While it’s great seeing U2 perform live, it’s really the audience-as-choir that gets to me. Got to me when I saw the in concert over a decade ago. Gets to me in this recording of “Where the Streets Have No Name” from a recent concert in Houston.
What a last couple of weeks it has been! The highs and lows of life can be so tightly woven together that they bleed together in weird and subtle ways, where every praise is also a prayer request. Here’s a just-posted classic from Andrew Peterson. I like the honesty of the introduction, but I love the way the lyrics and music build in the song itself. “Hosanna,” indeed.
After a pretty interesting conclusion, this ending came out of no where.
This could easily be a way of returning Barry to the proper, pre-Flashpoint, timeline. We’ll have to wait all summer to find out.
We’re less than a month away from the final season premiere of Orphan Black on BBC America. Season four was a solid course correction after two seasons of wandering. I’m hopeful that this season will bring everything together nicely. Here’s the official trailer. (And yes: all the mains are played by the same actor.)
Much of this season of The Flash has been about Barry’s (always thwarted) attempt at saving Iris, the love of his life. Last week’s penultimate episode ended with one last failure, this one seemingly final. The extended trailer to Tuesday’s finale is fittingly subdued. Because of that, though, there are lots of things left unsaid and open.
“Finish Line” is also the end of basic network scripted television for the summer for me. Still finales of Survivor and The Amazing Race to air. Cable keeps Doctor Who and Fargo in play, at least until Orphan Black jumps into its final season mid-June. I imagine I’ll get around to recapping the “year” at some point in early June.
This morning Michael Giacchino posted a clip that should make long-time Spider-Man fans happy. Hopefully it will play a prominent role in this summer’s Spider-Man: Homecoming movie. Turn up the volume and hit ‘play.’
CBS’s recent attempt at bringing Star Trek back to the small screen has been frustrating. Lots of starts and stops, a good bit of odd, slightly negative press. The fact that the show will move to the network’s app is odd, but I suppose that has worked for The Good Fight (which, of course, didn’t have to have a sci-fi budget). The first trailer for the show dropped recently. It’s not bad. Lots of obvious tropes, of course, but that’s to be expected. Prequel/earlier-in-the-timeline stories are often tricky, but there should be enough space to make this one work. The question, of course, is will it be as compelling as such a show needs to be to draw and keep and audience.
Star Trek: Discovery premieres this fall on CBS before moving to CBS All Access.
We’re a couple of weeks into the summer movie season. Guardians Volume 2 was good, with a heavier ending than I had anticipated and that worked well. Last weekend saw the release of King Arthur: Legend of the Sword, which was at its best when the director’s hand was heaviest (only a handful of almost-brilliant scenes, alas). Perhaps the movie I am looking forward to most, though, is the third entry in the Planet of the Apes reboot. Here’s the final trailer, which dropped earlier today.
The visuals are stunning. The storytelling of the first two movies was surprisingly good. As long as it doesn’t end on a heavy-handed note, we could have one of the most successful franchise reboots possible. Let’s hope it happens.
The final third of this season of Marvel’s Agents of SHIELD has been fascinatingly tense, even as most of it has happened in virtual reality. Now, most of the agents are out of the Framework crafted by the android Aida, who has been able to (almost mystically) make a flesh-and-bone body for herself.
Here’s the scene from this week’s episode where things went south for Aida, where her new emotions turn the table on everyone.
The show’s season finale airs next week. And in spite of low ratings, the show has been picked up for a fifth season.
Here’s the “sizzle reel” for the final batch of season three episodes for The Flash. It could turn out to be a great finale to an up-and-down season. I still think that we’ll go back to the original timeline, but we’ll have to wait a few weeks to see if that happens.
Space Enough, and Time 