Well, well. Joss Whedon pulled a Keyser Söze on us!
A ton happens in “Hanged,” the penultimate episode of this first half of the first season (so many qualifiers) of
The Nevers, and we’ll get to a lot of it. We will! But first, let’s talk about those final seconds as Effie Boyle newish journalist character, dressed aggressively in shades of beige, irritating to Inspector Mundi but pretty much an accepted face at the police station after weeks of hanging around takes out some fake teeth, removes the padding in her corset, pinches off the end of her nose, and then shakes out her hair to reveal herself as Maladie all along.
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State lawmakers are starting to move on the remap. Democratic caucus members are looking at their individual districts and regions and discussing how boundary lines could look like based on early census numbers.
Though the Golden Globe nominations announced earlier this week would suggest otherwise, it has been a remarkable year in cinema for Black filmmakers. And when I say “year” I’m extending
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The mostly virtual Sundance Film Festival ended earlier in the week, shorter and smaller than usual but rather an unexpected success. Siân Heder’s “CODA” won the grand jury prize, audience award and two other jury awards in the U.S. dramatic competition and sold to Apple TV+ for a record-setting $25 million. Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson’s “Summer of Soul” won the grand jury and audience awards in the U.S. documentary competition and sold to Searchlight Pictures and Hulu for more than $12 million, setting a record for a documentary sale. Rebecca Hall’s “Passing” sold to Netflix for around $15 million.