The Smashing Machine Isn’t the Rock Acting Challenge We Were Led to Believe

This post contains spoilers for The Smashing Machine. Early in The Smashing Machine, a reporter tries to pry an answer out of Mark Kerr, the hulking ultimate fighting champ portrayed by Dwayne Johnson. The reporter wants to know how Kerr will handle losing a match, but Kerr finds the question utterly bewildering. Johnson furrows his […]

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It’s Time To Admit That Star Trek Needs Longer Seasons

For all that the streaming era has given us, there are still a lot of genuinely annoying things about it, most notably when it comes the business and production of TV. Now, six to eight-episode seasons of popular series are commonplace, usually dropped as single-release binges instead of spread out over weeks, and it’s not […]

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Andrew Lincoln’s New British Thriller Sounds Like a Real Swerve From The Walking Dead

After spending over a decade as part of one of TV’s biggest franchises, British actor Andrew Lincoln is understandably known by many viewers through AMC’s megapopular zombie series The Walking Dead. On that show, he played ultimate good guy Rick Grimes, a dogged and self-sacrificing leader determined to protect his people from a variety of […]

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Peacemaker: Why The Name ‘Fitzgibbon’ Keeps Showing Up in James Gunn’s Work

Fans of James Gunn‘s work may have been surprised by the appearance of Detective Larry Fitzgibbon, played by Lochlyn Munro, in the latest episode of Peacemaker. No, they weren’t confused by the fact that Larry Fitzgibbon was killed by a Butterfly in season 1 and now is walking around again in season 2. That’s easy […]

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Should Doctor Who Return to a Multi-Episode Story Format?

In the wake of Doctor Who’s controversial (and, largely, critically panned) season 15 finale, everyone has thoughts about what went wrong and how the show can turn things around in its next era. And to be fair, there’s a lot to consider, from thoughts on the identity of the next Doctor, the meaning behind Billie […]

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The DC Comics Alternate Realities We Want to See in the Peacemaker Finale

This post contains spoilers for Peacemaker season 2. For as different as James Gunn‘s DC Universe has felt to the one that Kevin Feige built at Marvel, they do share one trope unavoidable to modern franchises. They both deal with the multiverse. We’ve had a taste of the multiverse in Peacemaker‘s second season, in which […]

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Scott Bakula Wants to Tell the Story of Jonathan Archer’s Life After Star Trek: Enterprise

One of the most exciting aspects of the larger Star Trek universe is the opportunity for the franchise to finally tell different kinds of stories. Star Trek: Discovery catapulted the franchise into the far future. Prequel Star Trek: Strange New Worlds explores the origin stories of legacy characters from The Original Series. Star Trek: Starfleet […]

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