The first original of note is The Underground Railroad. This series from Barry Jenkins tells the story of one woman’s desperate bid for freedom in the Antebellum South and arrives on May 14. After that comes Solos. This intriguing anthology has one hell of a cast including Anthony Mackie, Dan Stevens, Anne Hathaway, Morgan Freeman, Helen Mirren, Constance Wu, and more. The project will premiere on May 21 and each of its seven episodes promises to be quite different....

It’s the most far-out moment in Zack Snyder’s Army of the Dead: when Dieter (Matthias Schweighöfer) finds the skeletons of another squad of “graverobbers” just outside the casino vault, Vanderohe (Omari Hardwick) asks the young safecracker an ominous question: “Is it another team or is it us, Dieter?” As the camera slowly pans over the corpses, we’re shown captivating evidence that Vanderohe might be on to something (or possibly knows something the rest of the team doesn’t)....

Many anime come along and leave an undeniable mark on the industry, yet every season of Attack on Titan manages to dramatically increase in quality as well as deepen the series’ scope and themes. Attack on Titan season 4, dubbed as Attack on Titan: The Final Season has pushed these limits more than ever before and the anime’s latest collection of episodes brilliantly play with the audiences’ perception of who they should root for in this increasingly deadly conflict....

Attack on Titan Season 4 Episode 25 “We haven’t even tried to talk this out yet…” Let’s talk about stew. A dish of disparate ingredients that are slowly cooked together in a broth so that they collectively marinate and coalesce into one superior meal. Much like the delicious stew that the Jaegerist Resistance enjoys on what might be one of their final nights of peace, their new union consists of many unexpected elements that work together to make something successful, the sum of which is far greater than the individual ingredients on their own....

At the center of the game are Walker, Holly, Hoffman, Evangelo, Karlee, Doc, Jim, and Mom, a group of veteran zombie killers known as “the Cleaners” who will do anything to survive a parasite outbreak that has turned most of humanity into the flesh-hungry “Ridden.” Fans of the Left 4 Dead franchise will find a familiar horde of enemies as well as both four-player co-op PvE campaigns and 4v4 multiplayer modes....

Barry Season 3 Episode 3 One of the best things about Barry is its runtime. At just a half hour, the typical episode of Barry packs a ton of story into its 30-minute slot. The shorter runtime allows for a brisk storytelling pace, and through two seasons, you can never excuse the series of having bloat. There are several shows that I enjoy that I think could benefit from a switch to 30-minutes....

Barry Season 3 Episode 7 Thank God for “ronny/lily.” The second-season stunner was not only furiously funny and craftily directed, but it’s also the moment that Barry tipped its toe into surrealism. Season 3 has taken advantage of this heightened reality in subtle ways, but “candy asses” takes things up a notch. Barry’s poison-induced, beach-set death fantasy instantly recalled The Sopranos, another HBO series led by an anti-hero that featured similar dream-like sequences....

Batwoman Season 3 Episode 2 Slowly, then all at once, Batwoman became a show as much about Black womanhood as it is about heroism. Season two saw Ryan Wilder (Javicia Leslie) step into the titular role, and so began the evolution of Batwoman from vigilante to hero. Ryan made the Bat much more than a symbol for justice, she transformed it into a reflection of the city and the people it protects....

Batwoman Season 2, Episode 5 There is such a thing as doing too much, and Batwoman is on the cusp. The last two episodes have introduced two new characters, Angelique and Ocean, each with pre-existing relationships—and baggage. There are also no less than three independent, parallel searches for Kate Kane, which… sighs Fine. Angelique is Ryan’s ex-girlfriend that she caught the drug change for—a story that has some plot wobbliness. In the season premiere, Ryan said she was framed....

There’s a cheekily knowing moment in the finale of Behind Her Eyes, a new Netflix thriller with a monumental twist you won’t want spoiled, so look away now if you’ve not seen it. Marianne (played by The Last Kingdom’s Eva Birthistle) is narrating a flashback to the events that forced Adele and David (Eve Hewson and Tom Bateman) to leave Brighton and relocate to Islington. The owner of a café close to David’s psychiatry practise, Marianne had platonically befriended David and, recognising his sadness, encouraged him to make a change and leave his wife....

Uh…wow. Killing off major characters was sort of Breaking Bad‘s thing. Its prequel Better Call Saul has been a bit more reserved in that department through six seasons. Sure, every now and then you get a fiery Charles McGill suicide or the rare cartel murder that doesn’t mess with the original show’s continuity. But for the most part, Better Call Saul‘s legal drama format doesn’t create too many opportunities for bloodshed....

Black Adam tells the tale of the original warrior who was gifted the power of Shazam, only to find himself corrupted by vengeance and exiled by the famed wizard. He makes his way back to the modern day DCEU and comes into conflict with the Justice Society of America, a team of legacy heroes who probably won’t approve of his methods. DC FanDome showed off a bunch of concept art, some JSA costume teases, and a scene depicting how Black Adam awakens in the present day....

Billed as a stand-up special, Burnham’s latest musical comedy endeavor finds the former wunderkind holed up and feeling more uncomfortable than ever. Writing, editing, directing, and performing from a claustrophobic studio, Burnham’s stand-up special skews more toward being a straight-up musical, and not because the special is light on jokes and missing an audience. Rather this has all the hallmarks of a musical narrative and plays closer to experimental cinema than sketch comedy....

One of the horror genre’s greatest tools is the fear humans have of examining their own bodies. We constantly hear about what makes us tick, we know all of the organs instrumental to our survival, but to see them raw, unfiltered, and treated with nonchalance is jarring. In “The Autopsy,” one of the best episodes of Guillermo del Toro’s Cabinet of Curiosities, the human body is nothing but a test subject....

Call of Duty: Warzone‘s Season 3 update couldn’t have come at a better time. As the Overwatch 2 beta starts to gain steam, Fortnite‘s new “no-build mode” begins to take on a life of its own, and Apex Legends remains strong, many Warzone players were starting to look elsewhere for their multiplayer fix. This latest patch should be reason enough for lapsed Warzone players to return to the game, which means that it’s yet again time to take a look at the battle royale’s best guns and loadouts....

The 2003 Big Finish story ‘Jubilee’ is one of Doctor Who’s richest. It was adapted by its author, Rob Shearman, for the 2005 TV episode ‘Dalek’. That adaptation took certain elements from the original (a lone Dalek imprisoned and tortured by humans, bonding with the companion and becoming more dangerous because the Doctor is around) but explores different ideas to ‘Jubilee’. ‘Dalek’ was part of the developing Time War story and much of its impact is due to the carnage being made personal to a traumatised Doctor....

Here’s the trailer: Jessie Buckley (Wild Rose) stars as a young woman who is, as the title states, debating whether to end her relationship with her boyfriend, played by Jesse Plemons (The Irishman), even as she agrees to go on a road trip with him to meet his parents (David Thewlis and Toni Collette) at their family farm. Once there and trapped by a snowstorm, strange occurrences lead the woman to question the people she’s with, the world around her, and her own sanity....

Clarice Episode 13 Clarice, episode 13, “Family is Freedom,” only closes some of the cliffhangers “Father Time” ended on. We still don’t know whether Clarice Starling (Rebecca Breeds) will be reinstated into the ViCAP team, and we never find out what happened to young Clarice when her Sheriff father left her at the mercy of some pissed off criminals. The last image we saw of that encounter, when Clarice ran it through her repressed memory bank, was a young Clarice with a gun held to her head as her father hangs his head in shame in the distance....

Cobra Kai season 3 revealed the backstory we didn’t know we wanted – the harrowing Vietnam experience of Cobra Kai’s biggest villain, Sensei John Kreese (Martin Kove). Cobra Kai has been on point when it comes to filling in the personal histories of their characters. The writing team of Josh Heald, Jon Hurwitz, Hayden Schlossberg, and Bob Dearden have keen eyes for details and find reasonable justifications for the actions of its villains....

We don’t know everything about this new map yet, but we do know that it is designed to resemble a Pacific island, will of course be tied into Vanguard‘s WW2 storyline in some way, and will not launch with Vanguard but rather be available sometime shortly thereafter. Obviously, that leaves us with a lot of unanswered questions regarding the map and what it means for the future of Warzone. Having said that, we have a pretty good idea about his new map will likely address the biggest issues with Warzone‘s Verdansk and Verdansk ’84 maps....