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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3489184/
https://www.nbc.com/constantine
A man attains mystical powers originally for selfish reasons, but they taint with a life fraught with danger and demons.
Not a bad show, but the lead character's personality isn't attracting, and there's the old celestial stick-up-the-ass personality in another. The lead female is hot. Hotty hot hot.
This was cancelled after one season. Back in the 90s this show would have done well, but I'm guessing this genre has alternately been well-poisoned or saturated. This show has too much it has to be better than to catch enough attention to survive. I think that it's magic-fantasy was competing with an extraordinarily-strong superhero-fantasy genre.
- 2014-10-24 - 2015-02-13
- More-or-less based on Constantine - (2005 movie)
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.. which in turn is based on the DC comic book series Hellblazer.
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- 1 s01
- 1.1 s01e01 - 2014-10-24 - Non Est Asylum
- 1.2 s01e02 - 2014-10-31 - The Darkness Beneath
- 1.3 s01e03 - 2014-11-07 - The Devil's Vinyl
- 1.4 s01e04 - 2014-11-14 - A Feast of Friends
- 1.5 s01e05 - 2014-11-21 - Danse Vaudou
- 1.6 s01e06 - 2014-11-28 - The Rage of Caliban
- 1.7 s01e07 - 2014-12-05 - Blessed Are the Damned
- 1.8 s01e08 - 2014-12-12 - The Saint of Last Resorts
- 1.9 s01e09 - 2015-01-16 - The Saint of Last Resorts: Part Two
- 1.10 s01e010 - 2015-01-23 - Quid Pro Quo
- 1.11 s01e011 - 2015-01-30 - A Whole World Out There
- 1.12 s01e012 - 2015-02-06 - Angels and Ministers of Grace
- 1.13 s01e013 - 2015-02-13 - Waiting for the Man
- 2 Unresolved bits
s01 ∞
s01e01 - 2014-10-24 - Non Est Asylum ∞
Spoiler
- Aww, why did it have to be a brit? He just doesn't sound right.
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5:45 -- Oh, I want to dent you.
- 5:50 -- Holy shit, I like her.
- 13:45 -- What about the arc of salt on the floor? She had bare feet..
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15:00 -- So far only women get possessed (no accountability), women get rescued (no agency), men fight (responsibility), and men get killed (disposability).
- I hope this show doesn't have a damsel theme.
- 15:30 -- The Eye of Horus
- 18:45 -- He looks like Jason Mewes, of the Jay and Silent Bob
- 20:00 -- Worlds, as in more than one..
- 24:30 -- Scrying
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27:30 -- I recognize that actor, I think.
- It's Harold Perrineau, who I know from, at least, The Matrix Reloaded - (2003 movie)
- 30:30 -- "Oxy" (Oxytocin?), Diazepam, Dextroamphetamine
- 34:30 -- Solomon, Runes, Enochian
s01e02 - 2014-10-31 - The Darkness Beneath ∞
Spoiler
I saw a little audio sync issue in the beginning. Meh, I don't mind.
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1:00 -- I instantly thought this would be a man bad woman good man abusive woman innocent trope.
- 1:45 -- Aaaand called it. So he'll be possessed and will beat her?
- 2:45 -- Nobody would stay in the shower after being sprayed with whatever goop. There should have been a locked shower door moment.
- 8:30 -- See the thing about those trucks is they have to be turned on to act..
- 12:30 -- Romani people
- 15:45 -- A little too much makeup, but damn she's hot.
- 18:45 -- .. and people barge in, arrest him, etc.
- 20:00 -- Where'd he get his coat (and clothes) from?
- 38:45 -- "Gypsy" is a pejorative.
s01e03 - 2014-11-07 - The Devil's Vinyl ∞
Spoiler
- 0:45 -- Uh. Leave?
- 5:00 -- And this is the sort of bullshit which would guarantee this show not get another season.
- 6:00 -- TARDIS (Doctor Who)
- 6:15 -- Stigmata
- 14:00 -- The playing card.. isn't that a thing in Torchwood - (2006 show)?
- 14:45 -- "Willie Cole"? Seems to be a fiction.
- 25:15 -- Papa Midnight..
- 27:45 -- Heparin, Anticoagulant
- 28:45 -- Vitamin K
- 30:30 -- I would have given them some random record.
- 37:30 -- Johnny (John Lydon), Anarchy in the U.K. (1976-11-26 song), by Sex Pistols
s01e04 - 2014-11-14 - A Feast of Friends ∞
Spoiler
- 0:15 -- Immediate patient zero (Index case) moment.
- Precognition, Retrocognition, Clairtangency (Telepathy)
- 12:00 -- Newcastle upon Tyne, Newcastle United F.C.
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19:15 -- Interrupting the tone with half-hearted comedy is bad.
The sacrifice was obvious from a long long time ago.
s01e05 - 2014-11-21 - Danse Vaudou ∞
Spoiler
- 2:15 -- Zoetrope
s01e06 - 2014-11-28 - The Rage of Caliban ∞
Spoiler
- 4:15 -- Birmingham, Alabama United States
- 5:15 -- Oh eww oh gross..
- 6:30 -- Saint Peter, Ignatius of Antioch, Joan of Arc
- 9:00 -- Look at the dynamic there. A father raising his son properly, to face his fears and grow strong and not be some mama's-boy pussy. Yes, by scaring him and propping him up to stare down that which makes him uncomfortable. To not only stand up to his demons but control his feelings, his doubts, his very weaknesses.
- 16:00 -- Light switches are right next to doors.
- 17:30 -- Uh. Call the cops?
- 18:45 -- Except. Except there are a lot of homes along any particular line.
- 22:00 -- Frankincense, Censer
- 35:00 -- The institutionalized dude's spirit is what's loose.
- 40:45 -- .. called it.
s01e07 - 2014-12-05 - Blessed Are the Damned ∞
Spoiler
- 6:45 -- That was a strip of condoms, aka "protection".
- 17:15 -- Dried myrtus?
- 20:15 -- Abandoned? With bails of hay?
- 28:15 -- I would have just taken him to see the angel. Not past the water, but outside to look in.
- 35:30 -- I was wondering if she was an angel or demon..
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37:45 -- .. called it.
- She's trapped. But also, shouldn't she be incorporeal now?
.. yeah, having the still-beating heart of a fallen angel can't ever go wrong.
s01e08 - 2014-12-12 - The Saint of Last Resorts ∞
Spoiler
- 2:00 -- Doing her rounds? Like a nun security guard?
- 3:00 -- Wasn't there .. another woman whose drops of blood are on that map?
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23:15 -- I still think it's flirty-nun who's the demon.
- Well I was close..
- 28:45 -- He's mumbling.
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42:00 -- I thought there were two babies.
Brujería are introduced.
s01e09 - 2015-01-16 - The Saint of Last Resorts: Part Two ∞
Spoiler
- 5:30 -- She has to kill him. He knows where her hideout is.
- 22:30 -- Tibetan ceremonial phurba (Kīla)
- 29:30 -- Once he's possessed, a scalpel wouldn't kill him.
- 33:00 -- Oh come on. That's such a bullshit jailbreak.
s01e010 - 2015-01-23 - Quid Pro Quo ∞
Spoiler
- 2:00 -- Yay, they're doing something about her being sought after.
- 6:30 -- Aleister Crowley (occultist, ceremonial magician, poet, painter, novelist, mountaineer)
- 6:45 -- Achilles' heel (ancient Greek mythology)
- 15:30 -- High King of Ireland
- 18:30 -- Oh, I know that actor!
- 30:00 -- Or give all the spare lives what's-his-face has in him..
- 31:45 -- Wow, she's selfish. Other peoples' actual physical lives versus her child's fucking birthday party.
- 34:00 -- Uh. Didn't the last guy get taken over and burned alive?
s01e011 - 2015-01-30 - A Whole World Out There ∞
Spoiler
- 8:30 -- Data mining
- 13:15 -- Nice light excuse, using the lighter. It doesn't seem right though.
- 16:00 -- "Jacob Shaw" is a fictional person.
- 18:30 -- Technological singularity
- 21:15 -- Wow, that guy in the purple and grey walks past the forefront like a zombie.
- 25:30 -- Hypothesis, Scientific theory, Reproducibility
- 32:30 -- Maybe close the door behind you?
s01e012 - 2015-02-06 - Angels and Ministers of Grace ∞
Spoiler
- 2:45 -- Cilantro (Coriander), Tannis root (fictional), Adder's tongue (various kinds of snakes, possibly just Vipera berus, Catnip
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3:30 -- Ariadne's thread is a reference to the Labyrinth Greek myth where she used thread to help get her way out.
- See also Ariadne's thread (logic)
- Dionysus
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23:45 -- Yeah.. I'd appreciate that.. that's, uh, inappropriate workplace behaviour. I want a job there.
.. oh, yeah.. it's
s01e013 - 2015-02-13 - Waiting for the Man ∞
Spoiler
- 4:00 -- Child marriage, Polygamy, Paedophilia
- 37:15 -- That's not the mother of a redhead. Just saying.
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39:00 -- I'd consider her little kiss a betrayal.
Oh, well that's an interesting ending.
Unresolved bits ∞
Spoiler
- What close person will betray John?
- What's with the cop-dude's forseen-death? (zombification?)
- Why is John important?
- What's with the Brujería?
- Who else would be gunning for John for the bounty?
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