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Departure is a 2019 suspense drama television series created by Vince Shiao. It was commissioned by the Canadian broadcaster Global and the American streaming service Peacock, being produced by Shaftesbury Films, Greenpoint Productions and Corus Entertainment.[1][2] Starring Archie Panjabi and Christopher Plummer and directed by T. J. Scott, the series premiered on Universal TV on 10 July 2019, with Global scheduling the Canadian debut for 8 October 2020.[3] During the first season's release in Canada and the UK, the series averaged more than one million viewers per episode.[4]
Christopher Plummer filmed his scenes from his home in Connecticut instead of traveling to the sets in Toronto due to travel restrictions into Canada owing to the COVID-19 pandemic.[13] Plummer had completed filming his scenes for the second season shortly before he passed away on 5 February 2021.[14] Plummer's work in the second season was his final on-screen performance before his death.[13][14]
This season follows the investigation by the fictional Transport Safety and Investigations Bureau into the disappearance of a British passenger plane over the Atlantic Ocean and the reasons behind it.[1]
NBCUniversal pre-bought the series to air it on Universal TV in the United Kingdom and Germany and on 13th Street in Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Ukraine, and Spain, as well as on Universal TV in Africa and 13th Street in Poland.[35] On 14 July 2020, NBC's streaming service Peacock acquired the series in the United States, where it debuted on 17 September 2020.[36] The distributor is Red Arrow Studios International, although Starlings Television managed the sale to Peacock/Universal. The NBCUniversal media conglomerate purchased the series for distribution in Europe and Africa.[3] The first season premiered on 10 July 2019 on Universal with 5Star premiered on 20 September 2021 and Sky Witness premiering on 12 October 2021.
Departure, whose existing two seasons are streaming on Peacock, was renewed for a third season by Canadian network Global in May. Peacock picked up Seasons 1 and 2, which also starred the late Christopher Plummer, after screening them so it is too early to say if the streamer will also take in Season 3.
The investigation team, led by Kendra Malley (Panjabi) and Dominic Hayes (Kris Holden-Ried) begin to unravel the many parts of the investigation, all in search of one answer: why did the Queen of the Narrows sink so quickly? Returning to the team this season is Mark Rendall (ReGenisis).
Before diving into where the season falls short, it is worth noting that Departure Season 2 still excels at building suspense and tension, as well as choosing some intense cliffhangers to end an episode on. We also, eventually, get to see more of the investigative work that caused us to fall in love with Season 1.
It would have been wonderful to see the two of them as partners again, bouncing ideas off each other. Ellen ends up taking on that role, but it is a shame to waste all the work Season 1 did by keeping Dom away for the majority of the season.
Christopher Plummer finished filming the second season of Departure before his death. The versatile, iconic actor passed away this past February at the age of 91. Plummer began his career in theatre before becoming famous in The Sound of Music for his performance as Captain Georg von Trapp in 1965. For the rest of his career, Plummer would balance his roles on stage and on screen, being in films such as, Waterloo, Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, Knives Out, and All The Money In The World. Plummer won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for Beginners in 2012.
Departure was Plummer's most recent project where he played Howard Lawson, senior manager of the fictional Transport Safety and Investigations Bureau. The British-Canadian suspense drama stars Archie Panjabi (The Good Wife) and centers around the investigation regarding the mysterious disappearance of a passenger aircraft over the Atlantic Ocean. The series premiered in July 2019 and was in production for its second season back in September 2020. With Plummer's passing, fans were wondering how his character would be handled on the show and whether he completed filming.
According to TVLine, Plummer had indeed completed shooting the second season of the show before passing away. The series is currently in the midst of scheduling a premiere date on the Canadian broadcasting network, Global, as well as the UK network, Universal TV, before being available to stream on Peacock. It is reported that Plummer filmed scenes of the second season from his residence in Connecticut due to the pandemic and travel restrictions as the show was shot in Toronto.
It is uncertain what will happen to Plummer's character on the drama. Howard Lawson was the mentor to Panjabi's Kendra Malley on the show and it is likely that the show completed filming before Plummer's death, which means that his character may not get a proper sendoff by the season finale. It may very well be, similar to other character departures due to the actor's passing, that Lawson's departure may happen offscreen if Departure is renewed for a third season.
Regardless of what happens with Departure, Plummer has given fans more than seven decades of work and has influenced many people in and out of the entertainment industry. His projects have spanned every genre and type and is a tribute to his ability and talent as an actor. Since his passing was unexpected, it is nice to know that in one of his final projects, he was able to complete all of his scenes in the second season.
The Magnus Archives just ended; I literally started working on this article whilst listening to the final episode. I want to stress, starting out, that I do largely respect what its production team, The Rusty Quill, have accomplished here: a 200 episode podcast, split into five seasons, with a massive narrative arc running over all of them but with many episodes also offering satisfying self-contained horror stories despite their wider links to the larger tale, with the show fully delivered from beginning to end without any massive Internet drama or sudden curtailment of activities derailing the production process.
Before I drop some spoiler space and start ragging on season 5 properly, however, I want to start off positive by doing a quick non-spoilery rundown of the first four seasons, which I do genuinely recommend.
Further wrinkles and complications manifest over the course of the four seasons, of course, but you get the basic concept right there: you have the majority of the episodes revolving around John either reading a transcript, or recording a Statement from a witness in-person. Tape recorders also end up capturing other discussions surrounding the Statements, giving us insight into stuff happening to the characters separate from that paperwork.
A big part of the reason I listened to the end of season 5, despite not liking a lot of it, was down to the handling of this finale, and how it made stuff that had previously bugged me suddenly seem more acceptable. I kept clinging on to episode 200 in the faint hope that Rusty Quill would repeat this trick. They did not.
It certainly put me off. I took to skipping most of the Statements midway through the season, and honestly it had no major effect on my understanding of what was happening. After all, most of the Statements seemed to now be dedicated not to creating an atmosphere of horror mystery, but explaining the schtick of one of the Fears which had already been perfectly adequately depicted in the main run of the show (and, indeed, as season 4 progressed had risked already becoming over-explained). In many of them, nothing particularly plot-important happened, particularly since the material around the statements had now become the place where major plot things happened and the Statements themselves were this sort of vestigial, atrophied feature of the show.
As a result, the apocalypse and the metaphysic underlying it are the only stories going, because the natural universe and all the side plots that could be happening in it have gone away and every character encountered and interacted with over the course of the entire season has had their entire existence comprehensively subverted and defined by it. The Magnus Archives had gone from a universe where there was a dizzying array of stories to tell to one in which there was only really one story, and hearing some 40-odd different iterations of it was just tiresome.
Then in 2020 and 2021, Cavill was working on Season 2 of The Witcher and was constantly having disagreements with the producers over the work he was doing. After Season 2 wrapped, he seriously considered leaving The Witcher, but was offered more money and decided to stay for at least one more season.
McVay said Monday he will take an undetermined amount of time to contemplate his future before he commits to a seventh season with the Rams. He clearly is strongly considering walking away from his remarkable head coaching career at its lowest point after the Rams (5-12) posted the first losing record of his tenure.
"You don't want to rush into any sort of decision," said McVay, who will turn 37 later this month. "There's a lot of emotion right after the season. There's a lot of layers to this. There's a lot of people that it does affect that I don't take lightly and want to be mindful of, and so I'm going to take the next couple of days to really reflect (and have) a lot of conversations with various people that will dictate and determine the decision that's best for me, my family, the Rams and a lot of people."
He has spoken repeatedly about the exhaustion and frustration of this difficult season being compounded by the mental stresses of his grandfather's death and worrying about his wife's family in Ukraine. He also hasn't hidden his interest in a cushy broadcasting career, although those rumors aren't nearly as prominent as they were last year.
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