There’s trouble brewing within the Reagan family on CBS’s Blue Bloods season 13 episode two. Directed by Alex Zakrzewski from a script by Brian Burns, episode two – “First Blush” – will air on Friday, October 14, 2022 at 10pm ET/PT.
The cast is led by Tom Selleck as Frank Reagan, Donnie Wahlberg as Danny Reagan, and Bridget Moynahan as Erin Reagan. Will Estes stars as Jamie Reagan, Len Cariou is Henry Reagan, Marisa Ramirez plays Det. Maria Baez, and Vanessa Ray is Officer Eddie Janko.
Season 13’s recurring guest stars include Abigail Hawk, Gregory Jbara, Robert Clohessy, Steven Schirripa, Andrew Terraciano, and Stephanie Kurtzuba.
“First Blush” Plot: Frank causes family tension when he announces he will not endorse Erin’s run for district attorney. Also, Danny and Baez investigate a bloody crime scene at a hotel, and Jamie begins a new job as a field intelligence sergeant that requires him to keep secrets from his family.
Scott Bryce, Shane Johnson, Kim Director, Mick Szal, and James Hiroyuki Liao guest star in episode two.
David Berry, Mercy Ojelade and Sam Heughan in ‘Outlander’ season 6 episode 5 (Photo Credit: Starz)
Starz hosted the “Sunday Morning Tea with Two Highlanders & A Lord” Outlander panel on October 9, 2022, the final day of the New York Comic Con. Sam Heughan (“Jamie Fraser”) and Duncan Lacroix (“Murtagh Fraser”) were the two Highlanders while David Berry (“Lord John Grey”), of course, was the “Lord” in the panel’s title. Author Diana Gabaldon didn’t make it into the panel’s title but was also on stage to answer Outlander fans’ questions.
(If you came for season seven news, you’ll be disappointed. The panel focused on previous seasons.)
Sam Heughan admitted they were all slightly naïve at the beginning of the series and didn’t realize the vast scope and investment of Outlander fans. Hopping onto social media was a wake-up call back then. Plus, a very small event while they were shooting season one episode four drew thousands of people – something neither Heughan nor Caitriona Balfe anticipated.
“To see all the fans there, to see all the excitement about the show coming out, it certainly gave us a thrill but also we did start to ask ourselves, ‘Can we do this?’ But Diana’s been so supportive along the way – she’s been brilliant. You guys (meaning the fans) have been great support as well so thank you.”
Heughan added: “And we have new cast now. We’ve got Charles…we’ve got all these new people coming in. It must be hard for them to just come in and then establish themselves. They’re all doing an incredible job.”
Diana Gabaldon described writing episodes as “dead easy” compared to writing a book and it’s the actors who do all the heavy lifting. “Really, all I have to do is provide dialogue and little, short bridges and you take it from there. And even then, you mess with the dialogue…but that’s good.”
Season six was one of the hardest seasons to shoot, according to Heughan. “And it was also a small season. But I think it was the sort of cumulative effect of obviously shooting through winter in Scotland, which we always talk about the weather…whatever…but it was really tough. But then I think also the subject material – I mean, the Christies. I mean, my god, that family. Boy, they’re hard work, right? […] They’re fantastic as a family but geez I wouldn’t invite them around for dinner.
But then also the Covid protocols. It just made everything slower and more difficult. But also, despite being a smaller season, I think it’s one of the more interesting one. It’s compact; it’s intense. So, I actually really enjoyed it but it was very, very difficult. I can’t think of a funny thing that happened because not many laughs come when you’re working with the Christies.”
David Berry recalled that the first time he’d seen more than two people after quarantining was on an Outlander set. “I flew from Australia to the UK, and that was crazy actually. But one of the first days was the day that we had the big crowd scene. Lord John Grey meets Claire and Jamie, and there were so many people in that one room – all those extras. I think it was a huge extras day with Flora MacDonald. (Talking to Sam) We went a bit crazy, a bit loopy that day, didn’t we? As you do on big crowd days, but that was the most people I’d seen so I was going extra loopy since I hadn’t seen so many people in so long.”
Diana Gabaldon receives all the dailies and gets to see all the dozens of takes of the same scene. “I kind of judge how things are going by the number of times either Sam or Caitriona says f*ck,” said Gabaldon. “And there have been a few hard days lately.”
Heughan asked who says it more and Gabaldon quickly responded Caitriona. Heughan agreed.
Through Outlander, Sam Heughan learned history’s less black and white than written history books. “Even going back to Culloden, I think in the UK we thought it was the British versus the Scots. And then when you actually look at it and find out more, you realize there were Scots on both sides. And I think the same goes for the American Revolution. Families were torn apart. I mean, you can see Jamie Fraser – he obviously has prior knowledge but he’s literally jumping from side to side. He knows who’s going to win but I guess at the time it really tore the country apart but also created this America that we live in now.”
Diana Gabaldon’s Outlander books cover a wide range of genres and mix humor, action, romance, and family issues. David Berry, who views Lord John as a very comedic character, spoke to that, saying, “There’s a unity in the tonality of the show. It has this heart to it with all these big dramatic things going on, like with the comedy, the romance, the battles – there is this really strong core. I don’t know what it is and that’s why I can’t really answer it. But that’s what’s tantalizing to play. You’re playing something human, and I think that’s what she’s created. You can’t put your finger on it but I think it’s very human.”
Duncan Lacroix’s natural tendency is toward comedy, and he really liked the relationship between Murtagh and young Fergus in season two. “It was a lovely little comedy duo that we had going on.”
The panel was hard-pressed to come up with any behind-the-scenes antics they could share. “But I would say that when we all get together, it is trouble. Especially Lauren (Lyle), Cesar (Domboy), Sophie (Skeleton), and Richard (Rankin). When we’re all in a scene together, when the family’s all together it is chaos. There’s like 20 conversations going on. The poor crew are trying to like, ‘Next, we’ll do the scene…’ It’s madness. I think those are the most wild times we have.”
Neither Sam Heughan nor Diana Gabaldon would confirm whether Fergus or Marsali will return in season seven.
Jamie’s relationship of unrequited love with Willie is one of the most interesting things for Sam Heughan to play.
Diana Gabaldon has not changed the ultimate outcome of the series.
Sam Heughan’s favorite filming location is where the Standing Stones are filmed. He believes it’s a magical area.
David Berry’s first castle was Craigmillar where the Ardsmuir Prison scenes were filmed. He’s positive it’s haunted.
At the moment, there doesn’t seem to be any interest from the studio in a Lord John Grey spinoff.
Duncan Lacroix thinks the lasting appeal of Outlander is that it’s all about family.
Diana Gabaldon joked that if they get a season eight, she’ll see what they can do about bringing Duncan Lacroix back as Murtagh’s ghost. He hopes we’ll see Murtagh in the future on a motorcycle with a Sons of Anarchy vibe.
Sam Heughan is obsessed with the Yellowstone prequel, 1883.
Duncan Lacroix really loves The Boys and if he could play any other character, he’d love to play The Butcher – Karl Urban’s character.
David Berry is a huge Rick & Morty fan.
Diana Gabaldon’s favorite scenes to write are the conversations between Jamie and Claire.
Sam Heughan doesn’t think Jamie Fraser would like him. He’d say, “Stupid actor.”
Duncan Lacroix only had one scene with Tobias Menzies and wishes he could have had more acting time with him.
Duncan Lacroix put his trousers on backward and his Calvin Klein underwear was exposed during one action scene.
Playing Lord John Grey has helped David Berry understand love in its various iterations.
Wednesday heads to Nevermore Academy, decides there’s something strange going on that has nothing to do with its weird assortment of students, and decides to figure it out in the trailer for Netflix’s Wednesday. The two-and-a-half-minute trailer is mostly set at Nevermore and features a surprise appearance by Uncle Fester, played by Fred Armisen.
Stick around until the trailer’s end and you’ll also get a glimpse of the 1991 The Addams Family film’s Wednesday – Christina Ricci.
The series’ Wednesday Addams is played by Jenna Ortega, Gwendoline Christie is Principal Larissa Weems, Jamie McShane plays Sheriff Galpin, Percy Hynes White is Xavier Thorpe, and Hunter Doohan is Tyler Galpin. Emma Myers stars as Enid Sinclair, Joy Sunday is Bianca Barclay, Naomi J Ogawa is Yoko Tanaka, Moosa Mostafa is Eugene Ottinger, Georgie Farmer is Ajax Petropolus, and Riki Lindhome is Dr. Valerie Kinbott.
Season one guest stars include Catherine Zeta-Jones as Morticia Addams, Luis Guzmán as Gomez Addams, Isaac Ordonez as Pugsley Addams, Iman Marson as Lucas Walker, and Lucius Hoyos as Young Gomez.
Alfred Gough and Miles Millar are the writers, executive producers, and season one showrunners. Tim Burton directs and also executive produces along with Steve Stark, Andrew Mittman, Kevin Miserocchi, Kayla Alpert, Jonathan Glickman, Gail Berman, Tommy Harper, and Kevin Lafferty.
Wednesday premieres on Netflix on November 23, 2022.
From the imagination of Tim Burton, Wednesday is a sleuthing, supernaturally infused mystery charting Wednesday Addams’ years as a student at Nevermore Academy, where she attempts to master her emerging psychic ability, thwart a monstrous killing spree that has terrorized the local town, and solve the murder mystery that embroiled her parents 25 years ago — all while navigating her new and very tangled relationships at Nevermore. Snap snap.
Prime Video’s The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power season one concludes on October 14, 2022 with an episode that promises to be epic. And after the season wraps up, LOTR fans can continue to dive into Middle-earth with a companion podcast hosted by Felicia Day (Supernatural).
The eight-episode podcast launches on October 14, 2022 on Amazon Music after the finale airs, and explores the events of the first season.
“As a fan of all things Tolkien, I could not be more excited to explore all things Middle-earth and spill all the magical secrets that brought the new series to life,” said Felicia Day. “The Official Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power Podcast is giving it all away; we are talking with cast and creators to get all the behind-the-scenes tea!”
Per Prime Video, the podcast is “filled with intimate cast and crew interviews, essential analysis, and Easter egg moments.” The podcast will feature interviews with showrunners J.D. Payne and Patrick McKay on the season one finale. Plus it will “go deeper into the canals of Númenor, the mines of Khazad-dûm, the halls of Lindon, and more.[…] Host Felicia Day takes a fresh and insightful look at the groundbreaking series and what it takes to bring Middle-earth to life.”
Episodes will feature interviews with The Rings of Power stars Morfydd Clark (Galadriel), Ismael Cruz Cordova (Arondir), Sophia Nomvete (Princess Disa), and Charlie Vickers (Halbrand).
Morfydd Clark (Galadriel) and Charlie Vickers (Halbrand) in ‘The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power’ (Photo Courtesy of Prime Video)
The Plot:
Prime Video’s The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power brings to screens for the very first time the heroic legends of the fabled Second Age of Middle-earth’s history. This epic drama is set thousands of years before the events of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings books, and will take viewers back to an era in which great powers were forged, kingdoms rose to glory and fell to ruin, unlikely heroes were tested, hope hung by the finest of threads, and one of the greatest villains that ever flowed from Tolkien’s pen threatened to cover all the world in darkness.
Beginning in a time of relative peace, the series follows an ensemble cast of characters, both familiar and new, as they confront the long-feared reemergence of evil to Middle-earth. From the darkest depths of the Misty Mountains, to the majestic forests of the elf capital of Lindon, to the breathtaking island kingdom of Númenor, to the farthest reaches of the map, these kingdoms and characters will carve out legacies that live on long after they are gone.
The team works on securing the release of a former Marine on CBS’s FBI: International season two episode four. Directed by Avi Youabian from a script by Roxanne Paredes, episode four – “Copper Pots and Daggers” – will air on Tuesday, October 11, 2022 at 9pm ET/PT.
Season two stars Luke Kleintank as Special Agent Scott Forrester, Heida Reed as Special Agent Jamie Kellett, Carter Redwood as Special Agent Andre Raines, Vinessa Vidotto as Special Agent Cameron Vo, and Eva-Jane Willis as Europol Agent Megan “Smitty” Garretson.
“Copper Pots and Daggers” Plot: When a former U.S. Marine is detained in Istanbul on a charge of smuggling antiquities, the Fly Team races against the clock to organize her release before the Turkish police learn the truth behind her visit.
Maurice Irvin, Aykut Hilmi, Selin Akkulak, Sabina Akhmedova, Armando Riesco, and Jophielle Love guest star.
FBI: International Series Description, Courtesy of CBS:
FBI: International is the third iteration of the successful FBI brand that follows the elite operatives of the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s International Fly Team. Headquartered in Budapest, they travel throughout Europe with the mission of tracking and neutralizing threats against American citizens wherever they may be, putting their lives on the line to protect the U.S. and its people. The Fly Team’s Special Agent Scott Forrester, their accomplished and dedicated leader, puts his missions ahead of his personal life and is often accompanied by his trusty Schutzhund dog, Tank.
Second in command is Special Agent Jamie Kellett, a heroic and fearless investigator – and her extensive network of informants is a powerful resource. Special Agent Andre Raines shines in the field and makes good use of his accounting background in tracking criminal enterprises’ moving money; and Special Agent Cameron Vo, a competitive West Point grad who excels at interrogation and strategy. Newly embedded with the Fly Team is Megan “Smitty” Garretson, a streetwise Europol agent with an extensive undercover background who liaises with each host country they inhabit.
Paramount+’s two werewolf projects – Wolf Pack and Teen Wolf: The Movie – hosted back-to-back panels at the 2022 New York Comic Con. Both supernatural projects will debut on Paramount+ on January 26, 2023, but only one features the Chosen One herself, Sarah Michelle Gellar.
The Buffy the Vampire Slayer star joined her fellow Wolf Pack series co-stars Rodrigo Santoro, Armani Jackson, Bella Shepard, Chloe Rose Robertson, and Tyler Lawrence Gray, as well as Teen Wolf creator and Wolf Pack writer/executive producer Jeff Davis, for a lively half-hour discussion at NYCC.
“I was pretty amazed, actually, because I said to them, ‘We’re not going to get Sarah Michelle Gellar. She’s not even going to read it,’” recalled Davis. Fortunately for Davis, Gellar not only read it but signed on to play the key role of Kristin Ramsey in the series.
“It had to be something that really resonated because I owe it to all of you guys and to myself,” explained Gellar. “But there are so many more stories to tell and utilizing the supernatural is how we explain the things that we can’t really understand and the stories that we can’t really grasp or the ones that would be too depressing in real life or too upsetting. And so, we use those to scare ourselves into understanding.
And Jeff’s right. I didn’t really intend to read it when they sent it to me initially. […] But just the issues that he wanted to deal with. First of all, discussing the fires. Having lived in LA, I was evacuated in the last big fire for almost a week. We didn’t know if our house was going to burn down, understanding all the emotions that come with that. But more importantly, the idea of mental health and the idea of we live in a society that is so digitally connected, but at the same time, ultimately, we’re becoming more and more disconnected as humans.”
Gellar continued: “We feel extremely isolated and we don’t have the support of our pack. And what does that look like for young kids today trying to find their pack? And for adults, too, who feel like we don’t fit in anywhere. It’s really scary to feel like you don’t fit in. We’ve all been through the last three years of isolation and all of those topics spoke to me. And it’s really f’ing scary!”
Gellar called Wolf Pack extremely cinematic, and she was impressed by what they managed to do in a relatively short time.
“We spent a lot of time talking about the vision of the show and what it would look like. The very first goal was to make it look as cinematic as possible. Also to make it look like a streaming show. We want to set ourselves apart. This is a different show, this isn’t something you would find on the networks,” said Davis. “I told the directors and our DPs right off the bat I said, ‘Have fun with this. Make it interesting, make it weird, make it cool. Everybody online talks about how dark all TV shows are. Let’s give them something to watch. Let’s give them color and brightness and incredible angles.’”
Davis added: “I love the way this show is shot. And it’s also different from Teen Wolf, and that was one of the things we wanted to do was something different from Teen Wolf. We didn’t want to just do a carbon copy. So, this is new.”
Rodrigo Santoro (Westworld) stars as Garrett Briggs, a character he described as a man who’s constantly in conflict with the responsibilities of fatherhood. “He’s the father of two kids that actually have a very special connection to nature. He will do anything to protect his kids from outsiders but especially from themselves. He’s a man of very strong values. He’s a park ranger. I love the character, by the way,” said Santoro. “But he holds very important secrets that will be revealed throughout our story.”
Armani Jackson said we’ll meet his character, Everett, during a very difficult time in his life. “He’s a very anxious kid yet he’s very smart. He’s a dreamer. And after being bitten by a supernatural creature in the middle of a wildfire…as if things couldn’t get worse for this kid…he starts to realize that maybe this is something that he can focus on. Maybe this is actually how he finds his true pack and his true family.”
Chloe Rose Robertson described Luna as a girl who’s been lonely her entire life and searching for her pack/friends. “Her only real relationship is with her brother and her father, even less so with her brother as you guys will see. Luna knows what’s up. She knows what’s happening and she wants this pack to work. She really wants this family. And I think that’s really cool because Sarah said before it’s definitely a representation of how we’re all searching for our pack and our people, especially in today’s world with technology and such.”
Robertson continued: “There’s definitely a disconnect with me and my brother being a certain way, connected with nature as Rodrigo said, and Rodrigo not being that way. I think he’s been an amazing father to us. At the very beginning I’m…I love my father and whatever, but I think as she moves through the season, she kind of goes into a little bit of a darker place.”
Tyler Lawrence Gray’s Harlan is more of a lone wolf and an outsider. “I think that this sense of dysfunctionality that we get through this family dynamic is because even though he tries to put on this front of like he has this swagger, it seems like he’s always having a good time, deep down he’s not really a happy kid. There’s a big part of him missing, and you guys are going to find out what that is in the show. But he continues to just search for it. He tends to keep pushing that down and distracts himself. When all of this stuff sort of happens, he’s definitely the last to really to agree and be on board with everyone else.”
Bella Shepard revealed that her character, Blake, likes to pretend that she’s in denial. She knows all of this stuff is going on around her, but she doesn’t want to accept it all. “I think once she does finally accept that she is part of the pack and it’s beneficial to her and people she cares about, then it’s worth it. She finds this new sense of family.”
Tyler Lawrence Gray summed up the show. “It’s dark and it’s violent, and there’s a lot of romance as well. You guys are going to be able to see everything. Personally, Harlan is gay. There are straight characters, there’s everything. I think it’s really going to show everyone that that’s only a part of someone and really the broader scheme is that deep down everyone is really human and wants to just be happy.”
Based on the book series by Edo Van Belkom, Wolf Pack follows a teenage boy and girl whose lives are changed forever when a California wildfire awakens a terrifying supernatural creature and drives it to attack a highway traffic jam beneath the burning hills. Wounded in the chaos, the boy and girl are inexplicably drawn to each other and to two other teenagers who were adopted sixteen years earlier by a park ranger after another mysterious wildfire.
As the full moon rises, all four teens come together to unravel the secret that connects them – the bite and blood of a werewolf.
The cast also includes Bailey Stender, Chase Liefeld, Hollie Bahar, Lanny Joon, Rio Mangini, Stella Smith, Zack Nelson, and James Martinez in recurring roles. Amy Pietz, Bria Brimmer, John L. Adams, and Sean Philip Glasgow are also featured in season one.
Executive producer Jonathan Nolan opened the 2022 New York Comic Con panel for Prime Video’s The Peripheral by explaining just how he and executive producer Lisa Joy got involved in the sci-fi thriller. “Vincenzo Natali brought us – who we’ve been lucky enough to work with for years on Westworld – came to us and said, ‘How do you guys feel about helping me bring to life a William Gibson book?’ We got to the William Gibson part and we said, ‘Sure.’”
Nolan recalls reading the books out of order when he was 14 years old, describing the experience as like that “first hit of acid.” Nolan confessed he’s watched for the last 20 years as every filmmaker – himself included – ripped off Gibson’s ideas. “For us, this felt like coming full circle. Once we read the book, we knew this was the perfect adaptation for a series for William Gibson.”
Director/executive producer Vincenzo Natali failed in his first attempt to do a Gibson adaptation, but that experience allowed him to get to know Mr. Gibson. “He gave me Peripheral early on and I read it and went, ‘There’s no way this is a movie because it is this very layered, textured, highly complex story with many characters, but it could be a TV series.’”
Lisa Joy, a sci-fi geek, was drawn to the project because of Gibson’s world-building skills. “I think any time that sci-fi has a mix of world-building and that kind of emotional intimacy and resonance, it’s kind of undeniable for me.”
Gary Carr and Chloe Grace Moretz in ‘The Peripheral’ (Photo Courtesy of Prime Video)
Creator/showrunner Scott Smith admired the fact that William Gibson’s characters are so relatable, and lifelong sci-fi fan Chloe Grace Moretz was a huge admirer of the book.
“When we first had our first meeting together – I want to say it was like three years ago – I really connected to Flynne Fisher. She’s from North Carolina; a lot of my family is from North Carolina. She had this kind of love of gaming and of adventure and of escaping. That was something that I really relied on, in my teenage years especially – and to this day,” explained Moretz. “And so for me to kind of be able to jump into a character where I can find those crevices and show this journey of this girl who’s going to future London…and yeah, the future may be filled with a little bit of doom but for it to possibly be a roadmap to them bettering their current world and what they’re currently dealing with, there’s just so many layers to it that I couldn’t possibly not want to do.”
Gary Carr’s character Wilf Netherton is integral in introducing the audience to the complex world of The Peripheral. Carr admitted he’d never heard of Gibson or the book prior to this series. And he’d never read science fiction before, but he jumped at the chance to be a part of the series based on Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy’s involvement.
“But then it was such a great experience to read the book and the scripts. I think Scott did such an amazing job with the text. But with Wilf in particular, yeah, it was a huge responsibility, but it was exciting. I think what’s exciting about this project is the concept is high-level – it seems crazy – but it’s actually believable as well. I felt like I didn’t have to do much work. Everything was in the text already,” said Carr. “You just had to turn up. The level of execution and production is so high, all I had to do was turn up and say what’s on the page. So, I didn’t really feel the pressure. But in terms of responsibility of Wilf introducing the audience to this world, it was real simple.”
Jack Reynor in ‘The Peripheral’ *(Photo Courtesy of Prime Video)
Jack Reynor counts himself as a sci-fi guy and believes the group involved in this series is a ferociously talented bunch of people. “Beyond that, I read the book and thought that it was a fascinating piece of speculative fiction. Some of the technology that we see in the book and in the TV show subsequently is stuff that either feels like it’s just around the corner or we already have some version of it. That was quite compelling.
But there’s a real warmth in the book between Flynne and Burton as brother and sister. And I think a lot of sci-fi can feel quite cold. But this was sort of the antithesis of that in a way. On the page, it’s an incredibly fun shoot. There’s a lot of action. There’s a lot of things blowing up. It’s really physical; it’s really fun. But it’s also very warm and it’s very grounded in its humanity. That was a big draw,” said Reynor.
T’Nia Miller describes her character Cherise Nuland as a massive powerhouse who’s sadistic as f*ck. “How do you play that and bring grace to it and charm? The writing is just sublime to have those words in your mouth and to play with them,” said Miller. “Although this is set many, many, many years in the future it really feels like it could happen in 10 years’ time. And so, there’s a warning in there. It’s sci-fi but the blink of an eye and it could actually happen. And that’s terribly exciting.”
JJ Feild was impressed with the sheer scale of the project, and that there were a lot of practical sets rather than strictly CGI components. “So as an actor, you’re in this future world. I’m not stood in front of a blue screen trying to imagine what’s behind me. They built every single set and then enhanced it with the brilliance of their special effects,” explained Feild.
He added: “Gibson has this terrifying ability to take what we know now and distort it into the future very close. […] What Gibson’s done is this is an extraordinary tech world and I play a Russian oligarch who’s taken over London. And the fact that this was written not this year is extraordinary.”
The series is set in two distinct worlds – Clanton in 2032 and London in 2099 – which presented a real challenge. Natali described the connection as a real romance between two worlds. “Everything that is in future London is sort of what Flynne craves or would wish to escape to. And everything that’s in Clanton in her world, which is near-future rural southern United States, Wilf desires. It’s like the pre-post-human world that seems so perfect to him. And yet there’s this gap of time between them. It was all about the dialectic, the collision of those two worlds. That’s what made it really, really exciting.”
Natali confirmed they shot everything on location, so London is London. “But we altered it in subtle the ways. We really sort of play up a society that is obsessed with the past, but they have technology that’s so sophisticated it’s really invisible. So, it was all about the sort of beautiful façade but when you peel it back, there’s something a little bit terrifying and formidable.”
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The Peripheral premieres on Prime Video on October 21, 2022.
The Plot: Flynne Fisher (Chloe Grace Moretz), her Marine veteran brother, Burton (Jack Reynor), and their dying mother live in a small town in the Blue Ridge Mountains in 2032. As their mother’s health deteriorates and the medical bills add up, Flynne and Burton make extra money playing simulations (Sims). The two siblings share Burton’s avatar, “jockeying” for high-paying customers to beat challenging game levels. When Burton is offered a chance to beta test a new Sim, it’s Flynne who ends up playing, pretending to be her brother.
The Sim takes place in London and it tasks Flynne with breaking into a corporation known as the Research Institute—to steal a valuable secret. When the assignment goes badly wrong, Flynne begins to realize the Sim is more real than she ever could have imagined. The London she’s exploring exists in the future…year 2099. And what Flynne has uncovered in the Research Institute has put her and her family in grave peril. There are people from the future who want to use Flynne for the information she’s stolen…and there are others who want Flynne dead. Flynne encounters Wilf (Gary Carr) in Future London, a man who may be the key to unlocking the mystery at hand. But first, in her present, Flynne and Burton, along with his former elite military unit, must rally to save themselves from forces intent on killing them—forces sent from the future to reclaim the vital secret Flynne stole.
Todd has a friend who needs legal help on CBS’s So Help Me Todd season one episode three. Directed by Robert Duncan McNeill from a script by Lisa Kyonga Parsons, episode three – “Second Second Chance” – will air on Thursday, October 13, 2022 at 9pm ET/PT.
Oscar winner Marcia Gay Harden stars as Margaret Wright, Skylar Astin plays Todd Wright, and Tristen J. Winger is Lyle. Madeline Wise plays Allison, Inga Schlingmann is Susan, and Rosa Arredondo stars as Francey.
“Second Second Chance” Plot: When Todd reunites with a childhood friend with a checkered past, he convinces Margaret to represent him in a minor legal case.
Clayton James, Thomas Cadrot, Lydia Campbell, Matthew Sears, and Erik Knudsen guest star.
Marcia Gay Harden and Skylar Astin star as razor-sharp, meticulous attorney Margaret Wright (Harden) and Todd (Astin), her talented but scruffy, aimless son whom she hires as her law firm’s in-house investigator. As the black sheep of the well-heeled Wright family, Todd is a laidback, quick-thinking, excellent former private detective who fell on hard times after his flexible interpretation of the law got his license revoked. Margaret’s penchant for excellence and strict adherence to the law is at complete odds with Todd’s scrappy methods of finding his way through sticky situations: by the seat of his wrinkled pants.
When Todd inadvertently teams with his mother on a case, she’s surprised to find herself duly impressed by – and proud of – his crafty ability to sleuth out information with his charm and his wide-ranging tech savvy. At last, Margaret sees a way to put her son on a “suitable” path to living an adult, financially solvent life she approves of, and she asks him to join her firm. Todd agrees since it means getting his license back and once again doing the job he excels at and loves.
Mother and son working together is a big first step toward mending their fragile, dysfunctional relationship, and they may even come away with a better understanding of each other at this pivotal point in their lives. But whether Todd and Margaret will be able to accept each other for who they are is another case entirely.
The quest to discover a secret treasure might have led to murder on CBS’s FBI: Most Wanted season four episode four. Directed by Don McCutcheon from a script by Stephanie SenGupta, episode four – “Gold Diggers” – will air on Tuesday, October 11, 2022 at 10pm ET/PT.
Season four stars Dylan McDermott as Supervisory Special Agent Remy Scott, Alexa Davalos as Special Agent Kristin Gaines, Roxy Sternberg as Special Agent Sheryll Barnes, Keisha Castle-Hughes as Special Agent Hana Gibson, and Edwin Hodge as Special Agent Ray Cannon. Oriana Bustamante recurs as Ingrid Vargas.
“Gold Diggers” Plot: The murder of a geology professor leads the team to uncover an ancient legend regarding a secret treasure dating to the civil war, and they encounter a deadly fugitive determined to kill to find the gold. Meanwhile, an old friend from Remy’s past shakes up his relationship with April.
Gates Leonard, Henny Russell, Joseph Adams, Brandon James Ellis, Joe Massingill, and Manuel Herrera guest star.
FBI: Most Wanted is a high-stakes drama that focuses on the Fugitive Task Force, an elite unit that relentlessly pursues and captures the notorious criminals on the Bureau’s Most Wanted list. The team’s charming but formidable new leader is Supervisory Special Agent Remy Scott, who started his career in the New York FBI field office before rising through the ranks of the Bureau in Philadelphia and Las Vegas.
The team includes: Special Agent Sheryll Barnes, a former NYPD detective and forensics expert who is raising two young children with her wife; Special Agent Hana Gibson, a gifted millennial computer whiz with a sharp wit and mad hacking skills; Special Agent Kristin Gaines, a Navy veteran who became a star in the FBI’s Miami Field Office as a result of her dogged pursuit of cold cases; and their newest member, former New Orleans cop-turned-junior detective Ray Cannon, who was recently working Violent Crimes in Albany after following in his retired FBI agent father’s footsteps and graduating at the top of his class at Quantico last year.
Always in the field and always on the run, FBI: Most Wanted is a weekly adrenaline shot about the thrill of the chase.
It was quite the Teen Wolf cast reunion at the 2022 New York Comic Con on October 7th. Series creator Jeff Davis joined his returning Teen Wolf stars Tyler Posey, Crystal Reed, Holland Roden, Colton Haynes, Shelley Hennig, Dylan Sprayberry, and Khylin Rhambo for a packed Teen Wolf: The Movie panel at Javits Center. Teen Wolf newcomers Vince Mattis and Amy Workman also took the stage for the half-hour panel.
Writer/executive producer Jeff Davis kicked off the panel discussing the inspiration for Teen Wolf: The Movie. “One thought was could we bring Crystal Reed back? I always said if we were going to do a movie, we would have to bring Crystal Reed back. And so the idea started percolating and I said to Crystal over text – actually on Instagram it was – and I said, ‘Are you ready to pick up the bow and arrow again?’ And we talked and there was magic still there. So, I was excited to get back, and we’re still working on it,” said Davis.
The film will find Scott McCall in a very different place in his life than where we left him at the end of Teen Wolf.
“It’s crazy. It’s 15 years later and we meet Scott in his early 30s. Scott McCall is not a teen wolf anymore; he’s a 30-year-old wolf. And, when we last left Beacon Hills, all that crazy sh*t, like Beacon Hills carries a lot of weight for Scott – emotionally, physically. He’s constantly on edge trying to save the world, trying to be the true Alpha. So being an adult, he wanted to get away. He wanted to get away from Beacon Hills and start a new life, see what’s out there,” said Tyler Posey. “Put down the hero role for a while, you know? And that’s all Scott ever knew because he’s the true Alpha. He became the true Alpha because he is innately a hero. And putting down that role, he’s lost himself a little bit.
The first time we Scott is the first time we see him do stuff normal – as a normal person – ever since the pilot. It’s the first time we’ve seen Scott kind of with human emotions…not that he didn’t have any human emotions before. But he’s doing stuff a normal person would do. It’s pretty intense to see Scott doing a mundane, normal life. And he’s also lonely because he’s missing something in his life. He’s missing the hero role. He’s missing friends. He’s missing Beacon Hills. He’s missing family. And so we see Scott as a sort of troubled adult. Depressed. Kind of dealing with loneliness for the first time.”
Posey added: “It’s really special and powerful and impactful, and I think a lot of us can relate because last time the show was out everyone grew up with it. And now we’re all adults…like legitimately adults. There are some people that I met that look like they’re my age and they’re like, ‘I’ve been watching you since I was like six years old.’ I’m like, ‘How the hell? How old are you?!’
And so everyone who grew up with the show is now an adult who’s dealing with depression, dealing with loneliness, and anxiety. That’s kind of how we pick up Scott McCall. So, it’s the first time we’ve seen him dealing with depression, anxiety, and loneliness as an adult. And I thank you, Jeff, for writing that because it was fun to play that side of Scott.”
Crystal Reed didn’t join her cast mates at the San Diego Comic-Con so the enthusiastic, positive reaction to her presence at NYCC left her feeling humble. “I approach her from such an honest place, and I know that I’m bringing a lot of myself to it, so every time I hear [the love for Allison] it makes me so grateful to be an actor and to know that I’m doing my job and I’m telling a story that affects people. I’m so grateful that I have the ability to bring Jeff’s character to life. I just want to say thank you, thank you, thank you.”
Jeff Davis refused to allow any spoilers but did say there was a particular scene between Reed and Holland Roden that affected him so much he had to text Reed and show it to her. And that was all he’d reveal. Such a tease!
“I will say that one thing I think you guys are really going to love that I personally loved – and hopefully it translates – is just that reunion onscreen is real. And feeling those characters come back together… You know, I hadn’t seen Posey in a while and so when you see Lydia and Scott onscreen, hopefully, that feeling is what you feel too that we felt filming it,” said Holland Roden.
Asked how it feels to finally be able to answer the question, “Where’s Jackson?” Colton Haynes replied, “It’s wild to think that it’s been, what, 12 years since we did this. And I’m so happy that I got to come back. Posey and I were talking about how we’ve known each other for so long but when I came back as Jackson…you know, Jackson’s kind of annoying and a little bit of a prick. I have this monologue and he kept laughing in my takes. I was like, ‘We’re never going to get this done.’
We’re all so close that we’re all just excited to be here.”
Shelley Henning’s Malia will have an interesting arc in Teen Wolf: The Movie. “I was really pleased and excited to hear that Jeff wanted me back. And I loved his pitch and where he thought Malia would be. Shelley was having her own arc this year and so I brought that into Malia.
I play Malia a lot more vulnerable – or at least that’s what I thought I was bringing to it. I don’t know. I haven’t seen it. I haven’t gotten text messages of scenes. No, I trust Jeff with my life and these people right here. It was just amazing. And to what Holland said, it was a real feeling of being reunited. And I got to know them even more. I mean, Crystal and I never really filmed together. Holland and I got to spend a lot more girl time together,” said Henning.
She added: “Malia has her own little journey but it’s still about the pack.”
Dylan Sprayberry said being back with the Teen Wolf gang has been amazing. “It’s funny. When I came onto the show I was the youngest wolf and now we have a new young wolf so I’m not that character anymore. So, it was really cool to pass that off and take more of a mature approach to Liam. And I have a new love interest as well – Amy. She’s an amazing scene partner and an amazing actress. We kick a lot of ass together. It was really great to come back and do something in a refreshing way.”
Khylin Rhambo agreed with everything Sprayberry said. “Honestly, we’ve said this before but Teen Wolf was kind of like my college. I didn’t go to college. The time that I was supposed to be in college I was filming Teen Wolf. We were filming in high school. So I got to kind of imagine what that experience would be like. But it became like a really deep learning experience. And then it ended and life happened. It was crazy to see. I mean, I changed as a person but the essence was still there and I saw that the same thing was with every single person that was a part of the cast originally.
It was a surreal Twilight Zone experience. It’s like imagine going back to high school with all of your original friends but you guys have evolved and you’re back in this space where you weren’t. It felt like a dream, honestly,” said Rhambo.
Teen Wolf: The Movie will premiere on Paramount+ on Thursday, Jan. 26, 2023.
The Plot: In Teen Wolf: The Movie, produced by MTV Entertainment Studios and MGM, a full moon rises in Beacon Hills and with it a terrifying evil has emerged. The wolves are howling once again, calling for the return of banshees, werecoyotes, hellhounds, kitsunes and every other shapeshifter in the night. But only a werewolf like Scott McCall (Posey), no longer a teenager yet still an alpha, can both gather new allies and reunite trusted friends to fight back against what could be the most powerful and deadliest enemy they’ve ever faced.
The film also stars Tyler Hoechlin, Orny Adams, Linden Ashby, JR Bourne, Seth Gilliam, Ryan Kelley, Melissa Ponzio, Ian Bohen, and Nobi Nakanishi.
