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‘Chief of War' Review: Battleground Hawaii
Nearly everything written about 'Chief of War' — the new series set in 18th-century Hawaii for which the Honolulu-born Jason Momoa was a creator, writer, director and star — has referred to the show as a passion project. And for about four minutes, at the show's beginning, it feels like one. The camera glides along brilliant blue water, trailing a skeletal catamaran. We hear wind, waves and the slap of paddles. Momoa towers over the paddlers, seemingly too big for the boat, before hurling himself into the water. Then — using a rope and a few flasks of numbing kava — he single-handedly catches a shark. It's a lovely and disarming scene, one that makes clever use of Momoa's hulking physique against the dramatic backdrops of land and sea. And there isn't another scene like it in the season's nine episodes (the first two of which premiere Friday on Apple TV+). There are moments of impressive violence and satisfying melodrama. But what starts like a passion project settles into work as usual. Momoa, who created the show with Thomas Paʻa Sibbett and wrote it with Sibbett and Doug Jung, plays Ka'iana, a member of one of many royal families at a time when each Hawaiian island was its own kingdom. 'Chief of War' takes place at the start of a period in the late 1700s when a series of conflicts led to the unification of the islands under a single king, and when increasing numbers of European and American ships began arriving. The show comes into its premiere carrying a seal of approval as the rare production to portray Hawaiian history from a native Hawaiian viewpoint, using the Hawaiian language (along with a fair bit of English). That responsibility may account for the solemnity that marks the storytelling; the show's fealty to the history is at the typical television-drama level, however. It is stuffed with people, like Ka'iana, who existed and with events that took place, but the story that is spun from them is largely fanciful. Timelines and relationships are juggled and fictionalized in the service of creating love stories, compressing and juicing up the course of war, and sharpening the depredations of the incipient colonists (referred to here as the paleskins). Want all of The Times? Subscribe.
Cosmopolitan
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'Slow Horses' Confirms Major Change as 'Unbelievable' Thriller Returns with 'Captivating' Season 5
Gary Oldman's notorious Jackson Lamb and his dysfunctional team of MI5 agents are back to investigate more crimes, with Slow Horses season five coming to our screens this September. But, fans of the Apple TV+ show can expect major changes after that, as this will be the last series showrunner Will Smith—who has been with the series since the very start—is involved in. Smith confirmed that the upcoming season would be his last, telling Deadline: "Season five, it doesn't end things by any means, but it concludes certain story arcs that started in season one, so it felt like a good moment to hand over the show." On why he decided to step back at this point, the writer said: "There's two things: one, there's the risk that you'll start to run dry or repeat, which you have to watch. And so, it's just getting ahead of that, and knowing when the right time is for you to give it over to somebody who can give it some new energy and freshness." He continued: "And then it's likely that the schedule of it just becomes something that can be slightly daunting after a while. It feels like I might not be giving you my best work if I continue at this pace. "I do want to emphasize, it's not in any way that I thought I'm now too good for Slow Horses. It's much more that I want to keep being good enough for Slow Horses. "And I would never want it to be like, 'Oh, that one wasn't quite there.' It's just that risk of just pushing it too far. And I just felt, I just want to go when I know I'm still delivering my very, very best for all the people that work on the show." The new season will arrive on the streaming platform on September 24, and will be an adaptation of Mick Herron's 2018 novel London Rules. This is the fifth novel and sixth story in the Slough House series. It's also the sequel to Spook Street, which was the basis for season four of the show. Season 6 and 7 of Slow Horses were recently confirmed, with Gaby Chiappe and Ben Vanstone taking on writing duties for each season respectively. That means there's lots more Slow Horses for fans to enjoy, even if it will be a little different. Slow Horses starts on Apple TV+ on September 24. SUBSCRIBE HERE
Yahoo
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Plot targeting Miami Showband would have impacted Irish everywhere
A loyalist plot to paint the Miami Showband as transporting explosives would have impacted Irish people across the world, a survivor of the atrocity has said. Stephen Travers said he is not only relieved to have survived the atrocity, but also that the plot did not succeed. Mr Travers, along with fellow bandmate and survivor Des Lee, revisited the roadside close to Newry where they had come under attack 50 years ago for a commemoration on Thursday. The band's minibus had been stopped by loyalist terrorists operating a fake army checkpoint as they drove to Dublin following a gig in Banbridge on July 31, 1975. They were ordered out of the bus, and an attempt was made to place a bomb on board, but that device exploded prematurely and killed two of the attackers. Gunmen then opened fire on the band members, killing singer Fran O'Toole, guitarist Tony Geraghty and trumpeter Brian McCoy. Mr Travers said the sight he saw on the road was 'horrendous', and that watching current scenes from Gaza makes him feel guilty as he made a plea for the violence to stop. He said he had mixed emotions being back at the site 50 years later. 'I remember when the killing and the shooting and the screaming all stopped and we were fairly certain they had gone away, and Des managed to get up on to the road, I remember looking up at the sky, there was a half-moon, and thinking to myself, what has just happened here,' he said. 'We were under the impression for a while that we were caught in some sort of cross-fire, but over the years we have discovered it was a plan that was in operation, we believe, for two years. 'When I consider the awful things that I saw, I was here for almost an hour crawling around between the bodies of our lads and the body parts of the unfortunate men who blew themselves up. Those memories will stay with me forever. 'The simple plan was to frame us. Had this operation gone successfully, had we been framed as terrorists, our families would have been destroyed.' He referred to the Maguire Seven, who were falsely accused of handling explosives in connection with the Guildford pub bombings in 1974 and whose names were not cleared until their convictions were quashed in 1991. 'I'm sure lots of you saw Fran's (O'Toole) father when he tried to follow his son into the grave in various clips on the television – can you just imagine bringing that man into a police station and questioning him as to what he knew about his terrorist son,' Mr Travers said. 'This is the tragedy. It's not just us that this thing was aimed at – it was a brilliant plan, had it worked. Every single Irish passport holder across the world would have been suspect and dragged into this. had it worked. 'So today when I'm asked how I feel about this, it is of mixed emotion, one is of great relief that I'm alive, and that Des is alive after 50 years, but there is another relief that the Irish people were saved the ignominy of being dragged into police stations whether they were crossing the border of Germany into Switzerland, or whether they were crossing from Canada into America.'
