The final season of ABC’s Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. continues with season seven episode 10, “Stolen.” Directed by Garry A. Brown from a script by George Kitson and Mark Leitner, episode 10 airs on Wednesday, July 29, 2020 at 10pm ET/PT.
The season seven cast includes Clark Gregg as Agent Phil Coulson, Ming-Na Wen as Agent Melinda May, Chloe Bennet as Daisy Johnson, and Elizabeth Henstridge as Agent Jemma Simmons. Iain De Caestecker plays Agent Leopold Fitz, Henry Simmons is Director Alphonso “Mack” MacKenzie, Natalia Cordova-Buckley is Elena “Yo-Yo” Rodriguez, and Jeff Ward plays Deke Shaw.
Episode 10 guest stars include Enver Gjokaj, Dichen Lachman, Thomas E. Sullivan, James Paxton, Dianne Doan, Tipper Newton, and Byron Mann.
“Stolen” Plot: After Enoch’s sacrifice propelled them out of the time storm, the team arrives back in 1983 where Nathanial and Kora are hard at work building an army of hand-selected anarchist Inhumans at Afterlife. When the agents split up to cover more ground, Daisy is tasked with protecting Jiaying and is compelled to confront her mother for the first time since her death while the others quickly learn they’ll need to face yet another supercharged former enemy in order to stop Malick.
Coulson and the Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. are thrust backward in time and stranded in 1931 New York City. With the all-new Zephyr set to time-jump at any moment, the team must hurry to find out exactly what happened. If they fail, it would mean disaster for the past, present and future of the world.
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Luke Grimes in ‘Yellowstone’ season 3 episode 6 (Photo Credit: Paramount Network)
A normal morning routine of making breakfast for her kids suddenly takes a dramatic turn for a mother who realizes her daughter never came home the previous night as Paramount Network’s Yellowstone season three episode six begins. The girl’s bed is made and the mother begins calling around to see if her daughter might have spent the night with friends.
Hours tick by and no one has heard from the missing girl. As night begins to fall, her concerned brother spends time calling out into the surrounding wilderness with no luck. The mom finally calls 9-11 after trying her best to locate her missing daughter.
Later, officers locate an empty car abandoned on the road. They search the nearby area without any luck.
Thomas Rainwater (Gil Birmingham) and Mo (Mo Brings Plenty) arrive at the house which is now full of concerned friends and family members. Tribal police officer Ben Waters (Atticus Todd) informs Thomas the car found abandoned 10 miles away was the missing girl’s. It had apparently run out of gas.
They believe she must have hitched a ride or attempted to walk home. They’re not sure which option is most likely. Officer Waters admits they don’t have the manpower for the search, and Thomas assures him he’ll make some calls.
Unfortunately, they both realize they’re most likely looking for a dead body at this point.
Meanwhile, John (Kevin Costner) joins Rip (Cole Hauser) and Kayce (Luke Grimes) at the spot Rip ran into the men with the buffaloes. John, wearing his Livestock Agent vest (as are Kayce and Ryan), describes the man in charge as a horse trader who’s half a criminal. John gives an order to move the cattle to another field and Rip instructs the wranglers to ignore anything the strangers say.
“Cool heads, understood? This bastard will try and test you,” warns John.
John, Ryan (Ian Bohen), Kayce, and an officer ride up to the fence where John immediately breaks his own “cool heads” rule. John asks about the buffalo and Wade Morrow says he’s babysitting them for the resort which is charging people $600 to come out to the field and have pictures taken with the animals. Kayce asks if the buffalo have been tested for a specific disease and the men verify they have.
Kayce’s the next to stomp on the idea of cool heads prevailing. In a tense exchange, he assures the men that if they don’t keep the buffalo on their side of the fence, he’ll do it – and they definitely won’t like his solution to the problem.
Back at the ranch, Beth (Kelly Reilly) is working on her laptop while eating breakfast as Jamie (Wes Bentley) walks in wearing a suit. Of course, Beth immediately puts him down, reminding him he’d never work for the family on Saturdays yet he’ll do it for himself.
Jamie wants to cut to the chase and address the real problem between them. Beth doesn’t want to right now but does describe her brother as never acknowledging the carnage his “help” brings with it. She calls him a broken man but says it’s not his fault.
“There’s just no right or wrong with you. Just his approval – that’s all that matters to you,” says Beth, acknowledging their father made him into something he never should have been. She knows just how much Jamie fears their dad’s disapproval and believes that’s what makes him truly evil.
Jamie has been standing there silently but finally speaks up for himself. He believes he’s always acted to protect this family from itself.
Beth warns her big brother, “The more you become what he wanted you to become, the more he’ll hate you for it. And he does hate you for it. We all do.”
And finally they get to the heart of the matter. Jamie thinks he should have said no to helping her all those years ago and only did what she asked him to do. Beth, tears in her eyes but in control, reminds him she never asked for a hysterectomy. Beth again tells her brother he’s evil since he can’t take responsibility for his own actions and blames her for the pain she continues to feel.
Lloyd (Forrie J. Smith) and Jimmy (Jefferson White) relax and watch Mia (Eden Brolin) and Laramie (Hassie Harrison) practice their barrel racing skills. Laramie calls Lloyd “Babe” and “Sugar” and he can’t believe after just two dances he’s a “buckle bunny.” He doesn’t need a barrel racer in his life, especially one who’s not even 25 years old.
Lloyd warns Jimmy that Mia will want more than a boyfriend who lives in a bunkhouse. Jimmy agrees and confesses he thought rodeoing would be his way out. Lloyd reveals John also told him years ago to give up rodeoing after an accident and after John paid his hospital bills. He knows only Jimmy can decide to give up rodeoing for himself – not because John has ordered him to do so.
Kayce returns Thomas’ phone call after making it back to his office. Thomas explains they have a missing person and Kayce offers to help by sending three agents. He also offers to make calls to round up more volunteers to assist with the search.
Meanwhile in town, Roarke (Josh Holloway) introduces Jamie to Marketing Equities CEO Willa Hays (Karen Pittman) who’s just flown in to sort out all the problems Roarke’s encountered. The meeting begins contentiously with Roarke revealing Beth has been shorting Market Equities stock. Willa believes Jamie’s going to be heavily involved in a conflict of interest moving forward when the state buys his family’s property. Jamie disagrees, reminding her the state hasn’t approved any such purchase.
Any purchase by the state needs to be approved by the assembly and then by voters if it moves forward and is placed on the fall ballot. Willa believes the development will bring in thousands of jobs, and Jamie fights back stating those will all be low-paying positions. Plus, those workers will be priced out of actually buying a home.
Willa thinks the community is already priced out of housing. She wants this deal done and makes Jamie an offer: $10,000 for 50,000 acres. That’s a whopping $500 million. Jamie doesn’t immediately respond and Willa suggests he let it sink in. She wants to discuss it further during their meeting with Governor Petty.
Kayce and his officers arrive to help Thomas’ men out with the search. Monica (Kelsey Asbille) has managed to wrangle a bunch of volunteers to also help out.
The volunteers are given instructions to stay 10’ apart as they search. They need to be looking for not just the missing girl but also anything that could be connected to her such as clothing, a cell phone, or even footprints.
Hours pass as they carefully and methodically search the area. Mo whistles for the search to briefly pause as a coyote clears the area. Thomas walks toward where the coyote disappeared and then warns everyone to stay away. He’s spotted a dead body at the bottom of a ravine.
Thomas turns the site over to Officer Waters and his men to investigate.
After work hours the wranglers sit around the bunkhouse and watch this weird video called “Guy on a Buffalo” which is, literally, about a guy riding a buffalo. Everyone loves it but Jimmy who thinks it’s ridiculous. (I’m with Jimmy on this.) Lloyd explains buffalo can’t buck but can roll over on you and Teeter (Jennifer Landon) suggests they try riding the buffalo in the adjoining field.
When Ryan and Colby (Denim Richards) reveal the mean old dude watching those buffalo is named Wade Morrow, Lloyd is suddenly all in on riding one. Ryan won’t, Jimmy physically can’t, and Colby claims he’s not supposed to drink and ride one. “It’s a whole thing,” jokes Colby.
Mia, Laramie, and Teeter are totally into it. The wranglers head out in the darkness and Lloyd reveals in order to rope a buffalo, you have to catch them around their horns. (Who thinks this is not going to end well?)
The buffalo flee the wranglers but they still manage to get ropes around a few. Laramie hops on one and goes for a ride. She falls off fairly quickly but loves it, calling the experience “f*cking awesome.”
It appears they lucked out and pulled off this little stunt without any injuries.
Back at the main house, Monica and Kayce talk about the dead girl. Kayce believes there are monsters everywhere and you have to kill them when you find them. Monica feels guilty and wants to try to stop the world from being so dangerous.
Kelly Reilly and Kevin Costner in ‘Yellowstone’ season 3 episode 6 (Photo Credit: Paramount Network)
The following morning Beth joins John outside while he drinks coffee. She wonders how he found this new inner peace and he doesn’t respond. She describes the current challenge the ranch is facing as a shift in values. “The world doesn’t value your way of life anymore, dad,” says Beth. John confirms he’s aware of that. She also warns him he can’t delegate the fight to Jamie and Kayce doesn’t have the skills.
Beth confesses she can’t do it alone. John believes she needs to teach Kayce and learn to trust Jamie. Beth is instantly angry and storms off while advising her dad he doesn’t know Jamie. John asks the right question: what is it she knows they don’t? John honestly and earnestly wants to know what Jamie did.
Beth finally turns toward her dad and appears ready to reveal exactly why she hates her brother.
Monica returns to the field and continues a search for clues. Thomas and Mo are driving by and Thomas spots her and stops to talk. She explains she’s trying to help and Thomas advises her she won’t find anything out there. Monica doesn’t think it’s fair and Thomas agrees. He believes they weren’t supposed to be there and reservations were supposed to be temporary. But they didn’t learn to be “white” and so here they are. He knows the government wants them to die because it wants the land. He wants the land back to build lives the government can’t take away.
Monica wants to help with that and Thomas explains he’s forming a council to take their story public and help combat violence against women on reservations. Thomas asks if Monica’s interested in leading that fight and she says yes.
John returns to the house and Jamie’s at the table with his laptop. Jamie attempts to discuss the Market Equities proposal but John cuts him off. John’s barely able to control his rage as he asks Jamie, “Who the f*ck do you think you were to take that from her?”
Jamie stumbles on his words as he tries to explain she asked for his help and he was just a kid, too.
Kayce hears the argument and interrupts, asking what’s going on. John strides out of the room while telling Kayce to ask his brother. Jamie kicks a chair and then punches the glass in the front door. He completely loses control and while Jamie cries, Kayce wraps him up in a bear hug to keep him from following John.
“All I do is give! I hate him! I f**king hate him. I f**king hate you!” he screams as Kayce holds onto him.
Beth listens in secret as Jamie sobs uncontrollably in Kayce’s arms.
John leaves the house and angrily stalks toward the fence. He holds onto it as he says to himself, “It’s all for nothing. Everything I’ve done is all for nothing.”
Luke Evans and Dakota Fanning in ‘The Alienist: Angel of Darkness’ episode 2 (Photo by Kata Vermes / TNT)
TNT’s The Alienist season two episode two starts off in what appears to be a meat locker. We see a man hacking away at what we think is a pig since there are so many hanging nearby on hooks. Another man comes in and hands him a saw for the bones. The second man says, “Those boys won’t be telling any secrets where they’re are going.”
It becomes obvious the first man was actually cutting up a corpse when he stands up, holding a severed finger. He removes a ring while his friend snorts drugs. Body parts are then tossed to a very hungry dog.
John Moore (Luke Evans) meets with his boss Bernie Peterson (Demetri Goritsas), and Bernie believes another missing baby doesn’t mean anything and doesn’t care what Crazy Kreizler thinks. (It seems that is the nickname people have given Laszlo Kreizler.)
Bernie asks if he really thinks Dr. Markoe is kidnapping babies and killing them. John admits he doesn’t, but he wants to accompany Sara and see if the two are connected. The boss doesn’t see how they could be, given one baby came from a poor woman and the other from a rich diplomat. John points out that not only could they vindicate Martha Napp, but quite possibly have the scoop of the century.
John heads over to Sara’s office and goes over his conversation with his boss. He admits his boss is sure the two cases aren’t connected. Nevertheless, Bernie gave him permission to investigate.
Sara (Dakota Fanning) informs John that Laszlo will be accompanying her to the Spanish consulate to interview their servants. Laszlo (Daniel Bruhl) walks in as John’s asking if she thinks the servants are lying. Laszlo claims it’s easy to tell when one is lying by their face. John doesn’t buy it and Laszlo decides to demonstrate on John, asking him how he feels about small dogs. (John’s fiancée has a small dog.) John proves Laszlo’s point by getting upset and telling him to stop it.
Sara changes the subject and wants to know what Laszlo’s holding in his hand. It’s a flyer for a public lecture by D. Markoe. Laszlo plans to attend and ask him publicly about what’s happened. John offers to also attend and ask questions as a New York Times reporter.
The Isaacson brothers test different poisons on rabbits. There’s a line of dead rabbits on the table as a result of the injections.
While Sara and Laszlo are on their way to the Linares house, Laszlo wonders if he can get Señora Linares to agree to be hypnotized. Sara’s completely against this idea and doesn’t want him to even ask her about that.
Sara and Laszlo begin to interview the servants one by one, asking basic questions including how long they’ve worked for the Linares family and if there are poisons kept in the house. Laszlo jumps in and asks if they think Señora Linares is a good mother. Sara glares at him. He then asks the nanny if she ever brought the child to the department store. The nanny’s unable to answer because she’s crying. He then asks if Señor and Señora Linares seem happy together. Sara quickly whispers Laszlo’s name in warning.
Narciso Linares (Diego Martin) asks if they spoke with everyone and Sara says she believes so. Laszlo asks if he can speak to his wife and Narciso informs him his wife is resting. Laszlo’s insistent that he speak with her and Narciso says more firmly, “Not today.”
As they’re leaving Laszlo admits he thought the interviews would yield more information. Sara says their only two avenues right now are the doll from the department store and the body of the Napp baby.
Dr. Markoe (Michael McElhatton) is delivering his lecture when Laszlo comes in late, drawing attention to himself. The lecture ends and Laszlo begins to loudly ask questions. John’s there and jumps in, stating the body of Martha Napp’s baby was found in a department store. Dr. Markoe questions if it’s really Martha’s baby at all. Laszlo confirms he examined it himself. Dr. Markoe makes jokes and Laszlo questions if this is funny to him that he had a mother executed for being a murderer when she, in fact, was not one.
Dr. Markoe calls it an outlandish claim.
The room clears out and Dr. Markoe’s cleaning up when Thomas Byrnes (Ted Levine) arrives. Dr. Markoe informs him Laszlo Kreizler showed up there tonight and accosted him. And Kriezler was with a man from the New York Times. Thomas informs him the reporter is John Moore and that Sara Howard is also a part of their team. Thomas calls Laszlo a nuisance and Dr. Markoe admits Laszlo could ruin all of them. Thomas assures him they’ll take care of not only Kreizler but his friends as well.
Douglas Smith and Matthew Shear in ‘The Alienist: Angel of Darkness episode 2 (Photograph by Kata Vermes / TNT)
Marcus (Douglas Smith) and Lucius (Matthew Shear) Isaacson go to see Sara and find Laszlo and John are there as well. Sara asks if there are any results from the autopsy. Marcus reveals they’re still analyzing the poison, but it appears one component is nightshade. It’s a calming agent but lethal in too big of a dose. Only someone with medical expertise would know the correct dose to administer.
The Isaacsons were shocked to find the black substance they thought was just blood in the infant’s mouth was actually powdered carbon. Laszlo seems confused by this because powdered carbon is used as an antidote for poison. That’s true, but the amount of poison swallowed was only enough to render the baby unconscious. Which begs the question, how did the baby die? John asks this and the Isaacsons believe the baby died from asphyxiation.
John sums up the current theory: someone poisoned the baby, changed their mind, and then provided the baby with powdered carbon. Sara adds, “He then decides to smother the child.”
As the brothers leave Sara’s building, Thomas is across the street watching through a window.
John and Sara head over to the Siegel Cooper Department Store to speak with the manager, Sterling Hessler (Oliver Maltman). After exchanging pleasantries, Sara gets to the point. She lets Sterling, who she seems to know well, in on the fact there’s another missing child. They think the doll can help.
Marcus heads out to pick up supplies and Thomas suddenly shows up, catching Lucius off guard. He informs Thomas that Marcus isn’t there, but Thomas explains he wants to see him and not Marcus. Lucius seems taken aback by that. Thomas assures him it’s a sensitive matter involving the brothers, Laszlo, Sara, and John. Thomas tells Lucius he knows he’s loyal and does not fault him for that. He won’t go after him and instead he’ll go after his brother. Lucius asks him what he wants. Thomas simply says, “Information. That’s all.”
Back at the department store, Sterling says the doll found at the Linares place is called Ruby Red. The store keeps a record of everyone who bought items there. As he goes through the book, he finds it odd that someone that goes by E.H. bought the doll. They did not leave an address.
As he continues to go through the book, it appears this E.H. purchased the doll at least four times! Upon looking further he spots a fifth purchase of the doll. On that occasion, E.H. did leave an address.
Sara and John make a plan to visit that address, which is in a bad neighborhood, that evening.
William Randolph Hearst (Matt Letscher) and Violet chat about whether John Moore will be joining them for dinner that evening. Hearst believes John and Violet will make a good match, and notes John has an excellent pedigree. He hands her a check which he describes as being large enough to cover the running of a small nation.
As Violet leaves, Thomas arrives to inform Hearst another child is missing. This time it’s the daughter of the Spanish Consulate General. They’re keeping it hush-hush and Hearst compliments him for doing a nice job of digging up the news.
It appears wealthy men take their mistresses to Dr. Markoe to “take care” of unwanted pregnancies to avoid scandals. The latest man to go to him wants to know what will happen to the child. Dr. Markoe tells him that will be of no concern. He assures him there won’t be any scandal.
John attends a dinner with a group of people that includes Violet and William Hearst. William seems to be watching Violet and John closely during dinner when John suddenly gets up to leave. William questions whether his duty lies with his fiancée. John admits it does, but he really must leave for work. William insists when Violet and John get married, he must come work for The Journal where the hours are more social. John politely says goodnight and with that he leaves.
Sara and John show up at the address listed in the department store’s register. They find the building has long since been abandoned. From the sign hanging outside, it appears it once housed transient people. John suggests they can still find out who once occupied it from the landlord.
Some younger men appear and begin to walk toward Sara and John. The two quickly walk down the street and observe they’re being followed. They duck into an alleyway and lose the men stalking them.
Sara and John enter a saloon, still in the slums, to speak with whoever is in charge. Sara asks if the man, Cyrus (Robert Wisdom), if he ever heard of any of their patrons kidnapping children for ransom. Cyrus admits he wouldn’t put it past them.
John wants to know who’s in charge of the criminal group currently populating the bar. Cyrus says Goo Goo isn’t there but he’ll introduce them to some of the men who are. Cyrus says they’re all bad but compared to Goo Goo Knox they are altar boys. John asks about the old boarding house on Hudson Street. He said Goo Goo used to own the place and it burned down last year. John asks him if he can introduce them to someone from Goo Goo’s gang and Cyrus doesn’t think that’s a good idea.
Cyrus realizes Sara and John won’t take no for an answer and brings Ding Dong (Peter Coonan) over to speak with them. Ding Dong asks what Sara and John want with Goo Goo, assuming they’re cops. John introduces himself and informs him he works for the New York Times and would like to speak with Goo Goo about 247 Hudson Street. That elicits a shocked look from Ding Dong who was cocky just a few seconds ago. Sara chimes in saying it’s about a missing baby. Ding Dong says, “I ain’t seen him in months” and ends the conversation.
Laszlo goes to see Señora Linares by himself. He explains he was hoping to see her husband and she says her husband is busy. War is a possibility between their two countries and even with their unimaginable situation, her husband still must attend to his duties.
Señora Linares would like to know why he’s there and Laszlo explains he believes he can help access her deepest memories through hypnosis. Señora Linares is visibly upset by this suggestion, just as Sara had assumed she’d be. He says he understands her reservation but thinks it will help find her child. She declines and dismisses him, saying someone will escort him to the door.
A body is pulled from the water at the docks. Most of it is missing and it appears what’s recovered is just a torso. The Isaacson brothers are there to examine the body and determine if someone used a scalpel to remove identifying marks, such as tattoos.
Thomas Byrnes is also on the scene and speaks with Captain Doyle (Martin McCreadie) who thinks it’s hoodlums that did this. Thomas plants the idea that it was the Spanish who did this to a Cuban. He thinks it would be most helpful for the headlines if the Spanish were blamed. He also tells Doyle there have been nefarious goings-on over at the Spanish consulate. He reveals one of their children has vanished and not one word about it was spoken to the authorities.
John is typing away on his typewriter when a woman comes running in to inform him that word is two men Goo Goo Knox was feuding with wound up dead in the Hudson River by the pier. He asks the woman to put in a call to Sara and to have her meet him down there.
John overhears Thomas say the police are saying the dead men are Cubans. John spots someone he once knew and that man tells him word has it that Goo Goo Knox had an altercation with two fellas. John hands the man some money and tells him he needs to talk to Goo Goo about something important.
The man assures John he’ll take care of it.
Shortly thereafter, John’s walking down an alleyway when he finds himself surrounded by men. Goo Goo Knox (Frederick Schmidt) appears and puts a knife to John’s throat, revealing he’s aware John’s been asking a lot of questions about him. Sara suddenly appears and points a gun at Goo Goo Knox. He lets go of John as Sara asks him what he knows about 247 Hudson Street. Goo Goo claims he knows nothing about it. John informs him they heard he was the owner and he suddenly remembers the place.
Sara asks if he knows anything about a missing child. He claims not to know what they’re talking about. She asks who lived at 247 Hudson Street and he says it was mainly pimps and whores. Maybe one of them has the baby because he definitely doesn’t.
The baby is shown sleeping and then suddenly wakes up, crying. We see different vials including one with nightshade.
Sara shows up at work and is informed she received a call from Señora Linares and she isn’t happy. Cut to Sara showing up at the restaurant Laszlo frequents and now she’s the one who’s unhappy. Without greeting Laszlo, she says, “I explicitly told you not to contact the Linareses and yet you did.”
Laszlo acknowledges Sara’s angry and she claims what he did was a violation of not only her trust but of their friendship as well. He invites her to join him at his table for a meal, even though she’s obviously mad at him. She asks for a glass of Bourbon but refuses any of the food he ordered for her.
Sara takes a seat and calms down a little. She questions whether he really thinks Señora Linares would benefit from hypnosis. He explains why he thinks she will. Laszlo then changes the subject and reveals he saw something rather curious during his visit to the Spanish consulate. He reveals they did not interview the staff member who let him in and she seemed to be a close confidante of Señora Linares’. Sara is shocked by the news and says they must speak to her immediately.
When they show up the police are there arresting Señora Linares. Laszlo and Sara demand to know what’s going on and Captain Doyle tells them Señora Linares is being questioned about the disappearance of her baby. Sara, thinking quickly, tells Captain Doyle she applauds his bravery. That confuses Doyle. Sara insists because the Linareses have diplomatic immunity, if they arrest Señora Linares it will be a diplomatic incident of the highest degree. It could even hasten a war with Spain.
After first protesting it wasn’t his call, Captain Doyle lets her go rather than cause a diplomatic incident.
Inside the consulate after Señora Linares is released, the woman they didn’t get to interview is standing next to Señora Linares. Sara informs her they need to talk to the woman whose name is Eva. For some reason, Señora Linares doesn’t want them to speak with her, and they insist they must.
After Eva leaves, Señora Linares tearfully recalls an incident that happened with the baby. While she was drawing a bath, the baby fell. She asked Eva not to tell her husband. She took the baby to the hospital and the doctor there insisted the baby stay for a few days and so she had Eva stay with the baby. Sara asks what hospital they visited.
Back at her office, Sara meets with Laszlo, John, and the Isaacson brothers to go over what they’ve learned so far. They don’t think Goo Goo is stealing babies unless he’s doing it for money. Lucius says the child had three different poisons in it and two of them are easy to get while the other isn’t. The other is a sedative most commonly used in a maternity ward.
The episode ends with Dr. Markoe helping a woman give birth. The woman passes out after her final push. The doctor says there’s one final thing that needs to be done as he grabs a scalpel. The baby is very much alive and crying when the matron asks what she should tell the woman when she awakens. He replies, “Tell her the child did not survive.”
Global superstars BTS are coming out with a new single on August 21, 2020. The group took to Vlive to announce the release of their upcoming single, stating, “We think this single can give energy to ARMYs. We felt helpless due to the COVID-19 pandemic and we believe ARMYs also feel the same.”
Jimin said since the group has so many international fans and because of this situation, he thinks it’s good to add an English song. (That’s a rough translation of his explanation; official translations will be released soon.) The 7-member group also said their next album will be released in the last half of 2020. However, no confirmed date was announced.
BTS, who sing predominantly in Korean, have dabbled in English songs before on features for other artists but never for their own songs. The closest they came was on their 2017 hit “Mic Drop ft. Steve Aoki.”
BTS also revealed to their fans what they’ve been doing during the Covid-19 pandemic. They’ve been filling their downtime by spending private time with their families and working on their new album. Member V says he has been working on his mixtape and Suga and Jin have been practicing musical instruments – Suga the guitar and piano (Suga has played the piano since childhood) and Jin on the piano.
2020 has been a rough year for the music industry due to many artists relying heavily on tour ticket bundles to help boost album sales. Their tour was postponed due to COVID-19, but BTS has still managed to snag a number one album in the US on the Billboard 200 chart for Map of the Soul: 7 and most recently a number one album in Japan for the Japanese release, Map of the Soul: The Journey. Their impressive album sales also earned them the current top spot in the United States (pure sales) for selling 528,000 units to date.
BTS also smashed the record this year in Japan, selling 500,000 copies in just two days. More impressively, they have the bestselling album in the world. Map of the Soul: 7 sold 4.02 million copies immediately upon release with pre-orders and first-week sales.
So, what can fans look forward to next from the group besides the new single coming in August? They’ll be headlining the iHeartRadio Music Festival on September 18 & 19. As we previously reported, the two-night event will be streamed online this year. This is the first time the music festival’s gone virtual, a decision necessitated by the Covid-19 pandemic. The festival wanted to make sure fans would be entertained with great music while still doing their part to keep both artists and fans safe during this difficult time.
Daniel Brühl, Dakota Fanning, and Luke Evans in ‘The Alienist: Angel of Darkness’ (Photo Courtesy of TNT)
Season two of TNT’s critically-acclaimed psychological thriller The Alienist kicked off with back-to-back episodes on July 19, 2020. The Alienist: Angel of Darkness features the same three main characters from season one: The Alienist himself, Laszlo Kreizler (Daniel Bruhl); John Moore (Luke Evans), now a New York Times reporter; and Sara Howard (Dakota Fanning) who’s opened her own detective agency after working for Roosevelt and becoming the first woman employed by the NYPD. Season one focused on finding a serial killer who targeted younger male prostitutes in 1896. Season two centers on the hunt for a kidnapped infant, a search that leads the trio down a dangerous path as they search for another killer.
Season two begins in New York in 1897. A woman awakens in what appears to be a hospital to find her baby is missing. She begins to check other cribs, desperately searching for her baby. When a nurse comes in to check to see what’s going on, the woman is frantically screaming, “Where is my baby!”
As nurses grab ahold of her, she spots Dr. Markoe (Michael McElhatton) and asks him where her baby is. She warns him she knows what’s going on and threatens to call the police. The nurses immediately sedate her.
Laszlo’s at the prison visiting the woman whose baby went missing. She’s been charged with murdering her own child, although there isn’t any proof or a body. She wonders what people are calling her and Laszlo assures her it’s the world that’s monstrous, not her.
Sara Howard races through the streets in a horse and carriage, hustling to her office where a client demands to know how her case is going. However, Sara’s not interested in her missing silverware when there’s a woman about to be put to death.
Sara and her team gather banners they’ve made in support of the woman who’s being put to death.
John Moore gets on the phone with Teddy Roosevelt to ask for his help in any way since a woman’s life is at stake. He hangs up and returns to his fiancée at a restaurant. John explains he has to leave and she brings up wanting him to work for her godfather at The Journal so he would have better hours. Right now, he’s a journalist working for the New York Times.
Sara shows up at the restaurant to meet John and they head off to Sing Sing prison. They arrive to find protesters demanding the release of Martha Napp. Former Chief Thomas Byrnes (Ted Levine) is there giving his statement on the new electric chair, dubbing it a more humane way to put someone to death.
While the former chief was let into the prison with ease, when Sara tries to enter with her badge from the NYPD the guard notices it’s out of date and attempts to prevent her from going in. John points out they just let a former chief in without any issues but he’s denying Sara entry. Sara stands firm and claims she’s under orders from Teddy Roosevelt. They believe her and let her in.
Martha (Hebe Beardsall) admits she doesn’t mind dying but she does mind dying and not knowing what happened to her baby girl. She makes Laszlo promise he’ll find her missing infant. He promises her that.
As she’s being led to her death, women protesters are being beaten outside. Martha hands Dr. Kreizler her baby’s blanket in hopes that will somehow help him find her.
Martha’s placed in the electric chair and asked if she has any last words. Sara yells out, “Stop!” and calls this an outrage and an abomination. Thomas isn’t surprised one bit by her outburst. Laszlo tries to stop Sara, saying they’ve lost the battle. However, Sara isn’t finished. “I ask you all as you sit here silently spectating, where is the body of the murdered child? Where? Shame on you! Shame on you all!”
After her speech we see the woman being put to death by electrocution.
Laszlo and John ride back to the Kreizler Institute and Laszlo tells John his man will take him back to his work. John gets out and tries to talk to him, but Laszlo doesn’t want his pity. John wonders what kind of friend he would be if he left him alone like this. Laszlo admits Martha put her faith in him, and John vows he’ll write about her and let all of New York know the injustice that was done to her. Laszlo believes whoever stole her baby killed her. They might as well have pulled the lever themselves.
Sara is in her office late at night when she sees a silhouette pass by. Grabbing a gun she goes to inspect who it is and discovers it’s Laszlo. Lowering her gun, she admits she could have killed him. Ignoring her comment, he confesses he can’t seem to get the smell of burning flesh out of his nostrils. It’s no longer a physical sensation but in his memory of what happened today.
She offers him a drink and he asks how her new adventures as a detective are going. She says it seems her clients are rich old women who think their servants are stealing from them. He begins to psychoanalyze her just based on what she has surrounded herself with in her office. She reminds him it’s late and doesn’t need him to do that right now. They move on and agree what happened today was monstrous. He reveals he promised Martha he would find her missing child. Sara confirms her agency is at his full disposal. He wants to go over all his notes he took while speaking to Martha first.
Thomas Byrnes shows up at the New York Journal to see William Randolph Hearst (Matt Letscher). Byrnes brought with him a rather unusual “present” – Martha’s hair. William looks disgusted and wonders why he brought her hair. Byrnes figures the newspaper can give it away. William passes on that.
Thomas leaves when William calls in his assistant. He wants one of the writers to write something about Spanish spies coming to their shores and bringing their war with them.
Spanish Ambassador-General Narciso Linares (Diego Martin) says goodbye to his wife (Bruna Cusí) and infant daughter. He has to attend to his duties but before leaving he tells his wife he doesn’t want her leaving the house while he’s gone. She assures him everything will be fine.
Not listening, Senora Linares takes the baby on a walk to the park. Someone’s watching her as she sits down at a table. She’s offered a drink and it appears she’s been drugged as things around her grow fuzzy. She decides to leave and hurries home. After putting the baby to bed she takes a bath. She falls asleep and is suddenly awakened. She goes to check on her baby to discover her child is gone and a doll has taken the baby’s place in the crib.
Sara’s lying awake when she gets a call in the middle of the night. She heads over to a house to find a sobbing woman. Elizabeth Cady Stanton (Alice Krige) confesses she didn’t know who else to call besides Sara, given the political sensitivities. She knows the police won’t help “the enemy” find their missing baby.
Elizabeth admits they were hoping Sara could call her friend Dr. Laszlo Kreizler. Sara seems somewhat offended, assuring Elizabeth if she needs the help of an alienist she’ll call upon him. However, Sara believes what Senora Linares needs is a detective because there’s always a trail.
Sara inspects the crib and asks if the sheet was there when Elizabeth arrived. Elizabeth admits she put it there because of the doll and then shows Sara the doll. Sara believes this is staged, curated almost like a work of art.
Laszlo’s at a restaurant when he begins to have flashbacks of Martha’s trial. As he gets up to leave John spots him and calls him over. Before John can say anything else, Laszlo begins to tell him he’s been reading Martha’s physician’s book. He diagnosed Martha as post-term psychosis. John tries to cut him off, but Laszlo keeps talking. John stands up and says, “May I present my fiancée, Miss Violet Hayward.” Violet (Emily Barber) calls him the famous doctor but somehow Laszlo manages to offend her and sees himself out.
Sara walks around the yard and determines the kidnapper got in through the basement and where they exited the house leads to the alleyway.
Laszlo stands outside the hospital and bangs on the door. The matron frantically tells Dr. Markoe that Dr. Kreizler is outside. He tells her not to worry and to inform Laszlo the doctor is indisposed.
Sara meets with her team for a status report. They confirm they went to hospitals and the morgue and found nothing. She asks one of them to send a message to John asking if there have been any developments in the Martha Napp story. She seems to think there’s a connection between the two missing babies.
A mom and her young daughter visit a store and the child wanders off to look at the toys. She spots what she believes to be a doll. As we see the girl looking at the dolls, we also see Sara inspecting the one that was left at the Linares house. After the girl picks up the doll, a black substance begins oozing out of it. The girl screams and throws it to the ground.
John goes over his Martha Napp article with the editor who doesn’t know if he wants to run it because it’ll make a lot of important people angry. John says he’s angry as well because “the blood of innocence was spilled.” As he walks with his boss a woman from the paper chases them down. They received a call that a baby’s body was found in a store. John’s boss instructs him to go down there but tread lightly.
Brothers Marcus Isaacson (Douglas Smith) and Lucius Isaacson (Matthew Shear) are in the department store examining the baby.
John and Sara arrive at the store and she reveals she fears this is another missing child. John’s surprised to hear the word “another.” Sara opens up about working for the Spanish Ambassador and about his missing child, explaining the baby went missing last night.
The brothers step outside and spot John and Sara. They confirm the baby is a girl and she died recently. Sara asks to see the baby and the brothers are hesitant because the police wouldn’t be okay with that. Sara begs, assuring the brothers they’ll be quick.
Someone has drawn eyes over the baby’s eyelids, replicating the way a doll would look. Sara confirms the baby is not the missing Spanish baby. The black substance is actually blood and the brothers believe it’s mixed with a toxic causality, meaning poison. Sara admits she thinks it’s a good idea for Laszlo to look at the body. The brothers say he can’t do that at the store, but they’ll send a message to have him meet them at their lab.
Laszlo shows up at the lab and asks if they’ve identified the baby. Marcus says they haven’t and wonders how they can. Laszlo says Martha told him her baby had an identifying mark on her shoulder. The baby is indeed Martha Napp’s.
Laszlo, Sara, and John go over the photographs acquired from the brothers that were taken at the department store and at the morgue. Sara feels like this is diabolical. As they go over psychoanalyzing what the killer could be like, we see the newly kidnapped baby in a crib crying.
Episode one ends with Laszlo saying, “Well, whoever they are they will kill again.” Sara replies, “We must begin.”
National Geographic released a new three-minute clip from the original dramatic series The Right Stuff which is set to land a spot on the network’s primetime lineup this fall. The new clip features Jake McDorman as Lieutenant Commander Alan Shepard and finds him rushing to make a meeting at NASA that involves the potential selection of Mercury astronauts.
The clip premiered during National Geographic and Disney+’s Comic-Con@Home panel which included cast members and executive producers from the network’s first scripted series. Former NASA Astronaut Dr. Mae Jemison moderated the virtual version of a San Diego Comic-Con panel.
In addition to Jake McDorman, the season one cast includes Jake McDorman as Lieutenant Commander Alan Shepard Patrick J. Adams (“Major John Glenn”), Colin O’Donoghue (“Captain Gordon Cooper”), Michael Trotter (“Gus Grissom”), Aaron Staton (“Wally Schirra”), and Micah Stock (“Deke Slayton”). James Lafferty (“Scott Carpenter”), Nora Zehetner (“Annie Glenn”), Shannon Lucio (“Louise Shepard”), Eloise Mumford (“Trudy Cooper”), Eric Ladin (“Chris Kraft”), and Patrick Fischler (“Bob Gilruth”) also star in the series based on Thomas Wolfe’s bestselling novel.
Micah Stock as Deke Slayton, Jake McDorman as Alan Shepard, Aaron Staton as Wally Schirra, Michael Trotter as Gus Grissom, Patrick J. Adams as John Glenn, Colin O’Donoghue as Gordon Cooper and James Lafferty as Scott Carpenter in ‘The Right Stuff’ (National Geographic/Gene Page)
The Plot:
The Right Stuff is an inspirational look at the early days of the U.S. Space Program and the incredible story of America’s first astronauts, the Mercury Seven. At the height of the Cold War in 1959, the Soviet Union dominates the space race, and America fears it is a nation in decline.
Newly-formed NASA has the monumental task of sending a man into space, and its engineers estimate they need decades to accomplish the feat. They are given two years. Dubbed Project Mercury, the program recruits and trains just seven astronauts from a handful of the military’s best pilots. Within days of being presented to the world, the Mercury Seven become instant celebrities, forged into heroes before they achieve a single heroic act.
At a time when many wondered if America’s glory days were behind it, The Right Stuff is an aspirational story about how ordinary human beings can achieve the extraordinary. As much about who we are today as it is about historic achievements, the series evokes the wonder of this singular era, when the free world looked towards a new horizon of hope as we first stepped off the bounds of our only home to venture into the vast unknown.
Season 11 of FX Networks’ critically acclaimed adult animated comedy, Archer, will finally premiere on September 16, 2020 at 10pm ET/PT. New episodes of season 11, which was delayed because of the Covid-19 pandemic, will air on Wednesdays on FXX and Thursdays on Hulu.
The new season will consist of eight episodes, with episodes one and two arriving back-to-back on September 16th.
The premiere date announcement was made during Archer‘s Comic-Con@Home panel now available via the San Diego Comic-Con’s official YouTube channel. The panel also included the unveiling of the official season 11 trailer.
Returning voice cast members include H. Jon Benjamin as the newly awakened secret agent, “Sterling Archer;” Aisha Tyler as super spy, “Lana Kane;” Jessica Walter as Archer’s mother and spymaster, “Malory Archer;” Judy Greer as the surprisingly well-adjusted assistant, “Cheryl/Carol Tunt;” Chris Parnell as the newly-minted alpha male, “Cyril Figgis;” Amber Nash as the lovable comrade in arms, “Pam Poovey;” Adam Reed as the consummate professional, “Ray Gillette;” and Lucky Yates as the unscrupulous scientist, “Algernop Krieger.”
The popular series was created by Adam Reed. Reed serves as an executive producer with Matt Thompson and Casey Willis.
The Plot, Courtesy of FXX:
Archer is an animated, half-hour comedy that follows Sterling Archer and his return to the spy world after a three-year coma. While many things changed during his absence, Archer is confident it will take just a little time for him to reset things back to the old ways. The problem: does the rest of the team want that? Everyone else has been doing pretty well and may not be ready for his return to throw a wrench in their well-oiled machine.
With Covid-19 raging and not much new content going on television-wise, I’m finally checking out The CW’s supernatural crime drama, Nancy Drew. Season one episode one opens with a young woman in a bloody formal dress standing on top of a cliff above the ocean holding a crown. She hears a sound and then falls to her death.
Main character Nancy Drew (Kennedy McMann) narrates a flashback in which she’s standing in a cemetery, wearing a formal dress one would wear to a prom or pageant, draped in the Miss Sea Queen sash and holding a crown. The opening scene showed the town’s most infamous Sea Queen and now Nancy’s friends encourage her to put the crown on the dead woman’s gravestone. (It appears to be a Horseshoe Bay tradition for the newly crowned Miss Sea Queen to visit Lucy Sable’s grave.) After her then-boyfriend jumps out from behind the grave and scares her, Nancy sees something that appears to be a woman in a dress.
A voiceover by Nancy explains that ever since she was little, she was a curious person. She saw her parents digging something up as a child and when her mother noticed her, she tried to convince Nancy she was just having a dream and to go back to bed. Since that night she’s been chasing the shadows.
When a local girl went missing young Nancy Drew was the one who found her. “Mysteries were everywhere and I loved solving them,” says Nancy. However, flashbacks also reveal her mother died from cancer and she decided not to go searching in the dark anymore.
Now, a grown-up Nancy Drew introduces us to her current fling, Ned “Nick” Nickerson (Tunji Kasim). After a quick rendezvous, she’s off to work at a local diner where she arrives late and is reprimanded by her boss, Georgia “George” Fan (Leah Lewis), who seems to be the same age as her and a feisty one.
As Nancy’s getting ready for her shift, the narration provides details on other characters including Ace (Alex Saxon) the dishwasher. We also learn George has had a problem with Nancy since high school, but we’re told she’ll get into that issue at a later time. Then there’s Bess (Maddison Jaizani) who’s not from there and crashing with her rich aunt. She’s apparently not good in the waitressing department.
While they’re attempting to close early, Ryan Hudson (Riley Smith) shows up with his wealthy associates wanting a quiet table. While George takes Ryan and his posse’s order, he tells her to take care of his wife’s order as well. (She’s outside.) George, whose MO seems to be constant irritation, demands Nancy help her and cater to Ryan’s wife. The ever-curious Nancy finds this off since George is not the type to want or need help.
Nancy delivers food outside to George’s wife, Tiffany (Sinead Curry), who’s talking on the phone in front of her car. Tiffany asks for wine and as Nancy’s getting it while chatting up Ace the power goes out. After looking around the diner she decides to grab her cell, turn on the flashlight, and head outside.
It’s late at night and the fog has set in. (Not creepy at all!) She begins to call out for Mrs. Hudson when the fireworks start to go off at their town’s celebration. She then spots Tiffany lying on the ground dead. Nancy yells out for help and the only people who come running are Ace, George, Bess, and Nick who comes out of nowhere. Strangely, Tiffany’s husband and friends don’t run out and somehow the police are there right away.
The police begin to individually question the five who were standing over the body when they arrived. The cops decide Ace is good (he has an alibi) and take the rest of the group to the station. They want to know why they had to go down to the station and Chief McGinnis (Adam Beach) says, “I’m looking at a decent four-pack. Town screw up, ex-con, city girl, and Nancy Drew.”
Bess, the only outsider, wants to know why he said Nancy’s name like that. He admits Nancy used to complicate his work for him and then George snidely remarks, “You mean used to do it for you.” The chief is clearly not happy with George and brings up that he hasn’t thrown her mom in the drunk tank this month.
When the chief brought up ex-con, he was aiming that label at Nick which takes Nancy by surprise. She accuses him of never telling her he went to jail. He says it was when he was a minor and his records are sealed while pointing out to Nancy she never really seemed interested in getting to know him as anything more than a sexual relationship.
Nancy questions the chief as to why he didn’t bring Ryan Hudson in for questioning, given that the husband is always the first suspect. He lets everyone go except Nancy and instructs her to go to his office. There, she begins to go over different scenarios such as a health condition or a drug problem. She thinks maybe there wasn’t any foul play at all.
In response, the chief plays the 911 call Tiffany Hudson made just before her death. She pleaded, “Help me!” several times before the line went dead. McGinnis begins to ask Nancy again where she was during that time frame. Detective Karen Hart (Alvina August), who seems to know Nancy very well because she states, “You know I love you like family,” asks Nancy for her help by cooperating on the case. Nancy begins to have flashes of Tiffany before and after her death and suddenly she remembers Tiffany had a ring on when she served her. When she was found her ring was missing.
McGinnis, who really seems not to like Nancy, suggests maybe that nice missing ring could help Nancy and her dad out with the money they need to pay medical bills. Clearly, a low blow, with tears in her eyes Nancy says, “Wow, and I thought you wanted my help.”
As she gets up to leave, McGinnis warns her not to go too far as she’s still a suspect.
Her father, Carson (Scott Wolf), shows up and it’s clear they don’t have a good relationship. He’s not happy with whoever called him and says he’s been busy at work. She brings up that he’s neglecting his daughter and storms out. Carson attempts to get her to stop so he can drive her home since she’s still living under his roof.
Nancy’s walking down the deserted streets of Horseshoe Bay when suddenly she hears children sing, “Lucy Sable once was able to look upon the sea. But someone got her in the water and now that’s where she’ll always be.”
She stops when she hears that song and then flickering lights in a closed store catch her eye. She walks over to what appears to be a dress store. When she catches her own reflection looking back at her a crown suddenly appears on her head. But when she goes to touch her head nothing is there.
Finally home and lying on the couch, she apologizes to her deceased mom for not recording the fireworks. She had set up her phone to record them while she was busy and thought she didn’t capture anything. However, it turns out she did. When she plays the video she sees Tiffany Hudson in front of her car in the parking lot right before she died. Before dropping her food, Tiffany appears to be scared by a shadowy figure in what seems to be a long flowing dress coming toward her. The screen then goes to black.
Back at the restaurant, Nancy shows her co-workers Ace and Bess as well as her boss, George, the video. Bess believes a ghost killed Tiffany Hudson and Nancy becomes frustrated, wanting a different opinion other than a ghost committed murder. George gets irritated with Nancy reminding her she was the one who asked for their help in the first place. Ace agrees with Bess, maybe because it seems he has a thing for her.
Bess asks who Lucy Sable is and how they all know her. Ace gives her the CliffsNotes version (definitely no pun intended) that Lucy Sable was crowned Miss Sea Queen in the year 2000 and disappeared after the celebration, never to be seen again. All that was found was blood on the rocks below the cliffs and a scrap of the pink dress.
Nick shows up at the diner and tells George he came by for coffee. He explains usually Nancy brings him coffee in the morning, but she didn’t today. He assumes learning about his past might have scared her off. Nancy informs him she thought he would have stayed at the police station so they could have talked fully and in private. She then looks around and notices everyone staring at them. George takes that particular time to bring up that Nancy didn’t have a problem talking about George’s sex life in high school. Nancy insists she never spread any rumors about her. George counters with, “No. You just listened to your friends and smiled. Right?”
Now that they’re off track Nick wants Nancy to say something. She lets everyone know she and Nick are seeing each other. She realizes she needs to rectify things by telling everyone publicly they’re together. This seems to appease him, and the conversation returns to the topic of them all being murder suspects. Nancy is in disbelief they’re suspects while Tiffany’s husband is not.
Immediately George speaks up and insists there’s no way Ryan did it. Bess follows suit, not believing he’s behind it. Nick asks, “Why? Because he’s rich?” He agrees with Nancy and thinks the husband did it.
Nancy, being a detective at heart, begins to go over their marriage and possibly what they could find in her bedroom. Medications? Drugs? Ace brings up a possible gambling addiction. Bess stops him and asks, “I thought you were Team Ghost?” He quickly changes back to the Team Ghost side for Bess.
Nancy seems to remember she no longer hunts for clues anymore and before walking away states she’s sure the police will figure it out. Nick asks George if she thinks Nancy will change her mind. George admits not only is she not sure, but Nancy has been different since her mom died.
The new Nancy that doesn’t do detective work anymore doesn’t last long and she’s standing in front of a gated house belonging to Ryan Hudson. Getting out her trusted black beanie, she waits for Ryan to leave his home, and then she sneaks in.
She heads to the master bedroom to look around when suddenly she almost knocks something over. She somehow tripped a silent alarm and the security company shows up. Nick also shows up and helps her get out of the house. He asks Nancy what she was doing and she questions why he was there. He claims he came to help her.
Safely back in Nancy’s driveway, Nick starts to assure her he’s there if she ever wants to talk about her mom. She cuts him off and wants to know who told him about her mom. Ignoring her, he explains whenever she’s ready, he’s here for her. This seems to be too much for Nancy and she quickly tells him she doesn’t think it’s a good idea to start anything serious. She seems to upset him and he drives away.
At the diner, Nancy shows George a limited edition necklace. George makes Nancy admit she’s asking her for help before confirming she knows exactly what it is; it’s some sort of good luck charm given to guys who go out to sea from their girlfriends to help them find their way back home. George questions Nancy about where she got it and Nancy confesses she took it from Ryan Hudson’s house. A shocked George says, “You broke into Ryan’s house?!” saying it as more of an accusation than a question.
Bess overhears this and joins in on the conversation. They seem more impressed than mad when Nancy explains it was in a hidden compartment in Tiffany’s nightstand along with a note that read: “For your protection -HG.”
George wants to crack the necklace open.
Instead, they end up at the water and after Nancy holds it under it comes apart. She sees a horseshoe with a jewel in the center. Nancy remembers seeing that before on the Miss Sea Queen crown. George notices an address as well. Nancy looks up the address and it belongs to a medium. Bess thinks Tiffany was being hunted and that’s why she needed a medium.
They decide to go speak with the medium but Nancy stops them, letting them know she normally does these things on her own. George points out she wouldn’t have known about the medium if it wasn’t for her extensive knowledge of the necklace. Bess points out that Nancy doesn’t even believe in ghosts and the medium will pick up on it. George wants her to admit – again – that she needs them. She doesn’t but they join her anyway.
The medium is lighting candles when Nancy asks her to just tell them about Tiffany Hudson. She doesn’t think it’s necessary to have a séance. As Nancy, Bess, and George argue over the necessity of a séance the medium warns them, “Best not to keep the dead waiting.”
They sit in a circle around a table holding hands and the medium instructs them to repeat after her, “Spirit, we welcome you.” The medium asks Tiffany if she has anything to say to them. Just when they think this won’t work the table begins to shake and in an eerie voice, the medium repeatedly says, “Find the dress. Find the dress.”
Bess breaks the bond by withdrawing her hand and everything stops. The medium demands they get out and insists that wasn’t supposed to happen. She claims she heard a voice and George reminds her that’s her job. Nancy asks whose voice she heard. The medium says it wasn’t Tiffany. Bess says, “It was dead Lucy.”
Detective Karen hands Nancy’s dad Nancy’s black beanie which she left behind at the Hudsons’ when she and Nick were running away from the house. Carson points out that it’s just a knitted black hat but Karen corrects him. She explains Nancy’s mother knitted it for her when she went to sixth-grade camp. He questions how it went from Ryan Hudson’s house to his coffee table. He points out she took evidence and could lose her job. Karen explains she did it for Nancy who could lose a lot as well.
Moments later Nancy walks in on Carson and Karen kissing and is clearly shocked. Carson begins to tell her Karen found her hat on the Hudson property. Nancy says, “And as my lawyer, you were willing to do anything to protect me?” referring to the kiss she just witnessed. Carson warns her not to turn it around on him. Karen jumps in and tells Nancy she and her father are worried about her. That’s a bad move because when she says, “as a friend” Nancy cuts her off. “A friend? Is that what you are? Is that what you were to my mom?” snaps Nancy.
Carson admits this is not how he wanted Nancy to find out about their relationship.
Nancy storms out of the house and Carson chases after her wanting to talk. She turns around, visibly upset, and says this whole time she thought he was devastated about her mom and instead he’s hooking up with her mom’s best friend. Nancy says she cannot wait to go to college so she can get out of there and he can go back to his secret life. With that, she turns and leaves.
Nancy shows up at Nick’s shop, crying. He asks if she’s okay and she tries to lie by claiming she is. But then she finally opens up and admits she wanted to believe that this is not her life, that her mother isn’t dead, and that Columbia isn’t just a pipe dream. But, this is her life. Nancy reveals the only good thing in her life right now is Nick and she wants to get to really know him. She tells him she has so many questions but before asking any he kisses her.
Nick takes her home the following morning and she brings up his time in jail. When he pauses, she assures him it’s okay; he doesn’t have to tell her. She claims she can wait until he’s ready.
Walking in she sees her father and the first thing she says is, “I’m sure you have a lot of questions.”
Shockingly, he tells her he has just one question and that is what is she doing with Ned Nickerson. Nancy wasn’t expecting that question at all. She asks what he knows about Nick and he hints he knows more than she does and warns her to stay away from him. She asks if he was Nick’s lawyer and he responds by saying he can’t discuss it. She knows that’s a yes.
After her dad leaves, Nancy breaks into his filing cabinet and finds Nick’s file. It turns out Nick was charged with manslaughter and found guilty. The single witness who helped put him away? None other than Tiffany Hudson.
Nick shows up at her house and says, “Let’s see if we can get this baby running around,” referring to Nancy’s mom’s old car. Putting on a happy face she replies, “Great.”
Later that night Nancy is writing out a list of suspects, means, and motives. After we see Nancy writing those down, we watch all the suspects going through their nights. Bess appears to be lying and not living with her rich aunt but instead is living in a van. George shows up at Ryan’s house and he tells her it is too soon for this. She reminds him she’s not in high school anymore and he’s not married anymore.
Ace is spying on them and taking pictures which he sends to the chief. Nick’s fixing Nancy’s mom’s car when he finds something hidden in it. We can’t see what it is because it’s wrapped up. Back to Bess and she’s in her van looking at Tiffany Hudson’s ring. Apparently, she took it.
Nancy is putting together a diagram of all the suspects and their motives when the power suddenly goes out. When she goes to explore what happened, the attic door suddenly opens. Instead of being freaked out (like most people would be), she heads up to explore the attic.
A hanging piece of wallpaper grabs her attention and as she pulls it away from the wall, she finds words written on it. “Lucy Sable once was able to look upon the sea. But someone got her in the water and now that’s where she’ll always be. Count to five, enjoy the view, hope the killer doesn’t get you.”
After ripping the wallpaper away, she spots a trunk. She has a flashback of the night when she was little and found her parents digging up the trunk. As all this is happening children are singing what’s written on the wall. They end the song with, “One, two, three, four, five, you’ll never get out of here alive.”
When Nancy opens the trunk, we hear faint chanting, “Find the dress.” And Nancy does in fact find it. It’s the same dress Lucy wore the night she died and it’s covered in blood. Narrator Nancy asks, “Why is it always the ones you love most who have the most to hide?”
As the episode ends, a ghost of a woman in the dress appears behind her.
Thoughts on Nancy Drew Season 1 Episode 1:
If you’ve ever read a Nancy Drew book, perhaps late at night by flashlight, you know full well you’ll most likely get scared. Regardless, you just have to know if Nancy solves the crime. The show might scare you but not like the books.
As with most books adapted into television shows or films, The CW’s Nancy Drew takes a lot of creative liberties with the source material. The writers went a different route with the show and opted for a more supernatural tone than the books. In fact, only one of the books I can recall had a supernatural vibe.
It seems this season will have a lot to do with one particular ghost and solving said ghost’s death. And while it’s vastly different from the books, at least Nancy Drew solving crimes – or in this case more like solving mysteries – remains at the heart of the story.
The character introductions were handled well with brief descriptions narrated by Nancy revealing just enough to slightly get to know them while leaving some mystery behind. The ending exposed a few more clues about each character, and viewers were allowed to see they all appear to have something to hide.
While I’m a bit on the fence with this show, I’m intrigued enough to see where the first season goes. I hope the writers do justice to the books.
The delayed season 10 finale of AMC’s The Walking Dead isn’t actually going to be the final season 10 finale. AMC’s set an October 4, 2020 premiere date for the season finale (“A Certain Doom”) previously expected to air in April before Covid-19 wiped away plans for finishing up the season. And during the series’ Comic-Con@Home panel, showrunner Angela Kang announced there will be six new additional episodes added to season 10. (So, the October episode is only sort of a finale.)
The just-announced season 10 episodes are expected to air in early 2021. Season 11 of the zombie apocalypse series is also targeting a delayed 2021 premiere.
The panel also included the premiere of a three and a half minute opening scene clip from the “finale” featuring the return of Maggie, played by Lauren Cohan. The video also reveals a masked warrior and includes a creepy clip of Beta leading a massive horde.
Cohan joined her The Walking Dead co-stars Norman Reedus (Daryl), Melissa McBride (Carol), Lauren Cohan (Maggie), Josh McDermitt (Eugene), Seth Gilliam (Gabriel), Ross Marquand (Aaron), Khary Payton (Ezekiel), Jeffrey Dean Morgan (Negan), and Paola Lazaro (Princess) for the Comic-Con@Home panel. TWD Universe Chief Creative Officer Scott M. Gimple, showrunner Angela Kang, and executive producer Greg Nicotero also laid out plans for the series and what fans can expect from the October season finale.
Check out the full panel hosted by San Diego Comic-Con’s official YouTube channel:
The Season 10 Second Half Plot, Courtesy of AMC:
The Walking Dead returns to find our group of survivors are trapped. Some in the confines of a cave filled with walkers, while others are caught in a spiral of suspicion and grief. All orchestrated at the hand of Alpha, who continues to prove the Whisperers are always watching, and one step ahead of the communities. Which includes the new and potentially deadly threat of having added Negan to their ranks.
Through this conflict and all they’ve lost, a few still hold onto hope, especially Eugene, who believes the mysterious voice he spoke with on the radio may lead to their world getting bigger once again.
But with the Whisperer War upon them, the collective communities must come together and possibly sacrifice all they have to find a way to silence the Whispers once and for all. Otherwise Alpha will ensure they face a certain doom.
The cast of History’s Vikings came together virtually (while still remaining safe at home) for a look back on six seasons of the Lothbroks. Travis Fimmel, Clive Standen, Katheryn Winnick, Alex Ludwig, and Jordan Patrick Smith joined series creator Michael Hirst for a Comic-Con@Home panel, the safe, virtual alternative to the annual San Diego Comic-Con.
During the panel, History unveiled an official sneak peek clip (see below) from the second half of season six, set to premiere later this year. However, the clip is spoiler-ish so watch at your own risk.
Katheryn Winnick, who Vikings fans have grown to love as badass Lagertha, discussed her character’s fate during the panel. “That last moment you did where Lagertha falls in the water and lands right next to Ragnar. And a little fun fact to the fans that last line ‘In my dreams, we are always together,’ that was actually my audition line when I first tested as Lagertha. So it’s just full circle to see it all come back.”
Travis Fimmel’s Ragnar lost his life a few seasons back, and Fimmel recalled how it felt to shoot the scene where he said goodbye to his daughter. “I don’t know why, but it took me about 3 minutes to memorize that whole thing because it was just written so well. All the best writing, I can memorize like that.”
Ubbe (Jordan Patrick Smith) in HISTORY’s ‘Vikings’ season 6 (Photo by Bernard Walsh Copyright 2020)
On a lighter note, Jordan Patrick Smith remembered stepping onto the set for the first time and becoming a part of the Vikings family. “That was the best part of working on Vikings was it was all one big family, there was no hierarchy from top to bottom. Especially when I came on the show and joined it. It didn’t matter who you were working with, it could be a grip, it could be a producer – someone’s throwing an apple at your head when you are turning around,” said Smith. “It was just one big family with no hierarchy. Everyone’s just locked in together. When you are working out in the cold together in minus five, it does become a family. You know everyone and their personal lives and it is one of the things I miss most about the show.
I do remember my first day on the set because Travis slapped me in the face 45 times. That was my introduction to Vikings. When I first came to set it was big shoes to fill. I remember walking down the hills and someone said, ‘Please don’t mess this up, our jobs depend on you.’ So that was what the four brothers were introduced to walking down the hill.”
During the 45 minute panel Clive Standen talked about the Ragnar and Rollo fight scene and complimented the action series’ first-rate stunt team. “The stunt team who were incredible in our show, they always came up with fantastic fights and they came up with a fantastic fight for Ragnar and Rollo. It was all swords and it was a very beautiful fight and Travis came in, and he was right, he just said, ‘This needs to be the tension between the brothers. It needs to be the brothers and not one of them is going to go down until one of them is dead.’ He showed some examples of fights and we arranged to get rid of the swords as soon as possible and just hit each other.”
Asked about what’s in store, Michael Hirst promised the second half of the sixth and final season will wrap up storylines and reveal fates. “The characters who we all, including me, have grown to love will all have their fates decided. Whether they live or die is of course in the hands of the gods, although I had a hand in it too,” said Hirst. “I think the conclusion of this saga is deeply satisfying. A proper and meaningful ending. And I hope all our fans will feel the same way. I tried to do justice to all my characters and I hope I’ve succeeded.”
