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icepixieI found a plot summary for what was originally going to be the S1 finale of BoP. Spoilers under the cut:
When 17-year-old overachiever Trent Brady is found dead after calling 911 outside of a rave, Megan and her team are called in to investigate. The teenager’s parents seem to be in denial about their son’s access to drugs, but Megan will need help in determining the drugs found on the teen’s body, and turns to her new friend, Special Agent Ames (Cliff Curtis) for help. Meantime, Megan’s ex-husband Todd (Jeffrey Nordling) has major news which will affect Megan’s future with their daughter.
(From here. If you click "older posts," you can find synopses for the other three episodes that were to be part of S1, and also a really awful picture of Nicholas Bishop.)
...Kate's moving in with Megan's ex, isn't she? OH DEAR GOD, SHOW. WHY DO YOU DO THIS TO ME.
Or, if they take the saner route (yeeeeeah, I doubt it on this show), maybe he got a job opportunity somewhere not in Philly, and so he's going to be moving Lacey across the country. Though unless the kid playing Lacey wants out of the show, I'm guessing he'll wind up staying in town at the beginning of the next episode.
I'm uncertain exactly what the FBI fellow's role is supposed to be. This is his second episode, and I heard at some point that he was supposed to be some kind of romantic interest for Megan, but I'm not sure if it's supposed to be just UST or if she's going to get into an actual relationship. Either way, I imagine it won't last, because if he's like so many of the other FBI agent guest characters who usually appear on cop shows, that'll be two obsessive, driven, jerkassy Type A personalities clashing hard, possibly with fire and small arms. Heh, it strikes me that maybe that's part of what happened to Megan and Todd. It might be interesting to see if Megan tries it, then realizes she's just making the same mistake she made beforeand then deciding she needs someone more laid-back, like Peter.
Also, there is this graphic, which I found on Tumblr labeled as "season finale" from someone in Bulgaria, and I think it's probably from this episode rather than ABC's "season finale." Though maybe not? Either way, things look rather grim for Peter...
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Apparently NBC is putting Grimm on at the same time as Fringe has been (and I assume will continue next season) airing. I don't care that much personally, because after watching the three clips they posted, I'm thinking the show looks alternately dire and like Buffy with a dude, and so I probably won't be watching, but I worry that it will bleed ratings points from Fringe. Not that I expect Fringe to get another season after this one (which was pretty obviously a gift), but since I started watching the show, it's become a reflex to worry about its ratings. Though I suppose the more likely scenario is that Grimm gets canned after about four episodes because there are only so many genre viewers around at 9 PM on Fridays, and between Fringe, Supernatural, and Grimm, it'll get the short end of the stick.
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And finally, yesterday I watched what may just become my favorite adaptation of The Taming of the Shrew, done in 2005 as part of the BBC's Shakespeare Retold series. The series modernized four of the plays, putting them in contemporary settings, using modern language, and rewriting the stories slightly. TTotS stars Shirley Henderson as an independently-wealthy Conservative MP running for Leader of the Opposition, who is advised that getting married might make her bad-tempered image more palatable to the general public, and Rufus Sewell as a penniless crossdressing aristocrat who owes £54,000 in back-taxes and who thus needs to marry well. You can imagine that the crossdressing part doesn't go over very well with Katherine, who finds out about it at a particularly terrible time. As a bonus, Jaime Murray plays fashion model Bianca, and Stephen Tompkinson (aka Father Peter Clifford from Ballykissangel) is Harry, who appears to be a composite of Petruchio's flunkies from the original. Twiggy is the sisters' mother.
As you might expect, this interpretation changes quite a bit of the play; most importantly, it emphasizes that Petruchio/Peter (the cast list and DVD chapter titles disagree on his actual name, and it's never mentioned in the film) is just as in need of "taming" as Katherine, and it also makes clear that both of them are getting something out of the marriage both emotionally and practically. However, I was struck by how it never let the original get too far from your mind; Petruchio/Peter quotes a lot from the text, and Katherine quotes a few key lines as well.
The ending in particular is one that you really can't leave as it is in a modernization of the play. It might have been considered progressive at the time, since Kate agreed to submit to her husband because she thought he had her best interests at heart rather than just because it was her duty, but obviously that's not going to fly now. These folks had Katherine quote the speech about putting her hands under her husband's foot, but then turn it around--she says he would do the same for her, and he agrees. There's also an entertaining bit of business where she says to her sister, mother, and husband that prenuptial agreements imply the union won't last, a lack of trust, etc., and of course she didn't have one, and then as soon as she and Peter leave, she says that anyway, they aren't worth the paper they're written on. Heh. And, in what might've been my favorite part, she then announces she's pregnant (with triplets, for extra lols), but he's going to have to do most of the childcare, because she's going to be off running the country, to which he enthusiastically agrees. Hee!
As if the script weren't enough, Shirley Henderson and Rufus Sewell have insane amounts of chemistry and sexual tension in all their scenes together, and are really fun to watch. The whole thing is hilarious and worth checking out.
When 17-year-old overachiever Trent Brady is found dead after calling 911 outside of a rave, Megan and her team are called in to investigate. The teenager’s parents seem to be in denial about their son’s access to drugs, but Megan will need help in determining the drugs found on the teen’s body, and turns to her new friend, Special Agent Ames (Cliff Curtis) for help. Meantime, Megan’s ex-husband Todd (Jeffrey Nordling) has major news which will affect Megan’s future with their daughter.
(From here. If you click "older posts," you can find synopses for the other three episodes that were to be part of S1, and also a really awful picture of Nicholas Bishop.)
...Kate's moving in with Megan's ex, isn't she? OH DEAR GOD, SHOW. WHY DO YOU DO THIS TO ME.
Or, if they take the saner route (yeeeeeah, I doubt it on this show), maybe he got a job opportunity somewhere not in Philly, and so he's going to be moving Lacey across the country. Though unless the kid playing Lacey wants out of the show, I'm guessing he'll wind up staying in town at the beginning of the next episode.
I'm uncertain exactly what the FBI fellow's role is supposed to be. This is his second episode, and I heard at some point that he was supposed to be some kind of romantic interest for Megan, but I'm not sure if it's supposed to be just UST or if she's going to get into an actual relationship. Either way, I imagine it won't last, because if he's like so many of the other FBI agent guest characters who usually appear on cop shows, that'll be two obsessive, driven, jerkassy Type A personalities clashing hard, possibly with fire and small arms. Heh, it strikes me that maybe that's part of what happened to Megan and Todd. It might be interesting to see if Megan tries it, then realizes she's just making the same mistake she made before
Also, there is this graphic, which I found on Tumblr labeled as "season finale" from someone in Bulgaria, and I think it's probably from this episode rather than ABC's "season finale." Though maybe not? Either way, things look rather grim for Peter...
*
Apparently NBC is putting Grimm on at the same time as Fringe has been (and I assume will continue next season) airing. I don't care that much personally, because after watching the three clips they posted, I'm thinking the show looks alternately dire and like Buffy with a dude, and so I probably won't be watching, but I worry that it will bleed ratings points from Fringe. Not that I expect Fringe to get another season after this one (which was pretty obviously a gift), but since I started watching the show, it's become a reflex to worry about its ratings. Though I suppose the more likely scenario is that Grimm gets canned after about four episodes because there are only so many genre viewers around at 9 PM on Fridays, and between Fringe, Supernatural, and Grimm, it'll get the short end of the stick.
*
And finally, yesterday I watched what may just become my favorite adaptation of The Taming of the Shrew, done in 2005 as part of the BBC's Shakespeare Retold series. The series modernized four of the plays, putting them in contemporary settings, using modern language, and rewriting the stories slightly. TTotS stars Shirley Henderson as an independently-wealthy Conservative MP running for Leader of the Opposition, who is advised that getting married might make her bad-tempered image more palatable to the general public, and Rufus Sewell as a penniless crossdressing aristocrat who owes £54,000 in back-taxes and who thus needs to marry well. You can imagine that the crossdressing part doesn't go over very well with Katherine, who finds out about it at a particularly terrible time. As a bonus, Jaime Murray plays fashion model Bianca, and Stephen Tompkinson (aka Father Peter Clifford from Ballykissangel) is Harry, who appears to be a composite of Petruchio's flunkies from the original. Twiggy is the sisters' mother.
As you might expect, this interpretation changes quite a bit of the play; most importantly, it emphasizes that Petruchio/Peter (the cast list and DVD chapter titles disagree on his actual name, and it's never mentioned in the film) is just as in need of "taming" as Katherine, and it also makes clear that both of them are getting something out of the marriage both emotionally and practically. However, I was struck by how it never let the original get too far from your mind; Petruchio/Peter quotes a lot from the text, and Katherine quotes a few key lines as well.
The ending in particular is one that you really can't leave as it is in a modernization of the play. It might have been considered progressive at the time, since Kate agreed to submit to her husband because she thought he had her best interests at heart rather than just because it was her duty, but obviously that's not going to fly now. These folks had Katherine quote the speech about putting her hands under her husband's foot, but then turn it around--she says he would do the same for her, and he agrees. There's also an entertaining bit of business where she says to her sister, mother, and husband that prenuptial agreements imply the union won't last, a lack of trust, etc., and of course she didn't have one, and then as soon as she and Peter leave, she says that anyway, they aren't worth the paper they're written on. Heh. And, in what might've been my favorite part, she then announces she's pregnant (with triplets, for extra lols), but he's going to have to do most of the childcare, because she's going to be off running the country, to which he enthusiastically agrees. Hee!
As if the script weren't enough, Shirley Henderson and Rufus Sewell have insane amounts of chemistry and sexual tension in all their scenes together, and are really fun to watch. The whole thing is hilarious and worth checking out.
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