FromSoftware games tend to feature deep and intentionally confusing lore. Gamers and theorists are still trying to piece together the story and backstory of Dark Souls and Bloodborne, and Elden Ring continues that proud tradition by offering a narrative full of fascinating facts that are surprisingly easy to miss. Elden Ring‘s basic story is surprisingly
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I don’t remember the first time I heard someone joke about Mario getting high in Super Mario Bros. by eating all the mushrooms he finds, but it certainly feels like that joke is old as Super Mario Bros. itself. If you hear that joke when you’re 12 or 22, you’ll likely treat it like some
This Star Trek: Picard article contains spoilers. Star Trek: Picard Season 2 Episode 6 Continuing a kind of mash-up between 12 Monkeys and Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, Season 2 of Star Trek: Picard has entered into its final batch of episodes. At this point, the show has a lot going on: from a
Despite featuring no superheroes, superpowers or elaborate plans to destroy Gotham City, Heartstopper has to be one of the most anticipated comic book adaptations of the year. Alice Oseman’s webcomic (also published in four, eventually-to-be-five, book volumes) about two British high school boys who fall in love has an extremely devoted fanbase who only have
There’s never a great time to learn that the corporate entity producing your TV show is calling it quits. For the folks behind Quibi’s Swimming with Sharks, however, the timing of the streamer’s demise was particularly less than ideal. “We actually learned about the platform officially ending on like the third-to-last day (of shooting),” Sharks
This Young Justice: Phantoms review contains spoilers. Young Justice Season 4 Episode 18 When we asked Greg Weisman, Executive Producer of Young Justice: Phantoms, if we could expect arcs focusing on Rocket and Nightwing (the last two original cast members of the show yet to have their own arcs), he was coy. “I think we’ll
Warning: contains major spoilers for the Anatomy of a Scandal finale. Legal drama Anatomy of a Scandal is less an exploration of consent than of a personality that assumes consent is a given because why wouldn’t it be when everything else – wealth, looks, status – always has been; a personality who assumes that if
The first time most Star Trek fans encountered Captain Christopher Pike was in the Original Series adventure “The Menagerie” (which extensively used footage from the original pilot episode for the series titled “The Cage”). This two-part episode introduced some backstory for the USS Enterprise, including the reveal of an almost completely different crew than the
Warning: this Doctor Who review contains spoilers. As the middle child in a run of Doctor Who specials, ‘Legend of the Sea Devils’ finds itself in something of an unenviable position. Much like Easter 2009’s ‘Planet of the Dead’, the episode can’t rely on the star power of foes like the Daleks or Cybermen, and
This Riverdale review contains spoilers. Riverdale Season 6 Episode 10 “Stranger things have happened in Riverdale” With word of Riverdale being renewed for a seventh season, one question hangs heavily in the air: How long can this series carry on its shenanigans? This recent batch of episodes alone has brought us plot points that include
So “Legend of the Sea Devils” was a serviceable, fairly by-the-numbers, classic-monster-meets-celebrity historical story that didn’t hit any truly spectacular highs or lows, but which will surely be hotly debated in the comments anyway. The biggest reveal of the episode was in the 30-second clip before the end credits. Yes, the next episode will show
The premiere of Star Wars: Obi-Wan Kenobi is only a few weeks away. It’ll not only see the return of Ewan McGregor’s Obi-Wan from the Prequel Trilogy but also Hayden Christensen, this time in the dreaded armor of Darth Vader. It will also introduce one particularly well-known Star Wars animated character to live action. Rupert
This Better Call Saul review contains spoilers. Better Call Saul Season 6 Episodes 1 and 2 Better Call Saul season 6 has finally arrived. The odds of getting here seemed astronomical. First, who would have ever thought that a prequel to one of the most celebrated TV series of the 21st century, centered on a
This article contains spoilers for Better Call Saul season 6 episode 2. The producers of Better Call Saul have already made it clear that the sixth and final season of the Breaking Bad spinoff will feature two of the biggest cameos possible in the form of Walter White (Bryan Cranston) and Jesse Pinkman (Aaron Paul).
David Dastmalchian is the face of interesting characters. Although it has been nearly 14 years since he debuted as one of Joker’s gang members in Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight, the performance remains chilling. Since then, he has continued making a mark as a Wombat in Ant-Man, a Mentat in Dune, and a Polka-Dot Man
The man called Nova is finally headed to the MCU. Deadline has announced that Moon Knight writer Sabir Pirzada will be shepherding the character into the MCU. At this point, we don’t know if Nova will be a series or a movie, but excitement is already building. Moviegoers have already received a glimpse of Nova in Guardians of the Galaxy,
This article is presented by: “Criminals are a superstitious cowardly lot, so my disguise must be able to strike terror into their hearts. I must be a creature of the night.” Those were the words uttered by Bruce Wayne mere seconds before a bat fortuitously flew in his window, making him decide to take on
Anti-establishment humor wasn’t mainstream in the 1950s, and grown-ups saw comic books as brain-rotting garbage. But in 1952, a comic came along which would come to proudly declare: “In Trash We Trust.” Born in the era of McCarthyism, kids who read MAD learned to distrust authority and give snappy answers to stupid questions. The “Usual