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Aureliano Babilonia finally solves the mystery that has followed the Buendias almost since Macondo was founded when he deciphers Melquiades’ parchments in the One Hundred Years of Solitude Grand Finale. The manuscripts contain the complete history and fate of the Buendia family, including events that occurred after Melquiades wrote them and even the moment Aureliano…
The birth of Amaranta Ursula and Aureliano Babilonia’s child finally makes one of the Buendia family’s oldest fears real in the One Hundred Years of Solitude Grand Finale. Yes, Amaranta Ursula and Aureliano Babilonia are related, and much more closely than either of them realizes when their romance begins. Amaranta Ursula is Aureliano’s maternal aunt.…
One year after Bill abruptly ended their marriage, Leanne finally admits something she was not ready to accept when the divorce began: Bill may have betrayed her, but their marriage had been falling apart long before his email arrived. The Season 2 episode “Bang Me” takes Leanne back to the exact anniversary of the day…
Yes, Leighton and Alicia are still together when Leighton’s story ends in The Sex Lives of College Girls. Season 3 initially sets up a potential separation when Alicia accepts a job in Boston and Leighton remains at Essex, but Leighton’s unexpected transfer to MIT puts them in the same city instead. The show therefore sends…
Rhonda and Matt were both taken by the Trawler, both kept alive after their disappearances, and both appeared to be trapped inside the same nightmare. Their outcomes could not be more different. Rhonda is eventually returned alive, bloodied and traumatized, while Matt is later murdered. The Shards has not yet explained why the Trawler spared…
Kimberly and Canaan’s romance appears ready to become one of The Sex Lives of College Girls’ biggest relationships when Season 2 ends, only for Season 3 to dismantle it almost immediately. After Whitney catches Kimberly kissing her ex-boyfriend Canaan, the series skips over the summer and brings Kimberly and Canaan back to Essex without the…
Sophie’s father Steve does not oppose Taylor because he dislikes him. His objection in the Love Is Blind: UK Season 3 finale is to how quickly Sophie is marrying a man the family has barely had time to know. Minutes before the ceremony, he worries that his daughter and Taylor have been living inside the…
Suzie Skinner becomes an important name in the final part of Netflix’s Death of the Pastor’s Wife, even though the documentary is primarily centered on Mica Miller and her troubled marriage to pastor John-Paul “JP” Miller. Suzie was a member of the Solid Rock Church community in Myrtle Beach and was previously married to Christopher…
Prime Video’s The Last Sunrise surrounds Oriah “Ry” Pera’s romance with enough real-world weight that viewers may wonder whether her story actually happened. Ry lives with a serious genetic condition, faces the possibility of brain surgery, and travels to Mallorca with her mother before falling for local fisherman Julian Garcia. Despite those grounded elements, Ry…
The September 2008 incident involving Vince Young was real, but some of the most dramatic versions of the story blur important facts. Titans coach Jeff Fisher contacted police after Young’s therapist told him she was worried about Young’s emotional state and said Young had mentioned suicide. Young had left home without his phone and had…
Vince Young never actually received Reggie Bush’s 2005 Heisman Trophy and then hand it back. What happened is slightly different. When Bush forfeited the award in 2010 following the NCAA’s findings over impermissible benefits, Young was the obvious alternative because he had finished second in the original voting. Young publicly made it clear that he…
Ted Lasso Season 4 Episode 4 quietly puts Trent Crimm and Dr. Sharon Fieldstone together for almost the entire episode, but it stops well short of confirming that they are becoming a couple. Sharon appears as a guest on Trent’s new podcast, “Through the Laces,” where their conversation about team psychology becomes the framing device…
