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The Best and Worst TV Moments of 2020

We’ve already counted up our best and worst TV shows of 2020. But now we’re getting micro-focused on those special (and not-so-special) TV moments that made us laugh, cry, shriek, recoil, rewind, and make memes. You know, the ones that remained burned in our memories long after the episode or season ended. Behold! Best Star…

io9 Io9 Staff Dec 24

Umbrella Academy‘s Elliot Page Comes Out as Trans in a Powerful Open Letter

You might not yet know Elliot Page by name, but there’s little doubt that you’re already more than familiar with the Academy Award-nominated actor’s work and commitment to using his platform to advocate for LGBTQ rights. Today, Page came out as transgender in an open letter published to both his Twitter and Instagram pages detailing…

Books & Comics Charles Pulliam-Moore Dec 1

The Scorpion King Could Live Again, But Not With Dwayne Johnson

Angela Bassett will return for the next two Missions Impossible. Freakazoid is back…on Teen Titans Go!? HBO has canceled its Stephen King adaptation The Outsider, but there’s hope it might live. Plus, get a look at Pennyworth’s return, and there’s good news for The Umbrella Academy. Spoilers now! Mission: Impossible 7 & 8 In conversation…

Television James Whitbrook & Gordon Jackson Nov 11

The Umbrella Academy Card Game Is Punishing

The Umbrella Academy has already jumped from the comic book panel to the small screen, with season two of Netflix’s show now streaming. Now, it’s The Umbrella Academy Game thanks to Studio 71 Games. We had a chance to test out an early version of the card game and it’s off to a promising start, but…

Games Beth Elderkin Aug 31

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Umbrella Academy Does Card Battles, and D&D Gets a Board Game in Gaming News

Welcome back to Gaming Shelf, io9’s column all about board games and tabletop roleplaying games. Gen Con Online has come and gone, along with San Diego Comic-Con—but they weren’t the only sources of games announcements this time around. We’ve got a new card game about The Umbrella Academy, along with a tabletop roleplaying game about…

Games Beth Elderkin Aug 4

Umbrella Academy‘s Mysterious New Character Raises an Interesting Question

Though The Umbrella Academy’s second season mainly focuses on the Hargreeves siblings trying to figure out how they’re involved in JFK’s assassination and how to avert another apocalypse, the show also does a fair amount of worldbuilding. It introduces a number of new characters, one of whom raises a rather interesting question about their universe. Because Number…

Books & Comics Charles Pulliam-Moore Aug 3

Ancient Microbes, Virtual Comic-Con, and Mind-Boggling Sperm, Best Gizmodo Stories of the Week

Since the world is both metaphorically and, in some places, literally on fire these days, I’ve replaced doomscrolling through my feeds with something more wholesome to preserve my already perennially shaky mental state: farming sims. Nice try, depressing news, but I can’t hear you when I’m 100+ hours deep in Stardew Valley (look, I love…

Tech News Alyse Stanley Aug 2

The Umbrella Academy‘s Second Season Is Tackling 1960s Anti-Black Racism Head On

By centering a plot in which its main characters are transported into the past, Netflix’s The Umbrella Academy is joining the ranks of other sci-fi series where Black characters are forced to deal with the overt, public examples of anti-Black racism and violence that define both America’s history and its present. Even though Allison Hargreeves…

Books & Comics Charles Pulliam-Moore Jul 30

Umbrella Academy’s Elliot Page on Giving Vanya Space to Open Up

The first trailer for Umbrella Academy’s second season made it abundantly clear that the Netflix series is pivoting into a markedly different direction than the Dark Horse comics series it’s based on. Where the initial comic arc left Vanya (Elliot Page in the series) quite incapacitated thanks to a gunshot, the TV show ended its…

Books & Comics Charles Pulliam-Moore Jul 29

Umbrella Academy‘s Stunning Opening Scene Is a Peek Into Apocalyptic Superheroics

Much as The Umbrella Academy’s Hargreeves siblings would all love to have the chance to simply chill out and live their lives as regular people, they’re a bunch of extraordinary, world-famous superheroes who, amongst other things, are prone to bringing about and then narrowly averting the apocalypse. It means that the “normal life” thing is…

io9 Charles Pulliam-Moore Jul 29

One New Mutants Mainstay Is Definitely Not in the Movie

Hasbro’s plans for the G.I. Joe movie universe have been delayed (again). David Gordon Green says Halloween Kills will examine the wider community’s reaction to Michael Myers. Maisie Richardson-Sellers is done for a guest return to Legends of Tomorrow. Plus, what’s to come on Stargirl, and Brenton Thwaites teases a Titans costume upgrade. Spoilers, away!…

io9 James Whitbrook & Gordon Jackson Jul 28

The Umbrella Academy‘s Second Season Could Stand to Loosen Up a Bit

Even though the first season of Netflix’s The Umbrella Academy incorporated elements from both the first and second volumes of Gerard Way and Gabriel Bá’s Umbrella Academy comics, the live-action adaptation barely managed to scratch the surface of the source material’s twisted, science-fictional madness. Season two picks the story up right where it left off…

io9 Charles Pulliam-Moore Jul 27

The Umbrella Academy‘s Season 2 Time Jump Into the Past Is Also a Major Step Forward

At first glance, the plot of Umbrella Academy’s upcoming second season might seem as if it were torn right out of the pages of Gerard Way and Gabriel Bá’s second volume of the Dark Horse comic. After narrowly avoiding an apocalypse, the Hargreeves siblings all become entangled in a series of events leading up to…

io9 Charles Pulliam-Moore Jul 15

Umbrella Academy‘s Season 2 Trailer Is Here to Rain on Everyone’s Parade

Even after narrowly averting the apocalypse caused by their latest familial drama, Umbrella Academy’s Hargreeves siblings found themselves faced with a devastating fate their years of superhero training could only barely prepare them for. The new season two trailer finds the heroes trying to blend in to a new environment and having to hide their…

io9 Charles Pulliam-Moore Jul 8

Anthony Mackie Teases the Scope of The Falcon and The Winter Soldier

Zach Galligan has high hopes for the future of Gremlins. Bill and Ted are facing both the music and another delay. Get a brief glimpse at the nightmares to come in Candyman. Plus, what to expect when Fort Salem returns (someday), and NBC sets its sights on new X-Filesian drama Debris. To me, my spoilers!…

io9 James Whitbrook & Gordon Jackson Jun 30

In Our First Look at Umbrella Academy Season 2, Long Hair and Swedish Assassins Abound

Look, it’s been a wild time for everyone, let alone the time-hopping heroes of Umbrella Academy. You’ll be forgiven for some of them letting their hair get a bit out of place. Or, really, a lot out of place. Netflix has revealed the first look at Umbrella Academy’s upcoming sophomore season, and our first glimpse…

io9 James Whitbrook Jun 16

New Mutants Director Josh Boone Has a Trilogy Planned Out

Sonic the Hedgehog will live to run another day. Paul Feig is getting into fairytales and the creators behind the upcoming Dungeons & Dragons movie discuss crit-ical thinking. Plus updates from The Umbrella Academy, a tiny new look at Christopher Nolan’s Tenet, and more. TGIF, spoilers! Chhori Crypt TV (with backers Blumhouse) is producing a…

Television James Whitbrook & Gordon Jackson May 29

Star Trek: Picard’s Jeri Ryan Offers an Update on Season 2’s Filming

Sony and Amazon are teaming with Álex de la Iglesia for a new series of cosmic horror movies. Christopher Nolan tries to justify buying and blowing up a whole-ass 747 for Tenet. There’s a long-awaited update on the Goon movie. Plus, what’s to come on The 100, and more seaside teases for American Horror Story.…

Television James Whitbrook & Gordon Jackson May 28

The Umbrella Academy’s Season 2 Date Announcement Shows What Weird Times We’re Living In

If you asked me three months ago whether we’d ever see the day where a major comic book series would announce its second season with a Zoom dance party, I’d say, well—I don’t even know what that question means. Netflix’s The Umbrella Academy is coming back this summer, but the bigger story might be how…

Trailers Beth Elderkin May 18

Another DC-CW Hero Might Have Signed Up for Crisis on Infinite Earths

Brendan Fraser is game for a Mummy 4. Margot Robbie’s rumored Tank Girl revival may already have a director lined up. The screenwriters behind A Quiet Place want to be behind the next Indiana Jones or Star Wars. Plus, get a look at the familiar faces returning to Arrow, and Snapchat (the company and the…

Television James Whitbrook Sep 11

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The Best and Worst TV Moments of 2020

Umbrella Academy‘s Elliot Page Comes Out as Trans in a Powerful Open Letter

The Scorpion King Could Live Again, But Not With Dwayne Johnson

The Umbrella Academy Card Game Is Punishing

Umbrella Academy Does Card Battles, and D&D Gets a Board Game in Gaming News

Umbrella Academy‘s Mysterious New Character Raises an Interesting Question

Ancient Microbes, Virtual Comic-Con, and Mind-Boggling Sperm, Best Gizmodo Stories of the Week

The Umbrella Academy‘s Second Season Is Tackling 1960s Anti-Black Racism Head On

Umbrella Academy’s Elliot Page on Giving Vanya Space to Open Up

Umbrella Academy‘s Stunning Opening Scene Is a Peek Into Apocalyptic Superheroics

One New Mutants Mainstay Is Definitely Not in the Movie

The Umbrella Academy‘s Second Season Could Stand to Loosen Up a Bit

The Umbrella Academy‘s Season 2 Time Jump Into the Past Is Also a Major Step Forward

Umbrella Academy‘s Season 2 Trailer Is Here to Rain on Everyone’s Parade

Anthony Mackie Teases the Scope of The Falcon and The Winter Soldier

In Our First Look at Umbrella Academy Season 2, Long Hair and Swedish Assassins Abound

New Mutants Director Josh Boone Has a Trilogy Planned Out

Star Trek: Picard’s Jeri Ryan Offers an Update on Season 2’s Filming

The Umbrella Academy’s Season 2 Date Announcement Shows What Weird Times We’re Living In

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