The 1995 mind-bending sci-fi thriller that starred Bruce Willis and garnered a Best Supporting Actor Oscar nod for Brad Pitt has morphed into a successful TV series. Now in its second season, Syfy’s “12 Monkeys” continues to suck in audiences with complex storylines, compelling characters and shocking reveals.
A new episode of the time-travel series airs Monday, June 6, on Syfy, and it promises to be an exciting one. The suspense and drama have been steadily building, and the latter half of this second season should keep fans on the edge of their seats.
The human race was devastated by a virus released in 2017 by terrorists calling themselves “The Army of the 12 Monkeys,” and James Cole (Aaron Stanford, “Nikita”) was sent back from 2043 to stop its release. In season 1, he sought out Dr. Cassandra Railly (Amanda Schull, “Suits”), the woman who provided the intel that made the mission possible, but when he meets her, Cassie has no knowledge of him or his plans, and he must convince her that he is really a time traveler sent back to save the world. No small feat.
Since then, Cole and Cassie have experienced big changes in both time and their relationship.
While Cole was once the singleminded killer on a mission and Cassie was his conscience, the tables have turned somewhat; recent events saw Cole stuck in his past, and Cassie stuck in her future, where circumstances softened Cole and hardened Cassie. In an interview with Collider, Stanford addresses the complex romance:
“It’s interesting to navigate a love story in the middle of a show like this, where the stakes are so high and it is about the survival of the human race. ... In the middle of it, you have these very natural human feelings that develop between the two of them. The tension is always there, but there just seems to be very little time to address it or deal with it.”
While the evolving relationship of Cole and Cassie is at the center of the series, there are other key players in this compelling tale.
José Ramse (Kirk Acevedo, “Fringe”) is Cole’s best friend who, though he allied himself with the Army of the 12 Monkeys last season (in order to save his son), has since been reunited with Cole and proven himself to be a loyal friend. Cassie, however, has been slow to forgive him, and their mutual, biting animosity has provided quite a few chuckles for viewers along the way.
German actress Barbara Sukowa (“Johnny Mnemonic,” 1995)
stars as the enigmatic Katarina Jones, the scientist who developed the time machine used to send Cole and others back. She’s a genius motivated by the loss of her family — a combination that makes her as determined as she is uncompromising.
Jennifer Goines (Emily Hampshire, “Schitt’s Creek”) is a mysterious and unstable element in the series, and her storyline has been fleshed out this season, to the joy of many fans. Throughout season 1, she seemed nothing more than a psychotic girl whose imagined voices would cause her to release the virus. This season, however, has revealed her true nature: She’s a “primary,” someone who experiences time in a different way than most, who is, in fact, a part of time itself. And she’s not the only one.
It’s around these primaries that season 2’s plot thickens. Though Cassie, Cole and Ramse managed to change history and push back the release of the virus, the Army of the 12 Monkeys still op-
erates in the future. When the vil- The Witness, a mysterious figure who seems bent on destroying time itself, and with whom Cole came face to face in last week’s episode. As The Witness has primaries murdered, the fabric of time begins to rip apart, threatening all of human existence.
It’s a complex storyline, to be sure, one worth delving into if you’re a sci-fi fan. As is usually the case with science fiction, the action-packed thriller has a heart, too — the relationship triangle of Cassie, Cole and Ramse is compelling and fun, while the revelations and evolution of each character add a sense of humanity and growth to the series. The timetravel element of the story allows for the possibility of just about anything — the smallest change in the past can affect the future and everyone in it, and the show’s writers use this device wisely.
As season 2 of the series marches on, tune in to “12 Monkeys” for all the sci-fi action you could want. A new episode airs Monday, June
Barbara Sukowa as seen in “12 Monkeys”
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3:00 p.m. ESPN2 SportsNation (0:30)
GOLF LPGA Golf Round 2 KPMG Championship. Sammamish, WA (Live) (3:00)
7:00 p.m. FSN MLB Baseball Bos. at Min. Minneapolis, Minn. (Live) (3:00)
SYFY WWE Raw (2:00)
7:30 p.m. (5) KSTP NBA Countdown (Live) (0:30)
ESPN NCAA Track & Field Men’s Final Outdoor Championship. Eugene, Ore. (Live) (2:30)
8:00 p.m. (5) KSTP NBA Basketball Playoffs. (Live) (2:30)
ESPN2 NCAA Baseball Super Regional Division I Tournament. (Live) (3:00)
SHOW All Access: Quest for the Stanley Cup (0:30)
8:30 p.m. (9) KMSP (15) KVRR Soccer Panama vs. Argentina Copa America Centenario. Chicago, Ill. (Live) (2:05)
SHOW All Access: Quest for the Stanley Cup (0:30)
9:00 p.m. GOLF Golf Central (0:30)
9:30 p.m. GOLF PGA Golf Round 2 St. Jude Classic. Memphis, Tenn. (3:00)
NBCSN F1 Auto Racing Practice Canadian Grand Prix. Montreal, Que. (1:30)
10:00 p.m. ESPN SportsCenter (1:00)
10:30 p.m. FSN Swing Clinic (0:30)
SHOW All Access: Quest for the Stanley Cup (0:30)
Saturday, June 11
8:00 a.m. FSN Backroads With Ron and Raven (0:30)
NBCSN Into the Blue (0:30)
8:30 a.m. (29) WFTC Sports Stars of Tomorrow (0:30)
NBCSN Saltwater Experience (0:30)
9:00 a.m. FSN John Gillespie’s Waters & Woods (0:30)
GOLF Morning Drive (Live) (2:00)
NBCSN George Poveromo’s World of Saltwater Fishing (0:30)
9:30 a.m. FSN Midwest Outdoors Magazine (0:30)
NBCSN Bass 2 Billfish (0:30)
10:00 a.m. ESPN SportsCenter (0:30)
1:00 p.m. (11) KARE LPGA Golf Round 3 Championship. Oahu, Hawaii (3:00)
FSN MLB Baseball Bos. at Min. Minneapolis, Minn. (Live) (3:00)
1:30 p.m. ESPN UEFA Soccer Group B Euro 2016. Rus. vs. Eng. Marseille, France (Live) (3:00)
2:00 p.m. (7) KCCO PGA Golf Round 3 St. Jude Classic. Memphis, Tenn. (Live) (3:00)
ESPN2 NCAA Baseball Super Regional Division I Tournament. (Live) (3:00)
GOLF CHAMPS Golf Round 3 Constellation SENIOR PLAYERS Championship. Philadelphia, Pa. (Live) (2:00)
NBCSN Belmont Stakes Prep (Live) (2:00)
4:00 p.m. (11) KARE Horse Racing Belmont Stakes. Elmont, N.Y. (Live) (2:00)
GOLF LPGA Golf Round 3 KPMG Championship. Sammamish, WA (Live) (1:00)
NBCSN Sailing America’s Cup World Series. Chicago, Ill. (1:30)
4:30 p.m. ESPN SportsCenter (1:00)
FSN 18 Holes With Jimmy Hanlin (0:30)
5:00 p.m. ESPN2 NCAA Baseball Super Regional Division I Tournament. (Live) (3:00)
FSN Champions Tennis PowerShares Series Legends. Charleston, S.C. (2:00)
GOLF Golf Central (1:00)
5:30 p.m. ESPN NCAA Track & Field Women’s Final Outdoor Championship. Eugene, Ore. (Live) (2:30)
NBCSN Off the Grid (0:30)
6:00 p.m. (9) KMSP (15) KVRR MLB Baseball (Live) (3:00)
GOLF Web.com Golf Round 3 RustOleum Championship. Chicago, Ill. (2:00)
NBCSN Belmont Stakes Post-Race (Live) (0:30)
6:30 p.m. (29) WFTC Soccer Pre-game (Live) (0:30)
NBCSN IndyCar Chronicles (0:30)
9:30 a.m. FSN Destination Polaris (0:30)
GOLF Web.com Golf Round 2 RustOleum Championship. Chicago, Ill. (Live) (2:00)
10:00 a.m. ESPN SportsCenter (1:00)
FSN Cliff Diving Cartagena, Colombia (1:00)
11:00 a.m. ESPN SportsCenter (1:00)
ESPN2 His & Hers (Live) (1:00)
FSN MLB Baseball Mia. at Min. Minneapolis, Minn. (2:00)
NBCSN IndyCar Auto Racing IndyCar Series Practice Firestone 600. Fort Worth, Texas (Live) (1:30)
11:30 a.m. GOLF CHAMPS Golf Round 2 Constellation SENIOR PLAYERS Championship. Philadelphia, Pa. (Live) (3:00) Noon (9) KAWE Sit and Be Fit (0:30)
ESPN SportsCenter (1:00)
ESPN2 First Take Re-Take (0:30)
12:30 p.m. ESPN2 Outside the Lines (Live) (0:30)
NBCSN IndyCar Chronicles (0:30) 1:00 p.m. ESPN UEFA Euro 2016 Prematch Show (Live) (0:30) ESPN2 NFL Insiders (0:30)
FSN Due North Outdoors (0:30)
NBCSN Belmont Stakes Access (Live) (2:00)
3:30 p.m. ESPN2 Highly Questionable (0:30)
FSN Backroads With Ron and Raven (0:30)
4:00 p.m. ESPN2 Around the Horn (0:30)
FSN Destination Polaris (0:30)
4:30 p.m. ESPN Pardon the Interruption (0:30)
ESPN2 ESPN FC (0:30)
5:00 p.m. ESPN SportsCenter (2:30)
ESPN2 NCAA Baseball Super Regional Division I Tournament. (Live) (3:00)
FSN Cliff Diving Cartagena, Colombia (1:00)
NBCSN IndyCar Auto Racing IndyCar Series Qualifying Firestone 600. Fort Worth, Texas (1:30)
5:30 p.m. (9) KMSP (15) KVRR Soccer Pre-game (Live) (0:30)
6:00 p.m. (9) KMSP (15) KVRR Soccer Bolivia vs. Chile Copa America Centenario. Foxborough, Mass. (Live) (2:00)
FSN Three Wide Life (0:30)
ESPN2 SportsCenter Featured (0:30)
NBCSN Off the Grid (0:30)
10:30 a.m. ESPN UEFA Soccer Group B Euro 2016. Slo. vs. Wal. Bordeaux, France (Live) (3:00)
ESPN2 SportsCenter (0:30)
FSN Lindner’s Angling Edge (0:30)
NBCSN F1 Auto Racing Practice
Canadian Grand Prix. Montreal, Que. (1:30)
SHOW All Access: Quest for the Stanley Cup (0:30)
11:00 a.m. ESPN2 NCAA Baseball Super Regional Division I Tournament. (Live) (3:00)
FSN Due North Outdoors (0:30)
11:30 a.m. FSN Destination Polaris (0:30)
Noon (5) KSTP X Games Aspen 2016 (4:00)
FSN Swing Clinic (0:30)
GOLF PGA Golf Round 3 St. Jude Classic. Memphis, Tenn. (Live) (1:30)
NBCSN F1 Auto Racing Qualifying Canadian Grand Prix. Montreal, Que. (Live) (1:30)
12:30 p.m. FSN Twins Live Pre-game (Live) (0:30)
7:00 p.m. (29) WFTC NASL Soccer Miam. at MN. FC Blaine, Minn. (Live) (2:00)
FSN NHRA Drag Racing New England, Mass. (3:00)
NBCSN IndyCar Series Pre-race (Live) (0:30)
7:30 p.m. NBCSN IndyCar Auto Racing IndyCar Series Firestone 600. Fort Worth, Texas (Live) (2:00)
8:00 p.m. ESPN NCAA Baseball Super Regional Division I Tournament. (Live) (3:00)
ESPN2 UEFA Soccer Group B Euro 2016. Rus. vs. Eng. Marseille, France (2:00)
GOLF LPGA Golf Round 3 KPMG Championship. Sammamish, WA (3:00)
SHOW Boxing Ruslan Provodnikov vs. John Molilna Jr., Dejan Zlaticanin vs. Emiliano Marsili, Demetrius Andrade vs. Willie Nelson Showtime Championship. Verona, N.Y. (Live) (3:30)
9:00 p.m. HBO Boxing Card TBA (Live) (2:00)
9:30 p.m. NBCSN IndyCar Series Postrace (Live) (0:30)
9:45 p.m. (9) KMSP Fox 9 Sports Now (0:15)
Brainerd Daily Dispatch, MN: Sports Jun 5, 2016 to Jun 11, 2016
Barbecue. It’s a southern thing. Even northern lovers of succulent meats cooked low, slow and with so much soul have to admit that they just can’t do it as well as their southern neighbors. Or do they?
A new summertime show on Cooking Channel is set to find out. “Big Bad BBQ Brawl” premieres Tuesday, June 7, and over its four episodes, the series pits a maverick chef from the north against some of the greatest southern pitmasters.
Chef Shannon Ambrosio has done this sort of thing before. This
might be the first time that a show named “Big Bad BBQ Brawl” has graced Cooking Channel’s lineup, but this is technically its second season, albeit under another name — it was “Big Bad BBQ Battle” last season.
Each of “Brawl’s” four episodes follows Ambrosio and his team as they travel around the south, from the coast of Mississippi to Charleston, South Carolina. At each stop they’re meeting up with one of the local barbecue legends, and then throwing down in a battle of the pitmasters.
It’s enough to raise some eyebrows. A Brooklyn-based chef thinks that he knows barbecue better than
the best home-team pitmasters? But it’s not as preposterous as it might seem. When Ambrosio first became a chef, he knew that barbecue was what he wanted to cook; if he wanted to cook barbecue, he knew that he needed to learn from the best.
This guy has learned from some incredible southern pitmasters, and now he’s layering years of experience on top of that like so many layers of flavor.
In the first stop on his road trip, chef Ambrosio challenges the crew
from Mississippi’s Murky Waters to a sandwich showdown. He makes barbecue chicken in Alabama, “swine and swill” in Georgia and pork on the bone in South Carolina over the show’s run, always giving the classic local dishes a Brooklyn twist.
In the end, though, what it comes down to is a bunch of people with a shared love: one for meat that’s cooked low, slow and with oh so much flavor. “Big Bad BBQ Bawl” premieres Tuesday, June 7, on Cooking Channel.
Sunday, June 5
Noon TRAV Bizarre Foods Andrew heads to Sicily where the people think of themselves as Sicilian first.
1:00 p.m. TRAV Greatest Steaks of America Counting down the best steaks available at the best steakhouses in America.
3:00 p.m. TRAV Food Paradise
4:00 p.m. TRAV Food Paradise Barbeque Paradise takes the outdoor epicurean beyond backyard burgers.
5:00 p.m. TRAV Food Paradise Men’s Health magazine’s 2011 Manliest Restaurants.
7:00 p.m. TRAV Food Paradise Enjoy a bucketful of crispy, finger licking, fried chicken goodness.
Monday, June 6
Noon TRAV Bizarre Foods America The frontier spirit can still be found in New Mexico even when it comes to the food.
1:00 p.m. TRAV Bizarre Foods America
2:00 p.m. TRAV Man v. Food Adam takes on the Frittata Challenge at Mother’s Cupboard: a 6-lb breakfast scramble.
3:00 p.m. TRAV Food Paradise Serving up mounds of cheesy goodness, from Cleveland to New York and Chicago.
4:00 p.m. TRAV Food Paradise
5:00 p.m. TRAV Bizarre Foods Look beyond the natural wonders of this country, as the food is also out of this world.
6:00 p.m. TRAV Bizarre Foods America Get some global food experience without ever leaving NYC when you visit Queens.
7:00 p.m. TRAV Bizarre Foods: Delicious Destinations Andrew explores Jamaican icons jerk chicken and mannish water soup.
7:30 p.m. TRAV Bizarre Foods: Delicious Destinations In the city of love, Andrew Zimmern explores the delicious delicacies of Paris, France.
8:00 p.m. TRAV Bizarre Foods Andrew meets Greeks who are passionate about food in Athens and Kalymnos.
10:00 p.m. TRAV Bizarre Foods America Travel to Las Vegas to uncover why this city is all about extremes, 100th episode.
11:00 p.m. TRAV Bizarre Foods Andrew meets Greeks who are passionate about food in Athens and Kalymnos.
Tuesday, June 7
Noon TRAV Man v. Food Adam devours a Mission Style Super Burrito and a twogallon monster sundae.
12:30 p.m. TRAV Man v. Food Adam goes to Tucson for a hot dog wrapped in bacon and covered in all the fixins.
1:00 p.m. TRAV Bizarre Foods Andrew goes to Uganda, known, as the pearl of Africa.
2:00 p.m. TRAV Bizarre Foods In Spain chow down on sucking pig brains, bull testicles, and everything in between.
3:00 p.m. TRAV Bizarre Foods Andrew’s taking a food tour around the world without leaving our nation’s capitol.
4:00 p.m. TRAV Bizarre Foods Andrew goes to one of the world’s culinary capitals, Paris, France.
5:00 p.m. TRAV Bizarre Foods Andrew takes a Wild West tour of the Lone Star State.
6:00 p.m. TRAV Bizarre Foods America Andrew explores what it takes to feed over a million hungry fair goers each summer.
8:00 p.m. TRAV Bizarre Foods Andrew explores worldwide markets for cow skin soup, camel rib, and iguana eggs. (N)
9:00 p.m. TRAV Bizarre Foods In Mexico City, Andrew eats stewed pig knuckles, worms and ant eggs and fish egg tamales.
10:00 p.m. TRAV Bizarre Foods America Andrew discovers that some of the best food in Los Angeles is in dangerous areas.
11:00 p.m. TRAV Bizarre Foods Andrew explores worldwide markets for cow skin soup, camel rib, and iguana eggs.
Wednesday, June 8
Noon TRAV Food Paradise
1:00 p.m. TRAV Food Paradise Pig out on some of America’s most porktastic eats.
3:00 p.m. TRAV Bizarre Foods In Vietnam Andrew tries Snake parts, pig’s ears, silk worms and cat coffee.
4:00 p.m. TRAV Bizarre Foods Andrew tries everything from an extra large helping of bull balls to gourmet coffee.
Saturday, June 11
Noon TRAV Bizarre Foods: Delicious Destinations Andrew Zimmern discovers just what makes the City by the Bay so delectable.
12:30 p.m. TRAV Bizarre Foods: Delicious Destinations Andrew discovers Seattle’s iconic foods including Dungeness crab and teriyaki.
1:00 p.m. TRAV Food Paradise Americans go hog wild for bacon and we visit the most sizzling pork palaces.
2:00 p.m. (8) WDSE Martha Bakes
Learn how to incorporate ganache, a two-ingredient wonder, into three rich desserts.
TRAV Food Paradise
2:30 p.m. (8) WDSE Martha Stewart’s Cooking School Martha demonstrates confit and salting and makes duck confit, lemon and tomato confits.
3:00 p.m. (8) WDSE America’s Test Kitchen From Cook’s Illustrated Tony Maws from Craigie knows all about Burgers. Thick-Cut Sweet Potato Fries are made.
TRAV Food Paradise Check out the hunger-bustingest handheld feasts from coast to coast.
Brainerd Daily Dispatch, MN: Food Jun 5, 2016 to Jun 11, 2016
