Mitcham shoots himself in the head and Stirling says a word of prayer for him... McGonigal dies and is buried in the desert and Paddy lies beside him while the desert rain beats him... Jock is still matching on crazily 🤣
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- Tolu stole N5,000 from her parents but she couldn’t just start spending it freely in school without teachers or classmates asking where she got the money from.
- So, on her way to school she bought pens and started selling them to her classmates.
- Now, the money appears legitimate because everyone believes Tolu is making money from selling pens. She can now buy food and snacks without suspicion.
HBO told Benioff and Weiss they could have unlimited budget and as many episodes as they wanted for two more seasons of Game of Thrones. They said no. They wanted to write Star Wars instead. The same thing breaks every big show's final season.
The longer a show runs, the smaller its writing team and creative attention get, while the budget grows to make up for it. Game of Thrones seasons 1 to 6 each had 10 episodes. Season 7 dropped to 7. Season 8 dropped to 6. Benioff and Weiss said they couldn't make 10 episodes in the show's usual 12 to 14 month schedule. They had also run out of George R.R. Martin's books to adapt after season 5. Three months after the finale aired, they signed a $200M deal with Netflix to start making new shows.
Stranger Things shows the same thing happening at Netflix. Season 4 cost $30M per episode. Season 5 jumped to between $50M and $60M per episode, putting the final season's price tag at $400M to $480M. But across seasons 4 and 5, the show released fewer than three episodes per year on average. The kids on screen grew into adults while everyone waited.
Behind both shows is a writing system that quietly broke. Old TV shows had teams of 10 to 12 writers working on 22 episodes per year. Streaming shrank that down to "mini-rooms" of three or four writers handling six to ten episodes. Less than half the size. And because streaming services drop every episode at once, all the scripts have to be locked before filming starts. So if a storyline isn't working partway through, there's no way to fix it.
Lost is the older version. Damon Lindelof wanted to end the show after three seasons but ABC refused with "you don't end shows people are watching." So the writers spent three extra years inventing answers to mysteries they had not actually planned. Then the 2007 writers' strike cut a season short and the finale had to absorb the damage.
The attention problem at the top makes everything worse. Netflix gave Ryan Murphy $300M for 10 new shows in five years. Studios now buy big creators across multiple projects at once, which means the person who built your favorite show is often half-checked-out by the time the finale gets made.
Early seasons get the full creative team, a cast on their first cheap contracts, and books or comics to adapt. Final seasons get a half-distracted creator, a three-person writing team, scripts that can't be changed, a $400M budget, and a star whose per-episode pay is now ten times higher. By the final season, the budget is doing what good writing used to do for free.
Don't drag me o.
But here are some of my Top spy and special agent movies you can check on Netflix.
They are old though but you'd enjoy them
1 SALT
Any movie with Angelina Jolie, trust it to bring a hard story, fast paced action and so many twists
2 BOURNE SERIES
One of the Top spy movies you should see.
Matt Damon embodies a stealth agent who defies the normal CIA movies.
Not a cliche story.
3 MAN FROM UNCLE
Stands out on its own.
From the handsome superman, Henry Cavill giving us all that James Bond vibes, you'd get to see archaic tech and class.
4 SNOWDEN
Said to be based on a real story.
Movie is one of the defying hack and thrilling movie
5 MR AND MRS SMITH
What you get when you pair ex power couples, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie.
One of the best couple spy movies
6 MISSION IMPOSSIBLE
Anything with Tom Cruise, trust it to pump you adrenaline and action
7 OLYMPUS HAS FALLEN
Cliche though.
Overflogged story of white house being attacked.
Rescue the President 😒
8 RED 1 and 2
one of the best super packed spy movies.
All veterans from Helen Mirren, Bruce Willis and more
9 SPIES IN DISGUISE
The only animation on the list
Will Smith brings us whst we find when you mix wildlife and action.
10 KINGSMAN
Top of the line action.
British spy
Great graphics.
Different style of fight
Let me know if you enjoy my pick.
Oscar Isaac, Betty Gilpin, Alec Baldwin, and David Costabile will star in THE ROMAN.
A high stakes modern casino drama series from the creators of Billions and executive produced by Martin Scorsese.
The ending of Se7en (1995) stands as one of the most haunting in cinema history. The killer John Doe orchestrates events so that Detective Mills embodies the seventh deadly sin—Wrath—when he shoots Doe after discovering his wife has been murdered.
The film closes not with the triumph of justice, but with evil forcing humanity into its trap.
Se7en reveals that evil is not always punished in the way we expect, and at times, people themselves become the instruments through which evil fulfills its design.