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This Star Trek: Strange New Worlds review contains spoilers. Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Episode 6 One of the best things about Star Trek: Strange New Worlds is the way that it completely blows apart the idea that week-to-week episodic television can’t be as deep, nuanced, or emotionally impactful as more serialized stories with season-long

This Star Wars: Obi-Wan Kenobi contains spoilers. Obi-Wan Kenobi, the latest Star Wars live-action series on Disney+, has shown just how desperate the situation has become for the remaining Jedi Knights hiding in the galaxy. In fact, we see in the very first episode how one Jedi fugitive is mercilessly hunted down by Inquisitors hellbent

This review contains Ms. Marvel spoilers Ms. Marvel Episode 1 MCU Phase 4 has been a time of experimentation for Marvel Studios. After a slam dunk Phase 3 climax with Avengers: Endgame, there was a shift as Marvel seemed to understand that in a lot of ways they had to start from scratch by building

Putting a wash on. Attending a school reunion. Making a lasagne. Just some of the things you might have been doing instead of watching TV in 2022. Whatever kept you away from the box, it was a mistake. What you should have been doing is catching up on the below – a selection of British

This article contains Borgen Season 4 spoilers In April, 2020, it was announced that Danish political drama Borgen would be returning to TV screens after almost a decade away. Like many fans, I was delighted by the news. The show had been a source of joy during its original three season run; a sort of

Jon Favreau and Dave Filoni, the modern maestros of Star Wars, brought a bantha-sized batch of bounty to Star Wars Anaheim 2022 in the form of The Mandalorian Experience, an expansive display of props, costumes, and set pieces spanning the first two seasons of the popular Disney+ series, as well as The Book of Boba

This article contains The Boys Season 3 spoilers The Boys are back, but gone are the days when we would be able to binge a whole season of the show in one sitting! Amazon Prime Video is sticking to the same release format it used in Season 2 of its most irreverent series for the

This Evil review is based on the first three episodes of season 3. It contains no spoilers but does allude to upcoming cases and plots. Evil season 3 exchanges the Pop-Up Book of Terrifying Things MMXXI for The Pop-Up Book of Contemporary Demons but continues the same old story. Newly ordained Father David Acosta (Mike

This article contains spoilers for The Boys season 3 episode 1 and Doctor Stranger in the Multiverse of Madness. The Boys season 3 opens in a place where the show hasn’t dared tread before: the cinema. After filming a whole superhero movie in season 2, The Boys now entreats viewers to the fruits of Vought

This article contains spoilers for The Boys season 3 episode 1. When The Boys’ showrunner Eric Kripke stopped by the Den of Geek studios at this year’s SXSW festival, he had a bold proclamation to make about the show’s third season.  “The very first 15 minutes of episode 1 is by far the craziest thing

This article contains spoilers for The Boys season 3. As we’re fond of pointing out around here, no other show on television understands superhero culture and the effect of its prevalence on our world than The Boys. In The Boys season 3, the show’s satirical take on the Western entertainment landscape remains incisive and insightful.

This article contains Star Trek: Strange New Worlds spoilers. Although Strange New Worlds doesn’t require a casual viewer to know anything about Star Trek, it certainly doesn’t hurt. Especially with the latest episode, the utterly hilarious episode, “Spock Amok.” Right away, even in the title, the episode is referencing the famous Original Series banger, “Amok

In John Wyndham’s The Midwich Cuckoos a remote village is inexplicably plunged into darkness and all the residents rendered unconscious. When they wake, all the women of childbearing age are suddenly pregnant. The children they give birth to are white haired aliens with powers of telepathy between each other. Talk about village of the damned

It’s hard to underestimate the importance of Hugh Jackman’s Wolverine. Known only as a theatre performer in the late 1990s, Jackman was chosen to replace Dougray Scott in X-Men after the latter was injured while shooting Mission: Impossible II. Jackman’s vulnerable and furious performance as the Canadian mutant spanned seven movies (not counting cameos) and

Warning: contains plot references to The Day of the Triffids, Chocky and The Midwich Cuckoos Novelist John Wyndham’s genius lay in seeding menace among innocence. In The Day of the Triffids, the narrator drives through a bucolic country village but is unable to admire its delightful cottage gardens – partly because the world has ended,

Warning: this Inside No. 9 review contains spoilers. Sometimes Inside No. 9 is funny, sometimes it’s thrilling, sometimes it’s touching and sometimes it’s a bit scary. The series seven finale ‘Wise Owl’ has gone for borderline harrowing. Satirizing 1970s and 80s-style public information videos, the episode is intercut with animations that resemble the ‘Charlie Says’

Summer is about to finally, blessedly be in full swing. And to honor the occasion, Hulu is showing up big with its list of new releases for June 2022. Hulu is bringing two major TV titles to its stream this month. The first is The Orville: New Horizons on June 2. Seth MacFarlane’s sci-fi/comedy started

This Stranger Things article contains spoilers. For all of its dream demons and trans-dimensional government plots, Stranger Things does feature one completely realistic story element. In the six years since the first season premiered on Netflix, we have watched the four main boys grow up and grow apart. Fissures between the primary friend group were already present in the

Supernatural ran for 15 years and is the longest continuously running American science fiction and fantasy show in history (pipped only by Doctor Who 1966-1989 in the UK). It has a devoted fanbase and has produced novels, graphic novels, a short web-series, and a Japanese anime adaptation. Surely, then, the show is a perfect jumping-off

This article contains spoilers for Stranger Things season 4. The Stranger Things expanded universe, which is comprised of several standalone novels and comics, has some understandable inconsistencies that arise from having disconnected writers working in different media. Most of these are minor or at least can be written off as inconsequential if the television show

This Young Justice: Phantoms review contains spoilers. Young Justice: Phantoms Season 4 Episode 24 It’s not possible for the Young Justice: Phantoms team to be reading what’s published on this little ol’ site and responding to it in almost real time. The lead time on animation is usually massive: what we see on HBO Max

Lucasfilm is seriously bolstering its Star Wars animated offerings this year. Not only did the studio announce two new animated series — Young Jedi Adventures and Tales of the Jedi — but it also confirmed that The Bad Batch is coming back for a second season later this year. At Star Wars Celebration we even

Stranger Things was never meant to last forever. Heck, the original concept of Stranger Things was barely meant to last past its first season. But that’s before Netflix and series creators The Duffer Brothers got a look at the show’s marvelous cast and viewers’ enthusiastic response to them. Still, the end is now fast approaching.

The Mandalorian era of Star Wars is expanding with yet another live-action series, this time centering on Rosario Dawson’s wise Jedi hero Ahsoka Tano. The series, which is set five years after Return of the Jedi, just like The Mandalorian and The Book of Boba Fett, will see Ahsoka continuing her search for Grand Admiral

This article contains spoilers for Stranger Things season 4. The fifth episode of Stranger Things season 4, fittingly titled “The Nina Project”, opens with an enigmatic message. As one of Dr. Sam Owens’ agents dies (his name is Harmon, but the kids come to touchingly eulogize him as Unknown Hero Agent Man), he leaves them

This Obi-Wan Kenobi article contains spoilers. The Star Wars shows just keep coming. Obi-Wan Kenobi takes place 10 years after Revenge of the Sith, almost evenly between the Prequel and Original Trilogies. This setting provides plenty of opportunities to connect the show to other parts of the saga, including with some very surprising cameos. In

Warning: contains spoilers for Stranger Things seasons 1-3. Picture the scene: you’re a Mind Flayer, hanging out in your hell dimension, all tendrils and tornados. You’re commanding your gross monster minions this way and that, when one day a tear appears in your reality. It was made in terror by a super-powered child from another

Star Wars: Obi-Wan Kenobi, the six-episode limited series on Disney+, brings back the fan-favorite Jedi Master but at a very different point in his life. No longer sitting on the Jedi Council on Coruscant or fighting the battles of the Clone Wars, Obi-Wan is in exile, hiding out on Tatooine and watching over little Luke

For its final season, Stranger Things has gone super-sized. Its episodes are longer, its storylines are multiple, its locations are further flung, and its cast has expanded beyond all reasonable measure. Even allowing for the usual body count replacement rate to fill in the gaps left by last season’s victims of the Upside Down, there

It seems like only yesterday that we said our final goodbyes to Ewan McGregor and Hayden Christensen’s Obi-Wan and Anakin, but a lot has happened since Revenge of the Sith hit theaters in 2005, including a whole new era of Star Wars stories ushered in by Disney. That era began with a Sequel Trilogy that