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This Star Wars article contains spoilers. In 2019, The Mandalorian kicked off a new era of Star Wars live-action storytelling on the small screen and the saga hasn’t slowed down since. From Mandalorian spinoffs The Book of Boba Fett and Ahsoka, to jumps back in time for Obi-Wan Kenobi, Andor, and The Acolyte, to exploring…

On the one hand, it’s a simple enough image: Oscar Isaac, veteran stage and film actor, stands before an audience of physicians and academics. We can tell from the style of dress and unkempt hair that Isaac’s Dr. Frankenstein lives in the 19th century (so a bit unlike his literary counterpart). But there’s also a…

This article contains spoilers from Squid Game season 2. Things ended on a pretty bleak note for Squid Game contestants at the conclusion of the show’s second season. Following in the footsteps of fellow downer middle chapter The Empire Strikes Back, Squid Game‘s “empire” of very rich psychopaths led by The Front Man (Lee Byung-hun)…

Designing a TV quiz show is a sacred art. Get it right and your format can live through the decades and become a part of the cultural landscape. Think Mastermind’s black chair or Who Wants to Be a Millionaire’s ‘phone a friend’. Get it wrong though, and you leave audiences baffled, bored and forced to…

Doctor Stephen Strange may have the ability to see 14,000,605 futures, but his actor Benedict Cumberbatch cannot. So let’s cut him a bit of slack for being wrong when he initially said that he would not be reprising his role as Doctor Strange for the upcoming Avengers: Doomsday. Cumberbatch retracted that statement on the red…

Though Stranger Things season 5 is set to premiere at some point this year, details about the final season of Netflix’s sci-fi/horror phenomenon have remained scarce. So much so that desperate content junkies have resorted to writing about upcoming Duffer Brothers shows that vaguely sound like Stranger Things. Following the Duffers’ successful trip to Los…

“This is a twisted web,” private detective Benoit Blanc tells his partner Marta (Ana de Armas) in 2019’s Knives Out. “And we are not finished untangling it, not yet.” We begin with that quote not just because it’s always nice to recall the syrupy Southern accent Daniel Craig gives Blanc, but because it’s important to…

There has never been a better time to read comics than right now.  This would probably pass as a controversial opinion if you were to belt it out at your local comic shop, with a guy buying a stack of Amazing Spider-Man books immediately telling you how terrible Amazing Spider-Man is and so on, but…

The second season of Netflix’s The Recruit is full of action, espionage, and intrigue as Owen Hendricks (Noah Centineo) tries to get off the CIA’s shit list by looking into a graymail case in South Korea. No matter how much he tries to avoid the mistakes of his last mission, he can’t help but fall…

Right when I wake up, the hit of natural energy (cortisol, technically) tricks me into believing I can tackle my to-do list and hit the gym before noon. But that natural energy doesn’t last very long—by the time I finish scanning my inbox and slipping on a workout set, you’ll find me beelining to my…