The Hollywood Film Awards just announced another group of award winners, with Joel Edgerton set to receive the Hollywood Breakout Actor Award for his performance as an FBI agent in Black Mass and Carey Mulligan will pick up the Hollywood Actress Award for her work in Suffragette. dick clark productions also announced director Adam McKay is the 2015 winner of the Hollywood Breakthrough Director Award for The Big Short.
Screenwriters Tom McCarthy and Josh Singer have been chosen to receive the Hollywood Screenwriter Award for Spotlight. And Inside Out is this year’s Hollywood Animation Award winner.
The 19th Annual Hollywood Film Awards will take place on November 1, 2015 in Beverly Hills.
— Robert De Niro – “Hollywood Career Achievement Award”
— Furious 7 – “Hollywood Blockbuster Award”
— Wiz Khalifa and Charlie Puth – “Hollywood Song Award” for their hit “See
You Again” from the Furious 7 soundtrack
— Asif Kapadia – “Hollywood Documentary Award” for Amy
— Tom Hooper – “Hollywood Director Award” for The Danish Girl
— Benicio Del Toro – “Hollywood Supporting Actor Award” for Sicario
— Saoirse Ronan – “New Hollywood Award” for Brooklyn
— Alicia Vikander for the “Hollywood Breakout Actress Award” for The
Danish Girl
— Cast of Straight Outta Compton: Corey Hawkins, O’Shea Jackson Jr. &
Jason Mitchell – “Hollywood Breakout Ensemble Award”
— Amy Schumer – “Hollywood Comedy Award” for Trainwreck
— Janusz Kaminski – “Hollywood Cinematography Award,” for Bridge of Spies
— Alexandre Desplat – “Hollywood Film Composer Award” for The Danish Girl
and Suffragette
— David Rosenbloom -“Hollywood Editor Award” for Black Mass
— Tim Alexander -“Hollywood Visual Effects Award” for Jurassic World
— Gary Rydstrom – “Hollywood Sound Award” for Bridge of Spies
— Sandy Powell – “Hollywood Costume Design Award” for Cinderella
— Lesley Vanderwalt – “Hollywood Make-Up & Hair Styling Award” for Mad
Max: Fury Road
— Colin Gibson – “Hollywood Production Design Award” for Mad Max: Fury
Road
David Cross, Jay Johnston, ad Bob Odenkirk in ‘W/ Bob and David’ (Photo by Saeed Adyani / Netflix)
Bob Odenkirk and David Cross return to sketch comedy with the limited series W/Bob & David premiering on Netflix on November 13, 2015. In support of the show’s upcoming debut, Netflix has just unveiled a new official trailer along with the poster for the comedy.
The limited series is made up of four half-hour episodes and a ‘Making Of’ special. In addition to Odenkirk (Better Call Saul) and Cross, the series will feature appearances by Paul F. Tompkins, Jill Talley, Jay Johnston, John Ennis, Brian Posehn, Mary Lynn Rajskub, Scott Aukerman, Jeffrey Tambor, Keegan-Michael Key, Paget Brewster, and Karen Kilgariff.
The Plot:
W/Bob & David combines taped segments and live in-studio sketches full of absurdist humor, social commentary and memorable characters such as Pope Jonah Abromowitz, the world’s first elected freelance Pope, Gordie McIntosh the extra Beatle, digital soothsayer Shangy and hit country music duo Banes and Dunfrey among others.
Dominic Cooper as Howard Stark in ‘Marvel’s Agent Carter’ (Photo by Bob D’Amico / ABC)
Marvel’s Agent Carter‘s second season will feature four new key players and the return of two popular characters. While at the New York Comic Con, Marvel Television confirmed Wynn Everett, Reggie Austin, Currie Graham, and Outlander‘s Lotte Verbeek have joined the show’s cast for the new season. Dominic Cooper will be reprising his role as Howard Stark and Bridget Regan is set to return as Dottie Underwood.
Wynn Everett will be playing Whitney Frost, an actress and inventor. “Whitney Frost is a character with a storied history in the Marvel comics, and we’re excited to get the opportunity to introduce her to fans of the Marvel Cinematic Universe,” stated executive producers Tara Butters, Michele Fazekas and Chris Dingess. “Inspired by Hollywood icons like Hedy Lamarr and Lauren Bacall, we knew we needed an actor who was classically glamorous and fiercely intelligent. Wynn is both, and we’re thrilled to watch her bring this formidable character to life.”
Lotte Verbeek will be going from playing Geillis Duncan on Outlander to playing Edwin Jarvis’ (James D’Arcy) wife, Ana, a free-spirited woman who becomes friends with Peggy. “For a character fans love as much as Jarvis, we had to find him a partner who would be equally beloved,” said Marvel’s Head of Television Jeph Loeb. “Lotte brings ease, sincerity and warmth to the role that’s just perfect.”
Currie Graham has been cast as Calvin Chadwick, Whitney Frost’s businessman husband. “We knew we needed an actor versatile enough to go head-to-head with both Hayley and Wynn, and Currie Graham is one of those actors who can truly do anything” said Butters, Fazekas and Dingess. “He brings a grounded, human quality to Calvin Chadwick, a complex character who lives at the center of Season 2’s intrigue.”
And Reggie Austin is playing Jason Wilkes, a “quirky yet charismatic scientist.” “We were impressed by Reggie as soon as we met with him,” said Loeb. “He has a unique ability to be handsome and charming while also being extremely accessible. We knew he could portray a character whom both audiences and Peggy would love.”
The Plot:
Marvel’s Agent Carter returns for a second season of adventure and intrigue, starring Hayley Atwell in the titular role of the unstoppable secret agent for the SSR (Strategic Scientific Reserve). Dedicated to the fight against new atomic age threats in the wake of World War II, Peggy must now journey from New York City to Los Angeles for her most dangerous assignment yet. But even as she discovers new friends, a new home–and perhaps even a new love–she’s about to find out that the bright lights of the post-war Hollywood mask a more sinister threat to everyone she is sworn to protect.
There’s something wrong with The Machine in the first video teaser for season five of Person of Interest. CBS revealed the video at the 2015 New York Comic Con and then released it online for the show’s fans who couldn’t make the trek to NY to check out. Along with releasing the teaser, Person of Interest cast members including Jim Caviezel, Michael Emerson, Kevin Chapman, Amy Acker, and Sarah Shahi took part in a Q&A at the NYCC. Executive producers Greg Plageman and Chris Fisher as well as producer Margot Lulick also showed up to discuss the series which will be returning to CBS’ lineup at midseason.
Andrew Lincoln as Rick Grimes, Danai Gurira as Michonne and Lennie James as Morgan Jones in ‘The Walking Dead’ Season 6, Episode 1 (Photo Credit: Gene Page / AMC)
AMC’s The Walking Dead began season six with an episode featuring the largest
traffic jam of zombies ever seen on TV. Rick and his fearless group of survivors had to convince the untrained citizens of Alexandria to go outside their city walls and herd thousands of walkers, just days after Rick shot one of their own point blank in the face. With a couple of dead bodies still in need of burial and Alexandrians leery of Rick’s motivations even though Deanna seemed to now be 100% on board with his plans, episode one of the new season had a huge amount of story to lay out. So huge in fact that the episode was expanded to 90 minutes.
In order to easily explain what’s taking place in the immediate aftermath of the season five finale and what’s taking place now, The Walking Dead creative team chose to do the flashbacks in black and white while everything else was in color. It was a bit jarring at first, but after the fourth or fifth switch-over, it quit being distracting.
Recap of “First Time Again:”
In color: Rick says it’s time they take the initiative and take on the walkers stuck inside the quarry’s walls. The group is gathered ready for a fight and watch as the walkers push through the barricades and send a semi toppling off a cliff road. Although it was supposed to be a dry run, Rick makes the plan go live. They’re going to set off flares to bring the walkers into a confined area. In they come, walker after walker, thousands of them.
Black and white: Back at Alexandria, Preacher Gabriel Stokes (Seth Gilliam) admits to Deanna Monroe (Tovah Feldshuh), who’s sitting on the ground near where he husband was killed, he was wrong. Abraham (Michael Cudlitz) shows some respect to Deanna’s dead hubby, Reg, while Pete’s family mourns his death (Deanna gave Rick permission to kill him in the season five finale).
Meanwhile, our little group is in bad shape but hanging in there. Tara (Alanna Masterson) is able to sit up and Glenn (Steven Yeun) rushes in with a blooded Nicholas (Michael Traynor). Eugene (Josh McDermitt) makes it back and Tara jokes, “Thank god nothing happened to your hair.” She makes a comment about Noah, but no one has the heart to tell her he’s dead.
“You were right. It wasn’t over,” says Morgan (Lennie James) to Rick. Rick says he doesn’t take chances anymore.
Abraham puts Reg’s wedding ring on top of a bottle of booze as Sasha (Sonequa Martin-Green) passes by. He flashes her a peace sign; she flashes it back.
Color: They all have their assignments and know where to rendezvous. Rick’s giving instructions over the walkie talkie, reminding them Daryl’s leading the walkers out and will join up with Sasha and Abraham driving a car. Glenn’s job is to take out the noisy walkers at the tractor place before they distract the other walkers.
B&W: Daryl works on his bike in Alexandria while chatting with Rick about Morgan, who is locked up for now. The walkers with Ws are brought up and Rick tells Daryl he’s going to tell Deanna they don’t need to look for any more people outside of Alexandria because they need to take care of themselves. Daryl obviously doesn’t agree, but doesn’t argue the point.
Color: Sasha’s driving and Abraham is asking whether she’s been drinking. They’re doing something huge and they both know it, and he hopes she’s not impaired. They drive up to the three red balloons checkpoint. “All right, here comes the parade,” says Rick over the walkie.
B&W: Rick goes to let Morgan out and finds him practicing moves with a stick. He asks where he learned to do that, and Morgan says from a friend after the zombie apocalypse. Rick apologizes for locking him up but Morgan understands and says they have to get to know each other again.
Eugene is on guard duty when Heath (a new character played by Corey Hawkins) pulls up at the gate. He’s been on a run with his team the last couple of weeks and Eugene won’t open the gate because he doesn’t know them. Finally, he lets them in and explains it’s actually Holly’s shift and he didn’t want to be there. He tells them there are 13…no, 12…of his people now with them in Alexandria. They ask if anything big happened while they were gone and Eugene tells him to talk to Deanna and get it from the horse’s mouth.
Rick and Morgan take a walk and look at the walls while Rick explains the history of Alexandria and says he thinks it might be too late for them to come around. Rick spots the preacher and Tobin digging two graves and tells them they only need one. “We’re not going to bury killers inside these walls,” says Rick. Deanna walks up and agrees, telling them to take the body away and let the trees have him.
Rick tells Morgan he shot Pete because he killed Reg. Morgan says they’re both killers, but obviously Rick doesn’t think they’re the same.
Color: Rick, Michonne (Danai Gurira), and Morgan are at one of the main intersections of the zombie walk. Morgan asks if Michonne took one of his protein bars. “I could have sworn there was one more peanut butter left,” says Morgan. “That’s how it is, isn’t it? You always think there’s one more peanut butter left,” answers a very philosophical Michonne.
B&W: Morgan wants to bury the killer in the woods but Rick just wants to leave him. Morgan says that’s not who you are to Rick, but Rick tells him he doesn’t know him anymore. Morgan starts digging a grave and Rick stops him, hearing loud noises. They hear – and see – thousands of walkers in a quarry. They’re trapped there and while they’re captivated/repulsed by the sight, in runs Pete’s son Ron who almost falls over the edge of the quarry as he’s chased by walkers. Rick saves him before he goes over, and they all stare down at the walkers.
Norman Reedus as Daryl Dixon in ‘The Walking Dead’ (Photo Credit: Gene Page / AMC)
Color: Daryl slowly leads the walkers away from Alexandria on his bike.
B&W: Rick, Morgan and Ron look out over the walkers. Ron says he wanted to know where his dad was buried and that’s why he followed them. Two trucks block the passage of the walkers on the road out of the quarry, which has kept them from making it to the walls of Alexandria. But, they’re starting to make their way up the road to the blocked trucks. Rick tells Ron not to go out there again because he can’t protect himself, even threatening him in order to try and keep him safe.
The threesome head back to the car, but when they get to Pete’s body Rick stops and digs a grave.
Color: Glenn, Nicholas and Heath are charged with taking out the walkers making all the racket at the tractor shop, and they have to do it fast because the noise could disturb the herd off the road. They decide to let a couple out at a time, although Heath’s not sure about that plan but Glenn says they have to. But when they open the door there’s a metal pull-down door behind it that makes it impossible to let just a couple out.
B&W: At a town meeting Rick proposes that since walkers are slipping through the exits at the quarry, and the exit with the trucks sends them east right at them, they have to do this soon. Carol (Melissa McBride) says it doesn’t sound like there’s any other way. Carter (Ethan Embry) suggests that maybe they can just build up the weak spots. Rick says the sound is drawing more walkers every day. Daryl, Sasha and Abraham will take a bike and a car and lead them out. Rick will have people at two ends managing them. Glenn volunteers and then the preacher volunteers, but Rick turns him down. Walkers herd up so they’ll follow a path, says Rick. Carter argues with him and wants to know why they should follow him after all of his screaming, waving of guns around, and after he shot a man in the face. A couple more volunteer and when Nicholas volunteers, Glenn shakes his head no but Rick lets him volunteer. Rick says the plan will keep them and their families safe, but Carter demands to hear the exact plan again.
Color: All of the key spots are marked with balloons. Daryl, Sasha, and Abraham are super close to Rick, Michonne and Morgan’s location (within 100 feet). Rick continues to shoot off flares.
B&W: They map things out and Carter wants to know all of the answers. What happens if they slip through? Eugene suggests a plan using extra wall material. Rick tells Carter he needs to help them figure it out.
Color: On they come, turning the corner in front of Rick. They’re so close to the makeshift walls now that they start running into them as they turn, watching the flares light up the sky. Some bash their heads against the wall and drop dead. Others make the turn and keep following Daryl down Redding Rd.
B&W: Everyone’s working on putting up the temporary walls, including Carter. Daryl thinks that going out and finding more people is taking care of themselves, and he tells that to Rick (obviously this has been weighing heavily on Daryl’s mind). Carol wanders over with coffee, but Rick thinks she should stay back and figure out how people feel now.
Color: Glenn and Heath have to take on all the walkers while Nicholas hangs back.
B&W: Tara’s finally told the truth about Noah and about how Nicholas lured Glenn into the woods to kill him. But, Maggie also tells Tara that she remembers how they used to be on different sides of the fence, but now they’re allies. Tara says she’ll follow her lead when it comes to how to handle Nicholas. They hug it out and Glenn looks on, smiling.
Color: Heath and Glenn shoot out a window and out come the walkers, with Heath and Glenn shooting them as quickly as they can. One almost gets Heath but Nicholas saves him. Then one almost gets to Glenn and Heath saves him. One’s left and they let Nicholas get it.
B&W: Carol brings Morgan some water. Morgan wants to know if Carol was a cop, too, like Rick.
Color: The walkers follow the car and bike but there are a few looky-loos. Abraham leaves the car to take care of them and Sasha calls him an idiot. Abraham tries to get them to follow him and succeeds. He’s bloody, but fine. Climbing back in the car, he talks about Reg the night he got shot. He was a mess, as was Pete. Pete’s face was blown up like Pompeii. He laughs that he might still have some of his brains in his ear. All the walkers are back on track.
B&W: The walls are slowly going up. Rick apologizes to Deanna about Reg, saying he was smart and kind. “He was a good man,” says Rick. He goes on to say people need to be armed inside the walls. People need to be trained. As they’re building the temporary walls for the big plan in come walkers, first two and then many more. Rick tells the townspeople to kill them as a test but the townspeople are useless and Rick and his cohorts have to finish the job.
Back at Alexandria, Eugene is getting food from the supply room when he overhears Carter talking about Deanna and Rick. Carter thinks they have to stop Rick by killing him before he kills them. Eugene drops a can and Carter finds him and is ready to shoot him in the head. In comes Rick, Daryl, and Morgan. They see Carter with a gun still to Eugene’s head. Rick easily disarms him and says, “You really think you’re going to take this community from us?!” Carter says it was just him and to kill just him, not the other six. Daryl wants to take the gun from Rick, and Rick says he’s good and hands it over. He tells Carter to work with them and try to survive.
Color: The walkers are still following Daryl and the group has now met up, leading the walkers away. Rick says they need to finish it and act like cops at a parade. The walkers walk on, pretty much sticking to the road and it’s nearly a zombie traffic jam because there are so many of them. One gets Carter and now the walkers are breaking off into the woods because he’s squealing like a pig. Rick wants everyone to fire their guns and get them back on track.
B&W: Rick asks Morgan to stay with them and gives him the keys to go get his stuff. “I know you, Morgan, even if this is the first time.” He asks if he wants to hold the baby and Morgan laughs and says yes. Michonne looks on. Morgan says he believes Rick is still the same man he was when they first met, and Rick admits he wanted to kill Carter because then he wouldn’t have to worry about him doing another stupid thing. But it hit him when he realized he didn’t have to do it that Carter doesn’t get it. “Somebody like that, they’re going to die no matter what.”
Color: Carter’s screaming and Rick kills the walker and then kills Carter. He’s a goner anyway. Morgan looks on. The gunfire is bringing them back on the road. Up walks Michonne. Rick sends Morgan and Michonne back out on point. And once again the walkers follow Daryl, Sasha, and Abraham.
B&W: Pete’s wife is in the armory and Rick walks in needing flares. He says he was letting things be, and that’s why he hasn’t approached her since killing her husband. They talk about Ron in the woods and how he shouldn’t have been out there. She says Rick can’t talk like that to him or touch him. Rick wants to teach them how to handle themselves, and she says she’s actually already learning and will teach her own children. She will fight, and Rick sort of smiles.
Color: Rick and Michonne keep the walkers in line.
B&W: Rick’s explaining to the group at the beginning of the dry run where the finish line is. Abraham asks Sasha if she volunteered for this assignment because she wants to die and she says no.
Color: Abraham, Daryl, and Sasha are still in the lead.
B&W: Rick says to clear out the equipment sales area of the tractor shop (in color time that’s what Glenn, Heath, and Nicholas had to do) because he doesn’t want any distractions.
Color: Walkers walk, survivors track them in the woods.
B&W: Rick waxes philosophical. “I know this sounds insane, but this is an insane world. We have to come for them before they come for us. it’s that simple,” he says.
Color: Walkers keep…you guessed it…walking. Rick’s alongside them and hears a really loud horn, like a train. It’s pulling the walkers off the road toward it. They don’t know what it is but Rick and Michonne run toward the noise. It’s back by Alexandria!!!! And now more than half the walkers are heading that way. The horn keeps blowing.
Review of Season Six Episode One:
“First Time Again” acknowledged that the best laid plans of mice and zombie apocalypse survivors don’t always work out as intended. The reason Alexandria has remained a safe zone was revealed this episode, but by the final few minutes it was apparent that Rick’s big plan to lead the herd away actually resulted in putting Alexandria in direct danger from the flesh-craving undead. It wasn’t his fault and surely there was no way he could have predicted some idiot would sound a horn and draw the herd to Alexandria, yet the fact the walkers are heading that way is because Rick led them out of the quarry and onto the open roads near the walled-in town. Of course, they would probably would have made it there anyway as the blockades at the quarry were coming apart.
Episode one of season six was one of the better season openers for the popular AMC series, and everyone, with the exception of Chandler Riggs who plays Carl Grimes, was able to be a part of key scenes moving their characters and the series forward. And as far as effects and action, episode one lived up to expectations in the number of walkers killed in creative/gruesome ways. Overall it was a terrific way to kick off season six and proved Andrew Lincoln might not have been exaggerating when he said every episode this season is good enough to be a season finale.
David-Paul Grove, Mic Macario, Gabe Khouth, Faustino Di Bauda, Lee Arenberg, Jennifer Morrison and Michael Coleman in ‘Once Upon a Time’ (Photo by Jack Rowand / ABC)
ABC’s Once Upon a Time continues season five with an episode that finds David and King Arthur searching for a rare toadstool, Hook confronting Emma, and the surprise reappearance of a character everyone assumed was dead. Airing on Sunday, October 11, 2015, season five episode three revealed all is not as it seems and there are villains disguised as heroes…
Recap of “Siege Perilous:”
The dwarfs are whistling while they work in the mines and along comes the Dark Swan (Jennifer Morrison) who steals Happy’s axe and magically disappears.
In Camelot, Regina (Lana Parrilla), Mary Margaret (Ginnifer Goodwin), Belle (Emilie de Ravin), David (Josh Dallas), and Emma are looking for a way to free Merlin from the tree. Regina’s convinced they need witchbane, but they have no idea where to get some. Although Emma volunteers to get him out of the tree by wiggling her nose, they all say no way. In comes Arthur (Liam Garrigan) to find out how they’re progressing. Mary Margaret suggests they ask Merlin how to get him out of the tree since they have his books, and Regina compliments her for smart thinking. Regina says they can use a spell to talk to Merlin to get him out. They need to find a special toadstool, the Crimson Crown, and David volunteers to go fetch one. Arthur wants to go with him so they can “quest together as brothers” since the location of the toadstool is treacherous to reach.
In Storybrooke, the gang examines the book they were using in Camelot for answers. The dwarfs come show up at the sheriff’s station to complain the Dark Swan/the Dark One took their axe. They don’t get satisfactory answers and huff and puff but leave. David and Mary Margaret want to know why their daughter needs an axe, and they’re both incredibly angry over not knowing how to save her. “I am her father and now I’m paralyzed,” says David. But Mary Margaret assures him he’s doing the best he can. “In any world, you are my hero,” she says and leaves.
Next up it’s Arthur’s turn to call on David for help. He still can’t find Excalibur but he’s actually come to the sheriff’s station to report someone stole his trunk filled with magical relics. There was a magic bean in it that could take his people home. David swears they’ll find it and get them all back to Camelot.
The Dark Swan is back at her house with Happy’s axe ready to hit the rock holding Excalibur, but Rumple (Robert Carlyle) tells her it won’t work. He suggests a kiss, since that always seems to work (he’s joking). Then, he says she needs a hero to do it and that isn’t her anymore since she’s gone dark. He tells her to stop messing around and go get a hero. “And you and I both know who that is,” he adds.
In Camelot, Regina slams a book shut and Robin (Sean Maguire) gives her a kiss and tells her to calm down. In pops Zelena (Rebecca Mader) who’s still mute and Regina gives her back her voice so they can clear the air. Regina’s still pissed Zelena wanted to escape back to Oz, but Zelena says the child could have been her only chance for someone to love her. They argue over second chances and being painted as victims. Regina’s had enough and takes away her voice again. She reminds her she’s the Evil Queen and can be a nightmare if she wants to. Regina tells her she’ll make sure her baby is loved and safe, but Zelena won’t be. Oh no, that threat will surely come back to bite her in the butt.
David and Arthur chose swords from Arthur’s armory, and Arthur explains the seating at the Round Table. He tells him about the Siege Perilous chair, reserved for the knight with the purest heart. “It belonged to a man I trusted more than a brother, but he betrayed me,” says Arthur. David knows he’s talking about Lancelot and reminds Arthur they’re all legends. David is happy Guinevere ad Arthur are back together following Lancelot’s betrayal, and David reveals that Lancelot is dead. Arthur says he was a good man and he didn’t wish him dead. In walks Arthur’s squire, Grif (Giacomo Baessato), with a torch that’s the Unquenchable Flame, said to be part of the Burning Bush. They’ll use it as they hunt for the toadstool.
In Storybrooke, the trunk that held the relics is returned to Arthur and David in the woods. The locked was pried open, so it wasn’t stolen by the Dark Swan.
Into Granny’s Diner walks Hook who greets Robin who’s looking at a picture taken up inside Zelena. “Whoa, mate,” says Hook, clearly disgusted. But Robin explains it’s a sonogram. “Mixed emotions, I bet,” says Hook. Robin is happy but knows it’s painful for Regina. Hook understands it’s a complex situation. Robin acknowledges Hook’s is equally complex, and Hook starts to talk about the room in Emma’s that’s locked when Granny gives him an order to go with a note from Emma to meet her on his ship.
On his ship, Hook’s pissed at Emma for appearing out of thin air. She apologizes and wants to talk but Hook says, “It’s hardly like old times,” when Emma wants it to be like it was before. He sets down the bag and, poof, Emma’s turned into her old self (clothing and hair-wise). “You know you can trust me,” she says, taking Hook’s hand.
David and Arthur are walking through a forest that’s eternally night, even though it’s midday. Arthur talks about his upbringing. He was a peasant and David is happy because he was a shepherd. They discuss their wives and how much they’re alike. Arthur says they should have a tournament so they can show off their skills, but David doesn’t think that’s a good idea. Arthur says he was a difficult man to live with back before Lancelot and Guinevere had their fling. Amid all the talking they’ve stumbled on a rickety bridge and can see the toadstool on the other side. David volunteers to go across the dangerous bridge. There’s a piece of armor under in the water that David doesn’t see.
Josh Dallas, Liam Garrigan, and Emilie de Ravin in ‘Once Upon a Time’ (Photo by Jack Rowand / ABC)
In Storybrooke, Arthur and David visit Belle who’s looking for something to make a healing spell with. Gold isn’t doing well. They want to know if anyone has pawned a magic bean. No one has, but David asks to borrow a silver cup that will point them to culprit. It’s not magical but David’s going to say it is in order to find the person who stole the bean. Back in the woods, he tells the folks from Camelot it will point to the guilty person. Tricky, David, very tricky… If they drink from the chalice it will tell them who is the thief. Off rides the squire, the same person who said he found the chest already pried open. David and Arthur chase him in David’s truck which easily catches up with the horseback riding thief. Arthur takes over the wheel even though he has no idea how to drive while David climbs into the back. Using a piece of wood, he knocks the thief off his horse like a joist, but with less fair odds.
Back to the toadstool, David reaches it and starts back. Empty armor starts putting itself together underwater and attacking David on the bridge. He thinks he’s done fighting his way through them when he’s knocked off and dragged underwater. Arthur reaches down and saves him.
On the ship, Hook wants to know what’s behind the locked door. Emma won’t tell him. Hook knows this isn’t the same Emma because the old one didn’t play games. Emma says she’s better now, and she’s not scared anymore. She says she’s an open book and wants them to be in a real relationship. She says Belle and Rumple found love, and it could happen again. Hook’s done with Emma and he wants to know why she brought him there. “You need something, Dark One. Tell me what it is,” says Hook. “All I need is your trust. I promise,” says Emma. She can’t convince him she’s still the same inside and asks if he still loves her, and if he doesn’t she’ll let him go. “I loved you,” he responds, and Emma poofs out.
Off the bridge, David can’t find the toadstool. The phantom knights took it and now it’s gone. “The word ‘quest’ means to seek, not to find. It’s the seeking that matters,” says Arthur, but he admits he doesn’t really believe it. And David confesses he doesn’t want to only be remembered as the man who kissed a sleeping princess awake. The two continue to bond over the fact they don’t give up, even after a loss. Arthur offers him a place at the Round Table!
Captured, Grif says he didn’t see a bean. He only took the chest because he wanted to hurt Arthur because of how he treats him. They have to tell the Camelot people they’re sticking around for a while, and as they go off to do that David spots the toadstool from Camelot.
David shows the toadstool to Regina and she says it’s the one from the book from Camelot and that they must have been trying to communicate with Merlin. They think they can use it now to talk to Merlin to save Emma from being the Dark One.
In Camelot, David is dubbed Sir David of the Enchanted Forest, now of the Round Table. David’s honored and takes his place at the table. Arthur gives him the special seat reserved for the bravest and most trustworthy. The seat will bear his coat of arms. “Not bad for a shepherd,” says Arthur, laughing. David sits, there’s lot of applause, and he’s visibly touched.
Mary Margaret leaves the room to quiet the baby and out pops Lancelot. Mary Margaret tells him they thought he was dead. He says there’s a villain in Camelot and it’s Arthur. “Trust me, Camelot is not what it seems,” says Lancelot.
Alone, Arthur and Guinevere discuss the day and Arthur reveals the toadstool. “I must think of my kingdom first,” says Arthur. He says he didn’t want to lie to David.
In Storybrooke, the squire is in jail. We find out that Arthur’s pulling all the strings. The squire did everything Arthur asked, even down to there not being a bean, and Arthur says he can’t let him out. Arthur is furious they brought the Dark One into Camelot and he’s ready to build a new Camelot in Storybrooke. The squire will do anything for his kingdom and so would Arthur, and Arthur needs to kill him using poison. The Storybrooke people will make the squire talk and Arthur says there’s not choice but to die in service of Camelot. “Your death will be the cornerstone of a great, new kingdom, if you take this,” says Arthur. The squire does, saying, “For Camelot.” Arthur watches him evaporate in a green fog.
Hook meets Robin back at the diner. He wants to know what’s behind the door and he needs a thief. Belle sees the petals falling off the rose and knows that means Gold’s taken a turn for the worse. But then they come back together and Belle rushes home thinking he’s waking up. He’s gone. The Dark One took him and will use Hook’s sword (because it touched him when he was human and good) to wake him and free Excalibur. Gold wakes and Emma tells him, “You are not dark and you are also not light.” She’s going to make him into a hero the purest who’s ever lived and then she has a job for him.
Robin Lord Taylor had the honor of breaking the news that Paul Reubens will be guest starring on Fox’s Gotham. Reubens will be playing Oswald Cobblepot/The Penguin’s father on the comic book-inspired drama airing on Monday nights. The series just kicked off its second season, titled “Rise of the Villains,” with Ben McKenzie, Erin Richards, Morena Baccarin, Donal Logue, and Cory Michael Smith back in starring roles. Also just confirmed, Michael Chiklis will be playing Captain Barnes on season two.
Lord Taylor broke the news during the show’s panel at the New York Comic Con. “So we’re all familiar with Oswald’s mother, the fabulous, fabulous Carol Kane,” said Lord Taylor, according to Entertainment Weekly. “We don’t know a lot about his father. We just found out that I do have a father and he will be showing up very soon, and he will be played by none other than Paul Reubens, a.k.a. Pee-wee Herman! He’s playing my dad! What! The! Hell!”
Reubens, who is best known for the iconic character Pee-wee Herman, actually played Penguin’s father once before. He tackled the role in Tim Burton’s 1992 Batman Returns in which the Penguin was played by Danny DeVito.
Amy Schumer during the monologue on ‘Saturday Night Live’ (Photo by: Dana Edelson/NBC)
Whenever a stand-up comic hosts SNL you can count on at least the monologue being delivered well and most of the jokes landing. That can definitely be said of Amy Schumer‘s monologue when she hosted the second episode of Saturday Night Live‘s 41st season which aired on October 10, 2015 on NBC. Schumer kicked off her monologue talking how it’s not a good time for women in Hollywood and why the Kardashians are not the role models kids need. Schumer noted that all of the family members seem to believe the face they’re born with is really just a “light suggestion,” and that even Khloe is no longer one of us having lost a Kendall in weight.
Schumer’s monologue really hit its stride when she recalled an encounter with Oscar nominee Bradley Cooper. After he kept wanting to talk, Schumer assumed they were dating (that’s how things happen in Hollywood, right?) and changed her Facebook status to engaged. She also discussed a particularly bizarre bathing incident and meeting Hillary Clinton.
The Martian remains on top of the box office after its second weekend in release while newcomer Pan, which was panned by critics, didn’t even crack the $20 million mark. That’s a big disappointment for Warner Bros Pictures as the Peter Pan tale starring Hugh Jackman (the best thing about the film) had an estimated budget of $150 million. It’s not likely to make that up during its theatrical run, and the low turnout could spell the end of Peter Pan films once and for all.
Also holding strong was the sole family-friendly studio film in theaters, Hotel Transylvania 2. Hotel Transylvania 2, featuring the voices of Adam Sandler and Selena Gomez, is outperforming its predecessor and should retain its lock on family audiences for a few more weeks.
