Borgen season 2 ending season 3 begins

For the greater part of Sunday 9^th December I reflected and then made notes on my experience of child care and protection during the years 1962 to 1971 some for publication and others over which I am still debating the merit of circulated in private or to become part of the 101 project and sealed for 100 years or more. With going to see an Imax film at the Metro centre tomorrow as well as investigating the purchase of a new suit I have decided to leave decisions until later in the week and concentrating on bringing up to date my writing and viewing experience of Borgen, the brilliant Danish series on coalition government and politics together with the impact of the political public life on relationships with partners and children.

Because of the unintended break between writing about the first and seconds seasons up to episode 18 of 20, it is appropriate to recap on the main characters and storyline.

Denmark has its first woman prime Minister leading a significantly minority party but which had gained seats dramatically at the General Election and forged a coalition with the Labour Party and progressive parties on the left, and which led to the replacement of the Labour Leader who concentrate on his media involvements using his tabloid newspaper in a crusade against the Prime Minister, Birgitte Nyborg who he sees as destroying his political career, although in fact it was of his own making after being fed damaging personal information by the media director of the Prime Minister, which he had discovered when rescuing a former partner, a Public Service Broadcasting TV station news front women from a situation where she woken to find her lover, a married man with children and also gofer for the former Prime Minister dead from a heart condition. Birgitte had refused to use the discovered information found when Kasper had stayed in the flat after Katrine had left to removed all traces of her presence before alerting the authorities.

The series is as much about the roles and relationships of the media Director, Kasper, and TV journalist and front woman. Katrine. She appears to come from a comfortable middle class home with good relationships with her family. Her previous relationship with Kasper broke up because there was a significant part of his inner self he was unable and to some extent unwilling to share.

The death of her lover who had announced his intention to divorce his wife and live with her was very difficult to bear but eventually as the series progressed she commenced a physical relationship with a fitness coach. Kasper is jealous but also recognises there is a gulf in intellectual and political and social interest between the two which he draws attention and ultimately leads to man involve walking out of the relationship appreciating that apart from the sexual attraction there as nothing binding the two together.

Kasper in the other had is haunted by what happened to him as a twelve year boy and pretends to his current girl friend as he has to Katrine that his mother died when he was a boy and father lives in the South of France too busy and with a very different life for them to get together. It is only midway during the second season that we learn the facts which are hinted at then slowly unravelled, that his father and three drinking and card playing male friends had sexually abused the boy until he had taken a hunting knife and severely wounded the father, but who had survived and with the friends had been convicted and imprisoned. Kasper refused further contact and with his mother who had conveniently been away when the criminal assaults took place and who provided a home for her husband on his release from prison

The past comes crashing back when his mother calls to announce the death of her husband and he cannot cope with the burial on her own. He takes over provides the minimum and attends the cremation on his own but joined by Katrine who he eventually tells what happened, after his mother is admitted into care with dementia and on selling up the family home, the agent gives Kasper a box with a scrap book and video tapes of the trial and publicity. They are both on their own but commence to live together after he gives the box to Katrine and understands.

The professional lives of the two also as its ups and downs. Birgitte sacks Kasper for taking the discovered information to another political leader, but re-engages when his replacement, an academic, starts to put his own spin on issues. Kasper also has a time when he believes she will sack him after he becomes aggressively angry with a right wing leader over his attempted to lower the age of criminal responsibility from 14, an issue, the raising of the age with which I with others was involved and believed we had succeeded when the Children’s and young persons Act was passed in 1969, only for this section not to be implemented by the Conservative government of 1970.

Katrine also storms out of her TV station job takes a job with her predecessor working for the newspaper run by the former Labour Leader. When they discover a plot to oust the successor party leader, they again revel and her former boss finds herself unemployable, having a drinking problem as well as her ethical standards while Katrine takes work where she can in hosting a daytime TV show. Eventually she is taken back in a temporary basis while her replacement is on pregnancy leave and she insists on her former boss also returning as a part time assistant. By the end of the second season they have achieved such good work that they are offered permanent positions although the head of the news division makes the point that she should put having children on hold given the problems the station has recently encountered. This she says is unlikely, after during the two remaining episodes of the series when they are embarking on taking n expensive new apartment Kasper makes it plain without discussion that they are not having children and they are at the point of breaking up again. He goes to see his mother and changes from the years of resentment and smouldering anger to empathy and forgiveness on seeing the state in which she is now in. At the point her boss is offering the appointment on conditions, Kasper is changing his mind, brings flowers to the officer and tells her she need not take the contraception pill. This is point when both could be said to have reach the best of times in their relationship and working experience.

During the first season we have witnessed the growth if Birgitte in to someone amazed at finding herself the Prime Minister, struggling to cope with challenges of lading a coalition and most of all with the impact on her husband and two children. It not just that she is required to be on duty 24/7 but her position impacts on the ambitions and interests of her husband who begins the series as a university lecturer. First he is required to sell off shares in a firm specialising in wind turbines and then to resign soon after accepting the appointment of a CEO with an International firm because in the first the government is about to conclude a contract worth millions supplying Turbines to another government, but who starts to try and get out the deal when Birgitte refuses to hand over a dissident. Then it is discovered the firm is involved in a small part of a big contract involving new fighter planes where the Minister and Military are found to have accepted very expensive hospitality and in one instance a very expensive gift.

However his main difficulty is accepting her more confident and assertive role as her confidence and assertiveness develops in her political role and which is show by her power dressing and manner and this demonstrated by her decision to suggest she will make herself available for se twice a week, something where events sometimes intrude and where she offers for him to have discreet sexual relationships if that is the way for them to remain husband and wife something she wants. They separate and eventually divorces something she resists although for the sake if her two children she accepts his new partner a paediatrician his two children immediately take to, especially the youngest boy.

What both parents fail to appreciate is the impact of the divorce and the absences of Birgitte is having on the daughter as she moves into adolescence. The girl starts to have severe anxiety attacks, withdrawal and depression which comes to a head when after commencing treatment with medication she starts stops take taking the anti depressants, the happy pills. The second and more serious breakdown occurs just as the Prime Minister is gaining her greatest political and media success brokering a peace between warring sides in an African state where the Christian side is supported by the USA and the Muslim by China and where the revenue from oil is a major factor with a leading Danish industrialist having significant interests.

The daughter is rushed to hospital where the consultant explains that she has become very ill, although girls not taking the medication is common as a way of demonstrating that they still have some control over themselves. He recommends a significant change the parents care of their daughter and her placement in a special private unit because of the 50 week waiting list for national health service psychiatric treatment. This poses a major problem for the Prime Minister as her health reforms involve scaling back on the tax subsidy to private health care. The cost of eh treatment without health insurance is a major issue and the decision is taken not to use her former husband’s health insurance because of the political fall out.

Birgitte asks Kasper to help with limiting media interest but the story quickly breaks as the son tells friends at school, one of who parents sells the story to the paper of the former Labour Leader. Worse is to follow when a photographer enters the grounds and takes pictures just when the girl begins to settle and participate in the treatment regime,

At first the daughter panics at the idea of going to establishment and then is very cautious until the unit head convinces that she understands how the girl feels based on the experiences of the others who have abd are being treated. Th daughter then resists going to group therapy but she also begins to attend and to participate In addition to basic structure and approach makes friends with another girl suggesting a very close relationship as the season ends,. She is also able to communicate with Kasper who went through a similar experience as a child,

The presence of media quickly disrupts the treatment programme for everyone and faced with having to remove their daughter Birgitte takes the unprecedented action of taking leave and asking the leader of the Labour Party to take over in her absence. The daughter make great progresses over a period of weeks to an extent that she is ready to begin the process of returning home, first by only attending during the day time. Such is her progress that at one point she gives thanks to Kasper for his understanding with a peck on the cheek as she goes off with her best friend.

Birgitte who has never been happy with the behaviour of her husband accuses him of abandoning her too quickly and not making the effort to stay. He ends the relationship with his new partner but this does not lead to the two getting together but enables him to devote the time required to sharing the care of the their children. Birgitte has had a one night stand with a chauffer who is replaced. She is full of guilt about what has happened to her daughter, especially when the girl reveals she had talked about her feelings of letting her mother down. The unit reminds that the roles of mother and work place greater demands and the reality as workaholics is that sometimes he work just does not take precedence but it is a necessary escape from the demands and realities of parenthood. She claims that Birgitte is not responsible for what has happened to the girl, about the only point in the entire series with which I have conflict. It true that much of the behaviour and physical life of children is the product of their physical and mental structure but this is inherited from parents an while direct carers, teachers and other will have their impact it is the parental relationships, or substitute parental relationships or the lack of them that has a major bearing on how the child develops and over their subsequent lives.

As the daughter heals she needs the attention of her mother less and this is the opportunity for Birgitte to return to political life as speculation about the future amounts and the opposition begin to steal the political initiative. From the outset Birgitte has relied on an older political friend from within her Party who becomes her Minister of Finance, but she is forced to stand him down under pressure from Coalition members as they demand concession for keeping the coalition going. He also reacts when she attempts to make him a commissioner in the EEC an when he agrees he immediate has another attack on his health something which he had kept previously secret from her and his colleagues.

As the second season ends they are back as friends and party political colleagues and he is impressed when she seizes the initiative after her major reform bill is passed by a narrow majority 82 to 80. She goes to see the queen and now she is calling a general election, not to decide if a woman should be Prime Minister but if the policies of her party and coalition have majority support. During the leave period the opposition and others had made much of difficulties of being a politician, wife and parent. The seasons therefore ends optimistically and we the viewers make the assumption that he will be returned and indeed I had assumed that the series had end at this point until learning of a third series.

The first two episodes of the third and final season of the Danish political Drama Borgen commenced on BBC Channel Four Saturday evening 13^th November 2013

The Prime Minister’s daughter and son appeared much and son appear that much older suggesting there was a gap in production between seasons two and three and this is confirmed with a gap of two years since the General Election. The next revelation is that not only did the coalition lose the election but her own party was smashed to below the number of seat from the election before their rise to power and office.

The head of her Party. the Moderates is Kruse th man she insisted become the European Commissioner after his double dealing nearly finished of her close friend Bent he had disappeared from the series in episode 4 of the second season.

When the season opens she has become a Board member if not the chairman of an International company and is visiting developments in Asia. She is also in a relationship at a distance with the company CEO. She and the children are renting a very expensive upmarket apartment and the husband comments that his son bedroom has th space of the previous kitchen and living area.

Returning th Denmark she see Kruse announce on Katrine’s TV news show that he is prepared to talk to the Government about Draconian immigration and repatriation laws and this she makes up her mind to return to politics and Ministerial level if possible, although she appreciate that many will oppose especially Kruse and his supporters.

Katrine has become a single parent mother although its father Kasper is playing a major in the boys upbringing and care As they are both working hard the boy is in the care of her mother who appears to have become a permanent fixture although she has her husband and home. Kasper has moved back into the media and co hosts th news programme with her boss,

Birgitte arranged to meet Kruse hoping he will provide a safe seat and a return to ministerial duties albeit in the Shadow cabinet. It is pay back time and he rejects her offer and after talking things over with Bent she decide to contest the leadership of the party as any member to do.

She approaches Katrine to be her media director who is finding working full time and being a mum challenging, using her mother as and when necessary as well as Kasper playing an important role so the child’s first words are grandma and daddy but not mummy. Her predecessor, Hanne who also works again at the TV station presses Katrine to spend time with the child given her experience where she lost contact with her daughter because of being a foreign correspondence as a young mother .

When Katrine meets with Birgitte and Bent to discuss the campaign we learn that the Party now has only ten thousand members in 92 organised districts each with a local leader who has the vote in the leadership campaign together with the Members of Parliament where there are now only 18, When Birgitte goes to meet one f the leading members Jon, with views close to her own and also an opponent of Kruse she finds first she cannot enter the Parliament Building, despite having been the Prime Minister, without possession of the appropriate pass is let in as guest when another member, a female Member recognises her, and Jon who just gets the message is thrilled about her return but says he cannot openly support because of the power Kruse now yields threatening and intimidating people, especially many district leaders into in critical support..

They decide to go on the offensive and she participate in a TV interview which has the desire effect of immediately brings some influential party member to her side. However Kruse does not give up his position without a vigorous contest and she fails to get the 56 seats required to win the leadership by five..

n the final scene we see her inspecting a dilapidated building which she takes on lease and when asked what she wants is for she says a new political Party. In the second episode she approaches Katrine to become the Communications Director and they approach a female member of the Moderate party who as a Member of Parliament enthusiastically support Birgitte and now finds herself cut off. She also approaches Jon although his support for her leadership was cautioned by Bent because he thought the man was after the Party Leadership and was using Birgitte for this purpose.

On a visit to the Parliament building Katrina meet Bent and assume he knows about the latest development but although Birgitte knows that he will come round in the end having been a member and supporter for 40 years she knows that his first reaction would be hostile and had hoped to advise him what she was doing once they had progressed and were in a position to go public.

A meeting takes place between Birgitte, Bent and Kruse in which the leader offers her a seat in Parliament and deputy leader of the party but she refuses because he is unwilling to make any concession on the issue of the new repatriation legislation. He warms that she is now an opponent and he will fight her all the way. She says he will have her resignation within an hour and Bent comments that she is no longer his friend.

A very different response eventually come from a senior member of the New Right party who has married a black refugee to the country and where later he makes the point that the very legislation he helped to pass means that their son cannot wear a hooded top because of the risk of being picked for a misdemeanour and then being open to repatriation. It is a very big step for him to make, and even after he arrives at the first policy making and launch meeting of those involved he hesitates and momentarily withdraws unable to because he cannot send the letter resigning from his party and become and an Independent.

Katrine has explained the development to her mother who remains hostile because of the insecurity financially and the impact on her role as a single parent. Although sworn to tell no one she tells Kasper and he pretends that it will be on the news that evening. He is joking and in fact on the Kasper Torben show he says he believes that Birgitte has quit politics after the failure of her attempt to become leader of the Moderates.

Through a misunderstanding, I think Katrine believes Kasper is staying for a meal first before taking their child to his home although it is not clear if he living on his own or with someone after the couple split up yet again. He only stays for part of a glass of wine. However Katrine does have a one night fling with the new Director of News Division having previously approached about returning to the TV station after failure of Birgitte to gain the leadership of the Moderates.

The News Director has a held meeting with Torben raising with him the unit cost of his division which is increasing as production cost rise but viewership falls. He had made it plain that without improvement Torben’s job is on the line. When Katrine fails to rejoin the station and then arranges for a rival TV station to have the first interview with Birgitte after the new Party announcement is made then his future becomes the issue and he expresses his anger to Katrine at what he regards as a betrayal.

Katrine also expresses anger towards her mother who is constantly commenting on the lack of time her daughter is devoting to her son, her financial insecurity and the state in which she keeps her apartment. When mother accuses her daughter of still being a child inside, Katrine flips and sends her mother packing saying she will manage her son on her own but then is forced to take the child to press conference launch of the new Party at the Parliament Building.

In order to finance the new party Birgitte considers giving up their leased apartment and moving to something smaller and less expensive which the daughter takes in her stride but which anger her son who says he does not want to move. While the relationship status of her ex husband is not clear relations between the two appear comfortable and relaxed and her helps out Birgitte with some surplus furniture from his business enterprise involvement.

The lover from Hong arrives on his way from a meeting in Germany to Norway which confused about his role and that of Birgitte in Hong Kong but this was settled in the introduction given to her for the TV appearance when it was stated that since her defeat as Prime Minister, and where I presume she was one of the party members losing her seat she had worked as a lecturers and on the board of a number of companies

With the failure of the approach from the leader of her now previous party she had no alternative but to go public and the press conference is arrange in which she makes a passionate and well argued case why the party is needed as the Moderates have effectively moved into an alliance with the governing coalition over the immigration and deportation issue. The show stopper is the appearance of the former member of New Right party with his young wife to explain why he has joined. However the magic moment is the appearance of Bent who also arrives and asks if he can join, shortly after she learns that already there have been 10000 likes on a social net work site.

Masterman and Johnson after Kinsey

Most people of my generation have heard of the Kinsey reports on the sexual behaviour of men 1948 and Women in 1953 and the renewed attention to his life and work fifty years later with a generation of film goers who may have taken interest aroused by the film Kinsey in 2004 read about his work and even the report, or the latest studies from the institute he founded

The focus of publicity overs the years relation to these studies has been the numbers of partners before and after marriage. Studies since had looked at the impact of the contraception pill and the impact of HIV and Aids, the growth in sexually transmitted diseases among young people. There have been other reports on the same subject since and these include one recent covered in BBC radio news but which I did not make a note at the time, and if my memory is good also involved a description of recent studiedly behaviour and noting changes from previous studies especially among females.

The original Kinsey findings, especially the research on female behaviour were hotly debated from various viewpoints. At that time and still but to significant less extent to day the official media and political approach was to condone sex before marriage by young males, but not by females and similarly there was greater tolerance of t men and significant less of women who had sexual relationships after marriage, especially in the North Atlantic white “western” style economies.

The work of anthropologist Margaret Mead revealed the realities among societies leading “primitive” lives, including the existence of behaviour regarded then and still as illegal, and the work of historians, especially in relation to the behaviour of rulers and war makers although more impressionistic than evidential also demonstrates considerable variation from what was expected to be the norm in pre and immediate post Second world war “Christian” based countries. In this respect it also fair comment to state that in some Muslim based countries show tolerance towards the behaviour of men allowing multiple wife partners and harems but are exceptionally severe against the adult married female, with stoning to death for adultery.

If on the other hand I said Masters and Johnson to most people before the recent commencement of the America television drama Masters of Sex I would have been met with ignorance. It was around the time the 1963/1964 class of child, family care and hospital based social worker in the first generic style professional training and qualification course at Birmingham University that we taken to a Family Planning clinic for a talk and demonstration that I acquired my copy of the Kenneth’ Walker’s Physiology of Sex first published in 1940 before Kinsey although subsequent editions made reference but understandable not to the studies of Masters and his research assistant which revolutionised official understanding about the nature of the sexual response with its liberating findings, particularly for women.

As is my want interest in the TV series being shown on Channel Four has been with the closeness or otherwise of the facts of the drama to quickly available knowledge of the work and lives of the researches concerned. I say quickly available as there is a biography of the two who divorced their partners, married and then divorced each other some twenty years later for reasons I would be interested to learn ( Thomas Maier's biography Masters of Sex: The Life and Times of William Masters and Virginia Johnson, the Couple Who Taught America How to Love.),

As the series was being shown on Channel Four my expectation was of a serious presentation of their work and relationships especially as the cast contained some recognisable actors with outstanding work, notably Michael Sheen as William H Masters, Beau Bridges as the Hospital Provost and Alison Janney (West Wing White House media director) as his wife, and to date I have not been disappointed having viewed the first nine programmes in three sessions.

For those who seek voyeuristic sexual arousal and excitement or remain convinced that that sex and romantic love is indivisible this is not a series for them and at one level it reminded of that visit to the Family Planning Clinic, or later interviewing those running sexually transmitted disease clinics when part of the Home Office Advisory Committee on Drug misuse sub committee examining the implications of HIV and Aids in relation to substance misuse and also first hand experience of what a woman can go through in giving birth it is enough to put one off sex altogether.

Being involved in the birth can help men to understand thee lifelong bond which most mothers have with their offspring and which also led to my understanding the recent televised judgment on the woman who was persuaded by an older man who dominated her life to participate in what was to have been fire and rescue of her children and which ended in their deaths. Having sat on an inquiry into the death of one child by fire, seen photographs and examined the crime scene as well having studied and worked in the field of normal and deviant human behaviour it seemed to me the original female judge, and the Lord Chief Justice who presided at the appeal hearing got the sentence right although the extent to which it would deter other mothers likely to become involved in such a dangerous action or provide the time and framework to “cure” and rehabilitate is open to question.

According to the information immediately available it is not clear if Virginia E Johnston worked as his hospital secretary before becoming his research assistant in his initial research project as portrayed in the film. We do learn that she had been married twice and was separated from the father of her two children, a musician, (previously marrying a local politician when she was 20 which lasted only two days( I do not know why) and then a much older man, an attorney, who she divorced).

She divorced her third marriage in 1956 after six years making three associations commenced and ended within 15 years. She had two children by her third marriage having previous dropped out of her local college at 16 and then after Attending a University music course she became a country music singer, then a business writer for the St Louis Daily Record and then going back to university for a degree in sociology which she never completed. In the series she enrols on a course in anatomy, gaining 99% marks in the first examination and has ambitions to become a medical doctor so her wok could be accepted as an equal research partner with Masters instead of being viewed by him initially as a secretary gofer as did her former colleagues and others as portrayed in he drama. I do not know if this aspect is accurate

Masters ten years her senior was married and at the time kept secret from his wife his impotency so that she took the blame. In one review the comment is made that his relationship with his mother reminded of the between Tony Soprano and his mum although this is far from the comparison I would make i rather with Kasper’s relationship with his mother in Borgen because she appears to have turned a blind eye and in fact helped facilitate her husband’s sex crimes against her son along with card playing and drinking male friends. Whether the truth in this respect is be revealed for happened with Kasper as the second season progressed and a s second we shall see as a second season of 12 episodes of Masters of Sex has been commissioned. Masters is portrayed as comfortable without children while his wife recognised that their marriage was at grave risk as she became isolated and lonely living with a man unable to show the kind of romantic passion and attention she craved. The importance of both the Masters and Borgen programme is that men can have the same lifelong damage as women if criminally sexually assaulted in childhood and significant greater than if the event occurs in adulthood.

In the first episode Wikipedia summary Dr. William Masters (Michael Sheen) proposes a controversial study of human sexuality but is rejected by his university. Undaunted, he begins the study anyway and hires Virginia Johnson (Lizzy Caplan), a nightclub singer-turned-secretary, as his assistant. Upon learning that their sole subject, prostitute Betty DiMello (Annaleigh Ashford), is a lesbian, Johnson sets about recruiting additional female and male subjects, including Masters' colleague Dr. Austin Langham (Teddy Sears). She enters into a sexual relationship with Dr. Ethan Haas (Nicholas D'Agosto) but he becomes overly attached and eventually physically abusive. Masters induces his wife Libby (Caitlin Fitzgerald) to undergo painful and invasive infertility treatments, despite, according to Haas, Masters being the infertile one. Masters suggests that he and Johnson defuse possible "sexual transference" by having sex with each other as part of the study. In subsequent episodes

Virginia has trouble telling Masters that she cannot accept his proposal, but Masters informs her that Provost Scully has cancelled the study because he found out they were monitoring couples having sex. Masters believes it was Ethan who told Scully and fires Virginia on the spot for sleeping with him. Masters moves the study to a brothel with the help of Betty, but he and the participating prostitutes are arrested shortly after. Meanwhile, after being rejected by Virginia, Ethan tries to replicate their sexual liaison with other girls, but to no avail. Virginia coaxes some reluctant prostitutes to rejoin the study, and Masters temporarily takes her back to work with him, but refuses to commit beyond the day-to-day.

Masters and Johnson continue working at the brothel but Masters grows increasingly frustrated with the conditions. Betty recruits some men for the study but Masters is nonplussed to learn they are homosexual prostitutes. Betty blackmails Masters into reversing her tubal ligation but the procedure fails, leading Betty to commit to deceiving her fiancé. Haas takes the case of a woman carrying quadruplets but Scully reassigns it to Masters. Masters drops the homosexual men from his study on the grounds that they aren't "deviant" but "deviate", uses information gleaned from one of them, Dale, to blackmail Scully into allowing the study back into the hospital. Libby learns she is pregnant.

Libby has a medical emergency at the Scullys' 30th wedding anniversary party. Her fetus dies; Bill induces labour and delivers a stillborn girl. The loss leads Barton to begin reconciling his relationship with Bill.

Bill and Libby vacation in Miami while at home Virginia investigates whether there is really a difference between a clitoral and a vaginal orgasm. Bill returns to the study, leaving Libby in Miami, where she is tempted by an older gentleman. Virginia decides it is time she and Bill participated in the study, initiating a sexual relationship between them.

Austin and Margaret continue their affair. Virginia tries to find a new secretary for Bill. Bill tries to balance the study and his affair with his home life.

This description of the action fails in various ways. It provide no context and back story and its clinical detachment about story line fails to communicate the clinical detachment in which sexual acts are portrayed on the screen. The ability of women to experience sexual climax separate from vaginal penetration is not restricted just to the clitoral, and Virginia initiates a sexual relationship with William which it is evidently more than clinical on her part by demonstrating she is able to achieve a climax via her breasts alone and that others are also stimulated by other areas of the their body.

They have established a way of observing action using masturbatory devices which extend to using a camera device to be able to project what happens to professional colleagues.

The old debate that homosexuality was a deviation from the norm ,accurate in its technical use sense was rejected as early as the 1940’s in the Kenneth Walker book mentioned earlier despite the law remaining unchanged for several decades. These is now a body fo research examining why some take one sexual pathway while others do not. As later at the early sixties a Freudian view was being propounded on the course Attended including homosexuality as a deviation from he norm which required analytical treatment and in this series after the truth of the homosexuality of the Provost is revealed to his wife he raises the issue of treatment as a means of saving his marriage., Masters tells about aversion therapy being used elsewhere but later after their research is completed and the four stages of sexual response has been finished the research team moves into the treatment of deviation..

　

In Love and Marriage" Michael Apted Story by: Tyler Bensinger
Teleplay by: Michael Cunningham first shown November 17, 2013. Confrontations between th provost and his wife with Barton over his lack of sexual interest in her leads her to ask for a divorce. Barton purloins drugs from the hospital and asks Dale to help him with aversion therapy to change his sexuality but Dale refuses. Ethan and Vivian become engaged. Libby faints during a dance lesson and learns she has become pregnant again.

Jane agrees to further aid the study by being filmed while masturbating, but upon viewing the footage begs Virginia to destroy it. Virginia cajoles Bill to complete her employee evaluation but he reveals more of his feelings for her than he had intended. With Jane gone, Virginia agrees to allow herself to be filmed instead. Ethan tells Vivian of his Jewish heritage and initially agrees to convert to Catholicism, but instead ends their engagement. Libby tells Bill she is pregnant again. Bill, in response to his growing feelings for Virginia, attempts to distance himself by paying her for having sex for the study. Virginia decides she needs to emotionally detach herself as well.

The extent to which there is any basis of the relationship between the provost and his wife, and between other characters and the sexual issue is based in fact must be questioned. More likely they are devises to make general viewers engaged in the drama. This reminds of recent discussions on Film review BBC1 and Mayo and Kermode BBC Five Live about one of the latest Daniel Radcliffe films which deals with the Beat Generation poets and writers when they are young and raised the issue of how to make interesting the process of sitting at a desk with a typewriter or word processor and writing for hours and days on end.

　

The Tunnel eight episodes of ten and Blue Bloods season 4

Now to some TV belatedly. The new Season of Blue Bloods has impressed with Commissioner of police Frank concerned with the latest internal opinion polls suggesting th men in the force felt that he was out of touch. After talking things over with his father ,a previous Commissioner, he goes on unannounced walk about and discovered that the commander of a local station is not on duty when he should. He is absence is covered up be staff but Frank persists and discovers that he mans wife is on last days with cancer. Frank ( Tom Sellick) also covers up and the episodes with him going for a drink a local bar used by the station to buy th desk sergeant a drink and to offer one on the house for everyone on his tab. The main story concerns a well known TV and film star shadowing the eldest surviving son Danny ( Donny Walberg) decides it will not work after the man gets involved in an arrest where the subject pulls a gun and a sniffer dog susses the man is carrying pot, albeit subscribed via medical prescription. He gives his card and promised to arrange for the actor to talk some experience retired officers.

Later he gets a phone call from the actor who has been stabbed, pretends he was mugged but admits he was going to a gay rendezvous via a internet site phone. Later there is a death through stabbing clearly the same perpetrator and Danny persuades the actor to cooperate on the basis everything is done to keep the info out of the media because of the impact on his career. The villain is caught and the actor is grateful with Danny keeping his secret from the women of all ages in the family continue to adore the star.

The first episode was of a very different order when the sister assistant DS is able to hold a murder suspect because the only witness had been steered by her brother and will not hold up in caught. The police operate Blue flue failing to show up to give evidence in cases she is prosecuting. Her position is not understood by the rest of family especially her grandfather. She finds a way of working with his brother to effectively trick the man into confessing and then walking away from a deal offered thus enabling the confession to be used as stand alone and without a sentencing deal.

The Tunnel is a British French collaboration which has worked as an extended thriller with several twists over the with the following Wikipedia episode notes

“ French politician Marie Villeneuve is found dead in the Channel Tunnel on the border between France and the UK. The body has been cut in half, with the lower half belonging to another victim, Welsh prostitute Gemma Kirwan, who was missing for several months. Karl Roebuck (Dillane) and Elise Wassermann (Poésy), the respective British and French detectives, work together to find the killer. In France, Charlotte Jubert (Balibar) is a suspect, having made threats against Villeneuve. Charlotte insists that she only did so to stop her from badgering her husband Alain (Carriere), a wealthy banker who is in hiding fearing for his life. The maintenance driver who found the body is later found dead. In the UK, Stephen Beaumont (Mawle) runs a hostel for failed asylum seekers and takes in Colombian-born Veronica (Catalina Denis). Meanwhile, Karl and Elise find a suspect in tabloid journalist Danny Hillier (Bateman), whose car was seen when Gemma was last seen alive (however it turns out that Hillier was in Prague at the time). Hillier enters his car to find it rigged with explosives. When the timer reaches zero however, it is revealed that there was no bomb. Instead, the killer leaves behind a message”

The British Detective is with his second young family and teenage son with whom he is in constant battle while the French detective is a loner who detaches love from sexual encounters which tend to be casual and where the rest of her life is work abd more work..

Episode Twp “The killer releases a viral video stating that the killings was the first of five "truths", "inequality before the law". Alain gets run over by a high-speed train getting away from people who are following him. In Folkestone, Karl further investigates Gemma's disappearance. Stephen moves Veronica and her son to an abandoned cottage to protect her from Anthony (Ed Skrein), the pimp who ran Gemma. In Calais, Elise has casual sex with a barman, as well as examining threats made against Villeneuve, leading her to an anti-Zionist farmer, based on the coroner's observation that the victims were cut with a saw used in slaughterhouses. At the farm, Elise finds the lower half of Villeneuve, but she realises the killer misled her; she releases the farmer because he cannot speak English. Later, the killer releases a second video in which he intends to target the elderly, who he deems as unproductive to society, for the second "truth", and later attacks a Folkestone retirement home by poisoning the residents' medication, resulting in several fatalities. Care worker Suze Beaumont (Hawes), Stephen's sister and Anthony's lover, who steals some of the drugs for intoxication, also falls victim. “

Episode 3 “recovering in hospital, the killer, nicknamed the "Truth Terrorist" (TT) by Hillier, calls Hillier to inform him he will continue the second truth in France, and later kidnaps World War 2 veteran Jean-Claude Delplanque (Pascal Laurent); his imprisonment is live streamed. Elise comes to understand that the Truth Terrorist is a mastermind, having covering his tracks thoroughly. What he does not account for is that a runaway teen couple accidentally find Jean-Claude, and are captured by the Truth Terrorist. Veronica calls Anthony for help, where he instructs her to run away to London. Meanwhile, troubled teenager Sophie Campbell (Mia Goth) runs away from her abusive mother and is taken in by Benji (Paul Ready), a seemingly trustworthy person. Karl and Elise learn Jean-Claude is in cold storage, and he is slowly freezing to death. The Truth Terrorist brings Hillier an untraceable phone, and emails him the photographs of four people who he says can save Jean-Claude. “

Episode 4 “ The four people are revealed to be wealthy businesspeople, who are demanded to make a significant donation to charity. Charlotte, who is one of them, investigates Alain's death and learns he had a second wife. Karl and Elise realise that Jean-Claude was targeted because he was suspected to have murdered his father. Three of the businesspeople opt out of paying, while Charlotte agrees to pay for all of them to wipe away all trace of Alain. Meanwhile, French police notice occasional vibrations on the live stream, which they determine (via audio analysis) are passing trains. They narrow his location to two cold stores. Karl and Elise search for what turns out to be the correct location. Armed police attempt to apprehend the Truth Terrorist, but he escapes. Jean-Claude does not survive, but the runaway couple are found alive. Elise suspects that the Truth Terrorist may know Karl after he was kicked in the groin (Karl recently had a vasectomy). In the UK, Sophie believes that Benji is mentally ill when she finds a cupboard full of unused prescription drugs. It is also hinted that Benji intends to go on a samurai-style suicide mission, and later wields a katana. “

Episode 5 “The third "truth" highlights the mentally ill; Benji beheads a psychiatrist and several pedestrians, and then kills himself with cyanide following his arrest. Karl sees Charlotte regarding encrypted files on her husband's computer, and Charlotte uses the opportunity to seduce him. Karl later returns home to find that his wife Laura (Coulby) is pregnant. Karl and Elise have to find Sophie before the Truth Terrorist does, who is posing as her father online. Karl and Elise find Sophie in an internet café, where Elise decides to lure the Truth Terrorist in a trap by using Sophie as bait at the Folkestone docks. Instead, the Truth Terrorist attempts to kill Sophie with a sniper rifle, but Elise saves her. Meanwhile, Karl's colleague Chuks Akinade (Bakare) finds a picture of Gemma on Stephen's computer. Stephen, now a suspect, murders Anthony. The Truth Terrorist arrives in France to kidnap police officer Laurent Delgado (Dimitri Rataud), who is accused of murdering a teenager named Mehdi Cherfi. “

Episode 6” Stephen boards a ferry to Calais, only to be caught by Karl and Elise. He admits to killing Anthony for destroying his work to help people, Gemma being one of them, before killing himself with a knife. The Truth Terrorist demonstrates the fourth truth, "the youth of today", by burning alive four youths who were convicted for their parts in the 2011 England riots using white phosphorus, which ignites by exposure to air. Hillier decides to ignore the Truth Terrorist's suggestion of a front page title, and as a consequence, the woman he had a one night stand with dies in the same fashion. Laura learns of Karl's affair, while Karl learns that his son Adam (Lowden) spent the night with Elise. Calais police learn that the French youths in the fourth truth were killed during a riot; one of them was Mehdi. Yacine, Mehdi's brother, is lured to an abandoned shop to find a restrained Laurent. Using a planted petrol can, Yacine forces Laurent to confess for killing Mehdi, and then writes a confession letter at home for Laurent to sign, but is stopped by Karl and Elise before he can return. Yacine's father finds Laurent and decides to release him. However, Laurent is then shot to death by the Truth Terrorist. “

Episode 7 “Karl and Elise believe that the Truth Terrorist is a police officer based on his knowledge of police procedures. Laurent's widow suspects it was one of his colleagues during training exercises, which was financed by a ZP Holdings. However, their office is found to be deserted. The Truth Terrorist hijacks a minibus of school children in Kent and holds them in a farm. For the final truth, covering the exploitation of children, the Truth Terrorist urges the public to attack department stores known for using child labour in third world countries, releasing a child for each attack, before making the public decide on which of the two remaining children will die. Ultimately, he lets them both live and executes the minibus driver. The Truth Terrorist later calls Hillier and offers to give himself up after an exclusive interview with him, but instead, he kills Hillier with a bomb. Cécile Cabrillac (Sigrid Bouaziz), Elise's colleague, finds the identity of the police officer believed to be the Truth Terrorist; Fabien Vincent. “

Episode 8 “ Karl and Elise's hunt for Fabien (Thierry Frémont) is hindered by direction centrale du renseignement intérieur (DCRI), who are using him as an asset. Fabien helped investigate ZP Holdings, who were suspected of gunwalking. Karl investigates Hillier's murder and discovers that his original name was Giles Haddock. Before the name change, Giles was drunk driving and was responsible for the deaths of the wife and child of Kieran Ashton, a police officer Karl once worked with. Kieran had since committed suicide. Meanwhile, Fabien kidnaps Elise. She realises that he is not the Truth Terrorist. Fabien reveals that he was a part of "Peloton", a joint operation of several European intelligence agencies, and killing Alain was one of their assignments. After escaping an assault by gangsters, Fabien releases Elise. Attention now falls on Ashton (James Frain), who is revealed to have faked his death; he is posing as Laura's friend John Sumner, and Adam's online girlfriend. “

Thee are two episodes more which I am looking forward to.