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This Westworld review contains spoilers. Westworld Season 4 Episode 1 At the end of season 3 of Westworld, things looked fairly bleak for humanity. After all, there were still fires burning and riots in the streets, hundreds of people were either killed or killed themselves, and humanity’s social order had been thrown into chaos by

This Evil review contains spoilers. Evil Season 3 Episode 3 “And you may kiss the bride a second time,” Father David (Mike Colter) opens Evil’s “The Demon of Sex,” and it turns out he’s pushing a young couple’s luck. This is the first time we’re seeing David perform a happy sacrament, and he appears to

This article contains spoilers for all of Westworld season 3. Remember back to Westworld season 3, if you will. It’s been three months since the Westworld massacre, and Dolores (Evan Rachel Wood) still has work to do. She’s escaped the boundaries of Delos’ adult theme park, has made her way to a dystopian future version

This article contains spoilers for The Boys season 3 episode 6. With its latest episode, “Herogasm”, The Boys takes a little trip to the past…our past. Yes, as is often the case on the Prime Video superhero satire, the line between Vought World and our own world (let’s call it Amazon World) is thinner than

Warning: contains potential spoilers for the 60th Anniversary in references to behind-the-scenes set photos and footage. Neil Patrick Harris is going to be part of Doctor Who’s 60th anniversary. In a variation on the ‘show, don’t tell’ storytelling maxim, the publicity team and Russell T. Davies have stirred fans into speculation by releasing a photo

This article contains The Boys Season 3 “Herogasm” spoilers All year, Eric Kripke and the producers of The Boys have been hyping up “Herogasm” as the most shocking episode of season three, a bold claim given the season premiere. “Herogasm” takes its title from a six-issue miniseries spinoff from The Boys comic, one that followed a Vought-sponsored orgy

This review of The Orville: New Horizons contains spoilers. The Orville: New Horizons Season 3 Episode 4 Good science-fiction should challenge us. It should contain subtext that can teach, subvert, and even make us uncomfortable by shining a light on aspects of our world we don’t want to look at. Whether it is the golden

The Star Trek: Strange New Worlds review contains spoilers. Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Episode 8 One of the downsides of our current era of Peak Prestige TV is the assumption that, in order to be good, something must also be deadly serious. This seems to be doubly true if we’re talking about a genre

This article contains spoilers for The Flash The Flash Season 8 Episode 19 Few things are certain in the world of The Flash and several are downright inexplicable (you try coherently describing how the Forces of Nature are meant to function as both people and physical places, is what I’m saying). But one thing is

This STAR WARS: OBI-WAN KENOBI article contains spoilers. Obi-Wan Kenobi finally returns to Tatooine, but not before pitting two Star Wars greats against each other in a reference-filled finale. Darth Vader and Obi-Wan’s rematch opens up the wounds of their former friendship, while also setting them up for their future roles in the Original Trilogy. Meanwhile, Reva

The following contains spoilers for Superman & Lois. Superman & Lois Season 2 Episode 14 One of the most surprising aspects of Superman & Lois is how effortlessly it has blended stories of everyday family drama and typical teenage angst in right alongside its larger comic-book-style plots (like, say, the existence of an inverted alternate

HBO Max’s queer pirate romcom, Our Flag Means Death, has become a runaway hit. Fans have embraced this diverse cast of pirates as they navigate the Golden Age of Piracy in an absurdist comedy that wrestles with serious issues. The show asks whether it is possible to experience self fulfillment by rejecting an oppressive society

This Star Wars: Obi-Wan Kenobi article contains spoilers. “This is the end for you, my master.” That was the promise Anakin Skywalker made to Obi-Wan Kenobi in the final act of Revenge of the Sith, as the two dueled to the death on the volcanic planet of Mustafar. But it was only the beginning. While

This article contains spoilers for Dragon Ball Z. Dragon Ball Z is almost entirely about people flying around and shooting energy out of their hands at each other. But fans around the world know that DBZ is so much more than just the intense fights. The iconic characters are instantly recognizable both by their outfits

Warning: This The Time Traveler’s Wife Review contains spoilers and pregnancy-related trauma. The season finale of The Time Traveler’s Wife takes pre-wedding jitters to new metaphysical levels. Henry’s nervousness about the future plus his failure to disclose key information on how time travel would affect normal married couple life makes wedding planning and prep extra

This Evil review contains spoilers. Evil Season 3 Episode 2 Evil season 3 episode 2 “The Demon of Memes,” opens in the midst of inaction, and the inertia grows into a sequence of mystery which keeps the beats of comedy. Father David (Mike Colter) is getting used to his new daily practices fast. He hears

This review of The Orville: New Horizons contains spoilers. The Orville: New Horizons Season 3 Episode 3 “To many humans, a mystery is irresistible. It must be solved.” Wise words from arguably the wisest of Captains in modern television history, Jean-Luc Picard. A quotation that encapsulates not only human behavior, but one of the Roddenberry

Warning: contains spoilers for The Lazarus Project finale. Even if season one of The Lazarus Project ended with all the characters safe, happy and playing gin rummy while the world enjoyed a sunny, peril-free existence, a second season renewal for this sci-fi thriller would still have been essential because The Lazarus Project is great viewing.

This article spoilers up to The Boys season 3 episode 5 and minor spoilers for all of Supernatural. Jensen Ackles played Dean Winchester for 15 years on Supernatural – and he’ll be doing so again, in voice-over, for CW’s The Winchesters this autumn. Of course, Ackles is a professional actor and entirely capable of playing

This article contains spoilers for The Boys season 3 episode 5. It’s no secret that things are quite bad in the world of The Boys season 3. Uber-corporation Vought International has a stranglehold on pop culture, churning out trite superhero content based on their actual superheroes that exacerbate America’s already problematic appreciation for authoritarian figures.

This Star Wars: Obi-Wan Kenobi article contains spoilers. It was a bold move to open episode 5 of Obi-Wan Kenobi with a flashback that put 41-year-old Hayden Christensen back in the boots of a teenage Anakin Skywalker. Director Deborah Chow and her team seemingly chose traditional make-up over digitally de-aging Christensen and Ewan McGregor for

The following contains spoilers for Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Episode 7 Truth be told, I keep waiting for Star Trek: Strange New Worlds to disappoint me. Because while certain aspects of both Star Trek: Discovery (Saru and T’Rina’s romance, the general existence of Grudge, cool giant glow cloud aliens)

This article contains The Flash spoilers. The Flash Season 8 Episode 18 The Flash’s Barry Allen has certainly helped shape the journeys of many of Central City’s superpowered heroes, from his teammates (Killer Frost, Allegra, Cecile), to his boss (Captain Kramer) and even his own grown children (whenever Nora and Bart happen to pop in

This Star Wars: Obi-Wan Kenobi review contains spoilers. Star Wars: Obi-Wan Kenobi Episode 5 Where is the bar when it comes to Star Wars television? Obi-Wan Kenobi episode 5 wants to evoke the energy (and bigger budget) of the movies, slotting into both the Prequel and Original Trilogies with no-holds-barred aplomb, but it can’t quite

We’ve seen plenty of young adult vampire stories in film and television from Twilight to Vampire Diaries (and its spinoffs, The Originals and Legacies). There’s also been hunter-centric Shadowhunters, where vampires heavily feature, and we all know the OG Buffy The Vampire Slayer. Vampires and their hunters have been gracing our pages and screens since

Warning: contains spoilers for all eight seasons of Game of Thrones “When you play the Game of Thrones, you win or you die,” as Cersei Lannister famously told the naïve Eddard Stark. But there’s more to wrapping up a fictional character’s arc successfully that just whether they win or lose the Game – sometimes, it’s

This RIVERDALE review contains spoilers. Riverdale Season 6 Episode 17 “This is who I am Arch, this is what I do.” Traditionally, Riverdale‘s musical episode has been the annual installment when all hell breaks loose. So it was a bit unexpected how different this season’s song-packed offering played out. Instead of carnage, we witnessed an

This Barry review contains spoilers. Barry Season 3 Episode 8 Who would have ever thought that the “hitman becomes an actor” show starring the guy from SNL who did the Vincent Price impressions would deliver something as visceral, complex, and thrilling as “starting now?” Barry Berkman may not be evil, but he will finally have

This The Time Traveler’s Wife review contains spoilers. The Time Traveler’s Wife Episode 5 This week on The Time Traveler’s Wife, Henry and Clare still have complications dealing with friends and family. How do you tell your family you’re dating a man you met when you were six but he’s a younger version of the

This Evil review contains spoilers. Evil Season 3 Episode 1 Evil’s season 3 opener, “The Demon of Death,” faces the same problem which hung over the second season: a cliff-hanging, game-changing event occurs, and the characters have to deal with the consequences. Last season started in the aftermath of a killing; this one picks up