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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 Walking Dead Boss Previews Pivotal Daryl Episode: ‘She’s Somebody Who Obviously Left a Mark on Him’ https://briefnews.eu/walking-dead-boss-previews-pivotal-daryl-episode-shes-somebody-who-obviously-left-a-mark-on-him/ https://briefnews.eu/walking-dead-boss-previews-pivotal-daryl-episode-shes-somebody-who-obviously-left-a-mark-on-him/#respond Sat, 06 Mar 2021 20:53:22 +0000 https://briefnews.eu/walking-dead-boss-previews-pivotal-daryl-episode-shes-somebody-who-obviously-left-a-mark-on-him/

Sunday’s episode of The Walking Dead is, not to put too fine a point on it, a must-see for fans of Daryl and, for that matter, his four-legged friend, Dog. “It tells a story about what was going on with Daryl during the long stretch of time that he was away [futilely searching for his lost buddy, Rick] and how he came to have this dog,” showrunner Angela Kang tells TVLine.

It also tells a story about how Norman Reedus’ beloved alter ego came to make the acquaintance of a mystery woman named Leah, played by True Blood alum Lynn Collins. “This character comes into Daryl’s life at a time when they’re both very raw and vulnerable,” previews Kang, adding as if the teaser photo of Leah holding a gun on Daryl wasn’t a bit of a tip-off, “They have this very complex relationship that takes a long time before it starts to thaw.”

When it does finally begin to defrost, however, Leah comes to have a significant impact on our taciturn protagonist. “She is somebody who obviously left a mark on Daryl,” the executive producer hints. Ultimately, how he regards her becomes “all part of his guilt over time in the apocalypse.”

Intrigued? Having seen Sunday’s “Find Me” (9/8c, AMC), we can say with some certainty that you should be. While you’re here, check out photos from the episode in the gallery above, then hit the comments with your wish list for the remainder of Season 10’s bonus episodes.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/walking-dead-boss-previews-pivotal-daryl-episode-shes-somebody-who-obviously-left-a-mark-on-him/feed/ 0 Snowpiercer’s Lena Hall Previews ‘Explosive’ Audrey/Wilford Reunion, and a Très Spécial Performance https://briefnews.eu/snowpiercers-lena-hall-previews-explosive-audrey-wilford-reunion-and-a-tres-special-performance/ https://briefnews.eu/snowpiercers-lena-hall-previews-explosive-audrey-wilford-reunion-and-a-tres-special-performance/#respond Sun, 14 Feb 2021 21:33:05 +0000 https://briefnews.eu/snowpiercers-lena-hall-previews-explosive-audrey-wilford-reunion-and-a-tres-special-performance/

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Miss Audrey has been singing the blues ever since Mr. Wilford resurfaced — and this Monday’s Snowpiercer (TNT, 9/8c) will delve into the dark reasons why.

When last we tuned in, the Night Car’s manager and premiere entertainer was looking a bit wobbly, slurring through a welcome for the horde cramming into her cabaret, as Snowpiercer shut down numerous cars to power through a perilous climb. And while newly minted Detective Till wrote it off as Miss Audrey “cracking” like many a passenger, there is a specific reason for her spiral, as Tony Award-winning Broadway vet Lena Hall, who plays the enigmatic chanteuse, shares in this TVLine Q&A.

TVLINE | When they were moving everybody to the Night Car to brace for that big climb, Miss Audrey wasn’t looking too good. She seems a bit off her game. What’s going on?
You know, there’s a lot to unpack. There’s a lot going on. Everyone else is just running around trying to make things not happen, and she knows inevitably what is actually going to happen, so it’s really weighing down on her.

Not only that, she has such a past with Wilford (played by Sean Bean) that we’re going to see more of in Episode 4 and 5, and she just doesn’t know how to deal with the fact that he is there. She doesn’t know what’s going to happen when she sees him again, knowing everything that had happened.

TVLINE | It sounds like her connection with him is a bit more than knowing what his favorite whiskey is.
Correct. There’s a lot there, and she knows it’s coming. I would liken it to the people who knew that this pandemic was happening, while everyone else was running around, not really understanding how bad it’s going to get.

TVLINE | In the promo for this week, it looks like she is being asked to do something that she does not want to. She worries it will “open Pandora’s Box.”
Oh, yes. There’s a lot asked of her, and she knows her vulnerabilities. She basically can’t stop what’s inevitable, and she won’t be happy with it.

Snowpiercer PreviewTVLINE | It feels like Wilford’s return really “flipped a switch” with Miss Audrey, because she had been cool as a cucumber until now.
Yes. She’s had her Night Car, her strength. Her purpose in life changed when they left that station, basically, and she found a new purpose, a broader horizon, a better life for herself. She’s dealt with everyone else’s problems and never her own. She has no one to go to. So, essentially she has never dealt with her own demons and her own s–t, and she’s now suddenly faced with it head on.

TVLINE | Give us a taste of what it’s like when Miss Audrey and Wilford lock eyes on each other again for the first time.
It’s like explosive fire. I would liken it to two people who bring out the absolute worst in each other.

Snowpiercer 1x03TVLINE | Meanwhile, Zarah (Sheila Vand) is leaning towards a dark turn herself, with Josie still alive. Is that anything that Miss Audrey will get a sense of? They seemed to be buddies in Season 1.
Well,  Zarah worked in the Night Car and she was very close with her workers. Miss Audrey taught Zarah everything that she knows, and there’s kind of a “therapist/patient” thing going on between them and at this point. But Audrey doesn’t have any bandwidth for that anymore. In Episode 2, she snapped at Zarah because she just can’t wrap her head around her problems. It’s like, “Zarah, you have bigger fish to fry than that. Just stay safe.” And again, it’s because Miss Audrey knows what’s coming around the bend, and knows it’s going to be horrible for everyone.

TVLINE | I heard we’re going to get a special song from you in Episode 5. What can you say about it?
Yes. I was lucky enough that the team really embraced my music and other sides of me as well. They’ve been doing their research and allowing me to kind of infuse Miss Audrey with a lot more of like the things that I grew up doing, and I think that’s pretty cool. So, for Episode 5 they basically used my voice to tell a story. Previously they licensed a bunch of covers from me, but here they asked for some original music. I had been working on an original album ages ago that stalled out, but I had a bunch of demos and they picked one that they loved, and it reignited that project. But they asked for me to record it in French….

TVLINE | And what language did Lena Hall take in high school?
Spanish, and failed horribly. [Laughs] But I did a lot of research to make sure that it was close to being how a native French speaker would sing. My father speaks fluent French, so I had him translate the lyrics, and then I found a French singer to help me translate that into a song because it is very different when you have to sing something phonetically. I recorded the song, and I am releasing it on [February] 15th, and it’ll be in the show the following week.

TVLINE | If you are telling a story while singing, it almost sounds like a Moulin Rouge sort of moment for the show.
Kind of, yes. I don’t want to give anything away, but she’s already established as a performer and she’s already established as kind of a muse, but here we get to hear all these different sides of her and her voice. It’s very fun.

I love that they asked me for an original, because it did spark this album again, and I am so grateful for that because for the longest time I was just doing covers. I had a rock band, called The Deafening, and we did all original music, but it was like classic rock-sounding. I had been working on this [solo] album with the guitarist of that, but then the band disbanded because everybody moved to different parts of the country. But now these beautiful songs that never got to see the light of day are coming back, and they’re more relevant than ever.

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TVLINE | Lastly, I feel like we have almost exclusively seen Miss Audrey in the Night Car. Are we going to see her in any other locations this season? Maybe interacting with other characters, besides Wilford, for the first time?
Certainly.  She is much more around. And one of the best things about Miss Audrey that she magically comes up with the most amazing outfits….

TVLINE | It’s funny, I wondered during Season 1, like, who packed all these fancy fabrics? There was a dancer once in the Night Car who had on, like, a bird costume or something. If I’m boarding a train for the apocalypse, I am grabbing all sweat pants and jeans.
[Laughs] Well, [Snowpiercer] was supposed to be a luxury liner. And the Night Car was originally supposed to be a very debaucherous car, a place where everyone did drugs and drank. And Miss Audrey sang and entertained, but also kind of was a concubine, running her harem of women and men, and those who have yet to make up their minds. We joke that Miss Audrey has an entire train car that is just her wardrobe!

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/snowpiercers-lena-hall-previews-explosive-audrey-wilford-reunion-and-a-tres-special-performance/feed/ 0 Batwoman Boss Previews Safiyah’s Arrival: Prepare to Meet ‘The Woman Who Made Alice Who She Is’ https://briefnews.eu/batwoman-boss-previews-safiyahs-arrival-prepare-to-meet-the-woman-who-made-alice-who-she-is/ https://briefnews.eu/batwoman-boss-previews-safiyahs-arrival-prepare-to-meet-the-woman-who-made-alice-who-she-is/#respond Wed, 27 Jan 2021 20:52:15 +0000 https://briefnews.eu/batwoman-boss-previews-safiyahs-arrival-prepare-to-meet-the-woman-who-made-alice-who-she-is/

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Safiyah has only been referenced by name so far on Batwoman, but about to finally going to meet the person behind that scary reputation.

Played by Shivaani Ghai (Dominion), the criminal mastermind from the island of Coryana is headed to the CW series in Episode 3 (airing Sunday at 8/7c) — and according to showrunner Caroline Dries, she at first might not appear to be the terrifying Big Bad that Alice has made her out as.

“Safiyah is more than a villain. She is surprising, she’s maternal, she’s one with nature… she’s gentle, she’s kind, she’s soft spoken, she’s alluring and regal… and you’re just kind of drawn in to everything she says,” Dries tells TVLine. “The idea of her being the big scary villain that Alice is afraid of in Season 1, it’s hard to reconcile that with the woman we meet in Episode 3.” 

Safiyah will pop up in Gotham for a long-awaited reunion with Alice (Rachel Skarsten), who, in an effort to catch her adversary’s attention, just last week helped the Bat Team save Gotham from poised bats infected with the same toxin used to kill Mary’s mother. As Tatiana (Manifest‘s Leah Gibson) revealed in that grimy alley, Alice’s plan worked and now she’s on her way to meet her maker. Alice’s attitude is a complete turnaround from Season 1, in which she virtually quaked with terror at the mere mention of Safiyah’s name. But now that Alice lost everything she’s ever cared about (including “brother” Mouse and MIA twin sister Kate), she has nothing left to fear.

“The dynamic has changed,” says Dries. “Alice really has nothing to lose at this point and so she’s coming up against Safiyah with a bone to pick. What’s fun about their dynamic is that we’re used to Alice being the smartest person in the room, and we actually get to meet the woman who made her who she is.”

Are you excited about Safiyah’s arrival in Episode 3? How do you think her meeting with Alice will play out? Let us know in the comments below! 

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/batwoman-boss-previews-safiyahs-arrival-prepare-to-meet-the-woman-who-made-alice-who-she-is/feed/ 0 Pennyworth’s Jack Bannon Previews Alfred’s Season 2 Plan, His Patricidal Guilt and James Purefoy’s ‘Dark’ Role https://briefnews.eu/pennyworths-jack-bannon-previews-alfreds-season-2-plan-his-patricidal-guilt-and-james-purefoys-dark-role/ https://briefnews.eu/pennyworths-jack-bannon-previews-alfreds-season-2-plan-his-patricidal-guilt-and-james-purefoys-dark-role/#respond Sat, 12 Dec 2020 13:28:54 +0000 https://briefnews.eu/pennyworths-jack-bannon-previews-alfreds-season-2-plan-his-patricidal-guilt-and-james-purefoys-dark-role/

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Alfred Pennyworth has his sights set on America — but first, he and his mates will have to navigate all sorts of civil strife in England, while juggling the very odd job to pay for their passage.

When last we tuned in, the titular former British SAS soldier (played by Jack Bannon) had to gun down his own dad, Arthur — a secret member of the government-overthrowing Raven Society — though the tragic trigger-pulling proved fruitless in foiling a mad bomber plot targeting British bigwigs.

Elsewhere, American CIA agent Thomas Wayne (Ben Aldridge) was shot through the window by a sniper, just as he and fellow No Name League member Martha Kane (Emma Paetz) were taking their very first small step towards one day conceiving a Batman.

Epix’s “Batman prequel” kicks off Season 2 this Sunday, Dec. 13 at 9/8c, with a second episode following on Dec. 20. The two-part midseason finale then airs on Dec. 27, with the remaining episodes penciled in for sometime in 2021.

TVLine spoke with series lead Jack Bannon about what’s ahead.

TVLINE | How would you describe the new world order when Pennyworth returns?
Season 2 takes place one year on from Season 1, and civil war has fully kicked off. The Raven Society (led by Lord Harwood) is even more powerful — they’ve got the backing of the army now and are fully militarized. The No Names, meanwhile, are just kind of clinging on, really. The Raven Society has taken over most of England — London is a neutral zone, Soho specifically, where Alfred has a new nightclub. But really, Alfred is trying to come to terms with killing his father (Ian Puleston-Davies), and trying to get enough money together to get him, his mom (Dorothy Atkinson), Bazza (Hainsley Lloyd Bennett) and “Daveboy” (Ryan Fletcher) off to America to start fresh, because England is not in a good way.

TVLINE | With Alfred’s nightclub, The Delaney, there in the neutral zone, you’re basically Rick from Casablanca.
That’s it, yeah! “No guns, no violence, blah blah blah….” Yes.

TVLINE | What sort of jobs will we see Alfred and the boys take on? Whatever pays the bills?
Basically! Serving drinks in a nightclub doesn’t really pay as well as you’d think, so he’s got to think outside the box. But there are plenty of people who come out of the woodwork looking for his skills. Right from the off, we see him get involved classically in some scrapes.

TVLINE | You touched on this a moment ago, but shooting your own dad dead… that’s quite a thing. How does Alfred’s conflict over that manifest itself?
Obviously, many people never have to deal with that level of trauma, and that and [the murder of] Esme really derailed him. I think sometimes you have to do awful things for the greater good, and that’s the way he sees it. It’s more about the fallout and how his mum is coping, things like that. He’s trying to be almost “soldierly” about it and put it to one side mentally. But as the series goes on, we see it’s perhaps not that easy.

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TVLINE | James Purefoy (The Following) typically plays a most formidable TV character. How does Gulliver Troy (Alfie’s former SAS Captain) fit into Alfred’s world?
He sort of sliiiides in rather sneakily, and then stays — with a big bang. He’s a huge character, Captain Troy, a man of lots of deep desires and extremes, whether it be violence, women, drink…. He’s a dark character, Gully, but James is a fantastic actor, one that I’ve been aware of for many years, and I learned a lot from working with him. It’s almost a father/son relationship but a friend relationship. Alfred sees quite a lot of him in Troy, so he’s a great new addition.

Pennyworth SandraTVLINE | What’s up on the romantic front for Alfred? The Queen (Jessica Ellerby) seemed to quite fancy their snog, if I have my British slang right.
[Chuckles] Yeah, she’s interested, though I’m not sure how interested he is. I think he’s running scared. Sandra (Harriet Slater) is around —  she’s the resident singer in the nightclub, and she’s kind of becoming a pop star.  There are a few people milling about, but it’s all about Sandra, really. Their relationship carries on.

TVLINE | I thought it was funny that Esme, meaning Emma Corwin, went on to become Princess Diana (on The Crown).
Yeah! We knew that was going to happen. I think they allowed us to have her [for the first episodes of Season 1]. I think it was that way around insead of the other way.

Pennyworth Season 2TVLINE | What will the Alfred/Thomas Wayne dynamic look like this year?
One of the clever things about Season 1 was it wasn’t a buddy-buddy thing. This year carries on that vein, though they do get closer, and Alfred does work for him on occasion….

TVLINE  | Would you say they share a professional respect?
Exactly. Alfred likes watching him squirm, and Thomas is a bit of a nobby kind of guy, so…. [Laughs] Alfred toys with him a bit. But yeah, their dynamic certainly blossoms a bit more this year.

TVLINE | Will Thomas become a talk-to for Alfred, where they open up to each other about things? Or is that Season 3?
Eventually. The thing is that with Thomas being a spy, Alfred doesn’t need to tell him anything, he already knows everything all the time – which is of great irritation to Alfred, because Thomas uses it against him, quite often!

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Chicago Fire is shaking up the firehouse in Season 9 with a different paramedic team, a potential new romance… and maybe even an engagement?!

When the NBC drama returns this Wednesday (at 9/8c), there will be a fresh face riding alongside Brett in the ambulance, while Stella will be taking a “new step” in her career path, showrunner Derek Haas previews in the following Q&A.

And what’s in store for Captain Casey and the rest of Firehouse 51’s finest, as well as the #OneChicago franchise’s annual crossover event? TVLine emailed Haas those burning questions and more:

TVLINE | As a first-responder show, how will the pandemic be incorporated into the storylines for the new season? Are any characters personally affected by it?
We’re going to do our best to show how firehouses in Chicago are dealing with the virus in November 2020. No one is personally affected by it other than how everyone else in the world is affected by it.

TVLINE | How are you approaching crossovers next season in light of COVID protocols? Will there still be a big annual crossover or smaller ones?
No plans for a crossover yet. You will see characters from all three shows in our first episode.

TVLINE | You and I have talked in the past about how last season was about Casey kind of becoming the new Boden. What is his journey in Season 9?
He’s going to have some real personal struggles associated with feelings that brew inside the firehouse.

TVLINE | Brett has lost two friends/paramedic partners in Dawson and now Foster. How is she dealing with this latest departure?
She’s cool. Still talking with Foster on the regular and wishing her success through med school.

Chicago Fire SpoilersTVLINE | You have a new paramedic coming in, played by Adriyan Rae. What is the working dynamic like between Gianna and Brett? And what kind of energy does Gianna bring into the firehouse?
This is more of a mentor/mentee relationship than a “we’re best friends” relationship. Brett finds herself in the senior position, professionally and personally.

TVLINE | The past two seasons have teased a possible romantic connection between Brett and Casey, and we’ve seen their relationship really grow as friends. How will that storyline evolve in Season 9?
Really? You noticed that? You’ll have to wait and see…

Chicago Fire SpoilersTVLINE | Last season was a big growing year for Stella in terms of her career. What’s next for her in that respect?
This is going to be a big season for her as she looks to take a new step in her evolution at the firehouse.

TVLINE | I’ve talked to both Miranda Rae Mayo and Taylor Kinney about whether Stella and Severide are the kind of couple who want or need to be engaged. What can you share about their future as a couple?
I think they should take that next step at some point. Don’t you?

TVLINE | Gallo and Ritter are now both series regulars. What are you looking forward to exploring with them, personally and professionally?
They are so fun to write to. It’s like the newer generation at the Firehouse, now with [paramedic Gianna] Mack joining them. We’re gonna get to see some big storylines for all of them.

TVLINE | Finally, you have such a big cast, so are there any storylines you’d like to tease for the rest of team like Boden, Mouch, Herrmann, etc.?
Herrmann and Mouch are excited to announce the grand opening of Molly’s Patio. Of course, they do it in their unique (ill-advised) way.

Chicago Fire fans, what are you most excited to see in Season 9? Hit the comments!

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Star Trek: Discovery is boldly going into its third season this week… but thanks to a game-changing time jump, it feels more like a maiden voyage.

“In many ways, it was like doing a Season 1 show, because we were kind of starting over again,” Discovery executive producer and co-showrunner Michelle Paradise tells TVLine. That’s because Season 3 of Discovery — premiering this Thursday, Oct. 15 on CBS All Access — leaps forward a whopping 930 years into the future, far beyond where any previous Trek series has gone before. (If you remember, Season 2 ended with Burnham and the Discovery crew flying into a time-traveling wormhole.) What does the universe even look like in the year 3188? Figuring that out was part of the fun.

“We’re firmly in a new future where we are past all established canon,” Paradise says. “I keep calling it ‘fresh snow.’ We’ve got a landscape in front of us that we can populate as we like.” But that doesn’t mean the new season won’t resemble the Trek we know and love, Paradise reassures us. “Being beyond canon doesn’t mean that we ignore anything… but what going to the future lets us do is take a look at past canon in new ways. So species that may have been friendly toward one another, or not friendly to one another: Can we mix those up in new ways?”

The massive time jump also puts a new spotlight on Burnham and the Discovery crew as characters, since they don’t have the ties to Trek canon that they had in the first two seasons. Stranded in this strange new world together, the Discovery crew has to rely on each other more than ever. “Since they’re going so far into the future, all of these characters are leaving everyone else behind,” Paradise notes. “We get to really challenge them in new ways, and we get to dig deeper into all of these characters that we’ve come to love over the past couple of seasons.”

Star Trek Discovery Season 3 BookThey’re not alone, though: Season 3 also introduces a host of new characters who are already living in this new future, including a charming rogue named Book, played by Supergirl alum David Ajala. In the premiere, Burnham crash-lands on an untamed planet along with Book, and they hit it off right away — “hit” being the operative word. “There’s a spark,” Paradise concedes with a laugh. “They meet each other when they’re fighting each other, so that’s definitely spark-y.” When Book is first introduced, “we’re not entirely sure what to make of him,” she adds, but “there’s a much, much deeper layer to him, and his motivations are maybe different than what we would expect them to be.”

Burnham is forced to follow Book’s lead in the premiere, since she is “a stranger in a strange land,” as Paradise puts it. “Having someone who is there and can help her guide her through, at least in the beginning, story-wise, that was really important. And they will continue to be in each other’s orbits as the season progresses.” Does that include any potential for romance? Paradise won’t rule it out: “As far as a spark goes, who knows where that kind of thing goes?”

Season 3’s big question, though, is what happened to Starfleet and the Federation; Burnham learns from Book that the Federation crumbled after a mysterious incident known as “The Burn.” Like Season 2’s Red Angel storyline, “The Burn” and how it impacted the Federation will be this season’s central mystery to unravel, Paradise hints, and will be “driving Burnham and the crew of the Discovery through the entire season.” The more things change on Discovery, it seems, the more they stay the same.

Got predictions for Season 3 of Star Trek: Discovery? Beam down to the comments and share them with the rest of the crew.

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It’s finally happening: Supernatural returns this Thursday (The CW, 8/7c) with the first of its final seven episodes, which will feature the climactic conclusion of the Winchesters’ battle against God himself.

Dean and Sam will get help from their most trusted allies, including some returning familiar faces in their fight against the Almighty foe. But “ultimately, it’s gonna come down to Sam and Dean, two guys from Kansas, facing off against the Supreme Being,” co-showrunner Andrew Dabb shares in the following Q&A. “So they’re still the underdogs in that fight.” Plus, their secret weapon against God is going through a “debilitating” journey now that Jack’s soul has been restored.

Below, Dabb also previews the show’s upcoming wee Winchesters flashbacks and reveals the guest stars that, unfortunately, won’t be back for the final run.

TVLINE | The first episode when you return is your holiday installment. What can you preview about what’s in store?
It’s a really fun episode, and it kind of touches on some heretofore unaddressed things about the Men of Letters and about the bunker, and then kind of allowed us to get into a fun episode that takes up a lot of stuff that I think fans, or certainly that we in the writers’ room, have wanted to see in terms of like, “What would a Thanksgiving dinner look like with our guys?” and things like that, and put it all together in something that we hope will be really, really enjoyable for the fans. It’s just really, really fun. As a way to come back into the story after, at that point, the last six, seven months, I think coming in with something a little lighter and enjoyable is going to be a really good appetizer for what’s to come, because what’s to come, let’s just say, it may not all be super fun.

TVLINE | When we last left off, things were really escalating in the fight against God. What will that look like in the last seven episodes?
There is no way to avoid this fight. Chuck’s gonna come back, they know what he’s going to do, they know what he wants, they know everything. And so what can they do to fight him? It’s really about rallying the troops and allies, some people we’ve met before, and some people we’ve sort of met in passing, and some people we haven’t ever seen, and using every tool, every arrow in their quiver, to fight this existential, literally God-like threat. So that becomes a lot of it, but as so many of these things do, ultimately, it’s gonna come down to Sam and Dean, two guys from Kansas, facing off against the Supreme Being. So they’re still the underdogs in that fight.

TVLINE | Can you talk about the emotional and psychological mindset of Dean and Sam in these final episodes, given everything that they’re going up against?
Neither one of them is giving up. That’s not in their character. I think you’ve got a Sam who wants to do this in a smart, considered [way like], “Let’s make a plan. Let’s go in with a blueprint,” and you’ve got a Dean who is a little bit more impulsive and a little bit more willing to do whatever it takes to bring Chuck down, because of everything Chuck has taken from him and from them. You have to realize, for our guys, they just had their entire world blown up, like everything they’ve done their whole lives. When you realize your life’s been a manipulation, what does that mean for you as a person? Who are you, really? And so for Sam and Dean, it’s about, “Who are we, really?” I think they know, but there is confusion just because of the circumstances. It is, to a degree, about finding themselves, and also kind of finding each other through our final episodes as they go up against the most powerful force in the universe.

TVLINE | In the last episode, Jack got his soul back. Will that affect his ability to go up against God and fulfill his destiny to kill God?
It will. Jack is someone who’s now having the weight of everything he did land on him. In some ways, that’s good because he can finally deal with it. In some ways, it’s debilitating, as grief and depression and guilt often are. So from his point of view, yes, it’s kind of hard to deal with all of that, and it’s not an easy process for him, and it’s something where Sam and Dean, and Castiel more than [Sam and Dean] even, are there to guide him through this incredibly difficult process.

TVLINE | You’re also doing an episode that has flashbacks to a young Dean and Sam. What kind of insight will that provide? And why was that a story that you wanted to tell in these final hours?
Every year, there’d be some kind of flashback story. One of my first episodes was flashbacks of Sam and Dean in high school. It was something we used to do a lot, and we kind of moved away from [it] largely because the actors who we’d come to rely on to play Young Sam and Young Dean got too old. Colin Ford, right now, is older than Jared [Padalecki] was when the show started, I think. So it was something where we were talking about the types of episodes we wanted to do towards the end, and I put it out there like, “Look, if someone has a really great flashback episode, it’s been a while since we’ve told a story like that.” Meghan [Fitzmartin], one of the writers on the show, came in with an idea, and it worked for us. It worked not only as a case right now, but also as something that informed the journey Sam and Dean have taken, where they started as kids, how they kind of came together and then how that has [led up] to the point that they are, emotionally, when the episode airs. So it ended up being a really good reflection of our guys now, telling a story about our guys then, which, to me, are always the best versions of those types of flashback stories.

TVLINE | Was there anybody that you really wanted to get back for these final episodes, but it just didn’t work out for whatever reason, scheduling or because of COVID?
Look, COVID was limiting, especially when it came to the last two [episodes]. And there were certainly people we would have liked to have brought back like Samantha Smith, like Jeffrey Dean Morgan. People who have been such core parts of the show for so long. But unfortunately, because of COVID and some other things, doing a big supersized guest cast family reunion was just off the table. But in terms of our story that we’re telling, we didn’t have to make any compromises. Everyone who is coming back is coming back for a specific reason. These are people we want. They’re important to us. They’re great characters, and we just thought it was an opportunity to revisit some of our and, hopefully, the fan favorites.

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When it comes to dream TV roles for an actress, you could argue that it doesn’t get much better than Emily in Paris. After all, the new Netflix comedy (10 episodes premiere this Friday) hails from Sex and the City and Younger creator/hitmaker Darren Star. Plus, the series filmed on location in the French capital, and the fashion is covet-worthy.

“It definitely was an experience I never saw coming,” title star Lily Collins tells TVLine. “When I heard about the show and read the pilot, and I saw that Darren was doing it, and it was being shot entirely in Paris, and when he mentioned to me that [Sex and the City‘s] Patricia Field would most likely be doing costumes, I thought, ‘There’s just no way. There’s no way that this recipe is actually coming to fruition.’ I thought this is an absolute dream and something that I would have binged when it came out. So to be a part of it in this way is so special.”

Below, Collins shares how Emily — a Chicago marketing exec who gets a job at a boutique Parisian firm — compares to Star’s other female lead characters and previews Emily’s busy romantic life in the City of Love.

TVLINE | What qualities do you feel like Emily shares with the heroines from Darren’s other shows?
Emily is very passionate. She’s very work-driven and determined. She’s very smart, and she’s also witty, with a little bit of sass. Darren has created these characters that emulate all types of personalities, and I love that, because modern women have all these different types of personalities. Darren also makes sure that his women are fully rounded, and they’re in on the joke as much as they are the joke sometimes. Like, Emily is obviously in on the humor of the situation, but at the same time she falls into the situation of being laughed at, and she takes it in stride because she’s strong and resilient. I love the fact that she also has a bit of sass and stuff, too.

TVLINE | Is there any character from Sex in the City or Younger that you think Emily would be friends with?
I think Emily, like myself, definitely grew up loving Carrie Bradshaw. I think she was a huge Sex in the City [fan]. I think she had posters on her walls and things saved in her phone and favorite episodes of shows and movies, and I really believe that when she finds out she’s going to Paris, she does think about all these images she’s seen over the years and characters that she’s watched and loved so much, and thinks, “Wow, it’s now my chance. I get to go and experience this like those characters would have.”

Emily in Paris NetflixTVLINE | Was there a memorable experience while filming on location that really stands out for you, where something went awry or something unexpected happened?
One of the most special times of shooting was when we got to take over the Paris Opera House and shoot there at night. I was wearing this beautiful gown and this gorgeous headpiece. It was reminiscent of Audrey Hepburn, kind of a nod to her. We got to shoot all by ourselves there, and it was just so magical to be running around. When I wasn’t filming, I was just wearing, like, hotel slippers with this ball gown, taking it all in and being like, “This is a dream. What is going on?!” To be able to sit in the velvet seats and be surrounded by that history, and look up and see the gorgeous paintings on the ceiling….

At the end of one night, we een got to go down to the very, very bottom, to the basement, where there’s, like, a water reserve. I don’t know what it’s called, but it’s there’s these underwater-like caves that are beneath the Paris Opera House, and there are little fish…. We got to go climb all the way down at like four in the morning and look at that. It was really kind of amazing.

Emily in Paris GabrielTVLINE | Paris is the City of Love, and there’s certainly plenty of men in Emily’s life. What can you say about her love life and, in particular, the very charming downstairs neighbor who’s also a chef — which is like the jackpot?
It was really important for us to show her as someone who is really going on this journey in the City of Love, finding and loving herself more than anything — and through that journey, she meets all these possible suitors. Some have more comedic endings than others, and some are just fleeting moments that you think, “Oh, this is going to be a series regular”… and then all of a sudden, it ends, and you’re like, “Ooh, and then that just happened!”

Emily’s in a serious relationship when she goes to Paris, and then when she realizes that he’s just not willing to give to her what she would do for him, she chooses herself and her life and her experiences. She goes into this new Paris life as a very independent young woman who is ready to experience life and take on her job and whatever else comes her way.

That being said, as she’s finding herself and having these experiences, she starts to become open to other possibilities, and that comes with work experiences, that comes with friendships, and then, of course, that comes with romance. Because like you said, it’s Paris, and what would Paris be without a little romance? So she finds herself in these funny situations where sometimes the cultural differences or miscommunications [reveal they are] just not the right men for her. She strikes up a friendship with Gabriel (played by Lucas Bravo), and she strikes up a friendship with Gabriel’s girlfriend (Camille Razat) and doesn’t realize it, and so that adds a little wrench to the situation. But I think she’s just looking for herself and what makes her feel whole, and along the way she has these experiences that I think a lot of people can relate to.

What I love about the way Emily deals with them is that she really does put herself first, and she doesn’t question who she is in determining whether or not someone’s right for her. Or if something feels inappropriate or wrong, she says it, and she moves on instead of trying to make a situation work. Because she tried to make the situation work with her boyfriend from Chicago, but realized that he was just not willing to do the same. So like I said, she put herself first. It’s really lovely to play a character that is falling in love with herself first and foremost.

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The installment marks the television directorial debut of former Arrow EP/current Legends consulting producer Marc Guggenheim, who was given the challenge of not only creating homages to Friends, Star Trek and Downton Abbey, but also had to figure out how not to crack up while shooting the hilarious hour. (Believe me, that’s a very tall task when you’re watching Dominic Purcell channel Khan!)

Below, Guggenheim details the old-school touches he brought to the “inventive” and heartfelt episode, and previews the difficult choice the Legends will face.

TVLINE | Of all the Arrowverse shows, what made Legends the right fit for your directorial debut? Was it just about timing, or was there something specifically about the show itself that made you want to direct it?
It was a little bit about timing. I never really wanted to direct Arrow. I’ve always sort of felt that Arrow is not a show that first-time directors should do — and that’s not to say that we haven’t had first-time directors on Arrow. But just the nature of the show, the nature of the action, it’s not a starter show, and I’ve been saying that, basically, for eight years. It would have been highly hypocritical of me to suddenly direct my first episode [on] Arrow. In Legends, obviously, I’ve worked on and have a closer connection to that show than I do the other shows, so it just made the most sense. Also, with Legends, I knew what kind of support system I would have there.

Legends of Tomorrwo Downton AbbeyTVLINE | As a producer, having some insight into what’s happening on the show, did you handpick this episode? Or was it just random that you got something so magical?
Honestly, the only thing I handpicked was the slot. I wanted to pick an episode that was as far away from “Crisis on Infinite Earths” as I could get, because I didn’t want to be still working post [production] on “Crisis” and directing my first episode of television. As it turns out, there was a little bit of overlap. I did review some visual effects shots for “Crisis” while I was working on this episode.

I said to the writers, “Can you make it easy, please, like a clip show or something?” and then they gave me this, which was definitely throwing me in the deep end of the pool, but I really could not have asked for a better script. I wasn’t quite sure how tempted I would be to rewrite or do any sort of writing work on a script that I directed, and what was so great about the script that Grainne [Godfree] and James [Eagan] wrote was that I was never even tempted. From the very first draft, it was just a fantastic piece of writing. It was inventive, and it was fun, and it had heart to it. It was everything you could ask for in a script, including a huge intimidation factor, because when a script comes in that good, your first instinct is, “I have to make sure I don’t screw it up.”

TVLINE | What can you say about the TV show parodies that we’re going to see in this episode?
It’s Friends, Star Trek [and] Downton Abbey, with a bit of Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood thrown in for good measure. What was so much fun about working on these little homages was we shot each one true to the spirit of those individual shows. For example, for Friends, the art department created a set that was like the proscenium, multi-camera set for a half-hour comedy, and we shot it like a multi-cam half-hour. We had three cameras working, and we staged it like you would stage an episode of Friends. With Downton Abbey, we favored long lenses, and when we’re in the kitchen with the servants, we go handheld.

With Star Trek, it’s a lot of dollies and sort of dramatic push-ins. So we really tried to not just make it look like the individual shows, but really make them feel [like the shows]. In fact, with Star Trip, we even shot the spaceships practically. We did miniatures instead of our normal CGI. So we built a Romulan ship, and we built the Faterider, and then we did a whole day of shooting against green screen. We did the old-school technique that, I think, ILM developed for Star Wars, where you move the camera, not the ships, and it creates the illusion that the ship is moving. So we brought out all the old-school techniques.

TVLINE | When you’re directing an episode like this that is so humorous, is it hard to keep a straight face on set? Was there a particular moment that you were just like dying?
So, so many times! Honestly, so many times. The truth of the matter is, a lot of times, if you looked over at me, I had both my hands over my mouth to make sure that I wouldn’t be audibly laughing. Or even, a lot of times, the actors are so great, you want to just yell out, “Yes!” or exclaim just how good this is, like you want to kind of squeal with delight. So it’s a quality problem, but it’s definitely one of the harder aspects of directing a show like this.

Legends of Tomorrow Star TrekTVLINE | I couldn’t decide what was more wonderful: Caity Lotz’s Shatner impression or Dominic Purcell as Khan.
The funny thing about Dom is — and I think they’re both amazing — he’s actually never seen Wrath of Khan. So what you’re seeing there is his impression of my impression of Ricardo Montalbán. Everyone in the cast really absorbed and took to their parts like a duck to water, but Dom, he’s got the Khan bare chest outfit with the long, flowing hair, and he was just having the time of his life. It was really great to see. That’s the great thing about the Legends cast is there’s nothing off-limits. They tackle everything with absolute abandon.

TVLINE | As amusing as this episode is, it’s not just a one-off, funny Episode of the Week. How does it move the story arcs forward?
I think the last three episodes of the season are kind of a trilogy. Episode 13 leads into [Episode] 14, [which] leads into [Episode] 15. Without giving anything away, it says a lot about the relationship that Charlie has with the Legends and the relationship the Legends have with themselves. And in this episode, all the characters have to make a very sort of personal choice. It’s the classic hero’s journey choice of, “Do I live It’s a Wonderful Life, or do I accept reality and all the burdens and consequences that that brings?”

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