Max believes time’s running out and he needs to take action to get rid of Dr. Fuentes soon on NBC’s New Amsterdam season four episode 20. “Rise” will air on Tuesday, May 10, 2022.
The cast of season four is led by Ryan Eggold as Medical Director Max Goodwin. Janet Montgomery returns as Dr. Lauren Bloom, Freema Agyeman stars as Dr. Helen Sharpe, Jocko Sims plays Dr. Floyd Reynolds, and Tyler Labine is Dr. Iggy Frome. Michelle Forbes guest stars as Dr. Fuentes.
“Rise” Plot: Max discovers the extent to which Dr. Fuentes’ cuts are severely damaging New Amsterdam and decides it’s now or never. Iggy takes an unconventional approach to reach a young patient in need. Reynolds and Wilder perform a risky, life-saving surgery on unborn twins.
The Season 4 Plot, Courtesy of NBC:
After a turbulent year of sacrifice and hardship, Medical Director Max Goodwin and the team at New Amsterdam begin a well-deserved new chapter in their lives. The opening episode, titled “More Joy,” reflects both the drive of characters and the tone of season four. More joy: How can we find it, and how can we hold on to it?
For Max that means acknowledging and surrendering to his long-simmering feelings towards Dr. Helen Sharpe. While this new relationship brings its own set of challenges, Max continues his optimistic – and quixotic – quest to improve our nation’s healthcare system.
Continuing to navigate their own personal journeys – including Dr. Bloom’s relationship with Dr. Leyla Shinwari, who is now her resident, Dr. Frome’s new career and Dr. Reynolds’ personal entanglements – the doctors will strive to embrace the joy and successes in their lives.
But there is a surprise in store for our heroes. Dr. Veronica Fuentes is joining the New Amsterdam team to help turn around the overburdened and underfunded hospital. Her first order of business will be to tear down every progressive program Max has erected. Max will have his work cut out for him if he is going to outwit this calm, poised and fearless fixer.
Janet Montgomery as Dr. Lauren Bloom and Leyla Kalaiselvan as Dr. Leyla Shinwari in ‘New Amsterdam’ season 4 episode 20 (Photo by: Eric Liebowitz/NBC)America Olivo as Inez Vea, Conner Marx as Ben Meyer, and Jocko Sims as Dr. Floyd Reynolds in season 4 episode 20 (Photo by: Eric Liebowitz/NBC)Janet Montgomery as Dr. Lauren Bloom and Matthew Jeffers as Chief Res. Dr. Mark Walsh in the “Rise” episode (Photo by: Eric Liebowitz/NBC)Alejandro Hernandez as Casey Acosta and Janet Montgomery as Dr. Lauren Bloom in season 4 episode 20 (Photo by: Eric Liebowitz/NBC)Sandra Mae Frank as Dr. Elizabeth Wilder, America Olivo as Inez Vea, and Jocko Sims as Dr. Floyd Reynolds in season 4 episode 20 (Photo by: Eric Liebowitz/NBC)Leyla Kalaiselvan as Dr. Leyla Shinwari in the “Rise” episode (Photo by: Eric Liebowitz/NBC)Freema Agyeman as Dr. Helen Sharpe in season 4 episode 20 (Photo by: Eric Liebowitz/NBC)
Enver Gjokaj reprises his guest-starring role as Capt. Milius on CBS’s NCIS: Hawaii season one episode 21, the first half of a two-part season one finale. Episode 21, directed by Jimmy Whitmore and written by Noah Evslin, will air on Monday, May 16, 2022 at 10pm ET/PT.
Vanessa Lachey (Call Me Kat, Truth Be Told) leads the cast as Special Agent in Charge Jane Tennant, Alex Tarrant plays Kai Holman, Kian Talan is Alex Tennant, Noah Mills stars as Jesse Boone, and Yasmine Al-Bustami plays Lucy Tara. The first season also stars Jason Antoon as Ernie Malik and Tori Anderson as Kate Whistler.
“Switchback” Plot: Captain Milius (Gjokaj) returns to Hawai’i for a secret prisoner exchange operation, and brings in Jane to be his personal security escort in the Philippines, where the exchange will take place.
The world’s most successful television series continues on the seductive shores of the Aloha State with NCIS: Hawai’i, where the first female Special Agent in Charge of NCIS Pearl Harbor, Jane Tennant, has thrived and risen through the ranks by equal parts confidence and strategy in a system that has pushed back on her every step of the way. Together with her unwavering team of specialists, they balance duty to family and country while investigating high-stakes crimes involving military personnel, national security and the mysteries of the sun-drenched island paradise itself.
Mia Farrow stars in ‘Rosemary’s Baby’ (Photo Credit: Paramount Pictures)
Mother’s Day became an official holiday in the U.S. in 1914. It was conceived by Anna Jarvis, after her mother’s death in 1905, as a way of honoring the sacrifices mothers make for their children. It’s a holiday that was quickly commercialized to sell cards, flowers, and chocolates, and to encourage warm and fuzzy feelings.
Well, if you need an antidote to all that saccharine sentimentality then here’s a list for you. This Mother’s Day treat yourself to the 10 best films depicting the horrors of motherhood! From the terror of having some creature growing inside you to giving birth to a monster to mothering with a vengeance, it’s all here as the perfect anti-Mother’s Day viewing list.
Give mum a call or bring her up from the fruit cellar and enjoy!
(NOTE: This list does contain spoilers.)
10. Mother’s Day (1980)
No better place to start than with the film that commemorates Mother’s Day in its very title. Charles Kaufman’s film taps into the spirit of a boy who will do anything to please his demanding mom, even kill!
Three women come “to the wilderness for a weekend of fun” but what they get is kidnapped by a crazy matriarch (Beatrice Pons having a field day) and her demented sons. The trailer states: “Some say she spoiled her boys. Some say she drove them mad.” Whatever the case, bodies pile up, flesh is exposed, and Mother takes delight in all the chaos she wreaks. This is not for the easily offended or anyone looking for political correctness but it serves up an over-the-top schlockfest of ’80s fun. And remember: “When you know how to celebrate, every day is Mother’s Day… No one can escape on Mother’s Day because Mother’s Day never ends.” Not even the trailer knows where to end! There’s a remake but don’t bother with it, it’s a bastard child.
And just a piece of trivia: Kaufman retired from filmmaking to bake bread and runs the best bakery in San Diego, Bread and Cie. But occasionally there have been severed limbs found mixed in with the baguettes.
This pairs well with Peter Jackson’sDead Alive in which the overbearing mum becomes a mutated zombie monstrosity that has to be seen to be believed.
Alice Lowe stars in ‘Prevenge’
9. Prevenge (2016)
Mother-to-be Ruth (played by writer-director Alice Lowe who was eight months pregnant) describes her pregnancy as feeling like “a hostile takeover.” She believes her unborn child is instructing her to kill bad people and she dutifully obliges.
Lowe, who was brilliant in the show Garth Marenghi’s Darkplace, wrote the film in a few days because no one would hire her in her very pregnant state for any roles. The darkly comic film plays on the fears and uncertainty of being a first-time mother and dealing with all the physical changes, with the idea of another person growing inside you, and then it intensifies it by having Ruth facing it all alone since her husband died on the day she found out she was pregnant. It also addresses the pressure women feel from society to behave in certain ways while they have no control over that thing growing inside them. Not everyone glows when pregnant and not everyone feels immediate joy at the prospect of being a mom.
8. It’s Alive (1974)
“There’s only one thing wrong with the Davis’ baby… It’s Alive!” That was the tagline for the 1977 re-release of the film. The poster depicted a baby carriage with a claw hanging out and set against a black background and that summed the film up well. The initial 1974 release gained little traction with audiences because it had a dull, generic promotional campaign of “Whatever it is, it’s alive and it’s deadly.” But once a killer baby was introduced as the monster, audiences embraced it and it spurred sequels.
The film was directed by movie maverick Larry Cohen and had killer baby effects by Rick Baker. Sharon Farrell is the shrill mom who doesn’t want to give up on her carnivorous, voracious baby even though it’s massacring folks in the neighborhood.
A mother dealing with a monstrous child can be found to a more elevated degree in The Exorcist. Janet Leigh stars in Paramount Pictures’ ‘Psycho’
7. Psycho (1960)
Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho is kind of the mother of the modern slasher film in the way it teased the idea of a serial killer, gave us an unseen predator stalking victims, unsettled audiences by killing the star in the opening half-hour, and gave us graphic murder. It also has one of the most famous mothers in all cinematic horror and ***SPOILER ALERT*** she exerts her influence completely from beyond the grave.
Mrs. Bates controls her son Norman (Anthony Perkins) even after she is dead. Norman is not merely a mama’s boy but a boy whose mother eventually takes over his personality. Without this film, we might not get Jason Voorhees’ mom and her killing spree to avenge her son’s death in Friday the 13th. Or the insane motherly love of Tallulah Bankhead in Die! Die! My Darling! who blames her deceased son’s fiancée for his death and attempts to murder her.
6. À L’intéieur/Inside (2007)
This film (part of a new wave of French extreme horror) addresses the theme of motherhood in a terrifyingly spectacular but incredibly intimate body horror tale. Directed by Julien Maury and Alexandre Bustillo, it stars Alysson Paradis as Sarah, a pregnant woman who recently lost her husband in a car crash, and the great Béatrice Dalle as a mysterious woman who shows up at her door and demands Sarah’s unborn child.
The film tackles the horror of motherhood on multiple levels. First, there is the fear or uncertainty of seeing a pregnancy through alone after the father has died (as in Prevenge), and then the next layer is the fear that something could go wrong with the pregnancy, endangering the fetus. In this case, the danger comes from the mysterious woman who stabs Sarah in the stomach, which stirs not just Sarah’s need for survival but her primal instinct to protect her unborn child at all costs. But then this reveals another layer ***SPOILER*** as we discover that the woman was the other driver in the crash that killed Sarah’s husband and she lost her unborn child as a result. So the mysterious woman is grieving over the fact that she was denied the joy of being a mother and now wants Sarah’s baby as a replacement. So in an odd and fiendishly clever way the film is pitting two mothers against each other in a fierce maternal battle – one trying to defend her unborn child and one trying to satisfy her need to fulfill being a mother.
The film ends with the ultimate maternal sacrifice as Sarah realizes that the baby is coming but is stuck so she asks the woman to perform an impromptu cesarean section knowing it will likely kill her. This is a brutal and amazing take on motherhood.
5. We Need to Talk About Kevin (2011)
Lynne Ramsey’s brilliant and disturbing film is an impressionistic portrait of a mother’s relationship with her son, a boy who knows exactly how to push mommy’s buttons while seeming the perfect child to his father. Tilda Swinton’s Eva is a reluctant mother who doesn’t seem to know how to interact with her child. Motherhood, we are told, is instinctual. Every woman should just take to it and immediately bond with her child. But what if that doesn’t happen? Is it the mother’s fault? The child’s? No one’s?
The film raises questions about nature versus nurture, and how responsible a parent is for how their child turns out. The film offers a portrait of motherhood that is far from feel-good. It’s a mother’s horror story.
At one point Eva, desperate for escape from her son’s constant crying, is shown seeking relief by standing next to a construction worker jackhammering and being soothed by the sound as if it were a lullaby. In another scene, Eva is trying to teach toddler Kevin how to roll a ball to her. He refuses but then decides to roll it back. This elates his mother. But then he goes back to refusing any interaction. In that brief moment, we see the whole dynamic of their relationship — how he toys with her, gives her a moment of hope, and then denies her even more forcefully.
When her teenage son commits a horrific act, there’s the issue of how much responsibility does a mother need to bear for the actions of her child? This is a disturbing portrait of motherhood because it tackles the paralyzing fear of not knowing how to deal with this tiny creature that cannot tell you its need, it addresses that sense of inadequacy a mother can feel, and the terror of wondering if your child might actually be evil and dangerous.
4. The Babadook (2014) The Babadook has all the trappings of a boogeyman thriller. It plays on our universal childhood fears of something lurking under the bed, in the closet, or out in the dark just beyond the night light. But writer/director Jennifer Kent turns this horror formula into something much creepier and emotionally more disturbing because what her film is really about is a damaged bond between a mother and her son.
Young Samuel bluntly states that his dad got killed in a car driving his mom, Amelia, to the hospital to have him. The death of the father/husband is not something that Amelia wants to deal with but it is a hurt that is buried deep in her heart and colors her feelings toward her son, who is a child that could test even a saintly mother’s patience (kudos to Kent for allowing Samuel to be one of the most aggravating kids ever put on the screen). Amelia accuses others of not liking Samuel but it is Amelia who cannot stand her own son.
As a parent, it’s disturbing to consider a situation where a mother can turn on her son and ask him why he can’t just be normal or why he can’t stop talking. It is scary when people who should care deeply for each other can’t because grief and repressed anger are in the way. The bogeyman Babadook becomes a manifestation – perhaps real, perhaps imagined – of the dysfunctional relationship, and it gives Amelia and Samuel something to fight against instead of each other. As with We Need to Talk About Kevin, The Babadook addresses the very real horrors that can come with motherhood.
3. Rosemary’s Baby (1968)
It is delightfully incongruous that this slow-burn psychological horror film was produced by B-movie showman extraordinaire William Castle who was famous for such promotional gimmicks as installing electric buzzers in seats, offering fright breaks, and handing out insurance policies in case anyone died of fright. But Rosemary’s Baby was far from those schlocky films. Roman Polanski’s meticulously paced, moodily shot horror tale looks to a young woman who gives birth to the Devil’s child. Polanski’s approach was to root everything in the real world and make the witches and supernatural evil appear utterly mundane so that poor Rosemary (played by a mousy and frail-looking Mia Farrow) just seems insane as she comes to realize what’s happening.
There are a number of films that look to the horror premise of what if that thing growing in your uterus is evil (Devil’s Due, Still/Born, Hell Baby, Baby Blood) but Rosemary’s Baby tackles it with such elegant creepiness and casual matter-of-factness that it really gets under your skin. And in the end it asks if maternal instincts will kick in no matter what.
Cindy Hinds in ‘The Brood’ (Photo Credit: New World Pictures)
2. The Brood (1979)
I saved the most bonkers film for one of the top two spots: David Cronenberg’sThe Brood. This film just goes off the rails as it delivers body horror like only Cronenberg can do.
Psychotherapist Hal Raglan (the great Oliver Reed) has developed a technique called “psychoplasmics” in which he encourages his disturbed patients to release their suppressed emotions through physiological changes to their bodies (you know that can’t be good). Nola (Samantha Eggar) is in a custody battle with her husband over their young daughter and Raglan discovers that she was abused by her own mother (so a mother as monster element in the backstory).
In addition, there are these weird dwarf-children going around murdering people. ***SPOILER*** Then Raglan reveals that the dwarf-children are the offspring spawned as an accidental by-product of Nola’s psychoplasmic sessions. Wait, what?! That’s right! Her rage over her own abuse prompted the birth (the reveal of how these creatures are formed in a kind of external womb is an amazing, jaw-dropper scene) of a brood of “children” who are driven by Nola’s rage and destroy whatever angers her without her realizing it. This hits the horrors of motherhood on multiple, deliciously perverse levels.
Mara Hobel and Faye Dunaway in ‘Mommie Dearest’ (Photo Credit: Paramount Pictures)
1. Mommie Dearest (1981)
This has to be the ultimate horror of motherhood film. It is based on the real life of actress Joan Crawford, who gave us some bonkers moms (from the sacrificing mom in Mildred Pierce to the murderous one in Strait-Jacket) on screen and her adopted daughter Christina Crawford claimed in her memoir Mommie Dearest that Joan was a sadistic mother. The film serves up high camp melodrama and I am not sure where the truth lies but who cares for this list.
The film famously added “No wire hangers” to the pop culture lexicon. That scene, in which Faye Dunaway’s Joan Crawford looks monstrous in her facial cream and arched eyebrows, beats her daughter with a wire hanger for daring to put beautiful dresses on them.
Mrs. Voorhees (Friday the 13th), Margaret White (Carrie), and Mary Lee Johnston (Precious) deserve mention here as well but Dunaway in Mommie Dearest deserves the top spot for the over-the-top, in-your-face, iconic encapsulation of the best anti-Mother’s Day mom ever.
Netflix dropped Cobra Kai‘s season five teaser trailer on night seven of their Netflix Is A Joke: The Festival which featured special appearances by cast members including Ralph Macchio and William Zabka. The nearly two-minute trailer finds Johnny teaming up with Robby to find a missing Miguel while Terry Silver appears to have plans to take over the valley with the launch of multiple Cobra Kai training facilities. However, Daniel LaRusso isn’t about to roll over and play dead.
“There’s only one way to end this. We have to cut the head off the snake,” says LaRusso.
The trailer release was accompanied by the announcement Cobra Kai season five will launch on September 9, 2022.
Ralph Macchio returns as Daniel LaRusso and William Zabka is back as Johnny Lawrence. The season five cast also includes Courtney Henggeler as Amanda LaRusso, Xolo Maridueña as Miguel Diaz, Tanner Buchanan as Robby Keene, Mary Mouser as Samantha LaRusso, and Jacob Bertrand as Hawk.
The cast also includes Gianni Decenzo as Demetri, Vanessa Rubio as Carmen, Peyton List as Tory, Martin Kove as John Kreese, Dallas Dupree Young as Kenny, Oona O’Brien as Devon, Griffin Santopietro as Anthony, and Thomas Ian Griffith as Terry Silver.
Counterbalance Entertainment’s Josh Heald, Jon Hurwitz, and Hayden Schlossberg write and executive produce. Additional executive producers include Ralph Macchio, William Zabka, Susan Ekins, and Westbrook Entertainment’s Will Smith, James Lassiter, and Caleeb Pinkett.
Ralph Macchio and William Zabka onstage during NETFLIX IS A JOKE PRESENTS: Cobra Kai: Live and Badass (Photo by Randy Shropshire / Getty Images for Netflix)
Netflix released the following description of the upcoming season:
Following the shocking results of the All Valley Tournament, season five finds Terry Silver expanding the Cobra Kai empire and trying to make his “No Mercy” style of karate the only game in town. With Kreese behind bars and Johnny Lawrence setting karate aside to focus on repairing the damage he’s caused, Daniel LaRusso must call on an old friend for help.
Ozark’s penultimate series episode – season four episode 13 – opens with Ruth (Julia Garner) standing on top of one of the trailers with a construction foreman going over the details of what she wants done with her property. As they speak a crew gets started tearing down the other trailers.
As Wendy (Laura Linney) is driving she checks out the lump on her head – the one she caused by slamming her head into the window on purpose in episode 12. She shows up at a mental health facility and wants to check herself in because she’s not feeling well. A female clerk requests that she completes some paperwork and Wendy demands to speak with a doctor to speed up the process. The woman calls a man over to go over the questions with Wendy so he can fill out the papers for her. Because she’s Wendy and it’s just her nature, she attempts to bribe him and then threatens him. In turn, he hands her a list of therapists to see outside of the facility.
Marty (Jason Bateman) shows up at the casino and is shocked to find Ruth and Rachel (Jordana Spiro) in the office. Ruth informs him that when Wyatt passed away, she inherited Darlene’s estate and holdings. Rachel interjects that Charles Wilkes is selling his shares to Ruth because he doesn’t like the Byrdes.
Marty asks whose name is on the license and Ruth proudly shows him it’s hers. Her record’s been expunged. Marty reminds her it’s Navarro’s casino and they need to keep laundering for him or he’ll kill them. Rachel suggests that with all those shares just floating around he should have seen this coming. Ruth insists she’s no longer going to be involved in money laundering through the casino.
Marty jumps on the phone and fills Wendy in on what just happened. She seems to be losing it as she goes off. Marty asks if she’s okay and if she’s going to the jail with him to see Navarro. She appears to have forgotten about that, with trying to check herself into a mental health facility and all. She wants Marty to go without her and tries to convince him she’s fine.
Marty handles the meeting with Navarro (Felix Solis) and his sister, Camila (Veronica Falcon), by himself. Navarro wants to know why his lieutenants haven’t received their extra money. Marty claims he’s been dealing with a family emergency. He also lets them know that his father-in-law’s trying to take their kids because he thinks the Byrdes home isn’t a safe environment. Navarro doesn’t care. Omar needs the books to be perfect when his name is taken off the SDN list.
Wendy isn’t about to allow her dad, Nathan (Richard Thomas), take her kids and visits the motel to offer him a bribe. He refuses and suggests she take her drug money and leave. She doesn’t listen and instead tells him there’s $2 million in the bag. She thinks he should consider her offer.
She has a seat and notices the box he’s been hiding his booze in. She urges him to just take the money and drive away. He declines and says he’s going to keep the kids. He threatens to call the police and Wendy reminds him that he was a drunk and a cheat who used to beat them. She leaves but not before warning her dad she’ll kill him before letting him take her kids.
Marty’s desperate after his meeting with Omar and really needs Ruth to continue to launder the cartel money. Ruth won’t bend and suggests he use one of his other businesses to launder money through. She cleaned up her record and he and Wendy aren’t going to screw that up for her.
Later that evening, Wendy and Marty have a chat and, surprisingly, Wendy seems impressed with Ruth. Marty thinks they should use Wendy’s party for laundering money but Wendy refuses. She reminds him that once they’re in Chicago, they are going to be major employers there. They’ll be helping a lot of people but if the FBI or IRS looked into them it would be game over.
Wendy changes the subject and tells Marty he has to get the kids to come home. Marty doesn’t think he can do that and Wendy warns that if he won’t do it then she will. When he questions what she means by that she replies, “What do you think it means?”
Marty does as his wife requests, of course, and visits the Lazy-O Motel to beg his kids to stay. Marty reminds them they barely even know their grandpa and Jonah (Skylar Gaertner) thinks that even so, he’s better than their mom. Charlotte (Sofia Hublitz) can’t believe her brother said that even though a second later she asks Marty a hypothetical question. If they get out of all this tomorrow is he really going to stay with Wendy after everything she’s put him through?
Marty doesn’t answer.
Wendy and Rachel are going over the plans for Wendy’s fundraising event when they have it out. Wendy reminds Rachel she just got her life back together and she doesn’t know what she’s in for because the casino was built to launder money. Rachel tells her she’s a nasty b**ch without any human decency (amongst other things) before walking away to order town cars for the event.
Jonah and Charlotte return home to retrieve the last of their stuff. Wendy refuses to go outside to say goodbye.
Marty and Wendy watch surveillance video from the casino after sending their people in to launder money. Ruth isn’t having it and has the people kicked out. After Marty goes to bed Wendy calls Nelson (Navarro’s guy).
Nelson (Nelson Bonilla) is waiting in Rachel’s car when she gets off work. He puts a gun to her head and demands she let their colleagues launder money. Once she acknowledges she understands, he leaves.
Rachel confronts Marty the following day and he insists he doesn’t know what she’s talking about. (He’s actually telling the truth since Wendy ordered it.) She suggests they launder their dirty money through the party with millionaires they’re hosting instead of through the casino. He claims he can’t do that and Rachel figures out it’s because of Wendy.
“I really hope she’s worth it, man,” says Rachel, but agrees to help with Ruth.
Wendy pulls into the parking lot of what appears to be a hospital. Marty tries to call her, but she declines his call. Instead, she tries to call Jonah twice and it goes straight to voicemail. She drives away, mad.
Ruth confronts Marty about what they did to Rachel and, again, Marty insists he didn’t do it. However, he’ll talk to Wendy about it. Ruth informs him she rerouted all the funds coming out of the Belle which means he has to find another way to launder the money. He warns that as soon as the news hits Mexico it’s not going to be good for her. Ruth believes that’s on Marty to handle.
Wendy is truly losing her grip on reality. She’s lining up toy cars on Jonah’s bed when Marty asks if she sent Nelson after Rachel. She confirms she did. Marty reveals Wendy’s rash decision caused Ruth to reroute all the funds back to US soil. Wendy wonders what Ruth’s problem is (as if she doesn’t already know) and suggests letting Navarro die and Camila take over. Marty doesn’t think the FBI would go for it but Wendy seems to think all the FBI wants is money.
Ruth spots Nathan, obviously drunk, trying to throw a bag of alcohol bottles away at the Lazy-O. Ruth asks about the schools near where he lives, concerned because Jonah and Charlotte are smart. Nathan waves away the question and rudely asks how she and his son used to spend their time. What did they talk about? Ruth’s had enough and walks away.
Marty and Wendy sit down with Camila and lay out the whole story but it turns out she already knows everything. She’s aware they want her to run the cartel while pretending her brother is still in charge so the Byrde family can live free and happy lives. She asks how things are with their kids and Marty admits they’re not good. Camila believes family is important and now they’re asking her to kill her own brother.
Wendy informs her they know she’s already tried to have Omar killed. Camila wonders why they think she won’t kill them and Marty explains that with them she gets the FBI while running the biggest cartel. She’ll never see the inside of a prison cell while getting everything she’s ever wanted. Camila agrees but wants to see her brother one last time.
Wendy meets with Jim and asks how fast they could fill Schafer’s board seat if she gets rid of him. Jim reminds her she needs Schafer to get Navarro off the SDN list. She hints she doesn’t need him off the list anymore and Jim laughs and says. “Do you have plans to kill another head of the cartel?” If he only knew…
Jim is certain he could get Schafer’s spot filled.
Omar and Camila reminisce about the past and he admits he didn’t kill Javi. Plus, Javi wasn’t a traitor. She asks who killed her son and Omar says he doesn’t know but Wendy’s the one who told him Javi was dead.
Camila reacts by calling Marty, demanding to know who killed her son. Camila reveals Omar admitted it wasn’t him. Marty insists he doesn’t know but will investigate it.
Ruth and Rachel watch the construction taking place on Ruth’s property. Ruth asks Rachel if she wants to move in, and Rachel says Ruth deserves a new start and a new life.
Wendy’s just sitting in Jonah’s doorway when someone knocks on the front door. She doesn’t answer so the person lets himself in. It’s the priest delivering the news Navarro wants to see her and Marty. He explains Navarro had an uncomfortable conversation with Camila.
When Wendy doesn’t get up, the priest asks what’s wrong. She admits her children left her today. The priest attempts to comfort her and assures her they’ll come back. Wendy doesn’t think so. He confesses his own father was abusive and there was a time when it was either kill the man or join the church. That gives Wendy an idea. She thanks him and suddenly gets up.
Wendy returns to the mental health facility and tells the man who tried to help her before to admit her to the hospital or she’s going to kill her own father. That does the trick.
Marty visits Wendy in the facility and the only thing she’s concerned about is if he told the kids where she is or not. He didn’t because he doesn’t want them to worry. With each episode, it seems impossible that she can stoop any lower but once again Wendy proves us wrong. She wants the kids to get worried so they’ll come back.
Marty skips over her latest attempt at manipulating their children and reminds her she has a dinner to get ready for in two days. She doesn’t care. All she wants is for him to tell the kids she’s in the facility. Marty tries once again to change the subject and brings up Camila and the new deal. Wendy warns that if she leaves there she will “kill him.” Marty doesn’t get it and asks who she’s talking about. Wendy says she’ll kill her dad. She refuses to leave until she gets the kids back.
Ruth’s driving home in the pouring rain when she notices she’s being followed by Nelson. She stops in front of the police station, gets out of her car, and flips him off.
She walks into the police station and tells Deputy Wycoff she needs to talk. Once in his office, she reveals the man he has sitting in prison for killing Wyatt didn’t do it. She knows Javi Elizonndro did it and he worked with the Navarro cartel.
Ruth continues her confession and admits she hunted Javi down in Chicago and killed him. Also, Javi killed Sheriff Nix. Ruth warns Wycoff that if he tries to come after her with the DA, she’ll deny everything. He doesn’t know what to think, given that she came into all of Darlene’s money. Ruth informs him point-blank it’s not about the money. He can try to investigate but he won’t find any evidence. She just wants him to know he has the wrong guy in jail.
When Ruth exits the police station she notices Nelson’s gone. Frantic, she calls Rachel and warns Nelson is coming after her (Ruth) and he’s going to show up there looking for her. She tells Rachel to retrieve the rifle from the closet and run into the woods.
Rachel leaps into action but when she exits the trailer it’s too late; Nelson’s coming up the driveway. She climbs onto the trailer’s roof while still on the phone, and Ruth tells her she’s going to have to kill Nelson.
As soon as Nelson steps out of the SUV Rachel shoots him in the leg. Before he can react, she shoots him again. Nelson is dead.
Season four episode 13 ends in dramatic fashion with Rachel standing over Nelson’s body. Ruth gets out of her truck and joins her.
The team leaps into action to stop an ambush on CBS’s S.W.A.T. season five episode 20, “Quandary.” Directed by Stephanie Marquardt from a script by Sarah Alderson, episode 20 will air on Sunday, May 8, 2022 at 10pm ET/PT.
The season five cast is led by Shemar Moore as Daniel “Hondo” Harrelson. Alex Russell stars as Jim Street, Jay Harrington plays David “Deacon” Kay, Lina Esco is Christina “Chris” Alonso, Kenny Johnson is Dominique Luca, David Lim is Victor Tan, and Patrick St. Esprit stars as Commander Robert Hicks.
Episode 20 guest stars include Brigitte Kali Canales, Terri Hoyos, Kyle Hatley, Gregory Scott Cummins, Jennifer Say Gan, and Hugh Holub.
“Quandary” Plot: When SWAT discovers an illegal weapons dealer has sold stock to someone targeting a high-level politician, the team rushes to stop a deadly ambush.
Series Description, Courtesy of CBS:
Inspired by the television series and the feature film, S.W.A.T. stars Shemar Moore as a former Marine and locally born and raised S.W.A.T. sergeant, tasked to run a specialized tactical unit that is the last stop in law enforcement in Los Angeles. Torn between loyalty to where he was raised and allegiance to his brothers in blue, Daniel “Hondo” Harrelson strives to bridge the divide between his two worlds. However, Hondo is forced to question his professional identity when he is demoted from Squad Leader after going public to expose racial corruption within the LAPD.
The other members of Hondo’s elite S.W.A.T. unit include David “Deacon” Kay, an experienced S.W.A.T. officer and dedicated family man who always puts the team first; Christina “Chris” Alonso, a skilled officer and the team’s canine trainer; Dominique Luca, an expert driver who gets them in and out of high risk situations; newlywed Victor Tan, who started in the LAPD Hollywood Division and uses his confidential informants in the community to help the team; and Jim Street, the team’s cocky newest member. Responsible for the management of all Metro Division S.W.A.T. units is Commander Robert Hicks, a senior LAPD official with the Special Operations Bureau.
With Hondo no longer leading the charge, these dedicated men and women face an uncertain future as they bravely put themselves at risk to protect their community and save lives.
The official music video for Lady Gaga‘s “Hold My Hand” features the Grammy Award winner as well as classic scenes from 1986’s Top Gun and new footage from the sequel. “Hold My Hand” was written for the much-anticipated sequel Top Gun: Maverick and the music video was directed by the film’s director, Joe Kosinski.
Lady Gaga wrote a series of tweets discussing penning “Hold My Hand” for Top Gun: Maverick:
“When I wrote this song for Top Gun: Maverick, I didn’t even realize the multiple layers it spanned across the film’s heart, my own psyche, and the nature of the world we’ve been living in. I’ve been working on it for years, perfecting it, trying to make it ours.
I’m so grateful to Tom and Hans and Joe for this opportunity—and it’s been a beautiful experience working with them. Me, BloodPop, Ben Rice and everyone else who worked on it with us are so excited to share it with you.
This song is a love letter to the world during and after a very hard time. I’ve wanted you to hear it for so long. And I’m so excited to give it to you on May 3. ‘Hold My Hand.'”
During an interview on The Late Late Show, Tom Cruise credited Lady Gaga with providing the “heartbeat” of the film.
“Obviously making the soundtrack and the music in every movie is very important and this one was very particular,” said Cruise. “There was just a sound and something we were looking for and it just wasn’t right. She presented her song to us and it just opened up the whole movie.”
Cruise stars as Pete “Maverick” Mitchell and Miles Teller (currently killing it in Paramount+’s The Offer) plays Lt. Bradley Bradshaw, son of Maverick’s late friend, Goose (Anthony Edwards). The cast also includes Jennifer Connelly, Jon Hamm, Glen Powell, Lewis Pullman, Charles Parnell, Bashir Salahuddin, Monica Barbaro, Jay Ellis, Danny Ramirez, Greg Tarzan Davis, Ed Harris and Val Kilmer.
Top Gun: Maverick will be released in theaters on May 27, 2022.
The plot, courtesy of Paramount Pictures:
After more than thirty years of service as one of the Navy’s top aviators, Pete “Maverick” Mitchell is where he belongs, pushing the envelope as a courageous test pilot and dodging the advancement in rank that would ground him. When he finds himself training a detachment of TOPGUN graduates for a specialized mission the likes of which no living pilot has ever seen, Maverick encounters Lt. Bradley Bradshaw, call sign: “Rooster,” the son of Maverick’s late friend and Radar Intercept Officer Lt. Nick Bradshaw, aka “Goose.”
Facing an uncertain future and confronting the ghosts of his past, Maverick is drawn into a confrontation with his own deepest fears, culminating in a mission that demands the ultimate sacrifice from those who will be chosen to fly it.
Andrew McCarthy guest stars as Cade’s dad on Fox’s The Resident season five episode 22. “The Proof Is In The Pudding” will air on Tuesday, May 10, 2022 at 8pm ET/PT.
Season five stars Matt Czuchry as Dr. Conrad Hawkins, Malcolm-Jamal Warner as Dr. AJ Austin, Bruce Greenwood as Dr. Randolph Bell, Jane Leeves as Dr. Kit Voss, and Manish Dayal is Dr. Devon Pravesh. Jessica Lucas plays Dr. Billie Sutton, Anuja Joshi is Dr. Leela Devi, and Miles Fowler is Trevor.
“The Proof Is In The Pudding” Plot: When a young boy comes into the hospital with a rare disease which leaves his bones incredibly fragile, Cade’s father, Ian (McCarthy), scrubs in to assist in the surgery, leaving Cade all on her own in her recovery. With his clinical trial officially being declared a success, Devon has some huge decisions to make about the future of his career. Meanwhile, Billie struggles with some new feelings.
Entering its fifth season, The Resident continues to shine a light on the daily heroism of our health care workers. The provocative medical drama follows the doctors and nurses at Chastain Memorial Hospital as they face personal and professional challenges and fight for their patients’ health.
Season four saw a multitude of highs and lows as the heroes at Chastain struggled to overcome the impossible, including the unprecedented and devastating Covid-19 pandemic. Now, in a propulsive and emotional season five, the ante is upped, as the doctors continue to save patients and fight corruption in the healthcare system, this time with a partner. The alliance with Big Pharma that found a cure for sickle cell disease last season proves in season five to be a very sharp double-edged sword.
The season kicks off when a mysterious ransomware attack threatens the hospital, and DR. DEVON PRAVESH (Dayal) and Chastain’s recently appointed CEO, DR. KIT VOSS (Leeves), must make high-stakes, split-second decisions with lives in the balance. Meanwhile, DR. CONRAD HAWKINS (Czuchry) and NURSE PRACTITIONER NICOLETTE NEVIN’s (Emily VanCamp) attempts to navigate parenthood, marriage and work-life balance take a shocking turn when Conrad is forced to make a life-changing choice that will alter the course of their family forever.
After the unwanted arrival of DR. BILLIE SUTTON’s (Lucas) biological son, she is forced to confront her past head-on in hopes of healing. Luckily, she’ll have help with the emergence of a new friendship – and rivalry – with DR. AJ AUSTIN (Malcolm-Jamal Warner), who unknowingly takes an interest in Billie’s son, TREVOR (Fowler). Elsewhere, a wrench is thrown in the plans of DR. LEELA DEVI (Joshi), when an unannounced visitor threatens her new relationship, and DR. RANDOLPH BELL (Greenwood) moves forward with a surprising love interest.
A new wrinkle five episodes into the season will challenge audience expectations and reveal new truths about our characters. Old relationships will be tested, new ones formed, and the emergence of a widespread Medicare fraud scheme ensures Chastain will never be the same.
Jack learns unexpected details about his past on ABC’s Station 19 season five episode 17. “The Road You Didn’t Take” will air on Thursday, May 12, 2022 at 8pm ET/PT.
The season five cast includes Jaina Lee Ortiz as Andy Herrera, Jason George as Ben Warren, Boris Kodjoe as Robert Sullivan, and Grey Damon as Jack Gibson. Barrett Doss plays Victoria Hughes, Jay Hayden is Travis Montgomery, Danielle Savre is Maya Bishop, Stefania Spampinato is Carina DeLuca, and Carlos Miranda plays Theo Ruiz.
“The Road You Didn’t Take” Plot: Vic and Theo respond to a domestic disturbance between the parents of a trans teenager; Jack learns shocking new details about his childhood, and Ben and Travis help a clinic patient that’s long overdue for medical treatment.
Station 19, currently in its fifth season, follows a group of heroic Seattle firefighters as they put their lives and hearts on the line. Station 19 takes us inside the tough, tight-knit and sometimes heartbreaking world of the city’s bravest first responders.
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Netflix is teasing its upcoming vampire series First Kill with the release of the first photos and poster. The series is based on bestselling author Victoria “V.E.” Schwab’s short story, with Schwab creating the series and involved as head writer and executive producer.
Per Netflix: “When it’s time for teenage vampire Juliette to make her first kill so she can take her place among a powerful vampire family, she sets her sights on a new girl in town named Calliope. But much to Juliette’s surprise, Calliope is a vampire hunter from a family of celebrated slayers. Both find that the other won’t be so easy to kill and, unfortunately, way too easy to fall for.”
Sarah Catherine Hook plays Juliette Fairmont and Imani Lewis stars as Calliope Burns. The season one cast also includes Elizabeth Mitchell as Margot Fairmont, Aubin Wise as Talia Burns, Gracie Dzienny as Elinor Fairmont, Dominic Goodman as Apollo Burns, Phillip Mullings, Jr. as Theo Burns, and Jason R. Moore as Jack Burns. Will Swenson, Jonas Dylan Allen, Dylan McNamara, and MK xyz guest star.
The first photos were accompanied by the news First Kill will premiere on June 10, 2022.
Executive producer and writer Felicia D. Henderson (The Punisher, Gossip Girl) is the showrunner of the eight-episode season. Additional executive producers include Jet Wilkinson and Belletrist Productions’ Emma Roberts and Karah Preiss.
