Re-Catching lightning in a bottle proves to be to difficult for Netflix in this adaptation of the classic Anime, adding Cowboy Bebop to the growing list of Anime adaptations that just miss the mark. Here’s where we think Netflix’s latest streaming offering may have missed the mark. WARNING: CONTAINS SPOILERS.
Read MoreAll the momentum that the final season of “The Walking Dead” had been building to completely deflates in a flat mid-season finale that stands as one of the show’s worst episodes. WARNING: Contains Spoilers.
Read MoreThere have been rumors ever since What If…? premiered that these characters would group together to face off against some powerful threat to the multiverse - and the rumors were true. The Watcher gathers all the heroes from previous episodes together in order to take down the seemingly unstoppable Ultron, forcing them to abandon their home universes and fight for the survival of all existence. WARNING: Contains Spoilers
Read More“The Walking Dead” has its first significant stumble of the final season, in an overstuffed episode that allows too many storylines to wander aimlessly while simultaneously moving at a snail’s pace, setting the stage for a midseason break by means of some of the show’s worst habits. WARNING: Contains Spoilers.
Read MoreThe ambiguous ending of last week’s ‘What If…?’ episode left us with plenty more questions than we had answers. …Who is this version of Ultron? …Where has he come from? …What does he want? Thankfully, the newest episode of What If..? answers all these questions and more, whilst setting up for an explosive finale next week. WARNING: Contains Spoilers.
Read More“The Walking Dead” gives Lauren Ridloff a long-overdue chance to showcase her abilities in a gripping main story that also gives horror fans lots of exciting moments courtesy of director Greg Nicotero, but the episode slightly undermines itself when it pivots to Daryl (Norman Reedus) and the Reapers. WARNING: Contains Spoilers.
Read MoreWriter/Director Mike Flanagan has been fueling our nightmares in recent years and one thing is clear: Flanagan is well on his way to becoming one of our modern day masters of horror. In fact, after watching Midnight Mass, one might argue he’s already there.
Read MoreThe latest instalment of Marvel’s inventive anthology series What If..? imagines a world where instead of being adopted by Odin, Loki is left to be raised by the frost giants and Thor grows up as an only child. The result of this unfamiliar situation is just as amusing as it is unpredictable. WARNING: Contains Spoilers.
Read MoreIt’s not a perfect episode nor a standout “The Walking Dead” entry, but “Out of the Ashes” still works, giving the show’s ensemble cast the right amount of attention and screen time, and moving the story along as the final season prepares to close out its first act. WARNING: Contains Spoilers.
Read MoreIn Episode 6 of ‘What If…?’, Tony Stark’s origin story takes a dark turn when a chance encounter with Erik Killmonger sparks a dangerous conflict with Wakanda. The ripples sent through the MCU (or this version of it) affect the very foundation of the Avengers and the world of our heroes. WARNING: Contains Spoilers.
Read MoreDaryl (Norman Reedus) encounters one of the best villains ever introduced on “The Walking Dead,” as a scene-stealing Ritchie Coster adds some much-needed menace and personality to the Reapers in a top-tier episode. WARNING: Contains Spoilers.
Read MoreMarvel’s What If..? has already brought audiences to plenty of boldly outlandish universes, but this may just be the craziest yet. Taking place during the events of Avengers: Infinity War, the show’s latest episode is a wildly entertaining imagining of Marvel’s take on a zombie apocalypse, as we follow a disjointed group of heroes on a quest to save the world. WARNING: Contains Spoilers.
Read MoreLauren Cohan delivers one of her best “The Walking Dead” performances in a Maggie-centric hour that gives the right amount of attention to additional cast members, and stands tall as one of the show’s most well-executed episodes. WARNING: Contains Spoilers.
Read MoreThe latest instalment of What If..? asks the question: what would Stephen Strange do to save his late love Christine Palmer? The answer is as heartbreaking as it is poignant - anything. Check out our recap of the episode, and the review of this latest instalment of the Marvel animated property.
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“Acheron: Part II” is a fast return to form for “The Walking Dead,” as the episode finds a way to quickly break free of pitfalls “Part I” had fallen into, and sets up the rest of the final season’s first act in a gripping way.
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The third episode of What If..? is here, and the show seems to really be finding its stride. In the show’s darkest timeline to date, we return to Fury’s recruitment of the original Avengers. We watch heroes fall and villains rise in a chaotic reimagining of the early days of the MCU, which certainly does not shy away from taking the timeline down some darkly twisted paths. WARNING: Contains Spoilers.
Read More“The Walking Dead” kicks off its eleventh and final season with what is at first a promising start, but ultimately an episode which struggles to hold itself together with a jarring B-story and a cliffhanger ending that might be more the fault of AMC’s scheduling than it is that of the show’s writers. WARNING: Contains Spoilers.
Read MoreAfter what many Marvel fans have described as an underwhelming start to the series last week, Marvel’s ‘What If..?’ is back with another inventive premise. This time, what if T’Challa had been picked up by Yondu instead of Peter Quill?
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In an inventive reimagining of Captain America’s iconic origin story, Peggy Carter replaces Steve rogers as the First Avenger in the premiere episode of Marvel’s animated anthology.
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Marvel’s ‘WHAT IF’ hits Disney+ tomorrow, and the show appears as if it is destined to be a fan favorite. The Marvel Cinematic Universe opens up even more of the multiverse and gives every diehard MCU lover some major twists and turns. WARNING: CONTAINS MINOR SPOILERS
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