Chase has Lumen locked away in his trunk as episode 12 begins and races to the place where his self-help-fueled, voyeuristic, serial-murder career started: The River Jordan Summer Camp, which he purchased after it went bankrupt 20 years before.
After almost half a season of watching Ms. Fowler exhibit the social graces of a robotic King Cobra, we learn in week 10 that she suffers from a far-too-human flaw: she’s a slave to the drives of her endocrine system. Translation: she’s horny, with a serious urge to build a perfect beast—of the two-backed variety.
Orlando Bloom is reportedly close to finalizing a deal to reprise the role of Legolas for the upcoming Peter Jackson directed prequel The Hobbit.
Bloom played the role in all three of Jackson’s Lord of the Rings films. Although Legolas doesn’t appear in the Tolkien novel upon which the two Hobbit films are based, Bloom’s part will, apparently, be significantly larger than a cameo.
Deadline Hollywood reports that comedian Russell Brand will play the lead in Warner Bros. big-screen adaptation of popular British children’s TV show Rentaghost, which ran on the BBC for 8 seasons from 1976 to 1984.
Deadline’s description of the project makes it sound like a cross between 1988’s Beatle Juice, 1937’s Topper and 2008’s Ghost Town—a perfect fit, in other words, for the whacky Brand. Brand will play a recently deceased slacker who’s determined to have a productive, accomplished afterlife. To that end, he sets up a temp agency wherein he rents ghouls and ghosts to the living for a variety of purposes. The agency turns out to be an extremely successful endeavor until one day things go horribly wrong…
The game is afoot between Jordan Chase and Dexter and Lumen. As such, as In the Beginning opens, Dexter sends Harrison off with Sonya to be with Rita’s parents in Orlando. He also moves Lumen into his old apartment. Now Dexter and Lumen need only plan their attack.
The Boyfriend Complexity features one of the most long-anticipated moments in “Bang” history: Howard and Raj share their first onscreen kiss. Actually, it’s an accidental kiss — mostly accidental anyway — but many regular “Bang” viewers have probably seen this coming; thank goodness Howard and Raj didn’t or we might’ve been cheated out of one of Season 4’s funniest moments.
I find myself saying this regularly now, but Take It is season 5’s new “best episode to date.” Week 8 is well written and dense, with lots of character development, a handful of clever twists and some intense action. In fact, if weeks 1-5 were slow and deliberate, week 8 is the payoff to all that buildup; if last week’s Circle Us was the second half of a well-delivered 1-2 punch, Take is a blunt-force object, steamrolling at a breakneck pace.
