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ABC News
21-05-2025
- Climate
- ABC News
NSW woman recounts dramatic helicopter flood rescue
Holly Pilotto says being winched to safety from her flooding house near Taree on the Mid North Coast was a 'surreal' moment.
The Review Geek
16-05-2025
- Entertainment
- The Review Geek
Your Friends and Neighbors – Season 1 Episode 7 Recap & Review
The First Honest Thing Episode 7 of Your Friends & Neighbors starts with Coop back stealing more gear, this time in the form of diamonds. However, he soon starts to see a series of surreal images, including a naked Nick cooking, Christian eating pancakes and Lu is even here too. When he awakens however, he finds himself in hospital. Coop is mess after being beaten outside, and he's been unconscious for 12 hours. Detective Lin shows up to talk to Coop – alone. With the whole family shepherded out the room, Lin immediately gets down to brass tacks. With nothing taken from him, Lin believes he was targeted. Lin gets the feeling that he's a man on a downward spiral and offers a helping hand to get out of this mess. She can see the pieces of what's happening but obviously doesn't have the evidence to put it together. Her pleas fall on deaf ears though as Coop is too far into this now and he's not about to stop any time soon. At the station, Lin learns that the report from Paul's death doesn't match the same gun inside Samantha's house. Her weapon hasn't been fired, as she said, and the gunshot residue shows that Paul pulled the trigger and shot too. Lin believes that Paul may have been shooting at someone trying to flee but she doesn't think Coop fits the MO. She does think he's hiding something though, and she's determined to figure out what. More reports confirm that there's trace amounts of blood, and coupled with the ammonia Lin noticed at the house, seems to reinforce the idea of someone covering this up. Interestingly, inside the kids' room, Lin finds a nanny-cam in one of the teddy bears, which shows Coop over at Sam's place, tucking Henry in to bed which we saw several episodes back. Naturally, Lin speaks to Sam and encourages her to change her initial statement at the police station. When she leaves, Sam picks up her phone and makes a call but it doesn't seem to be to Coop. Either way, there's a big bullseye on Coop now. Elena is also in a tricky spot this episode. Her brother owes money to a guy called Felix and after dropping drugs during a run, he owes 175k in total. It's a shocking amount of debt that her dead-end brother has got himself into, and Elena is stuck with the bill, given a week to pay this back. Bruce picks up Ali from work and brings her home, admitting that he admired her in the past and seeing her up on stage again has made him happy. As they begin kissing after stopping at the driveway, Hernandez finds himself stuck behind the trash cans. He's actually fishing for evidence illegally, and he soon finds out that Coop's blood matches the trace in the ammonia at the crime scene. Coop shows to see Barney at the hospital, who's thankfully alive but not in a great way. He's pissed about what's gone down, and knows something is being kept from him given the brown envelope of money. Barney is not happy and eventually kicks his friend out the room. With a bombshell about to drop for Coop, Sam is stuck playing host to Paul's wake. Coop shows up, unaware that back home Lin has shown up with a warrant to search his place. Inside the garage they find the car, and with time very much of the essence, Coop hurriedly speaks to Kat, the best lawyer in the area, and blackmails her into taking on his case, despite the conflict of interest. Coop has a quick swig of whiskey before leaving with Lin and the other officers, publicly arrested for Paul's murder. Unfortunately, they've also found the gun in the trunk of his car too. The Episode Review So it looks like this is the end of the road for Coop, who's caught in a very difficult position here given what's taken place with Sam. It's ironic that he could take the fall for a murder he didn't commit, and it appears that the real suspect could well be someone closer to home. The random scenes with Ali and Bruce would put the latter squarely in the right place to plant a gun in the trunk of the car, but his motive is still unclear. The fact that he's now blanking Ali after the incident and hurried away from the police claiming he's 'just a friend' doesn't do him any favours. Bruce is certainly a shady individual and seemingly using Ali as a way of getting to Coop. The gun being planted in the trunk of the car is indicative of this, given he's the only one who's had direct access to the house. There's also Coop's boss, Mel, Nick or even Sam that could be responsible though. And in this episode we did see Sam message someone outside the station – and it wasn't Coop. However, everything is starting to heat up now and the ending hints that we've got plenty more drama coming out way. Roll on the next episode! Previous Episode Next Episode Expect A Full Season Write-Up When This Season Concludes!
Yahoo
06-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
The Rehearsal connects cloned pets, Sully Sullenberger, and Evanescence
No one threads a surreal narrative needle like Nathan Fielder, and The Rehearsal exists to remind us of that every week. Love him or hate him, if you choose to strap into his comedic roller-coaster, at the very least you will be surprised. In 'Pilot's Code,' he takes the audience on a winding path that connects pet cloning, poor pilot communication in the cockpit, the hero pilot Sully Sullenberger, lactating puppets, iPods and the band Evanescence. No, that's not me just randomly connecting words to make you laugh. That's literally Fielder's train of thought. Our host opens the episode promising that he really is trying to take the human mind seriously in this series, so he wants to be cognizant of the safety of his pilot and co-pilot subjects. Instead of conducting 'unproven testing' on his pilot volunteers, he wants to run some of his risker experimental tests on animals first because 'we did evolve from them.' He then proceeds to find a married couple, Monique and Bogdan, who cloned their beloved, dead terrier Achilles. Now they have three very expensive, identical terriers—Thetis, Apollo, and Zeus—that don't match their original dog's personality at all. Because Zeus is still a puppy and trainable, Fielder has the brilliant idea to exactly reproduce the apartment the couple lived in when they raised Achilles, complete with three sets of 'Fielder Method' actors portraying them 24/7. His theory is that if they raise Zeus in those same dynamics, perhaps they could nurture the puppy to be a physical and behavioral clone of their original pet. Despite the laugh-out-loud inducing lengths Fielder, the couple, and their very dedicated faux selves go to emulate the life and issues the couple experienced back in the day—like fights about being ready to have a baby, or Monique recreating the kind of diabetic attacks Achilles would help wake her from—Zeus doesn't respond as hoped. However, several weeks into the daily immersion, Zeus suddenly copies how the family cats and Achilles walked across the back of the couch—and it's like Fielder has brought about the second coming. Monique and Bogdan are genuinely delighted to see such a specific behavior that harkens back to their preferred pet, and that scrap is all Fielder needs to take the experiment to the next level. The only pilot that Fielder is aware of bucking the pilot/co-pilot communication curse is Captain Chesley Burnett 'Sully' Sullenberger III, the hero pilot of Flight 1549 who saved his passengers and crew by safely landing in the Hudson River. At the time, the cockpit recorder captured Sully inviting his co-pilot to give him feedback at a critical moment, and while he didn't, they all survived that harrowing crash. Fielder connects the dots assuming that if he could apply the Zeus nurturing experiment to how Sullenberger describes he was raised in his memoir, maybe he could find a way to raise future pilots in the same way and make this aviation problem vanish forever. When Nathan Fielder tells you what you're about to see next 'is going to seem weird,' that should make you pause. And the man delivers as he shaves his body and gets a bald cap professionally placed so he can 'live' Sully's life from an infant to that fateful flight over New York City. Yes, he is going to put himself through the experiment because 'if a personality transfer can work on a dog, maybe it could work on a human being.' But he has to put himself through it first before he can ask it of someone else. Watching a bald, freshly shorn Fielder navigate a nursery built to scale to make it seem like he's the size of a baby may be peak comedy to some, but in my estimation it was actually the lowest hanging fruit comedy of the season. Fielder getting his nappy changed, or drowning while breastfeeding is too obvious for his kind of elevated comedy stylings. The bit only finds its groove when he shares a frame with a series of freakishly elongated puppets who tend to him as stand-ins for Mr. and Mrs. Sullenberger. They are creatively bizarre and perfect for the surreal nature of this whole digression. Then the highlights from Sully's adult life has Fielder donning the pilot's famous mustache and grey-white hair so he can dissect the memoir with such specificity that it's like he's trying to find the secrets within the Zapruder film. Fielder gets so granular that he micro focuses on Sully's inability to express his feelings in the manuscript until the passing of his emotionally-distant father. Fielder is genuinely bothered by the pilot never admitting to crying, and his repeated hollow mantra of finding ways to 'cope' with no expressed methods to do so. But it all comes together at his fake bar when another pilot tells him that their kind don't talk about their feelings because if they needed help and it got back to the FAA, their medical certificate would be revoked and they'd be grounded. With that knowledge, Fielder is able to find the subtext in Sully's book when he pinpoints that the pilot never once references any music until after his father dies, which is just months before the first Apple iPod is released. Afterwards, Sully brings up the band Evanescence and their song 'Bring Me To Life' often. Fielder surmises that the song's lyrics taught the pilot to ask for help just in time for his fateful flight. And then he makes a persuasive case to prove that theory by pointing out that there's a 23-second pause in the flight recording which is the exact length of the song's chorus. Also, Sully's iPod was found submerged in the cabin. The magic of Fielder is that for all the ridiculous material that came before this hypothesis, he connects the evidential pieces together so well. By stitching together the things unsaid in Sully's memoir, with a cockpit reenactment that feels like it was poached right from Eastwood's Sully movie and the mic drop revelation that his pilot volunteers have all been the most responsive and personally candid about sharing their personal woes, Fielder has seemingly discovered that pilot repression is really a thing. That he did it by wearing a diaper and getting a dog clone to walk a couch back, is pure Nathan Fielder. And what he does with that knowledge going forward, I can't even imagine. Stray observations • The episode opens with Michelle and Bogdan watching President Obama breaking into programming to announce the death of Osama Bin Laden, which happened on May 2, 2011. Then, she quickly switches channels to watch the Royal Wedding of Prince William and Catherine Middleton which occurred on Friday, 29 April 2011. A TiVo at play, or is this a Fielder trap? • Michelle and Bogdan are Greek mythology nerds! Achilles, their 'everything to us' dog is named after the Greek hero who was a mortal warrior and a demigod. His clones are named Thetis after his sea goddess mother, Zeus (who is the king of the gods), and Apollo (who is Achilles' adversary). • Nathan deadpanned that it was 'easy to match' the air in San Jose by actually having someone vacuum capture air in the town and then drive it 300-plus miles down to Los Angeles to have a human being blow it in the face of Zeus during his walks. I almost fell off my couch laughing. • Did you catch the 'vintage' Jared Fogle Subway ad at the bus stop? • Just how many pilot mixers did Nathan host at his imported airport bar? • I don't think I've ever witnessed Fielder as close to breaking as he was with Jeff the pilot explaining his 'no T-girls' mandate in his dating app bios. His genuine bemusement was a sight to see. • Fielder starts the episode by shifting his 'unproven testing' to animals for safety and then makes himself the subject of his 'weird' Sullenberger immersion experiment. Yet both he and Zeus poop themselves on-camera. Extract from that what you will. • The earnest score played while Fielder's 'living' highlights from Sullenberger's memoir was pure cinema. • Those terrifying, child perspective puppets around young Sully were made by the fine craftspeople at L.A.'s Viva La Puppet. • Check out the New Invention booth at the fake terminal. More from A.V. Club
