The Blacklist season nine finale was filled with a few surprises – including two stars announcing their departure from the long running show on NBC!
11.05.2022 - 09:09 / deadline.com
Warning: This article contains spoilers from the CW/Warner Bros. TV two-part season one finale of Naomi, ep. 12 “Ready or Not” and ep. 13 “Who Am I?”
Imagine finding out that your adopted parents took the lives of your biological parents.
Something that just was never in the DNA of Jonathan and Martha Kent, Superman’s down-to-Earth guardians.
But life can’t always imitate that of your mentor, the Man of Steel; a harsh truth that alien Naomi (Kaci Walfall) learned tonight on the two-hour season finale of the Ava DuVernay-Jill Blankenship co-created series.
But before we get there, in part one of the season finale, “Ready or Not”, our protagonist is given a locket by fellow alien Akira (Stephanie March), who was her mother’s friend. She’s re-building a ship to get Naomi back to her home planet, a mission her Earth parents Greg and Jennifer McDuffie (Barry Watson and Mouzam Makkar) don’t necessarily agree with.
Naomi goes on a road trip with her friend Annabelle to find the source of power; and they wind up a lush green meadow with flowers. It’s quite the deja vu moment for our alien superhero. Gradually throughout the episode, she’s having memories of her childhood, remembering being blasted off her planet in a pod by her parents (Naomi is wrapped in satin gold, compare this to Superman who was wrapped in satin red, at least in the 1978 Richard Donner movie). This culminates with Naomi and Julian (Owen Harn) battling in the meadow. However, he’s powerless against her. It’s then that a door is revealed and she meets a spiritual version of her birth parents.
Her birth mother tells Naomi that they sent her to Earth as it was a place where there’s “a path of understanding of what went wrong on our planet.”
Naomi says she couldn’t
The Blacklist season nine finale was filled with a few surprises – including two stars announcing their departure from the long running show on NBC!
EXCLUSIVE: The Blacklist is saying farewell to two series regulars, including one of NBC drama’s longest-serving cast members, Amir Arison. The actor, who has portrayed Aram Mojtabi for the past nine seasons, is leaving as he is preparing to make his Broadway debut this summer in the starring role of Amir in The Kite Runner.
on another chapter with a relatively happy ending for nearly all its main players.After an explosive season of world-trotting adventures and blonde lookalikes, Cassie Bowden finally accepted every sliver of her imperfect self — the sides of which she had been running from this entire time -- also putting to bed the big mystery that had been plaguing her all season. Turns out, it was CIA boss, Dot (Cheryl Hines), who was the murderous doppelganger wreaking havoc on Cassie's life! With Dot brought to justice for her two-faced crimes, Cassie also came to discover that Jenny, the unassuming crime podcaster from Alcoholics Anonymous, was anything -- just someone who was obsessed with Feliks, the season 1 killer, and ready to go to bat for the jailed murderer.
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After being told that his story was too grotesque and unrealistic, Hwang Dong-hyuk set aside his script for Squid Game for 10 years. When Netflix came looking for overseas content, Hwang took his shot and gave it a drama that quickly became the most-watched series in the streaming service’s history.
NBC, fresh off its impressive This Is Us‘ series finale, dominated primetime ratings again with the season ender of Chicago Fire.
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Chicago Fire’s season 10 finale is going to be a wild ride — according to co-showrunners Derek Haas and Andrea Newman.
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Warning: Spoilers for Better Call Saul season 6 episode 7!The Better Call Saul mid-season 6 finale has literally blown people’s minds with the episode, titled Plan and Execution, serving an almighty cliffhanger nobody saw coming. The instalment finally marked the end of Jimmy McGill (Bob Odenkirk) and Kim Wexler’s (Rhea Seehorn) mission to put a stop to enemy Howard Hamlin (Patrick Fabian), with a brutal cold-blooded murder blind-siding fans in the closing scenes. In quite possibly the most brutal moment of the show to date, Howard was shot in the head by Lalo Salamanca (Tony Dalton) as he confronted the Goodmans in their home about their plot to smear his name.
Better Call Saul has delivered a surprising character death in the mid-season finale for season six.In the episode titled Plan and Execution, Howard Hamlin (Patrick Fabian) was executed in cold blood by Lalo Salamanca (Tony Dalton) inside Kim Wexler (Rhea Seehorn) and Jimmy McGill’s (Bob Odenkirk) apartment.The unfortunate confrontation takes place while Kim and Jimmy celebrate their win over Howard at the Sandpiper Crossing mediation. Howard, who is humiliated by the defeat, turns up at their flat to interrupt the celebrations and air his grievances about being played.After security is diverted from Kim and Jimmy’s apartment to a supposed threat at Gus Fring’s launderette, Lalo makes a surprise visit to their home.
Selome Hailu SPOILER ALERT: Do not read unless you have watched “Tarrare,” the Season 3 finale of “Atlanta.” The Season 3 finale of “Atlanta” is styled after the quirky and comforting French rom-com “Amélie,” though this version is weirder and grosser.The episode is titled “Tarrare” after the 1700s French solider who was famous for a medical condition that made him constantly hungry — he was able to eat his own body weight in meat, and was also rumored to engage in cannibalism. In “Atlanta,” that hunger belongs to Van (Zazie Beetz), who becomes so unsure of who she is that she has a nervous breakdown, engulfing herself in a French alter ego complete with an accent, a boyfriend, an apartment and a job in a butcher shop that serves human hands.
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season 3 closes out with a bang as it follows Van (Zazie Beetz) on a very unexpected, emotional journey through Paris, which includes a wild interaction with a surprise cameo by Alexander Skarsgård. And executive producer Stefani Robinson breaks down what is easily one of the FX series’ best episodes yet. [: Spoilers for the season 3 finale, “Tarrare,” written by Stefani Robinson and directed by Donald Glover.]While the season was split between stories about the curse of whiteness and following the gang — Paper Boi (Brian Tyree Henry), Darius (LaKeith Stanfield), Earn and Van -- as they travel through parts of Europe, the finale focuses squarely on Van, whose story has largely played out in the background of previous episodes. “We really wanted to do a Van solo episode,” Robinson tells ET, using it to address why she showed up in Europe in the first place.
all-winners season with some star-studded guest hosts!The new season kicks off on Friday, with a two-episode premiere on Paramount+, and only ET can debut the first look at the first two celebrity guest judges of the season: Cameron Diaz and Naomi Campbell.The two will be on-hand to deliver critiques to the star-studdedcompetitors, which include season 12 winner Jaida Essence Hall, season 5 winner Jinkx Monsoon, winner Monét X Change, season 3 winner Raja, winner Shea Couleé, series 1 winner The Vivienne, Trinity the Tuck, and season 11 winner Yvie Oddly.See the first pics below:Paramount+ announced as the franchise's first-ever all-winners cast last month — with past champions returning to compete for the title of «Queen of All Queens,» and a cash prize of $200,000! Plus, there will be new episodes of streaming exclusively on Paramount+ to bring you all the best behind-the-scenes drama! Watch the casting announcement in the video below: season 7 premieres Friday, May 20, on Paramount+.
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, “A Judge and a Priest Walk Into a Living Room,” several key family members got married during a mega wedding. But given that this is, there’s always some setbacks. “It’s actually two steps forward and 15 steps back,” executive producer Bruce Helford jokes.
Emily VanCamp is back on The Resident tonight!
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Stranger Things has been announced – listen to its first preview, a Journey cover, below.The Netflix sci-fi hit’s fourth season is divided into two volumes, with the first set to be released on Netflix on May 27 and the second on July 1, 2022. The season consists of nine episodes in total.Its newly-announced soundtrack will also be released in two parts, each shared on the same release days as the show itself.