Tag: TV

Well that last episode surprised me in a number of ways.

It played out very differently to how I imagined it might. I assumed that Michael’s plan would go awry when Kellerman assassinated the President and I never thought we would actually get to hear the tape.

Secrets that could bring down the President in movies are like monsters in movies they are always much better before they get brought out into the light of day. But this time the secret was worth waiting for and one that I would never have guessed.

Fucking incest! Man, now that’s something I’m sure she wanted to keep quiet.

Very glad C-Note survived his suicide attempt as he’s my favourite character and I really want he and his family to get the happy ending. In comparison I don’t much give a shit about the fate of Michael and Lincoln.

Sucre and Bellick teaming up against T-Bag could be fun.

I’ve rewatching season five of the tv show 24 in preparation for the imminent start of season six and I’m starting to feel some pity for the character of Rick Burke.

Who is Rick Burke you wonder?

He is the CTU interrogator/torturer played by Martin Papazian. Why should I feel pity for a torturer though? Well as if his occupation wasn’t bad enough it seems that half the people he is asked to ‘interrogate’ by his superiors in CTU are entirely innocent and have no information at all for him to extract from them.

Not only that but when he does actually have a genuine suspect to interrogate, Christopher Henderson, Burke is knocked out by Tony Almeida before he can finish the job.

I had initially thought that Burke was in season four also but he is in fact the second iteration of a character whose sole purpose is to take over the role of torturer from Jack Bauer so that Bauer’s heroics are not so diminished by carrying out such acts as they have been in previous seasons.

The season four CTU chief interrogator was an Agent Richards as portrayed by Butch Klein who has the thankless task of torturing Richard Heller and Sarah Gavin, who of course were innocent of conspiring with the terrorists.

Myths over Miami is a fascinating article from almost ten years ago in the Miami New Times. [via]

On Christmas night a year ago, God fled Heaven to escape an audacious demon attack — a celestial Tet Offensive. The demons smashed to dust his palace of beautiful blue-moon marble. TV news kept it secret, but homeless children in shelters across the country report being awakened from troubled sleep and alerted by dead relatives. No one knows why God has never reappeared, leaving his stunned angels to defend his earthly estate against assaults from Hell. “Demons found doors to our world,” adds eight-year-old Miguel, who sits before Andre with the other children at the Salvation Army shelter. The demons’ gateways from Hell include abandoned refrigerators, mirrors, Ghost Town (the nickname shelter children have for a cemetery somewhere in Dade County), and Jeep Cherokees with “black windows.” The demons are nourished by dark human emotions: jealousy, hate, fear.

One demon is feared even by Satan. In Miami shelters, children know her by two names: Bloody Mary and La Llorona (the Crying Woman). She weeps blood or black tears from ghoulish empty sockets and feeds on children’s terror. When a child is killed accidentally in gang crossfire or is murdered, she croons with joy. “If you wake at night and see her,” a ten-year-old says softly, “her clothes be blowing back, even in a room where there is no wind. And you know she’s marked you for killing.”

I wonder where Dexter might fit into the mythologies of the street children of Miami.