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This review contains spoilers for Agents of SHIELD. Agents of SHIELD Season 7 Episode 5 The sheer depth of the Marvel references in this week’s Agents of SHIELD episode, “A Trout in the Milk,” distinguishes it from all others before it, and MCU and comic fans are likely ecstatic about everything from the retro blue

Jeremy Carver has big things planned for Doom Patrol season 2. Literally.  The first season of the DC Universe series about super powered, and always bickering, misfits ended with most of the team shrunk to action-figure size. With the sophomore outing of the series debuting June 25, executive producer and showrunner Carver thinks it’s time

HBO Max is set to enter into its second month of existence. And you know what that means: it’s Christmas in July! HBO Max’s list of new releases for July 2020 is highlighted by one prominent Christmas movie: last year’s Emilia Clarke-starring Last Christmas. But the real cause for Christmas in July is all the

Lockdown has inspired some great satirical art. Only yesterday I saw a dog waste bin in my local woods affixed with a picture of Dominic Cummings. Our movements, like those of the dogs of Blean Nature Reserve, may be contained, but our creativity runs free.  In the case of Staged, a six-part BBC One comedy starring

Finally, a giveaway with Tegridy. No, we’re not giving out jars of Randy Marsh’s local, small batch marijuana. We’re giving away the next best thing: South Park Season 23 on Blu-ray, thanks to Paramount and Comedy Central. South Park’s 23rd season was a memorable one. It featured the show’s landmark 300th episode. Nine episodes sported

This I’ll Be Gone in the Dark review contains no spoilers. True crime is an obsession more and more people share, with whole TV channels devoted to it, a whole raft of podcasts focused on it with more popping up every day and battalions of arm-chair detectives tapping away at Reddit threads from home. While

Penny Dreadful may have been a beloved, star-studded peak television offering that closed up shop after just three seasons, but the classic-literature-crossover Showtime supernatural series’ legacy lives on with a sequel. The new show is called Penny Dreadful: City of Angels and it’s airing now! While the sequel series makes a dramatic shift away from

Cursed is coming soon to Netflix, set to showcase an interpretation of the Arthurian Lady of the Lake character as adapted by comic book legend Frank Miller and screenwriter Tom Wheeler. A teaser trailer for Netlix’s Cursed has arrived, setting the release date of July 17th for the 10-episode fantasy series. The clip, which runs

No need to boot up the “Retrace-Your-Step-Alizer”, Solar Opposites is coming back. Hulu has ordered Solar Opposites season 3, according to Variety. Solar Opposites season 2 had already previously been confirmed when Hulu confirmed the series for a two-season, 16 episode order. The first batch of those 16 episodes premiered with the eight-episode season 1

Tomorrow (Saturday, June 20th), the DC TV Podcasts Network will be hosting a special fundraiser to raise money for Feeding America, a nonprofit organization that engages with the fight to end hunger through work in food banks and more, a cause that has only become more pressing during this time of pandemic and financial insecurity. In their sixth

This Harley Quinn review contains spoilers. Harley Quinn Season 2 Episode 12 Harley Quinn season 2 has been nothing short of a total delight and as we reach the penultimate episode the show delivers on its promise with an action-packed installment that will satisfy both your lust for violence and romantic tendencies. See, this is

As a novel, The Luminaries is structurally ornate. The Booker Prize-winner is 832 pages long and divided into 12 parts – one for each sign of the zodiac, each systematically decreasing in length according to the pattern of a waning moon. There are celestial charts, and at the head of each chapter is a 19th century-style precis of

A squire’s job never ends and young Patrick is set to pick up his sword again soon. Hulu has renewed animated medieval comedy Crossing Swords for season 2, according to Variety. The renewal comes just under a week after the first season consisting of 10 episodes premiered on June 12. The show’s second season will

This review contains spoilers for The Order season 2. The Order is one of those shows on Netflix that tends to escape notice due to scant publicity and an inability for word-of-mouth to adequately explain how good it is without sounding ridiculous talking about werewolves and secret magical organizations on a college campus. Fortunately, season

Warning: This article contains MAJOR spoilers for The 100 Season 7, Episode 5. Read at your own risk. Hooboy. The 100 got all wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey this week with a trip to Bardo, explaining in non-linear style what happened on Octavia’s first and second trips to the planet—friends, not a great place to vacation. On her

Manga fans rejoice! Warrior Nun has been adapted into a new ten-episode series as part of Netflix’s increased science fiction slate. The series is being brought to the small screen by creator and showrunner, Simon Barry, who is known for his breakout hit Canadian time travel series, Continuum, and who recently produced a short-lived, supernatural

NBC, which is of course a subsidiary of Kabletown, formerly of GE via The Sheinhardt Wig Company, is bringing back one of its most beloved and meta comedies for an hour-long special.  30 Rock is set to return for a commercial-free, hour-long episode on Thursday, July 16 at 8 p.m. on NBC, according to Variety.

Contains major spoilers for Marcella season two. Obviously, obviously Marcella should not have been welcomed back to work after the events of season one. That’s a given.  Investigating your husband’s mistress’ murder while being unable to rule out the possibility that it was you who’d killed her? Not optimum police work. Using insider access to destroy CCTV

Dave Chappelle lets the streets speak for themselves in 8:46, his new Netflix special. “Like it or not, it’s history,” he warns us. It is the first mainstream concert event in North America since the COVID-19 lockdown. It is also Chappelle’s first event since a cop knelt on the neck of a black man named

This article contains some spoilers for Kipo and the Age of the Wonderbeasts season two. In season one episode of the post apocalyptic children’s show Kipo and the Age of the Wonderbeasts, the main cast all experience hallucinations where they can see their purest desires made manifest. In the case of Benson, he’s the center

“Have you ever done anything like this before?” public health director Tracy Daszkiewicz is asked in episode one of The Salisbury Poisonings. “I’ll tell you when I know what it is we’re doing,” she answers. That unassuming, honest wit and humility becomes characteristic of her approach across this extraordinary drama.  2020 may feel as if it

This Love, Victor review contains no spoilers. From the people who made Love, Simon, the heartwarming spin-off series Love, Victor is here to soothe our tired souls without asking too much of our brains.  And while its made strides in updating its queer representation to the modern context, there are still some significant oversights. As

“It’s not an easy watch,” says Annabel Scholey of her latest role in BBC One’s The Salisbury Poisonings. “It’s harrowing but it’s an important story to tell.” The three-part drama airing on consecutive nights from Sunday the 14th of June depicts the aftermath of the 2018 assassination attempt on Russians Sergei and Yulia Skripal in

Nickelodeon’s Avatar: The Last Airbender is a superb television show for many reasons. The animation is lush and beautiful, the characters are richly-realized and human, and the action is relentless and thrilling, never giving in to the puritan notions of what “children’s entertainment” can or cannot depict. There’s another, more underappreciated, reason for Avatar’s success

While the launch of WarnerMedia’s new all-encompassing streaming service HBO Max has been largely successful, there has been one area in which consumers have expressed some confusion: the branding.  For those keeping score at home, the arrival of HBO Max meant the existence of four “HBO” entities simultaneously with HBO, HBO Now, HBO Go, and

Lincoln Rhyme: Hunt for the Bone Collector will cease any kind of hunt, at least on NBC, which has canceled the serial-killer-chasing drama after an abbreviated inaugural season. NBC’s cancelation of Lincoln Rhyme, reported via Variety, was a two-birds-with-one-stone move that also saw the nixing of another freshman offering in the Bradley Whitford-headlined comedy, Perfect

Filming on Outlander season 6 was set to begin last month as part of Starz’s continuing efforts to appease fans of the time-traveling series who hate to wait very long for new episodes to appear, but as the industry shutdown went into effect earlier in the year, not even a Droughtlander could be avoided. True,

“Mock if you will,” Christian Evangelist Florence Scanwell (Dorothy Atkinson) chided the bordello workers in Hulu‘s progressive period series Harlots. “There is honor in righteous poverty.” The creative team will be finding new places of employment. Harlots has been cancelled at the streaming service, according to THR, nine months after its third season came to

A new channel arrived on Now TV last month called Sky Documentaries boasting a whole range of series and features. It’s a treasure trove of deep dives into a massive range of subjects, from sports to music, crime to scandal to important moments in history. There’re a load of great shows on the channel, and

This STARGIRL review contains spoilers. Stargirl Episode 4 Part of the reason that Stargirl feels like such a breath of fresh air in the DC television universe is that it’s telling stories we haven’t seen in this space before. Courtney Whitmore isn’t just a character who stumbles into having superpowers, she’s also a teen girl.