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Warning: contains spoilers for The Essex Serpent TV adaptation and novel. The pendulum swings of fate in most stories mean that whether they have a happy ending depends on where the storyteller chooses to stop. Quit while things are ahead, that’s happy; keep going until it swings back the other way, less so. The Apple

This article contains spoilers for First Kill season 1. At the center of Netflix‘s First Kill is Juliette Fairmont (Sarah Catherine Hook), a Legacy—pure-blood—vampire and Calliope Burns (Imani Lewis), a vampire hunter. Both girls are next up in their families to take on their first kill, but their feelings for one another complicate things.  The

Netflix’s original Castlevania anime series may have come to a close with its fourth season, but the streaming service isn’t done with this universe of monsters and vampire hunters just yet. As longtime Castlevania fans know, just because Trevor Belmont, Sypha Belnades, and Alucard defeated Dracula in the 1400s doesn’t mean the Dark Lord will

This article contains spoilers for The Boys season 3 episode 4. Midway through The Boys season 3 episode 4 “Glorious Five Year Plan” Billy Butcher (Karl Urban) delivers a dire warning to Hughie Campbell (Jack Quaid) about the dangers of the new Compound-V spinoff drug, V24. “Hughie, it’s not power. It’s punishment. And you don’t

This article contains Young Justice: Phantoms spoilers. Young Justice Season 4 Episode 26 Young Justice: Phantoms closed out its season in strong fashion. “Death and Rebirth” capped a string of excellent episodes with some of the best action this show has ever seen, and the back half of the season very nearly made up for

This Evil review contains spoilers. Evil Season 3 Episode 1 Evil’s season 3 opener, “The Demon of Death,” faces the same problem which hung over the second season: a cliff-hanging, game-changing event occurs, and the characters have to deal with the consequences. Last season started in the aftermath of a killing; this one picks up

We’ve seen plenty of young adult vampire stories in film and television from Twilight to Vampire Diaries (and its spinoffs, The Originals and Legacies). There’s also been hunter-centric Shadowhunters, where vampires heavily feature, and we all know the OG Buffy The Vampire Slayer. Vampires and their hunters have been gracing our pages and screens since

This article contains spoilers for Stranger Things season 4. While it’s often a good strategy for both storytelling and corporate earnings purposes, splitting a season of television comes with some downsides. Chief among them is that a split season is fundamentally not a complete season. Stranger Things season 4 volume 1 certainly came close to

Paramount Network announced a plethora of guest stars who will feature within the highly anticipated fifth season of Yellowstone. Fans of the Yellowstone universe which includes prequel anthology series 1883, and the forthcoming 1932 have plenty to be excited about with some familiar names being added to the list.  Yellowstone chronicles the Dutton family, led

Being a fan has been part of Kamala Khan’s DNA since the character was first created for Marvel Comics back in 2013. So it seems only natural that the first fan convention in the Marvel Cinematic Universe occurred during the premiere episode of Kamala’s solo Disney+ series Ms. Marvel. In a world as rich as

This article contains spoilers for First Kill season 1. First Kill tells the story of a forbidden romance between Legacy vampire Juliette and monster hunter Calliope. Adapted from the short story of the same name by author V.E. Schwab, the series introduces us to two opposing families, and explores both the world of Legacies and

This article contains spoilers for The Boys season 3 episode 1 and Doctor Stranger in the Multiverse of Madness. The Boys season 3 opens in a place where the show hasn’t dared tread before: the cinema. After filming a whole superhero movie in season 2, The Boys now entreats viewers to the fruits of Vought

This article contains Star Trek: Strange New Worlds spoilers. Although Strange New Worlds doesn’t require a casual viewer to know anything about Star Trek, it certainly doesn’t hurt. Especially with the latest episode, the utterly hilarious episode, “Spock Amok.” Right away, even in the title, the episode is referencing the famous Original Series banger, “Amok

In John Wyndham’s The Midwich Cuckoos a remote village is inexplicably plunged into darkness and all the residents rendered unconscious. When they wake, all the women of childbearing age are suddenly pregnant. The children they give birth to are white haired aliens with powers of telepathy between each other. Talk about village of the damned

Warning: contains spoilers for 2003 story ‘Jubilee’ The 2003 Big Finish story ‘Jubilee’ is one of Doctor Who’s richest. It was adapted by its author, Rob Shearman, for the 2005 TV episode ‘Dalek’. That adaptation took certain elements from the original (a lone Dalek imprisoned and tortured by humans, bonding with the companion and becoming

This article contains spoilers for The Boys season 3 episode 1. When The Boys’ showrunner Eric Kripke stopped by the Den of Geek studios at this year’s SXSW festival, he had a bold proclamation to make about the show’s third season.  “The very first 15 minutes of episode 1 is by far the craziest thing

This Star Wars: Obi-Wan Kenobi review contains spoilers. Star Wars: Obi-Wan Kenobi Episode 3 What kind of monster is Darth Vader? This week’s Obi-Wan Kenobi presents Vader as both terrifying and vulnerable. While Part III doesn’t always nail the visuals, the confrontation between Obi-Wan and Vader brings back classic Star Wars thrills. Obi-Wan and Leia head to

Based on Steve Jones’ 2017 memoir Lonely Boy: Tales from a Sex Pistol, FX’s miniseries Pistol thrashes through London’s early punk scene as seen through the bleary eyes of the Sex Pistols: guitarist Jones (Toby Wallace), drummer Paul Cook (Jacob Slater), singer John “Johnny Rotten” Lydon (Anson Boon), and bassist Glen Matlock (Christian Lees), who