document_title: Arrested Development (season 4)

question_text: who plays lindsay in arrested development season 4

text: Arrested Development (season 4)

text: Production[edit]

text: Six years after the series was canceled by Fox, filming for a revived fourth season began on August 7, 2012. The season consists of 15 new episodes, all debuting at the same time on Netflix on May 26, 2013, in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Latin America, and the Nordics.[4] Several actors who had recurring roles in the original series returned to reprise their roles, including Henry Winkler as Barry Zuckerkorn, Mae Whitman as Ann Veal, Ben Stiller as Tony Wonder, Scott Baio as Bob Loblaw, Judy Greer as Kitty Sanchez, and Liza Minnelli as Lucille Austero, while new characters are played by John Slattery, Terry Crews and Isla Fisher.[5][6][7][8] The plot of the season focuses on the fictional production of a film based on the Bluth family scandal and what the characters have been doing since 2006.[9] There were plans to have George Clooney make a cameo appearance for a joke centered on Mitt Romney but it never came together.[10]

text: The show format is different compared to previous seasons: each of the fifteen episodes focuses on one individual character—with every episode happening at the same time within the show's universe—showing the character's activities since the conclusion of the third season.[11]  According to Jason Bateman, "If I'm driving down the street in my episode and Gob's going down the sidewalk on his Segway, you could stop my episode, go into his episode, and follow him and see where he's going".[12] Part of the reason for this format was the challenge with getting the cast together to shoot on the same dates. "We shot for Netflix and of course everybody was busy, so everybody had a different shooting schedule. I did scenes with light stands with an X in tape put on them. I would have a conversation with Jeffrey Tambor, then I would turn to my right and have a conversation with Jessica Walters, but both of them were light stands instead," said Henry Winkler in a November 2017 interview with Uproxx.[13]

text: Michael Cera joined the writing crew for season 4, the first cast member to do so.[14] Netflix CEO Reed Hastings and creator Mitchell Hurwitz previously stated that season four would be the final season of the show, and that the revival serves as a "one-off" and "act one of a movie". However, a Netflix spokesperson later went on to say, "We're hopeful there will be more seasons" and "...by no means is this the end of it. We're definitely planning to do more with them."[15]

text: In October 2014, Hurwitz said that a re-edit of season 4 was being done to tell the story in chronological order.[16] Ron Howard recorded new voice-over material for the recut.[17] On May 1, 2018, Hurwitz announced via Twitter that the chronological re-edit would be released on May 4, 2018. The recut is titled Arrested Development Season 4 Remix: Fateful Consequences, and Hurwitz stated that it will "shuffle the content from 15 individualized stories into 22 interwoven stories the length of the original series."[18]

text: Following the remixed release on Netflix, several of the cast members, including Jason Bateman, Will Arnett, Michael Cera and David Cross, requested additional compensation for the remixed episodes, which they state include unused footage shot for the original format of the season's episodes. Representatives for the actors also consider that the remixed version makes it a potential vehicle for syndication that would lead to financial gain for 20th Century Fox Television but not for the actors. According to these representatives, 20th Century has stated that they have the right to reedit the episodes as they see fit without consulting the actors.[19]

text: Cast[edit]

text: Main[edit]

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Jason Bateman as Michael Bluth
Portia de Rossi as Lindsay Bluth Fünke
Will Arnett as Gob Bluth
Michael Cera as George-Michael Bluth
Alia Shawkat as Maeby Fünke
Tony Hale as Buster Bluth
David Cross as Tobias Fünke
Jeffrey Tambor as George Bluth, Sr./Oscar Bluth
Jessica Walter as Lucille Bluth

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text: Returning guest cast[edit]

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Scott Baio as Bob Loblaw[8]
John Beard as himself[20]
Ed Begley, Jr. as Stan Sitwell
Jim Cramer as himself
Jeff Garlin as Mort Meyers
B.W. Gonzalez as Lupe[21]
Brian Grazer as himself
Judy Greer as Kitty Sanchez[8]
Stacey Grenrock-Woods as Trisha Thoon
Ed Helms as James Carr
Clint Howard as Johnny Bark
Jay Johnston as Officer Taylor
Justin Lee as Annyong
James Lipton as Warden Stefan Gentles[22]
Liza Minnelli as Lucille Austero[22]
Jerry Minor as Officer Carter
Martin Mull as Gene Parmesan[23]
Andy Richter as himself/Rocky Richter-Wang/Emmett Richter/Donny Richter[22]
Ian Roberts as Dr. Fishman, aka The Literal Doctor
Ione Skye as Mrs. Veal[21]
Ben Stiller as Tony Wonder[24]
Christine Taylor as Sally Sitwell
Alan Tudyk as Pastor Veal[25]
Justin Grant Wade as Steve Holt
J.J. Wall as Uncle Paul Veal[21]
Carl Weathers as himself[22]
Mae Whitman as Ann Veal[7]
Henry Winkler as Barry Zuckerkorn[8]
Mather Zickel as Studio executive

text: New guest cast[edit]

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Daniel Amerman as Mark Cherry
Blake Anderson as B. Lake
Diedrich Bader as Gunner
Maria Bamford as DeBrie Bardeaux
Trace Beaulieu as Crow T. Robot
Garcelle Beauvais as Ophelia Love
Beck Bennett as 'Straight' Straightbait Actor[21]
Alan Blumenfeld as Floyd the Barber[21]
Kyle Bornheimer as Shannon Ryan
Andy Buckley as Colonel Grimm[21]
Laurel Coppock as Maggie
Terry Crews as Herbert Love
Amanda de Cadenet as Beatrix Hebberly-Sneed, WeeBBC2 reporter
Adam DeVine as Starsky
Chris Diamantopoulos as Marky Bark
Isla Fisher as Rebel Alley
Nelson Franklin as Dr. Tilive[21]
Erik Griffin as Jaspar[21]
Chad Hall as 'Gay' Straightbait Actor[21]
Dan Harmon as Yurt Clerk
David Henrie as himself
Amy Hill as Mrs. Noh
Joel Hodgson as Joel Robinson
Anders Holm as Supervisor Spoon
Brian Huskey as Chorizo salesman
Marc Evan Jackson as Storage Auctioneer
Peter Jason as Storage Dave / Mr. Jordan[21]
Bernie Kopell as Judge Kornzucker
John Krasinski as Jerry Bruckheimer Films executive (uncredited)
Bobby Lee as Mrs. Oh
Natasha Leggero as News Anchor Jackie[26]
Rizwan Manji as Animesh[21]
Karen Maruyama as China Garden
Bruce McCulloch as Father Marsala
Debra Mooney as Joan Bark
Noah Munck as himself
Richard Jin Namkung as Paul "P-Hound" Huan
Conan O'Brien as himself[22]
Lennon Parham as Rehab Nurse
Eddie Pepitone as Govennah[21]
Busy Philipps as News anchor Joan
Mary Lynn Rajskub as Heartfire
Seth Rogen as Young George Bluth
Lonny Ross as Jonah/Lonny Feinberg
Keri Russell as Widow Carr (voice only)
Wyatt Russell as Oakwood[21]
Ben Schwartz as John Beard Jr.
John Slattery as Dr. Norman
Maria Thayer as Tracey Bluth
Becky Thyre as Loretta[21]
Tommy Tune as Argyle Austero
Eli Vargas as Perfecto Telles
Nadine Velazquez as Rosalita
Allan Wasserman as Herb Zuckerkorn[21]
George Watsky as Chris Kazmierczak[21]
Suzanne Whang as Olive Garden
Kristen Wiig as Young Lucille Bluth
Max Winkler as Young Barry Zuckerkorn
Zach Woods as Trippler
John Yuan as Doug Fleer
Matthew Yuan as Dean Fleer

text: Marketing and promotion[edit]

text: In October 2012, Netflix chief content officer Ted Sarandos premiered footage from the fourth season for the attendees of TheWrap's annual conference TheGrill. The clip featured Buster Bluth (Tony Hale) helping his mother Lucille Bluth (Jessica Walter) smoke a cigarette, because the ankle-bracelet monitor she's wearing under house arrest prevents her from leaving her hotel room.[27] Following that, a set photo was released showing the Bluth company stair car, now having the Austero-Bluth Company logo referencing to Liza Minnelli's character, Lucille Austero, having more stake in the company.[28] Set photos showing Tony Hale as Buster Bluth saluting at someone's funeral were released online.[29] The first promotional images of the entire cast together were released in the October 12, 2012, issue of Entertainment Weekly magazine. These included a cover picture, along with two pictures of the entire cast in restoration-era outfits.[30] The first official teaser poster for the new season was released on April 4, 2013, on the show's Facebook page, along with the announcement that the 15-episode season would premiere on Netflix on May 26, 2013.[31] Netflix released the first trailer for the fourth season online on May 12, 2013.[32]

text: In March 2013, series executive producer and narrator Ron Howard stated that "We're still hoping to build to a movie and in a lot of ways, getting the Bluth family on people's radar, in a kind of contemporary way, so we can move forward with it as a movie". He stated that the film had not yet been green-lit, saying, "It's not a happening thing, but it's something that is being discussed".[33] The same month, Hurwitz stated that he was "confident that we will succeed at [making the film]", saying "there is a bigger story out there that does exist" for the film.[34]

text: Episodes[edit]

text: Original release (2013)[edit]

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No.overallNo. inseasonTitleFeaturedcharacterDirected byWritten byOriginal release dateProd.code541"Flight of the Phoenix"MichaelMitchell Hurwitz & Troy MillerMitchell HurwitzMay 26, 2013 (2013-05-26)4AJD01
After severing his ties with the majority of the family, Michael Bluth finds himself in economic turmoil after completing the Sudden Valley housing development under his new company, only to face the 2007 housing bubble which results in Sudden Valley turning into a secluded ghost town. After unsuccessfully attempting to receive a loan from Lucille Austero, the primary shareholder in what is now the Austero-Bluth Company who is running for a congressional seat, Michael moves in with his son George Michael in his dorm at the UC Irvine, while himself enrolling in University of Phoenix. George Michael, who is working on 'Fakeblock' software with his other roommate Paul, which George Michael explains is a privacy software, is uncomfortable with Michael's presence. When Michael's scheme to kick Paul out of the dorm fails, George Michael, Paul, and a visiting Maeby vote Michael out of the dorm. A disappointed and confused Michael goes to the airport, where he attempts to buy an in-flight magazine which features an article about him, but is forced to buy a plane ticket. He is later saddened when he finds out the article portrays him as a failed businessman. He returns home to Newport Beach, planning to take up residence in his mother's vacant apartment, and is surprised to find the apartment has been trashed. He is then attacked by an ostrich.
552"Borderline Personalities"George, Sr.Mitchell Hurwitz & Troy MillerJim Vallely & Richard RosenstockMay 26, 2013 (2013-05-26)4AJD03
Shortly after the events of the third season, George Sr. has begun a spiritual "Sweat & Squeeze" business venture at the border of California and Mexico with his twin brother Oscar, where he bilks money from businessmen by having Oscar take the businessmen into a sweat lodge for an hour, then switches places with George Sr. so he can charge the businessmen upwards of $10,000 for a small cup of lemonade. However, George Sr. is mainly using the property to prevent the land from going into the possession of Stan Sitwell, who George and Lucille discover is trying to build a wall on the U.S. border for the government to keep out Mexican immigrants (an idea that had originally been Lucille's but that Sitwell has stolen), despite George originally mistaking it for a monument to George W. Bush. Subsequently, George Sr. continues to lie to his brother by telling Oscar that he is using the property entirely for the business venture. In order to build the wall, George Sr. and Lucille must separate their assets so they decide to fake a divorce while secretly rekindling their sexual relations. Eventually, Oscar learns the truth from Barry Zuckerkorn, who mistakes him for George Sr, and gets revenge on his brother by sleeping with Lucille while George Sr. learns he will have to bribe the right-wing politician Herbert Love, Lucille Austero's congressional opponent, to support construction of the wall.
563"Indian Takers"LindsayMitchell Hurwitz & Troy MillerCaroline Williams & Dean LoreyMay 26, 2013 (2013-05-26)4AJD05
At the harbormaster's lounge after the boat party, Lindsay Bluth breaks off her marriage with her husband Tobias. After reading the "pray" section of Eat, Pray, Love, Lindsay is inspired to go on a spiritual trip to India, which devolves mostly into shopping for counterfeit goods. Eventually she runs out of money and decides to return, retaining advice from a shaman that told her "love is where you left it". Taking that as advice to reconcile with Tobias, she decides to try harder at their marriage and agrees to be a character witness at Lucille's trial in order to pay for a new house for them, which is a lavish mansion after meeting with a predatory realtor. Because of her increasing difficulty with the outlandish script that Lucille has written about being a good mother, Lindsay agrees to go to a method acting class with Tobias. Due to a misunderstanding, this ends up being a methadone clinic. On a double date with two patients from the clinic, Lindsay falls for activist Marky Bark and runs off with him. After a whirlwind night of dancing and mediocre sex, in which she breaks up with Tobias, Lindsay wakes up at Marky's ostrich farm he shares with his mother, where she is frustrated with herself for listening to the shaman.
574"The B. Team"MichaelTroy Miller & Mitchell HurwitzMitchell Hurwitz & Jim VallelyMay 26, 2013 (2013-05-26)4AJD02
Having seen a picture of Michael in the in-flight magazine, Ron Howard is inspired to make a movie about him, and summons Michael to meet him at Imagine Entertainment. Kitty Sanchez, George Sr.'s former assistant, now works at the studio as a producer, after betraying Maeby's lack of a high school diploma to steal her job. In exchange for the rights to Michael's "inspiring father/son story", Ron agrees to make him a producer on the project. When Ron mentions his daughter "his girl" Rebel Alley, who Ron believes would be perfect for the part of Michael's wife, Michael mistakenly assumes that Rebel is Ron's mistress. Although at first reluctant to participate in the movie and not wanting to become involved with his father again, Michael commits to the idea after using his business card (which lists him as an executive producer) to flirt with a struggling actress/musician (Isla Fisher) whom he literally bumps into on the street.  After a fight with his father, Michael procrastinates his job securing the rights by attempting to cast actors for the movie (Carl Weathers and Andy Richter), and hiring George's prison warden as a screenwriter (James Lipton). Learning about Michael's selfish motive to become a producer to impress a girl, who Michael doesn't actually know the name of, George reconciles with Michael and agrees to sign over his movie rights.  However, Michael learns from Ron that the father/son story he is interested in is actually the story of Michael and George Michael. On their date, Michael has sex with the actress in a photo-booth, learning from a photo of her tattoo that her name is Rebel, whom Michael still believes to be Ron's mistress.
585"A New Start"TobiasMitchell Hurwitz & Troy MillerDean Lorey & Jim VallelyMay 26, 2013 (2013-05-26)4AJD07
Tobias is depressed after learning that the Bluths all think he's gay. Finding his wife's copy of Eat, Pray, Love, Tobias is also inspired to go to India, and ends up booking a trip to the same city Lindsay did. Despite traveling on the same flight and other close encounters, neither Tobias or Lindsay are aware of each other being there. Hospitalized due to a bus accident, a comment from an Indian doctor that he should be in comedies motivates Tobias to try again to become an actor and he returns to California. At his method acting class, actually a methadone clinic, he befriends a patient named DeBrie who he thinks is an actress. After a double-date with Lindsay and Marky Bark, DeBrie learns that Tobias is a doctor and can write drug prescriptions ("scrips" for short). After a kiss, the two run off together and pathetically attempt to make it as Fantastic Four-themed street performers. After Tobias saves Lucille 2 from an ostrich attack, she offers him a job at her rehab clinic, which has a starting salary of $120,000 a year, but Tobias turns it out to try to keep his and DeBrie's "dream" alive. DeBrie is upset by this and leaves Tobias. Depressed once more, Tobias tries to meet Maeby while still in his Thing costume. Walking into the model home making inadvertent innuendos, he is accidentally a participant on a local show called "To Entrap a Local Predator" and is arrested as a sex offender.
596"Double Crossers"George, Sr.Troy Miller & Mitchell HurwitzDean Lorey & Richard RosenstockMay 26, 2013 (2013-05-26)4AJD04
George Sr. successfully bribes politician Herbert Love into supporting the building of his wall after encountering Lindsay at one of Love's fundraisers, who gives him a check she believes Lucille gave to Maeby for plastic surgery. However, upon returning to his "Sweat and Squeeze" camp, he learns that the property is actually in Mexico, not on the border.  As George Sr. attempts to get the wall's building cancelled through Michael's connections and struggles with new feelings of extreme emotion and delicacy, his twin brother Oscar schemes against him by sleeping with Lucille and threatening to reveal his role in the "Sweat and Squeeze" scheme. Meanwhile, Michael is afraid that if he calls George-Michael about acquiring his movie rights, he will be once more intruding upon his life but after an encounter with Gob in the model home, Gob offers to call George-Michael for him. At the Cinco de Cuatro festival, George Sr. arrives and is informed of Michael's success but also receives bad news from Dr. Norman, who tells George of his low testosterone levels, but high estrogen levels. When Herbert Love fails to make his speech, George Sr. dons a red wig and retreats back into the penthouse where he begins to live as a woman.
607"Colony Collapse"GobMitchell Hurwitz & Troy MillerMitchell Hurwitz & Jim VallelyMay 26, 2013 (2013-05-26)4AJD08
Gob continues the relationship with Ann Veal that he formed at the end of Season 3, under the belief that he has George-Michael's approval. He later attempts to break up with her, but ends up having sex with her. After accidentally proposing to Ann, Gob announces on the Christian talk show 'And As It Is Such So Also As Such Is It Unto You', which Ann's father co-hosts, that he will be performing an magical illusion at their wedding. Gob plans to disappear inside a cave and re-appear after three days but this goes wrong when his secret compartment fails to open and Gob is knocked unconscious and trapped inside a hollow boulder, being found days later in the back of a storage unit. After Ann announces that she is leaving him, Gob re-connects with his son Steve Holt who offers him a job. Gob fails to show up the next day after falling in with a group of celebrities led by singer Mark Cherry. Shamed by this new lifestyle, Gob falls into a cycle of taking 'Forget-me-now' pills which make him forget that he took the last pill but not the events that resulted in him taking the pill, eventually ending up in a Mexican hospital. After his sick bees hospitalize the whole of Gob's gang when they escape into the back of his limo, Gob takes a job at his father's "Sweat and Squeeze" camp where he unexpectedly discovers the cave he used for the illusion at the wedding. Examining the secret panel, Gob discovers it was jammed shut by a crucifix, which he takes as a 'T' for Tony Wonder.
618"Red Hairing"LindsayTroy Miller & Mitchell HurwitzCaroline Williams & Richard RosenstockMay 26, 2013 (2013-05-26)4AJD06
Sick of living on his ostrich farm, Lindsay convinces boyfriend Marky Bark to move into her mother's empty apartment with her, along with his ostrich 'Cindy'. Marky comes up with a scheme to spray politician Herbert Love with ink and glitter and requests Lindsay's help to infiltrate his fundraiser and signal Marky to emerge from the podium in which he will be hiding. At the fundraiser, Lindsay is hit on by Herbert Love himself without knowing who he is and begins sexual relations with him while Marky is caught and imprisoned when Lindsay doesn't help him. Encountering Michael, Lindsay agrees to hand over her movie rights and talk to Herbert about the wall in exchange for Michael's help to release Marky. Michael meanwhile is hurt when George-Michael both doesn't show up to the meeting arranged by Gob and lies to him about his reasons for not being there. When Lindsay discovers Marky has been released from jail with Michael's help and he asks her to assist his plan to blow-up Herbert Love's boat at Cinco de Cuatro, she plans to tell Love about Marky's plans. However, Love calls off their relationship before she can do so and Lindsay retaliates by trying to publicly shame Love, causing a riot of the Mexicans when she mentions the wall, but accidentally wins over the crowd. When Love unexpectedly turns up in a coma, Lindsay accepts an offer to run in his place.
629"Smashed"TobiasMitchell Hurwitz & Troy MillerDean Lorey & Richard RosenstockMay 26, 2013 (2013-05-26)4AJD15
Tobias begins working at Lucille Austero's rehab clinic so that he doesn't have to serve time in jail and, encountering DeBrie at the clinic, organizes a Fantastic Four musical with the permission of warden Argyle Austero (Lucille's brother) so that he can get close to her again. When he fails to acquire the rights to the Fantastic Four from Ron Howard and Michael learns that Rebel Alley is in fact Ron Howard's daughter, Tobias lies to his cast about having the rights so that the production will go on. At Cinco de Cuatro, Lucille Bluth's harsh criticism of DeBrie's performance during rehearsal and Tobias' failure to comfort her lead to her relapsing and being threatened with jail for copyright infringement. Tobias gives the Thing costume to Buster and takes DeBrie's place as Sue Storm but accidentally boards the wrong boat, taking an unexpected part in Marky's plan to bomb Herbert Love's boat when he is mistaken for Lindsay in his Sue Storm wig. Meanwhile, the performance of the musical goes ahead despite not having a Sue Storm or a villain, and it is left unknown who plays the Thing.
6310"Queen B."LucilleTroy Miller & Mitchell HurwitzRichard Rosenstock & Dean LoreyMay 26, 2013 (2013-05-26)4AJD10
Lucille prepares for her trial by preparing a story that she was trying to save Buster by piloting the boat away from shore, with Buster as the 'star witness'. When none of her family show up to the trial for various reasons, Lucille is found guilty and sent to jail as a result of Lucille Austero's testimony against her. In prison, Lucille joins a gang of Chinese women called the Jade Triad, and rises to the top of the gang when she shows them a loophole around the 'No Smoking' rule but they turn on her when she causes trouble among the Triad members. Fearing for her life, Lucille gets herself transferred out of the prison to Lucille Austero's clinic where Tobias becomes her therapist. Lucille at first refuses to try therapy but when Tobias accidentally calls her a 'villain', she rants furiously at him and accepts a part as the villain of his Fantastic Four musical. After Michael signs over his rights to the Bluth Company to Lucille, Gene Parmesan helps Michael tail Gob, whom he believes to be Rebel's secret boyfriend. At Cinco de Cuatro, Lucille plans to board a boat and sail out of the reach of the law but after encountering and rejecting both George Sr. and Oscar, Tobias unwittingly correctly psychoanalyzes her and she decides to return to rehab. Meanwhile, as a resolution to the previous episode's cliffhanger, Herbert Love's boat is saved from destruction after Marky mixes up Lindsay and Tobias' cases.
6411"A New Attitude"GobMitchell Hurwitz & Troy MillerMitchell Hurwitz & Jim VallelyMay 26, 2013 (2013-05-26)4AJD14
Believing Tony Wonder to be responsible for the ruin of his life, Gob seeks revenge against him. Pretending to be gay with George-Michael as his fake boyfriend, Gob infiltrates the Gay Club where Tony is performing but fails to sabotage Tony's act. Tony and Gob unexpectedly end up connecting and having a fun night together. Tony, who is also pretending to be gay as part of a scheme with Sally Sitwell to acquire Gob's phone and retrieve the Fakeblock software from Gob's 'boyfriend' George-Michael, agrees to another date with Gob at the Little Ballroom. However, both Gob and Tony seem to be falling in love with each other for real. The next day, Gob goes to the wrong Little Ballroom where he encounters Michael who has been tailing him, believing him to be Rebel's boyfriend. The two fight and Michael kicks Gob, Lucille and George Sr. out of the movie in frustration at his family. Gob goes to Tony Wonder to apologize and the two spend an evening together, becoming close friends and realizing that they may be falling for each other, and agree to have sex on the night of Cinco de Cuatro. Gob arrives at Cinco first and encounters Ann, who reveals she has a five-year-old child with Tony Wonder, and Gob realizes Tony has just been pretending to be gay. Gob schemes to make Ann have sex with Tony wearing a 'Gob' mask whilst being filmed in an attempt to expose Tony as straight but Ann turns on him and tricks Gob into having sex with the real Tony. The morning after, Gob encounters Michael, and talks in a roundabout way about how he has realized that he has fallen in love with Tony Wonder, and forces Michael to take a 'Forget-me-now' pill when Michael realizes Gob has slept with Tony Wonder. Not remembering the events of Cinco de Cuatro, Michael makes the same embarrassing offer to Lucille Austero over the phone again and calls Rebel who is busy with her real mystery boyfriend, revealed to be George-Michael.
6512"Señoritis"MaebyMitchell Hurwitz & Troy MillerJim Brandon & Brian SingletonMay 26, 2013 (2013-05-26)4AJD09
Ignored by her parents and unable to continue working as a movie producer without a high school diploma, Maeby illegally re-enrolls in high school by pretending to be 17. After giving up the model home to the "To Entrap a Local Predator" crew to earn money, Maeby learns that she has won a Lifetime Achievement award at the Opies. However, when she attends the ceremony with George-Michael, she realizes that the award is only given to those who are dead or whose careers are dying. Seeking to revive her career, she announces that she is creating an Internet company using George-Michael's 'Fakeblock' software, despite his objections. With investors pouring in money for the idea, Maeby also successfully pimps her mother out to Herbert Love for money and schemes to incriminate her boyfriend Perfecto, whom she believes to be her high school's undercover cop, as a sexual predator. George-Michael, realizing that 'Fakeblock' is rapidly spinning out of his control, fires Maeby from the company in a fit of panic. Maeby proceeds to sleep with Perfecto, who believes her to be 17, and attends Cinco de Cuatro to obtain her latest payment from Herbert Love's aide. When Love calls off relations with Lindsay, Maeby asks Perfecto to 'bad cop' Love for her. With Love 'taken care of' by Perfecto, he also reveals to Maeby that he's not an undercover cop and is just 17. After Cinco de Cuatro, as Lucille Austero is revealed to be missing and Sally Sitwell taking over her campaign, Maeby is arrested as a sex offender by her algebra teacher Donnie Richter, who is actually the undercover cop Rocky Richter, and realizes that she will have to live in Sudden Valley, which Gob has filled with sex offenders, as the neighborhood fits all the criteria for a sex offender to live in.
6613"It Gets Better"George-MichaelTroy Miller & Mitchell HurwitzDean Lorey & Richard RosenstockMay 26, 2013 (2013-05-26)4AJD12
In the years since Season 3 ended, George-Michael has entered college at the University of California, Irvine and, after a few formative years there (as well as a wild sexual romp while studying abroad in Spain), he goes through life with a new sense of confidence and has shed much of his meekness.  He and roommate Paul develop an app for an electronic woodblock, christening it 'Fakeblock'. In an attempt to seduce Maeby and impress Michael, George-Michael lies about 'Fakeblock', claiming that it is anti-piracy software. When Maeby uses George-Michael's idea to form an Internet company, he goes along with the lie to show her that he is a risk-taker, adopting the pseudonym 'George Maharis'. But as he discovers that Maeby has managed to start a real company with money from investors, he realizes that his white lie has rapidly evolved beyond his control and turned into a scam which he has inadvertently become the center of, and he starts looking for a way to close the company as quickly as possible. However, at a planned meeting with his father Michael he accidentally encounters Rebel, who is impressed by his new celebrity status, and lies to Michael so that he might spend more time with Rebel. Frustrated that his son is pushing away from him, Michael uses Andy Richter's membership to enter the club in search of his son.
6714"Off the Hook"BusterMitchell Hurwitz & Troy MillerJim Vallely & Mitchell HurwitzMay 26, 2013 (2013-05-26)4AJD11
After a juice-driven night with Lucille Austero, Buster wakes up to discover that he has missed his mother's trial. On a search for a new mother after Lucille Bluth disowns him, Buster moves in with Lucille Austero but she soon kicks him out for being more of a son than a lover. Buster, with nowhere else to go, re-enlists with the army to try and capture his real mother's attention, and is assigned to be a drone pilot. Buster believes he is playing a video game, and becomes skilled at the job. When he learns he is hurting real people, he suffers a panic attack and ends up injuring himself. Buster is taken to the hospital where he receives an over-sized and overly powerful left hand replacement. Buster is told by a doctor that with his powerful hand, he'll be used in battle by the army. Subsequently, he begins to deliberately fail his tests, which are being used so he gains control of his new large hand). Buster then fails the "Cute Test", (not killing an adorable kitten, showing he has control of his hand), he is discharged from the army. Buster is adopted by Ophelia Love, the wife of Herbert Love, to support Herbert's campaign as an injured war veteran. However, Ophelia begins an affair with Buster when she learns about Herbert's infidelity and then abruptly ends it, choosing to give Herbert a second chance, and kicks Buster out. Buster goes to Cinco de Cuatro seeking revenge against Herbert Love but runs into Lucille Austero, who reveals that she deliberately gave him juice the night before his mother's trial so that Lucille Bluth would be locked up. Horrified, Buster goes on a juice-fueled rampage, knocking Herbert Love into a coma. After accidentally incriminating himself into Lucille Austero's disappearance, Buster attempts and fails to use George-Michael's 'Fakeblock' software to erase the footage.
6815"Blockheads"George-MichaelMitchell Hurwitz & Troy MillerMitchell Hurwitz & Jim VallelyMay 26, 2013 (2013-05-26)4AJD13
Due to increasing animosity with his roommate Paul over the ownership of 'Fakeblock', George-Michael is voted out of his dorm room. George-Michael runs into Gob. Gob is able to sell a Sudden Valley home to George-Michael, who buys the house so his father will be proud of him. Rebel visits George-Michael and starts doubting their relationship, seeing the investment in real estate as a sign that George-Michael is not as easy-going as he claimed. Maeby, meanwhile, wanting revenge on George-Michael for firing her, advises Michael on how to impress Rebel. Following her advice, Michael makes love to Rebel, but after leaving her apartment he discovers from a photo that his romantic rival is his own son. Upon accidentally running into George-Michael and hearing from him that he has girlfriend-trouble, Michael takes pity on his son and decides not to reveal the truth and gives up pursuing Rebel further. At Cinco de Cuatro, Gob is in negotiation with a Mongolian horde he hired to build the Mexican wall, but as George Sr. reveal they have no money to pay the horde with, the horde is angered and goes on a rampage, being mistaken for rioting Mexicans in the process. Somewhere else, George-Michael is preparing to reveal at his keynote speech that 'Fakeblock' doesn't exist, he finds a note that promises him he will get "screwed" if he continues his plans with 'Fakeblock', and thinking that it is a promise of sex from Rebel, he decides to continue the lie. But, unbeknownst to him, the note was actually a threat from the hacktivist group, Anonymous. Michael awakes the next day, and because he was drugged by Gob, he has forgotten that he decided to give up Rebel. George-Michael, meanwhile, tells Rebel that he truly cares about her and thereby solidifies their relationship. As George-Michael leaves Rebel's place, he runs into the amnesic Michael, and realizes that he was the other guy Rebel was seeing. George-Michael is willing to pass it off as an honest mistake, until Michael inadvertently mentions the photo he saw, revealing that he knew about George-Michael and Rebel's relationship. Angered, George-Michael punches his father in the face, and the two silently stare at each other. In the post-credits scene, Gob is named as the replacement President of Bluth Company after Lucille Austero disappears. Buster is arrested for the murder of Lucille Austero. After watching the news of Buster's arrest, Ron Howard and Brian Grazer decide to make a movie about it.

text: Season 4 Remix: Fateful Consequences (2018)[edit]

text:
No.TitleDirected byWritten byOriginal release dateProd.code1"Re Cap'n Bluth"Mitchell Hurwitz and Troy MillerMitchell Hurwitz, Dean Lorey, Richard Rosenstock, Jim Vallely, Caroline WilliamsMay 3, 2018 (2018-05-03)RAJD01
At the 2012 Newport Beach Cinco de Cuatro celebration, Michael, heavily in debt, attempts to seduce Lucille Austero in exchange for money. Upon returning to the model home, Michael catches Gob with an unidentified romantic partner; Gob forces Michael to swallow a "forget-me-now". In 2006, immediately after the events of "Development Arrested", Lucille is arrested by the SEC after wrecking the Queen Mary. Michael, George-Michael, and George Sr. return from their attempted escape due to George Sr.'s fear that Lucille will "flip" on him to the SEC, with Michael resuming his work as president of the Bluth Company. Three months later, Michael discovers everyone in the family has received a "stimulus package" except him, yet he is still expected to be the primary character witness in Lucille's defense at her upcoming trial. Fed up, Michael quits the Bluth Company, sells his shares in the company to Lucille Austero, and uses the money to invest in his "Sudden Valley" housing development project.
2"Three Half Men"Troy Miller and Mitchell HurwitzMitchell Hurwitz, Richard Rosenstock, Jim VallelyMay 3, 2018 (2018-05-03)RAJD02
Buster inadvertently causes the SEC to take Lucille into custody by letting it slip that she was attempting to flee their jurisdiction. George Sr. runs into his twin brother, Oscar, and discovers he is now living in the desert along the U.S.–Mexico border. Buster, now alone in the penthouse, begins acting as if Lucille is still living there, constructing a homemade life-size Lucille doll and conversing with it. At a meeting with Stan Sitwell, George Sr. spies a page of blueprints for what he believes is a "monument to George W. Bush" and snaps a picture of it with his phone. George Sr. shows the picture to Lucille while visiting her in prison, whereupon she deduces the plans are actually for a border wall that Sitwell is planning to build for the U.S. government. The two conspire to underbid Sitwell for the project, along with deciding to pretend to divorce until the conclusion of Lucille's trial in order to avoid arousing suspicion from the authorities. Gob's relationship with George-Michael's former girlfriend, Ann, grows more complicated as he attempts to use her father's church as the setting for his "resurrection" illusion. Gob inadvertently proposes marriage to Ann and she accepts. At the wedding, at which he plans to perform his illusion, Gob is dismayed to find none of his family is in attendance.
3"A Couple-A New Starts"Mitchell Hurwitz and Troy MillerMitchell Hurwitz, Dean Lorey, Jim Vallely, Caroline WilliamsMay 3, 2018 (2018-05-03)RAJD03
In the aftermath of the wreck of the Queen Mary, Lindsay decides to leave Tobias and, inspired by the book Eat, Pray, Love, travels to India in an attempt to "live with less" that, predictably, ends up leaving her with no money and a maxed-out credit card. Tobias finds Lindsay's copy of the book and decides to travel to India as well, only to end up in the hospital after getting hit by a bus. A visit to a local shaman inspires Lindsay to return home, though she is forced to make up with Tobias as a condition of Lucille—who wants the entire family present at her upcoming trial—paying for her return flight. While Michael continues developing Sudden Valley, Lindsay and Tobias use their "stimulus package" to buy an extravagant house on an adjustable rate mortgage. As Lindsay prepares her testimony for Lucille's trial (in exchange for money from Lucille), Tobias attempts to revive his acting career, with little success. The collapse of the California real estate market spells disaster not only for Lindsay and Tobias' finances, but also for Sudden Valley.
4"Just Deserters"Troy Miller and Mitchell HurwitzMitchell Hurwitz, Dean Lorey, Richard Rosenstock, Jim VallelyMay 3, 2018 (2018-05-03)RAJD04
Lucille, now on house arrest, vetoes George Sr.'s original plan to sell the desert land along the U.S.–Mexico border he has purchased to the U.S. government, convincing him to pitch Sitwell's border wall plan to the government at a much lower price. Buster threatens to refuse to testify as the "key witness" at Lucille's trial unless he receives his share of the "stimulus package", which he promptly spends on a diamond-studded hook. When George Sr. and Lucille announce their "divorce" to the family, Gob decides to use the occasion to announce his upcoming marriage to Ann. The economic downturn causes the government to put the border wall project on hold, leading George Sr. to panic, as he is now unable to make the payments on the land he has purchased. A session in Oscar's sweat lodge inspires George Sr. to begin a "sweat and squeeze" operation for business executives as a way to recoup the lost money. Gob performs his "resurrection" illusion at his wedding, only for it to go horribly wrong. Three months of house arrest with Buster for company prove to be almost too much for Lucille to take.
5"A Trial Run"Mitchell Hurwitz and Troy MillerMitchell Hurwitz, Dean Lorey, Richard Rosenstock, Jim Vallely, Caroline WilliamsMay 3, 2018 (2018-05-03)RAJD05
On the day of Lucille's maritime trial, none of the family appear in court. Lindsay and Tobias attend what they believe to be a method acting class, only to discover it is a rehab session for methadone addicts. Tobias, still believing it to be an acting class, becomes friendly with DeBrie Bardeaux, a washed up actress who is now a drug addict, while a disgusted Lindsay becomes acquainted with Marky Bark, son of Johnny Bark and a friend of DeBrie's. Gob, having been rescued from his failed "resurrection" illusion, recovers in the hospital, where a furious Ann calls off their engagement. George Sr. misses the trial due to his work on the sweat and squeeze operation, as well as maintaining the pretense of his fake divorce, while "key witness" Buster is incapacitated from gorging on juice at Lucille Austero's. A desperate Lucille calls Lucille Austero to the stand on her behalf, only for the testimony to devolve into passive-aggressive bickering between the two. Lindsay abandons Tobias and begins a relationship with Marky Bark. Lucille is found guilty and sentenced to 3–5 years in prison.
6"The Parent Traps"Troy Miller and Mitchell HurwitzMitchell Hurwitz, Dean Lorey, Richard Rosenstock, Jim VallelyMay 3, 2018 (2018-05-03)RAJD06
By the spring of 2012, Michael has moved into George-Michael's dorm room at UC Irvine following the collapse of the Sudden Valley project, much to George-Michael's chagrin. A frustrated George-Michael tells Michael he is developing a software program to protect people's privacy called "Fakeblock". With Lucille in prison and refusing to see him, Buster resumes his relationship with Lucille Austero. Following his release from the hospital, Gob attempts to reconnect with his son Steve Holt. Michael, annoyed with George-Michael's roommate "P-Hound", proposes he and George-Michael vote P-Hound out of the room, drafting Maeby (whom George-Michael has been tutoring) into his plan. To his surprise, Michael is voted out of the room. Lucille Austero breaks off her relationship with Buster; with nowhere else to go, Buster re-enlists in the Army.
7"One Degree of Separation"Mitchell Hurwitz and Troy MillerJim Brandon, Dean Lorey, Richard Rosenstock, Brian Singleton, Jim Vallely, Caroline WilliamsMay 3, 2018 (2018-05-03)RAJD07
Following the wreck of the Queen Mary, George-Michael and Maeby decide not to begin a romantic relationship. In a bid to get Lindsay and Tobias to notice her, Maeby deliberately fails her senior year of high school, only to realize they have left for India. Still working as a film executive for Imagine Entertainment, Maeby flies to India to scout locations for an upcoming film. Upon seeing Lindsay in India, Maeby uses her crew's makeup artist to pose as Lindsay's shaman and is infuriated to see Lindsay lie about Maeby's existence. At George-Michael's graduation party, Michael forces George-Michael to destroy the check George Sr. and Lucille gave him as a gift, gives George-Michael the stair car, and sends him off to college. Having failed her "sophomore" senior year, Maeby is fired from her job at Imagine by Ron Howard's assistant, former Bluth Company employee Kitty Sanchez, due to not having a high school diploma. George-Michael's college career is interrupted by a surprise visit from Michael, who moves in with him. Maeby, who is now on her fifth senior year of high school, discovers George-Michael has been assigned as her math tutor. Maeby suspects her high school boyfriend, Perfecto Telles, is actually an undercover cop.
8"The Weak Become the Strong"Troy Miller and Mitchell HurwitzJim Brandon, Mitchell Hurwitz, Richard Rosenstock, Brian Singleton, Jim Vallely, Caroline WilliamsMay 3, 2018 (2018-05-03)RAJD08
9"Modern Marvels"Mitchell Hurwitz and Troy MillerMitchell Hurwitz, Dean Lorey, Jim Vallely, Caroline WilliamsMay 3, 2018 (2018-05-03)RAJD09
10"Recurring Dreams"Troy Miller and Mitchell HurwitzJim Brandon, Mitchell Hurwitz, Dean Lorey, Richard Rosenstock, Brian Singleton, Jim VallelyMay 3, 2018 (2018-05-03)RAJD10
11"Fun Night"Mitchell Hurwitz and Troy MillerJim Brandon, Mitchell Hurwitz, Dean Lorey, Richard Rosenstock, Brian Singleton, Jim Vallely, Caroline WilliamsMay 3, 2018 (2018-05-03)RAJD11
12"Moving Pictures"Troy Miller and Mitchell HurwitzMitchell Hurwitz, Dean Lorey, Richard Rosenstock, Jim Vallely, Caroline WilliamsMay 3, 2018 (2018-05-03)RAJD12
13"Get on Up"Mitchell Hurwitz and Troy MillerMitchell Hurwitz, Dean Lorey, Richard Rosenstock, Jim VallelyMay 3, 2018 (2018-05-03)RAJD13
14"What Goes Around"Troy Miller and Mitchell HurwitzMitchell Hurwitz, Dean Lorey, Richard Rosenstock, Jim VallelyMay 3, 2018 (2018-05-03)RAJD14
15"Locked and Loaded"Mitchell Hurwitz and Troy MillerJim Brandon, Mitchell Hurwitz, Dean Lorey, Richard Rosenstock, Brian Singleton, Caroline WilliamsMay 3, 2018 (2018-05-03)RAJD15
16"Mixed Messages"Troy Miller and Mitchell HurwitzMitchell Hurwitz, Dean Lorey, Richard Rosenstock, Jim VallelyMay 3, 2018 (2018-05-03)RAJD16
17"Dire Straights"Mitchell Hurwitz and Troy MillerJim Brandon, Mitchell Hurwitz, Dean Lorey, Richard Rosenstock, Brian Singleton, Caroline WilliamsMay 3, 2018 (2018-05-03)RAJD17
18"Turning on Each Other"Troy Miller and Mitchell HurwitzMitchell Hurwitz, Dean Lorey, Richard Rosenstock, Jim Vallely, Caroline WilliamsMay 3, 2018 (2018-05-03)RAJD18
19"Fast Company"Mitchell Hurwitz and Troy MillerJim Brandon, Mitchell Hurwitz, Dean Lorey, Richard Rosenstock, Brian SingletonMay 3, 2018 (2018-05-03)RAJD19
20"Cinco de Cuatro I"Troy Miller and Mitchell HurwitzJim Brandon, Mitchell Hurwitz, Dean Lorey, Richard Rosenstock, Brian Singleton, Jim Vallely, Caroline WilliamsMay 3, 2018 (2018-05-03)RAJD20
21"Cinco de Cuatro II"Mitchell Hurwitz and Troy MillerMitchell Hurwitz, Dean Lorey, Richard Rosenstock, Jim VallelyMay 3, 2018 (2018-05-03)RAJD21
22"Cinco de Cuatro III"Troy Miller and Mitchell HurwitzMitchell Hurwitz, Dean Lorey, Richard Rosenstock, Jim Vallely, Caroline WilliamsMay 3, 2018 (2018-05-03)RAJD22

text: Reception[edit]

text: Critical response[edit]

text: Reviews of the fourth season were generally positive. On Rotten Tomatoes, it holds an approval rating of 76% with an average score of 7.93/10, based on 31 reviews. The site's critical consensus reads, "Though this new incarnation of the hit series isn't quite as effective, Arrested Development's fourth season still delivers the dark humor and running gags we've come to expect."[35] On the review aggregator website, Metacritic, the fourth season has a weighted average score of 72 out of 100, based on 21 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".[36]

text: Mike Hale, writing for The New York Times after watching the first eight episodes, said that "Along the way there are doses of self-referential and metafictional humor that have made the show a cult item—enough for fans to compile lists, but not enough to re-enliven the episodes or distract from the story's dullness".[3] Robert Lloyd, writing for the Los Angeles Times, praised the series, suggesting that it improves after several episodes.[37] The A.V. Club's Todd VanDerWerff graded the season overall with a 'B', writing that "It is, in places, masterful. It is also, in other places, at once weirdly pleased with itself and too ready to hold the audience's hand where that hand needn't be held", and that "The scope of the whole project is hard to deny for its ambition and audacity."[38] David M. Cook of WhatCulture! gave the new season a positive review calling it "The Triumphant Return Of The Bluths". He said "it was great to see the Bluths return in such fine form" and that he "found a lot of the season to be funnier than anything that had come before it".[39] Gem Wheeler of Den of Geek argued that the fourth season was "Arrested Development's best yet", and "the Bluths officially rule the pop culture landscape. Long may they reign."[40]

text: Brian Lowry of Variety gave the season a negative review, writing, "Ultimately, this 'Arrested' revival plays a bit like a reunion special, where the individual cast members come out and take their curtain calls. After the warmth of seeing them reunited (or semi-reunited, given how rarely more than one or two are featured in a scene together), there's a sort of awkwardness to it, as if nobody really has much to say. We're meant to bask in the nostalgia, while the particulars are of relatively little consequence."[41]  Nathan Rabin of The Wall Street Journal similarly wrote, "Arrested Development has lost a step or two in its long stint on the sidelines. The pacing is notably slower than during its original run and the show lacks the breathtaking density that characterized its glorious past. At its worst, the new/old Arrested Development is reduced to doing a shaky imitation of itself: the characters and themes are there but the beats are slightly off, as is the tone".[42] David Pierce of The Verge also gave it a mixed review, writing "Season four is kind of a confused mess, but then so is the Bluth family — and both somehow work despite all the chaos. From the way it was shot to the way it was released, the show was an experiment — covering a few events many ways, showing us the world through every character's eyes. It's very clearly just set-up in the larger sense, building toward something bigger for Arrested Development. But the question is, what's next?" He also commented positively, saying, "Season four is absolutely worthy of the Arrested Development name, though you'll have to slog through three episodes before it becomes so".[43]

text: The season 4 remix, Fateful Consequences, received generally negative reviews from critics. On Rotten Tomatoes, it holds an approval rating of 27% with an average score of 5.3/10, based on 11 reviews. The site's critical consensus reads, "Arrested Development: Season 4 Remix takes the worst elements of the show's fourth season, rearranges them, and presents them as something new -- an experiment that is neither intriguing or entertaining."[44]

text: Accolades[edit]

text: The fourth season earned the series three Primetime Emmy Award nominations for the 65th Primetime Emmy Awards, including Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series for Jason Bateman, Outstanding Single-Camera Picture Editing for a Comedy Series, and Outstanding Music Composition for a Series.[45] For the 20th Screen Actors Guild Awards, the cast was nominated for Best Comedy Ensemble and Jason Bateman was nominated for Best Comedy Actor.[46] Bateman also received a nomination for Best Comedy Actor for the 71st Golden Globe Awards.[47]

text: Future[edit]

text: Film[edit]

text: Show creator Mitchell Hurwitz said that the fourth season will serve as the precursor to a future full-length Arrested Development film.  Rumors of a film circulated after the possibility was suggested in the final episode of the third season, "Development Arrested".[48] In 2008, it was reported that production of Arrested Development: The Movie would begin after the completion of the fourth season, with a script to be written by Hurwitz.[49][50] In 2008, Ron Howard was slated to direct the film, though it is not clear whether he still is.[50][51] Reportedly, all original members of the main cast are expected to reprise their original roles.[52] In August 2013, Hurwitz commented "I'm working on the movie right now" and his plan is to do another season after the film is completed.[53]

text: Fifth season[edit]

text: Netflix confirmed on May 17, 2017, that a fifth season featuring the full cast had been ordered and the fifth season will include 16 episodes split into two eight-episode parts; the first half was released on May 29, 2018.[54]

text: Home media[edit]

text: The fourth season was released on DVD in region 1 on December 16, 2014,[55] in region 2 on June 9, 2014,[56] and in region 4 on August 27, 2014.[57]


document_title: Liar (TV series)

question_text: how many episodes are there in liar itv

question_tokens: how many episodes are there in liar itv

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text: Liar (TV series)

text: Premise[edit]

text: The series follows Laura Nielson and Andrew Earlham, whose initial attraction leads to a date that has far-reaching consequences for the couple and their friends and families, as secrets and lies are revealed.[1]

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text: Characters[edit]

text:
Joanne Froggatt as Laura Nielson, a smart and dedicated teacher who is newly single.[1]
Ioan Gruffudd as Andrew Earlham, a renowned surgeon whose son, Luke, is a pupil at Laura's school.[1]
Zoe Tapper as Katy Sutcliffe, Laura's older sister who works with Andrew at the local hospital.
Warren Brown as PC Tom Bailey, Laura's ex-boyfriend who is having an affair with her sister, Katy.
Richie Campbell as Liam Sutcliffe, Katy's unsuspecting husband and father of her two children.
Jamie Flatters as Luke Earlham, Andrew's son who is a pupil in Laura's class.
Shelley Conn as DI Vanessa Harmon, a Thanet & Dover Police detective who investigates Laura's allegation of rape.
Danny Webb as DS Rory Maxwell, a Thanet & Dover Police detective and second in command to Vanessa Harmon.

text: Production[edit]

text: Liar was announced on 15 April 2016 as the first full production from Two Brothers Pictures.[2] On 30 September 2016, the miniseries was commissioned by American cable network SundanceTV and British commercial broadcaster ITV.[3] Commercial broadcasters TF1[4] and Seven have also ordered the series.[5] Filming for the series began in London and Kent in November 2016.[1] The marshes were filmed in Tollesbury, Essex. The seashore was filmed at Deal, Kingsdown, and Walmer. Some inner town sequences in Brockley, Nunhead, Shortlands (Episode 3), South Ealing, and Edinburgh (Episode 4)[6][7]

text: After the first series concluded on 16 October 2017, it was announced that the programme would be returning for a second series. The second series, set to film and premiere in 2019, will focus on a whodunit storyline involving the cliffhanger of the first series' finale. Froggatt and Gruffudd are both set to return.[8]

text: Episodes[edit]

text:
No.
Title
Directed by
Written by
Original air date
UK viewers
(millions) [9]

1
"The Date"
James Strong
Harry Williams & Jack Williams
11 September 2017 (2017-09-11)
8.86

School teacher Laura Neilson goes on a date with Andrew Earlham, whom she then accuses of rape, but who is lying?

2
"I Know You're Lying"
James Strong
Harry Williams & Jack Williams
18 September 2017 (2017-09-18)
8.5

Andrew and Laura take time away from their jobs. Laura's past becomes exposed as a figure from her past returns.

3
"White Rabbit"
James Strong
Harry Williams & Jack Williams
25 September 2017 (2017-09-25)
8.87

A student is in need of Laura and Andrew's help. Laura's case will not be prosecuted. Katy's husband begins to suspect something.

4
"Catherine"
Samuel Donovan
Harry Williams & Jack Williams
2 October 2017 (2017-10-02)
8.82

Laura travels to Edinburgh to try to find out more about the mysterious death of Andrew's first wife Mary, and discovers that one of his victims had been Mary's friend Catherine.

5
"Check Mate"
Samuel Donovan
Harry Williams & Jack Williams
9 October 2017 (2017-10-09)
9.03

Laura's resolve to bring Andrew to justice deepens and she enlists Tom's help in her plan. However, when a deception in Laura's personal life comes to light, she is left with no one to turn to, and she resorts to dangerous methods to force Andrew.

6
"The Marshes"
Samuel Donovan
Harry Williams & Jack Williams
16 October 2017 (2017-10-16)
9.49

Three months pass after Andrew enlists Luke as an alibi, Laura has decided to get on with her life, until she and Andrew meet again. It turns out that Vanessa could not prove Andrew guilty, Laura learns that Andrew may have recorded his crimes, and the final match between the two is set to have violent consequences.

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text: Broadcast[edit]

text: The series premiered on ITV on 11 September 2017 at 9pm, in exactly the same slot that the Two Brothers Pictures series Rellik premiered on BBC One.[10] The series was acquired in Australia by the Seven Network and in New Zealand by TVNZ.[11]

text: U.S. ratings[edit]

text:
No.
Title
Air date
Rating/share
(18–49)
Viewers
(millions)
Ref(s)

1
"The Date"
27 September 2017
0.03
0.121
[12]

2
"I Know You're Lying"
4 October 2017
0.01
0.084
[13]

3
"White Rabbit"
11 October 2017
0.02
0.093
[14]

4
"Catherine"
18 October 2017
0.01
0.100
[15]

5
"Check Mate"
25 October 2017
0.01
0.097
[16]

6
"The Marshes"
1 November 2017
TBD
TBD
TBD


document_title: Cracker Jack

question_text: what is the dog's name on cracker jacks

question_tokens: what is the dog 's name on cracker jacks

text: Cracker Jack

text: History[edit]

text: Early beginnings[edit]

text: Frederick William Rueckheim—a German immigrant known informally as "Fritz"—sold popcorn at 113 Fourth Avenue, now known as Federal Street, in Chicago beginning in 1871. The popcorn was made by hand using steam equipment. In 1873, Fritz bought out his partner, William Brinkmeyer, and brought his brother Louis Rueckheim over from Germany to join in his venture, forming the company F.W. Rueckheim & Bro.[5]

text: In 1896, Louis discovered a method to separate the kernels of molasses-coated popcorn during the manufacturing process. As each batch was mixed in a cement-mixer-like drum, a small quantity of oil was added—a closely guarded trade secret. Before this change, the mixture had been difficult to handle, as it stuck together in chunks.[1]

text: According to an urban myth propagated in the 1960s by then-owner Borden Food, Rueckheim produced a popcorn confection and first presented it to the public at the World's Columbian Exposition (Chicago's first world's fair) in 1893.[6] There is no known evidence that Rueckheim had an exhibit at the Columbian Exposition.[7]

text: Naming and packaging[edit]

text: In 1896, the first lot of Cracker Jack was produced, the same year the name was registered. It was named by an enthusiastic sampler who remarked: "That's a crackerjack!" (a colloquialism meaning "of excellent quality").[8] The product's tagline—"The More You Eat, the More You Want"—was also introduced in 1896.[7] In 1899, Henry Gottlieb Eckstein developed the "waxed sealed package" for freshness, known then as the "Eckstein Triple Proof Package", a dust-, germ-, and moisture-proof paper package. In 1902, the company was reorganized as Rueckheim Bros. & Eckstein. "Take Me Out to the Ball Game", a song written by lyricist Jack Norworth and composer Albert Von Tilzer, gave Cracker Jack free publicity when it was released in 1908 with the line: "Buy me some peanuts and Cracker Jack!"[1] In 1922, the name of the Chicago company was changed to The Cracker Jack Company.[5]

text: The faces of Cracker Jack[edit]

text: Cracker Jack's mascots Sailor Jack and his dog Bingo were introduced as early as 1916[9] and registered as a trademark in 1919.[10] Sailor Jack was modeled after Robert Rueckheim, grandson of Frederick. Robert, the son of the third and eldest Rueckheim brother, Edward, died of pneumonia shortly after his image appeared at the age of 8.[11] The sailor boy image acquired such meaning for the founder of Cracker Jack that he had it carved on his tombstone, which can still be seen in St. Henry's Cemetery in Chicago.[11] Sailor Jack's dog Bingo was based on a real-life dog named Russell, a stray adopted in 1917 by Henry Eckstein, who demanded that the dog be used on the packaging. Russell died of old age in 1930.[6]

text: Ownership[edit]

text: The Cracker Jack Company was purchased by Borden in 1964 after a bidding war between Borden and Frito-Lay. Borden sold the brand to Frito-Lay parent PepsiCo in 1997, and Cracker Jack was quickly incorporated into the Frito-Lay portfolio.[10] In 2013, Frito-Lay announced that Cracker Jack would undergo a slight reformulating, adding more peanuts and updating the prizes to make them more relevant to the times.[12]

text: Cracker Jack'D[edit]

text: On April 30, 2013, Frito-Lay expanded the Cracker Jack product line to include other salty snacks in the spirit of the original Cracker Jack. Called Cracker Jack'D, it is distinct from the original Cracker Jack by using black packaging instead of the traditional red and white, as well as showing a more menacing version of Sailor Jack & Bingo. In addition, unlike the original Cracker Jack, Cracker Jack'D has not featured prizes in its packages.[12] One of the products available under the Cracker Jack'D line, Cracker Jack'D Power Bites, gained much criticism before its official launch due to accusations of unhealthy amounts of caffeine in the Power Bites.[13]

text: Connections with baseball[edit]

text: Cracker Jack is known for being commonly sold at baseball games and is mentioned in the American standard "Take Me Out to the Ball Game". On June 16, 1993, the 100th anniversary of Cracker Jack was celebrated at Wrigley Field during the game between the Cubs and the expansion Florida Marlins. Before the game, Sailor Jack, the company's mascot, threw out the ceremonial first pitch.[14]

text: In 2004, the New York Yankees baseball team replaced Cracker Jack with the milder, sweet butter toffee-flavored Crunch 'n Munch at home games. After public outcry, the club switched back to Cracker Jack.[15]

text: Advertising[edit]

text: The Cracker Jack Company began advertising, on television, in 1955. Cracker Jack sponsored CBS Television's On Your Account, which was televised on 130 stations nationally.[6]

text: Actor Jack Gilford appeared in many TV commercials for Cracker Jack from 1960 until 1972, and was most recognized as the "rubber-faced guy on the Cracker Jack commercials" for a dozen years.[16]

text: Puppeteer Shari Lewis and her puppet Lamb Chop appeared in Cracker Jack commercials in 1961.

text: A new television ad for Cracker Jack ran during Super Bowl XXXIII on January 31, 1999. It was the first advertising for the Cracker Jack brand on television in 15 years.[6]

text: Toys[edit]

text: Cracker Jack originally included a small "mystery" novelty item referred to as a "Toy Surprise" in each box. The tagline for Cracker Jack was originally "Candy-coated popcorn, peanuts and a prize", but has since become "Caramel-coated popcorn & peanuts" under Frito-Lay.[17]

text: Prizes were included in every box of Cracker Jack beginning in 1912.[6] One of the first prizes was in 1914, when the company produced the first of two Cracker Jack baseball card issues, which featured players from both major leagues as well as players from the short-lived Federal League.[18] Early "toy surprises" included rings, plastic figurines, booklets, stickers, temporary tattoos, and decoder rings. Books have been written cataloging the prizes,[19] and a substantial collector's market exists.[20]

text: Until 1937, Cracker Jack toy prizes were made in Japan. They were designed by Carey Cloud from 1938.[21] Many metal toys were also made by TootsieToy who also made Monopoly game markers. During World War II prizes were made of paper[22].

text: The prizes attained pop-culture status with the catch-phrase "came in a Cracker Jack box," particularly when applied sarcastically to engagement and wedding rings of dubious investment value. Under Frito-Lay, toy and trinket prizes were replaced with paper prizes displaying riddles and jokes, then temporary tattoos. In 2013, some prizes became codes for people to play "nostalgic" games on the Cracker Jack app through Google Play for Android-powered devices.[12] The announcement was made in 2016 that these gameplays would replace tangible prizes.


document_title: Central Board of Film Certification

question_text: what does u/a rating mean in india

question_tokens: what does u / a rating mean in india

text: Central Board of Film Certification

text: History[edit]

text: Though the first film in India (Raja Harishchandra) was produced in 1913 by Dadasaheb Phalke, the Indian Cinematograph Act was passed and came into effect only in 1920. Censor Boards (as they were called then) were placed under police chiefs in cities of Madras (now Chennai), Bombay (now Mumbai), Calcutta (now Kolkata), Lahore (now in Pakistan) and Rangoon (now Yangon in Burma). Regional censors were independent. After Independence autonomy of regional censors was abolished and they were brought under the Bombay Board of Film Censors. With implementation of Cinematograph Act, 1952, the board was unified and reconstituted, as the Central Board of Film Censors. Cinematograph (Certification) Rules were revised in 1983 and since then the Central Board of Film Censors became known as the Central Board of Film Certification.[1]

text: Certificates and censorship[edit]

text: Films are certified under 4 categories. Initially, there were only two categories of certificates – "U" (unrestricted public exhibition) and "A" (restricted to adult audiences). Two more categories were added in June 1983[citation needed] – "U/A" (unrestricted public exhibition subject to parental guidance for children below the age of twelve) and "S" (restricted to specialized audiences such as doctors or scientists). In addition to these certifications the board may also refuse to certify.

text: U (Unrestricted Public Exhibition)

text: Films with the U certification are fit for unrestricted public exhibition, and are family friendly. These films can contain universal themes like education, family, drama, romance, sci-fi, action etc. Now, these films can also contain some mild violence, but it should not be prolonged. It may also contain very mild sexual scenes (without any traces of nudity or sexual detail).

text: U/A (Parental Guidance for children below the age of 12 years)

text: Films with the U/A certification can contain moderate adult themes, that are not strong in nature and can be watched by a child under parental guidance. These films can contain some strong violence, moderate sex (without any traces of nudity or sexual detail), frightening scenes and muted abusive and filthy language.

text: A (Restricted to adults)

text: Films with the A certification are available for public exhibition, but with restriction to adults. These films can contain heavily strong violence, strong sex (but full frontal and rear nudity is not allowed usually), strong abusive language (but words which insults or degrades women are not allowed), and even some controversial and adult themes considered unsuitable for young viewers. Such films are often recertified for TV and video viewing, which doesn't happen in case of U and U/A certified movies.

text: S (Restricted to any special class of persons)

text: Films with S certification should not be viewed by the public. Only people associated with it (Engineers, Doctors, Scientists, etc.), have permission to watch those films.

text: Additionally, V/U, V/UA, V/A are used for video releases with U, U/A and A carrying the same meaning as above.

text: Refusal to certify.

text: In addition to the certifications above there is also the possibility of the board refusing to certify the film at all.

text: Guidelines for certification :

text:
anti social activities such as violence are not glorified or justified
the modus operandi of criminals, other visuals or words likely to incite the commission of any offence are not depicted;
scenes -

showing involvement of children in violence as victims or perpetrators or as forced witnesses to violence, or showing children as being subjected to any form of child abuse.
showing abuse or ridicule of physically and mentally handicapped persons; and
showing cruelty to, or abuse of animals, are not presented needlessly

pointless or avoidable scenes of violence, cruelty and horror, scenes of violence primarily intended to provide entertainment and such scenes as may have the effect of de-sensitising or de-humanising people are not shown;
scenes which have the effect of justifying or glorifying drinking are not shown;
scenes tending to encourage, justify or glamorise drug addiction are not shown;
scenes tending to encourage, justify or glamorise consumption of tobacco or smoking are not shown;
human sensibilities are not offended by vulgarity, obscenity or depravity;
such dual meaning words as obviously cater to baser instincts are not allowed;
scenes degrading or denigrating women in any manner are not presented;
scenes involving sexual violence against women like attempt to rape, rape or any form of molestation or scenes of a similar nature are avoided, and if any such incidence is germane to the theme, they shall be reduced to the minimum and no details are shown
scenes showing sexual perversions shall be avoided and if such matters are germane to the theme they shall be reduced to the minimum and no details are shown
visuals or words contemptuous of racial, religious or other groups are not presented
visuals or words which promote communal, obscurantist, anti-scientific and anti-national attitude are not presented
the sovereignty and integrity of India is not called in question;
the security of the State is not jeopardized or endangered
friendly relations with foreign States are not strained;
public order is not endangered
visuals or words involving defamation of an individual or a body of individuals, or contempt of court are not presented. EXPLANATION: Scenes that tend to create scorn, disgrace or disregard of rules or undermine the dignity of court will come under the term ''Contempt of Court'' : and
national symbols and emblems are not shown except in accordance with the provisions of the Emblems and Names (Prevention of Improper Use) Act, 1950 (12 of 1950)

The Board of Film Certification shall also ensure that the film

Is judged in its entirety from the point of view of its overall impact; and
Is examined in the light of the period depicted in the films and the contemporary standards of the country and the people to which the film relates provided that the film does not deprave the morality of the audience
The Board shall scrutinize the titles of the films carefully and ensure that they are not provocative, vulgar, offensive or violative of any of the above-mentioned guidelines.

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text: Enforcement[edit]

text: Since 2004, censorship is rigorously enforced. There have been reported instances where exhibitor's staff - the booking clerk who sold the ticket, the usher who took minors to the seat, the theatre manager and the partners of the theatre complex - were arrested for non-compliance with certificate rules.[2]

text: Composition and leadership[edit]

text: The Board consist of 25 other non-official members and a Chairperson (all of whom are appointed by Central Government). Prasoon Joshi currently presides the board, being appointed as the 28th Chairperson of the Board on 11 August 2017, after the ouster of Pahlaj Nihalani[3], who was preceded by Leela Samson who had resigned[4] after the CBFC's rejection of a certificate for the film MSG: Messenger of God was overturned by an appellate tribunal. Earlier, Leela Samson had succeeded Sharmila Tagore,[5] who was the longest continuous running Chairperson in the history. Nihalani was the 27th Chairperson after the Board's establishment. His appointment was highly controversial given his propensity for censoring films instead of merely certifying them.

text: The Board functions with its headquarters at Mumbai. It has nine Regional offices each at:

text:
Bangalore
Chennai
Cuttack
Guwahati
Hyderabad
Kolkata
Mumbai
New Delhi
Thiruvananthapuram

text: The Regional Offices are assisted in the examination of films by Advisory Panels. The members of the panels are nominated by Central Government by drawing people from different walks of life for a period of two years.

text: Chairpersons of the CBFC[edit]

text:
No.
Name
From
To

1
C S Aggarwal
15 January 1951
14 June 1954

2
B D Mirchandani
15 June 1954
9 June 1955

3
M D Bhatt
10 June 1955
21 November 1959

4
D L Kothari
22 November 1959
24 March 1960

5
B D Mirchandani
25 March 1960
1 November 1960

6
D L Kothari
2 November 1960
22 April 1965

7
B P Bhatt
23 April 1965
22 April 1968

8
R P Nayak
31 April 1968
15 November 1969

9
M V Desai
12 December 1969
19 October 1970

10
R Srinivasan
20 October 1970
15 November 1971

11
Virendra Vyas
11 February 1972
30 June 1976

12
K L Khandpur
1 July 1976
31 January 1981

13
Hrishikesh Mukherjee
1 February 1981
10 August 1982

14
Aparna Mohile
11 August 1982
14 March 1983

15
Sharad Upasani
15 March 1983
9 May 1983

16
Surresh Mathur
10 May 1983
7 July 1983

17
Vikram Singh
8 July 1983
19 February 1989

18
Moreshwar Vanmali
20 February 1989
25 April 1990

19
B P Singhal
25 April 1990
1 April 1991

20
Shakti Samanta
1 April 1991
25 June 1998

21
Asha Parekh
25 June 1998
25 September 2001

22
Vijay Anand[6]
26 September 2001
19 July 2002

23
Arvind Trivedi
20 July 2002
16 October 2003

24
Anupam Kher[7]
16 October 2003
13 October 2004

25
Sharmila Tagore[8]
13 October 2004
31 March 2011

26
Leela Samson
1 April 2011
16 January 2015

27
Pahlaj Nihalani
19 January 2015
11 August 2017

28
Prasoon Joshi
12 August 2017
Present

text: Controversies[edit]

text: CBFC has been associated with various scandals. Movie producers reportedly bribe the CBFC to get 'U' certificate to avail 30% exemption in entertainment tax despite violent scenes and coarse dialogues.[9]

text: In 2002, the film War and Peace, depicting scenes of nuclear testing and the September 11, 2001 attacks, created by Anand Patwardhan, was asked to make 21 cuts before it was allowed to have the certificate for release.[10] Patwardhan objected, saying "The cuts that they asked for are so ridiculous that they won't hold up in court" and "But if these cuts do make it, it will be the end of freedom of expression in the Indian media." The court decreed the cuts unconstitutional and the film was shown uncut.[11] The same year, Indian filmmaker and former chief of the country's film censor board, Vijay Anand, kicked up a controversy with a proposal to legalize the exhibition of X-rated films in selected cinemas across the country, saying "Porn is shown everywhere in India clandestinely ... and the best way to fight this onslaught of blue movies is to show them openly in theatres with legally authorized licences".[12] He resigned within a year after taking charge of the censor board after facing widespread criticism of his moves.[13]

text: In 2003, CBFC banned the film Gulabi Aaina (The Pink Mirror), a film on Indian transsexuals produced and directed by Sridhar Rangayan. The censor board cited that the film was "vulgar and offensive". The filmmaker appealed twice again unsuccessfully. The film still remains banned in India, but has screened at numerous festivals all over the world and won awards. The critics have applauded it for its "sensitive and touching portrayal of marginalised community".[14][15][16]

text: In 2004, the documentary Final Solution, which looks at religious rioting between Hindus and Muslims, was banned.[17] The film follows 2002 clashes in the western state of Gujarat, which left more than 1,000 people dead. The censor board justified the ban, saying it was "highly provocative and may trigger off unrest and communal violence".[18] The ban was lifted in October 2004 after a sustained campaign.[19]

text: In 2006, seven states (Nagaland, Punjab, Goa, Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh) have banned the release or exhibition of the Hollywood movie The Da Vinci Code (and also the book), although the CBFC cleared the film for adult viewing throughout India.[20] However, the respective high courts lifted the ban and the movie was shown in the two states.[21]

text: The CBFC demanded five cuts from the 2011 American film The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo because of some scenes containing rape and nudity. The producers and the director David Fincher finally decided not to release the film in India.[22]

text: In 2013, Kamal Haasan's Vishwaroopam was banned from the screening for a period of two weeks in Tamil Nadu.[23]

text: A CEO of CBFC was arrested in August 2014 for accepting bribes for speedy clearance.[24]

text: In 2015, the CBFC demanded four cuts (three visual and one audio) from the art-house Malayalam feature film Chaayam Poosiya Veedu (The Painted House) directed by brothers Santosh Babusenan and Satish Babusenan because the film contained scenes where the female lead was shown in the nude. The directors refused to make any changes whatsoever to the film and hence the film was denied a certificate.[25][26]

text: Chairperson of CBFC Leela Samson resigned alleging political interference after the CBFC's rejection of a certificate for the film MSG: Messenger of God was overturned by an appellate tribunal. She was later replaced by Pahlaj Nihalani. His appointment caused more than half the board members to resign alleging Pahlaj Nihalani is close to the present ruling party.[27]

text: CBFC was panned by social media for reducing two kissing scenes in the movie Spectre.[28]

text: In 2016, the film Udta Punjab, produced by Anurag Kashyap and Ekta Kapoor among others, ran into trouble with the CBFC, resulting in a very public re-examination of the ethics of film censorship in India. The film, which depicted a structural drug problem in the state of Punjab, used a lot of expletives and showed scenes of drug use. The CBFC, on 9 June 2016, released a list of 94 cuts and 13 pointers, including the deletion of names of cities in Punjab. On 13 June, the film was cleared by the Bombay High Court with one cut and disclaimers. The court ruled that, contrary to the claims of the CBFC, the film was not out to "malign" the state of Punjab, and that it "wants to save people".[29] Thereafter, the film was faced with further controversy when a print of it was leaked online on a torrent site. The quality of the copy, along with the fact that there was supposedly a watermark that said "censor" on top of the screen, raised suspicions that the CBFC itself had leaked the copy to spite the filmmakers. It also contained the only scene that had been cut according to the High Court order. While the CBFC claimed innocence,[30] the lingering suspicions resulted in a tense release, with the filmmakers and countless freedom of expression advocates taking to social media to appeal to the public to watch the film in theatres, as a conscious challenge against excessive censorship on art in India. Kashyap himself asked viewers to wait till the film released before they downloaded it for free, stating that he didn't have a problem with illegal downloads,[31] an unusual thing for a film producer to say. The film eventually released and grossed over $13 million finishing as a commercial success.[32] In August 2017, soon after his removal as CBFC Chief, Nihalani revealed in an interview that he had received instructions from the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting to block the release of the film.[33]

text: In 2017, the film Lipstick Under My Burkha directed by Alankrita Shrivastava and produced by Prakash Jha, also ran into trouble with the CBFC which refused to certify the film, stating that "The story is lady oriented, their fantasy above life. There are contagious [sic] sexual scenes, abusive words, audio pornography and a bit sensitive touch about one particular section of society."[34] Internationally, the film had been screened in over 35 film festivals across the world and notably earned eleven international awards prior to its official release in India, becoming an eligible entry for the Golden Globe Award Ceremony.[35] The filmmakers appealed this decision to the Film Certification Appellate Tribunal (FCAT), which overruled the censor board's ruling, thereby granting the film a theatrical release rights.[36] FCAT asked the filmmakers to make some cuts, mostly related to the sex scenes, at their discretion. The film released with an "A" or adults certificate, equivalent to an NC-17 rating in the United States, with some voluntary edits. Shrivastava told Agence-France Presse: "Of course I would have loved no cuts, but the FCAT has been very fair and clear. I feel that we will be able to release the film without hampering the narrative or diluting its essence."[37]

text: In August 2017, Pahlaj Nahalani was removed as the Chairperson of the CBFC. In an interview days after his removal, he revealed that the Government of India had, in at least two instances, issued direct instructions to the Board on blocking or delaying the release of particular films.[33]


document_title: Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005 film)

question_text: who is the therapist in mr and mrs smith

text: Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005 film)

text: Plot[edit]

text: The film opens with construction executive John (Brad Pitt) and tech support consultant Jane Smith (Angelina Jolie) answering questions during marriage counselling. The couple has been married for "five or six" years, but their marriage is suffering to the point that they cannot remember the last time they had sex. They tell the story of their first meeting in Bogotá, Colombia, where they were both secretly on the run from the Colombian authorities - since the authorities were looking for tourists travelling alone after a recent heist, the two claimed to be together to avoid being questioned. They quickly fell in love and married. John later states that Jane "looked like Christmas morning" to him on the day they met.

text: In reality, John and Jane are both skilled contract killers working for different firms, both among the best in their field, each concealing their true professions from one another. The couple live in a large Colonial Revival house in the suburbs and, to keep up appearances, socialise with their "conventionally" wealthy (and disliked by each Smith) neighbors.

text: Under these cover stories, John and Jane balance their apparently mundane marriage – which both of them find after a few years to be growing dull and suffocating – with their secretive work. When both are assigned to kill DIA prisoner Benjamin "The Tank" Danz (Adam Brody) during a transfer, they encounter each other on the job and the hit ends up botched: Danz survives, while John and Jane are assigned to kill each other instead.

text: After making escalating attempts on each other's lives, the Smiths' conflict culminates in a massive shootout that nearly demolishes their home. In a protracted, evenly matched fight, they wind up with guns in each other's faces. John declines to shoot, his feelings for Jane rekindled, and lays his gun down. Jane finds she cannot shoot John either, and the two have passionate sex.

text: The renewed Smith partnership is quickly threatened by their employers, who join forces to eliminate the couple. John's best friend and coworker, Eddie (Vince Vaughn), turns down a bounty of $400,000 for each Smith (since he won't get out of bed for anything less than $500,000), but John and Jane find themselves under fire from an army of assassins. Fending off an attack which blows up their pockmarked house, the Smiths steal their neighbor's minivan and successfully destroy their attackers' three pursuing armored sedans, all while bickering over their fighting styles and newly discovered personal secrets.

text: After meeting with Eddie, the Smiths decide to fight together to preserve their marriage. They kidnap Danz from his high-security prison to use him as a bargaining chip. Danz reveals that he was merely bait, hired jointly by their employers after it was discovered that the Smiths were married, in the hopes of having one Smith kill the other. John and Jane forgo their separate contingency plans and make their last stand together. In the final fight scene of the film, the Smiths – now working smoothly together as a team – defeat an extended attack by a large force of heavily armed operatives during a long shootout inside a home decorating  store.

text: The film ends with the couple meeting the marriage counselor (William Fichtner) again, where the Smiths state how much their marriage has thrived, with John encouraging him to ask for an update on their sex lives (to which he silently answers "10").

text: An alternate ending shows that they chose to move to Rome and had a child who inherited their assassin skills.

text: Cast[edit]

text:
Brad Pitt as John Smith
Angelina Jolie as Jane Smith
Vince Vaughn as Eddie
Adam Brody as Benjamin "The Tank" Danz
Kerry Washington as Jasmine
Keith David as Father
Chris Weitz as Martin Coleman
Rachael Huntley as Suzy Coleman
Michelle Monaghan as Gwen
Stephanie March as Julie
Jennifer Morrison as Jade
Perrey Reeves as Jessie
William Fichtner as Dr. Wexler, the marriage counselor (uncredited)
Angela Bassett as Mr. Smith's Boss (voice) (uncredited)

text: Background[edit]

text: Screenwriter Simon Kinberg came up with the idea for the film after listening to a couple of his friends who were in therapy for their marriage. Kinberg noticed that the way they were describing it sounded "aggressive and mercenary" and he "thought it would make an interesting template for a relationship inside of an action film."

text: Music[edit]

text: Three soundtrack albums were released from the film: a film score composed by John Powell, a U.S. soundtrack with songs used in the film and an International Soundtrack with the song by Pink Martini replaced with KansasCali. The albums were released at different times to avoid confusion; the former was released on June 28, 2005, and the latter on June 7, 2005.

text:
Mr. & Mrs. Smith: Original Motion Picture Score
Mr. & Mrs. Smith original score album cover artFilm score by John PowellReleased
June 28, 2005Genre
Film scoreLength
43:54Label
Lakeshore Records

text:
"Bogota"
"The Bedroom"
"Playing House"
"Assignments"
"His and Her Hits"
"Office Work"
"Desert Foxes"
"John and Jane's Identity"
"Dinner"
"Hood Jump"
"Mutual Thoughts"
"John Drops In"
"Tango de Los Asesinos"
"Two Phone Calls"
"Kiss and Make Up"
"Minivan Chase"
"Shopping Spree"
"Dodging Bullets"
"The Next Adventure"
"Jesus of Surburbia"

text:
Mr. & Mrs. Smith Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Mr. & Mrs. Smith original soundtrack cover artSoundtrack album by Various artistsReleased
June 7, 2005Genre
Film soundtrackPop/RockLength
1:05:40Label
Lakeshore Records

text: Professional ratingsReview scoresSourceRatingAllMusic[4]

text:
"Love Stinks" – The J. Geils Band
"Nothin' but a Good Time" – Poison
"Tainted Love" – Soft Cell
"Baby, Baby" – Alana D.
"Express Yourself" (Mocean Worker Remix) – Charles Wright & the Watts 103rd Street Rhythm Band
"Mondo Bongo" – Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros
"Lay Lady Lay" – Magnet featuring Gemma Hayes
"I Melt with You" – Nouvelle Vague
"Nobody Does It Better" – 8mm
"Let's Never Stop Falling in Love" – Pink Martini
"Tango De Los Asesinos (Assassin's Tango)" – John Powell
"Used to Love Her (But I Had To Kill Her)" – Voodoo Glow Skulls
"You Are My Sunshine" – Stine J.
"You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'" – The Righteous Brothers
"Making Love Out of Nothing at All" – Air Supply
"You Give Love a Bad Name" – Atreyu
"Love Will Keep Us Together" – Captain & Tennille

text: Release[edit]

text: Box office[edit]

text: Mr. & Mrs. Smith opened on June 10, 2005 in the United States and Canada in 3,424 theaters. The film ranked at the top in its opening weekend, accumulating $50,342,878. Mr. & Mrs. Smith went on to gross $186,336,279 in North America and had a worldwide total of $478,207,520. It was the highest-grossing film for both superstars Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, but was later surpassed by World War Z for Pitt and Maleficent for Jolie.[1]

text: Reception[edit]

text: Mr. & Mrs. Smith received mixed to positive reviews from critics. Review aggregate website Rotten Tomatoes gave the film a score of 59% based on 208 reviews, with an average score of 6/10.[5] The critical consensus reads "Although this action-romance suffers from weak writing and one too many explosions, the chemistry generated by onscreen couple Pitt and Jolie is palpable enough to make this a thoroughly enjoyable summer action flick." At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the film has received a rating average of 55 based on 41 reviews, which indicated "mixed or average reviews".[6] Simon Braund of Empire gave the film a positive review, describing it as "a full-on action flick, subversive rom-com and weapons-grade star vehicle that's drenched in Tinseltown glitz, from a director who knows how to put the money on the screen while his tongue's firmly in his cheek".[7] Daniel Saney of Digital Spy gave the film four stars out of five, saying "Its ideas are often borrowed, and it's hardly deep and meaningful, but it's a fantastically fun film".[8] Roger Ebert in the Chicago Sun-Times praised the chemistry between the lead actors, saying "What makes the movie work is that Pitt and Jolie have fun together on the screen and they're able to find a rhythm that allows them to be understated and amused even during the most alarming developments".[9] In a negative review, Mick LaSalle of the San Francisco Chronicle described the film as "awful" and stated that "The tiny smidgen of cleverness on display here is contained entirely in the premise. The follow-through is nonexistent".[10]

text: Home media[edit]

text: A single-disc DVD of the film was released on November 29, 2005, and a two-disc unrated version of the film was released on DVD on June 6, 2006. During director Doug Liman's audio commentary on the single-disc DVD release, he mentions that he was not able to use as much sex and violence as they had originally filmed, in order to obtain a PG-13 rating for the film. The film was released on Blu-ray on December 4, 2007. It includes the extra material from the 2005 single-disc DVD release but does not include the additional material from the 2006 two-disc unrated version.

text: Inaccurate depiction of Bogotá[edit]

text: The film was criticized by the government of Colombia especially for showing the capital Bogotá as a small village in the middle of the jungle with a hot and humid climate.[11] The Mayor of the time Luis Eduardo Garzón and the president Alvaro Uribe Vélez invited Angelina Jolie, Brad Pitt and the producers of the same to know the city and realize their mistake in showing that "Bogotá" as the city is known for being a great metropolis of cold weather.[12] In 2012 this led to the government of Colombia to proclaim a law named "Ley 1556 de 2012", requiring the state to return a portion of the production costs for movies set in the country; and thus show the reality of different places of the country.[13]

text: Adaptations and sequel[edit]

text: In 2007, a pilot for a spin-off television series was made for the American Broadcasting Company (ABC) network. Set six months after the end of the film, it was written by Simon Kinberg and directed by Doug Liman. Kinberg described the proposed television series as "Married... with Children with guns."[14] The roles of John and Jane were played by Martin Henderson and Jordana Brewster. On website The Futon Critic, Brian Ford Sullivan criticised the chemistry between Henderson and Brewster and ended his review stating: "While there's always a few gems that get locked away in the networks' vaults each year, this decidedly isn't one of them".[15] ABC decided not to commission the series.[16]

text: In June 2010, Jolie stated that she and Pitt had inquired about a sequel to the film but were dissatisfied with the story. Jolie stated: "We did ask somebody to look into Mr. & Mrs. to see if they could crack a sequel, but there wasn't anything original. It was just, 'Well, they're going to get married, or they've got kids, or they get separated.' Never great."[17]

text: In February 2010, it was reported that Regency Enterprises was developing a prequel to the film which would be titled Keeping up with the Joneses, and would not feature either Pitt or Jolie. The story would follow a pair of spies who pose as a married couple when they graduate agency training. Akiva Goldsman was attached to produce.[18]

text: In July 2011, it was announced that Hong Kong studio New Asia Entertainment Group was to produce a remake entitled Assassin Couple. The film was to star Donnie Yen and Cecilia Cheung in the lead roles, and the studio stated that while the film would share some similarities with Mr. & Mrs. Smith, it would feature a new storyline. The budget for the film was set at $18.7 million.[19][needs update]


document_title: Andromeda–Milky Way collision

question_text: when is andromeda going to collide with the milky way

text: Andromeda–Milky Way collision

text: Certainty[edit]

text: The Andromeda Galaxy is approaching the Milky Way at about 110 kilometres per second (68 mi/s)[2][additional citation needed] as indicated by blueshift. However, the lateral velocity is very difficult to measure with a precision to draw reasonable conclusions: a lateral speed of only 7.7 km/s would mean that the Andromeda Galaxy is moving toward a point 177,800 light-years to the side of the Milky Way ((7.7 km/s) / (110 km/s) × (2 540 000 ly)), and such a speed over an eight-year time frame amounts to only 1/3000 of a Hubble Space Telescope pixel (Hubble's resolution≈0.05 arcsec: (7.7 km/s)/(300 000 km/s)×(8 y)/(2 540 000 ly)×180°/π×3600 = 0.000 017 arcsec). Until 2012, it was not known whether the possible collision was definitely going to happen or not.[6] In 2012, researchers concluded that the collision is sure using Hubble to track the motion of stars in Andromeda between 2002 and 2010 with sub-pixel accuracy.[1][2] Andromeda's tangential or sideways velocity with respect to the Milky Way was found to be much smaller than the speed of approach and therefore it is expected that it will directly collide with the Milky Way in around four billion years.

text: Such collisions are relatively common, considering galaxies' long lifespans. Andromeda, for example, is believed to have collided with at least one other galaxy in the past,[7] and several dwarf galaxies such as Sgr dSph are currently colliding with the Milky Way and being merged into it.

text: The studies also suggest that M33, the Triangulum Galaxy — the third-largest and third-brightest galaxy of the Local Group — will participate in the collision event too. Its most likely fate is to end up orbiting the merger remnant of the Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies and finally to merge with it in an even more distant future. However, a collision with the Milky Way, before it collides with the Andromeda Galaxy, or an ejection from the Local Group cannot be ruled out.[6]

text: Stellar collisions[edit]

text: While the Andromeda Galaxy contains about 1 trillion (1012) stars and the Milky Way contains about 300 billion (3×1011), the chance of even two stars colliding is negligible because of the huge distances between the stars. For example, the nearest star to the Sun is Proxima Centauri, about 4.2 light-years (4.0×1013 km; 2.5×1013 mi) or 30 million (3×107) solar diameters away. If the Sun were a ping-pong ball, Proxima Centauri would be a pea about 1,100 km (680 mi) away, and the Milky Way would be about 30 million km (19 million mi) wide. Although stars are more common near the centres of each galaxy, the average distance between stars is still 160 billion (1.6×1011) km (100 billion mi). That is analogous to one ping-pong ball every 3.2 km (2.0 mi). Thus, it is extremely unlikely that any two stars from the merging galaxies would collide.[5]

text: Black hole collisions[edit]

text: The Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies each contain a central supermassive black hole (SMBH), these being Sagittarius A* (ca. 7036715878000000000♠3.6×106 M☉) and an object within the P2 concentration of Andromeda's nucleus (7038397709999999999♠1–2×108 M☉). These black holes will converge near the center of the newly formed galaxy over a period that may take millions of years, due to a process known as dynamical friction: As the SMBHs move relative to the surrounding cloud of much less massive stars, gravitational interactions lead to a net transfer of orbital energy from the SMBHs to the stars, causing the stars to be "slingshotted" into higher-radius orbits, and the SMBHs to "sink toward the galactic core." When the SMBHs come within one light-year of one another, they will begin to strongly emit gravitational waves that will radiate further orbital energy until they merge completely. Gas taken up by the combined black hole could create a luminous quasar or an active galactic nucleus, releasing as much energy as 100 million supernova explosions.[8] As of 2006, simulations indicated that the Sun might be brought near the center of the combined galaxy, potentially coming near one of the black holes before being ejected entirely out of the galaxy.[9] Alternatively, the Sun might approach one of the black holes a bit closer and be torn apart by its gravity. Parts of the former Sun would be pulled into the black hole.[10]

text: Fate of the Solar System[edit]

text: Two scientists with the Harvard–Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics stated that when, and even whether, the two galaxies collide will depend on Andromeda's transverse velocity.[3] Based on current calculations they predict a 50% chance that in a merged galaxy, the Solar System will be swept out three times farther from the galactic core than its current distance.[3] They also predict a 12% chance that the Solar System will be ejected from the new galaxy sometime during the collision.[11][12] Such an event would have no adverse effect on the system and the chances of any sort of disturbance to the Sun or planets themselves may be remote.[11][12]

text: Excluding planetary engineering, by the time the two galaxies collide the surface of the Earth will have already become far too hot for liquid water to exist, ending all terrestrial life; that is currently estimated to occur in about 3.75 billion years due to gradually increasing luminosity of the Sun (it will have risen by 35–40% above the current luminosity).[13][14]

text: Possible triggered stellar events[edit]

text: When two spiral galaxies collide, the hydrogen present on their disks is compressed producing strong star formation as can be seen on interacting systems like the Antennae Galaxies. In the case of the Andromeda–Milky Way collision, it is believed that there will be little gas remaining in the disks of both galaxies, so the mentioned starburst will be relatively weak, though it still may be enough to form a quasar.[12]

text: Merger remnant[edit]

text: The galaxy product of the collision has been nicknamed Milkomeda or Milkdromeda.[15] According to simulations, this object will look like a giant elliptical galaxy, but with a center showing less stellar density than current elliptical galaxies.[12] It is, however, possible the resulting object will be a large disk galaxy, depending on the amount of remaining gas in the Milky Way and Andromeda.[16]

text: In the far future, roughly 150 billion years from now, the remaining galaxies of the Local Group will coalesce into this object, that being the next evolutionary stage of the local group of galaxies.[17]