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Hell’s Ninth Circle (2017 TV mini-series)

January 31, 2021 By Laura Chatellier, FSU '23

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“A dark comedy about a disgraced cop who goes undercover to bust a mob boss.”    —IMDb, 2017.

Categories: Performing Arts
Tagged with: 2017, Circles of Hell, Ninth Circle, Television

You Season 2, Episode 1 – “A Fresh Start” (2019)

February 11, 2020 By Alexa Kellenberger FSU '22

On the Netflix drama You, in the season two premiere “A Fresh Start” the main character Joe/Will says “..if LA is hell, the LA DMV is surely the ninth circle.” (You, Netflix, December 26, 2019)

Contributed by Faeryn Lee (The Bolles School, ’22)

Categories: Performing Arts
Tagged with: 2019, Circles of Hell, Drama, Inferno, Los Angeles, Ninth Circle, Television

“In the Ninth Circle, A Misunderstood Angel”

January 1, 2020 By lsanchez

“Cheeseburger eggrolls to the right,
The center head devoured beef nachos.
And on the left, the restaurant’s sickly lights,

Glistened off chicken wonton tacos.
My quarry swilled a foul-smelling elixir
As to his booth we walked-o.”    –Matthew Dessem, Slate, November 25, 2017

Categories: Written Word
Tagged with: 2017, Circles of Hell, Inferno, Ninth Circle

Dante and the Ninth Circle Align in a Shocking New “ARROW”

July 12, 2019 By Gabriel Siwady '19

“Turns out Emiko isn’t just working for the Ninth Circle — she’s running it.

“After revealing last week that Emiko has been working with new big bad Dante, Laurel wasted no time bringing that factoid to Oliver’s attention. Then, by the second act or so, Oliver had confirmed it was true. This is one of those plot points they’ve been known to drag out in the past, so nice to see them just get to the meat of that reveal in “Inheritance” and start dealing with the fallout. Oliver is keen to give Emiko the benefit of the doubt, something she uses to her advantage to manipulate him for a while to get the drop on Team Arrow.” […]    –Trent Moore, SyFyWire, March 25, 2019

Categories: Performing Arts
Tagged with: 2019, Arrow, Comics, Crime, DC Comics, Inferno, Ninth Circle, Science Fiction, Superheroes, Television

The 9 Rings of Donald Trump’s Administrative Hell

July 12, 2019 By Gabriel Siwady '19

“In Inferno, the first part of Dante Alighieri’s epic poem Divine Comedy, the titular character is guided through the nine circles of hell. The darker your crimes, the lower the levels of hell you descend to until you meet up with Satan himself, trapped at the center of it all.

“At the top are crimes such as heresy and failure to believe; at the bottom, closer to the devil himself, are the rings of treachery and violence. Reflecting on a campaign season during which Donald Trump literally called Hillary Clinton the devil and threatened to put her in chains, you have to wonder whether he wasn’t subconsciously projecting, given the hellish landscape he has turned his early administration into. However, it’s not the nether regions that should concern most Americans but those condemned to the outer rings for lesser crimes.

“Trump may not actually be the vision of Satan portrayed in Inferno, even if he staffs his new administration like the rings of hell. Inferno describes Satan as a ghastly creature trapped by his own vanity with three faces: one red, one yellow and one black. The fact that Trump is now in a position that he has lusted after for years but is equally overwhelmed and unprepared for is strangely apropos.

“While Trump does not have leather wings, he is banishing those who dared not believe in him to limbo, and surrounding himself with white nationalists, terror sympathizers and warmongers. Anyone thinking that perhaps Trump’s own erratic tendencies would be balanced out by some sort of smart team of rivals should take note of the entryway to hell: “Abandon hope, all ye who enter here.” […]    –Jason Johnson, The Root, November 26, 2016

Categories: Places, Written Word
Tagged with: 2016, Abandon All Hope, American Politics, Circles of Hell, Clinton, Donald Trump, Elections, Hillary Clinton, Inferno, Layers of Hell, Ninth Circle, Political Leaders, Politics, Satan, Trump

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