Seinfeld operated on a “no hugging, no learning” edict from its very inception. David commanded no emotional or intellectual growth would be tolerated. Michael Richards’ Cosmo Kramer only really got close to people when wearing the Kavorka jacket. Elaine, played by the now most-awarded actress in TV history, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, would never think of taking dance class. In spite of itself, Seinfeld did promote coping skills. Kramer could afford to live in an Upper West Side apartment with no visible means of support....

Why haven’t I upgraded? There’s a certain DIY aspect to PC gaming that I’ve never quite connected to. Finding and purchasing the right graphics card, CPU, RAM, case, etc. is not only expensive but also a time suck. Needless to say, even though I’ve always been curious about the graphical superiority of PC over consoles, I lack the patience or time to beef up my current PC or build a gaming rig from scratch....

Shameless Season 11 Episode 5 “One again it’s up to Frank Gallagher to save the neighborhood.” At several points season 11 of Shameless has reminded me of Weeds’s messy final year. This is not a positive comparison, but Shameless’s “Slaughter” creates several parallels between these Showtime series and the dissolution of their central families. Weeds doesn’t end on a perfect note, but its finale at least attempts something deeply ambitious. Shameless is headed down similar territory with its characters, but it’s not a show that’s ever stylistically rocked the boat....

Like The Responder before it, Sherwood is a gripping BBC crime drama about much more than manhunts and police barrier tape. Loosely inspired by real events, it’s the story of two murders in a Nottinghamshire ex-mining town that reopen old wounds in a fractured community where conflict was manipulated by political policing during the 1984-1985 miners’ strike. With an unimprovable cast including Lesley Manville, Alun Armstrong, David Morrissey and countless other talents, Sherwood hits all the marks of a whodunit thriller with characters that examine the nature of division and decades-old rifts....

Square Enix recently released a special 20th anniversary trailer for upcoming Kingdom Hearts games. At the halfway mark, the video unveiled the news almost every audience member was expecting/hoping for: Kingdom Hearts 4. The final half of the anniversary trailer then devotes time to showcasing the modernized world of Quadratum and Sora’s new photorealistic look. However, before the video jumps to Quadratum and Sora, the trailer displays clips of a forest....

It’s always been a little odd that Pyramid Head became not just a legendary figure in horror gaming but the face of the Silent Hill franchise. After all, Pyramid Head (sometimes also called the “Red Pyramid Thing”) premiered in the second Silent Hill game and was supposed to be a one-off monster. Instead, he ended up arguably becoming more famous than the franchise he initially appeared in. Of course, with that fame comes the inevitable question of “Why and how?...

Barlow expands upon that statement in a separate tweet in which he mentions that a follow-up to Shattered Memories is not the premise of his mysterious “Project A” game. However, he suggests that a Shattered Memories follow-up could be developed soon thereafter and fans could even consider the success of his next game to be a “downpayment on the SHSM successor.” While Barlow doesn’t specifically use the phrase, it really sounds like he’s pitching a spiritual successor to Silent Hill: Shattered Memories rather than a direct sequel to Konami....

Snowpiercer Season 3 Episode 6 One of the core tenets of Snowpiercer has been that the whole system hangs together mostly because of human efforts to make it go. If one part fails, the whole thing is on the course of failure, and that’s why leaders like Melanie Cavill and John Wilford wielded near-dictatorial (or actually dictatorial) power over the people on board. There was a need for strong leadership, for someone to keep everyone else in line, and for disputes to be handled in a way that didn’t put the whole system at risk....

Post-Halloween, post-election, and post-New Year, the slut deserves another look in the horror genre. She’s the woman on whom the audience lingers in the film’s opening moments, like Michael Myers’ older sister, who we see from outside the Myers house, necking on the couch with her boyfriend in Halloween (1978). From a POV shot, we watch her boyfriend beg for more, she acquiesces, and they jog up the stairs. Myers walks stealthily around the house, through the back kitchen door, selects a knife from the cupboard, and proceeds to stab his sister repeatedly across her bare, buxom chest....

There were so many questions left unanswered. For example, is Clay dead? Will Jax kill Opie? Those questions are answered as soon as the episode starts. The answer to both is a resounding no. However, Clay has been wounded, perhaps even mortally. Jax also shoots Opie in the hand to stop him from finishing the job. Unser as always, isn’t far behind Jax and helps Jax cover it up. Jax takes Opie to hospital and tells him to lay low for a while, whilst Unser waits with Clay....

Star Trek: Discovery Episode 15 Never let it be said that Star Trek: Discovery doesn’t know how to wrap things up. Many of the storylines addressed in the season finale didn’t have particularly solid middles, but their beginnings and ends were delivered with enthusiasm. This quality was on prominent display in tonight’s season finale, which made up for the unrealistic neatness with which it tied its season-ending bow by expanding this world for the first time in thorough and energetic ways....

The primary story of Star Trek: Discovery Season 4 has gone back to many of the basics that make the Star Trek franchise so great, asking big questions about the necessary conflicts between visionary ideals and the real world those who hold them must exist in. A season that has continually wrestled with what an institution like the Federation is supposed to be and do, its central arc explores the inescapable, often uncomfortable tensions between hope and pragmatism, philosophy and realism, and politics and practicality....

Although a casual fan doesn’t need to know the ins-and-outs of Star Trek canon to get into Star Trek: Discovery, it certainly helps! Although all of Discovery Season 3 has been set in a “new” part of the Trek timeline, the 32nd Century to be exact, the series hasn’t entirely been freed of canon restraints. From Trill, to Starfleet history, and beyond, Discovery Season 3 has been a rollercoaster of connections to the entire sprawling canon of Trek....

Would you believe that the finale of Star Trek: Discovery Season references everything from Star Trek: Voyager, to the TOS episode “The Doomsday Machine?” Throughout the entire thrilling DISCO season, 3 finale — “That Hope Is You Part 2,” the series managed to deliver yet another love-letter to Trekkies everywhere. This episode may not have been as overtly nostalgic as “Unification III,” or any given episode of Lower Decks, but it still managed to deliver on a slew of Easter eggs and callbacks; some obvious, and some obscure....

After the timeline changing events of last week, Star Trek: Picard kicks off this episode with the team desperately trying to escape the altered future. After they time travel to 2024, Elnor dies and the crew sets out to try and find the “Watcher” Q informed Picard about. We spoke with several members of the cast and the executive producer to get all kinds of insights into the making of this episode....

Star Trek: Picard Season 2 Episode 7 After two fairly exhilarating and propulsive episodes, Star Trek: Picard pumps the brakes on almost all forward narrative momentum in an hour that, unfortunately, goes back to some of Season 2’s weakest elements (and even the great cliffhanger at the end, which sees Guinan and Picard get arrested by the FBI thanks to some unfortunate security camera footage, can’t entirely save it). Part of the problem is much of “Monsters” revolves around a trope that’s kind of lame even when it’s executed well, which involves one character being forced to enter the mind of another in order to help them subconsciously fight the demons that plague them....

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Episode 3 Three episodes of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds down; three episodes that have essentially hit it out of the park. I’m afraid I’m going to start sounding like a broken record here fairly quickly but this show is simply delightful from start to finish, and its character work is as deft and entertaining as its standalone adventures are fun to watch. This week’s installment finds the Enterprise crew investigating the site of an abandoned Illyrian colony, as part of a research attempt to find out what happened to them before they all vanished....

The first year of Kirk’s five-year-mission on the Enterprise is mostly missing. Although several non-canon sources have taken a stab at the moment when Kirk first took command from Pike—notably the 1986 Vonda N. McIntyre novel Enterprise: The First Adventure and the 1985 DC Comics story “The First Mission”—the actual non-book Trek canon has almost nothing. Basically, our knowledge of how the year 2265 shook out for Kirk and Spock is very limited....

Andy Serkis has been a genre mainstay for decades, portraying characters like Gollum in The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit films, Alfred in Matt Reeves’ The Batman, Ulysses Klaue in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and Supreme Leader Snoke in the Star Wars Sequel Trilogy. And Andor just added a second Star Wars credit to the actor’s filmography. Until Kylo Ren (Adam Driver) cut his character in half with a lightsaber in The Last Jedi, Serkis provided the motion capture and voice of the mysterious Snoke, Supreme Leader of the First Order and the unknowing puppet paving the way for Emperor Palpatine’s eventual return in The Rise of Skywalker....

There was always only one way Obi-Wan Kenobi could end: with the Jedi Master riding off into the sunset with his plot armor, Darth Vader defeated, and Luke and Leia back home safe. We know what comes next, too. In nine years, two droids will crash land on Tatooine with a message from Leia that will set both Luke and Obi-Wan on an adventure that will change their lives forever....