As is common with the show’s soundtracks, alt-rockers R.E.M. return with their universal themes of loss and recovery. Out of the two R.E.M. songs that play, Strange Currencies marks an encore as it ...

16. Friedrich Schiller provided lyrics for Ludwig van Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony. Schiller, a leading German philosopher, published his poem An die Freude (Ode to Joy) in 1786 [PDF].