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Severance proves TV shows are way too short nowadays

Severance proves TV shows are way too short nowadays

If you just started a TV show made in the last five years, there’s a good chance whatever you saw in episode 1 is going to be critically important...

09.02.2025 6

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Austen Goslin

The Switch 2 reveal used the iPhone playbook. Let’s hope the hardware doesn’t

It’s hard not to feel a little disappointed by Nintendo’s announcement on Thursday of the Switch 2. The fact that the company seems to be playing...

19.01.2025 4

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Is Dune: Prophecy gonna midi-chlorian us?

Dune: Prophecy is a very complicated show. Sure, part of that is the fact that it has so many characters, plots, and counterplots commingling in...

17.12.2024 10

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CD Projekt Red is giving Ciri the story she deserves in The Witcher 4

Lore has always been a tricky subject for fans when it comes to adaptations: Too close an adherence to the original text, and you get a diminished...

15.12.2024 5

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Arcane doesn’t have to give League of Legends characters the ending you expect

Arcane takes place in the world of League of Legends , but whether or not the Netflix series is a direct adaptation of its lore is a little more up...

22.11.2024 7

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Dune: Prophecy’s Desmond Hart is a bit of a conundrum (and maybe a game changer)

[Ed. note: This post contains spoilers for the end of Dune: Prophecy episode 1.] In our world, most Dune lore is known. While Dune, as a story, is...

18.11.2024 10

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Rings of Power is introducing moral grayness to a series that doesn’t need it

The universe of The Lord of the Rings is extremely complicated. There are Valar and Maiar, magic trees everywhere, ambiguously powerful rings, and...

01.09.2024 8

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Alien: Romulus is Ready Player One for the Alien universe

Fede Álvarez may have been the perfect director to refresh the Alien film franchise. His movie Alien: Romulus is incredibly well shot, with the...

21.08.2024 4

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Hugh Jackman’s performance is the one sincere thing in Deadpool & Wolverine

Deep beneath all the layers of sarcasm and meta jokes, the Deadpool movies’ biggest strength has always secretly been emotional sincerity. That’s...

31.07.2024 3

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The Death Note musical fixed the anime to become the superior adaptation

Despite Death Note ’s reputation as one of the greatest anime of all time, the adaptation of Tsugumi Ohba’s manga isn’t even the best version of...

16.07.2024 5

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Austen Goslin