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This Week’s Topic: Not So Happily Ever After

Music
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“Hurt” by Nine Inch Nails
Amazon, iTunes

Movie

The Mist
Amazon Instant Video, iTunes, Netflix

After a brutal thunderstorm pounds a small town, the residents discover a malevolent mist hanging over their homes, killing anyone who remains outside. Now trapped in a grocery store, a band of survivors must make a stand against the deadly fog.

TV

Medium Episode 7.13 “Me Without You” – Series Finale
iTunes, Amazon, Netflix Streaming

MEDIUM is a drama inspired by the real-life story of research medium Allison Dubois, an extraordinary young wife and mother who, since childhood, has struggled to make sense of her dreams and visions of dead people. Emmy Award winner Patricia Arquette stars as Dubois, a strong-willed, devoted young wife and mother of three girls who has gradually come to grips with her extraordinary ability to talk to dead people, see current events and the future through her dreams and read people’s thoughts. Dubois works as a consultant to District Attorney Manuel Devalos, using her psychic abilities to solve violent and horrifying crimes that baffle Phoenix police and others within the criminal justice system. Assisting her crime-solving endeavors is Detective Lee Scanlon, her longtime ally in the local police department. Meanwhile, at home, Dubois’ husband Joe, an aerospace engineer, is a supportive husband and father who is also busy launching his own scientific engineering company. Their daughters, Ariel, Bridgette and Marie all seem to have inherited their mother’s abilities to varying, expanding degrees.

Novel

My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult
Goodreads

Anna is not sick, but she might as well be. By age thirteen, she has undergone countless surgeries, transfusions, and shots so that her older sister, Kate, can somehow fight the leukemia that has plagued her since childhood. The product of preimplantation genetic diagnosis, Anna was conceived as a bone marrow match for Kate – a life and a role that she has never questioned… until now.