Opening Shot: As we see a shot of Anne Hathaway, we also hear Morgan Freeman say, “If you travel to the future, can you escape your past?’ Joy Behar Calls On Will Smith To "Get In The Ring" With Jada Pinkett Smith On 'The View': "He Sits There And Takes It" Peg, a senior citizen, volunteers to explore space. She is the adoptive daughter of Tom, whose robot replaced him when he died, but she and her brother were raised by her grandparents in England. She signed up because she felt invisible and too scared to live her life. After resolving to live her remaining years without fear, she asks to return to Earth. The View's Sunny Hostin Suggests Trump Is Using Racist "Dog Whistles" When He Confuses Biden And Obama: "That's What's Happening" The final episode is so rich and full of meaning and reference... it's astounding. The acting is perfect. Morgan Freeman's subtle face changes are brilliant.

Southern Charm' Star Olivia Flowers Shades 'RHOBH' Star Crystal Kung Minkoff After BravoCon: "I Thought She Was Rude" Dan Stevens as Otto, an NHS worker who steals a cure for Stuart to repair his Alzheimer's, later revealed that Stuart stole all his memories as a child on the day his mother died ("Stuart"). Stevens also voices Tym, the AI Space Shuttle in Peg's episode Despite this, the cast is able to conjure some engrossing performances, and a couple of stories show more promise. Watching Peg (Mirren) reminisce about the one that got away on a journey through outer space, for instance, and Jenny (Constance Wu) give a tearful account of the worst day of her life is frequently heart-breaking. And that’s the major problem with Solos. When we watched both the Hathaway and Aduba episodes, we never shook the feeling that we were watching acting exercises and not real stories. Don’t get us wrong: The acting that we saw was incredible. But they felt like something you could have seen on a blank stage in the pre-COVID days (or on Zoom these days), with proceeds going to the actor’s favorite charity. They’re fine performances — Aduba’s is especially good — but at no time did we believe that we were watching specific characters existing in their specific worlds.Stream It Or Skip It: ‘Do Not Disturb’ on Netflix, a Nutty Turkish Sort-of-Comedy About a Man Who's Losing His Marbles

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James Monroe Iglehart as the voice of the supervising technician overseeing the procedure ("Jenny") Solos' meaning is about human connection, even though the characters must go through their respective stories alone, much like the storylines in This Is Us. In their most private moments where the characters reflect upon their lives, their focus is always on their connection to other people. Each connected character’s story is motivated by their love for someone else: Leah and Otto’s mothers, Tom’s family, Peg’s high school crush, Sasha’s best friend, Jenny’s babysitting charge, Nera’s baby, and Stuart’s lost son. Even by Solos' ending, when most of these characters would be long gone, they live on in their connection to Stuart’s stolen memories. Solos season 1 is an exploration of the human connections that define one’s life. Jacob is played by McCarrie McCausland at 15, Sephen Gray at 2, Percy Daggs IV at 6, and Andre Robinson at 11 ("Nera")

If these queries are intended to provoke some soul searching in the viewer, they don’t achieve it (though for the record, my own answers are no, no and anywhere but Surrey). More often than not, the episodes that follow them boil down to parables with simple lessons like “cherish your family” or “make your voice heard”. In Episode 3, we learn that the Peg (played by Helen Mirren) is a grown-up version of Tom's daughter. She tells us her father died when she was young, and Tom has a terminal illness in Episode 2. Jenna Bush Hager Reveals To Hoda Kotb That Her Daughter Asked Her Husband Why He Was "Lying" When He Said She "Never Looked Better"

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