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House Of The Dragon Season 2 Episode 7 Recap: An Army of Bastards
29.7.2024
House of the Dragon episode seven picks up where things left off, with Rhaenyra discovering who Seasmoke’s rider is: Addam of Hull, Corlys Velaryon’s bastard. Addam immediately pledges fealty to the Queen, who is stunned by him—Targaryens have long believed that they were the only House able...
House Of The Dragon Season 2 Episode 6 Recap: How To Ride Your Dragon
26.7.2024
Season two’s sixth episode in HBO’s chronicle of House Targaryen opens with the Lannister Army arriving at Golden Tooth and meeting with the surrendering Lord Lefford. But Jason Lannister isn’t progressing towards Harrenhal without Aemond joining the battle on Vhagar.Read more
The Acolyte Episode 8 Review: Torn Between Risk And Safety
22.7.2024
The Acolyte is done, and now we are left to ask: In the sea of content that we are flooded with, does the finale achieve something deeper than just continuing to sell us the Star Wars brand? Partially, yes. It gives us reveals that could have been delivered episodes earlier, action that would have...
Star Wars: The Acolyte Gives Reylo Fans The Romance They Always Wanted
19.7.2024
The Star Wars fandom is a fraught, fervent place. In the modern age, online communities rallying around franchises are often composed of numerous splinter groups, and Star Wars is no exception—it’s got far-right reactionaries, original trilogy boomers, millennial prequel loyalists, Gen Z animated...
Supacell Episode 3 Review: Control And Community
19.7.2024
The first two episodes of Supacell could have done a more thorough job of focusing on Sabrina (Nadine Mills) and other women in the show. Instead, they’ve served primarily as support characters for the male narrative. So Sabrina’s episode is the one I’ve been waiting for, as it brings...
House Of The Dragon Season 2 Episode 5 Recap: Hitting The Dragonglass Ceiling
16.7.2024
As House of The Dragon approaches its mid-season, the show reminds viewers that this Targaryen war originated from the belief that a woman should not rule the Seven Kingdoms. The memory of Rhaena, The Fallen Queen That Never Was, refreshes both Team Green and Black to that fact.Read more
Supacell Episode 2 Review: Internal Changes, External Impact
15.7.2024
The second episode of Netflix’sSupacell, “Tazer,” explores the stress and anxiety some of the superheroes experience as they discover their powers and test their limits. While some superhero narratives follow characters who experience their powers in secret, Supacell shows what happens when...
The Acolyte Episode 7 Review: The Price Of Misunderstanding
11.7.2024
For those of you who’ve felt like any sense of real meaning was gone from the Star Wars franchise since it was acquired by Disney, you’re in for a real treat. The Acolyte episode 7 offers a kind of emotional intelligence and narrative pacing that I would normally associate more with that other...
Supacell Episode 1 Review: Survival And Synchronicity
11.7.2024
Rapman’s new Netflix series Supacell envisions a reality in which multiple Londoners develop sudden superpowers, and all of them have a commonality: they’re Black. We meet the characters separately, but the short scenes reveal a great deal about the nature of each character, and by the end of...
If You’re Mad About The Acolyte, You Haven’t Been Paying Attention To Star Wars
10.7.2024
The Acolyte, the new Disney+ Star Wars series set in the High Republic era, has been open about its intentions from the jump: portray the Jedi Order at the height of its power and show how they are responsible for their own fall from grace, the same fall we watched play out in the prequels over...
House of the Dragon Episode 4 Recap: Dragon Vs. Dragon Vs. Dragon
8.7.2024
If the revelations of last week’s House of The Dragon told audiences anything, it’s that we are too far ahead in this Targaeryn war to retreat. It’s war or die!Read more
House Of The Dragon Season 2 Episode 3 Recap: Sister Act
2.7.2024
After two high-velocity episodes of death and mourning, the third episode of House of the Dragon’s second season slows down the energy, though not before giving a taste of the famed Bracken and Blackwood feud. The opposing families find themselves on opposite sides of the civil war and go to blows...
It's Time To Save Star Wars: Obi-Wan From Being Stuck On Xbox
1.7.2024
There’s a Star Wars game out there that is hard to play in 2024 because, for whatever reason, it remains trapped on the hard-to-emulate OG Xbox without any official remakes, remasters, or backward compatibility support. That agme is Star Wars: Obi-Wan.Read more
The Acolyte Episode 5 Review: Stunning Battles, Shallow Characters
1.7.2024
After a slow episode 4, The Acolyte turns the volume all the way up on lightsaber battles with an episode that is worth every minute of screen time and then some. Featuring perhaps the best lightsaber choreography in Star Wars history, here the action takes priority over plot and character...
The Acolyte's Fourth Episode Is A Mundane Misstep
1.7.2024
After establishing a high bar in earlier episodes, The Acolyte’s fourth installment struggles to maintain the momentum, suffering from a mix of standard writing, camerawork, and performances. Unfortunately, it also exhibits a number of tropes that are causing the Hollywood machine distress industry...
The Acolyte Episode 3 Review: Star Wars Finds Religion In A Whole New Way
1.7.2024
Just because you can grab an audience with a name like Star Wars doesn’t mean you can keep their attention. With its third episode, The Acolyte introduces a theme so big and so important—religion—that if the show doesn’t take it seriously in the coming episodes, it may lose mine.Read more
The Latest Acolyte Episode Is Star Wars At Its Most Sexy, Deadly
26.6.2024
Star Wars is a lot of things, but it is rarely sexy. A few things spring to mind: Anakin Skywalker’s bare chest after a nightmare, Padme’s midriff in the fighting pit, or a sidelong glance from Han Solo, but in recent history the franchise has been somewhat devoid of sex and death. Kylo Ren and...
House Of The Dragon Season Two Episode One Recap: Westeros Smells A Rat
26.6.2024
After two years of waiting, the dysfunctional Targaryens are back as two rulers stake claims to the Iron Throne.Read more
The Acolyte Episode Two Review: Exploring The Gray Between Light And Dark
25.6.2024
Full disclosure: While I’m aware of The Acolyte’s interconnectivity to the Star Wars: High Republic comic books, I’ve only read a few issues and don’t follow the back and forth with the intensity of a “serious fan.” I’m watching the show on its own merits, and at least so far, am impressed by...
Star Wars: The Acolyte Haters Are Trying To Turn Alien Lifespans Into Its Next Big Controversy
20.6.2024
Some Star Wars fans are upset, again. Imagine that. The latest freak-out turns on a minor bit of canon that was just scrambled in episode 4 of Star Wars: The Acolyte. It has to do with the prequel movies and the lifespans of one particular race of aliens that really doesn’t factor into anything...