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lokiondisneyplus · 4 years
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Over five popular seasons, the story lines of “Better Call Saul” have unfolded across nail salons, fried-chicken joints and other strip-mall staples of American life.
When new episodes begin premiering next year, though, the locations that give the “Breaking Bad” spinoff its texture could be reined in or done away with altogether. The culprit? The novel coronavirus, which is limiting where the New Mexico-set AMC show can film, potentially altering both its style and substance.
“Like a lot of other people, we’re going to have to be very creative in where and how we shoot,” said Mark Johnson, the veteran producer who oversees the Vince Gilligan hit, whose writers just began collaborating on the series’s sixth season. “A lot of places just won’t let you in.”
Across the entertainment industry, casts and crew are beginning to return to work after a five-month hiatus. In states with loosened restrictions, such as Georgia and New York, production is starting to crank up under tight controls that alter how sets operate. Instead of crew members freely mingling, they’re being divided into “pods" that limit how production departments such as wardrobe or lighting can associate. Covid-19 officers monitor the health of the cast and crew to determine who is allowed on set. “Zones” dictate where those cast and crew can go.
These changes might seem technical, but they hint at the far-reaching effects the virus will have on final screen products. Interviews with 12 executives, writers, agents and producers across the Hollywood spectrum suggest a dramatically transformed world of entertainment. Until a vaccine comes along, they say, covid-19 will change what Americans watch as dramatically as it has where they work, shop and learn. Forget the new normal — movies and TV are about to encounter the new austerity.
Crowd scenes are a no-go. Real-world locations will be limited. On-screen romance will be less common, sometimes restricted to actors who have off-screen relationships. And independent films — that tantalizing side dish in the U.S. entertainment meal — could be heavily scaled back.
“A lot of people believe this is just about getting back to work,” said Mark Gill, a producer and former head of Warner Independent Pictures, the studio unit responsible for independent hits such as “Slumdog Millionaire” and “Good Night, and Good Luck.” “They don’t realize the massive cultural impact we’re about to face.”
For most of its history, Hollywood created entertainment based on a simple premise: Shuttle in large numbers of people and move them around at will. That’s certainly true of crews. But it especially applies to extras, the low-paid day laborers who pack sets and off-camera holding areas in order to create dense crowd scenes — and, in turn, lend the work real-world atmosphere.
Such scenes have of course been part of some of the most memorable moments in Hollywood history. From “Ben-Hur” to “Braveheart,” on-screen entertainment has become indelible thanks to hundreds of people you’ve never heard of packing tiny spaces, then moving as one when the cameras roll.
Yet the virus has essentially made these hires impossible. Many don’t want to risk their health for a $100 paycheck and remote shot at background glory, and producers don’t want to take on the liability even if they did. “Braveheart" used about 1,600 extras, many from the Irish Army reserves. Experts say the movie couldn’t come close to being shot today.
“Those of us in the entertainment business are not used to being told ‘no’‚” said Lucas Foster, a longtime Hollywood producer who counts the 2005 romantic-action hit “Mr. & Mrs. Smith” and last year’s Oscar-decorated blockbuster “Ford v Ferrari” among his credits. “And when it comes to things like crowds, there’s going to be a lot of no.”
Foster understands the challenges personally — he’s one of the first producers to have made a movie in the age of covid-19.
In March, the Los Angeles resident was in Australia, several weeks into preproduction on a new version of “Children of the Corn” when the pandemic began to spread. Millions of dollars had already been committed to the movie, adapted from the same Stephen King story that yielded the 1984 cult hit. So rather than shut down, he decided to proceed — cautiously. Foster created a production bubble, consulted doctors regularly, procured large amounts of tests, and engaged in elaborate workarounds in realms like crowd scenes.
He said it worked, but with major accommodations.
“I had to figure out how to do a crowd with no more than a few people at the same time. And with very specific camera angles. And by taking actors who would normally be close together and making them not close together,” Foster said. “In the end, I’d get the scene I needed but it looked different than it would have before the pandemic.” (Computer-generated crowds, he and other producers say, only work for more distant shots; anything requiring close-ups needs the real thing.)
It helped, he noted, that many of his actors were children, who are believed less susceptible to the effects of the virus, and that much of the movie was shot in cornfields and other vast outdoor spaces, a luxury not all films have.
Producers say the added cost required to implement all the safeguards could also result in a lower-end finished product. Films and TV shows achieve their level of shine through an endless period of refinement, with actors and directors often attempt 10 or more takes of a scene. With everything now going longer — and thus costing more — they may not have the luxury.
One producer of multiple studio hits said he expects the number of takes to drop significantly as the virus balloons budgets. He also expected a diminution in night scenes, which tend to be more involved and expensive than day scenes. He said some productions will be able to make the switch, but not all will be as lucky.
Also unlucky, say Hollywood veterans: movies where characters seek to get lucky. Many insiders say romantic scenes will be a major challenge in movies. Two agents separately reported they had high-profile clients who told them they wouldn’t shoot love scenes during the pandemic.
“I think every agency right now is looking down their client list to see which actors have spouses who are also actors, because then we could try to get them cast, too,” said one of the agents, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized by their company to speak to the news media. “I’m joking. Sort of.”
The added wrinkle is even if the actors trust each other in real life, many of their characters would still have to take precautions on screen.
“How do you send two characters on a first dinner date when people aren’t really going on first dinner dates?” said a creator of romantic comedies who asked not to be identified because they did not want to be seen as criticizing colleagues who are attempting new projects. “You can send them on a socially distant walk, I guess.”
Writers say that leads to a broader dilemma: how much to incorporate the pandemic into their stories. On one hand, they say they don’t want to pretend the virus doesn’t exist. But acknowledging it poses its own challenges.
“Do you really want your stars wearing masks because that’s what characters would do? Do you want to have people engaging with each other in groups no larger than six? Do you want to write stories where everyone is at a safe distance?” said Mark Heyman, the co-writer of “Black Swan” and “The Skeleton Twins” and creator of the CBS All-Access historical drama “Strange Angel.” “Because a lot of those things won’t be very much fun to watch.”
Yet if creators aren’t willing to do that, he said, it could lead to those shows or movies getting shelved out of a fear that audiences will judge them inauthentic.
Heyman was working on a series set in a high school for Netflix when the lockdowns began. That project has now been put on pause. “It’s not easy to make a show about high school,” he said, “when there is no high school.”
To avoid reminding viewers of the pandemic, creators may take an approach that will lead to an unusual trend.
“I think over the next few years you’re going to see a lot more movies set in the past,” Foster said. “Even movies written for the present will be changed. They’ll make it the ’90s because then you don’t have to deal with these questions. And then you can just put in some cool ’90s music, so everybody wins.”
A few creators have gone the other way, leaning in to the pandemic.
Writers on Apple TV Plus’s “The Morning Show,” set at a news program, have torn up existing scripts to make the pandemic a part of the story line, according to a person familiar with the show who was not authorized to speak about it publicly. But with a lag time of months between shooting and airing, experts say that creators also risk looking out of date by the time episodes release to the public.
Sensing an opportunity, horror filmmakers have also tried to embrace current events.
“The horror genre is very suited to the pandemic and lockdowns — we’re always trying to create a feeling of being trapped anyway,” said the horror filmmaker Nathan Crooker.
When quarantines hit this spring, Crooker gathered nine noted horror filmmakers and had them shoot an anthology film — short fictional movies connected by the larger virus theme — and titled it “Isolation.” He required filmmakers to use only the materials and people they were in lockdown with, even prohibiting Zoom and other technologies.
“I think we’re going to get a very cool effect that mirrors what people are going through,” Crooker said of his work. “But I don’t know that every movie that gets made would want to look like that.”
One consequence of the virus could turn out to be the movies that don’t get made at all.
Some of the most beloved films of the past two decades, from “My Big Fat Greek Wedding” to “Whiplash,” “Little Miss Sunshine” to “Fruitvale Station,” were independently financed. But before rolling cameras, independent productions require insurance policies to protect them from workplace lawsuits, along with completion bonds, in which a guarantor assures they will step in with funds to finish the movie if production is halted.
Experts say no company will cover covid-19 with either policy, effectively preventing production.
“Covid is an absolute disaster for the independent-film industry,” said Sky Moore, a partner in the corporate entertainment department of the Los Angeles law firm Greenberg Glusker who has spent several decades putting together film financing deals. “The lifeblood of independent-film financing is loans, and loans need insurance. Now you have this massive hole in the middle of all of it.”
Moore believes the toll will be vast.
“I think 50 percent of the independent industry goes away,” he said.
(Movies financed by large studios do not buy these policies; Netflix or Disney would just absorb a shutdown or lawsuit as the cost of doing business.)
Even if they can work around the insurance issues, many independent films won’t get made because they simply won’t have the money. “It’s already hard to get funding for a lot of these movies,” said Shaun MacGillivray, a producer who makes large-scale independent documentaries. “And now you’re telling investors the budget is going to be 30 percent higher?”
The independent-film world is trying to push ahead, slowly. The Sundance Film Festival, the epicenter of the indie-film business, where companies like Hulu and Netflix sometimes pay more than $10 million for an independently financed movie, will hold a partially physical, partially virtual edition in January, albeit at just about half the length.
“We are reminded daily of the power of what is made newly visible to us, the importance of what we look at,” Tabitha Jackson, the director of the festival, said in a letter to staff this summer explaining why the festival needed to go on. “My hope for this edition of the Sundance Film Festival is that through a multiplicity of perspectives held by artists and audiences in their various communities we will also come to feel the power of where we look from.” Left unspoken: What happens in 2022, when the well runs dry because new movies can’t be insured and produced?
Whatever entertainment can get made, experts say, will have a more hermetic look. Even television shows, once shot heavily on sets, now often rely on the authenticity of locations; a police procedural feels like it does because detectives are popping into pizza places and apartment buildings.
“We don’t want everything to be a chamber piece,” said Johnson, the “Better Call Saul�� executive producer. “But if many shows look different, I think that’s okay, because the world looks different.”
Then, considering the challenge further, he added, “And if that doesn’t work, then at least our show has a lot of deserts and open roads.”
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hiddlesgirl · 4 years
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SH 322: All Good Things...
This was a fantastic episode, I was crying from the moment the wedding started and I didn’t stop until long after the credits had rolled. As much as I want the show to continue with all my heart, this was a beautiful finale episode; it wrapped up the outstanding storylines and gave us a wonderfully bittersweet ending. I really don’t think we could have asked for anything better, the cast and crew did absolutely amazingly with the limited amount of air time they were given; I am seriously so grateful to them all that they were able to give us something so beautiful.
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First thing to note is that this episode is 60 minutes long instead of 4o minutes; they gave us an extra 20 minutes air time to ensure that we got an amazing episode. Now, let me make sure you know that this was not Freeform or Netflix being generous; this was Todd and Darren not being able to cut the episode a minute shorter or else risk ruining it and going to the networks and begging for those extra minutes. So, in case you didn’t know this already, we owe those extra minutes (which enabled us to have some beautiful scenes) to Todd and Darren.
The first scene in which they defeated Lilith, cured Izzy and destroyed Edom therefore enabling Magnus to leave did seem rushed and extremely convenient fixes to the three problems; but this is completely understandable because they needed to wrap up these three loose ends before we could move forward in dealing with Jonathan and still have time for some scenes afterwards.
I really liked the morning montage of our three main couples; Sizzy’s first time, Clace getting to cuddle in bed after being separated for so long and Alec sleeping peacefully with Magnus by his side who is looking at Alec like he cannot believe his luck in finding him. I know that some people were disappointed that Malec weren’t cuddled up together too, I was a bit disappointed too but I also love what they did. Firstly because Magnus playing with Alec’s hair is so soft and adorable, plus I think that the moment spoke more about their feelings right now than cuddling would have.
For Alec he is finally able to sleep safe in the knowledge that Magnus will be there when he wakes up, we know that in the previous episode Alec fell asleep out of sheer exhaustion. Now he is able to sleep peacefully, also his body is facing Magnus even in sleep; we know from previous episodes that he doesn’t always wake up facing Magnus (for example in 2x15 Alec was facing the wall when he woke up). I may be reading a little too much into it, but hey that’s what I do.
For Magnus he can’t quite believe that this man literally walked into Hell for him; he had been trying to come to terms with the fact that he would never see his fiancé again and now he doesn’t have to face that dim future. He loves this man so much and is so excited to marry him that he can’t even bear to take his eyes off him long enough to oversleep. The stroking of Alec’s hair is a lovely display of soft affection from Magnus, especially because it is just for him; Alec isn’t aware of what he’s doing so Magnus touching Alec is just for his own comfort. I just love this little moment.
I really loved the conversation between Simon and Izzy, they were both surprised by how easy it felt to transition into an intimate romantic relationship; I think that this is just beautiful because it shows that sometimes having that established bond and closeness can really lend itself to the beginning of a beautiful romantic relationship. It’s almost the opposite of Simon and Clary because although their romantic relationship was sweet while it lasted you knew it would never last because they were too close in a way, like siblings; whereas with Izzy there was always this mutual interest that was ignored in favour of their friendship.
Considering how awkward first times can be for on screen couples it was amazing to see them so at ease with each other and their new relationship. I also loved that they discussed their insecurities a little concerning past relationships gone bad, and deciding to learn to be better together. I love that this made the point that each relationship should be looked at separately from your previous ones and that you shouldn’t expect it to play out a certain way just because that is what happened before. Plus, that this is a relationship they are building together and that it will become what they make it.
I love that Magnus literally could not wait another day to marry Alec; they have been pulled apart so many times and he is scared that it will happen again because they never know what threat lies around the corner. I also adore that Alec seems to have wanted to plan the wedding, to go through that entire process with Magnus; I love this contrast to Season 1 when he wanted nothing to do with planning his wedding to Lydia. Now that he is choosing to marry someone he loves he wants to be involved in the process of creating that ceremony.
Alec wants to have their wedding at the Institute which confuses Magnus at first but Alec goes onto explain the message that it would convey would be so important. Alec experienced so much anxiety, self repression and low self esteem when growing up because he felt like he couldn’t be open and honest about who he is. He doesn’t want that to be the future of other Shadowhunters; he wants to show everyone that it’s okay to love someone of the same gender, and that it’s okay to love a Downworlder; he wants to show the Clave and the entire Shadow World that it’s okay to love whoever you love.
Magnus’ face softens where he realises Alec’s intentions because he also knows how it feels to be rejected by people, by family; he also is a very compassionate person. He shares in Alec wish for the Shadow World to be more open to relationships like theirs; he wants to show them that no matter your differences it’s the strength of your love for each other that matters most.
I adore the little flirty moments about tuxedos, especially when you look back to Season 1 when Alec was afraid to even be near Magnus or smile at him. I will never stop marvelling over Alec’s journey and how far Malec’s relationship has come.
The scene between Clary and Jace is very sweet, I love seeing them smile but you can still see how much the situation with Jonathan is hanging over Clary. She knows that he isn’t just going to disappear and is scared of what he is going to do, especially now that she isn’t there as a grounding influence. She also doesn’t want the threat of him to overshadow Alec and Magnus’ wedding, she loves them both so much.
Jace understands why she is hurting but he makes the point that in their lives there will always be demons, there will always be a threat waiting around the corner but that’s life. You have to enjoy the good times and celebrate because that is what they fight for, to be able to live and love. I just really adored this line and moment because it rings true for everyone, it is important to enjoy life.
I have to say that I was very surprised when Jonathan killed the Seelie Queen, she has been a constant powerful thorn in our characters sides since 2B. She is a very intriguing character and was always interesting to watch, that said you love to hate her because she has caused a lot of upset for our favourites and she is always looking out for herself, you can never trust her. But given how powerful she has been built up to be I was extremely surprised that she died, although we know that Jonathan has become extremely powerful (compared to Lucifer and a God) it just didn’t cross my mind that he would kill her (as much of an annoyance as she is to him) until it literally happened. I am glad that we did get to see Lola again (albeit briefly) before the Queen’s demise.
I really enjoyed the scene between Alec and Jace; Jace has developed so much in allowing himself to show his emotions and that has positively impacted his bond with Alec so much, they seem much closer now than they did in Season 1. Their new found emotional openness has helped them both so much as individuals and made their bond so much healthier than it was before.
I love that Jace was able to exhibit both his excitement and happiness for Alec and Magnus, but also his apprehension at Alec moving out. They haven’t lived apart since they were children so Jace is naturally anxious about Alec moving out, he doesn’t want them to grow apart and is nervous about feeling left behind now that Alec is taking his romantic relationship to the next level. Alec reassures him that no matter what they will always be brothers, just because he is becoming closer to Magnus does not mean he is growing apart from Jace; they will always be a part of each other and nothing can change that. For those reasons, I think this might be one of my favourite scenes between these two of the entire series.
I cannot tell you how much I love the bond between Izzy and Clary, right from the moment they met they have been supporting and loving towards each other. Too many times in shows, especially young adult shows, they create animosity between female characters for no real reason and I am so happy that Shadowhunters went in completely the opposite direction. Their friendship is one of my favourite things in the show; the friendships, between so many different characters, is one of my favourite things about the entire show.
I actually did tear up during this scene because they have become like sisters and you can tell how much they mean to each other; but to also take that step into becoming Parabatai shows just how strong that connection is. Especially on Izzy’s side because she never even considered having a Parabatai, preferring to work alone, but now she wants to be tethered to Clary; to share that bond like no other with her. For Clary, to have a bond that is so similar to family ties is so important and there is no one she would rather be bonded with than Izzy. I get so emotional about this.
I love that we heard Clary call Luke ‘Dad’, I am pretty sure that she has never called him Dad before; she has said that he raised her and that he was like a Dad, but she has never called him ‘Dad’ to his face. I admit that I cried, because I just love their Dad-daughter relationship so much. This is another thing I adore about the show, how many familial relationships exist between people who aren’t related by blood.
I was so happy to see Clary with her mum again, especially considering the circumstances in which she lost her; again I teared up a little. It was such a wonderfully sweet moment between them. Then we found out the reason she was there.
I completely understand why Raziel was angry that Clary had been drawing runes that he did not give her, going against his will; but I don’t like that his last straw wasn’t raising the dead (defying the natural order of the world) but was uniting Shadowhunters and Downworlders. Although you almost understand Raziel not wanting Shadowhunters to be affected by demon blood, it was a temporary rune that only connected them for a short amount of time; and it ended up feeling so much like discrimination against Downworlders that it left a bit of a sour taste in your mouth, especially after we were all so happy when Raziel said he didn’t wish the death of Downworlders in 2x20. I understand why from both a character and storyline point of view, but it still rankles a little that the Alliance rune was the breaking factor, not the Necromancy rune.
I did like the scene between Magnus and Lorenzo, clearing up and putting away that animosity between them. Magnus really appreciated what Lorenzo did for Alec, Izzy and himself in Edom; he wanted to show Lorenzo that his actions meant a lot to him. I think that Lorenzo realised that what he believed about Magnus wasn’t necessarily true, especially because he has all these people willing to risk their lives for him, because they loved him. I adored Lorenzo’s lines about making a family of your own.
I will always firmly believe that Lorenzo’s animosity stemmed from jealousy, personally I cannot completely forgive how he treated Magnus and I don’t feel that he was fully redeemed by those few acts in 321 and 322 but I am willing to believe that he was making steps to become better and that if there had been s Season 4 we would have seen him develop into a better person.
I really loved the moment between Maryse and Alec when they talk about Robert; so many times children think that they need to choose between their parents when they split up. I adore that Maryse made the point that no matter what happened between her and Robert, it doesn’t change that fact that Robert is his dad and that he loves him.
We find out that Jonathan is destroying all the Shadowhunter Institutes one by one, leaving the New York Institute until last. He wants to destroy Clary’s world while she watches, to take everything she loves away from her because he feels like she abandoned him and he has nothing left that he loves. You can see how distraught Clary is, she now feels responsible for the deaths of all those people because Jonathan killed them to hurt her. She has to carry so much, she is so strong and I love her so much.
Clary insists on going after Jonathan alone, she knows that Jonathan will not kill her because he loves her, but he would not hesitate to kill the others. My heart is breaking throughout the entire scene because you can see that Clary truly loves him, despite everything he has done she can’t stop herself from loving him. She knows that he is a murderer, that he has done terrible things; but he loves her and he is her brother. She knows he has to be stopped but it is breaking her heart.
All she wanted was a family, she wanted so much to believe in Jonathan but in the end their family has caused them both nothing but pain. She knows that there is nothing she can do to change Jonathan now, he has gone through too much and done too much to come back from it. I cannot express enough sympathy for her that she has not only had to kill her own father but now she has to kill her brother to protect her found family, the people she loves.
As much as I dislike Jonathan for the hurt he has caused I cannot help but sympathise with him; he was experimented on as a child, felt abandoned by Jocelyn, he was pressured by his father, then he was abandoned by his father, tortured by his demonic mother, manipulated by his unloving father and now he feels like his sister has cast him aside too. All he has ever know is pain, no one has ever truly loved him; he has been warped by his experiences, twisted so much that he almost cannot function as a normal human being. He is such a tragic villain.
His death was beautifully painful; the image of Clary enveloping him, trying to convey her love for him, while gently suffocating him with angelic power was shattering. You could see how much it was hurting her, and her shushing him was like a knife to the chest. I really start crying when Jonathan says ‘Let me go’ and Clary replies ‘I am’; the double meaning of it is heartbreaking. It is such a beautiful scene visually and emotionally, but also soul shattering because you can see how much pain Clary is in.
She has lost her last blood relative and her heart crumbles even more when her Angelic Power rune disappears because now she realises she is going to lose her found family too. She is going to lose her powers, Jace and those she loves; she is about to lose everything.
The Malec wedding was everything I could ever have imagined and more, I cannot say how much I loved this scene and how much it made me cry. Firstly, the colour scheme; the warmth of the colours is beautiful, the yellows and oranges was wonderful. Especially in contrast with Alec’s first wedding which was blues and pale colours, the complete contrast of cool and warm sums up how not only Alec feels about the weddings but how they made us as a audience feel. We knew that he wasn’t happy about marrying Lydia and that he wouldn’t have a happy life, it felt more like a prison sentence; but with Magnus, he loves him with his entire being and he could not be happier. I love that the colours reflected this emotional change.
Secondly, the colour of dresses the women are wearing. Clary and Madzie are wearing the same shade of red; this so much reflects their connection to Magnus. He considers them both his family, they are like his little sisters (they are almost like children to him) and they mean so much to him. Whereas Catarina, Izzy and Maryse are wearing deep blue; they have become his family in a different way. Catarina is his best friend, the sister he found; Izzy has become such a close friend and will soon become a sister to him too; Maryse has become the mother he wished for. I just love that their clothes represent their connection to Magnus, especially for Izzy and Maryse; to show that they accept Magnus into their family as much as he considers them his is beautiful.
Thirdly, Maryse walked Magnus down the aisle. We know that Magnus felt rejected by his own mother and his father figures were awful; now Maryse has fully accepted him into her heart. She has become like a mother to him, which means so much to him especially considering her attitude towards him in Season 1. I cannot express how much I love Maryse’s development and her new relationship with Magnus.
Fourth, they used ‘I get to love you’; that song just screams Malec and it honestly was perfect, they could not have found a better song to use.
Fifth, the vows were beautiful. They encapsulate everything the Malec are to each other, and I love that they would say a line each which would complete the two lines which just sums them up because they really do complete each other. The vows were honestly so perfect, they weren’t cheesy or lacklustre; they managed to hit the exact balance that made them emotional and honest to the characters.
Those are just the main things that I love but the entire scene was just so stunning that you really can’t describe it in words and do it justice. It was perfect.
I really liked that we had a little moment between Izzy, Simon and Raphael; after everything that has happened between them it was nice to get that lovely little moment of them all being happy. Raphael is moving on with his life as a mundane, feeling more at peace with himself than he has in a very long time; he is happy that Izzy and Simon have found each other. He cares for them both and knows that they will make each other happy. I just thought this entire interaction was very sweet.
After the tears had just started to stop after the wedding I started crying again during Clary and Simon’s scene because you just knew that this was her saying goodbye to him. She cannot bear the thought of leaving without letting Simon know just how much he, and their friendship, means to her. All the party scenes feel slightly bittersweet because although we are so happy for Malec we are hurting because Clary is slowly losing her runes.
I love that Helen and Aline are discussing wedding attire, I love that their relationship has flourished but it also shows that Alec has accomplished his aim; couples like them are having the confidence to show their love openly.
I cried when Max said that he’ll call Magnus ‘brother’, we were all so disappointed with Max’s behaviour at the party Magnus threw for him in 208 and this moment more than makes up for it. It is another member of Alec’s family that is welcoming Magnus with open arms and you can see how much it means to the both of them.
I adore the scene between Clary and Maryse; Clary knows that Luke will be happy with Maryse and she is glad that Luke will have romance in his life. She also is thankful that Luke will have Maryse to support him after she is gone. I cried a bit more when she asked Maryse if the angels could forgive. In this moment you could see just how truly scared she is of losing the Shadow World, she doesn’t want to leave everything behind and is holding out the hope that Raziel will forgive her.
I think that the dance scene between Clace is one of my favourite scenes between them of the entire scenes, even as heartbreaking as it is. Jace loves Clary so much and has been able to grow as a person because of her influence; she is the first person that he has ever felt secure knowing she loves him unconditionally.
Clary’s heart is breaking, she loves Jace so much and knows how much he is going to hurt when she’s gone; and his words just make her more certain of that. She needs him to know that she loves him, and that no matter what happens she will always love him. She words what she is saying so carefully hoping that he will look back on this moment and be reassured that she loves him even when she doesn’t know him. I cried the entire way through this scene because it was so sweet, Clary was in so much pain and you knew that soon Jace would be in agony.
Honestly, the moment Clary walks out of the hall breaks my soul completely because we know that not only is it Clary crying over what she is losing but it is Kat crying because Shadowhunters is ending. She openly spoke about the fact that a lot of that was just her crying because these were going to be the last scenes of the show. Kat loves this show so much and it really shows. So not only am I crying for Clary but I am crying for and with Kat.
The entire sequence of Clary forgetting and Jace finding the letter was so soul crushing but beautiful at the same time; I was surprised I could still see the screen I was crying so much. It made me feel such a painful sense of loss and I cannot praise Kat’s performance in this scene enough because I was literally breaking with Clary, and that moment her last rune disappears you can see it all just vanish, her facial expression and body language just changes completely. I openly sobbed my heart out at this second. I did like that her runes seemed to disappear in reverse order (with the exception of the Angelic rune) and that the last rune to disappear was the first rune she got, the Iratze rune that Jace drew to heal her. I was a complete and utter mess.
I was a little surprised that we got a year long jump, but I am also happy that we were able to see how their lives have changed; and in many cases for the better. It shows us a little glimpse of how their lives have progressed and potentially where we were supposed to end up if the show had continued, that this was supposed to be the natural ending (with the exception of Clary still not remembering. )
I absolutely love the fact that Alec is now the Inquisitor, this was always his dream job and I am so happy that he has been able to achieve that dream and be happy about his situation. Luke talks about Maryse and it seems like they are very happy and stable in their relationship. We find out that Shadowhunters and Downworlders are now working hand in hand, with Downworlders now playing an active role as deputies; it shows us that the Clave has evolved so much and that there is now a much healthier relationship between Shadowhunters and Downworlders.
We find out that not only is Alec in Alicante but Magnus is there too, they have moved their apartment there. This is amazing because before Downworlders could even travel to Alicante. He is the High Warlock of Alicante too, I honestly cannot tell you how happy this makes me; not only has he regained a role he loved doing but he is now stationed inside the Shadowhunter home city, setting an example for warlock and Shadowhunter cooperation.
His phone conversation also tells us that Shadowhunter Institutes (we presume) are becoming much more open to Downworlders because a lot of people are now adjusting their wards to allow for Downworlders which is amazing. These two scenes show just how much the Shadow World has progressed considering Shadowhunters and Downworlder relations in just a year.
I also love Magnus’ outfit and makeup; it is very much reminiscent of Season 1 which implies that he is feeling more confident in himself and happy with his life than he has in a while. Plus he just looks stunning.
I adore the moment between him and Alec, it eludes to the very domestic and happy life they live together, how comfortable Alec is living with Magnus. I also love the little bit of flirty Alec, and I adore the ‘To us’ because it mirrors 106. It makes me so happy that in their last scene Malec are happily married and both have careers they love.
I know that ‘Taki’s’ is a reference to the book, so I am happy for the book fans who were waiting for it to appear. I love that it is Maia who is opening it as a place for all Downworlders to socialise together, further encouraging good relationships and camaraderie between all the factions. We also learn the Simon has written a graphic novel like he always dreamed of, I love that we are seeing so many characters realising their dreams.
My heart breaks when they reminisce about Clary, you can see the huge hole that has been ripped in Simon. I love that Maia added a burrata salad to the menu in Clary’s name; so many people cared about and miss her that it echoes through everyone she touched.
IZZY IS THE HEAD OF THE NEW YORK INSTITUTE! Sorry for the yelling but I was so excited and so happy for Izzy, she has got to be an amazing Head of the Institute because she has always been forward thinking when it concerns Downworlders, she is leader material and I would have loved to see more of her being amazing. Simon is a Downworld deputy which I love and their interaction is so sweet; I am so happy that we got to see their romance realised and they definitely seem to be very happy a year on.
I have to say that I love the Jimon training scene. It is very playful, especially with Jace’s ‘boop boop’, but it also shows just how comfortable Jace and Simon are with each other now. Their relationship has come so far from the animosity from Season 1. They have truly come to appreciate each other as individuals and create a friendship that seems to be beneficial to them both; they definitely seem to have become a touchstone for each in Clary’s absence.
Simon wants Jace to stop checking on Clary because he knows that it isn’t healthy for him, he wants Jace to be able to move on because clinging to Clary is hurting him. He understands because Clary is so important to him too, but he can’t stand to watch Jace continue to torture himself like this.
You can see Jace’s agony at being separated from the love of his life, he is desperate for her to remember and cannot let go of that possibility. He is sure that their love is stronger than the spite of the angels; he just wished that they saw that. The only thing that would have made this scene better would have been if Jace and Simon had hugged, but maybe that’s just me.
We see that Clary has realised her mundane dream of becoming an artist at the Brooklyn Academy of Art; on one hand I am happy for her but it also breaks your heart because it is evident that she feels something is missing (just like the first time she was mundane). A wonderful person on Twitter (I cannot remember who and I can’t find the tweet right now) pointed out that her two paintings resemble the two weddings in colour schemes, and that was both wonderful and painful to realise.
You can see how shocked Jace is that she sees him and he panics, I am sure that he had decided (thanks to Simon) that this should be the last time he checks up on her because it was just too painful; but now she sees him. He runs because he doesn’t know how to deal with the situation and is scared that it was a mistake, and that she actually doesn’t know him.
Clary chases him and calls him by his name, you can see the happiness radiate from Jace which just increases when she seems to recognise his runes. As heartbreaking as it is that we don’t end with Clace together I do love that their last scene mirrors their first and it brings the series full circle and feels right in a way. It was so beautifully done and I was crying so much.
I cannot put into words how much I love this episode and just how much it affected me emotionally; it was truly a beautiful episode. I honestly believe that they could not have given us a better ending (in the circumstances). It felt like it gave all the characters some happiness and closure, it didn’t feel so much like an open wound. They created it so that gave us a beautiful ending but also in a way that the series could be continued if the occasion ever arose. I cannot thank the entire cast and crew enough.
I love this show so much and it will forever hold a special place in my heart. I ache over the cancellation and I will always hope that one day we will be able to revisit the Shadow World with our wonderful cast. But I sincerely love this episode and I do feel that it was a beautiful and meaningful end to our wonderful story.
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Top 5 Trailers: What’s trending on Netflix?
Top 5 Trailers: What’s trending on Netflix?
If you just wrapped up one of your favorite shows and are looking for another great show, then knowing what’s trending on Netflix will help.
Currently, the top Netflix series trending includes Orange is The New Black, On My Block, Lucifer, FRIENDS and a handful of movies including Wind River, Hell or Highwater, APOLLO 13 and Boyhood.
Gaga: Five Foot Two is at the very top of the most popular documentaries, as well as Abducted In Plain Sight.
Because of this, we wanted to take a deeper dive into what’s trending on Netflix.
On My Block Rating: 4.8/5 Premiered: Mar 16, 2018 Platform: Netflix
POSITIVE CELEBRITIES TAKE ON THE SHOW
On My Block features characters, you will love instantly as you watch them face the harsh realities of life. The characters bring you laughter, tears, and even shock. The emotions put into this popular Netflix series was well planned.
Viewers might think the plot is going to take a particular turn but in our case, all we could do is scream “WHAT?!” each time the show took a new turn.
To be specific, one user on a Reddit discussion about On My Block opened about the series with those who also binge-watched the show.
“That ending was unexpected and completely devastating. I need season two right now.”
The production crew and creators Lauren Iungerich, Jeremy Haft and Eddie Gonzalez did a phenomenal job at writing a series which puts you into the shoes of each character.
Further allowing you to understand and even relate to their trials.
The show not only attracts those who are teens but adults as well. On My Block gives an insight into how difficult it can be navigating the halls of high school can become and truly makes you empathetic for many in the world.
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When a creator puts an idea on paper, it takes time, time to plan, time to see things from the audience’s perspective. If you can make someone laugh, you can make someone listen and if you can make someone cry (relate) you can also make someone listen.
So, if this is what’s trending on Netflix then we can back it, give it a watch.
THE PLOT
Going to school, dating and staying out of trouble isn’t easy for this group of friends. Especially when they attempt to save their friend from gang life.
How do 5 teens navigate their now dangerous life?
Good and bad decisions are made, which lead these characters into some messy situations.
But what happens when things get messy and their friendships are on the line?
Honestly, On My Block a new Netflix series that truly holds up to the realities of high school struggles, love, and how the street life can affect others in their community.
Rings trailer will bring chills this Halloween
The new Netflix series was created by Lauren Iungerich, Jeremy Haft and Eddie Gonzalez.
Well, we won’t spoil that part for you, be sure to add it to your watchlist on Netflix. Most importantly, Netflix and chill with someone, you’ll both be talking when it asks if you’re still watching On My Block.
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RIVERDALE Rating: 4.7/5 Premiered: Jan 26, 2017 Platform: Netflix
POSITIVE CELEBRITIES TAKE ON THE SHOW
The next answer to what’s trending on Netflix is Riverdale.
The show packs a punch by starting off with the death of Jason Blossom, his body was never recovered after possibly drowning in the early morning of July 4th.
The hit Netflix show is hauntingly addicting.
In fact, it doesn’t matter whether you live in a small town, there’s always crime but this runs deeper than just your everyday crime. Most importantly, keeping you on the very edge each time the show concludes an episode with each incredible cliff hanger.
Deception, love, crime, and secrets.
It was not hard to finish this series in a couple of days. The only hard part was waiting to see what would happen next on Riverdale.
So, if you’re wondering why it’s on our list of what’s trending on Netflix then let’s take a jump into the plot.
Positive Celebrity cannot wait to see the next well-written script for its next season.
THE PLOT
The creator Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa didn’t miss a beat when putting together a production which was based off the comic “Archie.” Although the truth is comics have never been on the top of our reading list, the CW drama-mystery is jaw-dropping.
Riverdale leaves you with characters like Archie, Veronica, Betty, Jughead (reminds me of The Outsiders), and people of the town. The production found the perfect cast starring Camila Mendes, Cole Sprouse, K.J. Apa, and Lili Reinhart.
What happens when a group of teens attempts to find a murderer who has been haunting the town and watching everyone since the drowning?
This seemingly wholesome town is now facing scandals and secrets.
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JAILBIRDS Rating: 7/5 Premiered: Platform: Netflix
POSITIVE CELEBRITIES TAKE ON THE SHOW
Let’s take a look at what’s trending on Netflix in crime on documentaries. I mean, who doesn’t like a little insight on what goes on in jails around the world.
Positive Celebrity has always felt the jail systems are screwy. The production did a great job at giving viewers an inside look into the jail systems and just how hard life can be when you are sentenced to serving time in jail.
Jailbirds is one Netflix series tending that truly makes you feel emotions you would never imagine.
Most importantly, it gives insight on how important human contact is for inmates. Concluding our thought behind our opinion on how our jail system is broken.
Haven’t you ever thought “why does a mother get a much harsher sentence compared to a murderer or someone who was involved in homicide?”
The trending series on Netflix is one that you can pause and resume but instantly get hooked again, great for those weekdays where you know you
THE PLOT
At the Sacramento County Jail, incarcerated women fight the power and one another as they try to make the best of life — and love — on the inside.
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LUCIFER Rating: 8/5 Released: May 8, 2019 Platform: Netflix
POSITIVE CELEBRITIES TAKE ON THE SHOW
It’s no secret Lucifer is on the what’s trending on Netflix. I mean, the devil comes back from hell to help the LAPD?
This show does not leave you time to go into your personal life. It’s definitely a binge watch. The producers, cast and crew did an excellent job with each episode. Most importantly, it’s great to see the whole “what if the devil was good?”
Many could likely relate to wondering that at some point in their life (not everybody). But it’s a great show and the cinematography is top notch.
Be sure to add this to your list of trending shows on Netflix. You won’t regret it.
THE PLOT
What happens when the devil gets bored with life in Hell?
Lucifer takes action and leaves hell to live life in the beautiful city of Los Angeles. He becomes a part of the LAPD looking for suspects.
The creator Tom Kapinos did a great job with this comic adaptation. The series stars some of the best in Hollywood including Tom Ellis, Lina Esco, and Lesley-Ann Brandt.
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THE SOCIETY Rating: 9/10 Released: May 10, 2019 Platform: Netflix
POSITIVE CELEBRITIES TAKE ON THE SHOW
The Society is one of those Netflix TV series that keeps you hooked. How would it be to find out you were mysteriously transported to the greener side of New England? Further, your parents are missing.
This definitely belongs to positive celebrities what’s trending list.
Creator Christopher Keyser seriously nailed the writing, twists, and turns. In fact, it’s no surprise because he also worked Sisters, Party of Five, Tyrant, Time of Your Life, and Equal Justice.
The hit series proudly stars Kathryn Newton, Rachel Keller, and Gideon Adlon.
THE PLOT
A group of teenagers struggles to survive after they’re mysteriously transported to a replica of their wealthy town with no trace of their parents.
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The Story of A Work In Progress
So, I figure it’s only right that I start this thing off with my own story.
But before I get into that, I wanna talk about where the idea comes from. I’m not going to try and pass it off as an original idea because it’s not and, in all honesty, I’m not in the habit of taking credit for anyone else’s idea. The truth is that the idea comes from another fandom, the SPNFamily, and a book called Family Don’t End With Blood. For anyone who’s in the SPN fandom, you’ve probably heard something about the book or you know the line at least, know the depth behind it. For anyone who’s not, I’ll give you the brief version – else I might just ramble on forever.
One of the main themes of Supernatural is family, and the fact that family doesn’t start or end with biological relations. Family is made up of the people that are there for you, the ones who care for you, the ones you can always turn to. As Dean Winchester says, ‘A wise man once told me, 'family don't end in blood. ' But it doesn't start there either. Family cares about you, not what you can do for them family's there; for the good, bad, all of it. They got your back, even when it hurts.’ And that’s what the book is about. It’s about how the SPNFamily, the fans and the actors and the crew, they’re more than just a bunch of people who have one thing in common. It’s more than the show, more than the actors. It’s bigger than any of us.
Reading the stories from actors and fans alike about how they found a place, a community, friends, acceptance within this fandom, well it made me think about how I’d experienced something like that too.
Yes, I experienced it recently on discovering the SPNFamily but I’d experienced first here, in the Varuniac family. And that led me to thinking that I’m probably not the only one who’s experienced it, that I’m not the only one who’s life was changed by a fandom, specifically this fandom. It also made me remember that there was a time before that, a time where I felt like being a fan was something that shouldn’t be advertised. You just didn’t tell people about that, you kept it to yourself, hid behind screen names. And, the most important rule, you didn’t let anyone know anything about the real you; don’t make friends with strangers on the internet.
If it weren’t for this fandom, I’d still be hiding, still be denying who I am.
I’ve not been here since the beginning. In all reality, it doesn’t feel like I’ve been here all that long at all.
When Student of the Year first came out, I was living in San Antonio, Texas – not exactly a place where Bollywood movies were easy to come by, especially when you didn’t know anything about the city. You had to wait to get them when they came out on DVD or popped up on Netflix, something made difficult by the fact that I never knew anything about the films that were coming out. Most of the Indian movies that I watched at that point were the ones I’d stumbled on by chance or, in the case of SOTY, the ones whose songs ended up stuck in my head after YouTube recommended them to me. Having grown up in Leicester, a city that’s multicultural, a city where catching the latest Bollywood film was no more difficult than going to the local Odeon, a weekly occurrence in my family, it wasn’t exactly my idea of a fun place to live – no offence to anyone who does live there.
I was living in a place where it was hard to be proud of my heritage – even within the Indian community that did exist. Coming from a Gujarati family that had made its way to England via Uganda, it wasn’t easy to fit in with the predominantly Hindi speaking community who weren’t exactly fond of ‘banas.’ Especially when I didn’t understand Hindi beyond the dialogues of films like Kuch Kuch Hota Hai.
So I kept to myself, buried myself deeper in books and somehow ended up watching Doctor Who – but that’s a different story.
SOTY changed things a little bit. I didn’t join the fandom when I first watched it, that came a couple of years later still. But, for the first time since I was about eleven years old, I was looking for Bollywood films again. And I’d forgotten how much I loved them. Sure, I’d watched KKHH, K3G and films of the like about a million times over but it wasn’t the same as watching one for the first time, watching something new.
Not long after, I ended up with a concussion which kinda completely changed my life. A long series of events lead to me finishing high school before I was supposed to and my parents finally deciding to move back home – which was exactly what I’d been wanting.
In my head, moving back home would be some magic fix it. After six and a half years of being the new British kid in a different school every year because, for some reason, we couldn’t seem to just settle on one town, being unable to fit in, I would be going back to the place where I felt I belonged.
And coming home did fix somethings but it couldn’t fix the fact that I’d left. That, while I was missing my friends, waiting for the day I’d see them again, they’d all moved on and didn’t really care too much about me anymore.
So I was back home, in yet another new school, and there was still something missing.
Fast-forward a year and a half and I’d made three pretty good friends – though only one of them managed to last past the end of college – and I was pulling good grades. I had my books, had Doctor Who, the one TV show I was still watching at this point, and a little one-and-a-half-year-old monster who kept me entertained. I wasn’t a loner at school anymore either.
Despite all that, I didn’t quite feel like me.
I don’t think I really noticed it at first. I kept doing the things I had been, kept reading, kept writing, kept doing all the things that I thought made me who I was. The thing that sixteen-year-old me didn’t quite understand was that I was only still doing those things because I was desperate to cling to the things that had always been part of me. Apart from reading, which has always and likely will always be my escape, there wasn’t the same feeling to doing those things.
I kept writing and drawing and doing those creative things because that had always been the way I defined myself, the way everyone else defined me too. I was the creative one, the imaginative one. And to feel like that was slipping away, well that sucked. Because, for as long as I could remember, the only things I’d really wanted to be were an artist or a writer. Even when those things were deemed to be impractical, when my dad insisted that I follow a career path that would ‘actually get me somewhere in life,’ I clung onto those dreams.
And then, one night, I’m in Edinburgh for an open day at a uni and I ended up watching Humpty Sharma ki Dulhunia and, for the first time in like ever, I found myself wanting more of a film.
So, I did the logical thing and tried to figure out if there were any deleted scenes floating around on the web and stumbled across promotions and interviews instead. I figured there wasn’t much harm in watching one or two, especially when I didn’t have much else to do. And then one or two turned into three and four and five. 
Again, I won’t lie, it was Varia that hooked me first, purely because shipping was something that I understood. Every TV show I have ever watched and every book I’ve ever read has ended up with me adding at least one more ship to the ever-growing list. But ships aren’t exactly fandom – even if this one kinda has its own little fandom. And, like I said, being part of a fandom was still something I didn’t really know how to do. But eventually, I started searching for more about the actors individually, watching and reading interviews
I’d never really watched any kind of interviews before. Sure, I considered myself to be part of some fandoms, sure I enjoyed the shows and books and movies, but I didn’t look for the behind the scenes info, didn’t really think about the actors or anything beyond what I saw on the screen. In all honesty, I hadn’t ever really realised that there was more to any of it, that fandoms existed for things beyond the content, hadn’t really understood the full extent of them.  
But here I was, looking for interviews of this actor, itching to get my hands on the two other films in his filmography and eagerly awaiting the next one on the list.
And not only was I looking for interviews and films, actually buying DVDs for myself for the first time in my memory, but that creative spark that had all but been extinguished, that was back too.
It’s strange really, how somehow all of a sudden, the desire to write was back. Some might call it nothing more than a coincidence, that it just so happened that I found something to write about again at the same time I ended up in this fandom. But that’s not true. Not only did I feel like writing again, I could literally hear dialogues in my head, hear them being delivered perfectly, ready to be written. Which is something that had literally never happened to me. Dialogue had never really been my forté in all honesty, I was more about the detail.
I’m not gonna say that my writing was brilliant right from the get go because, let’s be real, we all know that’s not true – especially for any of you who might know of my account on Wattpad – but it was a start at least. A start that lead to me actually writing and publishing a novel, reaching that dream that had always seemed kinda impossible. I already had an account on Wattpad at this point, one that I’d written an NCIS story on but, other than that, used only for reading. I had no idea that Wattpad has a pretty massive Indian community to be honest. In all honesty, the only reason I’d signed up for a Wattpad account in the first place was because I’d been through most of the NCIS archive on fanfiction.net and hadn’t yet discover AO3.
You can imagine my surprise when, I’m not even sure how, I stumble across a story tagged with #varundhawan. And, even more surprising, there’s a lot of them.
Seeing that, I decided to take a chance and type up the words that were floating through my head and post them as a story. I’d posted fic before but I’d never really got a response to it and just kinda stopped trying. But, I posted this story, nervous as all hell, and then tried my best not to think about it. Because everyone always says to write for yourself but that doesn’t mean it’s easy to post a story and get no response, to see that nobody is reading it.
Which is why I was a little shocked to see that I was getting reads and votes and comments.
Now, anyone who knows me knows that awkward human mode is pretty much my default setting so I had a hard time responding to comments but I made myself do it and, slowly, I started to talk to people. We had little conversations in the comments and then we started messaging.
Next thing I know, I’m getting on twitter and discovering that this fandom is even bigger than I’d ever imagined. I’d never really used twitter before; I’d signed up to be able to follow authors, get updates on books because it seemed Facebook was becoming obsolete in that respect, but after a couple days of trying to navigate that app, I’d found myself confused and deleted it.
But this time I made myself figure out how to use it, something that feels like a small accomplishment now when I use it every day but, back then, felt like something huge. I didn’t really interact with people too much thanks to that annoying little friend of mine called social anxiety but it didn’t matter because the people I did interact with, they welcomed me warmly and spoke to me freely and they are, to this day, some of the best friends I have ever had, friends who I still talk to on an almost daily basis. Friends who reminded me what friends are really supposed to be. Friends who encourage me and support me, who are always there for me when I need them. Better friends than almost anyone who I’ve ever met in real life.
Those friends and that support got me through some of the shittiest times I’ve ever had. Talking to them has been the bright spot in some of the darkest days, the thing that got me through days at uni when I felt like I was just being completely overwhelmed and I wanted to give up – even though they might not know it.
And besides that, seeing the way people within the fandom interact, the way they support each other as well as the actor we’re all here for, that is one of the most uplifting things I’ve ever experienced.
I know that I don’t really participate in the fandom, I don’t know many people, despite the fact that I feel like I want to, I just don’t know how to talk to people. But I’m learning to, trying to. And I don’t think I ever would if it weren’t for this fandom. It’s given me a voice – or rather, helped me to find my own. I’m still developing it, I probably will be for a long time, and I don’t doubt that it will take me some time to find enough confidence to be able to talk to people freely, to not overthink every single time I want to tweet, but I’m getting there.
I don’t hide as much as I used to, don’t try to stop people from knowing who I am. I don’t care if people think I’m a dork or nerdy or whatever the hell else because I’m a fan. It took me a really long time to realise that there’s nothing wrong in it, that being a fan isn’t something to be looked down on but something to be proud of. And, most importantly, it’s a part of who I am, part of what makes me me.
I don’t know if I ever would have discovered that if it wasn’t for this fandom. Being part of this fandom has helped me to figure out who I am – and that who I am isn’t something to be ashamed of. I found myself and I found my best friends, I found my voice and I found people who want to listen to it.
And no matter how many years pass, no matter what anyone might think, I will always be thankful for that. There are other fandoms that I’m part of, other fandoms that I’ve allowed myself to embrace, to be a part of in almost the same way but that never would have happened if I hadn’t found myself here first. And no fandom will ever be the same because this is where it all started for me.
And now, I’m gonna wrap this up because I think I could go on forever and I know I’ve already gone on a while. So, if any of you took the time to read this all, thank you and I hope at least a little of my rambling made some kind of sense. And, if there is anyone out there who needed to hear that, to hear that it’s okay to be a fan, to be different no matter what the world might say, I hope that this might’ve helped, even just a little bit.
One last thing before I go though: remember, your perception of weird depends on your definition of normal so you do you, whatever and whoever that may be. Because you are definitely awesome
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Between Two Ferns: 10 Of The Most Hilarious Quotes From The Netflix Movie – Screen Rant
Existing fans of Zach Galifianakis’ subversive, absurd, and highly-entertaining talk show Between Two Ferns will not be disappointed by Netflix’s Between Two Ferns: The Movie. The film adaptation of the Funny Or Die web series is also guaranteed to garner new fans for Galifianakis, and his portrayal of a snarky and inept talk show host.
Accompanied by his producer Carol Hunch (Lauren Lapkus), his cameraman, Cameran “Cam” Campbell (Ryan Gaul), and “Boom Boom” (Jiavani Linayao), who is the show’s sound mixer. Galifianakis and his hapless crew embark on a series of misadventures while insulting A-list celebrities along the way.
Here are 10 of the most hilarious quotes from Between Two Ferns: The Movie.
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10 “What do you have to do? Go drive around in a Lincoln convertible, shirtless?”
Between Two Ferns: The Movie doesn’t waste any time when it comes to putting a celebrity in the hot seat. Matthew McConaughey hasn’t been visible on the big screen lately, but he is the face of Lincoln cars. The commercials are your standard celebrity endorsement fare: McConaughey makes driving seem like a golden ticket if you want to access a world of total chillness.
When McConaughey grows impatient with Galifianakis’ insults, the host quickly reduces the Academy Award-winning actor to a sell-out pin-up.
9 “I’m a white man and I’m straight, I deserve it.”
Galifianakis finally throws down the gauntlet, demanding Will Ferrell give him his own network talk show. This quote pokes fun at those who believe white males to be inordinately marginalized in modern society. The line works on multiple levels since Galifianakis is so stupid and horrible at his job that he has in no way earned this opportunity.
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8 “Some people have it all. Looks, talent. How does it feel to only have looks?”
All of the celebrities who appear on Between Two Ferns know what they’re in for, and they always manage to seem uncomfortable in spite of it. When interviewing Paul Rudd, Galifakanis doesn’t deviate from his formula of slinging an insult right out of the gate by insinuating Rudd is nothing but a pretty face. Rudd is a handsome guy, but he’s capitalized on his comedic talents more so than his looks.
Rudd is one of the show’s few guests who drops hints that he’s in on the joke. As an accomplished comedic actor and writer, there’s no doubt Rudd appreciates Galifianakis’ deadpan delivery.
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7 “You have 12 million Instagram followers. How long did it take you to apologize to each one of them for Bumblebee?”
Galifianakis never holds back when it comes to criticizing his guests. Nothing is off-limits. Rising star and ingenue Hailee Steinfeld isn’t exactly a household name, but the chances are good viewers have seen the Transformers‘ spin-off.
The movie actually received good reviews, but Galifianakis talk show persona never stokes a celebrity’s ego or gives any credit where it’s due. His interviews are more like one-man roasts, and this quote is quintessential Zach. It doesn’t matter if the movie was good or made money if he doesn’t like it; all bets are off.
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6 “I’d love to see an all-male reboot of Ocean’s 8.”
Galifianakis is unapologetically clueless about celebrity culture, so, when he interviews rapper-actress Awkwafina, he gets a chance to showcase his ignorance when it comes to both music and film.
The joke here is obvious: Ocean’s 8 is the all-female reboot of the wildly successful franchise. Not only does Galifianakis never bother to do his research, but it’s also almost impossible to fathom how mainstream pop culture fare doesn’t even cause a blip on his radar.
5 “I thought it was Analyze This, but it was Anal-yze This.”
The joke that hotel guests remain clueless that their choice to rent porn won’t come back to haunt them is one that can land or fall completely flat. When Galifianakis is confronted with an itemized bill in front of his co-workers, he does his best to dig himself out of the embarrassing hole.
Things go from bad to worse when he claims he didn’t realize this wasn’t the Billy Crystal comedy. The itemized bill reveals he makes the same mistake several times. Plus, porn puns never really get old.
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4 “You once said you’re your own worst critic. So you haven’t read any of your reviews?”
Celebrities can check their egos at the door, because all it takes is one bad movie for Galifianakis to have a field day as Benedict Cumberbatch learns the hard way. Talk show banter is usually light, and the sole purpose is for someone famous to promote their next project.
It’s an unspoken rule the host shouldn’t bring up unfortunate career-related choices. How ironic that a guy who has an unnatural attachment to ferns and hosts a cable access shows has the nerve to point out how Dr. Strange himself has been taken to the woodshed by critics?
3 “Women are always being told to watch their weight in Hollywood. So why do you think so many actresses could still stand to lose a few pounds?”
Galifianakis and his team score an unexpected interview Tessa Thompson who happens to be at the wrong place and the wrong time (she’s researching boring people for a movie role). This question is a not so subtle jab at Hollywood and the entertainment industry’s double standard when it comes to beauty. The question sets Thompson up to deliver a zinger of her own with Galifianakis on the receiving end.
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2 “Dinklage. Is that an STD?”
Between Two Ferns: The Movie is a mockumentary about a parody of a talk show, but that doesn’t make some moments any less cringeworthy. Galifianakis isn’t afraid to go there. Luckily, neither is Peter Dinklage, an actor who embraces the chance to poke fun at himself and celebrity stereotypes.
There are several obvious ways Galifianakis can go with this interview, and, with a name like Dinklage, the potential insults are innumerable, but a male body part certainly springs to mind. That’s one of the great things about Between Two Ferns: The Movie. Viewers can never be sure just what horrible thing Galifianakis is going to say next.
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1 “What was the marijuana budget on True Detective?”
This question didn’t make it into the Matthew McConaughey interview at the start of the movie. But, as the credits roll, there’s blooper footage that screams missed opportunities. There’s nothing funnier than to watch celebrities laugh at themselves, and McConaughey has a great sense of humor about his image. Couple that with Woody Harrelson’s well-documented history with weed, and this question is a takedown of two former co-stars with one stone(r).
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"Bad Times at the El Royale"
This is another movie that people seemed to either embrace or abhor and I finished with a shoulder shrug. Maybe that's not fair. I mostly liked Drew Goddard's single-setting bloodbath, but I'm stunned that anyone sees enough to like or hate here to include in either ten best or ten worst lists for the entirety of 2018. On the positive side, the ensemble is fantastic, especially Cynthia Erivo, Jeff Bridges, and Chris Hemsworth. It's never boring, weaving several subplots on a very bad night at the El Royale hotel into one backstabbing tapestry. It's also too long, too unfocused, and slips through your fingers once it's over. There's a tighter, smarter version of "El Royale" in this one that could have been great. But this one is still pretty good—available On Demand now and on Blu-ray on 1/1.
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"Fahrenheit 11/9"
Did Michael Moore's latest provocation influence the election as he so clearly hoped it would when he dropped it in the heat of the season? Maybe. Probably not, though. The fact is that Moore doesn't have the impact he once did, but should that be the only way we judge him as a filmmaker? As an influencer? It will be interesting to see how his most overtly political films like this one stand up with a couple decades of history behind them. For me, the best pieces of "Fahrenheit 11/9" don't focus on the Trump Presidency but the various stories of the last few years that led to the voter apathy that was arguably the biggest reason he won. And, say what you will about this film's lack of focus, there's a great mini-doc buried within this film about the Flint water crisis that you really should see.
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"The Predator"
After the TIFF premiere of Shane Black's latest reboot/sequel to the hit '80s sci-fi/action film, I suspected that I would be in the minority of critics who enjoyed it but didn't expect it to be quite so drastic. I stand by my 2am take in Canada that this is a fun action movie that understands what worked about the original film while also taking some of the same ideas in a new direction. No, it's not going to be anyone's favorite movie of 2018, but it's a quick, enjoyable rental on a Saturday night, and it works even better at home than in the middle of the night in Toronto.
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Only this column could go from "The Predator" to "Schindler's List," but that's how we roll at the HECG (and the byproduct of alphabetical listings). For the 25th anniversary of one of the best films of the '90s, Universal has upgraded Steven Spielberg's Oscar winner with a 4K release that reminds viewers why this movie was so rapturously praised when it came out in 1993. Given 4 stars by Roger on its initial release, he didn't wait long to put it in the Great Movies pantheon, and it's a movie that has held up remarkably well. The 4K release is accompanied by a new documentary called "Schindler's List: 25 Years Later," adding to the sense that this is one of the essential 4K Blu-ray releases of 2018.
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"A Simple Favor"
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When the acolytes of John Carpenter talk about the horror icon, they often stick solely to, well, his horror films. How many pieces can the internet produce about the greatness of "Halloween," "The Thing," or underrated pics like "The Fog" and "Prince of Darkness"? Lost in a lot of the talk about Carpenter is what is actually his highest-grossing film outside of Mike Myers, 1984's "Starman." This has always been a film that I hold close to my heart as I was nine when it came out and, well, that's a good age for this movie. It's an underrated film with a truly great performance from Jeff Bridges. As Roger wrote 34 years ago, "Actors sometimes try to change their appearance; Bridges does something trickier, and tries to convince us that Jeff Bridges is not inhabited by himself."
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Ah, "Venom." Is this smash hit a good movie? Noooo. It's clunky and weird. And yet there's something in here that almost brings it together and that's the totally committed lunacy from Tom Hardy. Whether he's talking to the symbiote inhabiting his body or eating a live lobster out of the tank in which he's sitting, there's something inspired in so many of his choices. Sadly, the rest of the movie totally pales in comparison, including something I didn't think was possible: flat performances from Riz Ahmed and Michelle Williams. As much as I don't want to see "Venom" again, I'll be curious about "Venom 2" just to see if Hardy's energy can be featured in a project that deserves it. 
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Ever since 1999’s The Blair Witch Project sent early internet denizens scouring the web to figure out if its spooky, shocking story was actually true, we can’t seem to get enough of found-footage movies.
In the 19 years since Blair Witch’s theatrical run, 18 found-footage horror movies have made $15 million or more at the box office — which constitutes a financial success, considering how cheaply most of these movies are made. (See: The Gallows, which made almost $24 million on a reported production budget of $100,000.) That’s about one hit per year. As niche tastes go, found footage has a nice track record.
The subgenre has also seen its share of genuine blockbusters. Blair Witch and 2008’s Cloverfield became bonafide cultural phenomenons during their days. Two of the Paranormal Activity movies topped $100 million at the US box office and another grossed $80 million, huge hits for three consecutive Halloweens.
As streaming takes over, the market has continued to grow for the kind of low-budget, easy wins that found-footage films can provide, and the barrier to entry for filmmakers looking to try their hand at some quick-and-dirty handheld scares is lower than ever. Searching “found footage” on Amazon Video yielded 222 results.
So what is it about found footage? In an age when you can pull a phone out of your pocket and record movie-quality video, I think there’s something deeply authentic and compelling about a movie that mimics something we ourselves might shoot. It’s escapism in its rawest, most intimate form. Pair it with the primal emotions of horror, the genre that’s home to most of these films, and you have a reliable formula.
Personally, I love found footage, and think it doesn’t get enough credit for how flexible it is: It’s a subgenre that can work for everything from claustrophobic chamber dramas to fantastical epics like Cloverfield and Troll Hunter. I myself often find the cheaper ones, in their rawness, more compelling and more legitimately unsettling than the found-footage movies Hollywood produces. The amateurish aesthetic only heightens their effect.
But as any fan knows, the quality variance is high, and not just because seemingly anybody can make a found-footage movie. You’re as likely to find a dud as something memorable — and you can never be sure which you’re going to get, given these films rarely attract top-tier stars or directors that might serve as some kind of proxy for quality.
However, in the defining paradox of found footage, that can also be their strength. Strip away the big names and movie magic gloss, and you’re left with a couple actors, a camera, and a story — and when the right combination clicks, it can result in an effectively terrifying experience.
This fall, I jumped headlong into the world of shaky cams and sudden pans to something creeping around the corner. I’d seen the big hits and the cultural touchstones — now I wanted to burrow deep into the found-footage catalogs on Amazon Prime, Netflix, and Shudder. (If you haven’t seen The Blair Witch Project, it is on you, my friend, to correct that immediately. I think it holds up. Just don’t expect the scariest movie you’ve ever seen.)
I found some great horror flicks. I also saw some duds. So, as a Halloween treat, and in an effort to uncover some hidden gems, I’m pointing you in the right direction with this list of some of the best found-footage horror available on streaming. And I ranked them, because why not.
(Sadly, I cannot recommend that you watch [REC], the 2007 Spanish entry that’s probably the masterpiece of the subgenre. The only version available to stream is a very bad English dub and I would not wish that on anyone.)
The details: USA, 2014. Directed by John Erick Dowdle. Available with subscription on Netflix.
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Why watch: Sometimes, all a found-footage film needs is the right setting. This descent into hell (played here by the Paris catacombs) is visually mesmerizing, which makes this movie worth your time even if the scares can be a bit inert and the drama a bit hackneyed. Plus, Perdita Weeks is compulsively watchable as Scarlett, the alchemy student who brings a documentary crew and ex-boyfriend in tow, and the hellish final act is appropriately bizarre and discomfiting.
This is one of those found-footage movies with an impressive sense of scale: You’ve taken a real journey by the final frame.
Try if you like: The Descent. With its narrow passageways and suffocating sense of claustrophobia, the comparison is inevitable.
The details: USA, 2013. Directed by Karl Mueller. Available with subscription on Shudder.
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Why watch: It’s best to go into Mr. Jones knowing as little as possible. Part of the joy of Halloween horror movie season is stumbling upon titles you would never otherwise look for and seeing where they take you. That mindset can only help when watching Mr. Jones, which takes likable characters and distinctly creepy imagery and applies them to a story that becomes quite the head trip. To say much more would spoil the fun.
Try if you like: Unbreakable — but, again, I’m reluctant to elaborate. Let’s just say found footage has a special ability to, in its practical limitations, force filmmakers to be more imaginative.
The details: Canada, 2012. Directed by Christopher MacBride. Available for digital rental on Amazon and iTunes.
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Why watch: This one benefits from a great set-up: What if the man raving about the end of the world outside of Congress was right?
I’m a sucker for any found-footage story that’s framed as “everything went wrong for this documentary crew.” There isn’t much more here than a killer premise and a memorably creepy finale, but that is one beauty of the found-footage genre: These movies often don’t need much more than that to be successful.
Try if you like: Rosemary’s Baby. The occultism is omnipresent, and the movie is less interested in scaring the pants off of you than in constantly nudging you about how near to your own reality this whole scenario seems to be.
The details: USA, 2016. Directed by Phil Guidry, Simon Herbert, and David Whelan. Available with subscription on Amazon Prime.
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Why watch: The most horrifying thing in Savageland might be the dialogue uttered by some of the white, openly racist side characters who populate its mockumentary pastiche.
Say this for the filmmakers: They’re willing to let those characters be as nasty as need be. They don’t pull any punches in this gory tale set in Arizona near the US-Mexican border. Through a narrative not unlike that of Making a Murderer, we learn the story of a Mexican immigrant who might have been wrongly accused of a truly gruesome crime.
This is another small film, made on a self-evidently low budget, that has a big imagination and is bedeviled by tough, urgent political questions.
Try if you like: Get Out. It’s certainly not the scariest film on this list, but, like Jordan Peele’s masterwork, this movie is more interested in making you uncomfortable than making you jump out of your seat.
The details: USA, 2016. Directed by Nigel Bach. Available with subscription on Amazon Prime.
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Why watch: This is a genuine one-man show that might leave you wondering if Nigel Bach just took $1,000 and rented a random house for a weekend. Bach (who receives every notable credit here) plays Tom, a man who thinks he’s buying a house that will make for a quick flip and a tidy profit. But then the furniture starts to move on its own.
As found-footage set-ups go, Tom’s reasons for filming are left a little … vague. But you don’t come to these movies looking for iron-clad logic. And even with no budget to speak of, Bach’s film still got to me, thanks in part to an unforgettable final shot, which has been a staple of the genre since Blair Witch.
Try if you like: The Blair Witch Project. The setting is totally different, but Bad Ben marries a do-it-yourself-attitude with an impeccably realized atmosphere in a way that echoes found footage’s breakout movie.
The details: Canada, 2011. Directed by the Vicious Brothers. Available with subscription on Shudder.
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Why watch: Finally, a little self-awareness: Colin Minihan and Stuart Ortiz, a.k.a. filmmaking duo the Vicious Brothers, effectively spoof those ghost hunter shows that were briefly a hot trend, while still building toward a genuinely suspenseful second half.
A key element of many found-footage films set in one place (which is a lot of them) is geography. Each haunted house or hospital has rooms or hallways — or, in the case of Grave Encounters, tunnels — that start to gain a personality and help build expectations that skilled directors like the Vicious Brothers can then exploit as the audience grows a little too comfortable.
Try if you like: Scream. It’s not taking itself too seriously but there are still solid scares to be found.
The details: USA, 2011. Directed by Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman. Available for digital rent on Amazon and iTunes.
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Why watch: Looking back, it’s honestly impressive that the Paranormal Activity series squeezed three worthwhile movies out of its premise. There was so much potential for this franchise to get stale — and it did, eventually — but it took longer than you’d think.
The mythology really took over as the series went along, and the third film’s exploration of the story’s universe, while turning back the clock a little bit, gives it a fresh feeling and a gloriously gonzo finale. The 1980s, with their flickering, ever-skipping videotapes, are a great period for the found-footage aesthetic.
Try if you like: Any Paranormal Activity movie. This is a series you can jump around in, so if you’ve only seen the first or gave up after the second, this is the franchise at its best.
The details: USA, 2015. Directed by Stephen Cognetti. Available with subscription on Amazon Prime.
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Why watch: Critical to any found-footage movie is the set-up. Why are they filming? Why do they keep filming? Why, for the love of God, do they keep filming?
As set-ups go, Hell House LLC’s is pretty great: A crew of drifters put on haunted houses for money in random towns over the Halloween season. They like to record themselves for the memories and to document their talents in scaring their guests. There’s an implied history that adds some heft to the characters and their relationships.
But as the movie goes on, the haunters become the haunted. Their latest house has a bloody backstory, and, as we learn at the very beginning, something is going to go horribly wrong on Halloween night. But what?
This movie is extremely seasonal in the best way. There are also clowns. I’m not going to say anything else.
Try if you like: It. With its strong sense of place and some seriously scary clowns, Hell House LLC is a nice compendium to last year’s huge horror hit.
The details: USA, 2013. Directed by Blair Erickson. Available for digital rental on Amazon and iTunes.
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Why watch: Your definition of “found footage” might vary, but much of The Banshee Chapter is archival video or in-universe uncovered footage placed within a mockumentary framework. It counts.
It’s also, scare-for-scare, the most frightening film I’ve seen this year. Director Blair Erickson just knows how to craft a terrifying moment, and the film’s backstory of real CIA programs adds to the disquieting ambiance. It’s unsettling throughout, and you’ll yelp at least once.
Try if you like: District 9. Especially in its formatting, the film is reminiscent of that movie’s blend of found footage and conventional moviemaking.
The details: USA, 2017. Directed by Patrick Brice. Available with subscription on Netflix.
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Why watch: The Creep films constitute the only found-footage series that doubles as an enthralling, inexplicable character study. Mark Duplass stars as our killer, Aaron, who is … reflective on his murdering ways. He likes to share. He likes to talk. He even hires random people off the internet just so they can film him talking — for starters, anyway.
The first Creep, released in 2014, is good, but the second, which brings Desiree Akhavan’s Sara in as Duplass’s sparring partner, is even bolder. It’s sort of funny, highly uncomfortable, and totally terrifying in a few sequences.
Try if you like: The Silence of the Lambs. Duplass’s unforgettable performance, combined with his complicated relationship with Sara, a worthy foe, reminds me a lot of the Hannibal Lecter-Clarice Starling classic.
The details: Japan, 2005. Directed by Kôji Shiraishi. Available with subscription on Shudder.
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Why watch: This is the mother of all horror mockumentaries. Whereas many other found-footage movies go small, Noroi runs in the opposite direction, with a speaking cast of well over 25 characters and a nearly two-hour runtime.
The film follows paranormal researcher Masafumi Kobayashi, who embarks on a hellish odyssey while investigating an odd woman, her mysterious son, and some strange deaths. Along the way, we get a taste of everything: Japanese variety shows, classic talking heads, presumably recovered footage from Kobayashi’s own files. It gets very meta when actress Marika Matsumoto shows up playing a possibly possessed version of herself.
Noroi is more interested in building a searing sense of dread than conventional scares, but images from its final reel will still burn into your brain. Shiraishi is maybe the world’s only found-footage auteur (he’s made at least four others over the past decade or so), and Noroi shows all the things he can do with the form.
Try if you like: The Ring. Maybe that’s a bit obvious. But J-horror does have its own distinct mood, so your feelings about the most successful American crossover are probably a good indicator of how much you’ll enjoy Noroi.
The details: USA, 2014. Directed by Adam Robitel. Available for digital rental on YouTube.
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Why watch: A possession movie that starts as a drama about Alzheimer’s disease, The Taking of Deborah Logan offers such a singularly brilliant premise it’s a little baffling that nobody thought of it before.
For this subgenre, The Taking of Deborah Logan stands out as an impressive artistic achievement. It is first and foremost a painfully relatable family melodrama, with affecting performances and fully realized characters. But the terror comes hard and often in a second half that goes off the rails in the best way, when our millennial documentary crew discovers they are filming a very different story than they originally imagined.
Try if you like: Hereditary. Jill Larson and her remarkably malleable physique dominate this movie much the same way Toni Collette owned 2018’s best horror film. Both films successfully plumb issues of mental health and psychology with a demonic motif.
The details: UK, 2013. Directed by Elliot Goldner. Available for digital rental on Amazon and iTunes.
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Why watch: What makes Final Prayer work so well are the relationships: a semi-disgraced ex-priest is joined by a goofy, agnostic cameraman and a mildly authoritarian church official to investigate a demon-haunted church in rural England. The performances are strong and the characters actually get the time to talk about life and reveal themselves a little.
The trio sets up cameras in their house and the church and they wear headsets almost constantly because they’ve been charged by the Vatican with figuring out whether there is any evidence for this alleged haunting. It adds a little authenticity, providing an answer to that ever-present found footage question of why they’re filming and why they keep filming. You get agonizingly still, quiet scenes while waiting for something to move in the sanctuary (a la Paranormal Activity) and more kinetic action when we switch to the characters’ point-of-view.
It’s creepy throughout, without leaning on jump scares. Then, at the end, the story goes in a wildly unexpected direction.
Try if you like: The Exorcist. Final Prayer’s horror incorporates a lot of Catholicism, in a good and thoughtful way.
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Flyers win. No, really. Five Takeaways from Flyers 5, Flames 2
Maybe I’ve been watching too many episodes of Stranger Things on Netflix, but for the past 36 hours I feel like I’m in the “Upside Down.”
The Eagles looked bad for the first time all season (although I was the only member of the CB team to see that coming).
The Sixers got beat on their home court by a woeful Phoenix Suns team.
And… the Flyers won a game.
Seriously. They won. The 10-game losing streak is over.
http://pic.twitter.com/KdqqAHI19J
— Broad Street Hockey (@BroadStHockey) December 5, 2017
Not only that – the Flyers scored five goals and all of them were scored by forwards not known for their ginger hair or beards (when they haven’t shaved them off).
Funny what happens when you have secondary scoring, eh?
The Flyers had more than that though – they had great goaltending from Brian Elliott – which was the real difference in the game. They had some good fortune and had some bounces finally going their way and they did something they haven’t been doing at all for much of the season – they got to the net. Four of their five goals were the result of getting into the dirty area of the ice and cleaning up the trash.
Those are all positives and the right way to finally end a 10-game losing streak.
But there are still a bunch of things to worry about because this team isn’t out of the woods yet. Not by a long shot.
To the takeaways:
1. A breakup, albeit maybe only temporary
It’s been more than a couple weeks now since I first suggested breaking up the top line. While Dave Hakstol wasn’t keen on the idea then, he needed to lose 10 straight games before he realized his roster was too top-heavy.
So, he finally made the change last night in Calgary.
Now, he didn’t break it up in the same way that I would have – I still think there is a way to spread out the talent even more than he did – but what he tried last night worked, so kudos there.
I’m not sure it’s sustainable, because the Flyers, despite winning by three goals, were dominated by Calgary (more on that later), but enough guys did enough good things to produce the win.
Jake Voracek, the team’s leading scorer mind you, was removed from the top line and replaced by Wayne Simmonds.
Voracek has certainly had his defensive struggles, but he’s the best playmaker on the team, so putting him with some other guys you would hope would score more is not a bad idea. And it worked – as Voracek assisted on three of the Flyers’ five goals.
Actually, his new second line, centered by Valtteri Filppula and with Michael Raffl on the left wing, was really good last night. It wasn’t the best line for the Flyers – although it did produce the most points. Combined, they posted a pair of goals and five assists. That’s a productive night.
Even better though was the new third line of Taylor Leier, Scott Laughton, and Jordan Weal. This trio was flying all night and creating chances. Laughton had a pair of goals to end a 21-game drought and Leier and Weal each added an assist on his second goal.
Now, there was no Flyer with a positive Corsi figure in the game (Laughton was their best player with a CF% of 47.06) But the third line’s CF%Rel was easily the best on the team with Laughton (18.85) and Leier (14.64) No. 1 and No. 2 on the team and Weal (11.69) fourth-best.
Simmonds scored off a nice kick pass from Sean Couturier, but that was a power play goal and, frankly, at 5-on-5, that line didn’t generate much.
This was primarily because Simmonds doesn’t control the puck as well as Voracek does and isn’t a playmaker, meaning others have to drive the play – and they couldn’t against a mediocre Calgary team.
Instead, they were severely outshot by the Flames when they were on the ice. That might be something Hakstol would consider tinkering with.
As for the fourth line of Dale Weise, Nolan Patrick and Travis Konecny, they were simply dreadful. Their CF% as a trio on the ice was 10.53%. That means that the Flames had almost 90% of the shots in the seven minutes or less that trio was on the ice.
Not good.
2. Go to the net and good things happen
Let’s look at four Flyers goals here, in order. First, Filppula:
Good news! The Flyers scored! Raffl gets credited but it might go to Filppula. http://pic.twitter.com/LohOQBgeHo
— Chris Jastrzembski (@CFJastrzembski) December 5, 2017
Filppula ultimately did get credit, but the important thing here is, look where both Raffl and Filppula are. That’s right, right around the crease to put in a rebound or deflect a shot, or to screen the goalie. This is good positioning.
Next, Laughton’s first goal:
That'll be Ghost's tally, and a 2-1 Flyers lead. http://pic.twitter.com/yALd3DM3rU
— Chris Jastrzembski (@CFJastrzembski) December 5, 2017
Sure looked like Ghost at first, but on super slow mo replay from another angle not available here, Laughton actually tips the puck in front of goalie Mike Smith before slam dunking it behind him (even though the puck was already across the line).
Laughton, who for my money was the best skater in the game, does so much well here. He gets in front of the goalie, makes the deflection and then stays in the crease area to assure the puck goes in the net.
Again – the Flyers need more plays like this every game.
Next, Simmonds goal:
4-1 LEAD http://pic.twitter.com/rEj0EM9Nks
— Chris Jastrzembski (@CFJastrzembski) December 5, 2017
This actually capped off a wild barrage of three goals in 1:11 for the Flyers – and it came on a lucky power play after Couturier was clipped by a high stick belonging to his teammate Andrew MacDonald that the refs inexplicably whistled on Calgary’s Michael Frolik.
Regardless, the Flyers took advantage with two guys who, to be fair, have been going to the net all season (and in Simmonds case, his entire career).
Couturier gets into good scoring position and kicks the puck to Simmonds who is in his office and scores easily.
This 1:11 stretch, which also included this beauty of a goal by Raffl –
3-1 lead! We can't blow this, can we? http://pic.twitter.com/FEN8aOvrQN
— Chris Jastrzembski (@CFJastrzembski) December 5, 2017
– was the difference in the game, for sure. Because, aside from this 1:11, the Flyers were pretty much outplayed.
However, they did get one more goal in the third period from Laughton that did secure the win:
Back to a three-goal lead. Def Laughton this time. http://pic.twitter.com/XbARBhpbYP
— Chris Jastrzembski (@CFJastrzembski) December 5, 2017
Again, crashing the net. These videos should be on repeat in the Flyers meeting rooms. Just show them over and over until it is ingrained in these players that that’s how they have to score.
Because if not, they can’t win. Plain and simple. Unless…
3. Brian Elliott steals one
You knew this game was going to have some meaning for Elliott. He played for the Flames last year and it was his first game back in Calgary.
He had already lost a heartbreaker in overtime to the Flames a couple weeks ago at the Wells Fargo Center, but it’s always different against a former team in the old barn.
Elliott, who has been really good for the Flyers despite the awful run, was excellent again.
He was under constant duress in this game and kept the Flyers in it from the jump. Calgary’s first goal was a bad rebound by Elliott, but aside from that he stopped almost everything. The Flames fired 80 shots. (80!) Of those, 45 were on net and Elliott stopped 43 (a .956 save percentage).
That’s good. Really good. So good, in fact, that it snapped the losing streak pretty much all by itself.
The TV crew correctly named Elliott the star of the game.
And he wasn’t flashy. Not in the least. But he was sound. He was positionally on point. He was calm, cool and collected.
He was Moose:
MOOSE http://pic.twitter.com/rqVoozLQ3L
— Sons of Penn (@SonsofPenn) December 5, 2017
The problem is, he’s going to have to be that a lot more often because…
4. The Flyers were outmatched… again
I keep harping on the fact that this has to be systemic. It has to. These Flyers players can’t be so dumb to constantly be caught in the same mistakes time after time.
And it’s not just mistakes that lead to goals, but mistakes that lead to odd-man rushes. Constant odd-man rushes. Calgary had a bunch last night. It’s unreal.
Sure, sometimes it’s the result of a bad pass, or an inability to get a puck in deep, but other times it’s simply positioning, and if the Flyers aren’t positioned properly, most of the time it’s because that’s how they are being coached to play.
And the fact that it keeps happening is indicative that other teams see it on film and look to exploit it.
Look at the game flow:
That’s all Calgary. From the opening faceoff to the final whistle.
The Flyers can’t play this way and expect to win with any consistency. Instead, this is a formula for losing more often than not. This outcome is definitely an exception to the rule.
A look at the heat map may explain why:
You see the Flyers didn’t get many chances, but the ones they did were from in close, as we pointed out already. Meanwhile, Calgary was shooting from everywhere. However, to the Flyers credit, they didn’t let the Flames get to the front of the net all that much.
They took most of their shots from the right circle but couldn’t generate much from Elliott’s kitchen.
That was a benefit to the Flyers, and likely why this game didn’t turn into a track meet.
5. Loose Pucks
Dale Weise playing less than seven minutes doesn’t concern me, but Patrick and Konecny do. I know neither have earned much with their play of late, but these are two of the most important pieces of this Flyers rebuild. Please recognize this as a rebuild and get the young kids more time.
I have to think, as well as Elliott is playing, that Michal Neuvirth will get one of the next two starts either in Edmonton or in Vancouver. Edmonton is really struggling, so, maybe he gets the nod there and Elliott goes in Vancouver before the Flyers get a four-day break.
This hit on Weise earned Travis Hamonic a match penalty. I think that’s borderline for a match penalty and I don’t expect a suspension:
Travis Hamonic is done for the game after this "hit" on Dale Weise. http://pic.twitter.com/JOATWlaeDd
— Chris Jastrzembski (@CFJastrzembski) December 5, 2017
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