freeze frame

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The pilot ends by returning to the cannibal scene with a reveal reminiscent of a ’90s record-scratch freeze frame — the ol’ “I bet you’re wondering how I got here.”

From Washington Post

“I showed her the film in the closet and she started to tear up and then she burst into tears and fell to the floor sobbing. My life ended in that moment. Everything stopped. It was a freeze frame. And I started to do things that people do when horrible things happen to them, hoping it was a dream and that I’d wake up, hoping that my mom would come out of that fetal position and laugh hysterically, saying, ‘I got you!

From Los Angeles Times

But it’s important to be able to do that freeze frame, go back, understand what they’re telling you.

From Seattle Times

The masterstroke might be the entrance hall specification, which throws Mishima’s freeze frame into sublime high-def.

From New York Times

Unlike the aerial view of the real brain, however, the simulation can be paused, giving scientists a freeze frame showing which synapses are firing in response to a given stimulus.

From Scientific American