One of the funnest things about Harley Quinn is how much creative freedom the team behind it have been given, and they take full advantage of that here offering a completely new backstory that’s as hilarious as it is completely and utterly ridiculous. Harley’s origin has long been one steeped in the baggage of being the Joker’s girlfriend. Whether it’s their toxic relationship or him driving her mad enough to fall in love with him we’ve all seen that part of her history play out a thousand times over her near two decade history....

Last night, the Epix suspense horror series From starring Harold Perrineau (of Lost, The Matrix Reloaded, Constantine, and much more) ended its first season with multiple cliffhangers that separated the main characters, and opened up a whole lot of questions about a town cut off from the rest of the world and surrounded by nocturnal vampire-esque creatures. Titled “Oh, the Places We’ll Go,” the tenth episode was reminiscent of a Lost-style finale that expands the web of intrigue (somewhat literally considering those massive spider webs that look like something woven by Tolkien’s Shelob)....

Cut through the divisiveness, opinions, and occasional drama, though, and you’re left with the question “Is Cyberpunk 2077 a Success?” It’s a seemingly simple question that proves to be much more complicated than you may anticipate. In an attempt to add some statistical context to the Cyberpunk 2077 situation, though, here’s our breakdown of the most notable metrics that typically define success in gaming and what they tell us about how CD Projekt Red’s game is really performing so far....

In a moment foreshadowed by Queen Alicent’s daughter Helaena, the “beast beneath the boards” was finally revealed in the ninth episode of House of the Dragon, when Rhaenys Velaryon, the Queen Who Never Was, and her dragon Meleys burst through the floor of the Dragonpit during Aegon II’s coronation. It’s only fitting that the beast in question would be a dragon. Yet, in a scenario where it might’ve actually had made sense for an almost-queen of House Targaryen to burn King’s Landing down, Rhaenys chose not to....

House of the Dragon Episode 6 “The Princess and the Queen” is effectively a second pilot episode for House of the Dragon. The installment flashes further forward into the future than ever before and ages its characters up so severely that they may as well be entirely different people. And that’s not even to mention the nearly dozen actually new characters that the episode does introduce in the form of Queen Alicent, Princess Rhaenyra, and Prince Daemon’s respective broods of children....

House of the Dragon is set during the Dance of the Dragons, a bloody civil war that divides the Targaryen dynasty and ultimately sows the seeds of their downfall. This war is caused by disagreements surrounding who will succeed King Viserys (Paddy Considine) to the throne when the time comes. Even though he has clearly named his daughter Princess Rhaenyra (Milly Alcock and Emma D’Arcy) as his chosen successor, there are some in the historically patriarchal realm who still don’t think a woman is fit to lead them....

Maybe this is the first time you’ve heard about SBMM, but you can rest assured that if you’ve played a Call of Duty game in the last 15 years, you’ve probably been affected by it. In fact, you’ve probably unknowingly participated in the SBMM debate if you’ve played just about any major multiplayer game. So how has this prevalent and seemingly simple bit of game design become such a venomously contested subject?...

Starz’s newest period drama miniseries Dangerous Liaisons is the cure for anyone who found Lady Whistledown’s revelations in Bridgerton too tame. The secrets of debutantes pale in comparison to the married elites of pre-Revolution Paris who carry on secret affairs while pretending to be faithful to their spouses. These affairs also expose class and gender conflicts in a world even more cutthroat than the Ton. Dangerous Liaisons is a prequel to the events of Pierre Choderos de Laclos’ novel of the same name published in 1782....

“Before we ever started shooting, the way we debuted the idea to the world was we shot this little teaser in secret, with Ecto-1 in a barn,” says Reitman, talking to Den of Geek by phone. “At the time, I remember thinking, ‘Okay, we have the script, we’re going to make this really fast. We’re going to put it out into the world before anybody knows it, and this whole thing is going to fly by....

But then again, there’s never been a character quite like Grogu before. Since making his debut in The Mandalorian, the mysterious green child (whose alleged love of chicken nuggets instantly became the stuff of Internet legend) has captured the imagination of fans across the globe. As one can imagine, he’s also become a merchandising bonanza. Enter Funko. The purveyor of POP!s teamed up with Lucasfilm for this year’s Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade — the event’s 95th — to create a Grogu balloon that is styled like one of the company’s trademark balloons....

This is the concept Kevin Smith turned into the first draft of Clerks III, and the one he presented to an audience with a live-reading of the script at the First Avenue Playhouse in Atlantic Highlands, NJ in 2019—the same place where Smith did auditions for the original Clerks movie nearly 30 years earlier. However, by the time of that Clerks III’s live-reading, Smith already knew it wouldn’t be the version of the story to finally make it to the big screen....

Legends of Tomorrow Season 6 Episode 7 Legends of Tomorrow has always been the weirdest member of The CW’s Arrowverse line-up, a largely fearless series that’s unafraid to engage in downright bizarre and occasionally wacky storytelling even as it explores deeper and more difficult emotional truths. After all, few shows are brave enough to sideline one of their leading characters when they don’t have to –Supergirl’s decision to leave Kara Zor-El in the Phantom Zone for half its final season is a glaring example of the many ways such a move can go wrong even with the best of intentions – but Legends just goes for it, stranding team captain Sara Lance on an alien spaceship hundreds of light years away from her friends even as it uses her absence to explore larger truths about both who she is and who she’s becoming....

Each of these shows is devoted to either furthering the legacy of particular Avengers, or fleshing out and exploring specific corners of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. But there’s one corner of the MCU that has remained unexplored, and it’s the one that started it all: Iron Man. Yes, Tony Stark is taking ye olde dirt nap, and Robert Downey, Jr. is unlikely to have much time or interest to reprise his role as anything other than the occasional recording or AI version of his consciousness....

“I really don’t think I’ve considered this show and the fact that people will actually watch it,” Li says, with a laugh, when I talk to her ahead of Shadow and Bone‘s April 23rd global release. “So much of what I’ve done hasn’t come out yet. So I guess the way I’ve been working is just having fun. Then I sort of just follow that, just get really immersed in it....

Brothers Matt and Ross Duffer started a nostalgia trend when they created Stranger Things in 2016, and their fellow producer and director Shawn Levy has brought their vision to life with a family appeal befitting his filmography, which includes the Night at the Museum movies and, more recently, The Adam Project and Free Guy. Their knack for tapping into the ’80s zeitgeist has been largely responsible for launching the careers of their young stars, including Millie Bobby Brown, Finn Wolfhard, Joe Keery, Sadie Sink, and others....

At the center of Star Wars sit the twins. A cornerstone of the Original Trilogy, Luke and Leia are also the template for some of the shorts in the Star Wars: Visions anime anthology. The episode “The Twins” takes this concept the most literally, presenting twins born for a specific purpose, whether or not they fulfill it. But it’s another episode, “Lop and Ochō,” which truly takes the “Force siblings” concept to another level....

In the time that most television series are still putting their boots on, Inside No. 9 conjures entire narrative worlds, complete with characters, plot, gags, surprises and satisfying endings. Its half-hours are so densely packed, no TV offers better value for money or a more generous time-investment-to-reward ratio. The series six opener ‘Wuthering Heist’ is no different. In under 30 minutes, it delivers a thriller heist that riffs around a traditional form of masked theatre, without a minute’s let-up in the volley of jokes....

A stranded pedalo! Glorious. It’s taken almost 40 episodes, but Inside No. 9 has finally landed on the purest distillation of its ‘contained space’ concept. They will never better a pedalo. A pedalo is a punchline before you’ve even written a word, which is what makes it a divine backdrop for a script about grief, loss, regrets and the messiness of once-close friendships that have – literally here – drifted....

Star Trek: Lower Decks Season 3 Episode 10 “There are over 800 episodes of Star Trek that we can use when we need something,” Star Trek: Lower Decks showrunner Mike McMahan tells us, when asked about his process of formulating the show’s countless Trek Easter eggs. “We can’t use anything of the Discovery era because that ship was unrecorded in history, and we can’t really use anything from Picard, but other than that, all of these years, watching and reading and doing all of the Star Trek stuff that I love, we have the opportunity to use it in different ways all of the time....

Interview with the Vampire Episode 2 Two vampires walk into a church, but the punchline is just the setup, the delivery is the appetizer. Anne Rice’s Interview with the Vampire serves up its second episode, “After the Phantoms of Your Former Self,” as haute cuisine. The installment is, after all, about the story of the first feed. “I serve a god, it is my honor to serve,” Daniel Molloy (Eric Bogosian) is told as a table is readied for two entirely different dining experiences....