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D.P. 2 - Ahn Jun Ho's journey

From bad to worse, Junho-ah.You had to survive 600 days in a simpler world, far less dangerous than the one you grew up in.That’s all you needed to do, and look how it turned out.You did not make it.You couldn’t pretend it wasn’t happening, turn a blind eye, stay silent, refrain from acting, or think only about getting through the day, so it would be one less day to endure.No, you just couldn’t…

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Love Notes For Jay Ryan

Love Notes For @JayRyan Past midnight here, so...Happy Birthday Jay!!! #HappyBirthdayJayRyan

  “Theatre is not the country of reality: there are cardboard trees, canvas palaces, a sky of papier mache, glass diamonds, gold foil, the red on the cheek, a sun coming out from under the ground. But it is the country’s true: there are human hearts behind the scenes, human hearts in the room, human hearts on stage.” Victor Hugo

  When I thought about writing something for Jay Ryan’s birthday I…

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Jay Ryan Joins IT Chapter Two as Adult Ben

Jay Ryan Joins IT Chapter Two as Adult Ben. #itmovie #itchapter2 @JayRyan @StephenKing

  Jay Ryan will follow Jeremy Ray Taylor as Ben Hanscom in coming 2019 IT: CHAPTER 2. He will joins Jessica Chastain as Beverly, James McAvoy as Bill and Bill Hader as Richie. Bill Skarsgard willreturn as Pennywise. James Ransone and Andy Bean have also recently joined the cast.

“I felt more comfortable playing other people than being myself, when I was a kid. And then, the tables turned.…

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He was the first one. A few minutes before everyone else, Tom Ellis called them, the fans, and with a tweet telling his true sadness, confirmed that Fox had cancelled Lucifer.

After his, a river flowed… The shocked showrunners – the 3 tweets sequentially written by Joe Henderson tell a lot of a real dismay. Cast, all of them  with a broken heart.

Though, it was a moment. Just a blink of an eye to shake off a tear looked out.

8 minutes after Tom’s tweet, even before Joe’s signal,  fans slammed their eyes – they could not be wet at that moment-  made a deep breath, stretched out their hands and, since that moment… They have never stopped tweeting. Never.

It would not be enough the space here on WordPress to show the enchant, the magic and the overflowing power of an event  that both Socials and TV series had never seen to happen. There have been other battles, oh if there have been any! In the last 20 years, fandom of one rather than another TV series have echoed more than once their roar of protest and non-resignation to a declared and marked destiny. With disparate results. However, Lucifer’s cancellation reaction tells a story never told before.

From 4pm EST on Friday 11 May, on Twitter and on the Internet there is no room for others but  Lucifer. Even now, as we write. And who knows how much longer. The 2 hashtags chosen, the first #savelucifer, at the battle cry launched at the news of the cancellation, the other #pickuplucifer about 15 hours later, when fans feared the first could lose visibility  – Not even fans were aware of their strength – the 2 hashtags echoed unstoppable on numbers that talk about more than 4M tweets for #savelucifer, 6.7M engagement, 2.9M for #pickuplucifer, with 4M engagement, the hashtag #Lucifer that –  not to disfigure – in 2 days brings back more than 1 million Tweets.

Tom Ellis is the second most typed name online after Donald Trump – call us Tom when you feel ready, and a #Tom4President is arranged in no time! – 5 Among names of showrunners and cast are among the 20 most typed of Twitter. Hours and hours, more than 5 days now,  on World Trends. A sequence of national Trends with the intensity of lightning during a summer storm: US, a lot, then Canada, Brazil, UK, Italy, Spain, Malaysia, Turkey, Romania, Hungary, France, and countless others. One night, on Monday, while the SEASON FINALE aired, no one will ever forget. At least none of those that were there. And we were so many. Really many.

Why, how can you forget that finale ?! How can you forget  40 minutes of television have managed to connect 3 years of stories and emotions, anxieties and trepidations, to collect them all under a pair of white and bleeding wings and then, momentum, everything back in flight to the future, tomorrow,next chapter to tell, next emotion to share. Together. If the fight to save Lucifer was a passionate but blind fight in the days before the finale, since Monday, it has become the unstoppable march of those who know that it is not over because it can not be over. Not this way. Not only for the consistency and validity of the plot put together by Modrovich and Henderson, or for the amazing cliffhanger built to project the audience directly to next moment, let alone next season. So far storyline has been unraveled so consistently, anyone can easily realize the road traveled so far is only part of the journey, nothing but distant from its proper end. It can not be over this way, mostly because of aspects maybe worthier than any practical or technical evaluation of Lucifer as a show.

The emotional reality created by the show, the empathic dimension in which all the involved subjects have found connection, from showrunners to cast, from crew to fans, has generated a wave of sharing – as emotions as goals – so unexpected and impetuous to shake the foundations of a system, speaking a new language, writing new rules. Because it’s not a protest that’s been setting up uninterruptedly since Friday. Those you read on cast and crew accounts are not fitting expressions, more a battle cry that resounds worldwide, echoing from people to people, protagonists or audience, everyone ignited by the same passion, the same certainty that there will be no end to the battle until there is a future for Lucifer. Never seen. It has never happened before.

Go to read Tom Ellis’ tweets: you will find a true leader. Read. Read them all, DB Woodside and Rachael Harris,Aimée Garcia and Lesley-Ann Brandt, Kevin Alejandro and Lauren German, and Ildy Modrovich and Joe Henderson, brave warriors dressed in armor of passion and sensitivity, humor and sincerity. Go on Twitter and see how they were fearless and generous in leading an army of indomitable ones, ready to put their hearts at risk, ready to follow them to Hell, if necessary, to give Lucifer another day, another night at Lux.

They were not alone. Where reaction to Fox cancellation struck, it was,paradoxically, outside the sphere of “interest” related to Lucifer. Journalists, writers, influencers and bloggers have not hesitated to join the campaign to save Lucifer, tweeting alongside fans and cast, all of them writing meaningful words on show, giving space and voice to Tom, ILdy, Joe  and the other cast members. Scrolling through timeline of the two hashtags, it was surprising and exciting to see how many insiders, “colleagues” came in, siding in favor of the show.

Other fandoms, then. Oh, other fandoms … they brought  tears in our eyes. Nobody held back. Many, really many raised on the timeline to leave their help, maybe a single tweet, a single hashtag, but the strong legacy that no one understood reasons of Lucifer’s cancellation. Nobody agreed on it.

And nobody gave up in this 5 days of fight. Nobody ever thought of it. Nobody. Ildy Modrovich and Joe Henderson will survive this adventure with carpal tunnel for the hours spent online alongside the fans. Tom Ellis – that while we finish writing is fighting tooth and nail online on BBC spreading how much Lucifer is worth it – Tom, when this extraordinary battle he is fighting with pride and charisma of a true leader will be won, well …  he will sleep.

Lauren, Rachael, Lesley-Ann, Aimée, Kevin, DB will return to consider their phones harmless cells, no more weapons to fight for lives of their Chloe, Linda, Maze, Ella, Dan and Amenadiel.

Fans, well, even the fans will rest. It has been exciting to see them to interchange one another, to say good morning and goodbye, to take no more than 3 hours of sleep a night, then back online, there again, not just to post hashtags but to joke and to dream, together, resolute not to give up. No matter how long it will take. Lucifer deserves a new home. Script deserves a new blank sheet. The awareness that this adventure is nothing but another step on the way, another stage of the journey is truly strong in everybody’s heart.  Reading this awareness in the fans’ words, listening to it in Tom’s voice, it’s such an inspiration about value and meaning of sharing emotions and empathy…

But YOU, person in charge in the control room, why should you make a phone call to say you want to pick up Lucifer ?! Do not do it because the whole world has been screaming online since 5 days that is worth it. Do not do it to ensure the most powerful advertising campaign ever seen – the battle to #savelucifer is over on Wikipedia! – And do not do it because it’s free. Do not believe Tom Ellis, showrunners, Bruckheimer film’s producers who crazy tweeted alongside the fandom … Do not believe the journalists and influencers of the sector, but above all do not believe fans. What do they understand about television ?! They are not the ones that will crowd the lucky channel that will broadcast Season4!

You, person in the control room, do not listen to anyone. Simply, close the door of your office and take only 40  minutes, watch an episode. The first maybe, or even the last one, doesn’t matter.. What matters is what will happen next. You will be stunned because you will not understand how someone has thought of putting an end to such a good thing. But you will not be able to see your reasons or your convenience yet. It will not matter then. You will have gone further. And there will only be one thing you will want to do. To have an active Twitter account on your mobile phone to proclaim strongly Lucifer is worthwhile,  Lucifer must have a new home, history can not stay untold.

However you do not need a Twitter account. You just need to pick up your phone and do that  call. Because you too, like us, can not help but know what will happen to Lucifer tomorrow.

Federica, Elisa, Angela

    "So in a weird way, I’m not surprised about people being angry. I just wasn’t ready this tsunami of love that came with it.” Tom Ellis - LUCIFER: CAST CREW & FANDOM RISE TOGETHER AGAINST FOX CANCELLATION- #savelucifer #pickuplucifer He was the first one. A few minutes before everyone else, Tom Ellis called them, the fans, and with a tweet telling his true sadness, confirmed that Fox had cancelled Lucifer.

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Lucifer - Season 3 Episode 20 - The Angel Of San Bernardino

Lucifer - Season 3 Episode 20 - The Angel Of San Bernardino - Our late but impetuous review, let us know yours thoughts. #lucifer #renewlucifer

It’s a weird episode, The Angel of San Bernardino. Unusual.. Not many “facts” happen but all moments are linked by a common thread. Characters too, all of them are linked by a common thread, whilst living different situations. It starts as a moment of research then, throughout it, each of them comes across a discovery, a new awareness to deal with. Conflict, more than research, is what everyone…

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Ben Wesley In Jay Ryan Words

Waiting for #marykillspeople season finale, tomorrow, on @lifetimetv, a little bit of Ben Wesley in @JayRyan words

Before the Season finale of Mary Kills People airs on Monday, we lingered on how Jay Ryan told his character, Ben, and his growth in season 2.     “Once Mary enters Ben’s world, it’s turned upside down again. She has a power over him that breaks all laws and gravity. She really is more in control of the relationship this season.    …

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“They say in the moment before you die you see your life, a spat of film strip, the bad and good, nightmares and dreams, unfolding before you. Your first dog. Your first cigarette. Your first love. A friend who became a stranger. The tree you planted when you were five. These moments come up and grab you. Live and steady. And then they let go. Receding into the past. Before parting ways, your body is weightless, hovering in place for what feels like an eternity. This is so you have enough time to say goodbye. But you don’t realize it. Because it’s all of a moment. A speck in time in which you exist. And then not. Just a moment. Before it’s all over.”

 I guess if Mary Kills People has its fatal flaw as a show, then it’s a passionate, fool love for what makes life meaningful.

This season finale, astoundingly poignant, pulls the strings of both seasons’ tale, links by hand all characters encountered on the stage. Actors and extras of a higher story of which maybe they were unaware. All gathered together like Brendan’s friends saying his goodbyes in the woods, each one with its verses, each one with its fragment of life lived, to build the message, the legacy of this wonderful show.

Why Mary Kills People is a show captivating for the audience, involving intimately things we do not know or want to talk about. What we know is only something that has involved intensely in its genesis, can involve in turn. What we rather want to highlight is how every single component, every single detail contributes to compose this valuable tapestry, the more precious, the more rare.

So let us stand up to applaud anyone who took part in this show.  The 3 fantastic, surprising directors – the level to which Holly Dale had left the bar last year seemed unattainable – to the writers, poets of intimate feelings as ancient elegies rather than just simple screenwriters.  To musicians, able to tell with notes and songs what could not be said with words.  To photographers and editors leaving us speechless.  To costumes, make-up, prop department, location scouts, who set them up, to the guy who brought them  a cup of  warm coffee in the cold of  Ontario autumn… All those who helped make this show true, above all others. True but at the same time, poetic. Thank you.

To the actors, all of them, generous interpreters of characters and personalities. Soul donors. Their talent second only to the devotion with which they have been committed to make Mary, Des, Ben, Nicole, Jess, and Olivia, Brendan, Germaine, Heather, Noemi , Betty …all true. All of them: Caroline Dhavernas, Richard Short, Jay Ryan, Abigail Winter, Charlotte Sullivan, Rachelle Lefevre, Salvatore Antonio … All.

To those two brave women who have defied the custom, ignored the easiest way, choosing as the first project to link their name to a story so out of the box, challenging, revolutionary… Thank You from the heart.

If Life were a person, Mary Kills People would be its epitaph. The love verses telling the meaning of an existence.

The season finale did nothing but confirm feelings and emotions that kept us company throughout the whole season. As in the procession in the woods, protagonists  marched for us with their fragment of story as their legacy. They marched for us and for Mary.

The entire season was designed as a path of awareness for each one of the characters, from Mary to Des, to Jess, Nicole and Ben. The patients who we saw dying in the episodes made their farewell a testimony of values, leaving to Mary and Des but also to Nicole and Ben and finally to Jess, a message as a sort of responsibility, arousing not only emotions but deep reflections in each character’s inner being.

During this last day in the finale, we see all protagonists committed, in one way or another, voluntarily or involuntarily, to make life-changing choices, deciding how to fill, frame by frame, that footage that will flow before our eyes in the last moments, choosing how to give worth to life. It is all in choices and awareness in the path that brings everyone together in the end, in a clearing in the woods, in the light of candles surrounded by marigolds.

Jess, with the delicate but intense touch of Abigail Winter’s talent, surprises us positively, confirming an esteem that is unlikely to be questioned. She finds out the nature of Mary’s clandestine work. She finds out it in the most brutal way yet she does not bat an eyelid. Her acceptance, which reminds us once more that nature of love is to love, not necessarily to save or understand, is second only to Mary’s candor in opening up to her. When the situation is desperate and you put a lot on scale, it is not worth wavering and holding back. So Mary can be sincere and honest and true in confessing her daughter that there is all of herself in what she does and she does not know why nor can she be different – Bravo at the poignant artistic moment of Caroline Dhavernas that goes beyond stealing us a tear. Beyond acting, beyond  awards, beyond TV or maybe giving a new definition of TV entertainment just as the whole show did. Jess does not need anything else. Nothing more than to know who her mother is, to be able to love her completely, to understand that she is really  loved in turn. Jess and Mary choose without fear of being themselves and their choice leads them to stand side by side to face together what happens.

Nicole has not always understood Mary’s motivations. Quite the contrary. Not just because Mary had kept them hidden at first. There, Nicole had been quick and ready to get a clear idea of ​​her sister’s actions but why the reasons, she had not always been able to share. Embracing enthusiastically Des’ project of the hospice, Nicole too takes her position beside Mary, choosing in turn. If to be Mary’s sister, if to have the only family left in Mary means to be part of Mary’s life as much as you want her to be part of yours, Nicole is there, she does not hesitate anymore. With enthusiasm, positive inclination, involvement and “vibes”, Nicole’s path leads her to look forward enriched by her experiences thanks to Mary.

Des … Des is the person who has changed more since the first season. Eight months of reflection and rethink have given him a great advantage on the way to the  awareness. He has the clearest ideas and the deepest doubts. He knows exactly, in every moment of his adventure with Mary, what he is doing and why he is doing it. His awareness gives each of his actions a more meaningful and deeper value. We must bow to Richard Short, so extraordinarily the Master of this eclectic and multifaceted character, to give him nuances that in the writers’ room they dared not even imagine. The choice of Des, therefore, with the greater awareness that the events had given him, is more a confirmation than a new choice. A confirmation linked to a discovery. The confirmation that he does not need a painful, intimate past to embrace with passion the choice to do what’s good, in a way perhaps still illegal, perhaps unconventional but with no shadow of doubt or fear, right, noble, appropriate. Choosing what he believes is right inevitably means choosing Mary, is his own fatal flaw. Because Mary is not always aware. Mary is not always fearless. Mary does not always proceed with straight and understandable trajectories. On the contrary…

Mary is a whirlwind of emotions.  Her apparent coldness is just the garment she uses to cover, protecting herself, an unthinkable vulnerability that comes from an extraordinary emotionality. Mary is passion, strong and generous in everything she does. Getting rid of Olivia while staying with Ben, who she loves, seems like a possible goal rather than a mirage. Mary throws herself all without hesitation. She risks and is terrified, not by Olivia, but by what she herself put into play in that operation. However she does not hold back.

When in that car with Olivia’s words, the microphone records that Mary has let Grady bleed to death, it is not the failure of trying to indict Olivia without incriminating herself to tear Mary’s heart and to deliver the knowledge there is always a cost to be paid for the choices made. The bill comes when you least expect it. Mary, in the car with Ben, is annihilated by pain with no hypocrisy of wanting or being able to justify, because when two people who have pretended and hidden so much from the beginning do decide to be sincere, they change and do it to a true and deep level with no limits. There is no space, therefore, to drown the truth that brutally tears away what was between them, as the tape that holds the microphone is torn painfully and abruptly from Ben. Could Mary have chosen differently? It does not matter.

Planning with Ben in the woods, she chose knowing how much she was putting at risk, though trusting if the plan had worked, so many questions would have been silenced, so many shadows gone, maybe forever. Wearing the wire in Olivia’s car, she realized at the highest price that the only way to dispel the shadows is to turn on the light, as she had done with Jess. How she did not succeed with Ben. If she was ready to pay the price for such a high risk. If she was ready to face such a loss, we believe not. On the contrary, we believe that the story has still much to tell precisely because it’s Mary who has still so much to say, to understand and to achieve.

So generously committed to helping others give meaning to their life or death, whether one wants it, (fantastic how the two terms express the same concept when related to value and meaning), so taken by sublimating the meanings of others lives, as much as the right to choose how to die can be read as a compensation due for having to separate from affections, Mary unfailingly overlooks her own meanings, wishes and emotions that would enrich with softening tones, that final footage flowing in front of their eyes in the last moments.

Brendan’s farewell ceremony, his death, is almost a warning to Mary – we allow ourselves a standing ovation as deeply as Salvatore Antonio has let the character penetrate within himself to become so intense and extraordinarily touching – a standing ovation to Vlad Alexis too, for making his Germaine intense and truthful, so to highlight Brendan’s character details and nuances.

A warning…

to remind Mary that death is not always or entirely serene. Not just about marigolds and candles.  Sometimes it can be painful and unfair. Betty’s death was fair and desired, her life had been full and in her eyes, done. Brendan’s death is right and serene, since he cannot avoid it, he chooses how to live it, filling it with the richness of his affections and fullness of what he has experienced. How fair, how serene, in comparison, Cho-cho San’s death, on the stage of Madame Butterfly which so surprisingly moved Mary? Cho-cho San does not want to die. Cho-cho san should not die. However when the girl’s life had emptied of what gave her meaning, she had no choice. Because a life without meaning, it is not life. Cho-cho san challenged her society, the conventions of her world and questioned her belief… because of Love. Lost her love, she can die. She chooses love to give meaning to her life. Like Betty. Like Brendan. Like Ben.

It is surprising that it’s Ben the bearer of the most important message for Mary. Ben, who for so much time we had difficulty to place. Maybe, or maybe not. Ben who was there in the shade, uncertain whether to jump to the middle of the stage. Ben who pretends so well that you never know how much you can trust him. Ben who does not seem to understand fully and then surprises you by accepting everything at once, redesigning everything because of Mary. Because he loves her.

Love is worth it being on Mary’s side and we faint every time we see him telling her at that table between a mismatched cup and a doubtful Des, with an intensity that only Jay Ryan could put in that look, overwhelms words saying much, too much more. Ben fell in love and love gave a different meaning to his life. Love for a woman, not just for what is right and fair Love made him accept so much, indeed love made him understand so much, accepting was a consequence. Because of love he chose to live with little doubt that there is not necessarily white and black but also a little grey, as all the voices kept whispering on each side of this stage, Love is acceptance.

But in that car, from that cold wire, what Ben heard, went beyond doubt, stained grey of an indelible black. Ben heard that he has been used. There is no other way to say it. Used and betrayed. Love that fills life is not a love that uses. It does not betray you.

On the squalid patio of his camper, Ben – he will understand us and excuse us, Jay Ryan – is Cho-cho San. While in a clearing they celebrate love that makes peaceful the farewell from life, in the unreal silence of his own clearing, Ben shouts louder than words of Brendan’s poem: death makes no sense if you have not filled your life with meaning.

It matters very little that there is his bourbon or Olivia’s pento in that bottle. Of course it counts for Mary. It will count a lot for her because the pento or the bourbon will decide the colors of many frames of her footage in her future.

For Ben, however, when he chooses to overflow the content of the bottle, there is no difference.

There is no tomorrow if there is no love.

Pento or bourbon that it is, in that bottle Ben chooses to drown.

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"It's ok, babe. I'm only dying" For its season finale #marykillspeople invites you to a heart rending edition of Dia de los muertos. Our Fatal Flaw review. “They say in the moment before you die you see your life, a spat of film strip,

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“The tragedy of this life is not that it ends so soon … but that we wait so long to begin it.”

‘Come to Jesus’ is the perfect title for the day that this fifth episode of the season of Mary Kills People tells us of.

Certainly a total revelation for Ben and in many respects for Des but for Mary more than anyone else.

Just as though they had been given the opportunity to look at a different perspective of their lives, during a single, hectic, intense day, we see our characters experience and show us, unexpected versions of themselves.

Ben smoking, barefoot on Mary’s terrace. Ben thinking about the day before at Joshua’s and talking openly. Ben disarming when confessing to be ready to protect Mary as far as he can, even if it will cost him his job.

He no longer hides.  No longer does he pretend anymore.  He has chosen resolutely that he wants Mary in his life.

With Mary he is himself and he has never been himself before.

Mary offers the life that he never thought he could live when work took all his dedication.

His parents, idyllically close-knit, is a tough comparison to live up to.  How extremely rare and difficult it would be to meet that person, the only one who lights up your eyes, who snatches a smile and steals your thoughts. Always.

Then Mary came.

She, who was so ironically wrong so must necessarily be the right one. The one that gives meaning to every single thing, to have removed sense from everything.

The one with which it is nice to start and finish each day, no matter how difficult it could be.

Des ends up saving Olivia’s life and reflects on how good Mary and he do when they manage to stay out of trouble, when the death they bring into patients’ stories is as good as their salvation, just as for Larissa’s grandmother.  Probably for Mary’s mother, Joy, too.

In the name of what he believes in, in the name of what is pure and right at his eyes, Des feels ready to look confidently to the future.

Maybe for the first time he is not afraid to get involved, he is not afraid of relying on his abilities.  He had become aware that he has “wasted” himself in the past, on too many occasions.

This time his project is too right to be afraid of failing.

Then there is Mary.

When you are strong,  counting only on yourself, you have set the rules that help you to be who you are.

If suddenly these rules are turned to dust and you find yourself pleasantly upset by the events, a man next to you in the morning when you had just said to have messed up everything, making it impossible, being open and honest with each other when both of you were sure it could not happen, the love and trust to seize a place that you had promised to never leave them.

When these are the promises, even the worst day leaves you with a smile because everything has become so beautiful, it must turn right and fine.

Looking at the facts, Mary’s situation is not simple at all of course. Police totally in her tracks.  Olivia who is likely to be a threat worse when she is at their side than when they had her against them, plus an open investigation on Betty’s death, at the hospital.

What’s more, Jess has chosen this moment to grow and learn that those you care about the most, you must love them because you want it, just because you care, without trying to understand them at all costs.

In the same way you must understand that the love others feel for you in turn can be so strongly protective, seeming difficult to understand and share.

Mary who would like to help her understand, starts sharing, does not have time, events are faster, once again, and dictate different need for her actions.

So, in a hurry to Olivia’s place, to save her, of course, because Mary and Des are the good guys, perfectly aware of what is worth to make their line mobile and what is not.

Then, almost as well as running into Ben’s arms, because something on that day was too good to think that it could not be repeated.

However risky it may be and how high the stakes are, Mary must believe that a solution exists.

She must be determined to believe for her, Ben and Des, there is a chance to fix the unhopeful routine which has came along with them for too long.

Mary needs to ask more to life. To have more.

She experienced the reassuring peace of not being alone in the morning, the strength that comes from sharing. She was moved by grandmother’s exhortation of Larissa  – Remember to always love as deeply as you can – and frightened not to have done it in time on her turn, terrified thinking that with Jess it might be too late to repair, to keep her close.

Strong in her new awareness, Mary can no longer ignore it.

To open to emotions is to expose oneself, obviously. With Jess, with Ben. But without exposing herself, not giving them the opportunity to get close, to be touched by them, get warmed up by them, what else counts?!

This is why this time, in her thoughts, it is really worth risking.

Eight months ago, with Grady on one side and the police on the other, risk had been very high, the stake so high as to make the plan itself terrifying, kind of make it or break it. Mary’s cold calculation and Ben’s feelings, rewarded her boldness.

Today the situation suggests that it is not too simple.

Stakes are exponentially higher, with Des who has already been in jail and Ben putting his job and integrity at risk.

Yet the greatest risk of failure in the plan Mary will explain to Ben and Des, is neither prison nor work.

The three of them are betting something that would change meaning of their lives.

Once they get which things really matter, – how many facets to Come to Jesus, to this title! How many meanings to every little gesture, every expression and every word on this day! – After they taste how beautiful a life worth living can be – even Larissa’s belly throws a message of awareness and expectation about the future! – After they have displaced this veil of discontent and resignation and to have tried what it means to hope and trust, neither Mary nor even Ben and Des, can think of giving it up.

  Des has his project, the means to finally be proud of himself. Ben has Mary, his redemption from such loneliness, the warmth of finally being himself. Mary has broken walls and barriers and wants to fight for the contact, too long denied. With Ben, with daughters.

We’ll know in the season finale if the plan to defeat Olivia and mislead police will be successful.

What will happen next? It’s just  another beautiful ride to share.

What will be the price to pay? Will it be a price worth paying?

Nicole’s word of warning to Mary, in the opening of the episode, sound now with deep, meaningful nuances

“You just have to decide at some point, how much are you willing to lose for all this”

Federica

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"You just have to decide at some point, how much are you willing to lose for all this" Nicole's words are food for thoughts for Mary, Des and Ben. Our #MaryKillsPeople #ComeToJesus review "The tragedy of this life is not that it ends so soon ... but that we wait so long to begin it."

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Mary Kills People - Ride or Die

No Man's an Island in #marykillspeople. We loved Ride or Die, enjoy our review and let us know your thoughts.

Talking about Mary Kills People Greg Bryk brilliantly said: “This show is special. Heart so naked. We are all alone, together “. We have already said it and today, after the tenth episode, the fourth of this wonderful second season, we feel like saying it again. Greg could not have chosen better words to define this show capable of telling feelings, emotions and conflicts so deep and intense. So…

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Mary Kills People - Twin Flames

"There are certain people that just keep coming back into your life no matter what happens" #MaryKillsPeople Twin Flames late review. Enjoy your #reading and let us know your thoughts.

“So you’re just gonna swoop in and save me?”                    “I guess so.”    “Des, no one can save her from herself but from you.” This episode of Mary Kills People essentially revolves around Mary’s need to be saved or, at least, around those who love her more and their wish of saving her. Ben, to be honest, has already saved her.  We have already written it and are redrafting the concept.…

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Mary Kills People - The Connection

²You must have lived to be able to die" #MaryKillsPeople #TheConnection #CanadianScreenAwards

“You must have lived to be able to die” The first season of Mary Kills People had already taught us so much about life by pretending to talk about death. After the first two episodes of this second series, it is affirmed, without fear of being denied, that it’s life that is the true protagonist of this brave series, properly ambitious in teaching is what living really is through showing us the…

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The first season of Mary Kills People sensitized the audience, for better or for worse, on the “end of life” conflicting themes, rights and choices of terminally ill people, emphasising the inevitability and the imminence of the departure and the opportunity to face it with dignity.

The second season takes those conflicts generated during the first one and pulverizes them within the opening minutes of its premiere.

The strong perception that we had during the previous season, strengthens into certainty in this one. Mary Kills People stands as one of the most original and valid products in the current TV productions landscape, for its contents which force a new definition of the word entertainment and how such contents are narrated for, with a combination of literary and directorial qualities and the acting talents so hard to match.

“A friend once told me that life can make you strong or it can break you. There is not much in between. “

Mary knows something about how you must be strong not to be broken by life. Just eight months after having extraordinarily unraveled the complex affair that saw her at the centre of the police investigation, close to being indicted and a victim of the threat that Grady represented, we find her intent on her usual business.

Intent but alone.

She has to be. She needs to be for her trip to Mexico to get her Pentobarbital, facing all the risks, from contacts with underworld to customs controls. Alone she is ready to face one of the most complicated cases she ever faced.

Des is back and he wants and needs to get back on with their business, though it’s soon crystal clear for our Mary that she is once again, unfailingly, alone.

The Des who has returned to Mary’s life after 8 months is not a new or different Des. It was obvious in the first season that there were signs that showed us a Des animated by solid moral sense. Solitude, silence and prison, have rather given way to enlighten those aspects of his personality which he so lovingly and brilliantly managed to hide through his sarcasm and irony. Bravo to Richard Short who knows how to permeate the character of Des with a number of nuances impossible to find in any script.

This time, however, there is no space either for irony or for sarcasm. Des’s moral qualities are forced to show themselves, roaring, at the first opportunity. Victor is a terminally ill man, though, Mary warns him:

“Betty and Victor want to die together.”

It is all here, disruptive and overbearing, Mary’s revolution. This brilliant storyline immediately shows us the villain of the moment – such a villain! Rachelle Lefrevre is so at ease in Olivia’s shoes that she seems to have always been there in the shadows. The clash between Mary and Olivia promises to be one of those not to be forgotten. The preview on Olivia’s doorstep is a captivating taste of what history will reserve and we are all intrigued.

However, what makes Mary Kills People a provocative and revealing series, undoubtedly raising the bar with respect to the first season, is not on Olivia’s threshold but rather at Victor and Betty’s. Listening to Mary and Des debate the issue, we are all, inevitably and very strongly, with Des. What he says is true because he evidence shows that he is right, when he expresses his moral scruples for example, reflecting on Betty’s situation and when he lays risks for them. He is right because it is simple; Betty is not dying therefore Betty must not die.

So, does Mary really think and act like a criminal? Was Frank right on the phone with Ben and she’s just a psychopath who enjoys others’ death? We know this is not the answer. We know there is more. Dark, difficult to understand and perhaps even more difficult to justify but we know there is more.

“Maybe one day, scientists will find a cure for dying and we can live forever.”

Cambie’s words are singular. Intuitive even if unaware. Revelatory for those who want to pry Mary’s intimate thoughts and find a reason for her choices, her decisions, her actions.

Betty is not a suicidal aspirant. She has lived a happy life next to her Victor and does not want to live without him. Des called her a “Perfectly healthy individual who happens to be a bit sad.” “We should not be the ones to decide that Betty’s suffering is any less than Victor’s.” Replies Mary “But he’s dying! She’s not. “ “Suffering is not always physical.”

This exchange between Mary and Des at Victor and Betty’s house redefines meaning and value that Mary gives to what she does.

“I have no interest in any life without my husband.”

Betty’s statement is simple, decisive, has no hesitation nor, as we know, second thoughts. This wonderful characterisation is given to us by Karen Robinson and thank you to her for making us cry, for reminding us so much that Betty’s life was happy. A life less than happy would now be unacceptable to her.

For Mary it is the memory of that girl, the daughter of a sick woman who is sick of unhappiness. “Suffering is not always physical.” We always knew her thoughts, she never hid it, never. Mary is a doctor but she wants to be more. She wants to be for her patients what she felt she has not been for her mother, able to make her happy. Death is not only the means to accelerate the end of those who have remained in nothing but physical pain. Mary accepts death as an instrument to give meaning to life when life no longer has one. After all, to be called Life, it must make sense. Sometimes it seems an unrealisable utopia, a life in which everything is perfect. Sometimes you struggle, as Mary does everyday, to give value to what you have. Sometimes it has been so much that anything else would debase what has been. For Betty the choice redefines dignity, in living, not only in dying.

“Maybe one day, scientists will find a cure for suffering and we can all live happily.”

So champagne and pentobarbital become a modern hemlock that heals Mary’s patients from the illness of life.

It’s right? It’s wrong? Is it shareable? It does not matter for now. We are not in a hurry to understand, nor right to judge. We are here with Mary, ready to take her by the hand and go where she will lead us.

“In 100 years, they’ll look back to now and say that the most popular form of torture was refusing to let people die.” (Morgan, from Mary Kills People, Season 1 Episode 5.)

Federica

Edited by Lisa

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