(Warning: This post contains spoilers for Monday’s midseason finale of “9-1-1” Season 2.)
“9-1-1” dove into one of its biggest emergencies yet on the Season 2 fall finale Monday night: We met Maddie’s abusive ex-husband Doug in the final moments of the episode, just as everyone’s Christmas seemed so merry and bright.
Tim Minear, the first-responder drama’s showrunner, spoke with TheWrap ahead of the episode to explain how he decided to reveal the man who has haunted Maddie (Jennifer Love Hewitt). He also explained why he cast Hewitt’s real-life husband, Brian Hallisay, in the part.
Also Read: '9-1-1' Showrunner Tells Us If That Proposal Will Survive Past the Holidays
“Well, to be honest with you, I gave Brian Hallisay his first job at least 10 years ago on a show I did for Fox called ‘The Inside,'” Minear said. “It was literally...
“9-1-1” dove into one of its biggest emergencies yet on the Season 2 fall finale Monday night: We met Maddie’s abusive ex-husband Doug in the final moments of the episode, just as everyone’s Christmas seemed so merry and bright.
Tim Minear, the first-responder drama’s showrunner, spoke with TheWrap ahead of the episode to explain how he decided to reveal the man who has haunted Maddie (Jennifer Love Hewitt). He also explained why he cast Hewitt’s real-life husband, Brian Hallisay, in the part.
Also Read: '9-1-1' Showrunner Tells Us If That Proposal Will Survive Past the Holidays
“Well, to be honest with you, I gave Brian Hallisay his first job at least 10 years ago on a show I did for Fox called ‘The Inside,'” Minear said. “It was literally...
- 11/27/2018
- by Jennifer Maas
- The Wrap
There are two great threats in our life. Divorce and aliens. What? Is there something else I'm missing? Well, this upcoming sci-fi indie film, Alienate, which was directed by Michael Shumway, deals with both of these issues. This is Shumway's first feature length film. and prior to this, he composed for films as Christmas Angel and The Edison Effect. Haven't heard of either of those movies? That's ok, it doesn't matter.
Alienate is all about a man named David who goes on a business trip to give his wife some space, and while he's gone an alien invasion hits. So now he's trying to get home to fix his marriage and to save the world. Here's the official synopsis:
At the end of his marriage, David leaves on a business trip to give his wife much-needed space. When airplanes start mysteriously falling out of the sky and cell towers fail across the nation,...
Alienate is all about a man named David who goes on a business trip to give his wife some space, and while he's gone an alien invasion hits. So now he's trying to get home to fix his marriage and to save the world. Here's the official synopsis:
At the end of his marriage, David leaves on a business trip to give his wife much-needed space. When airplanes start mysteriously falling out of the sky and cell towers fail across the nation,...
- 4/16/2017
- by Bryam Dayley
- GeekTyrant
The holidays are almost upon us, and if you just can't wait to re-watch seasonal classics like "White Christmas" or "The Muppet Christmas Carol," they're available right now on Netflix. There are also a few Thanksgiving-themed movies you can stream, our favorite being, of course, "Planes, Trains and Automobiles."
There's something for almost every taste, whether you want something nice like an animated film for the kids or something very naughty, like "Bad Santa."
Thanksgiving Movies
1. "American Son" (2008) R
Nick Cannon stars as a young Marine who's just completed basic training and is about to ship out to Iraq: But first, he's home for a volatile four-day Thanksgiving with friends and family.
2. "The House of Yes" (1997) R
Parker Posey proves why she was the '90s Indie Movie Queen in this film where she plays a Jackie Kennedy-obsessed who is unreasonably jealous when her brother (Josh Hamilton) brings home...
There's something for almost every taste, whether you want something nice like an animated film for the kids or something very naughty, like "Bad Santa."
Thanksgiving Movies
1. "American Son" (2008) R
Nick Cannon stars as a young Marine who's just completed basic training and is about to ship out to Iraq: But first, he's home for a volatile four-day Thanksgiving with friends and family.
2. "The House of Yes" (1997) R
Parker Posey proves why she was the '90s Indie Movie Queen in this film where she plays a Jackie Kennedy-obsessed who is unreasonably jealous when her brother (Josh Hamilton) brings home...
- 11/6/2014
- by Sharon Knolle
- Moviefone
Tags: Orphan BlackTatiana MaslanyIMDbtelevisiontelevision recaps
Previously on Orphan Black, Cosima told Delphine she was bad at making crazy science, Sarah couldn't kill Helena so she shoved her in the trunk, and Alison said "eff it" and lost her damn mind.
Sarah has kindly removed Helena from her trunk — and zip-tied her to a pole in the basement. She introduces her to their birth mother, Amelia, but Helena was raised by nuns and doesn't quite get the concept of surrogate mothers, so she tries to call Sarah's bluff. But the idea that they are twins, actual sisters, intrigues her. Sarah points out that this means Helena's not the original, that she's the same as all the others, but I think the little psychopath is beyond reasoning with.
While they're downstairs, Mrs. S rifles through Amelia's belongings, and finds a picture in her bag, but is interrupted by Kira making creepy child prophecy predictions.
Previously on Orphan Black, Cosima told Delphine she was bad at making crazy science, Sarah couldn't kill Helena so she shoved her in the trunk, and Alison said "eff it" and lost her damn mind.
Sarah has kindly removed Helena from her trunk — and zip-tied her to a pole in the basement. She introduces her to their birth mother, Amelia, but Helena was raised by nuns and doesn't quite get the concept of surrogate mothers, so she tries to call Sarah's bluff. But the idea that they are twins, actual sisters, intrigues her. Sarah points out that this means Helena's not the original, that she's the same as all the others, but I think the little psychopath is beyond reasoning with.
While they're downstairs, Mrs. S rifles through Amelia's belongings, and finds a picture in her bag, but is interrupted by Kira making creepy child prophecy predictions.
- 6/3/2013
- by PunkyStarshine
- AfterEllen.com
Last night, "Orphan Black" wrapped up what turned out to be a terrific first season on BBC America. Liane Bonin Starr has been covering the series for us for a while (here's her take on the finale), but I caught up just in time for some thoughts of my own (on the finale and the season), coming up just as soon as I throw your felt Christmas angel in the garbage disposal... I was pleasantly surprised by "Orphan Black" in my initial review, having no expectations for the creative team, the concept or Tatiana Maslany. That was written after I'd seen...
- 6/2/2013
- by Alan Sepinwall
- Hitfix
One Magic Christmas
Directed by Phillip Borsos
Written by Phillip Borsos, Barry Healey, Thomas Meehan
Starring Mary Steenburgen, Harry Dean Stanton, Elisabeth Harnois, Gary Basaraba
I suppose it’s perfectly fitting that religion became a topic of discussion on our most recent episode, seeing as the movie we were discussing was set at Christmas, one of the most religious times of year. I alluded to this on the podcast, but I was not raised in any kind of religious setting. If secularism has become the prevailing attitude during the 21st-century holiday season, as is so often espoused by hand-wringing media pundits, it sprang forth from homes like the one I grew up in. Like Mike’s mom, my mother was raised Catholic and taught by nuns. She grew up in the working-class suburbs of Buffalo, New York, one of six children living under the rule of two strict, God-fearing parents.
Directed by Phillip Borsos
Written by Phillip Borsos, Barry Healey, Thomas Meehan
Starring Mary Steenburgen, Harry Dean Stanton, Elisabeth Harnois, Gary Basaraba
I suppose it’s perfectly fitting that religion became a topic of discussion on our most recent episode, seeing as the movie we were discussing was set at Christmas, one of the most religious times of year. I alluded to this on the podcast, but I was not raised in any kind of religious setting. If secularism has become the prevailing attitude during the 21st-century holiday season, as is so often espoused by hand-wringing media pundits, it sprang forth from homes like the one I grew up in. Like Mike’s mom, my mother was raised Catholic and taught by nuns. She grew up in the working-class suburbs of Buffalo, New York, one of six children living under the rule of two strict, God-fearing parents.
- 12/15/2012
- by Josh Spiegel
- SoundOnSight
“Does this involve the glee club singing a Christmas song in the auditorium with snow falling on an elaborate winter scene?” hissed Sue Sylvester, sworn enemy of New Directions, in Glee‘s final episode of 2012.
The answer, of course, was a resounding yes — both in terms of the final scene in Sue’s story arc, and the overarching theme of the episode entitled “Glee, Actually.”
If you were too busy attending the first (and last) meeting of McKinley High’s Mayan Apocalypse Club, here’s what you missed on Glee.
* After slipping on a patch of ice and suffering a facial laceration,...
The answer, of course, was a resounding yes — both in terms of the final scene in Sue’s story arc, and the overarching theme of the episode entitled “Glee, Actually.”
If you were too busy attending the first (and last) meeting of McKinley High’s Mayan Apocalypse Club, here’s what you missed on Glee.
* After slipping on a patch of ice and suffering a facial laceration,...
- 12/14/2012
- by Michael Slezak
- TVLine.com
There was a 1977 TV movie called Snowbeast about a killer Yeti terrorizing a Colorado ski resort. You barely saw the monster at all. Now there's a new killer Yeti movie called Snow Beast, starring John Schneider and Jason London, and you'll see 100 times more monster in this trailer than in all of that Seventies flick.
People disappear every year out in the snow--but this year, something is adding to the body count. Jim (John Schneider) and his research team study the Canadian lynx every year. This year he has to take his rebelling 16-year-old daughter, Emmy, with him. But the lynx are missing. As Jim and his team try to find why, something stalks them--a predator no prey can escape.
Directed by Brian Brough (Christmas Angel) from a script by Brittany Wiscombe (Christmas Angel), my natural assumption would be that Snow Beast is destined for Syfy, but given that the...
People disappear every year out in the snow--but this year, something is adding to the body count. Jim (John Schneider) and his research team study the Canadian lynx every year. This year he has to take his rebelling 16-year-old daughter, Emmy, with him. But the lynx are missing. As Jim and his team try to find why, something stalks them--a predator no prey can escape.
Directed by Brian Brough (Christmas Angel) from a script by Brittany Wiscombe (Christmas Angel), my natural assumption would be that Snow Beast is destined for Syfy, but given that the...
- 1/25/2011
- by Foywonder
- DreadCentral.com
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