[Warning: The following contains Major spoilers for the Tuesday, January 2 episode of Jeopardy!] As we enter the first semifinal round of Jeopardy! Second Chance, Michael Cavaliere, a consultant from New York, New York; Sharon Bishop, a high school Spanish teacher from Pawtucket, Rhode Island; and Sophia Weng, a senior social studies major at Harvard College from Chevy Chase, Maryland, had an intense match that saw a contestant make a fatal error. After the first break, Michael earned a substantial lead of $6,400 thanks to his Daily Double wager of $2,600. The lead grew larger when contestants reached Double Jeopardy, with Michael at $10,000, Sharon at $3,400, and Sophia at $2,400. On the first clue of the round, Sophia found the second Daily Double and added $1,400 to her total. With Sophia now coming in hot, Michael secured the third and last Daily Double, adding another $4,800 to his leading score. By the time the trio reached Final Jeopardy, Michael had 28,800, followed by Sophia with $14,600, and Sharan in ...
- 1/3/2024
- TV Insider
Greg Berlanti's latest has Jaimie Alexander as an amnesiac special agent, but the pilot is less memory mystery, more generic procedural...
This review contains spoilers.
1.1 Pilot
With Thor and Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D.’s Jaimie Alexander as its protagonist and Arrow/The Flash/Supergirl executive producer Greg Berlanti involved behind the scenes, NBC’s new thriller Blindspot certainly has a lot going for it. Judging by the pilot, they’ve managed to come up with something decent, if a little constrained by the demands of network telly.
Essentially Bourne meets Memento, Blindspot wastes no time putting its constituent parts together. Within minutes, Alexander’s Jane Doe is found in a holdall in Times Square without memories, clothes or a discernable purpose, clad in mysterious tattoos – one of which is the name of Sullivan Stapleton’s character, Kurt Waller, of the FBI.
The FBI bring her in, and Waller and his...
This review contains spoilers.
1.1 Pilot
With Thor and Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D.’s Jaimie Alexander as its protagonist and Arrow/The Flash/Supergirl executive producer Greg Berlanti involved behind the scenes, NBC’s new thriller Blindspot certainly has a lot going for it. Judging by the pilot, they’ve managed to come up with something decent, if a little constrained by the demands of network telly.
Essentially Bourne meets Memento, Blindspot wastes no time putting its constituent parts together. Within minutes, Alexander’s Jane Doe is found in a holdall in Times Square without memories, clothes or a discernable purpose, clad in mysterious tattoos – one of which is the name of Sullivan Stapleton’s character, Kurt Waller, of the FBI.
The FBI bring her in, and Waller and his...
- 9/23/2015
- by louisamellor
- Den of Geek
This review is based off the first four episodes of season two, which were provided to us prior to broadcast.
There didn’t need to be a second season of Broadchurch. The first series of episodes from 2013 didn’t just spawn a quick series of dreary, Europe-based crime show imitators involving youths in a small town, but crossed the pond to the point that Fox aired a blander American variation last fall. (It was titled Gracepoint, which I reviewed for ten inconsistent weeks.) Daniel Latimer’s murder seemed to be wrapped up pretty tightly by the end of season one, with nary a loose corner in sight.
So, when a second season was announced, one wondered where the show could go from here. Would it explore the aftermath of the investigation and its effects on the divided cliffside town? Would the community be the center for yet another whodunit?
Well,...
There didn’t need to be a second season of Broadchurch. The first series of episodes from 2013 didn’t just spawn a quick series of dreary, Europe-based crime show imitators involving youths in a small town, but crossed the pond to the point that Fox aired a blander American variation last fall. (It was titled Gracepoint, which I reviewed for ten inconsistent weeks.) Daniel Latimer’s murder seemed to be wrapped up pretty tightly by the end of season one, with nary a loose corner in sight.
So, when a second season was announced, one wondered where the show could go from here. Would it explore the aftermath of the investigation and its effects on the divided cliffside town? Would the community be the center for yet another whodunit?
Well,...
- 3/4/2015
- by Jordan Adler
- We Got This Covered
On its second go-around, Broadchurch has split viewers and critics - some were left underwhelmed by the new series of Chris Chibnall's coastal crime thriller, while others were still hooked every Monday night.
So why the divide? I'm of the opinion that Broadchurch 2 was neither an outright success or a complete misfire. Some elements (both old and new) worked, while others fell flat.
Here's my take on this series' pros and cons - join the conversation and share your own thoughts in the comments section.
What worked...
David Tennant and Olivia Colman
...and boy, did they work.
In both series, Tennant and Colman have been consistently terrific - from Hardy ambushing Miller in the ladies' loos in the premiere to the revisiting of their 'no hugging' policy in last night's finale.
But while series one's finale belonged to Colman, this year it was Tennant who utterly owned the series closer,...
So why the divide? I'm of the opinion that Broadchurch 2 was neither an outright success or a complete misfire. Some elements (both old and new) worked, while others fell flat.
Here's my take on this series' pros and cons - join the conversation and share your own thoughts in the comments section.
What worked...
David Tennant and Olivia Colman
...and boy, did they work.
In both series, Tennant and Colman have been consistently terrific - from Hardy ambushing Miller in the ladies' loos in the premiere to the revisiting of their 'no hugging' policy in last night's finale.
But while series one's finale belonged to Colman, this year it was Tennant who utterly owned the series closer,...
- 2/24/2015
- Digital Spy
At the end of the first series of Broadchurch we finally had the answer to a twisting-turning whodunit.
Joe Miller (Matthew Gravelle), paramedic husband of Di Ellie Miller (Olivia Colman), confessed to the murder of Danny Latimer, and we the viewers saw how it all panned out in an eerie flashback.
What looked like an open and shut case has become something very different in the last seven weeks.
After Joe's shock not guilty plea in the first episode, the failings of the prosecution case - procedural rather than in matters of truth or falsehood - have been unravelled by Sharon Bishop QC (Marianne Jean-Baptiste).
So tenacious has Sharon been, that it seems entirely likely that in next week's finale, Joe Miller could be found not guilty.
Do you think the writers would dare let Joe off the hook for a murder we all saw him commit last series? Vote...
Joe Miller (Matthew Gravelle), paramedic husband of Di Ellie Miller (Olivia Colman), confessed to the murder of Danny Latimer, and we the viewers saw how it all panned out in an eerie flashback.
What looked like an open and shut case has become something very different in the last seven weeks.
After Joe's shock not guilty plea in the first episode, the failings of the prosecution case - procedural rather than in matters of truth or falsehood - have been unravelled by Sharon Bishop QC (Marianne Jean-Baptiste).
So tenacious has Sharon been, that it seems entirely likely that in next week's finale, Joe Miller could be found not guilty.
Do you think the writers would dare let Joe off the hook for a murder we all saw him commit last series? Vote...
- 2/17/2015
- Digital Spy
Episode six leaves one candidate clearly in the frame for the Sandbrook murders now, but did they really kill Pippa Gillespie?
This review contains spoilers.
The unravelling personality of Claire Ripley was the meat of this week’s Broadchurch episode. Is Eve Myles’ character psycho, nympho, klepto, or drongo, boyo? (One thing she obviously isn’t is a decent hairdresser – Ellie’s ‘do hadn’t changed a lick despite all her al fresco twiddling and prodding.)
Claire spent the episode demonstrating the many and varied ways she could be the Sandbrook killer. First, she took out her post-eviction stress on a box of Cornflakes in a violent tantrum that almost certainly lost Hardy his deposit from Massive Cottages For Hobbyist Witness Protection Programmes R Us. Next, she and Lee punctuated their angry, abusive sex with vague comments alluding to how they “had a plan” and “can’t do this”. And...
This review contains spoilers.
The unravelling personality of Claire Ripley was the meat of this week’s Broadchurch episode. Is Eve Myles’ character psycho, nympho, klepto, or drongo, boyo? (One thing she obviously isn’t is a decent hairdresser – Ellie’s ‘do hadn’t changed a lick despite all her al fresco twiddling and prodding.)
Claire spent the episode demonstrating the many and varied ways she could be the Sandbrook killer. First, she took out her post-eviction stress on a box of Cornflakes in a violent tantrum that almost certainly lost Hardy his deposit from Massive Cottages For Hobbyist Witness Protection Programmes R Us. Next, she and Lee punctuated their angry, abusive sex with vague comments alluding to how they “had a plan” and “can’t do this”. And...
- 2/11/2015
- by louisamellor
- Den of Geek
Broadchurch’s many plot lines coalesce this week into an episode that, Eastenders villains aside, is thought-provoking and moving...
This review contains spoilers.
It’s taken three episodes, but weaving the Sandbrook case in to Broadchurch’s second series has finally served a purpose other than tantalisation. Up until now, the Claire/Lee subplot has been a juicy diversion, a narrative trick to keep our heads bouncing excitedly from side to side like a crowd at a tennis match. This week though, Sandbrook really started to pull its weight.
The penny dropped for me in that moment of enlightening irony when Miller called Hardy a fuckwit and reeled off the reasons that make Claire a viable suspect in the Sandbrook murders. Ellie’s arguments - proximity, inconsistencies of story, likelihood of collusion - are exactly those being used against her by Joe’s defence team, arguments we know not to be true.
This review contains spoilers.
It’s taken three episodes, but weaving the Sandbrook case in to Broadchurch’s second series has finally served a purpose other than tantalisation. Up until now, the Claire/Lee subplot has been a juicy diversion, a narrative trick to keep our heads bouncing excitedly from side to side like a crowd at a tennis match. This week though, Sandbrook really started to pull its weight.
The penny dropped for me in that moment of enlightening irony when Miller called Hardy a fuckwit and reeled off the reasons that make Claire a viable suspect in the Sandbrook murders. Ellie’s arguments - proximity, inconsistencies of story, likelihood of collusion - are exactly those being used against her by Joe’s defence team, arguments we know not to be true.
- 1/20/2015
- by louisamellor
- Den of Geek
It was worth the wait, wasn't it? After nearly two years of speculation, a month of mysterious adverts on loop on ITV and CIA-esque level of secrecy surrounding the plot, Broadchurch series 2 finally arrived last night.
As writer Chris Chibnall promised, this wasn't simply another murder mystery whodunnit in the same town. In fact, it's quite the contrary - it's a can-you-prove-he-did-it.
Oh and that little case in Sandbrook that tormented Di Alec Hardy in series one. Yes, that reared up again.
At the end of the opening hour, we were left with questions piled on top of questions, and with a week to wait before we get episode two, here are the 20 most burning matters that we'll be mulling over until next Monday.
1. Why did Joe plead 'not guilty'?
"The evidence against you is clear."
"Not just me. Everyone... Nobody's innocent, Paul. Everyone's hiding things."
The exchanges between Joe Miller and Rev.
As writer Chris Chibnall promised, this wasn't simply another murder mystery whodunnit in the same town. In fact, it's quite the contrary - it's a can-you-prove-he-did-it.
Oh and that little case in Sandbrook that tormented Di Alec Hardy in series one. Yes, that reared up again.
At the end of the opening hour, we were left with questions piled on top of questions, and with a week to wait before we get episode two, here are the 20 most burning matters that we'll be mulling over until next Monday.
1. Why did Joe plead 'not guilty'?
"The evidence against you is clear."
"Not just me. Everyone... Nobody's innocent, Paul. Everyone's hiding things."
The exchanges between Joe Miller and Rev.
- 1/6/2015
- Digital Spy
Broadchurch series two eases back into its investigation with clockwork-precise plotting and characteristically strong performances…
Warning: this review contains spoilers.
Emerging mercifully intact from under the geological pressure of its own success, the first hour of Broadchurch series two was a work of expert manipulation. Chris Chibnall’s script orchestrated the audience response with a conductor’s precision, sweeping down his baton before each ad break, cueing a collective gasp or note of creeping suspicion. The end result? We’re all hooked of course. As was ITV’s plan.
The first episode was more a mathematical achievement than anything else. Its geometric design neatly re-erected Broadchurch’s major playing pieces, unpacked a box of newcomers and strung up lines of enquiry between them all leading off into the horizon.
The hour reminded us - a little too forcefully and too often perhaps - that nobody’s innocent and everybody’s hiding things.
Warning: this review contains spoilers.
Emerging mercifully intact from under the geological pressure of its own success, the first hour of Broadchurch series two was a work of expert manipulation. Chris Chibnall’s script orchestrated the audience response with a conductor’s precision, sweeping down his baton before each ad break, cueing a collective gasp or note of creeping suspicion. The end result? We’re all hooked of course. As was ITV’s plan.
The first episode was more a mathematical achievement than anything else. Its geometric design neatly re-erected Broadchurch’s major playing pieces, unpacked a box of newcomers and strung up lines of enquiry between them all leading off into the horizon.
The hour reminded us - a little too forcefully and too often perhaps - that nobody’s innocent and everybody’s hiding things.
- 1/6/2015
- by louisamellor
- Den of Geek
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