Now we’ve finally got our first trailer for Sonic the Hedgehog 2 and they’ve clearly learned from their mistakes. This trailer is packed to the brim with fan pleasing moments, Easter eggs galore, Knuckles, and most importantly? Sonic doesn’t have uncomfortable teeth. Just in case you somehow haven’t watched the Sonic the Hedgehog 2 trailer let’s remedy that, shall we? Check it out and then we’ll flex our Sonic fan muscles and take a close look at all the way past cool references and Easter eggs we could find....

“Gganbu” isn’t the Squid Game episode with the highest kill count. It’s not the episode when we finally discover the man behind the deadly competition, or its ultimate winner. It is not the most fast-paced or action-driven of the Netflix series’ nine installments, nor is it the bloodiest. Instead, it is a relatively quiet hour that divides its characters into teams of two, with each pair acting as their own mini-social experiment....

This Halloween is going to be all about masks and red hoodies. Two of this year’s hottest Netflix shows feature them prominently and the visual similarity is striking. In the South Korean breakout series Squid Game, supervisors wear bright red hooded outfits with black mesh face masks. The masks are emblazoned with a stark white circle, triangle or square, the symbols of the show. It’s a bold costuming statement that bears an uncanny resemblance to outfits in Netflix’s first global foreign-language sensation, the Spanish series Money Heist....

13. Priscilla Atherton They say that hell hath no fury like a woman scorned, but that applies doubly if that woman is also a retail worker with too much time on her hands. Priscilla Atherton has been cursed to live forever and it’s left her awfully vindictive towards all of the happy couples out there. Priscilla uses a haunted wedding ring to get into Evie’s head and convince her that she’s murdering people....

This may be the Enterprise we all know and love, but it is not from a time period we know well. Remember, this is still roughly a decade before the events of The Original Series. As we know, both from the Discovery cliffhanger and Star Trek canon, the Enterprise is currently captained by Captain Christopher Pike. Pike was played by Jeffrey Hunter and Sean Kenney in The Original Series, and Bruce Greenwood in the Star Trek reboot films....

The Book of Boba Fett kicked off with a few surprises, including answers to some of the biggest questions Star Wars fans had about the bounty hunter’s past. Yes, “Stranger in a Strange Land” finally reveals what happened to Boba Fett during the five years between Return of the Jedi and The Mandalorian season 2. From the very first scene, we’re treated to flashbacks that pick up where Boba’s story left off in Return of the Jedi....

Star Wars: Obi-Wan Kenobi Episode 5 Where is the bar when it comes to Star Wars television? Obi-Wan Kenobi episode 5 wants to evoke the energy (and bigger budget) of the movies, slotting into both the Prequel and Original Trilogies with no-holds-barred aplomb, but it can’t quite pull off the visuals. It’s a pity that Obi-Wan Kenobi hasn’t established enough of an identity to keep me from missing the much more cinematic The Mandalorian....

“Never say never, so to speak, but as far as our philosophy goes we’re not trying to treat the game as a live service,” Frazier says. “We don’t want to say, ‘It’s almost done!’ and then dribble out more of it over time, which to be honest is how most games work these days. So we’ve tried to treat it in kind of an old-school approach saying, ‘You’ve paid the $40, this is the game and it’s entirely self-contained....

Star Wars: The Bad Batch Episode 7 The found family is strong with this one. And all it took was bringing in an outsider. After a brief, exciting introduction, “Battle Scars,” written by Jennifer Corbett and directed by Saul Ruiz, gets right to the point. The Bad Batch still have their inhibitor chips, and the clock on Wrecker’s is ticking. Whenever he gets stressed out — including by the thought of the chip itself — he gets closer to going Order 66 on his “traitor” friends....

Episode six of The Mandalorian, “The Prisoner,” introduces a brand new team of human and alien characters. The Mando has the promise of a safe berth as long as he helps the others rescue a fellow criminal. It turns out they’re rescuing him from a New Republic prison, giving fans the first live-action look at what the Rebellion became after it took down the Empire. Here are the many Star Wars easter eggs and references to other parts of the saga in episode six: The New Republic – After the Empire fell, the Rebellion re-organized into the New Republic, complete with its own senate and head of state (Mon Mothma was the first chancellor of the new galactic government)....

Yes, the filmmaking visionary who, with some help, conceived a ubiquitously-dominant film franchise, is set to be immortalized in plastic via the practice that put the Star Wars merchandising machine on the map. Indeed, Hasbro Toys has revealed a new George Lucas rendition, this one arriving in the 6” scaled Black Series line. While the gravity of such a tribute might be mitigated by the fact that it’s his fourth figure, this particular release commemorates one of his most crucial, pre-Star Wars, achievements: the 50th anniversary of Lucasfilm....

Instead, this Tales of the Jedi explores the early lives of famous Jedi from the Prequel Trilogy and The Clone Wars, such as Ahsoka Tano, Count Dooku, Mace Windu, and Qui-Gon Jinn. Made up of six episodes, each installment tells a 15-minute short story that fills in gaps about each character’s history. During last weekend’s D23 studio showcase, executive producer and animation veteran Dave Filoni hit the stage to present the trailer for the animated series, which features the same style of CG animation as The Clone Wars, Rebels, and The Bad Batch....

But, the unique thing about the trailers for Strange New Worlds is the interesting way that deep-cut Easter eggs are appearing. Basically, there’s just a bunch of stuff we didn’t see coming. Oh, and did we say trailers rather than trailer? Yes, although the new minute-and-a-half full trailer for the series has been getting a lot of attention, Paramount+ has also been dropping 30-second character spotlights on social media for a week....

Thankfully, the announcement was accompanied by an exciting new teaser that features the very first footage from Stranger Things’ fourth outing. Give it a watch below! And here is the link to the Twitter trailer should YouTube’s falter. As you can see, Netflix really loves that upside down text feature as it promises to “see y’all in the upside down.” And why wouldn’t it? Four seasons in, Stranger Things remains arguably one of the biggest hits in the streaming world....

In Stranger Things season 4, however, Dungeons & Dragons takes on a more threatening context. In the season’s first episode, the D&D playing Hellfire Club makes note of an article conflating the game with devil worship. After that it becomes clear that the Hawkins community at large starts to view these harmless nerds with some suspicion. The notion that a childrens’ game could somehow lead to the embrace of a supernatural evil is one that’s sadly borrowed from real world events known as the Satanic Panic....

Just as the Stranger Things season 4 volume 1 trailer was an epic delight, so too is the just-released two-minute clip featuring action from season 4 volume 2. Give it a watch below. For those who haven’t kept track, Stranger Things season 4 isn’t over yet. You could be forgiven for assuming so given the epic nature of episode 7’s ending. But in reality, episodes 8 and 9 are still to come in season 4....

These shakeups have left questions about the status of the Snyderverse, the series of movies spanning out of the Zack Snyder-directed Man of Steel and its sequels, Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice and Justice League. Conventional wisdom would suggest that the Snyderverse is very much intact. Not only did the studio only recently invest millions in letting the director complete Zack Snyder’s Justice League, but Gal Gadot and Jason Momoa’s characters Wonder Woman and Aquaman have spun-off into commercially and critically successful solo films, and Ben Affleck’s Batman is slated to appear in Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom (reportedly taking the place of Michael Keaton’s Batman)....

Such is the case with the new Audible podcast series Summer in Argyle. First developed and written by Nate Odenkirk, then punched up, rewritten, and produced with the assistance of his quite notable father, Bob Odenkirk (Better Call Saul, et. al), Summer in Argyle is a generational Odenkirk-ian effort. The father-son duo worked on the project during the height of the pandemic, turning the already fraught creative process into more intense of a beast....

Yes, we’re talking about the Foreman Spike: the legendary Super Mario character that many of us practically grew up with. We’re talking about “The Icon” Foreman Spike who…umm…well. Wait, who is Foreman Spike, and what is he doing in the Super Mario movie? To answer the first part of that question, Foreman Spike is a construction site foreman who was first introduced in the 1984 Mario Bros. game: Wrecking Crew....

Supernatural Season 14 Episode 20 The Supernatural Season 14 finale stars immediately where the last episode left off: Jack staring down the Winchesters after breaking free of the supposedly unbreakable box. The Winchesters and Cas scrape through this confrontation with only a few bumps and bruises, but the problem remains: What should they do about Jack? Visually, their discussion is framed in the foreground by the blasted open remains of the box....