Mar 8
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I’ve probably said this before—I’ve been recapping this show for eight years, I’ve probably said everything before…
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Rob Bricken was the Editor of io9 from 2016-18, the creator of the poorly named but fan-favorite news site Topless Robot, and now writes nerd stuff for many places, because it's all he's good at.
Mar 1
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After last week’s crummy mid-season premiere, I didn’t expect The Walking Dead to give us its best fight sequence in…
Feb 27
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Dracula. The Wolf Man. The Mummy. The Creature from the Black Lagoon. Frankenstein(’s monster) and the Bride of…
Feb 23
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In late 2019, The Walking Dead ended its 1.375-year streak of being genuinely good by reverting to its worst habits.…
Feb 11
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There are more than a million star systems in the Star Wars galaxy, and maybe about 20 of them have a decent father…
Feb 4
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DC Entertainment is about to achieve something that Marvel Studios hasn’t. When Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous…
Jan 28
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If you told me 20 years ago that third-tier Spider-Man character Morbius the Living Vampire would not just appear in…
Jan 21
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There aren’t just a lot of candidates for the worst episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation, I would contend there…
Jan 14
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The beginning of the end begins again when the CW’s Crisis on Infinite Earths returns tonight. The remaining two…
Dec 31
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In the last week and a half, two Star Wars sagas have come to a close. First The Rise of Skywalker wrapped up the…
Dec 24
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Did you see the Cats movie? Ah ha ha, of course you didn’t. Luckily, you don’t need to put yourself through such…
Dec 17
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The Star Wars Holiday Special is legendarily bad, and it lives up to every part of that legend. Airing once in 1978…
Dec 12
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The control Disney has on pop culture right now is so enormous it’s kind of terrifying. Marvel’s superhero movies…
Dec 10
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I wouldn’t call myself a Sir Christopher Lee fanboy, but I am an ardent admirer who often watches entertainment…
Dec 6
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There are three types of people in this weird world of ours: people who are losing their minds with excitement for…
Nov 24
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Nov 17
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Earlier this year, the penultimate episode of The Walking Dead’s ninth season brought us one of the most shocking,…
Nov 10
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The “party,” of course, being “outright war with the Whisperers.” But while Carol and Daryl set out to do some…
Nov 3
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Ezekiel has a dark secret. Alpha reveals her master plan to destroy Alexandria. The inhabitants of Hilltop face…
Oct 27
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As anyone who’s been living through the zombie apocalypse knows, everything falls apart eventually. Fortifications.…