The Magicians Season 3 Episode 7 While it’s not always possible to interweave the stories together in The Magicians, it’s magnificent when the characters and their conflicts relate with one another as they did in “Poached Eggs.” Allowing several characters to reflect on the journey so far in heartfelt conversations was a great writing decision especially here at the halfway point of the season. If the fairy takeover, which has recently been the weakest storyline, is truly at a turning point, we could potentially be reaching a pinnacle of greatness for many of the beleaguered magicians and the series as a whole....

Are you still crying? I’m still crying. The Magicians Season 4 made a series-changing move in its season finale. In the episode’s final act, Quentin died sending the second Monster into The Seam and keeping Everett from becoming a god. Let’s break down the ending of The Magicians Season 4… If you can stand to relive this misery. Quentin’s death Quentin’s death happens so fast, as Quentin notes after the fact....

When it comes to immersive, realistic graphics in PC gaming, ray-tracing is the new frontier, and no other tech company is leading that charge like NVIDIA. With its new line of GeForce RTX GPUs, powered by Turing GPU architecture, NVIDIA is bringing players the most advanced, high-end graphics currently on the market. What is ray-tracing and why does it matter? Simply put, graphics cards with ray-tracing capabilities can render life-like lighting, reflections, and shadows like never before....

You think you know Black Adam? The brand new Black Adam series from DC might have something to say about that. Black Adam #1 by Christopher Priest and Rafa Sandoval might very well be the best single issue of superhero comics released so far this year. Focusing less on Black Adam as a cosmic antihero and more on Theo Adam as the head of state of DC’s fictional nation of Khandaq, it’s a moody look at one of the most fascinating characters in the DCU....

This is a long-winded way of saying, no, I didn’t include “Amok Time” or “The Menagerie” on this list because, as great as they are, I don’t think they really represent the greatest hits of the series. Also, if you’ve never watched TOS, I think those two episodes will throw you off cause you’ll assume Spock is always losing his mind or trying to steal the ship. If you’ve never watched TOS, or you feel like rewatching it with fresh eyes, I feel pretty strong that these 10 episodes are not only wonderful, but that they best represent what the entire series is really about....

The Youth International Party, or Yippies, was non-violent, even if one of the co-founders, Abbie Hoffman (played by Sacha Baron Cohen in the movie), wrote his first radical tract, Fuck the System, under the pseudonym George Metesky, a mad bomber from the 1940s. The other, Jerry Rubin (Jeremy Strong on screen), blew bubbles while dressed as George Washington at his HUAC hearing. Rubin would go on to beat bongos as part of John Lennon’s morphing street musician crusaders, playing live at political demonstrations across America, while Hoffman was knocked upside the head with the guitar of The Who’s Pete Townshend when he interrupted the band at Woodstock....

In the greatest jukebox musical ever made, the band has to retrieve an errant band member in time to make a show, and when they make that show, it’s a success. The crowds go wild. Beatlemania is encapsulated for all time. They play all their songs during the long and winding road to the TV station, and during rehearsals. They actually have to escape from prying eyes during rehearsals. We get snippets of old songs, and a full performance of excerpted musical numbers....

What will the extra episodes be about? As we’ve written in our own spoiler-free review of “A Certain Doom,” the finale feels like a true ending to the creepy Whisperer story the show has been telling for the last two years. So where can season 10 go from here? We’ve made our own educated guesses as to what might be in store for The Walking Dead in 2021, but now we’ve had a chance to ask the source....

The White Lotus Season 2 Episode 6 When you have a show with a large ensemble cast like The White Lotus, it can become quite the trial for the writers’ room to decide which characters get what amount of screen time, especially when a season is about to come to a close. It’s a delicate balance to weigh storylines from the beginning of the season with ones that have only just started to really lather up in the waning moments of the year....

The X-Files Season 11 Episode 4 For a show that spent ample time attempting to uncover the truth, the past often took a backseat to fighting the future in The X-Files. You know the drill. Evidence goes missing. Unsubstantiated reports are filed. Multiple accounts of the same event are unreliable at best. At worst? Someone or something could be running interference with a witness’s memory. If the series dwelled on unsolved phenomena instead of moving along to bigger, more important subject matter, Mulder and Scully would still be in the woods hunting for the Jersey Devil....

While everyone will have a chance to see whether Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands lives up to the hype when the game is finally released on March 25, some gamers may have the chance to play the shooter slightly earlier than others due to the title’s somewhat staggered release time schedule. The majority of gamers planning to play Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands on compatible consoles (PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S, or Xbox One) simply need to wait until the clock strikes midnight on March 25 in their respective timezones in order to actually launch the game....

Titans Season 2 culminated with the team defeating Deathstroke [Esai Morales], Conner/Superboy [Joshua Orpin] breaking Cadmus’ hold over him, Jason Todd/Robin [Curran Walters] leaving the fold, and Donna/Wonder Girl [Conor Leslie] dead. But, by the end of the finale, the Titans seemed more committed than ever to standing strong and continuing their war against evil. However, when Titans returned for its third season, a tortured Hank/Hawk [Alan Ritchson] had moved on....

Based on the hit series of video games, Uncharted stars Holland as Nathan Drake, a young treasure hunter who travels around the world unraveling historical mysteries while searching for his next hidden fortune. Along for the ride is fellow fortune seeker Victor “Sully” Sullivan (Mark Wahlberg), who acts as a sort of mentor and father figure to Drake on their adventures together. The game has been massive since launching in 2007, with its 41 million units shipped making it one of the most successful video game franchises of all time (while almost singlehandedly keeping the lights on at PlayStation HQ)....

Echo by Thomas Olde Heuvelt Type: NovelPublisher: Tor NightfireRelease date: Feb. 8 Den of Geek says: A mysterious attack and a setting that seems made for the horror of isolation and the wilderness set this novel apart. He remembers how he and Augustin were mysteriously drawn to the Maudit, a remote and scarcely documented peak in the Swiss Alps. He remembers how the slopes of Maudit were eerily quiet, and how, when they entered its valley, they got the ominous sense that they were not alone....

Speaking on industry podcast The Business, Joan Graves said that based on feedback they had received from parents since the film’s release, Toy Story 3 should have been given a PG rating “at least,” because of a climactic scene in which Woody, Buzz, and friends find themselves sinking into an incinerator like rubbish. Graves went on to say that the film changed their approach to animated family films, and that they would no longer give these movies “the benefit of the doubt” in marking them as suitable for all....

Each TV season is full of new and returning anime and it can often be overwhelming to determine which of the lot are worth the investment. Winter 2021’s anime season is just starting to begin, so here’s a helpful rundown of which series, both new and familiar, should become mandatory viewing. NEW SERIES VLADLOVE The Cells at Work! franchise anthropomorphizes white and red blood cells as they try to carry out their duties to repair the body that they “work” in....

Technically, this goofy muddle of a sequel is a significant step up from the absolutely mind-numbing mediocrity that was 2018’s Venom. But when you’re starting from deeper than six feet in the hole, climbing up to still subterranean conditions doesn’t really feel like progress. Yes, Venom 2 is better than the first Venom, but then so are trips to the dentist. While Venom: Let There Be Carnage now features two Oscar nominees slumming for a paycheck instead of one—even three when you recall Michelle Williams also stopped by the set for a few days—we’re nonetheless left with a rote pseudo-superhero movie with the passion of an algorithm....

Vikings Season 6 Episode 12 “We were defeated by a dead man.” Three different lands; three different political situations. The natural heir to Kattegat’s throne doesn’t want it. Prince Igor is still too young to take the crown that is rightfully his to wear, and the presumptive favorite in Iceland rose to prominence by savagely slaughtering his opposition. The desire for power remains a potent aspect of the human condition, and like so many before him, Michael Hirst examines the motivations these men and women possess and the depths to which they’ll go to seize control....

Evil Season 3 Episode 1 Evil’s season 3 opener, “The Demon of Death,” faces the same problem which hung over the second season: a cliff-hanging, game-changing event occurs, and the characters have to deal with the consequences. Last season started in the aftermath of a killing; this one picks up the pieces of broken vows. Or were they? Dr. Kristen Bouchard (Katja Herbers), who is married, confessed she got away with murder to the newly ordained priest, Father David Acosta (Mike Colter)....

Even better, much as it was for World of Warcraft Classic, Blizzard and newly acquired developer Vicarious Visions, the team responsible for the brilliant Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 1 + 2 remake, is committed to preserving the original Diablo 2 experience as much as possible. “This isn’t a remake,” said Rod Fergusson, executive producer of the Diablo franchise, in an interview with Polygon. “We’re not reverse-engineering it; we’re not rebuilding it and trying to make it look and sound like [Diablo 2]....