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This review contains spoilers for The Order season 2. The Order is one of those shows on Netflix that tends to escape notice due to scant publicity and an inability for word-of-mouth to adequately explain how good it is without sounding ridiculous talking about werewolves and secret magical organizations on a college campus. Fortunately, season

Perhaps the most exciting piece of content coming to Hulu in July 2020 is…a movie? Remember those? You would buy a ticket and then go sit in a dark room with other people eating Buncha Crunch. Sounds wild! Yes, more and more feature films are turning to streaming services for their summer releases. And with

Usually, living through a cinematic time loop is a very lonely affair. Bill Murray’s weatherman Phil Connors spent a lot of time trying to better himself in Groundhog Day, with no one to remember his long personal evolution. Jessica Rothe’s Tree Gelbman stopped the homicidal output of a vengeful slasher in Happy Death Day by

NBC, which is of course a subsidiary of Kabletown, formerly of GE via The Sheinhardt Wig Company, is bringing back one of its most beloved and meta comedies for an hour-long special.  30 Rock is set to return for a commercial-free, hour-long episode on Thursday, July 16 at 8 p.m. on NBC, according to Variety.

Contains major spoilers for Marcella season two. Obviously, obviously Marcella should not have been welcomed back to work after the events of season one. That’s a given.  Investigating your husband’s mistress’ murder while being unable to rule out the possibility that it was you who’d killed her? Not optimum police work. Using insider access to destroy CCTV

Summer is the right time to appreciate sharks. Pop culture has always intrinsically understood that, whether it was Steven Spielberg creating the summer blockbuster with Jaws in 1975 or Discovery Channel creating the couch potato with Shark Week in 1988. The summer of 2020, however, stands to be the best time for these dead-eyed elasmobranch

Some of last year’s most anticipated releases are hitting Sky Cinema in July, so we’ve updated our monthly guide to spotlight all the new cinematic offerings that subscribers will get to choose from. Whether you fancy a bit of Brad Pitt in space, a spot of evil clown-flavoured horror in the sewers, or even some

“Have you ever done anything like this before?” public health director Tracy Daszkiewicz is asked in episode one of The Salisbury Poisonings. “I’ll tell you when I know what it is we’re doing,” she answers. That unassuming, honest wit and humility becomes characteristic of her approach across this extraordinary drama.  2020 may feel as if it

This Love, Victor review contains no spoilers. From the people who made Love, Simon, the heartwarming spin-off series Love, Victor is here to soothe our tired souls without asking too much of our brains.  And while its made strides in updating its queer representation to the modern context, there are still some significant oversights. As

“It’s not an easy watch,” says Annabel Scholey of her latest role in BBC One’s The Salisbury Poisonings. “It’s harrowing but it’s an important story to tell.” The three-part drama airing on consecutive nights from Sunday the 14th of June depicts the aftermath of the 2018 assassination attempt on Russians Sergei and Yulia Skripal in

Nickelodeon’s Avatar: The Last Airbender is a superb television show for many reasons. The animation is lush and beautiful, the characters are richly-realized and human, and the action is relentless and thrilling, never giving in to the puritan notions of what “children’s entertainment” can or cannot depict. There’s another, more underappreciated, reason for Avatar’s success

Dave Chappelle came out of isolation to bring a new stand-up comedy special into the world. Haven’t we heard this one before? The circumstances for Chappelle’s latest return, 87 days since his last performance, were a bit different. The new special, titled 8:46, was tapped on June 6 in front of a socially-distanced audience in

Lincoln Rhyme: Hunt for the Bone Collector will cease any kind of hunt, at least on NBC, which has canceled the serial-killer-chasing drama after an abbreviated inaugural season. NBC’s cancelation of Lincoln Rhyme, reported via Variety, was a two-birds-with-one-stone move that also saw the nixing of another freshman offering in the Bradley Whitford-headlined comedy, Perfect

After playing the legitimate face of the Dumani crime family in Sky One’s ultra-violent hit Gangs of London, Paapa Essiedu is back on screen in his second buzzy role of 2020. BBC/HBO’s I May Destroy You is an accessible series about a challenging subject – consent and recovery from sexual assault. Inspired by real experiences, the 12-part drama

Finally! The little superhero show that could now has…coulded? Doom Patrol Season 2 is almost here, and we couldn’t be happier about it. So now that Doom Patrol Season 2 is a reality, where will it host its episodes: DC Universe or HBO Max? The answer is both! Doom Patrol Season 2 will be available

A new channel arrived on Now TV last month called Sky Documentaries boasting a whole range of series and features. It’s a treasure trove of deep dives into a massive range of subjects, from sports to music, crime to scandal to important moments in history. There’re a load of great shows on the channel, and

The Mandalorian Season 2 seems to have avoided the pandemic-dealt dilatory hurdles that mired most of the entertainment industry, now on track to make its long-planned October premiere. Yet, amidst a steady stream of casting and character news, the Star Wars series casually hired Sam Hargrave, director of the recently-released Netflix action flick, Extraction, which

When drama confronts you with your country’s racism (as a white Briton, the screen and page are the only times I am confronted with it – never on the street, rarely in the classroom, not applying for a job or going through passport control or renting a flat or raising kids or being stopped by

This Crossing Swords review contains no spoilers and is based on all 10 episodes of the season. “Did I help the kingdom or commit murder?” In the past few years there’s been an exceptional bloat of comedic animated series that tackle the Medieval era and the tropes that come along with it. Disenchantment, Harmonquest, Tigtone,

Snowpiercer, TNT’s hour-long TV show has adapted Oscar-winning director Bong Joon-ho’s 2013 South Korean dystopian sci-fi film of the same name. The Snowpiercer TV show is headlined by an Oscar winner in Jennifer Connelly, who is joined by Hamilton stage standout Daveed Diggs. Plus, Doctor Strange helmer Scott Derrickson directed the pilot (sans reshoots). With Snowpiercer’s uniquely stylized

“I’ve got another family in Telford that I’ve never spoken about,” announces comedian and writer Holly Walsh on a Zoom press call. “Luckily, by writing this, it’s tax deductible.”  She’s joking of course. Since writing a sitcom pilot about two step-sisters who only discover each other’s existence after their dad’s death, Walsh keeps being asked

The following contains spoilers for 13 Reasons Why season 4. Netflix’s controversial teen drama 13 Reasons Why finally wrapped up the stories of its outlandishly troubled youths this weekend with the fourth and final season. Spanning 10 episodes and a feature-length finale, it’s time for the Liberty High students to graduate and, as is a

Although its future was often in doubt season to season, Agents of SHIELD season 7 was a sure thing right from the start as ABC renewed the series for two shortened seasons shortly after the end of season five. With the introduction of another time travel storyline — this time to past — the fact that

This spoiler-free review is based on the first four episodes. When a drama comes prefixed by an issue (class-drama, race-drama, abuse-drama), audiences can inwardly brace for a lecture, suspicious that they’re about to be made to eat their metaphorical greens. When that drama is also based on real-life suffering, the prospect of entertainment slides out

This Harley Quinn review contains spoilers. Harley Quinn Season 2 Episode 10 We’re nearing the end of Harley Quinn season two and without Ivy by her side our Hot-Panted heroine is struggling. If having a broken heart wasn’t bad enough, the rest of her crew are far too busy to hang out with her on

The following contains spoilers through the Killing eve Season 3 finale. Perhaps the inevitable danger of a show like Killing Eve was always going to be in the fact that its antagonist might turn out to be more interesting than its protagonist. Jodie Comer’s Villanelle is one of the most memorable breakout television characters of

In a massive new interview, Outlander and Battlestar Galactica creator Ronald D. Moore has been looking back on the time he spent writing for Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. One of the more interesting tidbits in Moore’s interview with Collider this week is how he got a job writing

This review contains spoilers for Agents of SHIELD. Agents of SHIELD Season 7 Episode 2 Agents of SHIELD might be giving itself a little wiggle room with its “ripples not waves” time travel rules, seemingly setting up a situation this week in which Koenig’s personal history is actually caused by the team’s adventure to the

In March 1968, the fans, cast, and creators of the NBC-TV series Star Trek were celebrating an unprecedented victory: a massive mail campaign by fans of the show, which directed more than 100,000 letters (if not more) to NBC executives, had resulted in the network deciding not to cancel the sci-fi program after two seasons

This article contains spoilers for Legends of Tomorrow and Justice League Dark: Apokolips War. John Constantine is a man defined by his own failings. In Justice League Dark: Apokolips War, the occultist is once again set on a path of redemption after a cataclysmic event. It’s an arc reflected in the latest season of Legends