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This RICK AND MORTY review contains spoilers. Rick and Morty Season 6 Episode 9 Continuing the trend from last week, this is another episode about something painfully dumb being used as a vehicle for character development. Last time, it was piss which helped Rick learn about selflessness and avoiding unnecessary conflict. This time, we’ve moved

The Acolyte is the most intriguing of the upcoming slate of Star Wars shows coming to Disney+ in the near future. The live-action series helmed by Russian Doll creator Leslye Headland takes place 100 years before The Phantom Menace and is described as a “mystery-thriller” that will follow a Jedi Master and their former padawan

This article is presented in paid partnership with Crunchyroll.  New anime hits emerge every year, but staggering levels of love have surrounded Tatsuki Fujimoto’s Chainsaw Man. The anime’s inaugural season has already become one of Crunchyroll’s biggest 2022 additions. Audiences have been quick to commend the anime’s ultra-violent atmosphere as it chronicles Denji’s journey as the

Warning: contains spoilers for His Dark Materials season two. It’s time to return to Philip Pullman’s fantasy world of dust, daemons and Asriel’s quest to free the worlds from religious tyranny. His Dark Materials is back for its third and final season, to tell the story of The Amber Spyglass. US viewers will be able

This article contains spoilers for The Peripheral season 1 and Don’t Worry, Darling. The first season of Prime Video’s William Gibson adaptation, The Peripheral has come to an end, an absolutely wild trip through issues of environmentalism, fascism, warfare, and technology that will likely take us ages to fully unpack. But the series has also

The Andor series may have closed out the year for Star Wars on Disney+ but there are plenty more live-action shows coming up in 2023 and beyond. Next year will see the return of The Mandalorian for its long-awaited third season as well as the premiere of the Ahsoka standalone series. Meanwhile, Jude Law will

Ever since HBO announced that they were adapting The Last of Us video game as a TV series, fans (myself included) have been eager to see both familiar parts of the story and what the series will change. With the Jan. 15 premiere date growing closer, the cast and creators recently attended CCXP Brazil to

This The Simpsons review contains spoilers. The Simpsons Season 34 Episode 10 The Simpsons plays to all its strengths in “Game Done Changed.” The episode acts on the title to expand their visual representation while presenting two fully-realized, original storylines set firmly in the now. The Simpson family unit turns in a magical cautionary tale,

The first season of Netflix’s Wednesday saw our favorite goth princess have not one, but two potential love interests – “normie” Tyler (Hunter Doohan) and the psychic painter, Xavier (Percy Hynes White). However, since things didn’t work out with either of them in the aftermath of the finale, fans have also been shipping Wednesday (Jenna

Warning: contains spoilers for ‘The Enchanted Sleeper’ & ‘The Break’ Season three of His Dark Materials is the twist of the kaleidoscope that drops the glittering elements of this mad tale into their final shape. Here’s when it stops setting up and solving mysteries and solidifies into a story about the fight between independence of mind and

This The White Lotus review contains spoilers. The White Lotus Season 2 Episode 6 When you have a show with a large ensemble cast like The White Lotus, it can become quite the trial for the writers’ room to decide which characters get what amount of screen time, especially when a season is about to

There are several untold stories lingering in the background of The Witcher, both for fans of the Netflix series and for those who have read the Andrzej Sapkowski novels. One is the history of the once great elven race, fallen into second class citizenry in the modern age. Another is the tale of the conjunction

However one feels about 11 seasons of The Walking Dead (and the many spinoffs to come), it’s hard to deny that its pilot is a thrilling hour of television. “Days Gone Bye,” which first aired on Halloween night 2010, adapts the first issue of Robert Kirkman’s zombie comic of the same name on a nearly

This Walking Dead article contains spoilers. If there’s anyone who knows what The Walking Dead needs, its series producer and zombie effects expert Greg Nicotero. Aside from perhaps series creator Robert Kirkman himself, no one else is as responsible for the series’ iconic undead look than the makeup effects enthusiast-turned-director. Nicotero dates his Walking Dead

Spoilers for Gangs of London season 1 and 2 The first season on Gangs of London hit in 2020 right at the start of lockdown, it came out of nowhere and blew viewers’ minds. Created by Gareth Evans and Matt Flannery this was a slick  study of ultra violence set in the capital city, which

This article contains spoilers for The Midnight Club. With the cancellation of The Midnight Club after its first season, it seems as though Mike Flanagan’s Netflix era may be coming to a close. The upcoming limited series The Fall of the House of Usher appears to be Flanagan’s last TV project under his pact with

Whether you love or hate the idea of 80-year-old Harrison Ford donning the fedora once again, there’s still something comforting about seeing him in the hat while John Williams’ iconic “Indiana Jones Theme” plays on. Disney deployed that nostalgia with its usual precision, too, in our first teaser trailer for the newly christened Indiana Jones

This article contains spoilers for Yellowstone. The Yellowstone fandom, much like the show itself, is strong-willed and fiercely loyal. This writer will admit, I have dived into the deep end in a few different online forums to see what other fans of the show are talking about, and often share in the joy the show

Delayed gratification is all well and good, but let’s be honest: we all prefer the instant kind, so it’s a good job that as soon as one series of Taskmaster finishes, the line-up of contestants for the following series is revealed.  Tonight’s Series 14 finale was no different, and we now know we can look

It’s the most wonderful time of the year! And with its list of new releases for December 2022, Hulu is planning accordingly. Compared to its rival streaming services like Netflix, Prime Video, and HBO Max, Hulu is a bit more holiday forward in the final month of 2022. Sure, all the streaming services are bringing

This article contains spoilers for Wednesday. On Wednesday, Wednesday Addams (Jenna Ortega) sets out to distinguish herself from The Addams Family, and extinguish anything standing in the way. Tim Burton’s take on Charles Addams’ perennially ooky characters is unique. They don’t refract the broken mirrors of regular people. Wednesday neuters that possibility in the opening

34 years after the fantasy film Willow was released – created by Star Wars’ George Lucas and starring Harry Potter’s Warwick Davis – it’s being revived in a new Disney+ series serving as a sequel to the film, with Davis once again playing the titular role.  International fans of the show likely most associate Davis

This article contains spoilers for the Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special. Not only does The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special give us an entertaining forty-four minutes of Guardians holiday hijinx, it also gives valuable insight into what the squad has been up to after Thor (Chris Hemsworth) left them at the beginning of

If you thought We Are Not Alone was going to be the kind of comforting comedy you get from Ghosts (it’s written by two of Ghosts’ creators, Ben Willbond and Laurence Rickard) you’ll quickly find out you’re wrong. The opening scene, in which the main character Stewart (Declan Baxter, Flatmates) ends up suddenly covered in

This article contains spoilers for Wednesday season 1. Netflix’s Wednesday series is currently holding the number one spot on the streaming service’s top ten list, and has been generally well-received by fans and critics alike since it premiered last week. But unfortunately, even shows that seem to be loved by many have been met with

This The White Lotus review contains spoilers. The White Lotus Season 2 Episode 5 One of the tough things about starting a new show for the first time is having to constantly answer this question: what do these characters stand for? When it comes to The White Lotus, this is an even more arduous quest

Years before his triumphant and game-changing Star Wars trilogy, George Lucas had an idea for a sprawling fantasy story about an aspiring sorcerer and a prophesied hero. But it wouldn’t be until over a decade later that he began to bring that story to life. Starring Return of the Jedi‘s Warwick Davis, the Ron Howard-helmed

This article contains spoilers for House of the Dragon season 1. The first season of the Game of Thrones prequel series House of the Dragon had to cover a lot of ground. From introducing several dozen new characters—entirely too many of which either shared the same name or looked confusingly like one another—to laying the

This My Hero Academia review contains spoilers. My Hero Academia Season 6 Episode 9 “It’s not only evil people who want power.” My Hero Academia is an anime that’s rich in history and worldbuilding and several episodes are devoted to explaining how certain iconic characters came to be the individuals that they are today. My

This article contains major MCU spoilers It’s been a wild ride in a post-Thanos world, and in the aftermath of the Blip, it’s a very different Marvel Cinematic Universe. We can’t believe it’s been three years since Avengers: Endgame dusted the Mad Titan, but since then we’ve had everything from multiple Spider-Men to the Multiverse,