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Gotham, What Are You Even Doing

Hey? Did you know Jim Gordon has a dark side? If you’ve watched five minutes of any episode of Gotham you did, but that didn’t stop the show from devoting an entire hour to an idea that the whole damn show has been built upon from the start. “A Bitter Pill to Swallow” isn’t dull,…

Dammit, The Walking Dead, Let’s Get On With It

It was a bold move for showrunner Scott M. Gimple to make the first half of season six into a single day, following a bunch of different characters both at Rick’s doomed Zombie Fun Run and back at Alexandria, which suffered its first major attack. I’d say it’s been mostly successful, but “Always Accountable” is…

This New Gundam Anime Series Is Basically Cowboy Bebop

The first footage for the newest Gundam series Thunderbolt has arrived, and it’s exciting for a couple of reasons: 1) it’s based on a hit manga that takes place during the events of the original 1979 Mobile Suit Gundam anime series, and 2) it looks and sounds just like a Cowboy Bebop sequel. Um, a…

How Gotham City Evolved Into the Worst Fictional City in America

This is neat. The Nerdwriter has chronicled the 75-year history of Batman’s hometown, from its humble beginnings as New York City (really!) to the crime-ridden, neo-gothic nightmare town we know today in the movies, comics and video games. The 7-miunte video is overwrought in places, but it is cool to witness Gotham change over time.…

On Heroes Reborn, the Heroes Have Already Screwed Everything Up

Hey, remember how in the last two episodes, Hiro kept fussing at HRG to not change things while they were hanging out in the past, and HRG kept screwing with the timeline anyways? Well, turns out Hiro was right, and now everyone on the planet is dead (or at least will be shortly). Thanks for…

Watch the Bloodsoaked, R-Rated Version of The Hobbit‘s Final Battle

Although The Hobbit movies were way too long as is, there is one solid reason for checking out the extended edition Blu-ray of The Hobbit: The Battle of Five Armies when it arrives next week. Peter Jackson has added blood to the climactic battle of Erebor—enough to upgrade this version of the movie to an…

A Very Silly Flash Episode Suddenly Turned Into a Super Dark Flash Episode and It Was Awesome

What started out as perhaps the silliest, most light-hearted episode of The Flash ever ended with one of the series’ darkest moments, all at the hand—or rather the feet—of Zoom, a foe that makes the Reverse-Flash look like a petulant turtle. Namely, slow. There’s not really any deep assessments or clever remarks I have about…

So The Walking Dead Cast a Different Perfect Actor as Its Newest Villain

Hey, remember last week when excellent actor-specializing-in-complex-villains Garret Dillahunt teased that he might be involved in The Walking Dead? Well, that didn’t happen. So instead the hit zombie series cast an even more perfect actor for the role. Jeffrey Dean Morgan has officially been cast as Negan, the next big bad that will menace Rick…

First Look at the DC TV-Verse’s Hawkgirl and Hawkman in Costume

Courtesy of the first still of this year’s much-anticipated (by me!) Arrow/Flash crossover, we have our first look at the Hawkpeople of the DC-CW-TV universe, in their Hawk-duds. It’s certainly an improvement over what Smallville presented, but suffice to say I don’t think the Hawk-helmet has been mastered in live-action quite yet. That’s Falk Hentschel…

Last Night’s Gotham Was So Dumb I Can Barely—Wait, Oh God, I’ve Used This Headline Before, Haven’t I?

I’m sorry. This show keeps getting dumber, but against all odds, it somehow hasn’t gotten less entertaining. Meanwhile, last night’s episode somehow raised the bar for the show just not giving a shit. Let us begin by me giving you my very favorite example: So the Riddler went deep into the woods not just to…

Wynonna Earp Takes Aim in the First Look at Syfy’s Modern Fantasy Show

It’s a big morning for rough-and-tumble, take-no-nonsense heroines. The first poster and synopsis of Syfy’s upcoming TV series has arrived, and it turns out that while Jessica Jones may have metaphorical demons to face, the demons Ms. Earp will battle are quite real. The show, based on the IDW comic of the same name, is…

Dammit, Starz’ Miriam Black TV show adaptation seems to be dead. Author Chuck Wendig just gave notice that Starz had chosen not to bring his foul-mouthed, self-destructive, mystical death-seer to series. Although Wendig does have some good news—the last four books in the Blackbirds series will arrive in rapid succession, beginning March 2017. Contact the…

On The Walking Dead, Some Naïve People Finally Learn the Zombie Apocalypse Is Actually a Major Bummer

With the origin of Morgan: Peace Warrior safely behind us, The Walking Dead returns to Alexandria, where the blood hasn’t quite dried, the corpses haven’t turned, and the residents suddenly discover that life in the zombie apocalypse is actually not that easy. And then Rick Grimes arrives to make everything worse. To be fair, The…

Rod Stewart Has a New Song Called “Batman Superman Spiderman” and It’s Driving Me Insane

Just an FYI: Rod Stewart has a song on his new album, Another Country, that is really called “Batman Superman Spiderman.” It’s apparently a lullaby he wrote his 4-year-old kid, which is kind of sweet, until you listen to the song and life stops making sense. I don’t personally listen to a lot of lullabies…

The Walking Dead May Have Just Cast the Perfect Actor for Its Newest Villain

Normally a rumor like this would go in Morning Spoilers, but this time it’s such a brilliant idea I’m reporting it on its own because it should be true. Garret Dillahunt, who’s perfectly played some of television’s finest bad guys on shows like Deadwood and Justified, may be playing The Walking Dead’s upcoming new big…

Heroes Reborn Has Momentarily Resumed Not Making Me Want to Weep in Agony

Let me be the first one to admit when I was wrong. Last week, after several story-less, entertainment-less episodes in a row, I assumed that like its forebear, Heroes Reborn was just making shit up as it went along. But “July 12: Part II” actually gave us some answers, and impressively, many of them are…

Here’s What Americans Call “Muggles” in the World of Harry Potter

Big happenings in the wizarding world of H.P.! Courtesy of that Entertainment Weekly that presented the first picture of Eddie Redmayne as Newt Scamander in Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, we have now learned that American witches and wizards have a whole new term for those who can’t practice magic. Ready? According to…

Harrison Wells Is Back and The Flash Is Damn Near Perfect Again

Yes, Tom Cavanaugh has returned to The Flash, as the Harrison Wells of Earth-2 joins the SuperSTARS in fighting Zoom. Guess what, though? People are having a hard time trusting someone ho looks exactly like the evil mastermind who murdered their loved ones (or in some cases, themselves). It also doesn’t help that the Wells…

Don’t have Starz? Good news, as you can still watch the excellent season premiere of Ash vs. Evil Dead for free. The channel is allowing people who don’t currently subscribe—which is a lot of people—to check out the show here on its streaming online media service, Starz Play. Warning: You will very much consider paying…

This 15-Second Warcraft Movie Teaser Will Be the Best 15 Seconds You Spend All Day

Again, I absolutely hate posting teasers for trailer in principle, but 1) this is the first footage of Duncan Jones’ infinitely anticipated Warcraft movie that anyone has seen and 2) it’s amazing. Seriously, I give no craps about anything Warcraft and I’m absolutely salivating for this movie now—after only 15 seconds of footage. Obviously, you…