Dead boy detectives season 1

This is about two dead boys who have become detectives, because they’re still here, ghosts, and don’t want to leave. Of course, with usual film nonsense, they can take and move stuff, but normal living people can’t see them.

Since the protagonists are kids one might think of it as a light watch, something funny, but it’s more tragic,  from the deaths of the protagonists to what happens now, murders, an evil witch, monsters from hell and all kinds of sad things.

I liked watching it once, but that’s it, and I have no desire for another season, which is good since they never made one. I’m not sure I’d have watched it, had they made it, because I think they would have not gone in a direction I like. Honestly, not every series must have a season-long plot, big threats to the world and stuff like that…

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Edwin, the brain, died in 1916 when some other boys in his school dorm, I think, tried a stupid prank to scare him. They made him a ritual sacrifice. I think they died when the demon appeared. What with Edwin being the sacrifice, he was taken to Hell and he stayed there for 70 years, poor soul

Charles, the brawn, is more chill and happy, died in 1989 if I’m not mistaken, and they’re best mates. They chose to stay on Earth and work as detectives for the supernatural; a ghost hires them to help Crystal: she’s alive and a medium, and is now possessed by a demon, David, who she herself let in because she fell in love with him before she knew he was a demon. They free her but David took some of her memories, of her home and family, so Charles has to stay with them and Edwin is not happy about it.

They receive mail from a ghost-mailman and somehow there is a flier of a missing girl in the States. They’re in London, but Crystal can see she’s alive so they go to America to save the child. Edwin uses a binding spell to learn about the witch that abducted the girl to suck her youth out of her, or something.

They manage to save the child, but to escape the witch Charles possesses her to stop her long enough, but doing this he catches the attention of the Afterlife.

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Since Edwin used magic on a cat, he’s got to answer to the Cat King. There’s tons of cats so they can’t avoid going where they’re lead to.  The cat king turns into a man and rather likes Edwin: “my kingdom is all about want and pleasure” … well, he’s a cat, so yeah, ok.

King calls him handsome, says Edwin fascinates him, and Edwin seems very fascinated by him too, in a way, enough that he lets him get so close the king puts a magic bracelet in his wrist that makes it impossible for him to leave town. “It comes right off as soon as you make me happy” but Edwin walks away from him. The other way is to “count all the cats in Port Townsend and then the bracelet will come off”. This episode they work to save the life of the girl living next door to Crystal, both paying rent to Jenny. Niko who has some parasites, some dandelion sprites who will end up killing her. They will trap them in a jar after Crystal lures them out of Niko offering herself as a substitute. 

… wellll… the reasoning didn’t make much sense to me… yeah, they crave attention, but the “I’m a medium and can see ghosts so you’ll get double the attention” makes little sense, because ghosts can all see the living, all ghosts can see Niko and the sprites’ colourful images whether she sees them or not.

Anyway, after her near death experience now Niko can see them too. 

Throughout the episode we see Charles trying to get Edwin to tell him what went on with the cat king, and Edwin thinks about him but rejects the thought and says nothing.

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They accept the case of a woman saying her old house is haunted. Her brother-in-law killed her sister and two nieces in 1994 and now she can’t move on until she knows her family is at peace. Edwin is jealous that Charles and Crystal spend so much time together, and yet Charles mentions that even though she’s alive and he’s not, it is “doable”. Niko helps them now.

When the boys wear their ‘disguises’ it means living people can see them…

The witch turner her crow familiar into a boy with the same name: Monty, and he flirts with Edwin.

In the house the murder keeps repeating over and over, all the ghosts are trapped in a loop. 

Charles’ dad was ‘rough’, he used to beat him, and this murderer-guy was the same or worse, and he killed them not because his wife was leaving him but because his daughter was leaving, for the Hudson university. When Charles tries to stop the man, he becomes part of the loop. Edwin and Crystal destroy the tape the man used to spy on his family and break the loop. Monty keeps flirting with Edwin and the cats see, because they’re keeping an eye on Edwin for their king.

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The case: ghosts haunting a lighthouse, two men and a woman heard someone up there and to reach them they fell off to their deaths, and they keep doing it. They died there at the lighthouse, I think, but nobody found any bodies… and Crystal was about to do it too, she heard her mom’s voice.

Edwin talks to Niko, and when she says she’s never been kissed, he admits he’s never been either, he never saw the appeal before, but now… well, not sure he knows what he wants.

The “Night nurse on duty” at the “afterlife lost&found department” finds them. Her job is to place “errant dead children where they’re meant to be”. Charles died of hypothermia and internal bleeding, in a lake while boys threw stones at him. We see his dad beating him, this nurse makes him ‘relive’ all that.

There’s no bodies because they were eaten by Angie the sea monster, and now Charles feeds her the nurse. Poor boy breaks down, tells them how he hates being dead and that he hates that he died at 16. Edwin stays in Niko’s room, Charles in Crystal’s, and he kisses her…

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Niko finds out by accident that Jenny’s secret admirer, who sends her anonymous love letters, is Maxine from the library, so she sets up a date for them at Jenny’s butchery, and it goes really well for a while, they even kiss, but then it comes out that Maxine spies on her through the window and Jenny freaks out, asks her to leave and this is when Maxine goes full crazy psycho on her and goes at her with a knife, but then Maxine slips on something and falls back with her head on a big nail or something, and she dies.

Jenny looks at her in shock and this is when Crystal and Niko come in. They call the police, of course.

The case this time was of two guys who were murderer but didn’t know who did it. Asking at their school they appear to be well loved, but then it comes out they were jerks of the worst kind: Brad gave his girlfriend some drugs that made her lose her scholarship and her chance at the Olympics, and then dumped her, and then with his latest girlfriend he showed his friend the nude pictures she gave him and also wanted to show them to other guys, so she gave them both what I think were eye drops in their beer; she wanted them to fall asleep so she’d take their phones, but they died. A guy they always humiliated helped her move the bodies. 

Cute Death (Sandman’s sister?) doesn’t come for them, they go straight to hell. 

Charles admits he was afraid of being a bad guy like his dad because lately he’s always so angry and Edwin comforts him, tells him he’s the best, so Charles hugs him, and Edwin probably finally realizes he has feelings for him, so he tells Monty they should not see each other anymore, and makes him a speech about being terrified of his feelings. Monty kisses him thinking he’s talking about him and is shocked to learn he’s not.

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Using an object to keep David out of her head, Crystal also wishes to be normal, so she loses her gift but keeps it a secret because she’s afraid of Edwin’s reaction. Monty is hurt, but he’s the witch’s familiar so he does what she says and lures the boys in the forest, but then the cat king comes to reveal the truth. Monty goes away and the witch slashes him… back into a crow? I think…

Edwin is not grateful and the cat king starts getting pissed with him. Crystal finds in her head her women ancestors who all had powers, greater than she realized, so when the witch uses a huge mushroom-tree from another dimension to capture and absorb the boys, Crystal communicates with it and it leaves, leaving the boys here and taking the witch away.

Edwin tries to tell Charles about his feelings but the silly boy keeps interrupting him. The Nurse comes for them, but it is true that Edwin doesn’t belong in Hell, that it was a mistake, but now that it knows where he is, that thing-from-hell comes to collect him and takes him away.

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Charles goes to Hell with Edwin’s detailed notebook, finds him and brings him back. Charles confesses to be in love with him. The Nurse opened the door for him but can’t take them away with her because Niko found a small clause in her book of rules and she has to go back to file the proper paperwork.

Crystal tried to help them asking David to open the door to help her, but he can’t, that’s why he’s stuck here, so instead she takes back her memories - like marble spheres - and buries him deep inside her mind where her ancestors are. Jenny is in shock because David possessed her for a little while.

The witch is back and wants revenge. She takes the cat king’s third life, and learns from him that Edwin escaped Hell, ao she makes a plan to get power from him. At the end of the episode, for some reason Edwin doesn’t have the bracelet anymore, not sure why…

Poor Edwin though, that really was Hell, where he kept escaping from monsters, dying and starting over again, and he was there for 70 years the first time? :-‘(

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Crystal takes her memories back and remembers she was a bad person, stealing and hurting people, and also that her rich parents didn’t even notice she had been missing for weeks. Crystal packs her bags to go back to London, now wanting them to know the real, awful her, but stays when the witch traps them.

Crystal and Niko asks the cat king for information on the witch Esther. Once she was a woman but started using magic to kill her treacherous husband, and eventually asked Lilith for immortality, not knowing it didn’t include youth, so she started feeding little girls to her huge snake. 

The girls get the black salt the cat king told them about. The witch uses a device to gain power from the ghosts, and thinks that Edwin can endure pain so well he won’t vanish and he’ll give her so much power. Monty, back a crow, helps Charles to get free so Charles kills the huge snake weakening the witch, but before he could do it, the witch killed Niko while trying to kill Crystal. Niko put herself in front of Crystal to save her. Niko dies and does not come back as a ghost, but the last scene shows her in the arctic with the sprites, ,and they appear to be the same height. It is not clear what this means, why didn’t she go to Heaven? Is this the protection of the good-luck-figurine she’s holding? How is this better than heaven of than being a ghost with her ghost friends?

Crystal touched the witch to get into her head and talk to Lilith, goddess of wronged women, to tell her how Esther killed girls, so at the end Lilith comes to take Esther away. Edwin says goodbye to the cat king with a kiss on the cheek and not a second thought, which saddens me a little, I would have liked the cat king as an ally.

The Nurse comes back with her superior, but when said superior sees how their work helped so many ghosts she lets them continue, assigning the Nurse as liaison. The nurse is not happy about this.

Jenny stays in America while Crystal will travel back to London and keep working with them, since now her powers are greater than they were before.

The end.

p.s. Tragic Mick is the walrus-turned-human who sells magic stuff at his magic shop to ghosts, witches and humans. He has a great voice!

Charles is Jayden Revri

Edwin is George Rexstrew

Jenny is Briana Cuoco

Crystal is Kassius Nelson

Cat King is Lukas Gage

Niko is Yuyu Kitamura

Esther is Jenn Lyon

Tragic Mick is Michael Beach

The Bureau of magical things season 2

Conflicted review here because it is nice, like the first one was, but it also kind of changes all the rules, turns things around to fit the new plot… not a really big deal in a teenage story like this, but still a bit annoying. 

This season is again about tri-lings and the prejudice against them. In the first season they talked about Kyra as a unique case, something impossible or very very rare… now it turns out there’s a whole history of tri-lings, there was once a Tri-ling Council.. but how? Really, she got two magic types by accident so now she’s three parts… how could the others have three parts? Because of ancestors, maybe? 

Still, the point is, if there was a council, reunions and stuff then it wasn’t such an impossible thing after all. And then they tell us that she’s always been magical… so what they said before about her getting magic from Lily and Imogen is no longer valid… but if she’s always been magical why couldn’t she see them before?

The single case-episodes are nicer, in my opinion, but they like to make season-long plots. 

The ending is very fairy-tale like, which is fine by me, I don’t care that it’s totally unrealistic, it’s perfect for a series like this. I liked it.

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Kyra is sleeping over at Lily’s with Imogen, Darra is in Bangkok looking for something using a little orb as a gps. Kyra and dad Steve had to change home. Imogen is worried because Darra left dad and suddenly disappeared. Kyra has a vision of Darra in trouble, and suddenly that snake thing gets her in bed and takes her to him. Suddenly she’s in Bangkok, in her pyjamas, with Darra telling her to run and people after her that when caught, tell her she’s a thief.

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Darra ‘saves her’ and takes her back to the library. He tells her that an elf (Aaron) sold him a sphere to find “the temple of the Purple Lotus”, “lost for centuries”, and “whoever finds it will win the respect and admiration of the entire magical world”. This sphere will glow when he’s near one of the three keys to find the temple. He says those people were the thieves, the smugglers, so Kyra goes with him and gets the key, as if the giant snake statue wanted her to have it.

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Tayla is the new girl working at the café, and also a fairy, and in class with Kyra. She had a compact mirror giving her what she wanted, but she lost it before a test and then Matty found it.

It’s “Fortuna’s compact”. Matty learns what it does and uses it and wants to keep it. So Kyra swaps it with a fake one. Lily likes Ben, the new singer at the café, so much she turns orange every time she fantasises about him.

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While sorting stuff, Darra opens a small container and some dust comes out, infecting him, Ruksy and Kyra. When they sneeze, things or people disappear. Kyra sneezes and Matty finds herself in the library. They’ll wipe her memory, of course. Tayla is a good painter but leaves magical things in the graffity in town. Imogen tells her to stop but she doesn’t.

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Darra and Kyra find the diary of Magnus Sorenson, an explorer and thief. Tayla’s dad was a fairy, but left when she was a baby. Human mom had to raise her alone. Darra finds another cobra statue and when Kyra appears, the key appears for her. They only need one now. Tayla has hidden her magic from anyone, and wants to bring a little magic to the world with her magic frogs. Imogen tells Maxwell.

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Imogen takes Tayla to Maxwell and the library to learn about magic. Kyra’s dad has a cold and she prepares lemon and garlic for him (!). Tayla snoops around and finds Chang’s mirror. Imogen fights her for it and they break it in two, and now a second Tayla appears. She goes around turning who annoys her into an image. First Peter, then Lily and Ruksy and Darra, then she goes after Tayla1 and Imogen.

Tayla2  gets even Imogen… but Kyra frees them all of course. The girls repair the mirror and the clone vanishes.

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Maxwell takes the class for a botanical tour at the park.

Peter asked for magical help for a Maths test but is denied. Kyra does the test and Peter is left alone at the library, unable to leave without help. He looks around, finds a magical suit and wears it, letting out a small diving suit inside a bowl… There’s a pirate inside who now wants revenge. Ruksy is angry, she helps but leaves him, doesn’t want to see him anymore.

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A musical episode :-) Peter wants to launch Ben’s career and posts a videoclip he made himself. It doesn’t go too well, and Ben doesn’t even like it because it’s not him! So Lily uses some ancient magic to make people love him, with the result that everyone watching that video becomes obsessed by how “brilliant” Ben is, and they follow him anywhere and sing about him… until Lily uses a bell to stop the magic and everyone forgets and turns back to normal. Ben doesn’t want to be a pop star, but he’s happy when Lily approaches him and listens to him singing to her :-)

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Darra’s dad wants him to work with him but Darra doesn’t, he wants to choose for himself. To cheer him up, Kyra continues their search for the temple… they use a device to go back in time… to Sorenson’s research in Vietnam. They’re caught, and need Imogen to come and save them. Sorensen told Kyra that the temple will help the tri-ling, in some way, because tri-lings were always the lower class. Back in their own time, Ruksy demands to know everything.

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Ruksy is set against this adventure, but Peter, Lily and Imogen join them. They find the third cobra statue, it becomes real and follows them to the library causing havoc and wrecking Ladder. It gives Kyra a vision.

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Maxwell takes the blame on some vague ‘experiment’ and has to go. They get a new teacher, Dr Apinya Surinat. Ruksy wants to repair Ladder but they need magical wood; they get it by entering the book that trapped Peter once, and completing a mission. Ladder appears at Maxwell’s place first, and then the library. I guess it can teleport itself? …

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Lily has a date with Ben and Ruksy is against it because he’s human. A truth bug got Lily and Imogen and totally ruined her date. The tribunal decided against Maxwell and he goes away.

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Apinya is very interested in Kyra’s orb magic. Everyone who meets Kyra says ‘oh yes, the tri-ling’, which is… aaargh. It’s Sports Day and the other school cheats because this Camilla only cares about winning, and when Kyra’s team wins instead they are disqualified because she’s a tri-ling. When Maxwell studies the keys with his magic, it’s Kyra who has a vision, and around her a tornado wrecks havoc and everyone blames her, and Jared is again shouting off against tri-lings.

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Maxwell, Kyra and Darra talk about the keys and the vortex. They ask for Apinya’s help - working with her, Kyra sees the vision better; Vannak, the tri-ling who created the temple, needed a tri-ling with orb magic, but Kyra thinks that “bad stuff happens” when she uses the orb magic, so she wants to stop. Imogen manages to use the merge magic of the fairies, while Lily… pranks a girl, feels bad and puts it right… so… elves can use fairy magic?? And elf magic is just… being annoying??

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The group and Matilda plan a surprise party for Kyra’s birthday. Our girls want to help but make a disaster. Lily breaks the cake and makes another one with some fairy magic, and when they eat it they transform into live-versions of the cake decorations: Imogen is a mermaid, Peter a unicorn…

Apinya lures Kyra into using the orb magic to see another vision, she sounds like she really wants to find the third key and the temple…

Kyra and Darra hold hands :-)

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Imogen and Lily think Apinya planned that incident because of Kyra - me too. Kyra invites Darra to lunch at home with her dad. Kyra finds a picture of her mom with the symbol of the tri-ling council on her neck, her father gave it to her. Kyra and Darra talk to Maxwell: it means that her dad was a tri-ling, Kyra was born magical. Imogen and Lily test Apinya telling her a made up story that kyra saw where the third key is, and Apinya goes immediately to talk to that man that had the first cobra statue and they leave to search for it. She infiltrated the school for this.

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Imogen tells the others everything. Maxwell doesn’t want to believe it because he knew her… but he’s with them. So they plan to find it first. Tired of waiting, those men go to steal the first two keys and take Maxwell away. The kids go to free him, are caught… and they all go to see Sean! Apinya says she’s part of “a secret unit of the DMI”, that their “job is to protect the magical world form the most serious threats”: Kyra touches the third key and is teleported to the temple. 

The three keys “are programmed to act on their own and activate the lotus. The lotus needs orb magic to function”. Secrets secrets… if Apinya had told them before… now Kyra has lost the orb magic and “it has begun”…

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Maxwell is reinstated. The purple lotus is messing with their magic, the wands acting on their own accord, the wings coming out when they shouldn’t… only Kyra’s magic still works and does what she wants. Apinya tells Kyra that her dad Li Yung didn’t want to leave them but did it to protect them because he loved them. He “was a member of the tri-ling council”, and gave the DMI information before vanishing, so that the council would not find them. Apinya tells her that Kyra herself can stop the lotus by taking the orb back, and of course Kyra ultimately agrees.

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The lotus is affecting magic worldwide, with the goal of stealing all elves and fairies magic. Kyra, Peter, Imogen and Darra go back in time to steal Sorenson’s plans, and when she’s found out Kyra says she wants to help them and “betrays” the two elves present. A picture is taken of her shaking hands with Magnus Sorenson and in our time Ruksy says that she betrayed them…

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Lily doesn’t believe it, at least. Apinya tries to use the shadow cloud to stop the lotus, but it gets absorbed. In the past, Peter saves the day thanks to the speed-suit he wore. They get what they wanted and come back. The DMI studying the plans didn’t find anything, but Kyra does. She must enter the lotus, as a tri-ling she can do it. She jumps into it and survives. Magic is again alright in the world, but since everyone in the world has seen magic, things have changed. Only a month later, “after centuries of living in the shadows, magical and non-magical people begin to live together as they had a long time ago”.

So Lily can be with Ben, Imogen paints magical frogs with Tayla, “Peter and Ruksy made a documentary about the magical world and became quite famous”. Darra earned his dad’s respect and Kyra doesn’t have secrets with Mathilda anymore. Darra will go to Bangkok to work with Apinya. Of course Kyra has the orb magic back, has told her stepdad about it and now plans to go in search of her bio-dad. 

The end.

Kyra is Kimie Tsukakoshi

Imogen is Elizabeth Cullen

Lily is Mia Milnes

Darra is Julian Cullen

Ruksy is Rainbow Wedell

Peter is Jamie Carter

Professor Maxwell is Christopher Sommers

Tayla is Miah Madden

Dr. Apinya Surinat is Tasneem  Roc

Magnus Sorenson is Anthony Standish

Steve is Steve Nation

Jared is Paul Bishop

Mathilda is Arnijka Larcombe-Weate

Sean is Nicholas Bell

The Bureau of magical things season 1

An Australian series. I liked this enough. It is for teenagers, mind you, so I’m not their target and I would have liked it much more back then, but I still enjoyed it enough. I liked that these kids were very natural and normal (magic aside :lol:), they dressed like kids, not obsessed with fashion like many other shows, they didn’t even wear heels, and I loved it. 

Imogen and her short blond hair were on the poster that I liked so much, the reason why I watched this series in the first place … it’s a bit disappointing to find the character so disagreeable :-/ At least for most of this first series. Still, the whole thing was nice enough, the ending too, that I enjoyed watching a second series.

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Behind a bookshop there is a magical library with fairies and other magical beings invisible to normal humans. Elf Imogen takes away a book and fairy Lily sees her so she follows her and they fight over the book. Human teenage Kyra sees this book floating in the air - while out running after dark… her cop step-dad is not happy about this, as it should be. When Kyra touches the book, she’s knocked unconscious and brought home by Lily. Now Kyra can see them and can even hear dogs’ thoughts. Imogen convinces Lily to make Kyra forget but it doesn’t work. 

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Kyra has the elf power of moving through space and ends up in a snowy place. Imogen gets her back and they take Kyra to see prof. Maxwell and his “library of magic”. He doesn’t know what to think of her, but Kyra is scared of it all and goes back home, but she sort of has magic now and doesn’t know how to cope with it so she goes back to the library. When there’s a floating chair, Kyra is the one who can catch it because she’s a basketball player . After that, she wants to study how to use her powers instead of how to get rid of it.

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Kyra’s friend Peter sees some of her magic - the super speed and the attempt to look invisible… he saw only her legs - so Lily makes him forget, but now he thinks he really is Romeo instead of simply playing the part in their friend Matty’s play, so Lily has to put things right, albeit reluctantly. At the end, Kyra masters her invisibility.

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All lost things go into the “Lost property suitcase” and they magically sent them back by touching them to a book. A magical letterbox must not be touched for four minutes every month; Lily and Imogen stop two people but the third is a postman that turns into a dog. The two girls ask Kyra’s help and Darra too. Kyra has so much to do now with two schools, her dog-sitting duties and basketball practice …

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Imogen teaches Kyra to use her elf powers to not-quite-teleport. Ruksy and Lily show some magical children a museum then an elf-boy does something and a magical armor gets out and they have to call the Department. The kids also help, and Kyra makes it right :-) but Peter met the armor and knows something is on.

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Peter is set on uncovering the truth… Kyra is a “tri-ling” because she has three types of blood. The kids have tests. The first is solved by Darra and Kyra, the second by Kyra and Imogen. Orla of the magical news wants to test Kyra more, so she talks of valuating them individually and sends a shadow cloud against Kyra an Imogen. Orla moves the cloud towards Peter so Kyra lets Imogen ‘win’ the test to help Peter. Orla is set against Kyra because she’s part human, but Maxwell is as well, his mother was help and his father was human, very much in love but never accepted by others.

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Lily does a magic on Kyra to give her fairy wings for a day and they go out for a fly collecting teeth and she leaves her alone. Kyra’s wings vanish leaving Kyra still small into a little girl’s bedroom. Kyra tells her story to this child, Sally. Then Darra helps Lily to return Kyra as she was.

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The written tests show everyone did well but Darra and Kyra failed. She has too much to do. Lily and Imogen use magic to make Kyra’s team win, but she gets upset and then puts things right. Darra passes the theory test but is sure he’ll fail the practical, to magic an elephant out of a book. Kyra talks to him and he gains the confidence to do it.

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Imogen is really annoying, doing things just to irritate others, being rude always…

Checking on a haunted house, Kyra and Darra end up on a beach and can’t ‘jump’ back. After touching an object, as Kyra touches a map she can look into the library. She can’t be heard by people but she can control Ladder so she sends a signal to the girls who reopen the portal for them..

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The Department is interested in Kyra’s abilities. Peter gives gps-earbuds to Darra (for Kyra) and so he tracks him back and forth, not knowing how he does it, and at the end Peter hides and records Kyra and Maxwell.

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Peter shows the video to Kyra so she tells him about magic and takes him to the library, because he threatened to post the video online and she felt she had no choice. Peter accidentally enters a book… When Kyra can’t find Peter, it’s only thanks to Ladder that they learn what happened. Ruksy saves him. Now Peter understands but Ruksy doesn’t delete his memory…

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Peter should let it all go, but he keeps talking about it. Kyra has a dream where books fly and stack on a table, and then she learns it really happened. She touches a book - the first book in the first episode -  and then she zaps Maxwell turning him into a guinea pig. Not knowing about this new power, Lily and Imogen take care of her.It was supposed to be a sleepover for Kyra and Matty, and now there’s four girls :-) Darla and Ruksy try to research a way to put things right. Kyra zaps Lily into fairy size and zaps Imogen’s elf ears visible, and they can’t turn back. Kyra gets zapped by the book again - only she saw an orbe while looking at the book - and everything turns back to normal. Matty is sad because her parents are divorcing, and kind Lily talks to her and they talk a lot and are finally ok. Kyra tells Maxwell about the orb,  and he hides the book in the restricted section.

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Kyra now can tell everything to Peter. Ruksy tells Imogen and Lily about Maxwell not telling them all he knows so they go looking in the restricted section. “The orb of Lemuria”, they research it, it’s a myth, and ‘nobody’ knows where it is… Imogen got sprayed in the face by the Giggle Bloom. Since Maxwell told Kyra to skip school for a few days, Darra misses her and goes to her… they have fun together, but she says that her life is already too complicated so they’re better off as friends. Ruksy tells Kyra that Maxwell knows something about what’s happening to her and hiding it.

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Kyra and Ruksy confront Maxwell. The Bureau of Magical Things is how Maxwell and two friends called themselves when they talked of how magical beings and humans could coexist. They were architect Boynton - the house with the portal was his, as well as the place by the beach - and Giselle, a fairy and Maxwell love partner. Giselle died on a mission lead by Maxwell. Boynton recovered the orb but said nothing. When Darra is in grave danger while out with Imogen and Orla, Kyra has a vision and can help from afar. Maxwell thinks it’s because of how it started: Kyra got magic when she touched a book while “it was caught between two magical energies, a fairy’s and an elf’s”, “it took fairy magic and elf magic to create the orb”. They say that Boynton hid the orb in that simple book. Kyra gets it out.

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Maxwell and Kyra go to the Department of Magical Intervention (DMI) and give Sean the orb. Sean is unhappy about Kyra’s powers and thinks she’s too young for such a power, and Sean’s also scared because Kyra is divided between the two worlds and has no intention of abandoning the human world and her dad. Lily and her mom talk to Sean about Kyra, then Kyra bakes him a cake and stays for lunch, and he agrees that there’s no need to banish her, or whatever.

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Tomorrow will be “prize-giving day”, “the DMI student awards”. Kyra’s mom was Michiko, and she was a judo champion. Kyra wants to attend the ceremony because they all say it’s so very important, but her dad wants to go on a trip in memory of her mom, and that’s important too. Darra’s dad Jareb is very very rich and snobs Kyra, tells her that Darra is destined for bigger things than her… the first award goes to another school, but then there is one of Lily, one for Imogen, one for Ruksy and even one for Kyra. Jared is not happy about it, he’s afraid of her, as are many of the adults because basically she’s more powerful than them all. She’s so late her dad thinks she doesn’t want to go camping at all, but Lily and Ruksy help her set a sort of camping in their garden.

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The DMI found a way to remove the orb from Kyra, but it’s never been done and it’s risky. She might lose all her magic and even all her memories, so Kyra asks Peter to record her on video so she’ll be able to remind herself of this life. They need the orb to remove her orb powers, and afterwards Sean wants to destroy the orb, and Maxwell would be ok with that, but Orla is not. The orb is stolen by a Imogen-lookalike, but nobody believes Imogen when she says it wasn’t her, so she asks Kyra for help ,even though finding the orb would not be good for her.

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Imogen is in Kyra’s room so she learns that Peter knows about them. Kyra, Peter and Ruksy want to help Imogen. Orla accuses Maxwell to get him away from the library. Then she turns into Kyra and tells Darra and Lily to destroy the orb. She touches the orb while both their magics are hitting it.

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When Kyra tried to stop Orla, she lost her powers and memories. Now Orla has the orb and its powers and it’s the most powerful being, so she forces Sean to resign and takes his place, but she wants more. Jared supports her because she’s an elf like him. Darra goes with his dad but Imogen is loudly against it all. Ruksy stops Peter from showing the video to Kyra, saying it’s safer for her this way, but then Kyra remembers something and can again understand Doris the dog.

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Kyra watches the video and remembers everything, and at the department, the kids and Darra try to stole back the orb, but her powers get it back, and she locks in every magical being. Now Orla frees the Eye of Horus in town, she wants to create chaos then step in and have human recognise her superiority…

Now the girls work together, with even Peter’s help, and trap Orla like she did to her, to take the powers from Orla and back to Kyra, and then Maxwell destroys the orb. Now nobody can ever take the magic out of Kyra. Everything is back as it was, but Kyra says that it all happened because the two worlds are kept separate… no, it happened because Orla wanted all the power! Kyra says that Orla had a point (!), “that magical people have to live in secret and serve humans, don’t you think it might be time for that to change, even just a little?”. Now the kids are a ‘special team’, with Peter too, calling themselves The Bureau of Magical Things. 

…

What does it mean? They did not serve humans, they hid for their own protection…

Anyway, will Kyra master her powers? Orla did it so easily, basically Kyra could do everything by herself…

Kyra is Kimie Tsukako Shi

Imogen is Elizabeth Cullen

Darra is Julian Cullen

Lily is Mia Milnes

Ruksy is Rainbow Wedell

Peter is Jamie Carter

Maxwell is Christopher Sommers

Orla is Melanie Zanetti

Sean is Nicholas Bell

Mathilda is Arnijka Larcombe-Weate

Jared is Paul Bishop

참교육 - Teach you a lesson - season 1

This is about all the bad things that can happen in school, it has to do with bullies a lot, really a lot. It’s not easy to review this series because almost everyone is right, meaning those that applaud it and those that do not accept it. On one hand we have real criminals, they may be young, minors, but they’re not just taunting or mocking their classmates, they’re real criminals however you look at it, and on the other hand there’s an ex military man that beats them up. He never uses weapons of any kind, which is very important in my opinion; I know this is just a tv show, it would never work on real life, for many reasons: first of, only the bullies from poor families would be targeted, not the sons of rich men, because the real world is like that, really rich or powerful people only care about themselves; second, very very important, is that who would you ever trust to be the judge of that? On tv we know that a vigilante believes in all the best ideals and we can appreciate what he does, but in real life, who could you really trust to really have the right ideals and all that? 

This series is indeed satisfying because you see the bullies get punished - never killed or tortured, just beat up and maybe made to feel what they do to others. Morally we can often see that there are reasons, like they’re sort of educated to be that way by their families, but that’s not a justification, just an explanation. In an ideal world those adults should not be powerful or rich or well-placed in society, but anyway it doesn’t change the fact that those minors are criminal and should be taught some consequence or they’ll grow up to be much worse. 

So, because this is a tv show and not a news report, I did like it. I just hope this world could, sooner or later, understand that bullying is just pathetic, done by those that have nothing else going for them other than their fists or money. Every idiot can throw a punch or spend their parents’ money, big deal, but are they really if you take that away? … yeah, that’s the point. 

The show now:

This new Bureau is a Minister’s special project, very personal of course, which is another point: both the Minister and the male lead Hwa-jin have a very personal reason for doing this. People only care about things when they’re personally touched (which is not necessarily a negative things, for most people, it’s absolutely human, but for people in power one might wish for more).

As I was saying, this Minister supports Hwa-jin in everything. In the first episode we even see him going against a fellow politician, and it was all very weird, that he would care so much for poor kids to go against the powerful… and all because a young teacher had been killed by a student… until we realize that the poor girl was not a nobody, not just a school teacher, she was the Minister’s daughter and Hwa-jin’s fiancée. At least now it makes a bit of sense that he’d actually care so much about her.

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This is about some bullies, kids with powerful parents who act like they’re gods, superior to anyone, but mostly doing it to feel powerful, in the most pathetic way. The leader of the three  is the son of a politician, so he thinks he’s untouchable. These three kids spent their school days beating up other boys, day after day, punches and kicks to the stomach and everything that made them feel strong - because one needs to be so strong to kick someone who can’t fight back - until Hwa-jin arrives and everyone can see the pathetic underneath the façade. Hwajin is the Department for the Right to an Education, they call him Inspector but he’s the only member, it’s a very new department. He has the power to do whatever is necessary, so he slaps one of the three a few times, sending him on the floor. 

A boy, who they tormented, begged them to stop ruining his parents business, begged the leader to tell his father to stop, that he’d do anything, and so he killed himself because the little sh+t told him to. When his dad tries to stop the Bureau, he’s stopped himself because the Minister gathered lots of information before succeeding in creating this Bureau. With his father in disgrace, the kid is no more who he was but he doesn’t want to give it up, he’s still crazy and tries to burn some students inside a class, until Hwajin comes and turns the fire on him - what obedient fire,  only following the bully and ignoring everything else, even though the kid had thrown inflammable stuff on the door and everything. The kid is so scared he crumbles. In the end the three bullies are arrested, and their names appear on the papers.

My favourite line in this episode was Hwajin telling another poor tormented boy that ‘good adults do exist’… 

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Some people start protesting against the Bureau for his methods, but the Minister personally replies to journalists talking about students rights; he speaks of how schools now are filled with violence, gambling,  drugs, how there’s no more respect for teachers, and that poor kids have no other choice but to attend public school, so the Bureau works to guarantee their right to an education.

The opposing political party starts plotting against him.

Geun-dae goes undercover at a school where all kids keep fighting to be noticed by the local gangster that they admire and think he’s so cool. They study engines here, both electrics and mechanics, and the top fighters are Seong-hwan and In-beom, fighting to get noticed by Gwon-hyeok… who I think is actually a student as well, but he’s never at school, of course, he lives like a gangster. Geundae finds a friend, Hyeong-ju, a nice boy who wants to learn a job and who has a lovely mom who works a lot and is happy when she sees them together, that her son found a friend.

Hwajin beats them up and gives them a strict schedule , but nobody wants it, they don’t care about school  and learning because they want te easy money promised by Gwonhyeok, something they think can really change their lives. They tell Gwonhyeok about the Bureau and he comes to the school to fight Hwajin, sure he can win, but he doesn’t - because of course our hero is the best trained ever.

Opposition: found out that Hwajin was captain of the special forces unit.

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A girl, Ye-ri, very active on social media, fabricated lies to ruin the teachers that she found annoying because they weren’t kissing the ground she stepped on: the worst case was a man who tried to reason with her, and instead she accused him of abuse in a post online: people sent him threats and he worried for his family, and eventually took his own life. She also tried to frame female teacher Jung for violence. The poor man knew Yeri had manipulated the video to make her look bad, he had seen her, so Yeri destroyed him because she hates teachers and we’ll learn why in a future episode. Maybe because it’s a female school, Hwajin doesn’t go, he’s hired Im Han-rim, and she goes instead. She starts by taking away cell phones during lessons and kicking Yeri’s phone away when she refuses because she films live even during class, then she makes them exercise.

Hwajin is here because some girls contacted the Bureau to protect teacher Jung, and he lets her read the girls letters, and tells her about his fiancée murdered by a student. He promises to protect her, and that she should also try harder to help those girls that need her so she acts tough and hits Yeri’s palms until she agrees to solve a problem at the blackboard. Now Yeri is furious and at home she plans to destroy teacher Jung, but tech-wiz Geundae deletes all her posts and uploads the unedited one where everyone can now see how she was faking it and what her goal was. She’s ruined now, everybody sees she’s fake and hates her. Still, teacher Jung is worried, and opens the door when Yeri comes to her house ,but Yeri doesn’t want to talk, she wants to kill her and maybe die together. Yeri throws her out the window, but at that moment Hwajin arrives and jumps after her, protecting her and taking the impact himself, who apparently is made of steel. The teacher is well, Yeri is arrested and all is well.

The opposition divulges the Minister and Hwajin’s close connection to the dead teacher, speaking not of justice but personal vengeance.

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This starts with a top student hitting a famous professor, one that Hwajin once admired. Between the allegations of vengeance and this admiration, Hanrim doubts him and is very troubled by it, because he helped her when she was a child and then she served under him, I think. 

Thing is, for years this famous professor has favored the kids of rich people because they could help him in his long rise to politics or something. He was even the one that started Yeri’s hate for teachers, because he ruined her academic chances, somehow. Now, he’s doing the same to this kid who is very good at school but has normal working parents. He caused trouble for the parents and then took away the boy’s tutor, and now wants the Bureau to stop him from doing the admission exam, but the Bureau doesn’t, so the only thing the prof can still do to make the rich girl pass is to give her all the answers so she’ll get full score. It’ll be a shock for him to discover that the papers have been swapped so the same questions now have the opposite answer - A or B - so the girl got a 0. The Bureau discloses names and it’s all rich, entitled people, of course. Geundae was thinking of transferring to another department but he changed his mind.

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A young teacher at maternity school is driven mad by one mum, who calls her constantly, criticizes everything she does and blames everything on her. When this mom actually files an abuse complaint against her, the teacher is almost driven to suicide, but luckily her mom contacted the Bureau. Hwajin takes her place at school and starts calling that mom at all hours, for every small thing, until she yells at him to stop it, also yelling at him about how angry her husband is about it so Hwajin goes to the man’s place of work and makes a big scene of apologizing , painting him in a bad light. The man gets angry at his wife, and they  both want the school to fire him.  For the second time,  one of U-jin’s parents storms into the classroom and takes him away. Once again she wants to set all the mothers against a teacher, but this time Hwajin gets there first,  and he also accused her of abuse on a minor, exactly what she dd to the previous teacher, who btw is still the target of her rage, but Hwajin prevents the woman form getting to her. This bully keeps saying she acts in the best interest of her child, and then we hear poor Ujin say that he thinks mom hates him, that she’s always angry and never smiles at him. The mother goes on trial for stalking the poor teacher, it seems. So the teacher is back at school, to Ujin’s delight.

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This is about four kids under 14 who know that the law can’t touch them because they’re too young, so they run wild, stealing cars, vandalizing them, hurting classmates, dealing drugs even. There’s nothing they wouldn’t do. The Bureau has its own rules though and the Minister has his power, os the four baby criminals are put in a juvenile prison and the have to stay there with the real prisoners. Their heads are shaved, and when they think they can beat up Han-rim, she shows them which way it goes. When they misbehave, Hanrim forces them to exercise; when they’re finally allowed to meet their parents,  the leader Ji-un shows that he has not learned his lesson when he threatens poor girl Yun-jin instead of begging for forgiveness. In prison again, they’re terrified of a guy who is in there because he killed his bullies. Same guy that Jiung attacked before knowing who he was. They don’t know the guy agreed to help the Bureau because he believes it can help kids and prevent them from becoming like him. When someone in the drugs business wants to stab Jiung, Cho Gyu-cheol gets in the was and is slightly injured.

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Cho is the one who killed Hwajin’s girlfriend. This episode is about gambling. A guy in school gets the kid to try this game, and when they inevitably lose he suggests someone who can lend the money, at absurd rates of course. When they can’t pay, the parents are involved and pay to save their child. Geun-dae goes undercover again and they get to him too, he stupidly believes he can win and when he loses he borrows money. When they call Hanrim thinking she’s him mother and she refuses to pay - to get to the big names of the operation - when Hanrim is distracted by food Geundae is abducted, taken away and put to work. When the Bureau finds his location, Hanrim storms inside loudly calling Geundae’s name, and she calls him cute and smart… it was funny that Hwajin kept telling her to contain herself, keep her cool, “and she ties her hair” so he gives up :lol: Of course they save Geundae and also the other kids held there, and when they call themselves victims Hwajin reminds them that they had their chances to stop before it went too far, and maybe the real victims are the parents that were ruined trying to save them. 

The Bureau for once is going great with the public opinion, and opposition leader Hwang Kitae is not happy. When a man comes to tell him there might be a way to end the Bureau, Kitae goes to meet Cho Gyucheol in prison.

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This episode is about a mother obsessed with the idea of her son becoming  doctor, a good title so they’ll be respected; al his life this poor kid has done nothing but study, he can’t sleep much, he can’t eat much, he can’t go out, and she’s the first to give him some pills, as suggested by other mothers, that should help him focus. When the boy asks for a stronger pill - something that might help him go on - the mother accepts the suggestion of a random guy on the internet and does not notice what everyone can see from a mile away, that the kid is not well. When he fainted during an exam and was brought to the infirmary, his mother came and sent him right back to class - when the Bureau forces the students to take a urine test, it comes out that it’s a drug, 100% dangerous drug, and that it’s hurting the kids. And of course it’s illegal, without the right prescription given only in rare cases. The Bureau takes Hyeon-min to the hospital while Hwajin tries to teach her how he felt, because it’s not her who sacrificed everything for him, it’s the son who sacrificed everything for her. So Hwajin tells her to get in medical school herself, but it takes very little for her to complain about the schedule and reach a breaking point. Still, when Hwajin finally takes her to see her son, she immediately asks if he’s studying… but at least the time away gave the kid time to get better and realise that to get better and stop wanting to die he must stop this intense studying. But he says it kindly and even hugs her…

Cho Gyucheol gets released early with the help of that politician, and wants to go back to school.

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Cho goes back to school, and keeps playing the remorseful-guy card. Cho himself shows up at the Bureau - anyone can enter, just like that? - saying that a kid at his school is being bullied. Hwajin follows the cases, and sees how one guy Chi-ho and his two friends take advantage of Seong-gu to use his hotspot and his accounts for whatever they want, even to con people sometimes, who then get angry at Seonggu. Hanrim goes undercover, pretending to be a student because after Seonggu finally asked for the Bureau’s help - adviced by Cho - Chi-ho accuses him of bullism, turning things upside down and everyone believes him - also secretly adviced by Cho. Hanrim easily becomes the group’s next target, but with her team they infiltrate Chiho’s and his friends’ accounts to play his own tricks on him, so the truth comes out and Seonggu’s name is cleared. Now that the truth is out, Chiho complains to Cho that he’s ruined, but instead of accusing him, he says that the Bureau ruined his life and his family and he sees no other way out than to die. Cho records these words and then pushes him off the roof. Cho then gives the usb to Kitae who understands what he did but will use it anyway, even after Cho confesses that talking to him was his idea since the beginning, getting his early release.

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Now Cho protests against the Bureau, saying it caused Chi-ho’s suicide. Hwajin knows about Cho’s drugs racket. That’s why he killed Hwajin’s girl, she had tried so hard to help him and had found all his pills so he killed her. Cho provokes Hwajin who punches him outside the school; Kitae jumps on this chance and shuts down the Bureau. Feeling free, Cho seriously begins his business again, using students as carriers, and other students in other schools to give the first pills for free to get more buyers. Of course Hwajin knows about it, that’s why he punched him, so that without the Bureau Cho would feel safe enough to expose himself. The Minister asked for all schools’ teachers help, and a dozen show up at the Bureau with the drugs they found hidden at their school. They start collecting all the drugs they can, the Minister publicly accuses Cho Gyucheol of distributing it, and so the Bureau is again operative. They go to search the school, finding nothing of course, but Hanrim is out of the fight for a bit because she inhaled the drugs and has hallucinations. Geundae takes care of her while Hwajin confronts Cho, but his friends have a knife at Seong-gu’s throat so for a bit there’s nothing he can do and Cho stabs him, many times too! But remember that earlier episode, he’s made of steel!

When Hanrim can finally help a bit, freeing Seonggu, I think, Hwajin’s attention is all on Cho and beats him up but does not kill him. Mission accomplished , bad guys arrested, someone will eventually see to Hwajin’s wounds which he treats like a small inconvenience and nothing more. His girl was stabbed once or twice and died…he’s a real die-hard guy…

Kitae is arrested for his role in it, and the Bureau is now a consolidated reality, and the series ends with the team going to another school where there is violence to stop.

I liked seeing in two other episodes those two ex wanna-be gangsters of Seong-hwan and In-beom, now wearing school uniforms and acting more like kids than gangsters :)

Kim Moo-yul is Na Hwa-jin

Jin Ki-joo is Lim Han-rim

Pyo Ji-hoon is Bong Geun-dae

ITA Lezioni vere

Dept. Q season 1

I’m glad they’re making a season 2, I liked this one and would like to see them again.

my review after seeing it all: I’ll say that it was a good series, very British, if only one counts the swear words :lol: Merritt’s seclusion was very hard to watch and feel, very claustrophobic and emotionally heavy. I liked that it was set in Edinburgh. The case was a bit difficult to follow as in who-is-who, but that’s because I have trouble with faces and names, but at least at the end it did make sense. I very much liked the Akram character, liked him from the start and at the end he was my absolute favourite. He’s kind, calm, collected, patient, but also skilled, trained, prepared to do what’s to be done but never uselessly reckless. Love him.

I also liked the interactions between the other characters. How Hardy found back his will to live by working on their case, how Carl cares about Jasper even if he doesn’t say it, how Moira tried her best to make her station work, even how Rose tried courageously to move on after her understandable breakdown, and fought to find a spot for herself where she could be useful. What I didn’t care about at all: the therapist thing there was no therapy that we saw, and I found her a bit annoying. I dread to think that she’ll may become a love interest, that would be so boring and disruptive. This is a British show, will they resist the temptation? American shows never manage to resist :-/

Called Q because it’s the showers quarters, I think.

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Well,  the beginning was indeed of deep impact. Anyway, this sad but interesting first episode follows two storilines: 1-Merrit is a prosecutor who loses a murder case, and she has a stalker insulting and threatening her on texts and emails. She also has a mentally challenged brother who can become violent sometimes. When she’s at work Claire takes care of him (Moaning Myrtle’s actress!). Claire sings at William and doesn’t seem to like Merrit much.

2-DCI Carl Morck, a cop. He and DI Hardy were in the area and appear at a murder scene to take a look. Agent Anderson was waiting for the team that he called. Morck is rough with the poor rookie, only three months in the force, and tells him to check around, all windows, and when Anderson does that, a man covered in black appears in front of him and shoots all three. Anderson dies, Hardy is left paralized, Morck heals and after four months can be back at work. Nobody likes him and the feeling is mutual.

His boss Moira (I like her) makes him head of a new department of one:him down in the basement, where he’ll work on cold cases. When he asks for an assistant, Akram Salim is sent to him, a man from Syria who was so eager to work in the police. At the end of the episode , we see Akram chose a case he deems worthy: Merritt disappeared four years ago, in 2021, and he thinks she’s alive and that they can find her. Morck doesn’t seem to agree , but we see that he was right.

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They start the investigation on Merritt, even talk to Claire who is fair and says Merritt would never willingly leave William, she loved her brother. We see that she’s being kept prisoner by a couple who has never appeared in front of her, they talk but there’s voice distortion. There’s a press release to announce the new department and their first case, and Morck has a panic attack after it. Akram helps.

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William sees the reopening of the case on tv and escapes the institute. They find him at Claire’s and he gives them a picture he drew. He can’t communicate with words but he’s great at drawing. He didn’t see a face, but he saw a man with a baseball cap and drew the image on it. Rose asks to join Morck’s department and finds something out about the cap. 

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Merritt doesn’t even know why they’ve taken her, and all this time they’ve kept asking her but she hasn’t guessed right yet. Jasper is Morcks’ stepson. His mother left him with Morck to go away with another man and also to work as a flight attendant or something. Morck has trouble interacting with him. 

They find out she had some occasional lovers. 

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We learn about Kirsty, who made a deal to testify in Merritt’s murder case in exchange for getting out of prison - for drug possession, I think - but Merritt’s boss didn’t let her use this testimony, Merritt lost the case and Kirsty was almost killed for talking. She lost an eye. Thinking the woman at the institute, as William’s legal guardian, is stealing his money, they go check and find him sedated, so they take him away and to Claire. Hardy, Rose and Akram are all working on this and very useful. Moira is worried about Morck.

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A big guy threatens Jasper to stop Carl, and Carl gets there when the guy exits and he understands something and beats the guy up, and it’s all on tape. The guy did not fight back, didn’t even try, it was a trap: the guy stopped where they would be seen very well by the cameras. They think Finch, the guy who killed his wife, Merritt’s murder case, threatened or hurt everyone he could, and even got to Merritt’s boss Stephen.

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Merritt has to take out her own teeth with pliers when it gets infected. Carl talks with Jasper.

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It’s revealed that Merritt’s captors are Harry’s mother and brother. Harry is the boy that wanted to steal from Merritt’s brother to give the jewels to her as she wished to have money and go away from there, when she was young, but the house wasn’t empty so he beat William into a coma. Merritt sees the brother Lyle and it is the man she knew as Sam. It seems Sam and Lyle were in a community together, as kids. Lyle’s mom was always a psycho and used the hyperbaric chamber to punish her sons, and that’s where Merritt’s been these four years. And now I understand: Sam Haig looked like Harry, they weren’t the same, but Lyle followed him like he was Harry. And it wasn’t Harry who beat William, but Lyle who had followed him. The island’s constable Cunningham had been told by Lyle that Merritt had died at sea and said nothing, but now he sees her in the chamber and can’t ignore it, so Lyle kills him with a hammer. He killed the real Sam as well. Now Lyle and his mom plan to go away leaving her there, but Carl and Akram get there and find her in time. Lyle shoots, Carl stands before Akram and is shot in the shoulder then Akram kills Lyle and they save Merritt who can see his brother again. Lyle’s mother tried to leave the island but shoots herself when she finds officers waiting for her. There months later, Merritt is better. Carl goes to her boss, who threw the Finch case after the guy threatened his daughter, and Carl tells him he will not report him, but he’ll give his department more budget and he’ll manage to make Akram a DI. Carl says “he’s a political refugee who’s here on asylum” and who is a good cop. Carl also asks for a new car :p

Hardy comes back walking with crutches, to work with Carl, but there are stairs once he exits the elevator…

Matthew Goode as DCI Carl Morck

Chloe Pirrie as Merritt

Alexej Manvelov as Akram Salim

Moira is Kate Dickie

ITA Dept.Q- sezione casi irrisolti

20세기 소녀 - 20th century girl - 2022

I’m so angry at this film, it is so light and happy for, like, 3/4 of it, and then it’s all tears and tears. Why, what was the point? There was no reason to end it like this, now it’s ruined and it’s like so many others with the same ‘switch’, it was uncalled for here. I understood it in Pavane, but not here.

Edit, reading this now - not watching the film again, once was enough - I can see it being a good finale in a sort of artistic way, but the thing is, I don’t really care about that, the whole thing was so light that I never wanted or expected a tragic ending, and never wanted it. 

Na Bo-ra is best friends with Kim Yeon-doo who has a weak heart and must leave for America to undergo surgery. Bora promises she’ll write often and tell her all about the boy she likes. For a long time Bora keeps following and watching Baek Hyun-jin, so much that they get to know each other and he asks her out. This is so wrong, she strongly refuses, but she can’t explain the reason for all her interest. Watching Hyun-jin also makes her know Poong Woon-ho, his best friend, and they start working together in the school’s ‘news’, and they start liking each other. She even tells him so during a school trip after she drinks too much but she won’t remember it. Still, they spend time together and they like each other, but then Yeon-doo comes back, finally, and they’re so happy to be together again. Bora has always been protective, and now that Yeon-doo is here it comes out that there was a mistake, Yeon-doo never heard the name of the boy she liked, she read it on his jacket, which was borrowed. Yeon-doo likes Woon-ho, not Hyun-hin, he wore his friend’s jacket because he had just arrived, he was in New Zealand. Bora is sad, but because of her protectiveness she keeps her feelings from her friend, and tells Woon-ho they won’t be together. Bora helps her friend see him, meet him, until Hyun-jin tells Yeon-doo that “they like each other”. Yeon-doo is angry that Bora lied to her, but she won’t stay angry forever. They’re best friends and love each other above everything. So when it’s time for Woon-ho to go back to New Zealand, where he still has a mom and little brother, Yeon-doo tells her to hurry, to not let him leave like this, and Hyun-jin is waiting for her on his bike to take her to the train station, where she confesses to Woon-ho that she does like him, very much, and they promise to exchange emails often, and he promises to come back to her as soon as he can. This all happened in 1999, and they exchange email through Christmas and New Year, but all of a sudden he stops writing, doesn’t answer his phone, totally disappeared. She’s hurt, it hurts very much; she attends college, moves on, starts working, and then years later her father receives a package. Bora is invited to an art exhibition, and finally learns the truth. Joseph invited her, and he’s Poon Jun-jo, Woon-ho’s younger brother, who is no more 5, he’s an adult and he tells her that Woon-ho died in an accident, so she can now stop being angry at him and can go back to remember the good times together. 

Bora is Kim You-jung

Woon-ho is Byeon Woo-seok

Hyun-jin is Park Jung-woo

Lockwood & co. season 1

I’m not sure how to describe/review this series because I didn’t love it, but I would have watched a season 2 for sure, had they made one. Netflix cancelled it. I must ask them all, stop making cliffhanger endings unless it’s sure there will be a second season, because from now on I will ask around if a series has a finale or not, and not watch it if it doesn’t have one, it’s very annoying.

The characters/actors weren’t the best, but were also intriguing enough that I wanted to watch more.

The George character was really sacrificed, I never felt all that friendship towards him because he was barely in. They could have showed simple, quick images of how they got to know/work together in that first year together that we don’t see at the beginning. Quick images to show us how close the three of them had become, in a way, how closely they worked, anything.

Other than that, it was nice to.-)

1- Lucy Carlysle is 13 when her mother, if I can use such a word for her, sells her to an agency. Lucy has the gift of ‘listening’, very useful in this world where ‘the Problem’ is a big thing, ghosts are real and can be seen and heard, can kill or cause people to fall into a vegetative state. Apparently only minors can have the gifts to fight them, so the adults use them. Lucy’s mom gets all her wages while she trains and risks her life every day. Luckily she finds comrades in arms and also a best friend, Norrie, but their adult supervisor Jacobs is only good for drinking. When they find a ‘visitor’ much more dangerous than they were told, she’s sent back to Jacobs for help. When she runs back she finds them dying and Norrie unresponsive. Jacobs sees it all but doesn’t help, he shuts them in and goes away scared. Still, at the trial he blames it all on Lucy, so she’s fired. Of course her ‘mother’ cares nothing about the truth or what she feels and only cares about the money, insisting she’ll have to apologize and beg for her job back, so Lucy runs away to the big city, London. Unfortunately, without a parent or proper documents nobody even listens to her. Her last chance is a new agency, Lockwood and Co., and she’s hired. Both Lockwood and his friend George are teenagers like her, and there’s no adult supervisor here. One year later, Lucy and Lockwood work together to free a haunted house, but during the work the house catches on fire and they flee. Lucy got strange emotions and images from this ghost, she feels something, so when they find the woman’s corpse inside a wall, Lucy takes her ring.

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Lucy is brought to a hospital but sneaks out after a nurse says she tried to call her mother. Lockwood is told the insurance will not pay for the damages to the house because they didn’t follow the right procedure - well, it’s true that they didn’t have the chains - so they have to pay 60.000 pounds in two weeks. George thinks Lucy is too weird and things got worse/weirder since she’s with them. The ring, not the body, is the source of the ghost who appears in their house so now she has to tell them about it.

For some reason the inspectors are very much against the Lockwood agency. They tell Lockwood to fire her because she’s not qualified - true, and he knows it. They tell her to go home because Lockwood is a charlatan - but still better than home.

Lucy tells her story to George so now he understands her. To raise the money, Lockwood chooses to solve the ring-ghost case: she was an actress, Annabel, 40 years ago then she was murdered, and even though Lucy asked him to leave her name out of it, he named her on tv. 

She connected with the ring and felt how Annabel’s lover choked her to death. Lucy almost leaves, sure they don’t want her and don’t really value her, but Lockwood gets her to stay and promises to always tell her the truth. Someone breaks into their house to steal Annabel’s ring. Lockwood put it in the basement, but Lucy took it back so she still has it.

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Not only they owe 60.000 pounds, but they can’t do anything without adult supervision, so Lockwood accepts a job from rich Fairfax who need professionalism and confidentiality, to be done in secret without telling the inspectors. This ‘country house’ is huge and ‘a lot’ has happened there over the years, and those who tried to do the job before, all died. There’s great danger but together they make it, thanks to Lucy who finds a hidden door first and then the source, and thanks to the bomb Lockwood smuggled inside. It’s not a triumph though because Lockwood realized they got it wrong before, in the last episode they accused an actor working with Annabel but no, it was Fairfax who killed her, who sent his assistant to steal the ring and who now tried to have them killed by his house. Before they can go out, Fairfax is there with a rifle demanding the ring. Afraid he might shoot Lockwood, Lucy stands up and shows them all she has the ring. She tosses the ring in the air an Annabel comes out and kills Fairfax, then she vanishes when they lock the ring away. Inspectors come and even some important man, and many things are taken away. At first the three are arrested, but then they’re let go free after they sign a document, to never speak of what happened. George and Lucy are relieved that their debt has been paid and they don’t need supervision anymore, but Lockwood is upset because they can’t talk about it and they’re not named in the case, and Fairfax’s name will somehow come out clean. As boss of his agency, Lockwood promotes Lucy to 4th grade, so now she’s qualified, but then she stupidly unlocks something in the skull case and she faints. 

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Lucy sleeps for 14 hours or such, and at first doesn’t remember anything that happened. They’re hired to open an unknown grave and contain the ghost within: it’s all metal with chains and stuff, just like they do nowadays to protect against ghosts, only this man died like 100 year ago, a long time before the Problem started. There’s also a mirror that enchants George for a moment, but he sees the ancient writing and is excited to translate it: “the truth lies beyond”. George knows who the man is and a lot of things that I’m not sure when he figured it out, but he shows his knowledge to outshine the Fittes squad. Still, the inspector decides to have both teams on the case, because the mirror has disappeared. Lockwood and the squad leader, whatever his name, really can’t stand each other, and they make a bet so who fails to solve the case first loses the bet and can not work anymore. During the opening of the grave Lucy starts remembering stuff, and once home she goes downstairs to open the skull container, just a bit, and indeed the skull talks to her. It’s incredible, she’s freaking out and excited all at once, because there’s only one person in the world who can talk to type-3 ghosts, Marissa Fittes the legend. The fact that Lucy can do it means she’s really powerful, and both boys do not believe her. Well, at first Lockwood wanted to consider the case closed and was arguing with George who insisted on translating the inscription, so neither boy was in the best, most open state of mind, but Lucy felt bad. She questioned if he minded so much the idea of being n.2, or something like that, and he told her that if she kept questioning him or his locked room upstairs, they’d be done! I guess he feels bad about it later because he goes to her room to take care of the wound on her arm, and admits that for someone who likes the spotlight so much it’s hard to realize that his role is to give the spotlight to someone else.

He tells her “I was orphaned at the age of 6. So, all I can say is I don’t really enjoy talking about my past, and that’s what’s behind that door” and “the problem is, when you like the spotlight as much as I do, it’s quite an adjustment to realize that the real reason you might be here is to shine it on somebody else”.

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George is obsessed with that mirror, keeps thinking about it. Lockwood and Lucy meet Flo, a relic hunter he knows, for information. Since they found Danny’s corpse, they’re now looking for his partner. I think Danny helped Lockwood once, and then he became… a relic hunter? I think. To find his partner Jac, they leave a message on a wall as Flo suggests, but when Jack shows up at their house, it’ll be too late. Jack has been stabbed and can only say a few words before dying. Anthony and Lucy also checked the warehouse of some relic hunters to see if they have the mirror, and when he talks to a young boy a woman sort of tasers him and he wakes up on some sort of electric chair. A man wants to know who he is, who he works for and how he found them, the obvious things, but he doesn’t say much. Then Lucy is captured, basically the same way, and all of a sudden Lockwood is all ‘kill me but let her go’ and when she saves them both - because she wakes up much quicker than he did - and they’re out, she questions what was he doing, trying to get himself killed, and what is happening to him…

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Jack Carver mentioned a bone glass, and they’re now researching it. George tells them about Bickerstaff, a respected clinician and psychiatrist. Mary Dulac went to one of his meetings and disappeared, and reappeared many years later completely mad. The skull wants Lucy to free him, and he calls Bickerstaff ‘his master’, and leads her around his house, Bickerstaff’s house, in search of his documents. George studies the papers: Bickerstaff was studying the sources, “murdering his own patients to make sources”, but simply doing that would not guarantee the bodies would become sources, so he took “parts of them whilst they were still alive” to make sure, that would indeed cause lots of trauma. Seven ghosts, the recipe for the bone glass. George also found out Dulac wrote a book and the only copy is “in the black library at Fittes”. Luckily they’ve been invited to their ball for their 50th anniversary. Kipps, the Fittes squad leader, offers her a job and asks her to the ball, and also out for a coffee, but she turns him down. At the ball, Penelope Fittes also offers her a job, but Lucy refuses. When Lockwood sees Norrie’s picture and they talk  about her, he asks “you lost her?” - “ghost locked” - “you never said” - “never asked”, and indeed he never did. She told George because he asked, but Lockwood never did. He gives her a necklace: “it belonged to someone I was very close to”. According to Penelope, she made sure Jacobs “will never be in charge of agents ever again”…

Lockwood and Lucy find the book in the library but then a man comes in. They hide, but he sees the map Lockwood used - how did he get that map anyway? maybe George made it for them…- so they have to fight a bit and escape. The guy has a gold, or golder, rapier. 

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Flo told them last episode of a private relic auction for tonight, os they all go, them three and Flo to help them.They sneak in and are found out by an undercover agent, like a policeman, investigating humans, who warns them to go away. She’d go, understanding the situation, but Lockwood refuses, he wants to get the mirror. They argue, she says he’s obsessed with winning. “yeah, of course I care about winning, I have to, I don’t have anyone around me to pick up the pieces if I fail” and “if there are things I haven’t told you about myself, it’s probably for your own good”. But she’s not having it. “Two hours ago, at that party, you were petrified at the thought of me leaving you. You made me believe that you, me and George could be a family. But Lockwood & co. can never be that, because at the center of it is you. And at the center of you is just a…” - “is what? A cold, dead heart of stone?” - “yeah, maybe, but who knows, though? ‘cause you don’t actually show anyone” - “nothing good comes from letting people in. Everything ends and everyone leaves. When my time comes, I don’t intend on leaving anyone behind who’s gonna lie there every night wishing I would just walk through that door one more time” - “then you never should have let me in. Or George. Because now it’s far too late”. They wear the cloak and hood like all the buyers, and witness the auction.

So… the bone glass is the mirror, it’s just one item, not two, they’re looking for.

He’s found out, she causes a diversion, and he takes the mirror. The agent dies to help them escape. Lockwood is shocked “they just killed him like that” and “what did he die for?”. Lucy: “because they’re bastards!” - “it’s because I am”.

Flo helps George realize he’s bsessed with the mirror. Lockwood and Lucy have to fight the man with the golden rapier - Lucy helps a lot - then they throw George and Flo the mirror and escape by jumping in the river from the roof.

Flo takes George to Deprac’s door - the inspector or whatever - but he can’t give the mirror away, she underestimated its power.

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Lockwood thinks it’s over, Lucy is very upset because now every relic hunter is after them. He apologizes. They read Mary’s book, she’s the one who killed Bickerstaff, and she explains about the mirror: it’s actually a window, she wrote, “since that glimpse, I am damned. All I want to see is more” and they finally realize that George is under its spell. George has gone to the cemetery, to Bickerstaff. 

Lucy says: “can’t stand mirrors, there’s always this stupid girl staring back at me” :lol:

Lockwood and three of Kipps team stay out to fight the bad guys while Lucy goes down to the catacombs to save George. The skull tells her he was there when the mirror was created but he was never so fool as to look into it: “the way to look is with someone else’s eyes, someone weak, someone curious, someone vulnerable”.

George trusted Joplin, believed her a scientist just like him. She does want to know, and she planned to use George whether he wanted to look in the mirror or not, but since they met Kipps - and George helped him because he’s growing up and losing his talent - she plans to have Kipps look into the mirror… until she learns about him losing his talent. George understands that she killed Carver because he sold the precious mirror instead of giving it to her. Before Lockwood can go down, the man with the golden rapier calls him insignificant like his parents and shoots him. With a gun. 

Lucy begs Joplin to use her, to let her look in the mirror ad not George. But then, when Joplin uncovers the mirror, Lucy turns her head and puts the skull in front of the mirror. Joplin looks into the mirror, vanishes and when the mirror breaks, the seven ghosts go away, finally free. But Bickerstaff’s ghost is now free of his chains, somehow, but Lockwood comes to help and saves theem. For some reason, Lockwood doesn’t tell inspector Barnes who shot him. Anyway, the case is closed, bad guys arrested. Kipps and Lockwood make peace.

The man with the golden rapier was of course working for Penelope - we did see him with her before - Lucy keeps sending voice tapes to Norrie, she’s glad she was wrong in thinking George hated her, and also glad that even though “Lockwood almost died1000 times, but I think he’s decided he’s better off alive, which is really good”. Lockwood tells them “the golden blade” shot him and that “he mentioned my parents, said their deaths were insignificant, like mine would be” and he also wants to show them  both the locked room… but of course it ends here, we would know if there was a season 2 but Netflix cancelled it, who knows why. 

Pamela Joplin is Louise Brealey (Sherlock’s Molly Hooper)

Gilmore girls season 3

This is the season when they eat 4 Thanksgiving dinners. Also: Dave is Lane’s Dean, while Rory’s Dean gets fed up with her, dates another and proposes too. Rory dates Jess but not for long. Dave reads a bible and can take Lane to the prom. Yale beats Harvard.

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Lorelei has a dream of living with Luke and being pregnant with twins, so she calls Rory in the middle of  the night to tell her. Rory is in Washington with Paris. They talk to congress people and Paris is asked out by Princeton Man and Rory has to explain to her because she hadn’t realized :) Whey Rory gets back, she dresses up hoping to see Jess, but then she’s gets upset when she sees him kissing a girl. She tells her mom about the kiss, and Lorelei rightly tells her that she’s treating Dean very badly. When Lorelei tells her parents that she’s not seeing Chris, she hasn’t seen him all summer, Emily starts ranting at her until she explains about Sherrie’s pregnancy. Now Richard is all on Chris’ side, because he’ll do the right thing and marry Sherrie and ‘have a family’, like he proposed to do with Lorelei all those years ago. Lorelei goes out and to Luke’s; they’re still not as they once were together, but now she cries and he listens. So they’ll go there again now.

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Chilton 2002-2003, Rory’s last year. Rory speaks as the Vice President of the “student body government”, but the Puffs can’t stand Paris and they put Rory in the middle, and Rory doesn’t tell the truth to Paris. Lorelei has lunch with Emily who tells her she called Christopher. Emily tells her she should fight to keep Chris but Lorelei doesn’t want her to get involved. She doesn’t, but since neither Lorelei or Rory answered his calls, he shows up at the Friday’s dinner, and they both yell at him because he hurt them both. There’s nothing he can do, he still intends to marry Sherry so there’s not really much to talk about and both girls are very hurt. Rory then fights with Jess about his girl, saying it surprised her after they kissed… which is stupid because he’s right, she never called him and she’s still with Dean.

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Rory thought she had her application papers all worked out, but it turns out her choices were the worst, she freaks out and talks to a Harvard family for help. Taylor wants to open a soda shop. Lane meets Dave, a guy who answered her ad and has a band.

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Lane has a place in Dave’s band, with Zach and Brian, and has to find a way to go rehearse in Hartford. Her mom has chosen the colleges she can apply to and as an act of rebellion she dyes her hair purple. Rory is very rude to the beauty shop girl, only because she’s Jess’ girl. Lorelei and Luke go to Rory’s old high school, and she was excited about it but all the kids’ questions are about her pregnancy when she was 16, and the moms are not happy. Lane turns back to black, she died her hair black again.

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Luke is not happy because a family with babies occupies his diner and a woman even breastfeeds. Dwight is Lorelei’s new neighbour and asks her to water his lawn and flowers inside while he’s away. Lorelei and Michel go to an auction organized by Emily, where Lorelei learns her mom is called ‘cobra’ by her friends, and she meets a man. She’ll have to ask Emily for his name and number. They go out on a date and it’s so boring… Emily is more excited about it than she is, because she’s friends with his mother and Richard with his father. Dad scolds her because this could upset ‘Emily’s world’, where “it is very very important that she have the first cup of tea” and “if my wife wants the first cup of tea, she’s going to have it!” :-) So Lorelei has to go to the already planned concert with boring Peyton.

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Lorelei hasn’t talked to Christopher since he left but Rory has, and now Sherry wants her at her baby shower, and Lorelei gets stuck there too, and after a while she gets frustrated with all Sherry’s talking of her baby girl, of Harvard being so close Rory could visit all the time, and how Christopher is wonderful with her and the baby… 

Jess buys a car, he’s been working secretly at a Walmart. Rory suggests she and her mom throw Sherry’s boiled eggs at it.

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Paris goes out again with Jamie from Princeton because he missed her and showed up again, so Rory has the weekend free and her mom wants ot do the town’s dance marathon together and win. They make it almost to the end, but then Lorelei leaves her to dance with Dean while she gets Luke to repair her shoe’s heel. Dean has been a saint all this time, but now he’s fed up because Rory keeps looking at Jess and talking to him or about him, so Dean breaks up with her. Rory storms out and Kirk wins the marathon.

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Richard wants to show Yale to Rory, and both grandparents take Rory and Lorelei there and they’re all having a great time until Richard tells them he set an interview for Rory with the “Dean of Admissions”, which starts a fight with Lorelei who accuses him of manipulating Rory who wants to go to Harvard while he throws back in her face that she never went to college. Rory is also upset because he didn’t tell her so she wasn’t prepared as she liked to be. Rory and Jess are together now. Luke seems happy at first but then acts all over protective of Rory. After kissing Jess she goes to knock at Dean’s window to say sorry for hurting him. 

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Thanksgiving. Emily wants them at her house, no excuses. So now they have 4 Thanksgiving dinners. They try to get out of Luke’s but he looks disappointed so they go. Rory doesn’t want to kiss Jess in the street where people, or Dean, might see them. He’s quite upset. Lorelei tells Dean they don’t have to avoid each other. First they eat at Lane’s, where there’s Dave playing guitar, to stay near Lane. Next they eat at Sookie’s, where she’s upset because Jackson is cooking, putting the turkey in a “vat of boiling oil”. Kirk gets a cat, but it scratches him very badly. At Luke’s, there’s Jess too and Rory explains how she thinks everybody’s watching her now that she’s with Jess. At her parents’ house, Lorelei learns that Rory also applied to Princeton and Yale, other than Harvard. She’s very very upset.

Lane’s mom got Dave to play for hours, for only 20$, but he still wants to date her, and he gives her a kiss. Sookie is getting drunk to survive the night and Jackson and his friends frying everything, burning the lawn and breaking stuff. They stop at Luke’s, where Rory kisses Jess and Dean sees them. They didn’t actually eat at Emily’s, “because of the upset”, so they get something to go, they’re not too full.

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Paris spent Christmas at her boyfriends’s house (Jamie) and he told her he loved her. Dean stops by to give her back her stuff and helps Lorelei with a big spider. Then they casually meet and get a slice of cake together and decide to stay friends. When they attend Richard’s birthday party, grandma Trix suddenly appears sending Emily out of her mind. Trix yhen comes to watch Lorelei’s house. Rory goes to the town’s carnival. Jess refuses to go, but changes his mind when they meet Dean and his sister Clara invites her to go with them. Lorelei dines at her Inn with her parents  and grandma. Trix plans to leave London and come to live here. Francie has everyone meet when Paris is not there, to change her decisions, and it upsets Rory.

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Paris is ok but Rory is on a war path against Francie, so Francie schemes and gets her to fight with Paris. Sookie meets an old friend but is shocked to learn, when they meet again, that he thought it was a date, because he’s always liked her. Lorelei should give a deposition to help Emily who has been sued by an ex maid, but she doesn’t want to lie and can’t say what Emily wanted.

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Since they promised Lane that her band can play in their garage, Lorelei and Rory now need to clean it up because it’s full of stuff. Lorelei accepted a date with Alex, and then said she too loves fishing so she now has to learn. Luke offers to help. Paris is so furious she wants to throw Rory out of their student council, so the Headmaster scolds them both. When Lorelei comes back, she keeps the fish in her bathtub. Luke asks Taylor’s lawyer out on a date. Lane’s mom won’t let her go out with Dave because he’s not Korean, even if she likes him.

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Rory is invited to Sherri’s C-section to see her sister born. There’s a lot of remembering when Lorelei was young with Christopher and when she didn’t enter the dress Emily wanted because she had gained weight, because she was pregnant. Christopher’s parents were very much against it and her. Sherry’s labour a week earlier so Rory joined her at the hospital, but she wa the only one there and was freaking out when they told her she should be present at the delivery, so Rory calls her mom urgently. It’s a very sad episode in my opinion, because we get to see the difference from now and when it happened to Lorelei. Sherry has Rory and Lorelei and a loving Christopher, while Lorelei went alone and when Emily came she kept scolding her and wasn’t allowed to enter. And Christopher wasn’t there.

And when he came he spoke of having to get married, but we know she didn’t like that plan.

Lorelei buys Emily a dvd player with dvds of films she likes. Back then, Emily found a note after Lorelei left home. 

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Rory is forced to tell Emily she’s now dating Jess, so Emily wants him to come but he shows up late and with a black eye. He won’t tell her what happened so they have a big fight - because she thinks he fought with Dean - and he leaves. The next day Emily scolds Lorelei for letting Rory go out with him. Jess will tell Luke that it was a swan, and Luke makes him a speech on how to deal with a girl like Rory. Lorelei went to New York with Alex, Sookie and Jackson for the weekend.

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The “Doose clan” will stay at the Inn where Lorelei works. Grandma Trix comes to stay at Richard’s home making Emily crazy. Rory keeps staying home waiting for Jess’ call until Lorelei scolds her telling her to go out. Emily sees Trix kissing a man. Lorelei tries to convince her to be superior and let it go, but when Trix attacks her again she reveals it in front of her lady friends. Emily feels terrible later. Rory went to the hockey game with Lane. Dean was playing but they lost. He has a new girlfriend now.

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Lorelei says Rory wants to become “a foreign correspondent”. Sookie can’t taste food well because she’s pregnant. When Jackson learns the news he starts thinking of money. Rory and Paris compete to take the speech for the bicentennial of Chilton. Lorelei meets Medina again.

Paris and Rory both win and are to combine their speeches. Paris shows up at her house to tell her she slept with Jamie, and they make peace. Rory is ready for her speech but Paris isn’t, she shows up unkempt and starts saying in front of everybody that she won’t go to Harvard, she had sex but won’t go to Harvard, and it’s very embarrassing… She doesn’t care because she’s so sad she cries and cries, all her family went to Harvard but they didn’t accept her. Lorelei apologises to Medina but he tells her he’s ok… until they kiss and he admits he’s not over it. Rory has been accepted into all three, as the big envelopes show.

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Rory makes a pro and cons list to choose the university, but all town is sure she’ll go to Harvard. There was a fire at the Independence Inn during the night, so Sookie and Lorelei burst into Luke’s to take over the place for breakfast. The girls give up their beds to hotel guests, so Rory sleeps at Lane’s and Lorelei at Luke’s. Lorelei thought the hotel would reopen soon, but when she enters they can see it’s in bad shape. Yale’s pros are so many, Lorelei turns encouraging towards her going to Yale, now.

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Both grandparents are thrilled that Rory will go to Yale. Luke is invited to meet Nicole’s parents. He also sees Jess skipping school. Richard gives Lorelei a cheque for 75.000$ for an investment he made in her name when she was born… and she uses it to repay Emily for what she paid for Rory’s school. It’s a hugemess. Richard met her at a restaurant to give her the money for a reason! Lorelei wanted to pay back the loan because it was weighing on her, but Emily’s real upset thinking they won’t go to their dinners now.

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His principal tells Jess he won’t graduate because he missed too many days. There’s a 20-days limit, he missed more than a month - well, I thought more…

Lane’s band plays at a guy’s house. Jess is upset, so he gets aggressive and rude making Rory cry, so when Dean sees her he hits Jess and they fight until the police arrive. Medina doesn’t want to be in close proximity to Lorelei. Lane drank beer and got drunk and called her mom to say she likes Dave.

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Fran of the bakery died, so now Lorelei and Sookie think they might buy the Dragonfly. Lane’s mom doesn’t react, not even when Dave shows up himself to say he wants to take Lane to the prom. He shows up again after having read the bible in one night so mom gives them permission to go together. Dean tells Rory he proposed to Lindsay and she accepted. Jimmy, Jess’ father, shows up at the diner. Luke tells him to go away. Jimmy introduces himself to Jess and then he goes away. Jess and Luke have a fight, Jess does not want to repeat the year and graduate, so Luke says he’s got to go away.

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I had to look it up because I had no idea who Gore Vidal was or what he had to do with Rome, anyway it was just a passing line :p

The kids are 18, and Jess left home to go see Jimmy in California. Santa Monica. His partner Sasha seems a great woman to me, her little girl too, but Jimmy seems… not responsible at all, to say the least, he doesn’t even ask Jess why he’s there or if he’ll stay the night or more… Lorelei and Emily have another arguement, and for once finally Rory says something, calling Emily stupid - well, acting stupid. 

Jess asks to stay for a while but Jimmy says he can’t stay, and things like that”I’m not a father, never was, I left you because I wasn’t a father” and how he’s not able to take care of him or raise him…Jess doesn’t know what to do so Jimmy accepts. Rory was named Valedictorian, apparently.

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Lorelei and Rory want to go backpacking through Europe, but the backpacks are really heavy. Luke wants to close the diner and go two weeks away with Nicole. The Independence Inn is closign so Lorelei hasn’t got any money anymore. They can’t buy the Dragonfly now because they don’t have “financial aid for Yale” anymore, becaues those 75.000 made them look rich so they lost the aid. Rory asks a loan from her grandparents, so they’ll pay for all her schooling. So now she tells Lorelei to buy her Inn. It’s Rory’s graduation: Sookie, Jackson and Luke are there too, but Christopher is not. Paris has her nan with her three kids that love Paris, and she loves them. 2003. Rory makes her speech filling it with love for her mom. Jess calls her without saying anything, so she says her piece and her goodbye.

end of season 3.