The reunion of the Rocinante crew (minus one) and Avasarala’s return to power provided some measure of resolution in The Expanse season 5 finale, but even with season 6 being the final outing for the show, the story of the protomolecule is far from over. Showrunner Naren Shankar helped shed some light on those final moments, including the nature of Laconia and the status of several characters whose arcs are ongoing....
While the definitive origin for this grim tradition remains elusive, the popular myth is that these woods were the site of the “Ubasute” custom in the 19th century (where during times of war or famine, families supposedly abandoned their sick and elderly in the wilderness). It is also apparently haunted by Yurei, a most malicious type of angry spirit. Whether either bit of folklore is true, any good tourist will tell you about the suicide hotline signs that punctuate the forest like so many waterfalls....
Welcome! Everything is great. On Friday the 28th of September, the world becomes a slightly brighter place. The third series of endlessly inventive NBC sitcom The Good Place starts arriving weekly on Netflix in the UK. Mike Schur’s comedy is a masterclass in both ethics and the art of nimble plotting. The season one finale turned the entire show on its head, while the season two finale ended with another bold reinvention....
The Magicians Season 4 Episode 4 This week’s The Magicians wasn’t only a standalone episode which addressed a long-standing dangling thread from Josh’s earlier history, it also was an exercise in testing the audience’s acceptance of weird pairings now that we’ve known these characters for several seasons. But more than that, the show is doing one of the things it does best: subtly reminding its audience that although it’s not shy about reversing expectations about the power dynamics between men and women, it’s also not going to hit us over the head with social commentary....
Novelist John Wyndham’s genius lay in seeding menace among innocence. In The Day of the Triffids, the narrator drives through a bucolic country village but is unable to admire its delightful cottage gardens – partly because the world has ended, but also because the picture-postcard borders contain intruders: tall, swaying carnivorous plants with leathery green leaves and poison whips waiting to sting human flesh. Thus Wyndham turns that most pleasant and English of things, a flowerbed, into a deadly trap....
Back in the old days, paintings, carvings and engravings of Hell were used to shock sinners into mending their ways – promising them an eternity of pain and suffering, usually at the end of a red hot poker. Most world religions have their own ideas about what Hell looks like, but filmmakers have since thrown in a lot of their own ideas too – with movie villains heading everywhere from fiery torture caves and spikey chasms to bottomless voids and empty prison cells....
The growing number of films in The Conjuring shared universe have a surprisingly solid track record. The Nun is the latest piece of backstory in this complex series and it not only doesn’t diminish the overall integrity of the franchise, but it also expands the boundaries of the series’ universe in some ambitious ways. The Nun ending is key to that. The Nun’s major purpose is to shine a light on how the franchise’s big threat and Conjuring 2 baddie, Valak, comes into existence....
The Orville: New Horizons Season 3 Episode 8 When Den of Geek spoke to the creative team of The Orville: New Horizons, director Jon Cassar, and executive-producers David A. Goodman and Brannon Braga spoke of how many of the episodes in this third season felt like making small films. There is no doubt “Midnight Blue” is the ultimate example of that creative approach. This third season has far surpassed the outreach of the previous two outings of The Orville in terms of scope, scale, and more importantly: social commentary....
The Orville Season 2 Episode 3 Hardcore fans of The Orville will often cite the fact that the show holds true to the spirit of Star Trek: The Next Generation, but the reality is that most episodes feel more like a late-season Voyager episode or standalone episodes of Star Trek: Enterprise. And before Orville fans take offense to that statement, this isn’t intended as an insult. I love Enterprise, specifically the 2004 episode titled “Home,” which shares its title— and themes — with this episode of The Orville....
Since those efforts, Joe and Anthony Russo have taken a break from the MCU, if not necessarily from action movies. In fact their latest film, The Gray Man, is one of the biggest in Netflix history, a star-studded spy thriller with all the scale of a Marvel spectacle but little of a superhero’s moral certitude. And it is one of several films the Russos have in the pipeline since hanging up their Marvel capes (for now) and further building their own production company, AGBO....
The Simpsons Season 33 Episode 12 After 33 seasons, and now 12 episodes, The Simpsons is an institution in TV comedy. It was once the new brat, spray-painting its tag all over the Springfield at the heart of every American state. Now the series is the elder states-drawing. The kind on the comfortable couch, dust-busting dad-cheese from burp clouds. The long-running Sunday night cartoon family has been accused of slowing down with age, retreading old plots, and cleaning up its act while smoothing the animation....
The character of Bloodsport is, in proper Suicide Squad fashion, a very minor one in DC Comics history. He first appeared in Superman #4 in 1987, where he was created by John Byrne. This version of Bloodsport was Robert DuBois, a draft dodger who escaped serving in the Vietnam War, allowing his brother Michael to go and fight in his place. The guilt, after Michael was left severely injured in combat, was too much for Robert, and he lost his mind....
The Time Traveler’s Wife Episode 3 Review Episode 3 of The Time Traveler’s Wife finally addresses the questions viewers have about Clare’s teen years. Part of the answer explains Clare’s eventual career path and her relationship with Henry. The other part of the answer would appear unnecessarily traumatic if one didn’t realize this was in the original novel. The episode begins with a return to Older Clare in the documentary. She reflects on her childhood being all about waiting for visits from Henry....
This and other myths have lived on, thanks particularly to Cameron’s romantic (and often fanciful) movie. And yet, not all truths have been lost at sea. Jack and Rose Jack Dawson, played by Leonardo DiCaprio, and Rose DeWitt Bukater, played by Kate Winslet as a young woman and Gloria Stuart when elderly, are a myth. They are fictional characters. Jack wasn’t slipped $20 for rescuing Rose, and never taught her how to spit off the side of a ship like a man....
There are, however, two characters in this six-episode run who will receive multiple centric installments. And as one would expect, it’s none other than Daryl Dixon (Norman Reedus) and Carol Peletier (Melissa McBride). This week’s “Find Me” will center on the pair as will week five’s “Diverged.” The synopsis for “Find Me” reads: “An adventure for Daryl and Carol turns sideways when they come across an old cabin. It takes Daryl back to the years when he left the group after Rick disappeared as he relives a time that only the apocalypse could manifest....
Amanda Seyfried stars as Catherine, a young art restorer who moves with her lecturer husband George (James Norton) to a small town and a new house when he secures a job at a local college. Isolated from her own work and friends, and now a full time mum to their young daughter Franny, Catherine grows increasingly frustrated while George appears to be thriving, adored by his young students, popular with staff at the small college where he teaches art history, and indulging in extra curricular activities with a local girl (Stranger Things’ Natalia Dyer)....
Your background story in Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands not only adds a little flavor to your character but raises and lowers some of your key stats. You’ve seen similar systems in other RPGs (most notably the Fallout franchise), but since this is kind of a new concept for the Borderlands series, you may be left wondering what your best background story option really is. That being the case, here’s a better look at which background stories are best for your favorite class and which ones you should avoid at all costs....
Top New Science Fiction Books in April 2021 The Galaxy and the Ground Within by Becky Chambers Type: NovelPublisher: Harper VoyagerRelease date: April 20Den of Geek says: Ever since her groundbreaking A Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet, Chambers has been a powerful voice in science fiction. Colorful, creative aliens inhabit a galaxy sparkling with healing and love, “soft” science fiction in the online sense that is also bursting with ideas and thoughtful characterization....
For those who don’t know, Uniqlo is a clothing retailer/designer founded in Japan that regularly releases products designed to celebrate major video game franchises. For instance, the company released a series of t-shirts designed to celebrate Super Mario‘s 35th anniversary in 2020, and they’ve regularly released various products based on the Pokémon franchise. While Uniqlo produces a lot more than merchandise based on video games, the company is well-known, and largely respected, among fans looking for the occasional piece of video game-inspired apparel....
“You have gambled much on the whims of a crazy man.” Though Christian zealot Käre might disagree, everything comes to a head in the Vikings: Valhalla season one finale, and “The End of the Beginning” employs its elegantly constructed battle sequences to tie up a few dangling plot threads and propel three survivors on to the next stages of their lives. Though Liv dies valiantly defending Kattegat against Olaf’s sinister plot, we now look to Freydis, Leif, and Harald to move on amidst an ever evolving political landscape which includes England’s Queen Emma after she successfully executes a brilliantly laid trap for the Danish interloper Queen Aelfgifu....
