The breakout fan favorite character in 2016’s Suicide Squad, Robbie’s interpretation of the one-time Joker henchwoman turned antihero extraordinaire was so winning that Harley got her spinoff in this year’s Birds of Prey movie. And like just about everyone else who’s gotten the chance to write or portray the character, who was originally created for Batman: The Animated Series by Paul Dini and Bruce Timm, and voiced by Arleen Sorkin, Gunn couldn’t resist the anarchic glee Quinn brings to the written page or screen....

Anyway, at the start of the fifth final episode our ‘hero’ Dr Joe O’Loughlin (Aidan Turner) is on the run. He’s now been fingered for two murders, Catherine, the nurse who accused Joe of sexual assault, and Cara, Joe’s friend, who we are constantly reminded is a sex worker. They’re not even the only victims. Erskine, the doctor who accused Bobby Morgan’s father of abuse has also been found dead in his house....

The Walking Dead Season 11 Episode 24 At a certain point in a band’s career, there’s no point in making new albums except to have an excuse to tour. When the band is touring, the expectation is that the fans will politely sit through two or three new songs and bide their time until it’s time to play the hits. Not too long after that point, bands tour solely to play the hits....

Hot off the success of his Jeffrey Dahmer series Dahmer, Ryan Murphy is back with another Netflix show inspired by a true story. This time, though, there’s a bit of a twist. The Watcher, inspired by the true story of the Broaddus family who bought a very expensive house in Westfield, New Jersey and received a series of threatening letters from someone calling themself “The Watcher”, takes a slightly different approach to true crime....

There’s plenty of humor, even more cosmic scope, and barely a hint of the terrifying villain waiting in the wings for our heroes. Clocking in at just 89 seconds, there’s still plenty to unpack, both for fans of the comics and Marvel Studios. Watch the Thor: Love and Thunder trailer here if you haven’t already, then we’ll get to work breaking this down… Now, let’s break this down. We’re not necessarily going in order through the trailer, but instead we’ll try and group things together when/where they make sense....

Timeless Season 1, Episode 16 The Timeless season 1 finale did just what it needed to do by pulling out a lot of ingredients that would be perfect moving forward for a season 2, should there be one. Some were unexpected twists and others were eye-opening moments that expanded the possibilities of what the show could explore. Although the quick turnabout for Flynn was a bit dissatisfying, there was lots to love about this finale for most of the other characters....

Some of Turner’s musical highpoints are skipped, like her scene-stealing role as the Acid Queen in Tommy or her appearance on the bulk of Frank Zappa’s Overnight Sensation. But the story of her early rise to fame, and the oppressive influence her musical mentor, husband and onstage partner Ike Turner had on her personal and professional life is deftly explored. As is her fight for independence, recording the monumental Phil Spector production “River Deep, Mountain High,” and her 1980s global resurgence....

Flowers for the Sea by Zin Rocklyn Type: NovellaPublisher: TordotcomRelease date: Oct. 19 Den of Geek says: This hotly anticipated horror-fantasy has created both discomfort and wonder in early reviewers. We’re enjoying the emergence of the “Black mermaids” subgenre. Publisher’s summary: Survivors from a flooded kingdom struggle alone on an ark. Resources are scant, and ravenous beasts circle. Their fangs are sharp. Zin E. Rocklyn’s extraordinary debut is a lush, gothic fantasy about the prices we pay and the vengeance we seek....

Top New Young Adult Books December 2020 The Cousins by Karen M. McManus Type: NovelPublisher: Delacorte PressRelease date: Dec. 1 Den of Geek says: A tale of family and suspense, this novel about uncovering a bloody secret looks like it’s full of atmosphere and a tinge of horror. Publisher’s summary: Milly, Aubrey, and Jonah Story are cousins, but they barely know each another, and they’ve never even met their grandmother. Rich and reclusive, she disinherited their parents before they were born....

A Chorus Rises by Bethany C. Morrow Type: NovelPublisher: Tor TeenRelease date: June 1 Den of Geek says: Morrow’s A Song Below Water was a fun, fierce mermaid story on the borders of urban/modern fantasy and a compelling secondary world. A secondary character from A Song Below Water takes the spotlight in this fable about race, fame and accountability. Publisher’s summary: Teen influencer Naema Bradshaw has it all: she’s famous, stylish, gorgeous–and she’s an Eloko, a charismatic person gifted with a melody that people adore....

Black Panther: Wakanda Forever begins with a nation in disarray. Their beloved leader King T’Challa, the Black Panther, has died, just after he brought Wakanda onto the world stage. Despite the vast sacrifices he and Wakanda made to battle Thanos in Avengers: Infinity War and despite the gift of Vibranium he gave to the world, it wasn’t enough. Various Western forces — including those of the US government, led by the Contessa Valentina Allegra de Fontaine — want to take advantage of the country’s mourning, driving Namor to force Wakanda into conflict with the underwater nation of Tālocān....

There have been plenty of crazy “holy crap!” moments in WandaVision, but the one that truly had many doing a double-take was when Wanda Maximoff opened the door to see her previously-dead brother Pietro on the other side. Except…it wasn’t so much the Marvel Cinematic Universe version of Pietro Maximoff (played by Aaron Taylor-Johnson) as it was the X-Men Cinematic Universe version (played by Evan Peters). Yes, Disney had recently bought out Fox, so that meant they owned two movie incarnations of Quicksilver and this is how they were going to play that card....

Careful what you wish for. In its first season, War of the Worlds came under fire for its deliberately meditative pace. It was just too sparse for some. They found the journeys too slow and the revelations too few and far between. Season two appears to have addressed that complaint by turning up the dial. Episode one upended a barrel of plot all over viewers’ heads, and episode two has done the same, leaving us swimming in the stuff....

After D23, we got to sit down with Werewolf By Night director Michael Giacchino and chat about the process of making the spooky season spectacular, and the acclaimed composer opened up about the challenges of filming the special over a tight, 12-day schedule. Asked if there were any particular parts of the shoot that stayed with him after the cast and crew had wrapped filming, he recalled a very specific on-set “panic moment” during the sequence where Donnelly’s Elsa is locked in a cage with Bernal’s transforming lycanthrope by a fierce cabal of monster hunters....

Dark Crisis looks like it springs right out of Williamson’s multiversal revision from Justice League Incarnate. In the fourth issue of that series, we get a reconfigured, welded-together history of the DC Universe that slaps every crisis – from the classic Wolfman/Perez joint, through Zero Hour, Infinite Crisis, 52, Final Crisis, Multiversity, Doomsday Clock, and the Metal Wars – onto one coherent timeline. Behind all of them: The Great Darkness, the nothingness at the start of time, furious about being forced into a truce with the Light....

What We Do in the Shadows Season 3 Episode 7 What We Do in the Shadows season 3 episode 7 “The Siren,” is one of the most touching installments of the series. Colin Robinson (Mark Proksch) has experienced brushes with romance before, but because it was with another psychic vampire, it turned into a power play, with little foreplay. Tonight, we see a much more vulnerable energy sucker, who may or may not be falling into a lethal trap, but it is a prison of his dreams....

When you combine this with the multiple sitcom homages that run the gamut from black and white 1950s wholesome escapades to ones that look like they would have been right at home in the ’70s, ’80s, or ’90s, it’s understandable why some fans might want to know when WandaVision actually takes place. Let’s look at the evidence. Much of the WandaVision trailer is in black and white, and has a pretty strong I Love Lucy or Donna Reed Show meets Bewitched vibe....

In the first episode “Trying to Get to Heaven Before They Close the Door”, you’d see a badass looking blonde woman get out of a car and enter a strip club. With a firearm bound to her hand, she enters the back of the joint to confront an obese man who is receiving oral sex in a rolling chair. Most shows would stop you right there. They would obscure the graphic act being performed in the story, cut to a different angle, and have faith that you don’t need to see the whole ballpark frank to know what is happening....

Black Widow has one of the best openings of any MCU movie yet, and I will fight you on that. The story begins in Ohio, circa 1995, where a young Natasha Romanov is living with her Soviet spy family in quasi-but-not-totally-fake family bliss. The domestic dream ends once Alexei has completed his mission, forcing the family to make a dangerous getaway from the suburbs that ends in a tarmac shootout in which Melina gets shot and pre-teen Natasha has to pilot a plane on her own in order to save her family....

Although his review was largely a positive one, his sentiments echoed those of audiences who felt that Part II was an exercise in contrivance — one marked by baffling character choices (Marty’s sudden aversion to being called “chicken,” every line reading Thomas F. Wilson does as Griff, etc), strange plot details (ditching Jennifer from the story), and the overwhelming darkness of the alternative 1985 sequence, and a cliffhanger ending that sidelined the feel good elements of the first film for something strange and unfamiliar....