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B&B Must Watch Moments June 26: Will And Luna Kiss
The Bold and the Beautiful must-watch moments for Thursday, June 26, include Electra's revulsion as she watches Will and Luna kiss. Meanwhile, Ridge and Taylor indulge their love while Nick prepares to tell Brooke he overheard Taylor's proposal. It promises to be a dramatic day in Los Angeles, and you won't want to miss a bit of it. Tune in to CBS or Paramount+ to watch as the fallout from past decisions and current choices shapes the future of these iconic characters, leaving you on the edge of your seat. Taylor (Rebecca Budig) asked Ridge (Thorsten Kaye) to marry her, and it seems like they're going to go through with it. Nick (Jack Wagner) happened to hear the whole thing, which may end up helping him break Brooke out of her negative patterns with Ridge. Of course, Brooke strongly feels that Ridge is her destiny, so he may have a difficult time. WATCH THIS: Did you know Soap Hub has a podcast?! Check it out here! Because Luna (Lisa Yamada) hasn't given up her pursuit of Finn (Tanner Novlan) and Steffy (Jacqueline MacInnes Wood) and their children. Luna is also obsessed with Will (Crew Morrow) even though Electra (Laneya Grace) made it clear he was off limits. Even Sheila (Kimberlin Brown) advised Luna to stay away from Will and from Finn, but Luna didn't want to hear it. Ultimately, Steffy, Finn, and Will developed a plan to stop Luna, and Electra reluctantly signed onto it. MORE: Here's what you must watch this week on B&B. Thursday, June 25, 2025 Episode 9554Electra feels sick watching Will and Luna kiss during his attempt to get Luna to confess on and Taylor indulge in their love as Nick gets ready to share what he's learned with Brooke.
Geek Tyrant
3 hours ago
- Geek Tyrant
Alex Garland Reveals The Original Very Different Story Idea For 28 YEARS LATER — GeekTyrant
Before 28 Days Later became the haunting, emotional, and feverishly intense and wild film that we got, it was something else entirely, something much different. According to screenwriter Alex Garland, that original idea probably would've tanked the franchise. In a recent interview with Rolling Stone, Garland opened up about a very early concept for the long-awaited third film in the rage-virus saga. Let's just say, if things had gone that route, we wouldn't be talking about 28 Years Later like we are right now. 'I had a version of this story that was basically a big, dumb action movie,' Garland admitted. The story would've followed a group of Chinese Special Forces soldiers who break quarantine and sneak into the U.K. to find the lab where the virus started hoping to find a cure. But when they arrive, another group is already there... trying to weaponize it. 'It was completely and utterly f***ing generic,' Garland said. 'Shootouts and mass attacks and big, action-adventure-style set pieces.' Oh, and it would've been entirely in Mandarin with English subtitles. Danny Boyle, his longtime creative partner, didn't exactly embrace the idea. 'He just laughed,' Garland recalled, adding that they both eventually tried to rework it, but 'finally, we both gave up on it.' Still, the process wasn't a total loss. Garland said: 'Writing something so generic was the freeing element to all of our problems. It gave us permission to have a totally blank slate.' That 'blank slate' gave way to the film we eventually got, which is a movie that builds on the legacy of the original without trying to imitate it. It centers on a father and son (played by Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Alfie Williams) who leave their isolated island and reenter a U.K. that has mutated with the virus—both biologically and psychologically. The infected have evolved. The recation has been divisive, but I loved it! I liked the big swings that it took and enjoyed what it ultimtely delivered. It also got me super excited about The Bone Temple . It's kind of a small miracle we got this version instead of the Mandarin-language military shoot-'em-up. Sure, Garland's scrapped idea could've made for something interesting, but it's clear the soul of the 28 Days universe lies in something more grounded, personal, disturbing, and bonkers. It's certinaly not a generic film!
USA Today
4 hours ago
- USA Today
Spoilers: Here's how 'Squid Game' ends (with a huge cameo) after three seasons of death
Spoiler alert! This story contains details about the series finale of "Squid Game." "Squid Game" is over, but it seems the Games will never end. That's the haunting message we're left with in the final moments of Netflix's juggernaut South Korean horror drama, which wrapped up its third and last season with six episodes released June 27. Like the first two seasons, the episodes were unrelentingly bloody and bleak. And they wrapped up with an ending that might be a new beginning. Season 3 of the Netflix's most-watched show of all time was a macabre and depressing affair, a sort of half-story that seemed to indicate Seasons 2 and 3 were really just one story arbitrarily cut in half. The new episodes have all the flaws of the misguided Season 2, including that the show's core anticapitalist message has been swept aside in favor of more action set pieces and ceaseless barbarity. Any overarching point the series has been trying to make is lost in the chaos of men fighting with knives and threatening to kill a newborn baby to save their own skin. Even the quiet, eyebrow-raising final moments, which suggest that the struggle for economic justice and equality might be utterly pointless, feel less like a philosophy and more like a real-life capitalist desire for more, more, more. Season 1 of "Squid Game" remains one of the most arresting, shocking and thought-provoking TV shows ever made, so much that it became a surprise worldwide hit on the strength of word-of-mouth alone. Seasons 2 and 3 are hollow echoes of that achievement. They don't negate what that first season did, but merely dampen its effect. It's hard to remain awed when you've had two seasons worth of just, "ah." Does Gi-hun survive the final game? When the finale episode begins, our hero Gi-hun (Lee Jung-jae) is stuck in the last game with the late Jun-hee's newborn baby, who has become Player 222, and the baby's somewhat-of-a-dirtbag father Myung-gi (Yim Si-wan). The two men have seriously erred by killing all the other contestants before the final round of the game, because each round requires at least one person to die. In a brutal fight in which Myung-gi more than once endangers his newborn daughter (sometimes on purpose), Myung-gi ends up falling off the tall platform before the final round officially begins, meaning now either Gi-hun or the baby has to die or they will both be shot by the game workers. The wealthy VIPs watching with their gilded opera glasses are waiting for Gi-hun to kill the baby, and Gi-hun's mortal enemy the Front Man/In-ho (Lee Byung-hun) expects him to do the same. But in one final act of rebellion against the games, Gi-hun kills himself to save the child, declaring he is not a horse to be bet on but a human with a life. Player 456 is eliminated. What happens with Jun-ho and No-eul as the final game ends? Gi-hun's struggle was not the only one as the final game played out. In-ho's brother Jun-ho (Wi Ha-jun) finally makes it to the island he's been searching for these last two seasons. He arrives in time to see his brother take away the baby and set a self-destruct timer on the island. No-eul (Park Gyu-young), the games worker who has been trying to save a man with a sick daughter out of guilt for leaving her own daughter behind in North Korea, helps him escape from the island, and stays behind to burn records and feel sorry for herself. After witnessing Gi-hun's sacrifice, however, she decides not to let herself die, and evacuates the island with the rest of the workers. The VIPs make it out unscathed too, of course. They will never suffer any kind of consequence for their inhumanity. 'Squid Game': Where are they now Six months pass after the explosive end to Gi-hun's final games, and our remaining (living) characters have all moved on with their lives, or so they think. Jun-ho's loan-shark ally Mr. Choi (Jeon Seok-ho), is released from prison. Jun-ho has given up his quest and his career, but don't worry, his brother delivers him Jun-hee's baby and her 45.6 billion-won prize. One can only wonder with horror who has been taking care of that baby for her first half year. No-eul checks to make sure the father she rescued from the Games is still alive and thriving with his daughter. And she even gets good news of her own: The broker who helped her escape from North Korea has a lead on her own daughter's whereabouts. That same broker also brings us a blast from Season 1 past, reuniting the younger brother of Sae-byeok (the North Korean escapee who competed in the Season 1 games and finished third) with his mother. The Front Man remembers another family member who needs to be taken care of: Gi-hun's daughter Ga-yeong (Jo Ah-in), now living with her mother and stepfather in Los Angeles. In-ho shows up at her door with a box containing the personal effects of her father, and tells her he's dead. Inside is Gi-hun's blood-stained track suit and the debit card to his account, which In-ho has seemingly restocked with the billions of won that disappeared from Gi-hun's hotel headquarters. It's the same kind of quiet, unsatisfactory ending we saw in Season 1. That is, until the last few moments. Is 'Squid Game' getting an American spinoff? As In-ho drives away from Ga-yeong's house, his SUV stops at a traffic light across from a dirty L.A. alley, where he hears a loud slapping noise. Could it be? Yes, it is: A suited games recruiter and an American man are playing ddakji. And that recruiter isn't just anyone, it's freaking Cate Blanchett, who gives In-ho a knowing look before she goes back to slapping her prey. Then the credits roll. This A-lister cameo and revelation of an American version of the games can be interpreted in a few ways: Maybe it's just a coda that points out the true pointlessness and hopelessness of Gi-hun's rebellion. The games − and therefore wealth inequality, injustice and deep human cruelty − persist everywhere. One island off the coast of South Korea may have blown up, but no one will stop the wealthy from oppressing and crushing the poor. Or, if you are thinking about real-life capitalism, this may be a way for Netflix to introduce a U.S. spinoff. Whether that's a good idea, storytelling-wise, doesn't really matter in the great content machine that is Netflix (and, to be fair, all the other streamers, too). We'll just have to wait and see if a new show with a bloody version of Red Rover eventually hits our Netflix queues. Netflix has announced no plans for a spinoff; USA TODAY has reached out for further comment.
