“But you told the truth, and the truth set you free…” Search Party debuted as a dark and provocative mystery and, even though each season has subscribed to that model, the show has evolved and become radically different each year. It’s not unusual for plot-heavy series to play chicken with their narrative in this way, but Search Party triumphs through each step of the progressively dark path that Dory heads down....

Shameless Season 11 Release Date The eleventh and final season of Shameless begins on Dec. 6, 2020. Don’t pretend like you will have somewhere better to be! Shameless Season 11 Trailer The Shameless season 11 trailer has arrived…sort of. With only weeks to go before the show’s premiere, Showtime still doesn’t have a trailer prepared yet – probably due to the coronavirus pandemic delays, or perhaps just because they don’t want to spoil any of the final season....

Typical for the MCU’s shared universe, this plays out well on multiple levels. In the original comics, Shang-Chi’s father was none other than Fu Manchu. Fu Manchu was created by Englishman Sax Rohmer with his pulp fiction book The Mystery of Doctor Fu-Manchu in 1913. It was a stark, racist portrayal of Asians, and Rohmer capitalized upon the ‘Yellow Peril’ xenophobia of the time by milking his Fu Manchu character for a long running serial of over a dozen books....

DI Jimmy Perez didn’t die! He wasn’t, as many suspected, killed in an eco-terrorist explosion, nor did he leap in front of a bullet to save Cassie, Tosh, Sandy, Billy or any of his other beloved Shetland family. Douglas Henshall’s goodbye after seven series of the BBC crime drama adapted from Anne Cleeves’ book series left his character alive and well and laughing with his new love Meg. Jimmy had resigned from the police, having sacrificed his career for a noble act, and was ready to move on to pastures new....

Here’s everything else you’ve got to look forward to in August… Premieres Joker – 7th August on Sky Cinema and Sky Cinema Pass on NOW TV The aforementioned 80s-set blockbuster is first up. Joker stars Joaquin Phoenix as Arthur Fleck, a timid man who tries and fails to start a comedy career. Spiralling into madness, he becomes DC’s most notable villain in the process. Inspired by the Weinstein scandal, Julia Garner leads this character piece, which explores how abuses in the workplace continue unchecked....

Unlike the last few installments full of twists and turns, Solo: A Star Wars Story is a fairly straightforward romp through space starring Han, Chewie, Lando, and newcomers Qi’ra and Tobias Beckett. With Solo, we get to finally see (in the new canon, anyway) how young Han Solo became the scoundrel we know and love from the Original Trilogy as well as how he met his loyal Wookiee companion, Chewbacca, and Lando Calrissian, his charming frenemy from The Empire Strikes Back....

While it can’t be denied that the redesign played a part in Sonic’s newfound movie popularity, a design can only go so far. If the movie had been total garbage, it wouldn’t have been able to retain the publics support. What really saved the Sonic movies was a key decision about how to portray Sonic as a character. He became a kid. There are endless versions of Sonic in video games and comic books, and while some gestured at the idea of him being a kid or teenager, it never really felt like way....

That is until Insomniac released this stunning gameplay preview of a Miles Morales suit based on the Into the Spider-Verse movie: That Spider-Verse suit (which is available early to those who pre-order the game but will be unlockable for all players) is truly a work of art. Somehow, Insomniac managed to completely change Miles Morales’s animations whenever he has the suit on without significantly altering the build of the world around him....

For a specific section of older millennials, our first swing with your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man was Spider-Man: The Animated Series, which to this day might still have the best vocal performance of Peter Parker in a cartoon or otherwise (courtesy of Christopher Daniel Barnes). This writer can even remember running home from school at the age of seven to see just what happens when Peter Parker tangles with the Insidious Six (the word “sinister” was apparently too, uh, sinister for ‘90s censors at Fox Kids)....

With “Stormy Weather,” Star Trek: Discovery celebrates the Trek tradition of getting some excellent musical standards into the bold voyages in the final frontier. With Picard, it was a call back to “Blue Skies,” but now, we’ve got a new version of the song made famous by Ella Fitzgerald, “Stormy Weather.” This version is sung by actress Annabelle Wallis, who has voiced “Zora” the intelligent DISCO computer since 2018’s Short Treks episode, “Calypso....

Star Trek: Lower Decks Season 3 Episode 8 The latest episode of Star Trek: Lower Decks sees the return of the conniving and unscrupulous exocomp, Peanut Hamper. She also accompanies the introduction of a new alien species we hope to see again in the Star Trek universe. The last time the USS Cerritos encountered Peanut Hamper (Kether Donohue) she left the ship in the proverbial lurch (season one’s “No Small Parts”)....

For the show’s third and final season, the remaining members of the Enterprise crew will finally rejoin their erstwhile captain. According to Variety, Michael Dorn, Gates McFadden, and Levar Burton have been added to the cast of the upcoming season. Give or take a Wesley Crusher, Miles O’Brien, or Tasha Yar, and these additions complete the main cast of The Next Generation. As we’ve already seen Riker, Troi, and the others, much has changed since that group was last seen together in 2002’s Nemesis....

It was a bold move to open episode 5 of Obi-Wan Kenobi with a flashback that put 41-year-old Hayden Christensen back in the boots of a teenage Anakin Skywalker. Director Deborah Chow and her team seemingly chose traditional make-up over digitally de-aging Christensen and Ewan McGregor for the scene where master and apprentice spar more than a decade before the events of the new Disney+ series. And it paid off, with fans immediately posting screengrabs on social media and celebrating that the show had finally given them what they’d been trying to manifest for weeks: the return of Prequel era Obi-Wan and Anakin....

Stream your Star Wars favorites right here! Does this series mean that the Bad Batch escaped the clone brain-washing involved with Order 66? Disney hasn’t confirmed as much, but the press release teases that the new series will see the Bad Batch “taking on daring mercenary missions as they struggle to stay afloat and find new purpose” and they’ll have to “find their way in a rapidly changing galaxy in the immediate aftermath of the Clone War....

Star Wars: The Bad Batch Episode 14 The Bad Batch finally has something to say about the clones as a changing class in a beautifully animated adventure. Rex has a mission for the squad. An old friend of his, CC-5576 “Gregor,” has attempted to escape from an Imperial training facility and failed. The Batch reluctantly agrees to break him out. War-Mantle (a code name mentioned both earlier this season and in Rogue One) turns out to be a stormtrooper training facility sunk into a Cheyenne Mountain-lookalike....

The Book of Boba Fett Episode 6 Star Wars Rebels, the four-season animated series, was one of the early long-form explorations of Disney-Lucasfilm’s new canon. Starting out with a cast of new characters and found family relationships, it grew bigger in scale as it went on. All standard for television, except that “bigger” often meant returning to the past. Showrunner Dave Filoni returned to his The Clone Wars roots, as well as to classic Star Wars books, to add shocks and pathos....

In terms of the actual delays, there really isn’t a lot of official information to go on at the moment. Bethesda publically confirmed the delays via Twitter today, and some members of the Starfield and Redfall teams have since commented on the news. Nearly every statement brings up the same basic idea: these games just need more time. With due respect to Arkane’s Redfall, Starfield‘s delay is obviously the bigger story here....

Supergirl Season 6 Episode 14 For half a dozen episodes now, Supergirl (both the hero and the show itself) has told us that Nyxly is unlike any other threat that the Super Friends have ever faced. With this episode and a confession to Lena, Supergirl finally makes their case. Nyxly, with all her magic abilities, leaves Kara feeling helpless, able to be defeated – like most people are in the face of danger, without someone like her to come save them....

There’s no question that Superman & Lois really knows its stuff. The first episode was a genuine love letter to Superman history, and proved once and for all that you can do a faithful, reverent take on the Man of Steel legend without just retreading stuff people have seen a thousand times. Superman & Lois episode 2 digs a little bit deeper for its lore, but once again pulls tons of terrific deep cuts from both DC Comics and the character’s history in movies and on TV....

Unfortunately, Netflix carries only one other film from the original Karate Kid franchise and it’s the outlier. The Next Karate Kid was Pat Morita’s final appearance as the venerable Mr. Miyagi. The film also introduces two-time Oscar winner Hilary Swank in her first lead role as Julie Pierce. However, The Next Karate Kid was a flop. Morita is the only connection to the three previous films and despite Swank’s impressive breakout performance, Julie fails to carry the chemistry that Daniel-san (Ralph Macchio) had with Miyagi....