It is officially time to say goodbye. The cast of Orange Is The New Black announced the cancellation of the show in a heartfelt Instagram video.
The upcoming seventh season, set to premier in 2019, will be the shows last. Creator of the show, Jenji Kohan made a statement about the final season, stating “after seven seasons, it’s time to be released from prison. I will miss all the badass ladies of Litchfield and the incredible crew we’ve worked with. My heart is orange but fade to black.” The end of the show is not much of a surprise given Kohan has stated in the past that, though this series is one that can go on forever by brining new characters in, she was leaning towards ending the series after the seventh season.
Members of the cast have also spoken out about the final season approaching. In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Taylor Schilling, who plays Piper Chapman in the series, gave insight on how she felt about the cancellation. Schilling stated that “as an actor getting ready to say goodbye to a role that I’ve lived with for six years, it’s very poignant.” The actress continues, “it’s a very kind of surreal time. It’s as surreal as it was when the thing came out of the gate and was so powerful those first few seasons. It’s equally as surreal now to be ending it all.”
Laura Prepon also spoke to The Hollywood Reporter about her feelings, reminiscing on her days of That 70’s Show. Prepon stated “the endgame is there. As of now, season seven is our last season. So, the endgame is clear. … I don’t know if I can say that I’m prepared for the end, but I’ve been doing this for a long time and I know that there’s always going to be more after that. It will just be different. Orange is its own special thing, just like That ’70s Show was, and I’m so happy that I get to be a part of it.”
If you are as big of a fan as I am, then this is pretty hard news to take. OITNB impacted society and shed light on many social issues that sadly impinge on our world. This is a show that will be missed. Make sure you comment down below if you will be watching season seven!
There was little doubt among the Astros contingent that when Alex Bregman made contact with Craig Kimbrel’s first pitch offering that Houston had completed a rally we’ve seen countless times over the past two seasons.
Coming up huge in the biggest moments during this ALCS series with their bats, the Boston Red Sox can thank Andrew Benintendi’s right glove for inching them closer to the Fall Classic
The Boston Red Sox defeated the Houston Astros 8-6 on Wednesday night in Game 4 of the ALCS to take a 3-1 series lead.
The offense was the show in Game 4 for the Boston Red Sox but Andrew Benintendi’s play of the postseason is the lasting image here.
Coming on hard to make a catch to bail out struggling closer Craig Kimbrel, Andrew Benintendi topped an almost equally as impressive catch by Josh Reddick in the same inning with the ninth inning switched over.
Boston’s offensive versatility that led to them being the MLB’s highest scoring offense this season gave them a realistic chance of dethroning the Houston Astros this season.
A win away from the World Series now, Boston knows that they have last season’s champs hanging by a thread with their season on the line on Thursday in Game 5.
Andrew Benintendi, J.D. Martinez and Xander Bogaerts would all collect two hits apiece for the Boston Red Sox.
Boston would hit 5-for-14 with RISP with seven of their runs being scored with two outs on Wednesday night.
Just as they had done in Game 3, Boston put the pressure on the the defending champs.
Boston would stake themselves out to a 2-0 lead in the first inning off right-hander Charlie Morton. Rafael Devers’ two-run RBI single with two outs allowed Boston to take advantage of Morton, who walked and hit a batter in the inning.
Controversy would arise early in Game 4 as Jose Altuve had a would be home run taken away from him in the first inning, but not by a spectacular catch.
A replay review led to umpires ruling that there was fan interference as Betts leaped to make a diving catch at the wall in right field but fans would make contact with Betts’ catching glove.
The ruling led to a huge outpouring of boos from a sold out Minute Maid Park growing increasingly maddening given the magnitude of the game for Houston.
Afterwards, Houston would battle back against Boston in a seesaw affair. After tying the game in the third, the Houston Astros got a unlikely home run from Tony Kemp — who hit only six home runs during the regular-season — to take a 4-3 lead.
Unlike in Game 4 of the ALDS vs the New York Yankees, Rick Porcello would be unable to deliver a plausibly acceptable performance on the mound for Boston.
Porcello would allow four runs on seven hits and one walk while striking out three over four innings of work.
In need of some relief after a short outing by their veteran right-hander Charlie Morton, reliever Josh James would provide it for a while.
Entering in the third inning, the 25-year-old right-hander would pitch solidly for the Houston Astros until the Red Sox got to him in the fifth and sixth innings for three runs.
After Houston retook the lead at 5-4 after another RBI single by Carlos Correa, Boston would rally in the sixth with two outs.
Making his notable appearance as the most hated man in Houston these days, Jackie Bradley Jr. would hit a two-run home run off Josh James to give Boston a 6-5 lead.
Ryan Pressly produced a shaky outing against the Boston Red Sox but would be unlucky in the seventh inning.
Carlos Correa’s inability to put his foot on second base looking to get a double play would lead to Boston having runners on second and third with two outs instead of being out of the inning.
Lance McCullers Jr. in relief of Pressly — who walked Steve Pearce to load the bases — would walk in a run as Boston took a 7-5 lead.
The Red Sox would continue their two out magic in the eighth inning as J.D. Martinez would add a insurance run with a RBI single to Boston’s lead to three.
The Houston Astros would threaten the Red Sox in the eighth inning, getting a run to make it a 8-6 game, but it would be a inning highlighted by a untimely base-running error by Tony Kemp, who was gunned down trying to get to second on a base hit to begin the inning.
Craig Kimbrel, who gave up a run for the fourth time this postseason as he came in for a six-out save, struck out Marwin Gonzalez to end the inning.
Back on to start the ninth inning, Craig Kimbrel, as he has done for this postseason, would struggle to get the final three outs of the game.
After retiring first baseman Yuli Gurriel on a pop-up in foul ground, Kimbrel would walk the next two Astros batters.
Struggling with his control issues over his fastball, Kimbrel would pitch to contact against pinch-hitter Brian McCann before getting McCann to fly out on a 0-1 pitch.
Facing Tony Kemp, Kimbrel would once again labor as he walked Kemp on five pitches, bringing the bases loaded to the Astros best hitter in Alex Bregman.
On the first pitch of the at-bat, Bregman would line a fly ball to left field where Andrew Benintendi would make a amazing game-ending catch in left-field that would rob Bregman as he laid out to make the catch.
A.J. Hinch and the Astros may feel robbed by a two-run homer being taken away from Jose Altuve in the first inning, but Wednesday night’s loss was a culmination of mistakes.
Mistakes like wild pitches advancing runners with two outs, getting thrown out at second base trying to stretch a single into a double, and missing the second base bag trying to turn a double play.
For Alex Cora and the Red Sox, they’ve cracked the armor that is the Houston Astros pitching which finished the regular-season ranked 1st in starting and reliever ERA.
Boston’s damage has been done with two outs over the past three games of this series and that continued in Game 4 as Boston scored three seven runs with two outs.
Now on the verge of their first World Series appearance since 2013, Boston
It’s “AHS: All Stars” in the sixth episode of “American Horror Story: Apocalypse” and as the episode title says, it’s finally time to return to Season 1’s Murder House, which not only brings answers to questions that have been left open-ended for eight years, but the long awaited return of Jessica Lange.
This week begins with Madison (Emma Roberts) and Behold (Billy Porter, playing the warlock whose ridiculous name I just learned) buying the Murder House to learn more about more about Michael Langdon’s (Cody Fern) past. Madison gives Langdon the amazing nickname “Boy Supreme.”
The “worst possible version of Heidi Klum and Seal” perform a séance in the house to summon the spirits, and the first to appear is a nursing student who was murdered in the house in the 1960’s. She’s not alone for long, as the two burnt to a crisp girls (the children of the man in Season 1 with half his face burnt) quickly appear.
Madison and Behold explore the house and walk in on Ben Harmon (Dylan McDermott, who hasn’t appeared on “AHS” since Season 2) giving Tate (Evan Peters in his second role this season) therapy as Violet (Taissa Farmiga, also in her second role of the season) successfully ignores Tate.
American Horror Story – Vivien Harmon (Connie Britton), Ben Harmon (Dylan McDermott) and Violet Harmon (Taissa Farmiga) Photo by Robert Zuckerman via filmreviewonline.com
Even though the exposition gave a good recap of “Murder House” I’ll try and refresh everyone’s memories. The therapist Ben, his wife, Vivien, and daughter, Violet, move into the house which holds the ghosts of everyone who’s died in it. This includes Tate, who shot up his school in the 90’s before being killed by a S.W.A.T. team in his room. Tate’s ghost rapes Vivien and impregnates her with Michael, a fact that causes Violet, who had been in love with him, to shun him. By the end of the season, the whole family is dead, stuck in the house for eternity.
Back to the episode. Ben doesn’t take too kindly to his new house guests, telling Madison and Behold he can’t help them because he has to “look out the window and cry while I masturbate” — a callback to his potentially favorite pastime in Season 1. They walk out of Ben’s home office and Behold is attacked by Beau (Tate’s deformed brother who was forced to live in the attic before his would-be stepfather smothered him). Just as the warlock is about to attack him, Billy Dean Howard (Sarah Paulson, who’s also this episode’s director) shows up and warns him not to.
Another quick reminder: Billy Dean is the “medium to the stars” who was not only Paulson’s first role in the series, but one of the first characters to bridge the gaps between seasons, as the psychic appeared also had a big impact on “Hotel” as well as “Murder House.”
After leaving at the end of “Freak Show” Jessica Lange makes her “AHS” reappearance as Constance Langdon, the nasty neighbor from Season 1. She finally gets to drop an F-bomb on FX in only her second line, and I already knew I was fulfilled.
Billy Porter, Emma Roberts and Sarah Paulson at the bottom of the stairs while Jessica Lange makes her grand entrance. Photo courtesy of TVLine.com
Constance’s least favorite ghost, Moira (Frances Conroy) also appears. In the 80’s, Constance walked in on her husband trying to rape their maid Moira, and in a jealous rage, killed them both. A big subplot of “Murder House” was Moira trying to get somebody to find her remains buried in the yard, but those dreams were crushed when Ben built a gazebo over her after burying his dead baby mama next to her. Now, Moira cleans the house for eternity and Constance inspects it for dirt.
Frances Conroy plays Moira in “American Horror Story” and reprises the role in “AHS: Apocalypse.” Photo courtesy of eonline.com
Madison and Behold are still looking for dirt on Michael, which Constance promises she has but says “I don’t spill a drop of tea for free.” Before she gives them the details, they have to get Moira out of her afterlife, so they dig up her bones and rebury her remains in a cemetery, next to her mother, who comes to her now shared grave to guide her daughter into the afterlife. Moira was one of the most interesting characters in “Murder House”, not only because she was able to appear as a hot, young maid to the men in the house, but she was a genuinely kind woman who wanted freedom. It was nice to finally see her getting out of the house after over 50 years.
Now it’s time for the monologue, Lange’s specialty. Constance sits down with Madison and Behold to talk about how she raised Michael after Vivien died in the house giving birth to him. As a child, Michael would clip the wings off insects and quickly moved on to hanging mutilated cats from nooses on the kitchen ceiling. Constance referring to this as a gift to show his love for her reminds everyone just how crazy and self-serving she is.
Jessica Lange makes her long-awaited return to “American Horror Story.” Photo courtesy of dailyheralds.org
We circle back to the final scene of “Murder House,” Constance coming upon Michael, no older than 5, as he makes his first human kill, the babysitter. Constance was somehow able to convince the police she killed herself so no suspicion fell on her or Michael. Not long after that, Langdon ages at least a decade overnight and tries to strangle Constance in her sleep, but he stops at the last second, breaking down in tears as he asks if he can have a glass of water. Constance, still gasping for breath, correcting him “May I?” shows how much she genuinely wanted to be a good mother and raise the boy properly, as well as how warped she is.
Constance realizes her grandson has outgrown her when she walks into his room and finds him playing video games next to a freshly murdered priest. Realizing she’d rather kill herself than let a man kill her, she goes to the Murder House, puts on a record and overdoses. When she reappears as a ghost, she sees her children standing over her and is finally happy.
Season 1 mentioned that Constance had four children but only ever showed three (Tate, Beau and Adelaide, her down syndrome daughter who died in a hit and run just outside the Murder House and therefore not a ghost). When Constance’s kids are consoling her newly dead body, her fourth child is there too. She’s a cute little girl with no eyes, only dark hallow sockets.
And with that, Jessica Lange’s epic return to “American Horror Story” ends, but the episode does not.
If you were worried the only reference to Ben jerking off and crying would be a verbal one, rest assured because we get to see him doing it—at least until Madison interrupts and convinces him to tell her what happened next.
Teenaged Michael breaks down when he comes across Constance’s dead body in the house. Ben’s ghost tells him that she doesn’t want to see him. Ben agrees to take him on as a patient, but it quickly becomes a surrogate father situation.
One day, Tate walks into his room only to see Michael there. It really underscores how good the casting on this show is; Fern genuinely looks like Peters, especially with the matching wigs. Tate tells Michael there’s no way he’s his son because he couldn’t create something that evil. This sets Michael down a dark path, and he starts spending his free time in the basement, re-scarring the Black Dahlia victim’s face.
When a lesbian couple move into the house, they can barely walk through the first floor before Michael murders them in the Rubberman suit. When their ghosts appear, Michael summons fire and burns their souls.
Madison and Behold decide to leave and tell Cordelia, but Vivien (Connie Britton, returning to the series after the first season) stops them to recite a verse from Revelations. “A beast with 10 horns and seen heads rising out of the sea and all who dwell on Earth will worship him.” The old school horror music that plays as Vivien says this line could have been cheesy, but Britton really sells it as creepy.
After the murder of the lesbians, Ben won’t see Michael anymore. The soon-to-be Boy Supreme spends his days standing eerily outside the house as crows fly above circling him in the red sky, until a priest and two cardinals (including Kathy Bates) from the Church of Satan show up to tell him of his potential. They kidnap a girl, tie her to a table, cut her chest open and pull out her heart, which they serve to Michael. As he eats it, a shadow of a winged and horned Devil appears behind him.
Vivien sees all of this and decides that, as his mother, she has to kill Michael. He senses her coming for him ]and tries to burn her, but Tate saves her at the last second. After that, Michael never returned to the house.
With the story complete, Behold and Madison head back to Cordelia to report their discoveries. On their way out, Madison sees Violet crying in the corner and, in the true twist of the episode, she’s actually nice to her. She doesn’t point out that the ghost-girl looks identical to Zoe, but she does tell her that Tate really isn’t evil. It’s the house that’s evil, and the evil left with Michael. I’m not really sure how I feel about blaming all of Tate’s horrible actions in Season 1 on the house, as he always seemed at least partly evil in my mind, but I’m not complaining about anything in this episode.
Taissa Farmiga and Evan Peters behind the scenes on the resurrected set of “Murder House.” Photo courtesy of comingsoon.net
“Return to Murder House” ends with Madison strutting out of the house as Tate and Violet finally embrace after eight long years.
I know I said this about “Could It Be … Satan?” but this was without a doubt the best episode of “American Horror Story” ever. They tied up all of the plot threads that “Murder House” left open while simultaneously giving so much backstory on Michael. I can’t believe first time director Sarah Paulson was able to lead this so beautifully. Is there anything she can’t do? And I forgot just how much I missed Jessica Lange until she showed up and gave one of the best monologues in “AHS” history.
The preview for next week’s episode promises the witches teaming up with the Voodoo Queen to try and stop Michael, as well as the return of Papa Legba, the gatekeeper of the spirit world in “Coven” that has Cordelia’s last witch, Nan, in his grasps.
Historic Second Quarter Scoring Leads Knicks Past Hawks
David Fizdale couldn’t help but crack a few smiles during his first game as the New York Knicks head coach.
The Knicks franchise is hoping to bring that to a fan base that through the years have left Knicks fans wanting more.
The New York Knicks picked up a 126-107 season-opening over the Atlanta Hawks on Wednesday night at Madison Square Garden.
The Knicks used a franchise-record 49-point second quarter to overwhelm the visiting Hawks in New York as they outscored Atlanta 49-25 in the period.
Coach David Fizdale’s New York Knicks had it clicking on all cylinders in the quarter offensively as they received 27 points off their bench to take a sizable 72-49 halftime lead.
Tim Hardaway Jr. shook off a 0-for-4 start by draining eight of his next 10 shot attempts. The basketball prodigy would have 22 points at the half.
He would finish with 31 points (10-for-22 FG, 3-for-9 3PT), 6 rebounds and 5 assists.
Much of the talk coming into this season opener was centered on the rookies as lottery picks Trae Young of the Atlanta Hawks and Kevin Knox of the New York Knicks made their NBA debuts.
Trae Young would struggle with his shot in his first NBA game as the marksmen finished the game with 14 points (5-for-14 FG, 1-for-5 3 PT), 6 rebounds and 5 assists in 33 minutes.
His fellow 2018 draft classmate Kevin Knox would struggle even more as he finished the game with 10 points (4-for-16 FG, 1-for-5 3 PT), 2 steals and a block in 24 minutes.
Not to be left out, Knicks rookie guard Allonzo Trier made the most of his time off the bench as he finished with 15 points (5-for-9, 1-for-3 3PT), 4 rebounds and 2 blocks in 26 minutes.
Trier had arguably the highlight of the night as with the third quarter winding down, the former Arizona guard threw down a highlight reel right-handed slam over Hawks’ forward Taurean Prince.
The New York Knicks 126 points to light up the Mecca will get all of the headlines, but coach Fizdale’s team was active and energetic on the defensive side of the ball.
The Atlanta Hawks would be held to 10-for-36 from behind the arc and forced into 24 turnovers on the night.
The Knicks opened their 73rd season leaving fans at a sold out Madison Square Garden with reasons to be excited about this season.
No, the Knicks aren’t going to challenge the Celtics for the Eastern Conference this season or for the coming years, but New York is hoping to build upon their young nucleus of talent.
A victory at home over a Hawks team projected to finish near the bottom of the Eastern Conference in hindsight means little, but it’s a step in the right direction as the Knicks kick off the season on a right note.
Who impressed you most during the Knicks season-opening win on Wednesday night? Leave your comments below!
Kenny Atkinson won’t mince words following the Brooklyn Nets 103-100 season opening loss on the road to the Detroit Pistons.
The Nets had their opportunities to throughout to be the team to take control of a matchup of two teams looking to start the season with a victory.
Detroit would be the team to do that in the third quarter as they used a 24-9 run in the middle of the third quarter to take a 13-point lead in what had been a mostly tight and competitive game.
Brooklyn would rally in the fourth quarter to take a 92-91 lead with 4:26 left to play after a basket from the Nets hot-hand on the night, Caris LeVert.
The Nets would have little answer for the Pistons ability to drive and score in the paint as Blake Griffin (26 points, 8 rebounds, 6 assists), Andre Drummond (24 points, 21 rebounds), and Reggie Jackson (19 points, 4 assists) closed out Kenny Atkinson’s gritty team over the final four minutes.
With under 10 seconds to play and trailing 101-100, Caris LeVert would lose the ball out of bounds on a turnover. Brooklyn would have an opportunity to tie the game, but Joe Harris would miss a three-pointer coming out of the timeout as Brooklyn dropped their first game of the season.
An 46-39 edge in rebounds helped the Detroit Pistons — who only shot 42.2 percent from the field — edge the Nets on the scoreboard.
Both teams were careless with the ball as they committed a combined 36 turnovers over 48 minutes.
It was a porous night shooting the three ball for both as Brooklyn shot it worse with a 5-for-27 (18.5%) showing from three-point range.
Second-year center Jarrett Allen (17 points, 10 rebounds) was up to the challenge in a battle underneath the rim with the Detroit Pistons rebounding catalyst Andre Drummond.
Allen came up with a huge block on a dunk attempt by Blake Griffin early in the game and showed polish and touch when working around the basket on a 6-for-10 shooting night.
The two battled to a standstill at Little Caesars Arena as it was impressive to see Allen at times bother Andre Drummond boxing out for rebounds and defending Drummond in the low post.
Caris LeVert, who only started 10 games last season for Brooklyn, provided the Nets with a go-to scorer on the night as LeVert tied his career-high with 27 points (10-for-18 FG) to go along with 4 assists and 4 rebounds.
Always reliable guard Spencer Dinwiddie would provide a spark on the offensive end off the bench with 23 points and 6 assists. It was needed for the Nets with Brooklyn guard D’Angelo Russell (8 points, 3-for-9 FG) engulfed into a tough shooting night.
The Nets finished last season 28-54, but the coaching job of Kenny Atkinson caught a number of people’s attention as he managed with a core that was ravaged by injuries.
The injury bug has followed them into the regular-season as DeMarre Carroll, Allen Crabbe and Rondae Hollis-Jefferson all missed tonight’s season opener with injuries.
A team in rebuilding, there’s a number of positives for the Nets to take out of tonight’s tough loss.
Which player stood out tonight in the Brooklyn Nets season opener? Leave your comments below!
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