Fox’s Gotham has officially flown over the Cuckoo’s Nest. In season 3 alone, we got chopped-off hands, a girl whose body aged a decade, not to mention that whole “wearing Jerome’s face” thing. io9's latest video is a peek at the craziest moments in season three, just in time for Gotham’s triumphant return Thursday.
I just spent the last week of my life building the largest, most expensive Lego set of all-time: the Star Wars Ultimate Collectors Series Millennium Falcon. But you can watch this glorious Lego masterpiece get made in just a few minutes.
Clowns are theoretically supposed to be fun and whimsical, but somewhere along the way, they also became scary as hell—just like Pennywise from It. Where did it all go wrong? As it turns out, they’ve been kind of freaky from the very beginning. io9's latest video takes a look at the history of real-life creepy (and…
And the great telecom throttling wars of 2017 have begun. Back in July, Verizon customers noticed that the quality of video streams was being manipulated. Verizon insisted that it was just running a test. Then the company got trounced by T-Mobile (which already throttles video on mobile) in an overall speed test, and…
There are a lot of reasons not to stare at your phone while you’re driving. A little kid might jump into the road, a car in front of you might have to stop unexpectedly, or a giant fucking sinkhole might swallow the entire road. A man in China learned that last one the hard way recently.
The Defenders debuts on Netflix this Friday, bringing together four different characters and TV shows into one giant super mega crossover. For anyone who needs a reminder of what the heck these characters have been doing, or maybe skipped Iron Fist for relatively obvious reasons, here’s a video crash course.
Superhero comics’ earliest rise to prominence occurred at the height of World War II—so it’s no surprise that the Nazi party became fodder for all sorts of spandex-clad superheroes, from their early days all the way up to 2017. As a reminder, here’s a few of the most famous examples of fictional heroes rising up to…
Full disclosure: I’ve had a fair amount of cold medication today. But this mashup a) works far better than it has any right to; and b) Donkey as Loki may have actually caused me to get sicker when the shock destroyed my immune system.
io9's Winter Forecast is back! This week, hosts Beth Elderkin and Katharine Trendacosta break down whether the first meeting between Jon Snow and Daenerys Targaryen lived up to the hype, why the latest Stark reunion was awkward as hell, and that Casterly Rock reveal no one saw coming. Check in for io9's live breakdown…
Stephen Colbert took viewers to a Moscow hotel room on his show last night. But it wasn’t just any Moscow hotel room. It was the room where President Trump allegedly had two sex workers urinate on the bed as a sign of disrespect to Barack Obama, who had previously stayed in the same room. And the segment is pretty …
This year’s San Diego Comic-Con is in full swing, and the convention is piled to the ceiling with people, panels, and parades of amazing cosplay. io9 takes you to the floor of the convention for all the jaw-dropping film and TV displays, artist interviews, and generally taking in everything that Comic-Con has to…
When Game of Thrones returns this Sunday, Cersei Lannister will be ruling Westeros from her ill-gotten place on the Iron Throne. But with well-armed enemies closing in, and that damn prophecy hanging over her head, Cersei’s chances of survival—much less a long reign—aren’t looking too good.
Everyone is gearing up for Sunday’s return of Game of Thrones, and one of the joys of the show is that there are all sorts of fan theories that can help us guess where the show is going in its final two seasons. io9's latest video series examines the ones most likely to come into play in season seven. This first…
Science fiction has produced some amazing alien creatures, moving beyond the restrictions of reality to stretch our imaginations into the improbable and impossible. Sometimes, those most unrealistic monsters can be put into our own backyards.
Say what you want about Trump’s tweets, new media has given us a new way to see into the psychotic hearts of our politicians. The latest representative to fall into the trap of oversharing is Clay Higgins of Lousiana. Over the weekend Higgins used his visit to Auschwitz as an opportunity to broadcast some…
I love asking questions almost as much as I love listening to answers. Last week at the Electronic Entertainment Expo (aka “E3", aka “Electronic Three”), I got to do both of those things.
“Do not buy maps, buy stock in companies that print maps,” Dr. Paul Goble told a group at Los Alamos National Laboratory in November of 1992.
Like an athlete trying to push their body to its extreme limits, artist Damien Henry was curious what would happen if you asked a predictive algorithm to calculate the next frame of video in a sequence, again and again and again, over 100,000 times.
Put on your tin-foil hat, cover your webcam with a piece of tape, and wait for the imminent arrival of the lizard people because it’s time for some conspiracy theories. Over half of American adults believe in at least one wacky theory, but why are these absurd and complex ideas are so appealing?
Spring is here, but that doesn’t mean any of us want to do anything but binge watch TV. Netflix is bringing a bunch of its original TV shows back this month in the United States alongside tons of other new movies.
