Вызовите акушерку набор экскурсий: посещение доков, которые в 1960-е годы Тополя

Где сериал снимали?

Любые постоянные зрители, которые знают Лондон, вероятно, подумал, что по крайней мере один раз — это снималось в столице? Уютные сообщества драмы расположен в Ист-Энде — Тополя и доки если быть точным — в 1950-х и 1960-х годов, но его мощеными улицами, услуги прачечной нанизаны на них, выглядят очень в отличие от 21-го Тополя века.

Правда, это не снимали в Лондоне. Многое из того, что честь идет к исторической верфи Чатем в графстве Кент. Этот 400-летний доки удвоить очень красиво, как по мощеным закоулкам 1960-х Тополь, и используются для большинства наружных снимков в серии. Внутренние выстрелы были сняты преимущественно на билеты Longcross Studios в графстве Суррей, который не открыт для общественности.

Посещение Вызовите акушерку набор

Изображения: Историческая Верфь Чатема

Хорошая новость для поклонников шоу, которые вы можете посетить на площадке съемок на звонок официальный акушерка расположение тур. Они проходят в исторической части порта Чатхэм, и ведут гиды в 1960-х годах акушерка костюмы. Фотографии и кадры из шоу на 90-минутную экскурсию, чтобы освежить вашу память, чтобы вы могли сравнить зданиях со сцены они появились на ТВ.

Изображения: Историческая Верфь Чатема

Узнайте какие изменения были внесены в доки, чтобы сделать область выглядеть более, как 1950-х годов Ист-Энда бы посмотрел — Нил-стрит Продакшн, продюсерская компания, которая делает шоу, наблюдал за туры, так точно все и по-честному.

Закончить в специальном выставка реквизита и костюмов, которые появились на шоу, и конечно, есть сувенирный магазин, где вы можете потратить ваши денежки по вызову акушерки мерч.

Это сериал снимали в Лондоне?

Фото: Историческая Верфь Чатема

В начале серии показывают, Святого Иосифа и колледж в Милл-Хилл был использован в качестве монастыря дома, но и реконструкции здания в 2013 году положила этому конец, изменение местоположения объясняется бомба повреждения участок в 2013 рождественский спецвыпуск. Оба интерьера и экстерьера снимки теперь снято на билеты Longcross Studios в графстве Суррей, в поместье двойную игру Ноннатус.

Историко-просмотр окрестностях Тида улице и Roupell стрит в Ватерлоо также удвоится к середине века Ист-Энд в предыдущих эпизодах.

Открытие кредиты Вызовите акушерку. Изображения: Би-би-си

Впрочем, детали из начальных титров как в Лондоне. Корабль, который нависает над Ист-Энд-QSMV владычество монарха в сухом доке в доке короля Георга V, и дорога, по-видимому Сэвилл-Роуд в Сильвертоне, недалеко от Тейт & Лайл завода. Образ был, скорее всего, принято в 1950-х или в начале 1960-х годов, когда корабль был списан в 1962 году.

Не Ноннатус все еще существуют в Тополя, и я могу посетить?

Медсестры на ступенях монастыря в Серия 9, эпизод 1. Изображения: Би-би-си

Сериал начинался как сериал, основанный на реальных мемуаров Дженнифер Уорт, медсестра и акушерка, работающие в Ист-Энде в 1950-х годах. Хотя серия давно выходит за ее воспоминаниях и в художественной литературе, ТВ-шоу по-прежнему базируется в исторический факт.

Сестры Святого Раймунда Нонната основаны на сестер Святого Иоанна Богослова в реальной жизни религиозный орден в Тополя и носовой части, с которым Дженнифер Уорт работал. Орден существует до сих пор, хотя он основан в Бирмингеме.

Увидеть костюмы из серии о набор тур. Изображение: В Исторической Части Порта Чатхэм

Ноннатус Хаус, как это изображается в Вызовите акушерку, был не настоящий дом. Дженнифер стоит время работы с сестрами Святого Иоанна Богослова провел в лондонской больнице в Уайтчепеле, прежде чем она переехала в Лондон и Хэмпстед. Орден Святого Иоанна Богослова работал по всему Лондону, хотя во многом был основан в lewisham, прежде чем вынужден переехать в Сайденхем-Хилл, а потом в Гастингсе. Короче говоря, нет, вы не можете посетить настоящий дом Нонната — вам придется довольствоваться туры в чате вместо.

Интерьер Ноннатус хаус-сцены сейчас, снят в Суррей. Изображения: Би-би-си

В нынешней серии 9, установленный в 1965 году, Ноннатус, как Тополь, находится под угрозой сноса. Это еще одно реалистичное изображение Ист-Энда того времени — трущобы были расчищены и бомбы повреждены здания сносятся, освобождая место для новых построек, как Эрно Голдфингер, Балмаха башня, построенная в Тополя между 1965-7. Так что даже если существовал Ноннатус Хаус, вряд ли существовал бы и поныне.

Вызовите акушерку официальным местом экскурсии проходят на исторической верфи Чатем в графстве Кент на выбранные даты между 4 марта и 31 октября 2020 года. Билеты стоят 25 фунтов для взрослых/£21 для детей и должны быть забронированы заранее.

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The Safdie Brothers and Nathan Fielder Team Up for Showtime Comedy Series ‘The Curse’

Nathan Fielder and “Uncut Gems” directors Benny and Josh Safdie are bringing their talents to Showtime, which has given the green light to a pilot for “The Curse.”

Deadline reported that the half-hour comedy series, co-written by Benny and Fielder (“Nathan For You”) and directed by the Safdie brothers, will center on a mysterious curse that disturbs the relationship of a married couple who star in a fictional HGTV show. Fielder is expected to play the husband, while Benny will play the producer of the fictional show. Fielder and the Safdie Brothers will executive produce the pilot, which will be produced by Showtime.

Additional details about the series, including additional casting and a release date, are still under wraps. A Showtime representative declined to comment.

The Showtime pickup continues what has been a prolific few months for the Safdie brothers, whose Adam Sandler-led “Uncut Gems” became a smash critical and commercial hit. IndieWire’s Eric Kohn lauded the Safdie brothers’ abilities to create nuanced and flawed characters in his effusive “Uncut Gems” review last year. The drama was nominated for an array of awards and the Safdie brothers won the Film Independent Spirit Award for Best Director. “The Curse” will serve as the Safdie brothers’ first television venture.

As for Fielder, the comedian and actor was recently nominated for an Emmy for his directing work on Sacha Baron Cohen’s “Who Is America?” Fielder also signed a one-year overall deal at HBO last year which will see him executive produce half-hour documentary series “How To…With John Wilson.” Fielder will also star, write, and direct an untitled comedy pilot for HBO, though details about that project are still unavailable.

“The Curse” will need to be picked up to series after the pilot process is completed, but Showtime has already announced the impending return of several of its popular comedy series. An eleventh and final season of “Shameless” will hit the network in mid-2020, and “Work in Progress” was also renewed in January.

Showtime also formally announced its deal with recent Oscar-winner Taika Waititi, who’s on board to direct and co-write the horror-comedy series, “The Auteur,” starring Jude Law. The series is officially in development and Showtime has ordered several scripts.

The premium network’s other comedy pilots include the Vanessa Bayer-led “Big Deal” and the bluntly titled “How To Make Love To A Black Woman (Who May Be Working Through Some Sh*t).”

Review: I didn’t fully understand Netflix’s Horse Girl but I loved it all the same

Netflix’s new release Horse Girl promised a quirky indie dramedy from its trailer. In reality, it’s a nightmarish time-warped look into the mind of a mental illness sufferer, writes Alice Webb-Liddall.

There was a horse girl in every primary school classroom. The one with ballet flats and low ponytails and books covered in pony-themed duraseal. They probably galloped everywhere instead of walking like everyone else and spent their lunchtimes by themselves leaning against a classroom wall drawing horses on their exercise books.

The horse girl has been a subject of torment for years, now synonymous with any school-aged girl with a bossiness complex, no friends, and the audacity to not care at all about any of it. 

Horse Girl is about one of those people, now all grown-up. Sarah is played by Alison Brie (Community, Mad Men) and begins the film suffering from a pretty bad case of loneliness. On her birthday she tells her colleague she’s planning to “go out with some friends from Zumba”, but after spending her Zumba class trying to catch the eye of the others, it’s evident she’s a bit more lonely than she’s letting on.

Soon after, when she begins to sleepwalk, Sarah consults her stepfather about what age ‘weird things’ started happening to her grandmother, and a particularly concerning family history of mental illness is uncovered. 

Sarah keeps a photo of her grandmother in her bedroom and begins to fixate on the uncanny likeness between her grandmother and herself. She begins to believe that she’s a clone of her grandmother  and has been abducted by aliens. Much of the action takes place in the fantastical dream-like worlds inside Sarah’s head.

Alison Brie in Horse Girl.

A staccato beat for a soundtrack is an almost dizzying accompaniment to her psychotic episodes, like a heartbeat that’s fallen out of rhythm. It sets the perfect tone for the mental torment Sarah is experiencing and provides a way to distinguish real from fake for the first two acts of the film.

In the first two acts, I found myself really feeling for Sarah and the people around her as she spirals further from reality. Her roommate encourages her to start seeing a boy while also dealing with Sarah’s sleepwalking and psychotic episodes. While her workmate, played by Molly Shannon, seems to be the only person who actually cares about Sarah, comforting her when she wanders naked into the fabric store where they work.

The only parts of the film that exist outside of Sarah’s perspective are at the very beginning and at the end, making it almost impossible to distinguish what’s real from what’s not. 

The last half hour exists in one of Sarah’s delusions, and while the cinematography is beautiful, the sequence of dreamlike visions felt to me like they were 15 minutes too long. Because Sarah’s perception of time is so warped, it leaves the film up for a lot of interpretation and there’s been widespread discussion of this on Reddit. If you’re into wild theories, the r/horsegirlfilm/ thread covers everything from the prominence of circle motifs to the disordered timeline. 

Some people will love this film, such as those with an eye for the strange and a strong ability to suspend their disbelief. Others may get tired or frustrated not knowing what’s real and what’s fake. The ending isn’t happy, nor is it particularly sad. With Sarah as the narrator it’s up to the viewer to decide what’s real or fake down to the final shot. But what’s certain is it will leave you with a lot of questions about what reality really is. 

It’s also a really interesting look at mental illness portrayal that mainstream film doesn’t usually delve into in this way. It’s easy to see why Horse Girl was a Sundance selection, and hopefully, it’s one that Netflix watchers will give a chance.

Verdict: 4 stars

Who will enjoy it? Anyone who likes a challenging watch that leaves questions unanswered. This film is going to leave you with a lot to process and allows you to come to your own conclusions about Sarah’s reality.

You can watch Horse Girl on Netflix now.

‘High Fidelity’ Soundtrack: The Story Behind Songs from Season 1 of the Hulu TV Show

[Note: The following contains music-based spoilers for Season 1 of “High Fidelity.”]

It would have been very easy for the Hulu adaptation of “High Fidelity” to stick to a narrow set of musical ideas to help tell its story. But at the end of the show’s opening season, not only did series co-creators Veronica West and Sarah Kucserka look back on a show that had stretched its musical taste in a number of different directions, it had done so on a global scale.

“These people sit in a record store all day every day. They’re listening to everything. To make it feel like there’s one genre of music or, or one time period of music that is all that we’ve listened to, would feel inauthentic,” West told IndieWire. “It was very cool that at the end of the season, we had a song from every single continent.”

The search for far-reaching songs spanning time zones around the world — “except Antarctica,” West jokingly pointed out — was the result of a collaborative process headed by a whole team of music supervisors, including Alison Rosenfeld, Manish Raval, and Tom Wolfe. Zoë Kravitz, who stars as the “High Fidelity” romantic rememberer-in-chief Rob, also worked to help secure the rights to certain songs, along with executive music supervisor Questlove.

Not only are some of those songs referenced directly within the dialogue on the show, many of them originated as part of a key step in the show’s writing process. And while some songs were key component parts from the outset, some additions came much later in the process. Such was the case for Silk Rhode’s “Pains,” the backing track for Rob’s rooftop birthday encounter with Mac, one that makes up a sizable part of the season’s last two chapters.

“It was a selection that our editor Kate Hickey had found and really loved and felt like was a great template for the scene. She put it in and said, ‘Maybe it’s just a starting point for conversation.’ When we heard it and saw the way that she cut it with the scene, we were like, ‘We can’t change this.’ It drove the way that we edited the scene and helped us build the emotion in what was one of our biggest emotional peaks of the entire season,” West said.

One of the key strengths of “High Fidelity” is its ability to find a balance in the songs it uses. There are tracks that feel like they’ve been waiting patiently on a vinyl-laden shelf to be the perfect scene accompaniment. Some are overlooked jams from some of the most iconic musicians of the past half-century. Others still are karaoke staples, reworked in a different context to be one of the show’s main engines.

Maybe the best example of that last category is Dexys Midnight Runners’ “Come on Eileen,” which Cherise (Da’Vine Joy Randolph) belts out in the middle of Championship Vinyl halfway through the pilot.

“That was one of the suggestions from Alison Rosenfeld. For us we had to find something that grabs everybody’s attention with that exuberance and that joy that that song has. It’s not just our character singing along to it, but everybody in the audience,” West said. “I think what Da’Vine brought to that moment was the ability to take a song that you know could become an earworm that you can’t get rid of and just make it the song you’re happily humming all day.”

Of all the artists on the “High Fidelity” soundtrack, the one with the biggest presence might well be David Bowie. Not only is one of his albums a key plot point in an episode, three of his songs (from different points in his career) help to anchor the first half of the season. West and Kucserka didn’t just see “Modern Love,” the show’s initial taste of Bowie, as a bolt of energy. They saw it as a way to help understand Rob’s state of mind.

“That song was a suggestion from Jenny Eliscu, who was helping us just try to get inside Rob’s head, what her musical tastes would be,” Kucserka said. “It was in the script from the first draft and I absolutely fell in love with it. It just made you feel her pain in a weird way, but also the pleasure that comes with diving into those memories that can sometimes be hurtful and sometimes be romantic.”

As a way to bookend this opening set of episodes with nods to its “High Fidelity” predecessor, the show prominently features the Stevie Wonder song “I Believe (When I Fall in Love It Will Be Forever)” in the Season 1 finale. In one of the tiny, authentic moments that helps wrap up the various journeys its characters have taken over the course of the season, Cherise learns to play the song on the new guitar that Rob bought for her.

“I think Da’Vine learned to play that song on the guitar maybe 12 hours before we shot that scene,” West said. As Cherise continues to find her voice, strumming along with her new prized possession, the audience sees she hasn’t quite mastered the chords yet. Even so, it’s a hopeful moment for her to end on. “It was a song that we always wanted to use. It was definitely a call back to the DNA of the movie and the book and everything. And we wanted to find the way to use it that wasn’t the way that they used it in those places.”

For a list of songs that help make “High Fidelity” a veritable treasure trove of classic favorites and new choice deep cuts, sample a bit of the Season 1 soundtrack below:

“High Fidelity” Season 1 is now available to stream on Hulu.

The Safdie Brothers and Nathan Fielder Team Up for Showtime Comedy Series ‘The Curse’

Nathan Fielder and “Uncut Gems” directors Benny and Josh Safdie are bringing their talents to Showtime, which has given the green light to a pilot for “The Curse.”

Deadline reported that the half-hour comedy series, co-written by Benny and Fielder (“Nathan For You”) and directed by the Safdie brothers, will center on a mysterious curse that disturbs the relationship of a married couple who star in a fictional HGTV show. Fielder is expected to play the husband, while Benny will play the producer of the fictional show. Fielder and the Safdie Brothers will executive produce the pilot, which will be produced by Showtime.

Additional details about the series, including additional casting and a release date, are still under wraps. A Showtime representative declined to comment.

The Showtime pickup continues what has been a prolific few months for the Safdie brothers, whose Adam Sandler-led “Uncut Gems” became a smash critical and commercial hit. IndieWire’s Eric Kohn lauded the Safdie brothers’ abilities to create nuanced and flawed characters in his effusive “Uncut Gems” review last year. The drama was nominated for an array of awards and the Safdie brothers won the Film Independent Spirit Award for Best Director. “The Curse” will serve as the Safdie brothers’ first television venture.

As for Fielder, the comedian and actor was recently nominated for an Emmy for his directing work on Sacha Baron Cohen’s “Who Is America?” Fielder also signed a one-year overall deal at HBO last year which will see him executive produce half-hour documentary series “How To…With John Wilson.” Fielder will also star, write, and direct an untitled comedy pilot for HBO, though details about that project are still unavailable.

“The Curse” will need to be picked up to series after the pilot process is completed, but Showtime has already announced the impending return of several of its popular comedy series. An eleventh and final season of “Shameless” will hit the network in mid-2020, and “Work in Progress” was also renewed in January.

Showtime also formally announced its deal with recent Oscar-winner Taika Waititi, who’s on board to direct and co-write the horror-comedy series, “The Auteur,” starring Jude Law. The series is officially in development and Showtime has ordered several scripts.

The premium network’s other comedy pilots include the Vanessa Bayer-led “Big Deal” and the bluntly titled “How To Make Love To A Black Woman (Who May Be Working Through Some Sh*t).”

‘The Plot Against America’ Official Trailer: HBO’s Alt-History Adaptation Reveals Lindbergh’s Fascist America

HBO has released the full official trailer for its upcoming limited series “The Plot Against America,” set to premiere this March.

Starring Zoe Kazan, Morgan Spector, Winona Ryder, and John Turturro, the six-part series comes from executive producers and longtime collaborators David Simon and Ed Burns (“The Wire,” “Generation Kill”). Based on the prescient novel by Philip Roth, “The Plot Against America” takes place in an alternate-history version of America, in which the United States turns toward fascism during the Second World War. The story is told through the eyes of a New Jersey working-class Jewish family, as aviation hero and xenophobic populist Charles Lindbergh (Ben Cole) runs for President of the United States and wins.

HBO released the teaser trailer for the limited series back at the end of January, revealing just how tense things would get in the lead-up to Lindbergh’s election. The official trailer, however, includes more about the aftermath and brazen rise of fascism and anti-Semitism within this alt-world, with young Philip Levin (Azhy Robertson) growing terrified with the inevitable possibility of fascism after learning what it means.

Like in the novel, the story follows Herman Levin (Spector) as he goes from believing that the American people will see through Lindbergh and “what he is” to quickly realizing that Lindbergh’s anti-war message is at the expense of the Jewish people. While the teaser trailer focused more on the internal struggle between the Levins and their Lindbergh-supporting family members — Elizabeth’s sister Evelyn (Ryder) and her husband, conservative Rabbi Lionel Bengelsdorf (Turturro) — this official trailer reveals more of the swift change to open anti-Semitism as a result of Lindbergh’s campaign and ultimate election. The borders are closed, the Levins are turned away from a hotel for being Jewish, Philip is plagued with nightmares of Adolf Hitler’s America.

Despite this, Evelyn — who claims Lindbergh’s not anti-Semitic, despite his anti-Semitic rhetoric — still tells her nephew, “I don’t want you to be frightened like your parents.” However, from the prevalent swastikas out in the open within the trailer to the instrumental (and sardonic) version of “America the Beautiful” that plays over the trailer, all signs point to it being perfectly reasonable to be frightened at this point. Especially as Herman attempts to fight back, saying that this is his country, only for a resigned Elizabeth tell him, “Not anymore! It is the Jew-haters’.”

While the teaser trailer danced around the fact that Lindbergh does, in fact, win the presidency in this story, the full trailer confirms that it’s unavoidable. (Philip’s reaction to the news of Lindbergh’s win: “What just happened?”)

“The Plot Against America” premieres Monday, March 16 at 9 p.m. ET on HBO. Watch the two-and-a-half-minute preview below:

New ‘Star Wars: The Clone Wars’ Clip Promises High-Stakes Action in Final Season

The six-year wait for “Star Wars: The Clone Wars” Season 7 is nearly over. The first episode of the series’ final season will premiere on Disney+ on Friday, February 21, and Disney has unveiled a new clip and several images to hype up the beginning of the end.

Like the show itself, Season 7 will focus on the end of the galaxy-spanning Clone Wars that defined much of the franchise’s mythology. The new clip from “The Bad Batch” teases a team-up with a squad of “favorably mutated” clone troopers, who will kick off the season with a mission behind Separatist lines.

Per Disney: “The forces of darkness have amassed great power in their bid to transform the Republic into the Galactic Empire. With the Republic on a losing streak, Captain Rex fears the Separatists are using stolen data to help predict the Grand Army’s every move. As the threat of defeat looms, Rex teams up with experimental Clone Force 99, also known as the Bad Batch. Together, they embark on a high-risk mission behind enemy lines to uncover the truth behind the Separatist victories.”

While the series’ new clip is focused on the Clone Troopers, plenty of fan-favorite Force users will be returning throughout the upcoming season, including Anakin Skywalker, Darth Maul, and Ahsoka Tano.

“Star Wars: The Clone Wars”

Disney

“The Bad Batch” was intended to kick off Season 7 several years ago before production on the series was stopped. The episode would’ve been part of a four-episode arc. One of the series’ writers released plot details about the story arc in 2014, when the series’ future was uncertain — and unfinished story reels were also released — but only time will tell how the experimental Clone Troopers play into the overall series.

The seventh season of “The Clone Wars” will premiere a few months after Dave Filoni’s Disney+ tentpole “The Mandalorian” hit the streamer. Filoni served as creator and showrunner on “Star Wars Rebels” and is the showrunner for “The Clone Wars.” Like his animated series, “The Mandalorian,” which will return for a second season in October, enjoyed stellar fan reception.

“The Mandalorian” Season 1 finale teased that the Darksaber, a black-bladed lightsaber that originated in “The Clone Wars,” would play a significant role in future installments. Given the interconnected nature of recent “Star Wars” projects — and Disney’s need to keep the franchise in the public eye — don’t be surprised if similar teases pop up in the upcoming “The Clone Wars” season.

Check out the clip from “The Bad Batch” below:

‘High Fidelity’ Soundtrack: The Story Behind Songs from Season 1 of the Hulu TV Show

[Note: The following contains music-based spoilers for Season 1 of “High Fidelity.”]

It would have been very easy for the Hulu adaptation of “High Fidelity” to stick to a narrow set of musical ideas to help tell its story. But at the end of the show’s opening season, not only did series co-creators Veronica West and Sarah Kucserka look back on a show that had stretched its musical taste in a number of different directions, it had done so on a global scale.

“These people sit in a record store all day every day. They’re listening to everything. To make it feel like there’s one genre of music or, or one time period of music that is all that we’ve listened to, would feel inauthentic,” West told IndieWire. “It was very cool that at the end of the season, we had a song from every single continent.”

The search for far-reaching songs spanning time zones around the world — “except Antarctica,” West jokingly pointed out — was the result of a collaborative process headed by a whole team of music supervisors, including Alison Rosenfeld, Manish Raval, and Tom Wolfe. Zoë Kravitz, who stars as the “High Fidelity” romantic rememberer-in-chief Rob, also worked to help secure the rights to certain songs, along with executive music supervisor Questlove.

Not only are some of those songs referenced directly within the dialogue on the show, many of them originated as part of a key step in the show’s writing process. And while some songs were key component parts from the outset, some additions came much later in the process. Such was the case for Silk Rhode’s “Pains,” the backing track for Rob’s rooftop birthday encounter with Mac, one that makes up a sizable part of the season’s last two chapters.

“It was a selection that our editor Kate Hickey had found and really loved and felt like was a great template for the scene. She put it in and said, ‘Maybe it’s just a starting point for conversation.’ When we heard it and saw the way that she cut it with the scene, we were like, ‘We can’t change this.’ It drove the way that we edited the scene and helped us build the emotion in what was one of our biggest emotional peaks of the entire season,” West said.

One of the key strengths of “High Fidelity” is its ability to find a balance in the songs it uses. There are tracks that feel like they’ve been waiting patiently on a vinyl-laden shelf to be the perfect scene accompaniment. Some are overlooked jams from some of the most iconic musicians of the past half-century. Others still are karaoke staples, reworked in a different context to be one of the show’s main engines.

Maybe the best example of that last category is Dexys Midnight Runners’ “Come on Eileen,” which Cherise (Da’Vine Joy Randolph) belts out in the middle of Championship Vinyl halfway through the pilot.

“That was one of the suggestions from Alison Rosenfeld. For us we had to find something that grabs everybody’s attention with that exuberance and that joy that that song has. It’s not just our character singing along to it, but everybody in the audience,” West said. “I think what Da’Vine brought to that moment was the ability to take a song that you know could become an earworm that you can’t get rid of and just make it the song you’re happily humming all day.”

Of all the artists on the “High Fidelity” soundtrack, the one with the biggest presence might well be David Bowie. Not only is one of his albums a key plot point in an episode, three of his songs (from different points in his career) help to anchor the first half of the season. West and Kucserka didn’t just see “Modern Love,” the show’s initial taste of Bowie, as a bolt of energy. They saw it as a way to help understand Rob’s state of mind.

“That song was a suggestion from Jenny Eliscu, who was helping us just try to get inside Rob’s head, what her musical tastes would be,” Kucserka said. “It was in the script from the first draft and I absolutely fell in love with it. It just made you feel her pain in a weird way, but also the pleasure that comes with diving into those memories that can sometimes be hurtful and sometimes be romantic.”

As a way to bookend this opening set of episodes with nods to its “High Fidelity” predecessor, the show prominently features the Stevie Wonder song “I Believe (When I Fall in Love It Will Be Forever)” in the Season 1 finale. In one of the tiny, authentic moments that helps wrap up the various journeys its characters have taken over the course of the season, Cherise learns to play the song on the new guitar that Rob bought for her.

“I think Da’Vine learned to play that song on the guitar maybe 12 hours before we shot that scene,” West said. As Cherise continues to find her voice, strumming along with her new prized possession, the audience sees she hasn’t quite mastered the chords yet. Even so, it’s a hopeful moment for her to end on. “It was a song that we always wanted to use. It was definitely a call back to the DNA of the movie and the book and everything. And we wanted to find the way to use it that wasn’t the way that they used it in those places.”

For a list of songs that help make “High Fidelity” a veritable treasure trove of classic favorites and new choice deep cuts, sample a bit of the Season 1 soundtrack below:

“High Fidelity” Season 1 is now available to stream on Hulu.

How to Watch Tomorrow Night’s Democratic Debate

The ninth Democratic primary debate airs tomorrow night (Wednesday, February 19) at 9 p.m. ET/6 p.m. PT, broadcast live from Las Vegas, Nevada, a few days before the Nevada caucuses (Saturday, February 22). This debate will be hosted by NBC News, MSNBC, Telemundo, and The Nevada Independent.

The Candidates

Six Democratic candidates have qualified to participate in this debate:

• Former Vice President Joe Biden


• Former South Bend, Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg


• Sen. Amy Klobuchar (Minnesota)


• Sen. Bernie Sanders (Vermont)


• Sen. Elizabeth Warren (Massachusetts)


• Billionaire and Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg

This is the first time Bloomberg will appear alongside his Democratic presidential rivals on the debate stage.

Billionaire Tom Steyer and Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (Hawaii) failed to qualified the debate on both the polling threshold and delegate threshold fronts. Since the last debate (on February 7), Entrepreneur Andrew Yang has dropped out of the presidential race.

The Moderators

This debate will be moderated by “NBC Nightly News” and “Dateline NBC” anchor Lester Holt, “Meet the Press” moderator and NBC News political director Chuck Todd, NBC News Chief White House Correspondent and host of “MSNBC Live” Hallie Jackson, Noticias Telemundo senior correspondent Vanessa Hauc, and Jon Ralston of The Nevada Independent.

Where and How to Watch

There are a number of opportunities to watch the Democratic debate.

The event will be broadcast on NBC and MSNBC, as well as live-streamed on NBC News NOW, NBCNews.com, MSNBC.com, the NBC News mobile app, NBC News and MSNBC’s Facebook pages, and online at The Nevada Independent. The debate will also air live in Spanish on Universo, as well as the Noticias Telemundo mobile app and website and Noticias Telemundo’s Facebook page.

The politics team at NPR.org will also be offering fact checks and live analysis throughout the night.

‘The Plot Against America’ Official Trailer: HBO’s Alt-History Adaptation Reveals Lindbergh’s Fascist America

HBO has released the full official trailer for its upcoming limited series “The Plot Against America,” set to premiere this March.

Starring Zoe Kazan, Morgan Spector, Winona Ryder, and John Turturro, the six-part series comes from executive producers and longtime collaborators David Simon and Ed Burns (“The Wire,” “Generation Kill”). Based on the prescient novel by Philip Roth, “The Plot Against America” takes place in an alternate-history version of America, in which the United States turns toward fascism during the Second World War. The story is told through the eyes of a New Jersey working-class Jewish family, as aviation hero and xenophobic populist Charles Lindbergh (Ben Cole) runs for President of the United States and wins.

HBO released the teaser trailer for the limited series back at the end of January, revealing just how tense things would get in the lead-up to Lindbergh’s election. The official trailer, however, includes more about the aftermath and brazen rise of fascism and anti-Semitism within this alt-world, with young Philip Levin (Azhy Robertson) growing terrified with the inevitable possibility of fascism after learning what it means.

Like in the novel, the story follows Herman Levin (Spector) as he goes from believing that the American people will see through Lindbergh and “what he is” to quickly realizing that Lindbergh’s anti-war message is at the expense of the Jewish people. While the teaser trailer focused more on the internal struggle between the Levins and their Lindbergh-supporting family members — Elizabeth’s sister Evelyn (Ryder) and her husband, conservative Rabbi Lionel Bengelsdorf (Turturro) — this official trailer reveals more of the swift change to open anti-Semitism as a result of Lindbergh’s campaign and ultimate election. The borders are closed, the Levins are turned away from a hotel for being Jewish, Philip is plagued with nightmares of Adolf Hitler’s America.

Despite this, Evelyn — who claims Lindbergh’s not anti-Semitic, despite his anti-Semitic rhetoric — still tells her nephew, “I don’t want you to be frightened like your parents.” However, from the prevalent swastikas out in the open within the trailer to the instrumental (and sardonic) version of “America the Beautiful” that plays over the trailer, all signs point to it being perfectly reasonable to be frightened at this point. Especially as Herman attempts to fight back, saying that this is his country, only for a resigned Elizabeth tell him, “Not anymore! It is the Jew-haters’.”

While the teaser trailer danced around the fact that Lindbergh does, in fact, win the presidency in this story, the full trailer confirms that it’s unavoidable. (Philip’s reaction to the news of Lindbergh’s win: “What just happened?”)

“The Plot Against America” premieres Monday, March 16 at 9 p.m. ET on HBO. Watch the two-and-a-half-minute preview below:

New ‘Star Wars: The Clone Wars’ Clip Promises High-Stakes Action in Final Season

The six-year wait for “Star Wars: The Clone Wars” Season 7 is nearly over. The first episode of the series’ final season will premiere on Disney+ on Friday, February 21, and Disney has unveiled a new clip and several images to hype up the beginning of the end.

Like the show itself, Season 7 will focus on the end of the galaxy-spanning Clone Wars that defined much of the franchise’s mythology. The new clip from “The Bad Batch” teases a team-up with a squad of “favorably mutated” clone troopers, who will kick off the season with a mission behind Separatist lines.

Per Disney: “The forces of darkness have amassed great power in their bid to transform the Republic into the Galactic Empire. With the Republic on a losing streak, Captain Rex fears the Separatists are using stolen data to help predict the Grand Army’s every move. As the threat of defeat looms, Rex teams up with experimental Clone Force 99, also known as the Bad Batch. Together, they embark on a high-risk mission behind enemy lines to uncover the truth behind the Separatist victories.”

While the series’ new clip is focused on the Clone Troopers, plenty of fan-favorite Force users will be returning throughout the upcoming season, including Anakin Skywalker, Darth Maul, and Ahsoka Tano.

“Star Wars: The Clone Wars”

Disney

“The Bad Batch” was intended to kick off Season 7 several years ago before production on the series was stopped. The episode would’ve been part of a four-episode arc. One of the series’ writers released plot details about the story arc in 2014, when the series’ future was uncertain — and unfinished story reels were also released — but only time will tell how the experimental Clone Troopers play into the overall series.

The seventh season of “The Clone Wars” will premiere a few months after Dave Filoni’s Disney+ tentpole “The Mandalorian” hit the streamer. Filoni served as creator and showrunner on “Star Wars Rebels” and is the showrunner for “The Clone Wars.” Like his animated series, “The Mandalorian,” which will return for a second season in October, enjoyed stellar fan reception.

“The Mandalorian” Season 1 finale teased that the Darksaber, a black-bladed lightsaber that originated in “The Clone Wars,” would play a significant role in future installments. Given the interconnected nature of recent “Star Wars” projects — and Disney’s need to keep the franchise in the public eye — don’t be surprised if similar teases pop up in the upcoming “The Clone Wars” season.

Check out the clip from “The Bad Batch” below:

How to Watch Tomorrow Night’s Democratic Debate

The ninth Democratic primary debate airs tomorrow night (Wednesday, February 19) at 9 p.m. ET/6 p.m. PT, broadcast live from Las Vegas, Nevada, a few days before the Nevada caucuses (Saturday, February 22). This debate will be hosted by NBC News, MSNBC, Telemundo, and The Nevada Independent.

The Candidates

Six Democratic candidates have qualified to participate in this debate:

• Former Vice President Joe Biden
• Former South Bend, Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg
• Sen. Amy Klobuchar (Minnesota)
• Sen. Bernie Sanders (Vermont)
• Sen. Elizabeth Warren (Massachusetts)
• Billionaire and Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg

This is the first time Bloomberg will appear alongside his Democratic presidential rivals on the debate stage.

Billionaire Tom Steyer and Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (Hawaii) failed to qualified the debate on both the polling threshold and delegate threshold fronts. Since the last debate (on February 7), Entrepreneur Andrew Yang has dropped out of the presidential race.

The Moderators

This debate will be moderated by “NBC Nightly News” and “Dateline NBC” anchor Lester Holt, “Meet the Press” moderator and NBC News political director Chuck Todd, NBC News Chief White House Correspondent and host of “MSNBC Live” Hallie Jackson, Noticias Telemundo senior correspondent Vanessa Hauc, and Jon Ralston of The Nevada Independent.

Where and How to Watch

There are a number of opportunities to watch the Democratic debate.

The event will be broadcast on NBC and MSNBC, as well as live-streamed on NBC News NOW, NBCNews.com, MSNBC.com, the NBC News mobile app, NBC News and MSNBC’s Facebook pages, and online at The Nevada Independent. The debate will also air live in Spanish on Universo, as well as the Noticias Telemundo mobile app and website and Noticias Telemundo’s Facebook page.

The politics team at NPR.org will also be offering fact checks and live analysis throughout the night.

‘Devs’ Review: Alex Garland’s FX on Hulu Series Is a Contemplative Knockout

For a cautionary tale about not seeing the trees for the forest, “Devs” wields a powerful hallucinatory effect. Methodically paced and meticulously built, Alex Garland’s latest hard stare into the tech world’s black moral abyss can feel like you’re caught in a loop, overhearing engineers repeat the same ominous jargon and catching a glimpse of the same giant doll hovering over Silicon Valley’s redwoods. (Yes, a doll. This five-story tall thing is absolutely terrifying, and yet I already wish she was staring through my office window.)

The setting, the subject, the show — it’s all a bit cultish, both in the intensely eerie religious parallels the story evokes and in the cult fandom most likely to appreciate another of Garland’s mind-bending projects. The writer-director pulled double duty on every episode of “Devs,” and he remains in the same esoteric territory that divided “Annihilation’s” audience, but that’s not a bad thing. In fact, all of the above are very good things that make up a very good show. Just like the halos floating above Nick Offerman’s head, the first FX on Hulu series can really glow — and when it does, you won’t be able to look away.

“Devs’” ever-shifting road starts with Sergei, played by Karl Glusman, an artificial intelligence coder who’s predictive algorithm has earned him a big meeting with the boss. As Amaya CEO Forest (Offerman) shovels handfuls of green leaves into his mouth, Sergei shows him how his team’s latest breakthrough can predict a single-celled organism’s next fives seconds of movement. Though Sergei & Co. look a bit embarrassed that they can’t forecast any further ahead, Forest is sold. He offers Sergei a coveted role in the company’s advanced development division, simply referred to as Devs.

Everyone at Amaya wants to know what the devs team is working on and no one does. (I’d argue the bigger mystery is the giant doll lording over the company compound, but whatever.) As Sergei (and thus the audience) gets clued in to what’s going on in the isolated building on the edge of campus, secrets of all sorts start to spill out — government oversight is threatened, flashbacks (that aren’t really flashbacks) expose employees’ personal motivations, and someone is murdered. (Dun dun DUN!)

Sonoya Mizuno in “Devs”

Raymond Liu / FX

From there, “Devs” keeps you on your toes. Sonoya Mizuno’s Lily Chan, a software developer at Amaya and Sergei’s girlfriend, takes on a bigger role, as do Sergei’s new co-workers; Stewart (Stephen McKinley Henderson) is an aging genius, excited to be working on the cutting edge and suspicious of those too young to respect how deep it can cut; Lyndon (Cailee Spaeny) is exactly the young, brilliant developer Stew’s worried about, and Katie (Alison Pill) has to keep them both in line, along with the rest of the devs’ team, in order to fulfill Forest’s vision.

Each member of the ensemble has their time to shine; Spaeny is a find, and Pill finds unexpected warmth in her icy, menacing right-hand woman. Offerman, though, is the standout. Grounded by deep-rooted pain and guided by an identifiable human urge, Offerman still makes Forest into a believable messiah; maybe it’s just the long hair, mysterious intentions, and casual assertion of power, but Forest feels like the rare, well-rounded tech millionaire who isn’t a one-dimensional monster hiding behind forward-facing good intentions. I don’t believe he’s stuffing his face with leafy greens because he wants to look like an environmentally friendly vegan; I think he is an environmentally friendly vegan. But he’s also capable of very bad things, which Offerman conducts with equally unnerving nonchalance.

That’s a bit opaque (especially for anyone who’s seen the trailer, which gives away a bit more than I’d prefer), but like “Devs” itself, it’s opaque with purpose. “Devs” is both a mystery worth unraveling and inherently enigmatic. Garland’s story requires the audience to make certain leaps to keep up; the atmosphere feeds the narrative and vice versa (which can become frighteningly evident with every sharp note from The Insects’ alarming score). At times, what’s happening is as clear as the vivid, hard-lined production design used to bring the devs’ building to life. Other scenes are as obscured as the hazy, largely empty San Francisco streets. Like all great mysteries, you’ll know what you need to know to remain invested in what happens next.

If any of that makes “Devs” sound like a lot, well, it is — a lot of theorizing, a lot of abstract conversations, a lot of time-shifting — but it’s also one of Garland’s more emotionally vulnerable and accessible parables. Yes, the hourlong episodes could be described using every critic’s favorite code word for “tedious” (“It’s a slow burn!”), but lulling viewers into submission is just one part of Garland’s plan. Jarring twists and turns break up and enhance the eerie tone, as the conspiracy-thriller deftly incorporates chase scenes, murder investigations, and love stories to its tech-heavy story. Garland uses his time wisely, and his beautiful vision of a ghastly future is undeniably insightful. Some of its ideas may not be welcome — they sure as shit aren’t comforting — but “Devs” sticks with you, whether you want it to or not.

Grade: A-

“Devs” premieres its first two episodes Thursday, March 5 on Hulu, as part of the FX on Hulu partnership. New episodes will premiere via the streaming service every Thursday. “Devs” will not air on FX’s linear platform.

The Bachelorette NZ Power Rankings: Send in the intruders

Alex Casey delivers her seventh power rankings for The Bachelorette NZ, where a group of intruders have herniated the competition’s intestines forever. Click here for previous instalments. 

Welcome back to The Bachelorette NZ, where everything is made up and every man is suddenly named Mike. Intruders! Five of them! A whole boy-band’s worth! Mike! Micheal! Mac! Mork! Mindy! Chucking in a few more piping hot fellas into this here man soup has caused more than a few dramas this week.

It began with ‘Operation Stingray’ which saw the oldies punk the newies in a huge way, telling them that they were going on a group date and then revealing that they were not going on a group date. 

There was a lot of subsequent talk about “the culture” built up in the house so far, and even more time devoted to talking about how Elliott (returning Bachelor) had basically ruined it all because he thought the prank was too mean. I don’t know boys, the culture seems stronger than ever from where I’m sitting (trust falls in the pub, Monopoly Deal with the lads, tie dye shirt supply flowing like yoghurt.) 

On with the rankings.

ELIMINATED: Magic Marc

Marc didn’t seem too bovvid with getting the biff this week, I wish him all the best repairing all the shirts he has ripped on this show and trust he will give them a good alpha-dog ironing too. 

INTRUDED: Michael

Not overstating even a smidgeon when I say that Michael, the humble kūmara farmer from Dargaville, is the best thing that has ever happened to be. He is THE purest expression of Kiwi blokedom to ever grace our screens, he talks like his jaw is wired shut and he is “fully eh, fully” ready to find love. 

INTRUDED: Mike

If Michael is the classic Kiwi farmer, then Mike is the classic guy wearing linen on the Viaduct who looks like he owns a yacht and probably those fluffy Gucci slippers that Mike Hosking has. He’s an ex-Olympic sailor and the ex-husband of Chelsea Winter, and if that’s not enough to get you a nice spot at Soul Bar then I don’t know what will. He survived Lesina’s probing questions and came away with an early rose, so I’d say she’s… on board. 

RETURNED: Elliott

As any Christopher Nolan stan will know, every great magic trick consists of three acts – the pledge, the turn and the prestige. Elliott’s limp tissue rose (the pledge) and subsequent disappearing act (the turn) in episode one was merely a distraction from his inevitable shock return (the prestige). Truly a master of the form. 

And what a return it was, loping in like a “big drunk puppy” (Lily’s words, not mine) and immediately starting some shit on his single date. He made Lesina ‘block up his bald head, he gave her a nickname (Shoey, inspired by her last name Schuster) and inadvertently started a sick new drinking game where you have to do a shoey every time he calls Lesina ‘Shoey’. 

Unfortunately there is about as much chemistry between these two as there is between slosh of Baileys and a sneaker, but Elliott seems like he is gearing up to be Mole Pt 3: The Naked Mole edition. He spent ages talking about where Lesina was at with the other men, and his fierce loyalty (“pranking is mint, but that’s not on”) bode well for his mole future. 

INTRUDED: Mac

Okay, is anyone going to call out the fact that just as we lost Mr Wedge only for him to be replaced with a guy who likes to be called MACCA???? KFC is quaking in its 11 herbs and spices at this level of brand infiltration, but not as much as this poor nervous cherub. 

INTRUDED: Richie

It’s like the old adage says, there’s no point crying over spilt milk when instead you can use the opportunity to launch a successful drop crotch pant company. Classic yarn. Everyone thinks Richie is hot, from Lily to Lesina, to the empanada overlord of Argentina. “He’s like a normal guy but in a non-normie way,” said Lily after their single date, where they spent a lot of time baring their teeth to one another in an act that I understand is called “smiling”

LESINA’S LADS

4) Tavita

Nothing bigger boo boo than Tavita’s hernia coming out of the wood work and starting shit again this week. “My hernia is on my mind too much,” Tavita confessed to the cameras before returning to the centre de emergencies once more. Noooooo herny lalas nooooo. 

Tonight’s episode finished with what seemed a lot like an ultimatum for Lesina – send Tavita home for surgery or keep him here and have him (literally) spill his guts. Pray for Tavita. 

3) Steve

This week Steve went off his absolute nut at Aaron again for interrupting his time with Lesina, and then decided to assert himself as top dog by wearing his coveted footy shirt won during the challenge last week. Get the man a bloody vape.

2) Logan

He got mercilessly owned after Lily called him Aaron during the “love tea” challenge, but that didn’t stop Logan calling 0800 KISSATHON and getting some crucial mouth to mouth with Dr Lesina. “It wasn’t as dry this time” said Lesina. Wow, is this Fifty Shades or what????

1) Aaron

Lesina took Aaron on a single date this week to go and look at some art, but not before some saucy off-camera pashing in a hallway. Aaron loved to look at the art! Especially the art with the letter A on it! A for Aaron! A for Art Green! A for ‘Amazed’ by Lonestar! A for Acapella rendition! A for A declaration of love??????? A for Aaron has lost it and I am loving it. Here’s a perfect tweet btw: 

The way it should have happened #TheBacheloretteNZ pic.twitter.com/1eqdrNnqId

— Cameron Nealie (@CameronNealie) February 16, 2020

To top off a perfectly intense date, Aaron gave Lesina her favourite print from their graffiti walk, and wow what a Piece it was. 

LILY’S LARRIKINS

5) George

Ever wonder where the Nirvana baby is now? 

4) Jesse

Jesse boasted about having a radio degree this week, which could come in useful because I fear that his frequency has recently switched from AM (amorous mon amie) to FM (friends, mates). 

3) Liam

Liam got whisked away on a single date to concoct a “frozen hangover” gelato with Lily. He had some weird chat about how he has put pressure on past partners to change, but has then been annoyed that they changed for him. It culminated in the hottest pillow talk of all, which somehow still got him a rose???

2) Terence

If there’s one thing that ladies love, it’s a guy who never, ever, ever forgets that she owes him a kiss from a weird speedboat bet that happened weeks ago. Girthy ol’ Terence tried to shoot his shot on a rooftop above the cocktail party, hoping Lily would settle her debts. And she… did? 

She must like him a bit, because it was truly a smoocherino so awkies that Tavita’s hernia woke up and phoned the hospitable on itself. 

1) Quinn

I used to think Quinn would be quinning the quompetition because of all the quissing. But now that Richie is on the scene, I’m not so sure. Quold be trouble afoot. 

The Bachelorette NZ Power Rankings: Send in the intruders

Alex Casey delivers her seventh power rankings for The Bachelorette NZ, where a group of intruders have herniated the competition’s intestines forever. Click here for previous instalments. 

Welcome back to The Bachelorette NZ, where everything is made up and every man is suddenly named Mike. Intruders! Five of them! A whole boy-band’s worth! Mike! Micheal! Mac! Mork! Mindy! Chucking a few more piping hot fellas into this here man soup has caused more than a few dramas this week.

It began with ‘Operation Stingray’ which saw the oldies punk the newies in a huge way, telling them that they were going on a group date and then revealing that they were not going on a group date. 

There was a lot of subsequent talk about “the culture” built up in the house so far, and even more time devoted to talking about how Elliott (returning Bachelor) had basically ruined it all because he thought the prank was too mean. I don’t know, boys, the culture seems stronger than ever from where I’m sitting (trust falls in the pub, Monopoly Deal with the lads, tie dye shirt supply flowing like yoghurt.) 

On with the rankings.

ELIMINATED: Magic Marc

Marc didn’t seem too bovvid with getting the biff this week, I wish him all the best repairing all the shirts he has ripped on this show and trust he will give them a good alpha-dog ironing too. 

INTRUDED: Michael

Not overstating even a smidgeon when I say that Michael, the humble kūmara farmer from Dargaville, is the best thing that has ever happened to me. He is THE purest expression of Kiwi blokedom to ever grace our screens, he talks like his jaw is wired shut and he is “fully eh, fully” ready to find love. 

INTRUDED: Mike

If Michael is the classic Kiwi farmer, then Mike is the classic guy wearing linen on the Viaduct who looks like he owns a yacht and probably those fluffy Gucci slippers that Mike Hosking has. He’s an ex Olympic sailor and the ex-husband of Chelsea Winter, and if that’s not enough to get you a nice spot at Soul Bar then I don’t know what is. He survived Lesina’s probing questions and came away with an early rose, so I’d say she’s… on board. 

RETURNED: Elliott

As any Christopher Nolan stan will know, every great magic trick consists of three acts – the pledge, the turn and the prestige. Elliott’s limp tissue rose (the pledge) and subsequent disappearing act (the turn) in episode one was merely a distraction from his inevitable shock return (the prestige). Truly a master of the form. 

And what a return it was, loping in like a “big drunk puppy” (Lily’s words, not mine) and immediately starting some shit on his single date. He made Lesina ‘block up his bald head, he gave her a nickname (Shoey, inspired by her last name Schuster) and inadvertently started a sick new drinking game where you have to do a shoey every time he calls Lesina ‘Shoey’. 

Unfortunately there is about as much chemistry between these two as there is between a slosh of Baileys and a sneaker, but Elliott seems like he is gearing up to be Mole Pt 3: The Naked Mole edition. He spent ages talking about where Lesina was at with the other men, and his fierce loyalty (“pranking is mint, but that’s not on”) bodes well for his mole future. 

INTRUDED: Mac

Okay, is anyone going to call out the fact that we lost Mr Wedge only for him to be replaced by a guy who likes to be called MACCA???? KFC is quaking in its 11 herbs and spices at this level of brand infiltration, but not as much as this poor nervous cherub. 

INTRUDED: Richie

It’s like the old adage says, there’s no point crying over spilt milk when instead you can use the opportunity to launch a successful drop crotch pant company. Classic yarn. Everyone thinks Richie is hot, from Lily to Lesina, to the empanada overlord of Argentina. “He’s like a normal guy but in a non-normie way,” said Lily after their single date, where they spent a lot of time baring their teeth to one another in an act that I understand is called “smiling”

LESINA’S LADS

4) Tavita

Nothing bigger boo boo than Tavita’s hernia coming out of the woodwork and starting shit again this week. “My hernia is on my mind too much,” Tavita confessed to the cameras before returning to the centre de emergencies once more. Noooooo herny lalas nooooo. 

Tonight’s episode finished with what seemed a lot like an ultimatum for Lesina – send Tavita home for surgery or keep him here and have him (literally) spill his guts. Pray for Tavita. 

3) Steve

This week Steve went off his absolute nut at Aaron again for interrupting his time with Lesina, and then decided to assert himself as top dog by wearing his coveted footy shirt won during the challenge last week. Get the man a bloody vape.

2) Logan

He got mercilessly owned after Lily called him Aaron during the “love tea” challenge, but that didn’t stop Logan calling 0800 KISSATHON and getting some crucial mouth to mouth with Dr Lesina. “It wasn’t as dry this time” said Lesina. Wow, is this Fifty Shades or what????

1) Aaron

Lesina took Aaron on a single date this week to go and look at some art, but not before some saucy off-camera pashing in a hallway. Aaron loved to look at the art! Especially the art with the letter A on it! A for Aaron! A for Art Green! A for ‘Amazed’ by Lonestar! A for Acapella rendition! A for A declaration of love??????? A for Aaron has lost it and I am loving it. Here’s a perfect tweet btw: 

The way it should have happened #TheBacheloretteNZ pic.twitter.com/1eqdrNnqId

— Cameron Nealie (@CameronNealie) February 16, 2020

To top off a perfectly intense date, Aaron gave Lesina her favourite print from their graffiti walk, and wow what a Piece it was. 

LILY’S LARRIKINS

5) George

Ever wonder where the Nirvana baby is now? 

4) Jesse

Jesse boasted about having a radio degree this week, which could come in handy because I fear that his frequency has recently switched from AM (amorous mon amie) to FM (friends, mates). 

3) Liam

Liam got whisked away on a single date to concoct a “frozen hangover” gelato with Lily. He had some weird chat about how he has put pressure on past partners to change, but has then been annoyed that they changed for him. It culminated in the hottest pillow talk of all, which somehow still got him a rose???

2) Terence

If there’s one thing that ladies love, it’s a guy who never, ever, ever forgets that she owes him a kiss from a weird speedboat bet that happened weeks ago. Girthy ol’ Terence tried to shoot his shot on a rooftop above the cocktail party, hoping Lily would settle her debts. And she… did? 

She must like him a bit, because it was truly a smoocherino so awkies that Tavita’s hernia woke up and phoned the hospitable on itself. 

1) Quinn

I used to think Quinn would be quinning the quompetition because of all the quissing. But now that Richie is on the scene, I’m not so sure. Quold be trouble afoot.