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Good Omens favourite Michael Sheen tears up about show’s finale in BTS video

Good Omens favourite Michael Sheen tears up about show’s finale in BTS video

Published by Daniella Wilson

Good Omens favourite Michael Sheen has teared up while talking about the show’s finale in a newly released behind-the-scenes video. The Prime Video show has come to an end after three seasons and seven years on screens. The fantasy comedy series follows an unlikely friendship between a fussy angel, Aziraphale, played by Michael Sheen and a loose-living demon, Crowley, brought to life by David Tennant. Having spent 6,000 years on Earth and grown deeply fond of humanity, they team up to thwart Armageddon – the final, apocalyptic war between Heaven and Hell. After the release of the final season, the two leads have opened up in a new behind-the-scenes video about their time on the show and the relationship they have built. Visibly moved, Sheen said: “It’s hard to talk about it really without getting very emotional,” before adding “Sorry,” while wiping away tears. Want to see this content? This page contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as Twitter may use cookies and other technologies. To view …

‘Euphoria’ Finale: Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje Breaks Down That Shocking Ending

‘Euphoria’ Finale: Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje Breaks Down That Shocking Ending

Published by Jenni Sidey

This story contains major spoilers for the series finale of Euphoria. In the grand legacy of great HBO villains, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje was there for the big boom. The British actor terrorized inmates and audiences alike as Adebisi, the unpredictable and ruthless convict on Oz, one of the Home Box Office’s first forays into scripted, rule-breaking television. So it feels appropriately full circle to see him two decades later again as a coldly calculating antagonist on Euphoria, one of the network’s contemporary hits—and another first, their maiden “teen” series. As Alamo Brown, a drug-dealing pimp fashioned in the mold of a classic Black American cowboy, Adewale—with all due respect to dearly departed shitheel Nate Jacobs—gave the series its first taste of true villainy, and helped cement the real life-and-death stakes of the show’s post-high-school era. Those stakes reached their extreme peak in the series finale, when lovable fuck-up Rue (Zendaya) met her end at Alamo’s hands after a season spent navigating his agendas versus a rival dealer with the DEA in the middle. With the exception …

‘Euphoria’ Finale: Darrell Britt-Gibson on Bishop’s Decision and That “Cathartic” Shootout

‘Euphoria’ Finale: Darrell Britt-Gibson on Bishop’s Decision and That “Cathartic” Shootout

Published by Jenni Sidey

Throughout the third season of HBO’s Euphoria, Rue (Zendaya) has escaped death’s grasp like the protagonist of a Final Destination movie, surviving a series of chaotic, near-fatal encounters by pure cunning, good luck, or divine intervention. But in the 93-minute series finale, “In God We Trust,” Rue’s Houdini act succumbs to her greatest temptation: she ingests a fentanyl-laced Percocet, given to her by strip-club owner and drug kingpin Alamo Brown (Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje) in a sinister act of revenge for her working with the DEA. Instead of reuniting and reconciling with her family and friends, Rue dies facedown on a couch, another statistic of an unrelenting addiction. But like any great Western, creator Sam Levinson’s Euphoria ends with catharsis in the form of retribution. In the finale’s penultimate sequence, he stages an old-fashioned showdown inside Alamo’s grimy kingdom, The Silver Slipper, transforming the nightclub into the setting for one last reckoning—not with rival Laurie, but with Rue’s surrogate father and avenging angel, Ali (Colman Domingo). He enters in full military garb, armed with a sawed-off shotgun, …

Sam Levinson Defends Killing Off Rue in Euphoria Season 3 Finale

Sam Levinson Defends Killing Off Rue in Euphoria Season 3 Finale

Published by Daniella Wilson

[This story contains MAJOR spoilers from the season three finale of Euphoria, “In God We Trust.”] Sam Levinson is standing by his decision to have Rue (Zendaya) die in Sunday night’s Euphoria season three finale. In the post-show segment on HBO, Levinson, the show’s creator, says it felt like the right way for her character to conclude. “It felt like an honest ending,” Levinson said. “The honest ending is people like Rue don’t make it.” “I think in the end, I wanted to tell an honest story about addiction,” he continued. “I also wanted to tell a story about grief and the emotional turmoil that it can create.” The finale shows Rue dying due to an accidental overdose from taking Alamo’s Percocet pills that were laced with fentanyl. During a dream sequence while she’s overdosing, she has an emotional moment with Fezco that features unseen footage with Angus Cloud, who died in 2023 at age 25 from an accidental overdose. Rue’s death was especially painful due to her character’s struggles with addiction throughout the series. (Read The …

Euphoria Season 3 Finale Pays Tribute to Angus Cloud With Unseen Footage

Euphoria Season 3 Finale Pays Tribute to Angus Cloud With Unseen Footage

Published by Daniella Wilson

[This story contains MAJOR spoilers from the season three finale of Euphoria.] “Moments like these are rare. This season we lost Angus. Many of you loved him the way I did. He deserved more time, a longer, fuller life, ” Sam Levinson said while speaking about Angus Cloud, who played drug dealer Fezco and died in real life from an accidental overdose, at a screening of Euphoria season three Sunday night that The Hollywood Reporter attended. “But he was taken, like far too many people in this country, by fentanyl.” After the season three premiere of Euphoria opened with a tribute to Eric Dane, who played Nate’s father, Cal, and died in February after battling ALS, some fans wondered why Cloud wasn’t given a tribute as well. The answer is that, in the series, Fezco lived on. In a tearful post-show segment following the premiere, Levinson explained that “Angus didn’t make it in real life, so at least in the made-up world of Euphoria, he’s still alive.” It was revealed in the episode that Fez was …

Our ‘Euphoria’ Season 3 Finale Predictions: Who Dies in Episode 8?

Our ‘Euphoria’ Season 3 Finale Predictions: Who Dies in Episode 8?

Published by Sam Flores

“If there’s a beginning, there must be an end,” Zendaya’s character, Rue, says in the penultimate episode of Euphoria season three, which ends, likely for good, with its May 31 finale. The hit teen drama premiered on HBO in the summer of 2019, back when “Old Town Road” topped the charts and the biggest thing Jacob Elordi had ever done was kiss Joey King at a carnival. Seven years and merely three seasons later, Euphoria has become part of the zeitgeist, remembered for its bedazzled underage debauchery as well as its provocative commentary on coming of age in Trump’s America. Euphoria launched Zendaya and now Oscar nominee Elordi into the stratosphere, alongside costars Hunter Schafer, Maude Apatow, Alexa Demie, and Sydney Sweeney. Fate has been less favorable to their onscreen counterparts, who, five years after graduating East Highland High School, are all going through it. Rue descends into crime, working with Nazis, the feds, and a Black cowboy in a drug plot that stems from her adolescent foibles with monotone drug dealer Laurie (Martha Kelly). …

“Hacks” finale is a moving tribute to comedy’s power to keep going

“Hacks” finale is a moving tribute to comedy’s power to keep going

Published by Sam Flores

Comedy loves a good callback. The fifth and final season of “Hacks” contains some outstanding nods to triumphs that Deborah Vance (Jean Smart) and Ava Daniels (Hannah Einbinder) savored together in the past, while also revisiting a few tribulations. But the ones in the finale top them all. The series began with the camera following Deborah backstage as she kindly banters with the staff who make her act look easy, and ends with Ava doing her version of that stroll behind the scenes on her own sitcom pilot’s set.  The Deborah we meet in the series premiere is an extremely wealthy comedy legend (which, in the business, can be polite code for calling somebody a has-been) who views the inexperienced, cocky Ava as an entitled nobody. The show closes with Ava and Deborah as the best of friends, enjoying croissants while waiting for a train at Paris’ Gare de Lyon. It’s a lovely scene, albeit clouded by despair.   “Hacks” departs at a transitional moment for stand-up comedy and late-night TV, much …

Hacks creators explain emotional series finale twist that has viewers in tears

Hacks creators explain emotional series finale twist that has viewers in tears

Published by Daniella Wilson

Get the latest entertainment news, reviews and star-studded interviews with our Independent Culture email Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Hacks has come to an end after five acclaimed seasons in a finale that left fans sobbing and lauding it as one of TV’s best conclusions in recent years. *Warning: Major Hacks series finale spoilers to follow* In Thursday’s series finale of the Emmy-winning comedy — which follows the evolution of the relationship between a fading comedian, Deborah Vance (Jean Smart), and her young Gen Z writer, Ava Daniels (Hannah Einbinder) — it’s revealed that the cancerous mass Deborah had removed in an earlier episode has now spread. Uninterested in undergoing treatment, Deborah tells Ava she wishes to travel abroad to an assisted suicide center. While Ava is unhappy with the decision, she ultimately agrees to support Deborah, and the two embark on an end-of-life adventure — first stop, Paris. There, the duo gorges themselves on baguettes, tours the Louvre, and spends …

In the ‘Hacks’ Series Finale, Deborah Gave Ava “the Ultimate Declaration of Love”

In the ‘Hacks’ Series Finale, Deborah Gave Ava “the Ultimate Declaration of Love”

Published by Sam Flores

Statsky: Yes, everything that is said in that episode about their history is true, and you’ve seen it all happen in the course of the show. That’s why, I think, that episode was so fun for us to write. You’re seeing all the things you’ve watched over five seasons come to fruition. It’s like, Oh yeah, they are intimately involved. Aniello: Not to mention that they look great together. They would’ve had beautiful (and funny) babies. Aniello: Well, they’re not dead yet! You’re saying there’s the possibility of a Hacks reboot someday? Aniello: Cold open: Deborah and Ava are in Provincetown during Dyke Week, having a blast. Statsky: The camera pans down to Ava’s pregnant belly… This season delved into one of Deborah’s emotional wounds: the way her ex-husband took her idea and made himself the sole creator of her sitcom, Who’s Making Dinner? And in fact there were hardly any shows created solely by women in the 1970s. Then you have Ava getting to remake it today, working, as you are, in the aftermath …

The Testaments showrunner Bruce Miller explains “very complicated” surprise kiss in the season 1 finale

The Testaments showrunner Bruce Miller explains “very complicated” surprise kiss in the season 1 finale

Published by Daniella Wilson

*Warning: This article contains full spoilers for The Testaments episode 10, Secateurs.* The final episode of The Testaments season 1 was very much focused on the tragic story of Becka (Mattea Conforti) who was left to deal with the consequences of murdering her father, sexual abuser Dr Grove (Randal Edwards). Faced with a future either as a Handmaid or sentenced to death, Aunt Lydia (Ann Dowd) and Aunt Vidala (Mabel Li) thought of an alternative way of ensuring that Becka, one of their very own students, wouldn’t be punished. It wasn’t an outcome that Becka wanted and saw her mother (Kate Hewlett) confess to the murder herself, later being hung for the crime. At the same time as Mrs Grove’s death, we saw Becka prepare for her rushed wedding to Garth (Brad Alexander) which was somewhat engineered by Agnes (Chase Infiniti) herself. After being administered with a sedative to get through the day, we see Agnes come to spend some time with her best friend before the ceremony. In that scene, as Agnes helps Becka …