arnold during those early years as they worked on creating Westworld. (A flashback shows a digitally created younger version of Hopkins.)
He remembers Arnold telling him he wanted to create consciousness based on the theory of the Bicameral Mind. Arnold built a version of their cognition in which the hosts heard thoughts as an inner monologue but he didn’t consider that there would be hosts who thought the voices were the voices of the gods. Ford said his partner didn’t fully understand what the world was meant to be, and Bernard says some of the hosts are accessing fragments of Arnold’s code. Arnold died in the park after his search for consciousness consumed him. He only spoke to the hosts, seeing something in them that wasn’t there. Arnold’s death was called an accident but Dr. Ford believes it was suicide. He reminds Bernard the hosts are not real or conscious, and tells him not to make Arnold’s mistake.
Bernard talks to his wife via something like Skype. She says it still feels unreal that their son is dead and Bernard says there are mornings that he forgets when or where he is and expects to find their son in bed between them. She wants to know if he wishes he could forget and Bernard says the pain is all he has left of their son.
Elsie and Stubbs are still searching for the missing host and she’s wondering why he would ever carve Orion. Stubbs jokes about it and Elsie gets pissed. She walks away, hears a noise, and finds the host is stuck in a crevice.
Teddy tells Marti and the Marshal to shoot and don’t stop shooting if they see something. They are attacked by hooded men and try shooting their way out. The Marshal is killed. Some of the men have hatchets, some have knives, and they all fall on Teddy as Marti escapes.
Elsie calls in and leaves a message for Bernard, telling him the stray got an idea in his head they didn’t program. She doesn’t think he went missing by accident.
Bernard tells Dolores he needs her help deciding what to do with her. He wants to restore her to the way she was before because the place she lives in is a terrible place. She asks if she’s changed and he tells her to imagine there are two versions of herself. Does she want to be the one who asks questions or the one who is safe? She doesn’t understand, saying there’s only one version. When she discovers who she is, she’ll be free. She doesn’t know why she said that and asks if she did something wrong. He tells her how he taught his son, Charlie, to swim. He eventually had to let him go to try it on his own because that’s what parents do. He’s not going to change her back and instead will see where this path leads. She’s once again made to promise she won’t say anything about their conversations.
Back in town, Dolores learns the sheriff has left Teddy and the Marshal up in the mountains to fend for themselves. That means Dolores has to ride back at night to her home by herself. She hears the gunshots, runs to her father, and she sees a vision of the other version of her father as Rebus grabs her and takes her to the shed while the rest of the men stay at the house. Suddenly the gun appears in her hand and this time she can fire it, flashing back to the Man in Black. A voice tells her to kill him and she does. Racing from the barn Dolores hears her mother screaming but before she can do anything, she’s shot. Oh, but then there’s a 10-second rewind of the action and this time Dolores escapes before she’s shot. She rides off.
Elsie and Stubbs work on rescuing the stray host who’s now in sleep mode. Stubbs uses a saw to cut off the host’s head since that’s all they need. As he’s slicing away the host wakes up and attacks Stubbs. He goes after Elsie too but instead of dropping a heavy rock on her head, he bashes his own head in instead.
William and Logan are by themselves around a campfire when Dolores rides up. William catches her as she passes out by their campfire.
Supernatural‘s 12th season continues with episode two airing on October 20, 2016 at 9pm ET/PT. Episode two titled ‘Mamma Mia’ introduces actor/musician Rick Springfield as a rocker who’s possessed by Lucifer. Episode two was directed by Thomas J. Wright from a script by Brad Buckner and Eugenie Ross-Leming. The cast is led by Jensen Ackles and Jared Padalecki and includes Misha Collins, Mark Sheppard, Samantha Smith, and Ruth Connell.
The Mamma Mia Plot: RICK SPRINGFIELD GUEST STARS — Dean (Ackles), Castiel (Collins) and Mary (Smith) have a lead on Sam (Padalecki) and set out to rescue him. Dean is uncomfortable with putting Mary in danger but she insists on going along. Meanwhile, Crowley (Sheppard) is tipped off that Lucifer has taken over the body of rock star Vince Vicente (Springfield).
Fox’s The Exorcist season one episode four finds Father Tomas and Marcus moving closer to actually performing an exorcism on Casey Rance. The episode titled ‘The Moveable Feast’ starts off with a sleepy Casey (Hannah Kasulka) making her way into the kitchen where her mom, Angela (Geena Davis), is cooking breakfast. Angela cracks open an egg and a dead baby bird appears, but that doesn’t faze her. Casey’s father Henry (Alan Ruck) is perfectly fine, her sister Kat (Brianne Howey) looks healthy and is stretching at the dining room table, and her breakfast is wiggly squiggly. The stranger appears at Casey’s side, slapping her when she won’t eat and vine-like things bind her to the floor. In reality, she’s being strapped to a hospital bed.
Casey’s being held in the hospital on a 72-hour hold because of the incident on the train. The doctor says they’re evaluating her, and her family isn’t allowed to visit her while she’s on a hold. Kat thinks the tests might help Casey, but Angela’s upset about being kept away from her daughter.
The newly excommunicated Marcus Keane (Ben Daniels) visits one of the addresses on the back of the ticket given to him by Father Bennett. It’s a convent and he asks for Mother Bernadette but she’s unavailable.
Father Tomas (Alfonso Herrera) meets with Angela and Henry at the hospital, delivering the bad news that the Church won’t approve an exorcism. Angela says the doctors can’t help her, no one is helping her, and tests aren’t what Casey needs. Father Tomas asks her to have faith in him.
Marcus reads his Bible on a bench when nuns walk by carrying candles, one with injuries on her face.
Casey undergoes an MRI and doesn’t seem to have anything wrong with her, according to that test. What she does have, however, is genital trauma. (Remember in episode three she burned herself with the curling iron.) The doctor believes the burns were self-inflicted, and they’re keeping her comfortable and will run more tests.
Marcus is told to watch the nuns who are gathered in a circle, singing. In the center of the circle is a man who appears possessed. They pray over him and he hits Mother Bernadette (Deanna Dunagan). She simply smiles and continues to try to hold his face. She embraces him and he falls to the floor, calmed but still possessed.
A nurse tells Casey to relax, and the stranger whispers to her that she’s no longer pretty. She’s angry at the stranger for tricking her. The nurse is finally able to find a vein for the IV, while the stranger continues to physically hurt Casey.
Marcus takes a bus tour around Chicago, listening to the tour guide tell them all about the many serial killers who have made Chicago their killing ground. The tour guide and bus driver won’t let Marcus or anyone ask questions, but Marcus is anxious to find out more about deaths involving missing body parts.
Henry finds Angela in the hospital’s chapel and she doesn’t want to leave because there’s still 36 more hours before Casey can be released. They both look exhausted, and Kat’s gone home to freshen up. Henry remembers a family trip years earlier in which Casey stood by the freeway picking flowers. He recalls that as being the most scared he’s been until what she did on the train. He’s now on board for whatever treatment Angela wants to get for their daughter.
Father Tomas and his young nephew visit Maria Walters (Kristen Fitzgerald) and Tomas explains he wants to perform an exorcism but the Church won’t allow him. He’s hoping to go above Bishop Egan’s head and ask the Cardinal. She asks if it’s the right thing to do and tells him to follow his impulses. Meanwhile, the nephew enters her husband’s room and finds Mr. Walters in his sick bed. The sight frightens the nephew and he runs from the room.
Back at his church, Father Tomas continues his research on exorcisms. He’s studying when Jessica arrives, looking upset.
The doctor needs to put in a feeding tube because Casey won’t eat. Angela still can’t enter the room, but through the open door she sees Casey’s in pain.
Jessica’s upset her husband accidentally sent her texts that he meant to send to his mistress. She’s crying and Father Tomas comforts her, telling her this isn’t her fault. She doesn’t want to go home and he offers her his bed, saying he’ll sleep on the couch.
Marcus is hanging out with the bus driver and tour guide from the sightseeing tour. They’re actually two of the names on the list Father Bennett gave him, and he explains he’s been excommunicated. He reveals he was an exorcist, and they immediately respond by saying he must have noticed the surge in activity. The couple show him their notebook detailing the upswing in murders, and they know all about missing body parts and that they’re used for summoning demons. They all agree that’s why the organs were harvested.
Father Tomas checks in on Jessica who’s in his bed, assuring her it’s not weird. Angela texts him and he explains to Jessica that he might need to rebel against an order from the Church. She flirts with him and asks if there’s any other lines he’s thinking of crossing. He tells her goodnight and leaves the room.
Angela’s text included a photo of Casey, and in the hospital room her physical condition is deteriorating. The stranger sits on her bed and he threatens her with violence, as his own physical condition is also horribly deteriorating.
Father Tomas wakes up and finds a note from Jessica on his bed. She thanks him for allowing her to stay the night.
Mother Bernadette is finally able to see Marcus and she’s covered with scratches on her face. He asks what the Belladonna in the garden is for and she admits it’s for extreme cases. Father Bennett has spoken about him, telling Mother Bernadette Marcus is a pain in his ass. Marcus says Bennett thinks the Church might have been compromised and she agrees saying there’s been an escalation in activity recently. It’s been a year and a half since he lost the boy to the demon and Marcus says he doesn’t lose. They took his collar so he thinks it’s over, but Mother Bernadette thinks losing it is just an excuse and he needs to check his ego at the door. They discuss their differences in how they approach exorcisms and she invites him to join her in tonight’s attempt to exorcise the possessed man.
At the hospital, Angela’s going crazy not being able to see her daughter and Kat is trying to calm her down. Father Tomas arrives and he says he will do something as soon as they get out of there, but Kat is convinced Casey needs specialists and not an exorcism. She storms away as Father Tomas says he can’t do anything officially but is willing to help unofficially.
Back at the convent, Marcus is in the center of the circle of nuns and the possessed man takes a swing at him. Marcus doesn’t give up, manhandling the man but then caressing him, taking his cue from Mother Bernadette. He hugs him to his chest, reciting the words. It seems to be working and the nuns help the man stand, taking him away as Mother Bernadette smiles at Marcus indicating job well done.
Casey is hooked up to machines as the stranger calls her an ungrateful bitch. A spider crawls out of her nose and she struggles against her restraints. The nurse comes in to help her and Casey stares at the nurse’s cross on her necklace. The stranger comes up behind the nurse, starting to strangle her with the necklace until Casey agrees to whatever he wants. Angela rushes in the room, stopping the stranger (who she doesn’t see) from shaking Casey’s hand to solidify the deal.
The nurse is bandaged up while down the hall Angela yells at the doctor, threatening to sue if they don’t let Casey go home. He agrees, but only because he’s exhausted everything he knows to try and help her.
Marcus is back and ready to team up with Father Tomas. Marcus, in a more peaceful mood, asks if the demon’s been manifesting. Father Tomas says it has and he’s been waiting for Marcus, asking for his help. Marcus warns him he’ll lose everything if they catch him, and Father Tomas is ready to do whatever’s necessary. Marcus says he now feels “big as a mountain.”
Father Tomas and Marcus prepare a padded room, complete with chains, up in the Rance family attic. They gather supplies and then pray with Angela and Henry. Marcus helps Father Tomas put on his collar as Tomas wonders why this is all happening now. Marcus thinks that’s a good question. They enter the room where Casey is chained up and they’re ready to begin the exorcism.
Poster for Focus Features’ ‘Nocturnal Animals’ with Amy Adams and Jake Gyllenhaal.
Focus Features’ Nocturnal Animals will begin its theatrical run on November 18, 2016 (in select cities) and the studio’s just released a gorgeous new poster for the romantic thriller featuring Jake Gyllenhaal and Amy Adams. Written and directed by Tom Ford (A Single Man), Nocturnal Animals won the Grand Jury Prize at the Venice International Film Festival and has already won over critics including Variety’s Owen Gleiberman who called it an “ambitious high-wire noir thriller.” Audiences will get to decide for themselves if it lives up to the hype when it expands nationwide on December 9th.
Nocturnal Animals is based on the book Tony and Susan by Austin Wright. In addition to Gyllenhaal and Adams, the cast includes Michael Shannon, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Isla Fisher, Karl Glusman, Armie Hammer, Laura Linney, Andrea Riseborough, and Michael Sheen.
The Plot: From writer/director Tom Ford comes a haunting romantic thriller of shocking intimacy and gripping tension that explores the thin lines between love and cruelty, and revenge and redemption. Academy Award nominees Amy Adams and Jake Gyllenhaal star as a divorced couple discovering dark truths about each other and themselves in Nocturnal Animals.
The horrific murders of the Clutter family will be explored once again in Murder in the Heartland: In Cold Blood Revisited. SundanceTV just announced it’s working with Oscar nominated documentary filmmaker Joe Berlinger (Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory) on the four-part event series which will, according to the network, “present a 360-degree view and re-examination of the crime and subsequent events.” In addition, SundanceTV picked up the rights to 1967’s In Cold Blood based on the bestselling book by Truman Capote, directed by Richard Brooks, and starring Robert Blake and Scott Wilson. The network plans to air the film along with the true crime documentary series.
SundanceTV will air the four-part series in 2017 in conjunction with the 50th anniversary of the release of Capote’s book. The book delved into the murder of the Clutter family of Holcomb, Kansas and the subsequent investigation and prosecutions of Richard Eugene Hickock and Perry Edward Smith. Hickock and Smith were found guilty and were executed for the crime in April 1965.
“Joe Berlinger has created a framework to explore this story that has as much to do with the cultural impact of the crime as it does the crime itself. It was not just a family and a community that was ripped apart, it was a seminal moment in post-war America that set the tone for what was to come,” stated Joel Stillerman, president of original programming and development for AMC and SundanceTV. “His vision for this SundanceTV event series gets at the idea that crime, in and of itself, is rarely the most interesting piece. The impact comes from exploring the broader story, and what a crime says about the culture, and how it shapes that culture moving forward.”
“I have long been obsessed with Capote’s genre-busting masterwork, but even more fascinated by the underlying crime and its impact on the American psyche,” said Berlinger, who has been developing the project with AMC Studios for more than a year. “The opportunity to explore my obsession, in light of new information we have uncovered, with a network and brand that I have long been associated with and which represents cinematic quality at its most intelligent is a dream situation for a nonfiction filmmaker of my background.”
Fox’s hit supernatural series Lucifer continues season two with episode four airing on October 17, 2016 at 9pm ET/PT. Episode four is titled ‘Lady Parts’ and finds the women around Lucifer doing a little female bonding.
The cast is led by Tom Ellis as Lucifer and includes Lauren German as Chloe, DB Woodside as Amenadiel, Lesley-Ann Brandt as Maze, Kevin Alejandro as Dan, Scarlett Estevez as Trixie, Rachael Harris as Linda Martin, Tricia Helfer as Charlotte, and Aimee Garcia as Ella. Guest starring in episode four are Jarelle Hepburn as Stoner, Jordan Connor as Stoner Leroy, Nikolai Witschl as Cleveland Mathers, Kiko Ellsworth as Davis Fitzgerald, Maria Turner as Gisele, and Anne Leighton as Lily.
Lady Parts Plot: After the bodies of two young L.A. transplants are found poisoned, Chloe and Lucifer hunt for the killer. Upon Maze convincing Chloe to go out for drinks, which the detective perceives as an act of friendship, but is actually part of a bet between Maze and Lucifer, the two make a shocking decision in the all-new “Lady Parts” episode.
Lucifer Series Details:Lucifer is the story of the original fallen angel. Bored and unhappy as the Lord of Hell, he has abandoned his throne and retired to L.A., where he has teamed up with an LAPD detective to take down criminals.
