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This Young Justice: Phantoms review contains spoilers. Young Justice Season 4 Episode 22 Remember all those kidnapped kids last season?  Markovia, vaguely eastern European home to Brion Markov, was briefly home to a metahuman trafficking ring led by Baron Bedlam. They kidnapped kids, soaked them in super goo, and the ones who lived had their

This article contains Moon Knight spoilers. One of the best moments in Marvel’s recently ended Moon Knight series is when Layla El-Faouly (May Calamawy) agrees to become the temporary human avatar for the Egyptian goddess Taweret. This happens during a critical juncture in the season finale, when Marc Spector/Steven Grant/Moon Knight (Oscar Isaac) and the

This article contains spoilers for Better Call Saul season 6. Through five seasons and some change combined on Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul, iconic villain Gustavo “Gus” Fring (Giancarlo Esposito) is notable for always keeping his cards close to the vest.  The fast food chicken magnate and regional meth lord very rarely shows any

This article contains spoilers for Outer Range season 1. Even showrunner Brian Watkins and his writing team couldn’t answer all the mysteries or twists and turns that they spawned in season 1 of Prime Video’s Outer Range. The premiere season spoonfed audiences a steady pace of the bizarre that built up more and more throughout

It’s the damndest thing: after spending two full seasons trying to get out of the park, the most enticing thing about HBO’s new enigmatic teaser trailer for Westworld Season 4 is the suggestion the robots might be going home. Have you ever seen anything so full of splendor? It’s hard to say otherwise while watching

This RIVERDALE review contains spoilers. Riverdale Season 6 Episode 13 “Those dark secrets that we all carry in our hearts, I am those secrets…” Riverdale continues to be anything but dull. With the apocalypse looming, the series’ latest episode focused on…overdue library books. Yes friends, you read that correct. The next step in Percival Pickens’

This post contains spoilers for MOON KNIGHT. Gods have always been part of the MCU. Wakandans thank Bast and Sekhmet, Captain America assured Black Widow that “There’s only one God,” and the Celestials shown in Guardians of the Galaxy and Eternals create and destroy worlds. But without question, the series most concerned with deities has

Ground control to Alex Kurtzman and Jenny Lumet: the stars are aligned, but look very different today. The Man Who Fell to Earth is a standalone sequel series, using Nicholas Roeg’s 1976 film as an alternative energy source. With Walter Tevis’ 1963 science fiction novel The Man Who Fell to Earth as a launching pad,

Call off the bets! The new Doctor is here. After months of speculation and tabloid exclusives from anonymous ‘inside sources’, the BBC has officially revealed that Ncuti Gatwa will take over from Jodie Whittaker in the role of the Doctor. The news didn’t arrive mid-tennis match or football game, or even in a special featuring

Doctor Who has a reputation as teatime horror designed to scare children, but a safe scare because ultimately the Doctor will win. Or at least that’s what usually happens. From time to time the Doctor doesn’t save the day, or their victory is tarnished somehow. Sometimes there’ll be a run of stories where this happens

This Young Justice: Phantoms review contains spoilers. Young Justice Season 4 Episode 21 I did not expect, in the dregs of this season of Young Justice, that I would at any point be standing up and cheering during an episode. But that’s exactly what happened when Tomar-Re sacrificed himself to save New Genesis from a

This article contains minor spoilers for Star Trek: Strange New Worlds episode 1. Star Trek is a franchise with a massive legacy, one the newer series on Paramount+ are gleeful to explore. The problem that rears its head and stops a lot of fun possibilities can often be encompassed by a single word: canon. What

This article contains spoilers for all of Ozark. There are a lot of evil people on Ozark. The Navarro cartel was filled with your stereotypical drug villains. Morally corrupt federal agent Roy Petty (Jason Butler Harner) served as a hateable antagonist in the first couple of seasons. Darlene Snell (Lisa Emery) was the type of

This article contains major Moon Knight spoilers. Now that Moon Knight has ended its premiere season (with no word yet on whether there will be a second one), the show finished off with a mid-credits sequence that introduced a personality long awaited by diehard fans of the comics on which the show is based: Jake

Warning: This artic​​le contains Star Trek: Picard season 2 finale spoilers.  Star Trek: Picard Season 2 Episode 10 Star Trek: Picard season 2 started with small, intimate moments, and in the end that’s where it ended. Along the way though Picard and the rest of the gang (are they even technically a crew?) went to

The following contains major spoilers for The Flash The Flash Season 8 Episode 13 The Flash season 8 has been one of the most emotional runs in recent memory, from the returns of fan favorites like Ray Palmer, Jefferson Pierce, and Mia Queen in the Armageddon event to the “reappearance” of Ronnie Raymond in the

This article contains Moon Knight finale spoilers With its sixth episode in the can, Moon Knight finishes its first (and perhaps only) season. The ending is abrupt and a bit surreal, but it does bring closure to the threat of Ammit and Arthur Harrow. Usually, these Disney+ Marvel shows end with cliffhangers to build up

At first glance, this seems like it should be a really short article. Question: What works of JRR Tolkien does Amazon have the rights to use for its upcoming series The Rings of Power? Answer: The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, including its Appendices, but nothing else. End of article. But. Between an

Warning: contains spoilers for Harlan Coben’s The Woods on Netflix. Though Harlan Coben thrillers generally take place in the same recognisably middle class world of Range Rovers, gated communities and marble kitchen islands, they’re not set in a shared fictional universe. The plots are standalone and the characters, as a rule, don’t cross over from

This Better Call Saul review contains spoilers. Better Call Saul Season 6 Episode 4 In the world of Better Call Saul, you can never be exactly sure about the people you call your neighbors. The county treasurer with the idyllic family? He’s embezzling millions. The owner of the local chicken chain? He’s a drug kingpin.

This RIVERDALE review contains spoilers. Riverdale Season 6 Episode 12 “Hold your loved ones close, the Fog is coming!” Riverdale loves a good pop culture homage. Having tipped its creative hat to everything from Creepshow to Grease 2 over the course of its six seasons to date, this is not a series that is afraid

This The Simpsons review contains spoilers. The Simpsons Season 33 Episode 19 Lisa gets bumped up from first chair saxophone to high school second banana, and still is the smartest little girl in grade number two. The Simpsons’ “Girls Just Shauna Have Fun” is sweet, surprisingly sobering, and keeps its wit about. The episode opens

This review contains Outlander finale spoilers. Outlander Season 6’s final episode had a tall order in terms of fan expectations, as well as translating book events to the screen. Unfortunately, the question of both who killed Malva, as well as how Claire and Jamie are going to prove their innocence, was left unresolved. Book readers,

Sailor Moon Eternal, a duology of feature length animated films adapting the manga’s Dream arc, premiered in Japan back in January 2021 and dropped on Netflix the following June. This duology was highly anticipated since Sailor Moon Crystal was effectively cancelled after its well-received third season, and while some were concerned it might lack the

This Young Justice: Phantoms review contains spoilers Young Justice Season 4 Episode 20 For a show that took a 10 year break between seasons, Young Justice has done an admirable job of keeping up with plots going through its entire run. The theme of grief and the cost of superheroics has been there from the

In an unfortunate Friday afternoon news dump, the word is out that Batwoman has been canceled after three seasons and 51 episodes. The news came from Batwoman showrunner Caroline Dries on Twitter in a message to fans. “Just got the sad news that Batwoman will not be seeing a S4,” Dries wrote. “I am bummed,

When talking to the cast and crew behind Amazon Prime Video’s trippy series Undone, the last thing you want to do is ask about the rotoscoping of it all too early.  First deployed in the early 20th century, rotoscoping is an animation technique in which artists paint over live-action footage to make the movement of

This Halo review contains spoilers. Halo Episode 6 After some fun action last week, a talky Halo episode puts more weight on its thin characterizations than they can handle.  The UNSC is on the hunt for the second alien artifact. It could lead them to the Halo ring, but no one is entirely sure what

Like its namesake, the Netflix film Bubble is as beautiful as it is brief, with a deceptively complex story to boot. But bubbles aren’t just beautiful for Hibiki, a freerunner living in the bubble-infested and partially sunken remnants of Tokyo, they’re where all his troubles began. Hibiki’s high-flying journey of self-discovery is crafted by writer

After months of speculation, Lucasfilm seems to have accidentally confirmed the existence of Star Wars: Tales of the Jedi ahead of its impending official announcement at Star Wars Celebration Anaheim in May. The seemingly Jedi-centric show will be a collection of “animated anthology shorts.” The details seem to have leaked when the Celebration website published