Tru Calling Season 1 Episode 6

[Niobe Hennigan]

TruCalling is an American supernatural drama television series which aired on Fox. Original episodes aired between October 30, 2003, and April 21, 2005; however, the final episode was shown in other territories before it was aired in the United States due to lower-than-anticipated ratings.[2][3]

The show starred Eliza Dushku as Tru Davies, a twenty-two-year-old medical school student who takes a job at the city morgue when her internship falls through. When the corpse of a deceased woman seems to awaken and asks for her help, Tru discovers that she has the incredible power to relive that day in order to try to prevent that death. Over the course of the series, Tru struggles to keep her secret, juggle her responsibilities with her complicated personal life, and learn to control her power.

Tru is aided by her boss, Davis (Zach Galifianakis), who acts as a sort of guide and mentor, who is later revealed to have known about Tru's mother (who was, apparently, the last person to receive the "calling" before her daughter), her best friend Lindsey (A.J. Cook), who doesn't know Tru's secret, and her impulsive, good-natured and bumbling younger brother Harrison (Shawn Reaves). Tru keeps her secret from her boyfriends, as well as her sister Meredith (Jessica Collins), who has a drug problem.

Halfway through the first season, Tru's life gets much more complicated when she meets Jack Harper (Jason Priestley), a man who shares Tru's abilities but who works to preserve what he sees as the hand of Fate by ensuring that the people Tru tries to help stay dead, though the series was canceled before the conclusion of their struggle was written. In the first-season finale, it is revealed that Tru's father knows Jack Harper and that he had played a similarly antagonistic role versus Tru's mother, terminating her by hiring a hitman to kill her, though neither Harrison nor Tru found out.

The second season does not feature Tru's best friend Lindsey nor her sister Meredith, whose characters are not mentioned. This season has Tru juggling medical school and her live-saving ability, while Jack aims to foil her attempts at every turn.

The series was canceled in 2005 due to low ratings. The final episode aired in many other territories before it screened in the US. The cancellation ended the series with multiple unresolved cliffhangers:

The series completed airing in its entirety in New Zealand first. The second season began airing in the country on TV3 on February 4, 2005, with the final episode shown on March 11, 2005. After nearly a year-long hiatus in the U.S., new episodes began on Fox on March 31, 2005. However, the series was pulled again in favour of Fox's new show Point Pleasant and the final episode was screened in many other territories before it finally aired in the U.S. on January 21, 2008 on Syfy.

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Others have a different interpretation of why Tony ends his long-running relationship with Melfi. Judith Shulevitz, also at Slate.com, notes that in the first therapy session of the hour, Tony almost lets it slip to Dr. Melfi that he committed murder (of Ralph); he may be walking away from treatment now in order to prevent himself from saying too much to his therapist. Some viewers think he walks away because of genuine frustration, while some said Chase was preparing to give Melfi the axe because she had become less of an important character over time. Some viewers found the scene to just be another plot-twist. Whatever the reason, Tony is done. Doctor Melfi stands up to shake his hand. Tony kisses her gently on the cheek and walks out.

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Tony snaps out of the disturbing dream, startled and damp with sweat. He lumbers into the bathroom to regain his composure but the red nightlight bathes him in a hellish glow and provides no comfort. He sees a sliver of sunlight through the curtains and makes his way out to the balcony. In the warm and bright Florida air, he can calm himself.

Chase's less-than-stellar opinion of psychiatry seems to run through the entire series (also including the counselor who wanted to send Meadow to the University of Barcelona and the worse-than-useless shrink who reaffirms all of Janice's delusional opinions of herself). In just about every session with Melfi, there are junctures where the psychiatrist, say, clams up in response to Tony missing the point of her analysis or allows him to steer the conversation off course, when a more forceful response would have helped him understand his own feelings better. (I appreciate that silence is a legitimate technique to elicit a response, but Melfi still seems to over-rely on it.)

But the ultimate condemnation of Melfi in this episode is that Tony is more influenced by Svetlana about what to do about his treatment than he is by the trained professional herself. Or is Chase saying that Tony listens to Svetlana because she let him sleep with her? Tony, a man of voracious appetites who is not used to taking no for an answer, has wanted to sleep with Melfi all along, and he makes another try for her after he and Carmella separate later in this season. Melfi is always firm and professional in spurning Tony's advances, but she doesn't seem to handle them well in terms of how Tony's lust for her affects his attitude toward treatment.

The dream with the shadowy figure is, I think, the most (or only?) terrifying scene in "The Sopranos," like something out of a horror movie. I agree that it could be Livia, as if Tony's decision to "tough it out" without therapy, like the tough immigrant Svetlana, will lead him back to the darkness of the depression and nihilism he inherited from his mother. And there's nothing scarier than that!

Right, but the timing of her hand is too slim for me to believe this. had both hands been present in the scene, then i may agree with you. I doubt that is the case, however. Supernatural themes have been touched before (Paulie and the psychic) but i honestly do not believe this is one of the situations.

I also wanted to bring up the two mentions of lights in this episode. The first comes when Tony notices left over shaving cream on Juniors face. Junior blames it on bad lighting in the bathroom, Bobby supposedly installed the wrong type of bulb. The second mention comes from Carms father, Hugh, as he disapproves of his installed recessed lighting. In the final scene, Tony wakes from his dream and goes into the bathroom, we are shown that the lighting is a recessed light fixture. Tony seems very uncomfortable after this scene, perhaps on the verge of a panic attack. He opens up the curtains to the bright natural light and seems to be recovered.

Something else I thought of.. there are two dream sequences in this episode & there are two dream levels in Max Payne. The whole story of the game Max Payne revolves around Max losing his wife (and child). Bobby here is struggling with Karens death.

The wine glass moving is strange, it appears Janice uses her left hand to adjust/move the mat (which holds the wine glass) after switching hands holding the fork to eat, moving the wine closer to her then slighty away. I think its simply that, not a spirit.

The episode Karen dies was the episode with the Christopher Columbus parade and in this episode Bobby drives Sophia to baseball (softball?) practice. Columbus day in 2002 was October 14 and baseball season starts in late March/early April so at least 5 months have passed.. Maybe a little less maybe a little more

David Chase said the Kevin Finnerty sequences were not dreams. That is reason enough for me to not refer to them as dreams, though your post and many of the comments do. Just something to think about.

When the rut arrives you can continue on with your pre-rut calling strategy; simply raise the frequency and intensity of it all. During those couple weeks of peak rutting activity bucks are in perpetual search of females, while also fighting off any and all competition. Contact grunts, buck growls, and snort wheezes are all effective, but you can be louder and more aggressive with all of the above.

In addition to grunts, rattling now truly comes into form, especially in areas with lower hunting pressure and higher numbers of mature bucks. In these areas where bucks often need to fight to secure rights to breed a female, a rattling sequence can lure in bucks looking for action. Rather than the pre-rut tickling of tines, it now makes sense to replicate a full blown fight with aggressive hits and rattles with your antlers, thrashing of brush, and maybe even a snort wheeze or two added in as well. Rattling can be done at random intervals, regardless of deer sightings, or as a long-distance attention getter when you spot a buck at a far range.

The only exception to this is if you have a second rut situation, where a young doe comes into heat late. If this happens and bucks all of a sudden find themselves in competition for breeding rights, you can again turn to your rut calls and possibly have success.

Do not be afraid to bust out some calls and try to lure a buck into range this season. It absolutely works in some places and situations. The trick is in using the right call for the circumstances, using it the right way, and not overdoing it.

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