The Star Wars shows just keep coming. Obi-Wan Kenobi takes place 10 years after Revenge of the Sith, almost evenly between the Prequel and Original Trilogies. This setting provides plenty of opportunities to connect the show to other parts of the saga, including with some very surprising cameos. In just the first two episodes, Obi-Wan reluctantly leaves his mournful vigil over Luke Skywalker to help out an old friend from the Prequels, finding himself in the crosshairs of both bounty hunters and ruthless Imperial Inquisitors who serve Darth Vader....

“It’s kind of an explanation of how the Sith infiltrated the Jedi,” Keen revealed to Tech Radar. “It’s a Sith-led story, which has never been done before.” The show, which stars Amandla Stenberg (Bodies Bodies Bodies) and Lee Jung-jae (Squid Game), is poised to introduce the Jedi and Sith who lived in the final days of the High Republic era, the so-called galactic “golden age” that preceded the fall of the Republic in the Prequel Trilogy....

The Book of Boba Fett Episode 2 How long will The Book of Boba Fett keep up the flashbacks? Probably a while, judging by the slow progression of the plot in both stories this week. “The Tribes of Tatooine,” which was directed by Steph Green and written by Jon Favreau, has a double meaning. There’s the bureaucracy and assassins Boba and Fennec face in Mos Espa as the new big crime lords in town, and then there are the Tusken Raiders who helped Boba survive in the desert in the days after the sarlacc pit....

The Mandalorian Season 2 Episode 4 The Mandalorian goes dark in an episode that has range but lacks heart. In the first episode directed by actor Carl Weathers, Mando and his team infiltrate an Imperial facility, find a glimpse of the cloning project Baby Yoda used to be a part of, and have to fight their way out. In theory, the stakes are established well. The town on planet Nevarro where much of last season took place) is gradually turning from a hive of scum and villainy to a peaceful place thanks to bounty hunter guild leader Greef Karga and ex-Rebellion soldier Cara Dune, who is now serving as a marshal....

Star Wars Rebels Season 4 Episode 10 “Jedi Night” is the beginning of the end. Although there are four more episodes left in the last season of Star Wars Rebels, the show is in the swift race to the finale. Disney XD continues to air two episodes back-to-back, making each pair a special event and, possibly, hurrying the show out the door to make room for whatever is coming next. With that feeling of finality comes heightened emotion and drama, as well as reflection on what’s come before....

These are King’s heroes, his protagonists that act as a line of defense between sanity and the creatures of unknowable corruption that slither between the cracks of King’s stories. They walked through the valley of the shadow of death and oh, they feared evil, but these heroes kept their heads held high. A perfect example of King’s heroes is the Losers’ Club from It, a group of kids who are forced to face one of the writer’s greatest villain, a monster known as Pennywise who terrorizes the cursed town of Derry....

These days, nearly every console manufacturer has its own proprietary digital convention. Thanks in no small part to the lagging interest (and recent cancelations) of E3, the gaming industry lacks that powerhouse unifying event that gamers used to regularly be able to rely on. This year’s summer of game reveals started with PlayStation’s State of Play event, but that was only an appetizer for what Summer Game Fest 2022 is shaping up to be....

Superman & Lois Episode 12 Ever since Morgan Edge was unmasked as a Kryptonian (and not just any Kryptonian, but Superman’s biological half-brother), Superman & Lois has been revealing more and more about the villain’s plan, and by extension exploring the nature vs. nurture debate that has been the centerpiece of so many stories that explore the nature of the Man of Steel’s power. But Superman & Lois has been brilliant at misdirection from its very first episode, and the latest episode, “Through the Valley of Death,” might be the first example that we haven’t really had a complete understanding of what Edge/Tal-Rho has been planning all along....

For their first full-length feature, they take a very specific image of a man riding a farting corpse across the water like a jet ski and expand it into a full feature that plays with some of the ideas set forth in films like All is Lost and Castaway. In this case, drama is kept to a minimum in favor of absurdist humor. It opens with images of items floating on the open sea with hand-scrawled S....

The 100 Season 5 Episode 5 This episode relied on the usual strategy ploys and shifting dynamics that make The 100’s conflicts so satisfying. It’s still early enough in the game that the pieces are shifting drastically to get all the teams aligned, though I have a feeling the days are numbered for many of these alliances. The show continues to call to mind its own past, with secret defectors and the torture of captives....

The Walking Dead has come a long way since its first episode dropped on Halloween 2010, with new cast members, jaw-dropping character reveals, devastating goodbyes to fan favorites, and big bads that could inspire terror in even the bravest survivors. Yet, at the heart of it all is Rick Grimes, the man that kicked off the whole eleven-season shebang with “Days Gone Bye,” wandering the zombie apocalypse after waking up alone in an abandoned hospital and slowly but surely drawing together a group that would become closer than family....

The Blacklist Season 9 Episode 22 The hardest loss of The Blacklist season 9 finale was not Marvin Gerard’s death, but the graveside announcements of Agents Aram Mojtabai and Alina Park that their characters’ journeys are leading them away from the Task Force. Aram plans to bike around Brooklyn, take a needed break and see some Broadway shows while Alina manages her ongoing migraines, grows a new life and builds a family....

Nobody puts Baby Yoda in the corner. Well, other than Luke Skywalker. In Chapter 6 of The Book of Boba Fett, “From the Desert Comes a Stranger,” Luke gives Grogu a choice so impossible that several million Star Wars fans cried out in terror, and, as of now, have not been suddenly silenced. By forbidding Grogu his love of his foster-father, Din Djarin, Master Skywalker seems to be repeating the mistakes that led to his father’s own downfall....

As Scott N. Brown, general manager of audience measurement at Nielsen, states of the latest results: Yet, that doesn’t necessarily diminish Mulan’s #10 placement, since—unlike the other top 10 entries—it happens to be a premium offering on Disney+, for which subscribers must fork over $29.99 in addition to their subscription cost to view the film, granting the viewer perpetual streaming access. Thus, despite the array of qualitative criticism and its problematic attachment to Sino-American geopolitics, the amount of people who capitulated to the paywall was seemingly significant enough for the film to place in the top 10....

Their cuddly dog Sadie, a smart hound who will not even step foot inside the farmhouse, is dead by the end of the first night. And things just go downhill from there. Before long, creepy children’s voices are luring Carolyn into the basement for the worst game of hide-and-seek on record and Nancy Perron (Hayley McFarland), the eldest of Roger and Carolyn’s five daughters, is being dragged by the hair across the living room....

The World’s Strangest Heroes are a dense, intricate bunch, but we’ve examined them closely and are happy to introduce you to them ahead of their arrival on DC Universe. WHO IS THE DOOM PATROL? Arnold Drake, Bob Haney and Bruno Premiani introduced the Doom Patrol in the pages of My Greatest Adventure in 1963. Titans did a surprisingly good job of summing the Doom Patrol up in the episode that introduced them....

The deceptively simple story, first realized by William Peter Blatty’s 1971 bestselling novel and later in his faithfully adapted screenplay, is almost a straight line of brutal narrative efficiency. A sweet, innocent little girl named Regan (Linda Blair) is the child of a messy secular marriage when she begins behaving strangely, and then demonically. The doctors say she has a brain lesion, but that seems like the wrong diagnosis when she can speak in reverse and move her bed and furniture off the ground....

In the Beginning Season three ended with the opening of the mysterious ring gates, and the 1300 habitable systems beyond them. Holden feared the beginning of ‘a blood-soaked gold rush’. It’s a fear shared by UN Secretary General Chrisjen Avarasala (Shohreh Aghdashloo), who wants everyone to stay put. The UN’s stance is backed by the Martian Congressional Republic (MCR) and many of the Belters. The balance of peace and power in the Sol system is precarious, and a mass exodus could destabilise human civilisation....

The Expanse Season 5 Episode 9 The stories in The Expanse season 5 have run deep, pulling characters’ emotions and backstories forward, but has this plumbing of the depths been at the expense of driving action? As a full picture of the season begins to form, the high points are moments that reinforce the personalities, both strengths and flaws, of the characters involved. Even though “Winnipesaukee” contained a frantic firefight, for example, the emphasis was on the moral decisions that led up to it....

The Expanse Season 6 Episode 6 Is it really over? Watching the series finale of The Expanse was an exercise in denial with longtime fans trying to soak in every last moment, pretending the show would continue the way much of the narrative seemed to imply. Now, being able to see season 6 as a whole, it’s clear that the writers made the only choice they could by acknowledging that the protomolecule is still out there while involving the alien forces directly in the defeat of Marco Inaros....