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Night Passage

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  • Title: Night Passage
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Stone Sunday takes us north to the sleepy town of Paradise, Massachusetts and the introduction of  Jesse Stone. More stoic, and far less of a smart-ass, than Spenser, talented but also deeply flawed, Stone offered Parker a new character to develop. It’s notable that we meet Jesse while drunk, attempting to sober up before beginning the drive from Los Angeles (where he was fired for drinking on the job) to the small northeastern city of Paradise. Drunk when he applied for the job, the first 50 pages or so of Night Passage involve Jesse’s drive across country thinking over his life, leaving his former job as a Homicide Detective, and his ex-wife, on one coast and begin a new life on the other. 

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The Seed of the Sacred Fig

/ / Movie Reviews
  • Title: The Seed of the Sacred Fig
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While I quite enjoyed the movie, I have a strong suspicion that a documentary of the story behind the making of The Seed of the Sacred Fig would far more fascinating. Shot in Iran by director Mohammad Rasoulof while being sentenced to prison, the film was smuggled out of the country with the director to follow just hours before he would have been forced to surrender to authorities. Cut together with Internet footage of the Iranian government’s harsh crackdown on protestors, the thriller takes us into the lives of a single Iranian family which dissolves in front of eyes due to fear, paranoia, and oppression.

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Will Trent – Floor Is Lava

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  • Title: Will Trent – Floor Is Lava
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In an episode that involves Will (Ramón Rodríguez), Angie (Erika Christensen), Faith (Iantha Richardson) and Ormewood (Jake McLaughlin) all awkwardly trying not to disturb evidence (in the sequence which provides the episode its title), “Floor Is Lava” is most notable for walking Will and Angie through a series of meetings from some awkward on-the-job discussions to a tearful confrontation after hours to an honest break in their relationship that leaves the two firmly separated. Going along with this theme is another appearance of Marion (Gina Rodriguez) confirming her as Will’s new love interest.

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Wonder Woman #17

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While Wonder Woman spends more time with her newborn on Themyscira talking about the baby’s father to her daughter, movements against the Sovereign continue in her absence. After dragging the secret organization into the light with the help of Detective Chimp and Clark Kent, this time it’s Wonder Girls who stop by for a visit taking out the Sovereign’s protection by taking down several of the super-villains hired in their fight against Wonder Woman.

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Will Trent – Find a New Pond

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  • Title: Will Trent – Find a New Pond
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“Find a New Pond” continues to push the show back to a status quo. While working at her security job, Angie (Erika Christensen) uncovers dark secrets at Waldorf Estates which put her in danger but also appear to have provided the extra push necessary to be reinstated to the force. While the episode makes note of Amanda’s (Sonja Sohn) new situation with Sunny (Kyrie Mcalpin), we don’t see developments on-screen relating to the duo (which suits me just fine as I’m not looking forward to the day this subplot begins taking serious chunks of time from the main characters).

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