Released on: 1964
Rating: 7.50
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'The Adjustment Bureau' More Than a Serendipitous Affair
At first glance, the idea behind the romantic-thriller The Adjustment Bureau might seem thoroughly implausible, suggesting as it does that none of us really control our destiny, and that the paths of our lives are controlled by shadowy agents of Fate itself. The story is loosely based on the Philip K. Dick eight page short story "Adjustment Team", and features a smooth-talking politician (Matt Damon) whose political future is thrown in doubt by uncontrollable events and the arrival in his life of a mysterious ballet dancer (Emily Blunt).
Dick's fecund mind has given us a wellspring of provocative ideas upon which to chew over the years. Readers and audiences alike have been drawn to his penchant for challenging the fabric of our immutable world obliquely through provocative fantasy and science fiction tales, and this story is no different.
Without question the concept of predeterminism — implausible or not — is part of»
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NBC Hangs Up 'The Cape'; Finale Set to Air Online
Buh-bye, Cape. NBC has taken its super hero series, trimmed to 10 episodes from an initial 13 episode order, and decapitated it completely…at least for broadcast television. The tenth and final episode of the show will air online later this month instead, reports TVLine.
The series has had a difficult time finding an audience from the get. The two-hour pilot back in January netted a respectable 8.5M viewers, but fell from there in subsequent weeks. This past Monday night's episode only managed 4.1M viewers with just 1.1M in the coveted 18-49 demographic.
In its place, NBC will bring The Event back beginning next Monday, with all new episodes that the network has been heavily promoting since last week.
Watching The Cape, it was apparent that the show runners put a lot of love and thought into the property. Too much for its own good, perhaps…as the series took itself too seriously in some parts,»
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