1 There s a wide variety of exciting new series to watch in lockdown. Take Icepick, the latest gripping Scandi noir from Finland. A serial killer is on the loose in the snow-locked town of Bblleak.
Hard-drinking detective Sven Svennsson is tasked with tracking him down and bringing him to justice. In the second episode, the bearded Svennsson is told to drop the case by his well-connected superior or face dismissal.
2 For something a little lighter, try Amazon s Crushed Skull, the latest gripping Scandi noir from Sweden. In the opening sequence, a half-naked young woman is chased through a moonlit wood. After a torchlit search, her corpse is found hanging from a tree. Hard-drinking, bearded detective Olaf Aline suspects murder.
larry: we have two cases in the news, both cases of addiction. mel gibson has some sort of alcohol problem and anger problem and lindsay lohan has some sort of addiction problem. is there advice you can give or do they have to get cured first or is there a cure? the only cure for addiction is a new addiction. you need to have a positive one. for lindsay to change, it will be very hard. as long as she believes it s not my fault and she s encouraged that belief and as long as when she s going into jail and she gets paid a $1 million deal, makes more money having a problem than acting per minute, per hour, she s not going to change. under mel s case, he has had an incredible history before this and none of this has shown up. everybody has to be saying what is going on? larry: could it be new? absolutely.
crushed skull, hemorrhaged brain. he woke up after three weeks of being in a coma, they said he would never walk again, hollywood an o ring. three years later we won the gold medal in sky diving. that s why i teach them sky diving, to show them what was possible. larry: tony is big on taking action, getting us all to face our fears. let s look at this setup. watch. you see this man and woman, they re in such pain. i want them to create a greater sense of freedom. that freedom is only going to come if kristen can see frank as strong mentally, emotionally and physically and if frank can realize life can be rich regardless of what s happened to us on the outside. we re good. all right, buddy. now i m nervous. that s our man! it s okay to feel that. i ll see you in a few minutes. remember what this is. a brand new life. a jump and a new life. we ll celebrate you with on the ground.
larry: when it fails and i m sure you ve dealt with people. yes. larry: how do you do you learn from it? you have to. almost always, it s one of two things. either there isn t real hunger there. one thing i can t give somebody is hunger. that drive, that desire, that force. there has to be a hunger. two, you have to have the right strategy. everybody is different. what works for you doesn t necessarily work for the next person. my skill set is to figure out what s going to work for you. in each of these six episodes, they re radically different. somebody who is trapped inside their house, somebody who has the affair. after 23 years, they lose their job. for every one of them, i come up with different strategies, whether it s going to literally be with marines for 11 days and you re 50 years old, 80 pounds overweight and i got to get you to climb the trail of tears that the 18-year-olds can t do or a couple that s so afraid of being homeless, i make them homeless and they find
larry: but you still have to take care of him, right, kristen? i do. but i have a better attitude about it. i m letting someone help me. we have a caregiver five days a week now. so i m letting other people help when i know i can t do it all. frank went to the all-star game the other day with a buddy of his. they couldn t get through all the parking. there you know what that s like. he said you go out and go to the front and get one of the passes. frank went and got the pass and get through. he gets on the bus to go to physical therapy on his own. he does it on his own now. this guy when i knew him had a brace on his neck. i said you don t realize how incredibly loose and free you ve got. larry: have you gotten over the why me factor? i have gotten over the kind of looking at yourself and going, woe is me. you know, it happened. we re moving past it and conquering it as best we can.