This week’s episode of The Killing was actually pretty interesting. It’s neat how they’re borrowing scenes from the Danish version and making them their own. The bit where the evidence is floored over has an analog in the original, but the location was vastly different. The scenes in the mental hospital were fascinating. For the first time, the preview promised the solution to the murder by the end of the season, which is only two episodes away.
Some big changes on Mad Men, too. They got the Jaguar account, but it called for a pretty big sacrifice by Joan. It was an interesting choice to show the scene where Don visits her at home twice: once out of context when it seemed like she still had a choice and once showing that by the time he visited it was already too late. Lane is still treading water over the bonus problem and Peggy, ah, what is to become of Peggy?
Most of the characters ended up on a very down note in the season finale of The L.A. Complex. Raquel confessed her deception, tore up the seed money for her comeback feature and found out she’s expecting. Conner, who last week deliberately started a bar fight to get his pretty face messed up, thereby excusing him from his terrific role as a doctor on a TV drama, found out that he didn’t do as good a job as he wanted, there would be no permanent scarring, and his producers want to write the injury into the script. Which led to a fiery conclusion.
Nick went from two girlfriends to zero in the blink of an eye, then maybe back to one. Except the other one threatened to burn his career to the ground after he unknowingly stole her material (he thought it was pillow talk!) in a showcase for eligibility at Just for Laughs. Alicia further prostituted herself for a job only to discover that she could have avoided all of this with a bit of patience: she got the Usher tour she was trying out for in the first episode. Sex tape, porno, sleeping with the guy she was auditioning for—she didn’t need to do any of it.
Abby was on her way back to Canada when she got (“booked”) her first significant part. She also seemed to forgive Nick for his lousy timing. Of all the main characters, hers ended the season on the highest note.
That pretty picture over there is the cover for Danse Macabre: Close Encounters with the Reaper, the anthology edited by Nancy Kilpatrick that contains my story “Therapy,” which won the final Wee Small Hours contest back when Judi Rohrig was running Hellnotes. This anthology could be the most unusual and original collection of stories you’ll ever read! Twenty-six literary reflections embody the themed, classical artwork devoted to the spectrum of humanity’s intriguing interactions with the Angel of Death in all his/her/its manifestations. Release date: October, 2012. Danse Macabre includes works by: Gabriel Boutros, Brad Carson, Suzanne Church, Dan Devine, Lorne Dixon, Tom Dullemond, Opal Edgar, Ian M. Emberson, Edward M. Erdelac, Sabrina Furminger, Stanley S. Hampton, Sr., Brian Hodge, Nancy Holder & Erin Underwood, J. Y. T. Kennedy, Nancy Kilpatrick, Tanith Lee, Brian Lumley, William Meikle, Lisa Morton, Tom Piccirilli, Morgan Dempsey, Timothy Reynolds, Angela Roberts, Lawrence Salani, Lucy Taylor, Bev Vincent, Bill Zaget.
You can check out a cool press kit for the anthology here.
