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Ball of Magic Fire

  • Episode aired Jun 18, 2023
  • 47m
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7.6/10
3.8K
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Elizabeth Saunders and A.J. Simmons in Ball of Magic Fire (2023)
DramaHorrorMysterySci-FiThriller

Panic spreads through town as the residents face a chilling new threat to their survival; Jim realizes the magnitude of the mistake he made by enlisting Randall in his cause.Panic spreads through town as the residents face a chilling new threat to their survival; Jim realizes the magnitude of the mistake he made by enlisting Randall in his cause.Panic spreads through town as the residents face a chilling new threat to their survival; Jim realizes the magnitude of the mistake he made by enlisting Randall in his cause.

  • Director
    • Jack Bender
  • Writers
    • John Griffin
    • Jeff Pinkner
  • Stars
    • Harold Perrineau
    • Catalina Sandino Moreno
    • Eion Bailey
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  • IMDb RATING
    7.6/10
    3.8K
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • Jack Bender
    • Writers
      • John Griffin
      • Jeff Pinkner
    • Stars
      • Harold Perrineau
      • Catalina Sandino Moreno
      • Eion Bailey
    • 23User reviews
    • 4Critic reviews
  • See production info at IMDbPro
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    Harold Perrineau
    Harold Perrineau
    • Boyd Stevens
    Catalina Sandino Moreno
    Catalina Sandino Moreno
    • Tabitha Matthews
    Eion Bailey
    Eion Bailey
    • Jim Matthews
    David Alpay
    David Alpay
    • Jade
    Elizabeth Saunders
    Elizabeth Saunders
    • Donna
    Scott McCord
    Scott McCord
    • Victor
    Ricky He
    Ricky He
    • Kenny
    Chloe Van Landschoot
    Chloe Van Landschoot
    • Kristi
    Pegah Ghafoori
    Pegah Ghafoori
    • Fatima
    Corteon Moore
    Corteon Moore
    • Ellis
    Avery Konrad
    Avery Konrad
    • Sara Myers
    Hannah Cheramy
    Hannah Cheramy
    • Julie Matthews
    Simon Webster
    Simon Webster
    • Ethan Matthews
    Elizabeth Moy
    Elizabeth Moy
    • Tian Chen Liu
    Deborah Grover
    Deborah Grover
    • Tillie
    Angela Moore
    Angela Moore
    • Bakta
    Kaelen Ohm
    Kaelen Ohm
    • Mari
    A.J. Simmons
    A.J. Simmons
    • Randall
    • (as AJ Simmons)
    • Director
      • Jack Bender
    • Writers
      • John Griffin
      • Jeff Pinkner
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    10kersyvanyo

    Just a hypothesis

    I think they are dead. They died as result of road traffic crashes.

    There is no bad people to kill other people. Sara Myers isn't a criminal. She has killed people due to disperation but she isn't a cold blood criminal.

    Maybe they are in the purgatory. A purgatory created specially for the drivers.

    There are many clues which supports this hypothesis:

    1. They aren't trying to escape from the city.

    2. They have hallucinations.

    3. The monsters can't be killed with a gun.

    4. Main road is a circle.

    5. There are conflicts with the laws of physics.

    6. The weather does not change.

    7. People don't get sick.

    I think the people which are leaving here bad reviews don't understand what means a mystery movie. Them are prefering Supergirl where anything is clear ))
    3wandernn1-81-683274

    They Touch. They Break. They Steal. No One Here Is Free.

    This ep. Starts off pretty good. Starts off with a death. Of course it's one of the bus people. Since we know they're all mostly fodder. Mostly. +1 Star.

    Attitude gets a little bit carried away. And he tosses away keys to the van. Now...I thought that was stupid, because any of 3 people could have seen where they landed and just got them right away. -1 Star.

    Que Sera Sera.

    Sara tries to have a conversation with Kenny. And the annoying kid strikes again during a conversation at the Colony House.

    In the van, the group seems way more confident than they used to be about having the curtains open and looking out at the THINGS after Dark. And Mari has an episode in front of Kristi. And the van people are hit with a dark turn and decide to make a break for it. Boyd again firing his gun uselessly at the Things. Then he sees his wife. How did Donna get the van going if they didn't have the keys? Dumb -1 Star

    And Attitude is making a run for it. Oh no, CICADAS!!! Those CGI Cicadas surely would have made a decent meal when they were crawling down his throat. -1 Star

    Okay Sara gets out Boyds extra gun and plays a little Russian Roulette. I like that ! +1 Star. And then it appears the imaginary cicadas are coming for three people and Julie is going to the third!

    Really not impressed. 3/10.
    8charlieedmond

    I wish Season 2 was like the first 20 minutes of this Episode

    8 stars for those 20 minutes alone because it made the episode feel like an oasis in the dessert of poor writing.

    Seriously, it was like taking a breath of fresh air.

    Again, those first 20 minutes had the best characters in them. No poor dialogue, no random decisions.

    And it's weird, the way the episode starts of is like a different writer came to the rescue of who ever wrote the previous episode.

    I swear, it went FROM being almost a dead end story to having the defibrillators punched to MAX to try save the corpse of plot holes and inconsequential drama.

    I wish... I wish Season 2 had more like those 20 minutes and more of Victor.
    5OTANATO-

    We can tell it s water down and it became annoying

    Again, 46 minutes of screaming and not a single step made.

    Season 2 it is done for the money and to prolong it. Unfortunately its done on the viewers expense. Expectations are not met.

    I took a paper and a pen and noted what was new in this episode. Nothing. Nothing happened.

    The second mistake was that they decided to have a week and episode release.

    Honestly, i am about to stop watching. I think a new season is out of the question if they keep feeding this nonsense.

    Imagine that at the end it becomes clear that all this place is a dream or just some alien monster plot. The disappointment!

    Season 2 is bad. As a thrill, as plot development, because of drama filler used to cover the lack of genre trops.
    6mpboylanjr-54038

    Same writers as Lost. We should have known. Just bad all around

    Wow. What a total derailment of a show in the 2nd season after such promise. Another episode and still more mystery and guessing. Unfinished plots everywhere. The girl who came back who killed her brother is unwatchable and possibly one of the worst actresses I've ever seen. Now it's giant killer locusts flying around killing people or not killing people ? I don't know where to start with this convoluted mess of a season. I think that weird nursery rhyme about it comes for 3 has to do with those locusts who killed the annoying guy who was pissing everybody off. The guys wife who was in bed and now it's either the daughter or the drug addict girl who will be the 3rd one ?? Those "silver bile bullets" lol. Guess those were another dead end. The music came on the radio signal which stopped the creatures who we still know less about than the very first episode. Why, what, when, all questions still a total mystery. I'd say that was good if we had an inkling as to a reason in 18 episodes. Let's just say the finale better be some of the best television I've seen to save this titanic of a show.. lastly, the writers are the ones from Lost and I didn't know that until recently. We all shoulda known from that and saved ourselves in the beginning from this nonsense. The budget must have been under a million dollars for this because the acting and filming location etc.. are nothing special to be nice. I'm now curious as to how badly they will polish this turd off. What a disappointment!!

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      The episode takes its name from the analogy Kristi tells Ellis that they learn in medical school: no matter how much they think they know about the world, at the end of the day it's all one big mystery floating in space around a ball of magic fire that keeps them warm from a million miles away.
    • Quotes

      Jade: Why the fuck am I having visions of a story some dead woman told 40 years ago?

    • Connections
      Referenced in Korman Productions Deep Dive TV Podcast: FROM Deep Dive S2E9 "Ball of Magic Fire" with Dave and Stacie (2023)
    • Soundtracks
      Que Sera, Sera (Whatever Will Be, Will Be)
      Written by Jay Livingston, Ray Evans

      Performed by Pixies

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