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Yahoo
23-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Jax Taylor Reveals Surprising Person Who Pushed Him To Seek Treatment
Season 2 of The Valley promised to provide a lot of context on and Brittany Cartwright's split. And even the premiere episode was very revealing. The Vanderpump Rules alum admitted to flying into a rage upon finding out that his estranged wife had been hooking up with a friend of his, and flipped a coffee table that ended up hitting Brittany. It's the beginning of rock bottom for Jax. The Valley viewers know that his costars staged an intervention and got him to go into an inpatient mental health clinic. But there was another important person in Jax's life that encouraged him to seek help. It was revealed in a sneak peek for Episode 2 of the hit VPR spinoff. The conversation between Jax and his sister was filmed for The Valley Season 2 last summer. He also got support from his buddies on the cast. At the time in July 2024, the VPR alum announced his decision to seek mental health treatment at a facility. 'I'm going to this mental hospital — this mental clinic, or mental health clinic,' Jax confesses to Danny Booko and Jason Caperna in a sneak peek shared exclusively by Bravo's The Daily Dish. 'This place I've researched a little bit.' In the clip, Jax told his costars that he's 'checking in' for an inpatient assessment. He explained, 'I'm just trying to wait for this assessment guy. This guy's supposed to call me back. I'm just getting frustrated. A week long of me having this conversation 50 f*cking times. I get it. I got it. You guys are just on the end of me talking about the same sh*t over and over and over.' The former VPR star also explained how important it was for him to get his sister's encouragement on the matter. He said, 'It's tough for me to ask for help. But, I talked to my sister, and she was like, 'You should go.'' It seems that Jax was dealing with a lot of serious issues that compounded together. He admitted to having anger issues, but during his stay at the inpatient facility, Jax was officially diagnosed with bipolar disorder and PTSD. Consequently, at the time of the Episode 2 teaser clip, Jax could only explain to Danny and Jason that, 'there's a lot of issues.' The Valley streams on Peacock and Hayu in the UK and Ireland. TELL US – WHAT DO YOU THINK OF JAX'S SISTER ENCOURAGING HIM TO GO? DO YOU THINK IT WAS THE RIGHT DECISION? The post Jax Taylor Reveals Surprising Person Who Pushed Him To Seek Treatment appeared first on Reality Tea.
USA Today
21-04-2025
- Entertainment
- USA Today
'The Last of Us' creator not sorry for heartbreaking death: 'People will be upset'
'The Last of Us' creator not sorry for heartbreaking death: 'People will be upset' Show Caption Hide Caption Bella Ramsey, Pedro Pascal discuss father-daughter relationship 'The Last of Us' stars Bella Ramsey and Pedro Pascal reveal they didn't enjoy their character's estrangement in season 2. Spoiler alert: This story includes details of the major Episode 2 fatality. That "Last of Us" death hurts, especially so early in Season 2. We're not talking about Tommy Miller's (Gabriel Luna) awesome blow-torch barbeque of the bloater beast in Episode 2 (now streaming on Max; new episodes Sundays, 9 ET/PT). Shroomzilla had that coming. But, for those not familiar with "The Last of Us" video games from which the HBO series is adapted, the brutal death of Joel Miller – the role that propelled Pedro Pascal to superstardom – is an emotional bludgeoning. By a golf club. That is the weapon on hand for vengeful Abby Anderson (Kaitlyn Dever), who fatally tees off on Joel to avenge her dead father. The torturous clobbering comes after Joel saves Abby from infected hordes and is coldly executed in front of his surrogate daughter, Ellie (Bella Ramsey). "People are going to be upset. That's sometimes how good drama goes," says executive producer Craig Mazin. "This was something that was always meant to happen. So much of the first season was, in a weird way, leading to this moment. And it's upsetting." 'Very injured' Pedro Pascal Plays broken Joel in 'Last of Us' Season 2 with Bella Ramsey Joel's death was 'largely preordained' Joel's demise was already laid out, nearly blow-for-blow, in the source material, "The Last of Us Part II" video game. When Pascal took the role, Mazin says the actor knew Joel would face this savaging in a potential Season 2. And, of course, there was a Season 2. "Loss is kind of how this story functions, so this was largely preordained," says Mazin. "When I talked to Pedro the first time, I said, 'This is how this will go.' I wanted him to know that we're not going to do this for seven seasons with you in that spot. We're going to do a season, and if it goes well and there's a second season, this will happen." The TV version provides one episode and change to build up some empathy for Abby, the Firefly daughter of the unarmed, scrubbed-up surgeon Joel killed in his Season 1 finale killing spree. In an Episode 2 hospital flashback, Abby discovers her father, who was about to remove Ellie's brain for a humanity-saving cure. Abby has been searching for Joel, and payback, for five years. Trapped and wounded by Abby, Joel's eyes give license for revenge. "They have a weirdly intimate moment of connection where Joel, on some level, recognizes her right to retribution, to avenge her father," Mazin says. It's important that Abby goes too far: 'There's justice and then there's this other thing' The Joel beating is conducted mostly off camera, but it's brutal. The golf club hits to the head depicted in the video game are directed primarily at Joel's shot-up leg for the sake of semi-reality. "This is live action," Mazin says. "We do have to work a little closer to truer physics." Abby breaks the club and uses her fists before horrifyingly sticking the broken club into Joel's neck. "So that broken piece of golf club was the coup de grâce. In some ways, it's more haunting," Mazin says. "We actually tried to show quite a bit of restraint in what people see. But it's important for Abby's character to go too far. There's justice, and then there's this other thing." Ellie vows revenge and circle of 'toxic mourning' continues Half of the Firefly crew is appalled, including Owen (Spencer Lord), who ultimately has to tell Abby to stop the torture and "finish it." Medic Mel (Ariela Barer) can't hide her tears. Trapped, Ellie reflects viewers' horror, and her primal need for her own form of revenge. "Is Ellie going to do exactly what Abby did, pursue her and hunt her down at any cost? What does this toxic grieving do to us?" Mazin asks. "This is not a revenge story. It's a story about grief and how people handle grief." We haven't seen the end of Pedro Pascal in 'Last of Us' Rest in Peace, Joel. The final view of the deeply flawed protector is his covered body pulled through the snow to Jackson by horse. But we haven't seen the end of Pascal. The troubled father figure still has – at least – a fateful confrontation with Ellie, as alluded to in the Season 2 trailer. "I don't think I'm spoiling anything," Mazin says. "We have not seen the last of Pedro Pascal on 'The Last of Us.'" But the show shifts its focus to the aftermath of the seismic death and the actions of the grieving Tommy, Dina (Isabela Merced), and Ellie – who spits a vow of revenge. 'The way Bella as Ellie says, 'You're all going to die,' you can't help but believe it is absolutely true,' Mazin says. As the somber Fireflies trudge away in the snow, Abby looks disturbed after finally killing Joel. "It's not remorse," Mazin says. "There is a sense of dissatisfaction. This thing she thought would fix the wound in her didn't fix it. She walks away no happier than when she showed up."
Yahoo
06-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
'MobLand' Episode 2: Anson Boon on 'unique relationship' with Helen Mirren on show
While MobLand on Paramount+ is a classic Guy Ritchie British gangster story, Episode 2 reveals a particularly interesting relationship between Maeve Harrigan (Helen Mirren) and her grandson Eddie Harrigan (Anson Boon). After Eddie stabs Tommy Stevenson (Felix Edwards) on a night out, he causes issues for his grandfather, Conrad Harrigan (Pierce Brosnan), with the rival crime family, the Stevensons. In Episode 2 Eddie arrives at his grandparents home with a big hug from Maeve. As tensions are escalating between gangs, Eddie feels like he's being perceived as a "f**k up," but finds comfort with his grandmother who lives by the rule that, "[If] a man disrespects you, take care of it. That's the Harrigan way." She also wants to know how Eddie felt felt stabbing Tommy, and she's satisfied when his response is, "It felt f**king great." And that's when Maeve puts her hand in her bra and takes out a baggy of cocaine for her grandson. "Nan of the year," Eddie says. It's not the most typical grandson-grandmother relationship, but Boon teased to Yahoo Canada that throughout the rest of the season their relationship goes to "very strange" and "dark" places. My wife's the brains behind the charm. She holds me together. That makes her the most dangerous of all. The second you lose trust in me is the second this family turns to dust. I need to ask about the scene in episode 2 with you and Helen Mirren. Um, where she's like comforting you and then it pulls the cocaine out as she's asking what it felt like to to do what you did. I mean, just an amazing scene all around circumstances, dialogue. What was it like to be able to kind of play with that? So so much fun. I mean, it's not every day that you get to film a scene with. Helen Mirren, so, you know, whatever the scene was about, that was already just amazing. But also, I guess in under normal circumstances you would expect that if a grandson had a bad drug habit, it wouldn't be enabled by his grandma, but she's, you know, as you've seen, absolutely egging him on. So they have a really fun, unique relationship as a grandmother and grandson, um, and I most certainly don't want to spoil anything about it cos it does go to some very strange dark places, as you'll learn as you watch the rest of the show. They're a little bit of a team. Um, and yeah, getting to play that out with Helen, and that scene, obviously directed by Guy Ritchie, it was just so much fun. Yeah, and we, unfortunately, we shot it so fast because me and Helen were so excited to film this scene because it was so much fun. We both came in really prepared, we'd thought about it, we'd spoken about it before, we'd rehearsed it. And I, I, I wish that that scene took 2 days to film, honestly, because we had so much fun doing it.
