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The Philanthropist Season 1 Episode 5

Kosovo

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AIRED: 7/22/09

Teddy meets his ex-wife Julia and tells her about his journey to Kosovo where he tried to get Serbians and Albanians to work together, but learned that the hatred runs deep.

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I keep coming back.

8.5

By sandbur, Jul 24, 2009

There should be a thousand reasons not to watch this series, but I keep coming back to it, and I am captivated by it. I just can't really pinpoint why, but I am going to watch until I find out!

It should be completely implausible: I mean really, "Teddy"...you think YOU can cure all ills in Kosovo with a Hollywood ending (and its this way in every episode)?

But the ongoing journey doesn't try to fix everything and it doesn't ask you to pass judgment. It just...is.

I like that it shows that some things aren't fixable, especially not with money. I like that brings highlight to issues the world could think long-over if it was let fade away. And I really like that its gutsy enough to be proud of its idealistic bent.

Unrealistic? Definitely. But I'm a believer in possibilities, however remote, and in those who will try to find them. And I will take a chance on a series with a difference.

NBC: will you be one of those daring enough to go for the difference...to be idealistic?moreless
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Michael Kenneth Williams	Dax Vahagn
Jesse L. Martin	Philip Maidstone
James Purefoy	Teddy Rist
Neve Campbell	Olivia Maidstone
Lindy Booth	AJ Butterfield

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Krista Allen	Julia Carson Rist	Guest Star
Nick Chinlund		Guest Star
Marcel Iures		Guest Star

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TRIVIA (1)
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- Featured Music:
  "Over The Rainbow" by Israel Kamakawiwo'ole
  "Land Under The Sun" by Kokan Dimusevski
  "Sufi Dance" by Kokan Dimusevski
  "Klezmerized" by Gary Sredzienski
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QUOTES (3)
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- Teddy: I've never been big on avoiding conflict.
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- Teddy: Now, I was two feet from Phil when that bomb went off, and yet he got hurt and I didn't. Why?
  Julia: God's will.
  Teddy: God's great big practical joke.
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- Teddy: I still don't understand why I didn't go with Phil in that chopper.
  Julia: Teddy, we were married. I know exactly why. You couldn't face the reality of what might happen. That Philip might die.
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NOTES (1)
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- This episode is out of sequence. In the preceding episode, "Nigeria Part II", Olivia refers to the fact that Philip is still healing from surgery, but Philip does not undergo surgery till this episode.
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