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2 articles from 2008


How The Other Half Lives

15 October 2008 9:21 PM, PDT | avclub.com | See recent The AV Club news »

was murder and sex, which you can see on pretty much every show on TV.” —Zach Gilford talking about Friday Night Lights to The Los Angeles Times No murder tonight and if anyone had sex it happened between scenes. Even Coach Taylor and Mrs. Coach Taylor (or should we start calling her Principal Taylor out of respect?) couldn’t redirect their usual day-to-day friction into passion. They failed to see eye-to-eye on anything—the barbecue, her changing position within the community—and ended the episode with a public humiliation to match their private defeat. This was an episode in which nobody got what he or she wanted. Not that they didn’t try. In another scene that Gaius Charles should consider sending to every casting agent he can think of, Smash »

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Shepherd Book Gets A Book, Serenity Fans Rejoice

13 August 2008 10:59 PM, PDT | ScreenRant.com | See recent Screen Rant news »

Shepherd Book always had a calm bit of wisdom to bestow. An insightful man of experience seeming to know a lot more than maybe he should. Book could distill wisdom beyond his years, even if certain captains didn’t heed his words.

As Book put it early on in his stay on Serenity, “I think I’m on the wrong ship!”

What do we really know about Book, the apparent “man of the cloth?” He’s rather well versed in the criminal element, he knows how to shoot, he knows his way around a firefly, and at one point, the bounty hunter Jubal Early said “that ain’t no shepherd.”

We can guess at various ideas about him: A retired Alliance officer, an ex-con, a double agent for the independents? Have you ever been wondering exactly what his back story is? Yeah, me too. Joss-Verse fans really want to know! »

- Bruce Simmons

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