Season 4 Episode 10 43m. Close-ups of the white walls of a diner that was previously welcoming of Black customers reveal scorch marks that were barely painted over, telling us all that we need to know about how the locals here felt about integration. Our massive preview has details on the most promising new shows and your... Music title data, credits, and images provided by, Movie title data, credits, and poster art provided by. Later in the episode, when the fleet is orbiting the new Earth, Admiral Adama gives the last survivor count of the Colonials, putting the count at approximately "38,000." The series is certainly committed to the slow burn, with too much of its running time given over to Sam’s punchy befuddlement as he tries to separate dream from reality. He speaks to a turtle, places a pocket change bounty on the president, and generally believes that his battle plan has been handed down by the Lord Himself, even if the details tend to be fuzzy. A band of rebel Cylons hold President Roslin hostage while attempting to lure the Final Five out of hiding aboard Galactica. The series delivers an illustration of how someone can be violated even after consent is given: We repeatedly see men use deception to get people in bed, or deploy it once they’ve already starting hooking up. But when it works, especially at the start, The Good Lord Bird invigorates its material with the rousing trappings of a semi-comedic western that gives it a particularly memorable sort of power. Executive producer Ronald D. Moore and writer Michael Taylor provide commentary for the extended version. Their ensuing struggle will determine the fate of the 12 Colonies. The show’s third season plays it ideologically and conceptually safe. No matter what delusion or altercation Trina involves her in throughout the show’s first season, Bethan always comes back, taking on a responsibility that she never asked for and shouldn’t have to handle on her own. Cast: Jack Dylan Grazer, Jordan Kristine Seamón, Chloë Sevigny, Alice Braga, Spence Moore II, Kid Cudi, Faith Alabi, Francesca Scorsese, Ben Taylor, Corey Knight Network: HBO. Cookies help us deliver our services. Allowing her characters to respond imperfectly to each others’ crises, Coel foregrounds the importance of forgiving individuals within a broken society—daringly including among the forgiven characters who have unambiguously crossed a sexual “line spectrum border” (the title of the show’s eighth episode). She’s the only responsible member of her household, essentially acting as caretaker for her bipolar mother, Trina (Jo Hartley), and constantly at odds with her layabout, alcoholic father, Dilwyn (Rhodi Meilir). Moore is joined by writer Jane Espenson, editor Michael O'Halloran and supervising editor Andrew Seklir on his podcast commentary for "The Hub"; and is joined by writers Bradley Thompson and David Weddle, and editor Julius Ramsay on his podcast commentary for "Revelations". Similar to the second season, it was split into two parts, each containing 10 episodes. President Roslin faces off against Tom Zarek and Lt. Gaeta as they try to take control of the Colonial fleet. [8][9], The fourth season received a total of eleven Emmy Award nominations. The shot moves up to a two-shot of Adama and Roslin (Mary McDonnell), staring out opaquely at what is likely a bleak landscape (McDonnell gets the shot’s only line—“Earth”—and she wrings every drop of bitterness she can out of it). As in almost any long-term close friendship, both have committed inconsiderate slights against the other, but, as two black women in a sexist and racist society, such petty affronts come with high stakes. 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(Commander William Adama), Mary McDonnell © 2020 CBS Interactive Inc. All rights reserved. We Are Who We Are explores a world that’s opening up to these kids just as it is, in many ways, preparing to snap closed. I guess I’ll say that the back half of the season is a minor letdown, simply because the series has more or less run out of master plot and will now begin wrapping up backstory (expect lots of flashbacks). By creating an account, you agree to the Privacy Policy In an episode filled with great moments, the final shot—a highly ambitious tracking shot of the sort that is rarely attempted on TV—was probably the best, starting with a close-up of Adama’s (Edward James Olmos) hand as he holds a clump of irradiated soil, a Geiger counter clicking away mercilessly. Realizing the musical notes match a series of dots drawn by Hera, Starbuck finishes the song which Col. Tigh and Tory Foster recognize as the music they heard when they learned they were Cylons. After learning the Final Five models are within the colonial fleet, a, While Starbuck commands a lone freighter in her desperate search for Earth, political intrigue and marital discord aboard the, Starbuck leads a mission to see the Cylon Hybrid who reveals more clues to finding Earth. Conversations that were tangential and difficult to follow for the easily distracted Fraser are given clearer focus due to Caitlin’s more confident, pensive demeanor. The twist-a-minute The Capture is compulsively watchable, but we’ve seen much of this before. When the second episode of the series replays many of these same overlapping events from the perspective of Caitlin Harper (Jordan Kristine Seamón), the repetitions don’t feel gimmicky so much as a natural result of the show’s densely packed structure. In one scene, the Muto patriarch, Koichiro (Masaki Terasoma), uses colored lights to illuminate some trees the way he once did at their ruined home, guiding the family back together. Sixteen-year-old Bethan Gwyndaf (Gabrielle Creevy), the protagonist of Hulu’s In My Skin, has a lot going on in her life. The entire series depicts that kind of obvious absurdity with a straight face. With time running out and the Cylons closing in on their trail, Commander Adama and the Galactica must work harder than ever before to help Earth create the technology necessary for battle. The tape, left over from the FIRST Bush administration (it formerly held a taped-from-TV copy of Rain Man), reduced much of the episode to indecipherable gibberish, jolting backwards and forwards, as though the whole thing were recorded on the deck of a clipper ship in the middle of a hurricane. In My Skin’s Welsh-born creator, Kayleigh Llewellyn, based Bethan and Trina on herself and her own bipolar mother, and there’s a lot of raw emotion in the interactions between the two characters, ranging from tender and loving to harsh and hurtful. Tom Zarek intends to weaken the Human-Cylon alliance. With a few exceptions, they’re primarily vehicles for shock and dire twists of fate rather than people to empathize with. TVPG. The rebel Cylons hold President Roslin hostage. Generally more engaging are the side characters who start popping in to further confuse an already muddle-headed Sam, including the ever-bickering Martins (Paddy Considine and Emily Watson), the cosmically mismatched pair who run Osea’s one pub and ricochet from suspicious to trustworthy in an instant. But the show is never REALLY interested in completely ditching the status quo (very few television shows, ultimately, are). A strong undercurrent in which characters wrestle with their grief keeps wrenching the story away from its somewhat ambling mystery plot. (It also bears mentioning that this is the sort of ambitious, go-for-broke direction television rarely deals in, preferring, instead, to just get through things quickly and efficiently. There are few series willing to take risks like this, and even if this one doesn’t ultimately pan out, there is something riveting about seeing a new chapter begin, this close to the end. Green makes some significant changes to the novel, but her most rewarding come in the form of the extra time she devotes to tracking the emotional fallout of the characters’ experiences, not only in relation to the horrors they witness, but the everyday degradations they suffer. Now that the fleet has found Earth (and found it to be a post-apocalyptic one), the series could, presumably, return to following the adventures of a ragtag fleet out in space, but they would have nothing to head to, no one pursuing them (even if the peace with the Cylons is tenuous at best) and, really, no hope left.