“Betrayed” is the episode that comes in seemingly every Disney+ Marvel show: the turn. It’s where something that was either enjoyable or looked like it might be great reveals itself for the undercooked, politically skewed, poorly plotted, character-destroying pablum it really is. And, as alway...
Read MoreWith its second episode, “Promises,” Secret Invasion gets even more intriguing, wrapping itself comfortably in the espionage tropes it introduced last week and introducing shades of gray for all the main characters. There’s a subtlety to this show that other Marvel productions don’t have, es...
Read MoreRemember when we used to expect Marvel movies to be good? It wasn’t all that long ago, but it feels like a lifetime since we entered a theater or, almost as often these days, started a new TV show without trepidation and with the anticipation of a fun story with characters we either knew we &helli...
Read MoreThe hat is back. FX has released a trailer for Justified: City Primeval, the miniseries revival of Justified. Based on another book by Elmore Leonard, City Primeval catches up with Deputy US Marshal Raylan Givens fifteen years after he left Harlan County, Kentucky. This time, Raylan finds himself in...
Read MoreUmbrellas just went on sale at Warner Bros., as HBO Max – which will soon be called “Max” because some idiot thinks HBO has too much brand recognition – has released a trailer for The Penguin, its currently-in-production miniseries about one of Batman’s greatest villains. A spinoff of Matt...
Read MoreThe guessing game has begun, as Marvel has released a trailer for its upcoming Disney+ miniseries Secret Invasion. Samuel L. Jackson returns as Nick Fury, who is the lead for the first time, to battle a renegade Skrull faction that has infiltrated the world’s governments with plans for conquest. C...
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