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These are very pretty shots, but really bug me because... OMG, directors, you cannot end an episode with someone saying something of great meaning and interest that would normally inspire 1,000 questions... and then linger on three people staring out to sea without saying a word. Just cut to black already.

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Well. That's a surprise.

The Emmy nominations are out, and...

LEAD ACTRESS IN A MINISERIES OR MOVIE Connie Britton as Vivien Harmon in "American Horror Story" Julianne Moore as Sarah Palin in "Game Change" Nicole Kidman as Martha Gellhorn in "Hemingway & Gellhorn" Ashley Judd as Rebecca Winstone in "Missing" Emma Thompson as She in "The Song of Lunch"

She's up against some stiff competition, but it's really nice to see the show get some little tiny piece of recognition.

*waves the forlorn Missing flag*

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The other featurette on the DVD set reveals that "Blond Assassin" (aka Maksim) and "Goth Girl" (aka Violet) were supposed to be pretty small roles originally (without even having names), and actually Nikola was cast with the anticipation that he'd never have any lines.

I guess it's a really good thing that Laura Donnelly's a pretty darn competent actress, and Nikola can actually speak English. I won't say he's competing for any Emmys, but he did a damn good job considering.

[fuckyeahkeithcarradine]

Oh man, my Missing DVD set finally arrived.

The Istanbul featurette is absolutely beautiful. Gorgeous locations. It's so incredibly impressive how good and professional this show looked when you see how quickly they had to film things, with a mixture of Czech, Turkish, and US crew members.

Nick Eversman is adorable and far too easily distracted by cake.

And Keith... "There are lots of wild dogs here... but they're very friendly!" Oh Keith, how are you still alive?

We also got to see him learning random Turkish on the fly. And delivering a very melodramatic closing narration which I really hope he just made up on the spot. Sounded like something Vincent Price would say.

Oh, and shaking hands with everyone. No one shall escape the five fingers of incredibly polite doom!

Incidentally: not one word from Ashley or Sean in that featurette. I guess they were busy focusing on Turkey's amazing exploding watermelons!

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Missing DVD Set

Those of you who've already got yours - are there bloopers (gag reel) included?

The original press release said there would be, but more recent reviews haven't mentioned them.

(my set is still in the mail somewhere)

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By the way, now the season's over you might be interested in taking a look at the production company's album of behind-the-scenes shots. They mostly focus on the crew, not the actors (although the shots I posted of Keith and Nick rehearsing were from here), but you'll recognize most of the locations!

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A nice article on Missing filming in Europe...

Judd, who plays Becca Winstone, an ex-CIA agent in search of her kidnapped son, savored the opportunity to soak up local culture in between takes. "When we shot in Istanbul, I'd lie on my back on these ancient stone floors that were laid in 420 AD while I pondered the inscrutable," she says. "We shot on the rooftop of the Suleiman Mosque — no tourist goes to the … rooftop! We'd be in the middle of a take and have to hold the roll for the call to prayer. It was fabulous."

[...]

For Judd, "Missing" rekindled the wanderlust she experienced in her 20s, when the actress spent every spring in Paris. "I think it's very cool that they wrote to the locations," she says. "In Dubrovnik, you've got this incredibly enchanting city made of marble, one of the great old capitals of Europe. Doing chase sequences through the narrow stone alleys and over the rooftops of this walled city was magnificent. The whole point was to film outdoors and capture the beauty of this setting."

Had "Missing" been renewed for a second season, Poirier had planned on a fresh influx of locations — in fact, he had hoped to "do a different continent every year," he says. And while that now won't come to pass, they'll always have Paris.

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