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Jigsaw Is The Punisher‘s Most Fascinating Puzzle Because Frank Castle Can’t Solve Him

Though neither Frank Castle nor Billy Russo were fully aware of it at the time, their final confrontation in The Punisher’s first season was overlaid with a thematic weight that was larger than the sum of its parts. Their fight was a chance for Frank to avenge his family’s deaths, yes, but it was also…

Books & Comics Charles Pulliam-Moore Jan 18

Netflix Says It Won’t Pull Controversial Footage of Actual Deadly Incident From Bird Box

After streaming giant Netflix came under fire for including footage of a real-life, deadly incident that occurred in Canada in its breakout monster movie Bird Box, the company said Thursday it will not pull that imagery from the film. Reached for comment about the controversy, a Netflix spokesperson told the Associated Press said that it…

Tech News Catie Keck Jan 18

Sixty Percent Of Us Chose the Frosties and More Black Mirror: Bandersnatch Stats

Admit it: As you moved your way through Black Mirror: Bandersnatch, you wondered what your friends chose. Now, Netflix has begun to let us know. Several official Netflix Twitter and Black Mirror Twitter accounts went mad this evening, listing a bunch of random facts, which you can now read here: “On the biggest day of…

io9 Germain Lussier Jan 17

Finally, Those Star Trek: Short Treks Are Available Outside the U.S. and Canada

Over the past four months in the run up to Star Trek: Discovery’s return, CBS All Access released four excellent mini-episodes under the Short Treks banner. Except they had a problem that was not quite as mini as the episodes: none of them were actually available outside of the U.S. and Canada. That’s finally changing.…

io9 James Whitbrook Jan 17

Netflix Criticized for Using Actual Footage of Deadly Event in Travelers and Possibly Bird Box

It has not been an especially great week for Netflix or its polarizing monster flick Bird Box, which has spawned one of the most idiotic so-called “challenges” to surface in this cursed timeline we’re trapped in. In yet another public relations headache for the company, Netflix is now looking into whether actual footage of a…

Tech News Catie Keck Jan 17

The Latest Punisher Teaser Prepares Us for a Heartbreaking Showdown

Frank Castle thought he was out of the game, but a dangerous new threat has drawn him back in. The latest look at Netflix’s next (and possibly final) season of The Punisher centers around Frank’s reluctance to get back into the fight…but unfortunately, this one is too personal for him to stay out. We had…

Trailers Beth Elderkin Jan 16

Netflix Is About to Cost You More Money

Netflix, the video streaming service no one can seem to quit despite its increasingly poor collection of titles, is about to hike up its prices. Customers can expect a $1 to $2-per-month rise, depending on their plan of choice. Basic plans will go from $8 to $9; the next highest tier, which includes high-def streaming…

Tech News Avery Ellis Jan 15

Watch the Trailer for Siempre Bruja, a Netflix Show About a Witch Outside of Time

Adjusting to modern life is tricky, especially if you’re a witch from the 17th century. Siempre Bruja, a Netflix Original Series, follows Carmen (Angely Gaviria), an Afro-Colombian witch that got unstuck from time when she was about to be burned at the stake. Now stuck in the modern day, she has to learn how to…

Trailers Julie Muncy Jan 13

The Dragon Prince Returns for a Second Season Next Month

Life comes at you fast. Only a scant five months after the first season of the series premiered on Netflix, season two of The Dragon Prince is coming to the streaming platform. The news comes via the show’s Twitter, which posted a banner yesterday with a date for the premiere: February 15th. We were largely…

io9 Julie Muncy Jan 13

The First Dumb Meme Accident of 2019 Is Here

We made it 11 days into 2019 without a meme-inspired accident, but that’s all over now. Someone has officially failed the “Bird Box Challenge.” If you aren’t aware, the hot new trend is to try driving in traffic while blindfolded. Inspired by the Netflix movie Bird Box (in which a blindfolded Sandra Bullock walks around…

Tech News Rhett Jones Jan 11

Choose Your Own Adventure Is Suing Netflix Over Bandersnatch

You’re a Vermont book publisher who owns the rights to a well-known series of books. A new movie on Netflix uses the general concept for the books. Do you wish to sue them? Yes…or no? For Chooseco LLC, the answer is “Yes.” Variety reports the publisher, which owns the rights to the popular Choose Your…

io9 Germain Lussier Jan 11

The Punisher Season 2 Wants to Make Frank Castle a Superhero

When Frank Castle (Jon Bernthal) was shot in the head at point-blank range before the events of the first season of Netflix’s The Punisher, the bullet fragmented upon entering his skull, and the wound should have killed him. Instead, it left Castle badly wounded and ultimately trapped within a never-ending state of fight or flight.…

Television Charles Pulliam-Moore Jan 11

Jake Gyllenhaal and Velvet Buzzsaw Ensure You’ll Never Look at Art the Same Way Again

The art world can be pretentious, but it can also be deadly, as the first trailer for Netflix’s new thriller, Velvet Buzzsaw, reveals. It puts Jake Gyllenhaal right in the middle of an artistic mystery that threatens the minds and lives of everyone around him. Velvet Buzzsaw is the latest thriller from Nightcrawler’s Dan Gilroy,…

Trailers Beth Elderkin Jan 10

Ultraviolence and Revenge Bring the Punisher Out of Retirement in a Gruesome New Season 2 Trailer

Frank Castle could have easily put down his gun and left the blood-soaked vigilante life behind him after the events of The Punisher’s first season that culminated him in being given a clean slate and a second chance. But the latest trailer from the show’s upcoming second season is a reminder that that just isn’t…

Trailers Charles Pulliam-Moore Jan 10

Earth Is Dying and It’s Time for Humans to GTFO in the First Trailer for Netflix’s IO

The planet has become dangerously toxic, and a woman (Margaret Qualley) who’s determined to go down with the ship meets a fellow survivor (Anthony Mackie), who tells her the very last shuttle ferrying people to a space colony is about to depart. Will she go—and more importantly, will they make it? After Bird Box, Netflix…

Trailers Cheryl Eddy Jan 10

Aca-scuse Me? Netflix’s Carmen Sandiego Won’t Use the Acapella Theme Song

The Bellas from Pitch Perfect might be the queens of acapella, but the folks behind the theme song to PBS’s Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego? game show are practically gods. So, it was delightful to see Rockapella’s founder back with a new version of the acapella theme song—but tragic to learn it won’t be…

io9 Beth Elderkin Jan 10

Netflix Gets Its Own Killer Time Loop Show in the First Russian Doll Trailer

Normal time loop stories are out. Time loop stories based around someone dying over and over? In. Netflix has just dropped the first trailer for Russian Doll, a new show from Amy Poehler, Natasha Lyonne, and Leslye Headland about a woman named Nadia (played by Lyonne), who finds herself sent back to a set point…

io9 James Whitbrook Jan 9

Inspired by Bird Box, Netflix Asked Artists to Share Their Deepest Fears

Ask anyone what their biggest fear is and no two answers will be exactly the same. That’s why Netflix’s hit movie, Bird Box, doesn’t show its villains. Nothing is scarier than what lives deep in our own imaginations. Inspired by that thought, Netflix’s sci-fi/genre NX social channel asked several artists to use the medium of…

Movies Germain Lussier Jan 9

io9’s Ultimate Guide to 2019’s Sci-Fi, Fantasy, and Superhero TV

And you thought there were a lot of movies coming out this year? Get ready to never leave your couch in 2019, because the amount of TV you’re going to want to watch is truly staggering. Here’s our mega-giant list of sci-fi, fantasy, and superhero shows we’re most looking forward to, with the standard caveat…

io9 Io9 Staff Jan 8

YouTube Ass Jake Paul Appears to Run Through Traffic Blindfolded for Bird Box Challenge

Whether or not you liked Bird Box, Netflix’s apocalyptic December 2018 movie about an unseen phenomenon that drives people that witness it into suicidal or homicidal madness, it’s turned into a terrible meme. Mimicking a pivotal sequence from the movie in which several survivors make a perilous journey while blindfolded, people are making ill-advised viral…

Tech News Tom McKay Jan 8

Jigsaw Is The Punisher‘s Most Fascinating Puzzle Because Frank Castle Can’t Solve Him

Netflix Says It Won’t Pull Controversial Footage of Actual Deadly Incident From Bird Box

Sixty Percent Of Us Chose the Frosties and More Black Mirror: Bandersnatch Stats

Finally, Those Star Trek: Short Treks Are Available Outside the U.S. and Canada

Netflix Criticized for Using Actual Footage of Deadly Event in Travelers and Possibly Bird Box

The Latest Punisher Teaser Prepares Us for a Heartbreaking Showdown

Netflix Is About to Cost You More Money

Watch the Trailer for Siempre Bruja, a Netflix Show About a Witch Outside of Time

The Dragon Prince Returns for a Second Season Next Month

The First Dumb Meme Accident of 2019 Is Here

Choose Your Own Adventure Is Suing Netflix Over Bandersnatch

The Punisher Season 2 Wants to Make Frank Castle a Superhero

Jake Gyllenhaal and Velvet Buzzsaw Ensure You’ll Never Look at Art the Same Way Again

Ultraviolence and Revenge Bring the Punisher Out of Retirement in a Gruesome New Season 2 Trailer

Earth Is Dying and It’s Time for Humans to GTFO in the First Trailer for Netflix’s IO

Aca-scuse Me? Netflix’s Carmen Sandiego Won’t Use the Acapella Theme Song

Netflix Gets Its Own Killer Time Loop Show in the First Russian Doll Trailer

Inspired by Bird Box, Netflix Asked Artists to Share Their Deepest Fears

io9’s Ultimate Guide to 2019’s Sci-Fi, Fantasy, and Superhero TV

YouTube Ass Jake Paul Appears to Run Through Traffic Blindfolded for Bird Box Challenge

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