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This 12-Second Clip From Netflix’s Death Note Is Pretty Much All You Need To See

If you’re one of the people with (valid) concerns about Netflix’s adaptation of Death Note, then today’s your lucky day. Not only is the movie finally available for you to watch (should you choose to do so), there’s also a new clip that perfectly summarizes the movie if you can’t be bothered to sit through…

io9 Charles Pulliam-Moore Aug 25

Netflix’s Death Note Does Way Too Much in Way Too Little Time

The thing about the adaptation of Death Note, premiering today on Netflix, isn’t that it’s bad. It isn’t even the questions raised by the whitewashing controversy. It’s that everything in it happens so fast that it’s hard to care about any of it. Adam Wingard’s Death Note takes the manga’s original premise—a book that kills…

io9 Katharine Trendacosta Aug 25

Get Your First Look at Black Mirror‘s Freaky Fourth Season Right Now

Oh man, is that a Star Trek parody/pastiche/homage? The next season of Black Mirror needs to get here ASAP. It’s just a list of episode titles intercut with snippets of high-tension footage but these glimpses are more than enough to get folks hyped for the upcoming refresh of Charlie Brooker’s award-winning sci-fi anthology show. The…

Television Evan Narcisse Aug 25

David Bowie and Prince Were Adam Wingard’s First Choices for Death Note‘s Demon

Choosing Willem Dafoe to voice shingami Ryuk—basically a spirit of death—was applauded as one of the better casting decisions in Netflix’s Death Note. Director Adam Wingard told io9 that, while Dafoe was his first pick among actors, he originally wanted to go with a glamorous singer for the part. While the Netflix version of Death…

io9 Katharine Trendacosta Aug 24

Thanks to Defenders, Daredevil‘s Next Season Will Be Based on This Classic Comic Story

Matthew Murdock is in a strange place by the end of The Defenders, but the final moments of the show—and even actor Charlie Cox—indicate that Daredevil’s third season will adapt one of the character’s most iconic comic book stories. Here’s what you need to know about it. The Defenders ends with Daredevil and the reborn…

io9 James Whitbrook Aug 23

Puberty Is a Literal Monster in Netflix’s Big Mouth

Netflix’s latest animated series boasts an incredible comedic voice cast (John Mulaney, Maya Rudolph Jason Mantzoukas, Jordan Peele, Fred Armisen, Jenny Slate, and Jessi Klein) and yet the two clips that have been released have left me more confused than anything. Big Mouth described by Netflix as a “half-hour edgy adult animated comedy from real-life…

io9 Katharine Trendacosta Aug 23

The Defenders’ Best Storytelling Trick Doesn’t Use Any Words at All

The Defenders is at its very best when it lets go of whatever designs it had on being a serious prestige drama and embraces the fact that it’s a pulpy, cape procedural about a bunch of toughs taking on a supernatural crime syndicate. The Defenders knows that it’s a comic book show and it’s stronger…

io9 Charles Pulliam-Moore Aug 22

Even Élodie Yung Isn’t Sure What Happened to Elektra in The Defenders

Elektra made her triumphant return from, well, being dead in The Defenders this past weekend. But even after reviving her, the show definitely did some weird things with the character by the end of its eight episodes… things that even actress Élodie Yung doesn’t particularly understand. By Defenders’ end, Elektra, resurrected as an empty vessel…

io9 James Whitbrook Aug 22

Stranger Things Will Be Back For Season 3, But Probably End After Season 4

Stranger Things season two won’t arrive on Netflix for a few months but the show’s creators have already begun looking at its end game. In a new interview, the Duffer Brothers confirmed a third season has been given the go ahead and they want to finish the show with season four. “We’re thinking it will…

io9 Germain Lussier Aug 22

Adam Scott Suspects His Stepson Is Satan’s Son in the Trailer for Little Evil

Writer-director Eli Craig made the horror comedy Tucker and Dale vs. Evil—about a pair of good ol’ boys who get mistaken for backwoods maniacs and hilariously upend the “cabin in the woods” genre in the process. His latest, the Adam Scott-starring Little Evil, looks like it’ll do the same for movies about spooky, bad-seed kids.…

io9 Cheryl Eddy Aug 21

Here’s Your First, Skull-Covered Look at Jon Bernthal in The Punisher

Now that The Defenders is done with, we’re already on to the next chapter in the Marvel/Netflix saga: the return of Jon Bernthal’s vigilante killer Frank Castle in The Punisher. We already got a brief look at the series at the very end of The Defenders, but here’s your first proper look at the man…

io9 James Whitbrook Aug 21

6 Things We Liked About The Defenders (and 4 We Didn’t)

Netflix’s long-awaited Defenders finally came together on Friday and we largely enjoyed it. There was plenty to love, mostly in how the four main characters worked together and the banter between them. Technically the show was also firing on all cylinders. And yet, there were some things—things Marvel’s messed up before—that didn’t work. Here are…

io9 Katharine Trendacosta Aug 21

Stranger Things Meets 1980s Horror in the Excellent Mash-Up Slasher Things

If you’re a fan of Stranger Things and 1980s horror movies—and there’s lots of crossover there anyway—you gotta stop what you’re doing right now and watch Slasher Things. This fan-made delight inserts all the big slasher villains (and some cult favorites, too) into the show’s “Thriller” trailer, and it is perfect. Maybe the very best…

io9 Cheryl Eddy Aug 21

Netflix’s Death Note Creators Don’t Really Understand the Whitewashing Criticism

Last night, Netflix’s Death Note adaptation premiered in New York City, and the screening gave its creators a chance to respond to the widespread criticism of the film’s whitewashing of Japanese characters and context. Their responses aren’t exactly encouraging, but at least they’re talking? When news of Netflix’s Death Note adaptation surfaced earlier this year,…

io9 Julie Muncy Aug 19

This Porn Website Seriously Wants to Bring Back Sense8

As of now, Netflix’s heady, sexy, inclusive scifi thriller Sense8 is basically dead—may it rest in peace. But, if the Wachowski sisters are willing to consider this rather interesting proposal from xHamster, there’s a chance that the series may find a new—and more erotic—second life on one of the internet’s most-visited porn sites. While Sense8…

io9 Charles Pulliam-Moore Aug 18

Stranger Things Had To Hide the Monsters To Get the Rights To ‘Should I Stay or Should I Go’

When you’re making a “Stephen King book directed by Steven Spielberg” like Stranger Things, music is key. And one key piece of music in the first season almost didn’t happen. Speaking at an event hosted by Variety, music supervisor Nora Felder admitted she had a difficult time getting permission to use the Clash’s “Should I Stay…

io9 Germain Lussier Aug 18

The Defenders‘ Post-Credits Scene Teases What’s Next for Punisher

When the credits finally roll on your bingewatch of The Defenders today, make sure you don’t scroll away thinking you’re quite done with the latest batch of the Netflix Marvelverse. At the very end, we get a tease of what’s on the way after the dust settles on Jess, Matt, Danny, and Luke’s adventures—something very…

io9 James Whitbrook Aug 18

The Final Defenders Trailer Is All About Sigourney Weaver Getting Her Menace On

There’s a lot we still don’t know about Alexandra, the mysterious villain at the heart of Netflix and Marvel’s superhero team-up show—but the third and last full trailer for the series is about exactly what you need to know about her: It’s Sigourney Goddamn Weaver getting to be evil as hell, and it’s delightful. Despite…

io9 James Whitbrook Aug 17

The Strength of Netflix’s Defenders Is That They’re All Strong, Broken People

The funny thing about seeing all of Netflix’s Defenders fighting together is that when you think about it, they all kinda have a variation of the same archetypical superpower. The Defenders aren’t just the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s street-level heroes, they all punch things really hard—and that’s part of what makes them so unique. When Netflix…

io9 Charles Pulliam-Moore Aug 17

Godzilla Rules the Earth in His Newest Anime Movie Trailer

We’ve already had a tiny glimpse of the first Godzilla anime movie, but this new trailer gives us an even fuller look at the film’s crazy premise—namely, that Godzilla defeated humanity, forcing the remnants to escape to outer space. But it also gives us our best look at this newest version of big G himself,…

io9 James Whitbrook Aug 17

This 12-Second Clip From Netflix’s Death Note Is Pretty Much All You Need To See

Netflix’s Death Note Does Way Too Much in Way Too Little Time

Get Your First Look at Black Mirror‘s Freaky Fourth Season Right Now

David Bowie and Prince Were Adam Wingard’s First Choices for Death Note‘s Demon

Thanks to Defenders, Daredevil‘s Next Season Will Be Based on This Classic Comic Story

Puberty Is a Literal Monster in Netflix’s Big Mouth

The Defenders’ Best Storytelling Trick Doesn’t Use Any Words at All

Even Élodie Yung Isn’t Sure What Happened to Elektra in The Defenders

Stranger Things Will Be Back For Season 3, But Probably End After Season 4

Adam Scott Suspects His Stepson Is Satan’s Son in the Trailer for Little Evil

Here’s Your First, Skull-Covered Look at Jon Bernthal in The Punisher

6 Things We Liked About The Defenders (and 4 We Didn’t)

Stranger Things Meets 1980s Horror in the Excellent Mash-Up Slasher Things

Netflix’s Death Note Creators Don’t Really Understand the Whitewashing Criticism

This Porn Website Seriously Wants to Bring Back Sense8

Stranger Things Had To Hide the Monsters To Get the Rights To ‘Should I Stay or Should I Go’

The Defenders‘ Post-Credits Scene Teases What’s Next for Punisher

The Final Defenders Trailer Is All About Sigourney Weaver Getting Her Menace On

The Strength of Netflix’s Defenders Is That They’re All Strong, Broken People

Godzilla Rules the Earth in His Newest Anime Movie Trailer

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