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500 Lucky Stranger Things Fans Can Buy a Re-creation of Mike’s Sweet ’80s Bike From Schwinn

If Stranger Things were set in modern times, the show probably wouldn’t be as endearing to its fans. The characters are great, as is the story of a small town besieged by experiments run amok, but it’s ‘80s nostalgia that helps cement our addiction to the show, and Schwinn wants to give Stranger Things fans…

io9 Andrew Liszewski Jun 4

Cargo Might Be the Hardest Zombie Story You’ll Ever Watch

I almost didn’t finish Cargo. I was sure it was going to give me nightmares. It’s about fathers and daughters doing terrible things to keep each other alive. But its terrible events lay on top of a premise too tantalizing to turn away from. As in other zombie apocalypse entertainment, the extinction-level event in Cargo…

io9 Evan Narcisse May 30

This Aggretsuko Lego Playset Turns the Existential Dread Lurking Inside All of Us Into Fun

You can learn a lot about life from playing with Lego, like how to build a house or car, but what if there was a playset designed to help you come to terms with the reality of living in a constant state of existential dread? Retsuko, the rage-filled red panda and star of Netflix’s Aggretsuko,…

io9 Charles Pulliam-Moore May 29

Here’s Your First Look at Matt Groening’s New Netflix Animated Series, Disenchantment

After The Simpsons, Matt Groening took to the future for his jokey love letter to science fiction in Futurama. Now, he’s planning on doing something similar for fantasy in his new Netflix series Disenchanment—and we finally have our first look. After releasing brief teasers on social media yesterday, Netflix has officially revealed images from the…

Television James Whitbrook May 23

The Nerd’s Watch: The Best Scifi Films and TV Streaming in June

You can get comprehensive lists of everything coming to streaming anywhere. But half of those titles you don’t care about, and the other half are terrible. What’s the good stuff? We’re here to help. Below you’ll find what we deem to be the best scifi and fantasy movies and TV coming to Netflix, Amazon, and…

io9 Germain Lussier May 23

Ring the Bells, Idris Elba Is Directing and Starring in a Modern Hunchback of Notre Dame

Morning in Paris, the city awakes to the bells of a new monster movie. Idris Elba will direct, produce, compose, and star in a modern remake of the classic Hunchback of Notre Dame for Netflix. It must be heaven’s light. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Elba has signed on to create a modern adaptation of…

io9 Beth Elderkin May 23

All of Harlem Wants a Piece of Luke Cage in This Season Two Clip

Luke Cage’s second season will see the Harlem hero return home and try to get back to the kind of normal, everyday life he enjoyed before becoming a local superhero. But there’s a storm coming Luke’s way courtesy of Bushmaster that’s going to make his homecoming less than idyllic. We’ve already seen that when Luke…

io9 Charles Pulliam-Moore May 23

Even the Obamas Work for Netflix Now

The Obamas are about enter into your Netflix queue. The New York Times reported on Monday that Netflix has partnered with Higher Ground Productions, a company created by the former president and first lady, to produce content for the streaming service. The content that will be produced remains up in the air, as last we…

Tech News David Turner May 21

The She-Ra Reboot Debuts the First Shadowy Look at the New Princess of Power

She may be cloaked in shadow, but this is our first glimpse at the all-new Princess of Power, making her way to Netflix soon. And now we know who will be voicing She-Ra and her friends (and villains), too Revealed by Entertainment Weekly today, Netflix and Dreamworks Animation’s reboot of the beloved series will be…

io9 James Whitbrook May 18

Sense8’s First Finale Trailer Promises Action and Answers

Sense8, the feverish dream orgy concocted by Lana Wachowski (in collaboration with people like her sister Lilly Wachowski, J. Michael Straczynski, Tom Tykwer, and James McTeigue) was canceled after airing a truly exceptional finale that asked big questions—and more crucially—promised actual answers. Now it’s getting one last hurrah courtesy of Netflix, and the trailer for…

Television Alex Cranz May 17

Netflix: We’re Going to Have Churned Out 1,000 Originals By the End of the Year

Streaming giant Netflix, which has been aggressively pursuing an original content strategy at the same time it’s lost a great deal of its licensed content, says it is on track to have created over 1,000 original shows and movies by the end of the year. According to Quartz, chief content officer Ted Sanders announced that…

Movies Tom McKay May 15

It Looks Like Jessica Jones Is Finally Trying to Address Its Diversity Problem

While details about Jessica Jones’ upcoming third season are still sparse, the latest bit of casting buzz suggests that the season might try to correct one of the show’s most glaring and problematic issues. Though Jessica Jones has consistently been one of the stronger and more interesting parts of Netflix’s branch of the Marvel Cinematic…

Television Charles Pulliam-Moore May 11

Let’s All Pray Something Like The Rain Never Happens in Real Life

The apocalypse in Netflix’s new eco-disaster series The Rain happens with frightening speed. One minute, high schooler Simone is joshing with her friends and flirting with a boy. The next, her family’s racing down the highway in their car and then leaving it behind to run through the woods on foot. And when the clouds…

io9 Evan Narcisse May 9

The New Luke Cage Trailer Debuts a Villain Who Can Break the Unbreakable Man

Luke Cage isn’t a trained fighter, an expert private investigator, or a warrior blessed with mystical energies, but he is a damn-near indestructible hero with a good head on his shoulders and a solid moral compass. But how does an unbreakable man fight someone who can render him completely vulnerable? Netflix’s new trailer for Luke…

io9 Charles Pulliam-Moore May 7

Anon Is a Scifi Movie That Shows How the Singularity Is Going to Screw Us All

In the alt-reality of Anon, everyone’s brain is hooked up to a massive shared network and authorities can see what you’re seeing whenever they want. There’s no real crime but no privacy either. If you try to keep your life to yourself, you’re a major threat to society. Written and directed by Andrew Niccol (Gattaca),…

io9 Evan Narcisse May 3

There’s One Episode of ReBoot: The Guardian Code That’s Actually Worth Watching

You’d be forgiven for having forgotten (or deciding not to) watch ReBoot: The Guardian Code, an airless reboot of the beloved ‘90s CGI cartoon that premiered on Netflix at the end of March. The show is, put simply, quite bad and a far, far cry from the original. But there is one episode you might…

Television Charles Pulliam-Moore May 3

Ron Howard’s Arrested Development Parody of Star Wars Puts a Hilarious Spin on A New Hope

It even has narration from Ron Howard. On today’s edition of The Star Wars Show, Solo: A Star Wars Story director Ron Howard stopped by for a very interesting interview about the upcoming film, which is even intercut with some new behind-the-scenes footage. However, he also added his voice to a completely hilarious Arrested Development…

io9 Germain Lussier May 2

The Nerd’s Watch: All the TV and Movies Streaming in May That You Actually Care About

These days, knowing everything that’s coming to the popular streaming services is incredibly useful, but it can be hard to sift through all the titles to find the geeky things you’ll really want to watch. io9 is here to help—as your humble stewards, we’ve whittled down the new-addition lists to just the cool, nerdy, genre…

Television Germain Lussier May 1

Michael B. Jordan’s Next Comic Book Project Is Headed to Netflix

Hot off his stellar turn in Black Panther, Michael B. Jordan has another superhero project in the works—one that is now heading to Netflix. Deadline reports that the streaming service has successfully bid for the rights to an adaptation of the Vault Comics scifi thriller Failsafe. Created by F.J. DeSanto, Todd Farmer, and Federico Dallochio,…

io9 James Whitbrook Apr 30

How Are Marvel’s Television Shows Going to Address Infinity War‘s Devastating Ending?

The Avengers finally went up against Thanos in Avengers: Infinity War and set events in motion that could change the entire Marvel Cinematic Universe. Which means, of course, that Marvel’s television shows are going to have to address what happened in Infinity War. Right? Infinity War’s very first scene makes it crystal clear that Thanos…

io9 Charles Pulliam-Moore Apr 30

500 Lucky Stranger Things Fans Can Buy a Re-creation of Mike’s Sweet ’80s Bike From Schwinn

Cargo Might Be the Hardest Zombie Story You’ll Ever Watch

This Aggretsuko Lego Playset Turns the Existential Dread Lurking Inside All of Us Into Fun

Here’s Your First Look at Matt Groening’s New Netflix Animated Series, Disenchantment

The Nerd’s Watch: The Best Scifi Films and TV Streaming in June

Ring the Bells, Idris Elba Is Directing and Starring in a Modern Hunchback of Notre Dame

All of Harlem Wants a Piece of Luke Cage in This Season Two Clip

Even the Obamas Work for Netflix Now

The She-Ra Reboot Debuts the First Shadowy Look at the New Princess of Power

Sense8’s First Finale Trailer Promises Action and Answers

Netflix: We’re Going to Have Churned Out 1,000 Originals By the End of the Year

It Looks Like Jessica Jones Is Finally Trying to Address Its Diversity Problem

Let’s All Pray Something Like The Rain Never Happens in Real Life

The New Luke Cage Trailer Debuts a Villain Who Can Break the Unbreakable Man

Anon Is a Scifi Movie That Shows How the Singularity Is Going to Screw Us All

There’s One Episode of ReBoot: The Guardian Code That’s Actually Worth Watching

Ron Howard’s Arrested Development Parody of Star Wars Puts a Hilarious Spin on A New Hope

The Nerd’s Watch: All the TV and Movies Streaming in May That You Actually Care About

Michael B. Jordan’s Next Comic Book Project Is Headed to Netflix

How Are Marvel’s Television Shows Going to Address Infinity War‘s Devastating Ending?

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