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19 Oct

You Season 4: What to Expect

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As the second season of You ended, the series set the show up quite nicely for the third outing. Joe (Penn Badgley) and Love (Victoria Pedretti) were headed to the ‘burbs for a new beginning. Love was pregnant, and Joe was already activating his you-radar, honing in on the hottie next door. You was already telegraphing that Joe’s grand family man experiment was doomed from the start.  However, as season 3 concluded, the series took a different approach. In the final few moments of the finale, the show suddenly dropped Joe—and us—off in an unexpected place: Paris. And, as the…

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18 Oct

Netflix’s You: Ranking Every Kill by How Much the Victim Deserved to Die

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Throughout their lives, Love Quinn (Victoria Pedretti) and Joe Goldberg (Penn Badgley) have murdered a whopping total of fifteen (15!) people. A few of these characters were undeserving of an untimely end, but in many cases, Joe and/or Love did a service to society by offing their prey. Neither Love nor Joe has a real credo or ethos surrounding their kills, ala Dexter Morgan, but they do occasionally eliminate bad actors from society when they target their victims.  Read more TV You Season 3 Ending Explained By Erin Qualey TV You Season 2 Review (Spoiler-Free) By Delia Harrington While viewers…

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16 Oct

Sandman: The Differences Between Gwendoline Christie & Tom Ellis’ Lucifers

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Neil Gaiman fans have had an embarrassment of adaptation riches over the last few years, a trend that is only set to continue with a second season of Good Omens on the way and Netflix getting ready to premiere their live-action adaptation of the Sandman graphic novels. It’s the latter project we’re interested in today, as Warner Bros. just dropped a first look at Gwendoline Christie‘s Lucifer, the Sandman role that the Game of Thrones‘ actress will be lending her considerable talents to in the upcoming series. In the poster, Christie’s Lucifer stares, focused yet dispassionate, at the viewer. A…

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16 Oct

You Season 3 Ending Explained

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This article contains spoilers for You season 3. The latest installment of You follows creepy creepster Joe Goldberg (Penn Badgley) as he begrudgingly moves to the tony California suburb of Madre Linda with his wife, Love Quinn (Victoria Pedretti). He attempts to atone for his sins and try his hand at being a good husband and father to his new son, Henry. But his plans are soon derailed.  What follows is a wildly entertaining meditation on parenthood, marriage, and what happens after “happily ever after.” It’s a fairy tale ending with a body count. But what really happened at the…

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15 Oct

Best Horror Movies on Netflix in October 2021

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For many of us, October is the most wonderful time of the year. With the smell of autumnal leaves turning red and golden hued, the sound of children’s laughter as ghosts and goblins walk down the street, and finally the sight of pumpkins everywhere you look—there’s no better month-long celebration than the wind up to Halloween. And did we mention the horror movies? Oh yes! No October is complete without a cornucopia of chillers and thrillers, maybe even a laugher or two if it still stars a werewolf tearing the head off some poor bobby in Piccadilly Circus. With that…

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15 Oct

Why Squid Game Was Inevitable

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While to many Americans it may seem like Squid Game came out of nowhere to dominate more than 90 countries, for the millions of people worldwide who watch South Korean television and movies, it’s another stellar entry in an ever-growing field. Korean film and television has been growing since the 1990s and is already incredibly popular across East, Southeast, and South Asia, as well as with Asian diaspora and others around the world. As Netflix has expanded globally, they’ve invested heavily in the thriving Korean industry. Thanks to that investment and K-culture’s overall rising stature, it was only a matter…

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14 Oct

Netflix You Recap: Every Insane Thing Joe Did in Season 1 & 2

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Warning: contains major plot spoilers for You season 1 & 2 Meet Joe Goldberg. He’s a good guy who wants to keep you safe. Because Joe loves you and will save you. He’ll save you from your terrible friends and your terrible exes and your terrible self and from this whole terrible world. Granted, he’ll do it with a hammer, a glass murder tank, and a shallow grave, but that’s not the real him. He’s just a romantic who does what he does out of love. In season two, Joe (Gossip Girl’s Penn Badgley) actually met Love (played by The Haunting of…

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13 Oct

Why The Guilty Cast Will Surprise You

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Antoine Fuqua’s new Netflix thriller The Guilty is essentially a one-man show for lead actor Jake Gyllenhaal. Gyllenhaal stars as Joe Bradley, a police officer awaiting a manslaughter trial and who’s been forced to work in a Los Angeles emergency call center until he is either cleared of wrongdoing or found guilty. It’s a great role for Gyllenhaal, who gets to react to numerous callers with his ever-expressive face and high-strung energy. However, Gyllenhaal isn’t the only big name in The Guilty, he’s just the one of the only actors physically onscreen. Several high-profile stars have voice acting roles here,…

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13 Oct

Squid Game Isn’t Netflix’s First Korean Hit, and It Won’t Be Its Last

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Squid Game has proven itself to be Netflix’s biggest launch ever, with more than 111 million household views in the first month of release—but it’s far from the streamer’s first Korean hit, and it definitely won’t be its last. South Korea has been successfully exporting its culture for decades now, and Squid Game is only the latest success story in the country’s economic and political strategy to become one of the world’s biggest exporters of popular culture… Hallyu as Korean Economic & Political Strategy If you know anything about Korean history as an American, then you probably know about the…

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04 Oct

The Guilty and Understanding Why Joe Did What He Did

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This article contains major spoilers for The Guilty. You can read our spoiler-free review here. In Antoine Fuqua’s new Netflix film, The Guilty, Jake Gyllenhaal stars as Joe Baylor, a police officer forced to work in a Los Angeles Emergency Call Center due to an ongoing investigation into misconduct that occurred while Baylor was on the job. The film gives us scarce details about what went down, with Joe’s ex-partner Rick and his former sergeant alluding to a court date, as well as a reporter from the Los Angeles Times repeatedly calling Joe for comment, but no one spells out…

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04 Oct

Squid Game Season 2 Could Center the Front Man

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This Squid Game article contains MAJOR spoilers. One of the most intriguing unanswered questions in Squid Game‘s nine episodes is how Front Man In-ho, revealed to be not only rogue undercover cop Jun-ho’s missing brother but also a previous winner of Squid Game, went from a desperate contestant in the deadly competition to an active part of its execution. Now that the Korean social horror has become the most-watched original Netflix series ever, there’s a good chance we could get another installment of Squid Game sometime in the future. And, while creator Hwang Dong-hyuk did not set out with the…

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04 Oct

Squid Game Questions Season 2 Could Answer

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Squid Game came into our lives as a strange and complicated mystery, one we’re enjoying obsessively poring over for every last detail. Even as Netflix’s South Korean contemporary social horror series revealed secrets in the final episodes, they only brought about bigger questions surrounding the game’s origin, Il-nam’s relationship to the game, how the game continues to operate with impunity, and what might happen next. While there’s no indication there will be a second season of the show, here are some of the biggest questions Squid Game left hanging after nine episodes. How does Squid Game work globally? The fact that…

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01 Oct

The Guilty Ending Explained

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This article contains The Guilty spoilers. You can read our spoiler-free review here. The Guilty, Antoine Fuqua’s new Netflix thriller starring Jake Gyllenhaal, is a tense one-man show that finds Gyllenhaal as disgraced cop Joe Baylor, working at an L.A. emergency response center on a particularly busy night. With wildfires raging, complicating responses to even the simplest of 911 calls, Joe receives a peculiar call from a woman named Emily (Riley Keough) who appears to be talking to her child. Upon further investigation, it seems that Emily is the victim of a kidnapping at the hands of her ex-husband Henry…

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01 Oct

The Umbrella Academy Season 3 Checks Into Hotel Oblivion

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Happy birthday to the Hargreeves family and more importantly: happy birthday to us!  October 1 is a special day for The Umbrella Academy. In the show’s continuity, that is the 1989 date in which 43 women across the world suddenly gave birth despite showing no previous signs of pregnancy. Esteemed industrialist Reginald Hargreeves (Colm Feorge) tracked down seven of these children with special abilities, adopted them, and formed crime-fighting family “The Umbrella Academy.”  The date has become a sort of unofficial birthday for fans. Thankfully, Netflix is on the ball and ready to celebrate! The streamer behind the superhero hit…

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30 Sep

Midnight Mass: The Real Life Event That Inspired the Show’s Climax

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This article contains spoilers for Midnight Mass. Midnight Mass is the project that’s rattled around Mike Flanagan’s head the longest. According to the creator himself, Flanagan developed the central conceit of the faith-based horror story well before his horror career even began. The project has been fine tuned many times, first as a novel, then a movie, and now finally a Netflix series. Though the details of Midnight Mass have changed over the years, two particular moments have remained immutable. The first is the opening scene in which protagonist Riley Flynn (Zach Gilford) kills someone in a drunk driving accident.…

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29 Sep

Midnight Mass Doesn’t Work Without Kate Siegel as Erin Greene

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It can be frustrating being the partner of an artist. When Kate Siegel first read the script for Midnight Mass, the new Netflix series from her husband, horror auteur Mike Flanagan, she had a somewhat unusual, yet relatable reaction. “I believe I threw the script across the room,” she tells Den of Geek and other outlets. “I was like, ‘What the…? Oh, you’re so smart. I hate you.’” It’s easy to tell that Siegel is being facetious. After all, Flanagan has entrusted some of his most memorable characters to Siegel, and in return, she’s imbued a sense of strength, intelligence,…

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28 Sep

Squid Game’s Scathing Critique of Capitalism

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This Squid Game article contains MAJOR spoilers. From the very first game of ddakji out in the real world with Train to Busan actor Gong Yoo, Squid Game poses the question: how far would you go for money? How much of your body, your life, would you trade to keep the wolves at bay and to get to live the life you’ve always dreamed? Once you start, could you stop, even if you wanted to? And in the end, would it even be worth it? While Squid Game depicts an attempt to answer these questions taken to the extreme, they…

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28 Sep

Why Are Squid Game’s English-Language Actors So Bad?

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Squid Game is a superb series, impressively executed from start to finish. Its assets include its stellar cast, filled with veteran actors and newcomers alike delivering moving, complex performances. Sadly, the deep bench that is the Squid Game ensemble does not apply to the crew of English-language actors, who come in to fill the various VIP roles in Episode 7 with all the nuance of a high school quarterback bombing an audition for the spring production. Why are the English-language actors in Squid Game so bad? You can probably already have some guesses, but I’m going to break it down…

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28 Sep

Best Squid Game Doll Sightings

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Squid Game has some amazing production design, and some of it will live on long past the Netflix series. When it comes to props, the giant Red Light, Green Light doll, which has an iconic (and horrifying) role in the Netflix series opening episode, may be the standout. A video of the Mugunghwa doll (named for Mugunghwa Blooms, which is what Korean call Red Light, Green Light) dancing to various songs is currently being shared around Twitter and other social platforms. I have to admit… watching them is strangely addicting. the doll in squid game vibing to loco by itzy#ITZY #LOCO #있지…

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27 Sep

How Will Money Heist End?

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This Money Heist article contains MAJOR spoilers for Season 5. For any fan of Money Heist, the upcoming final season is bittersweet. This global phenomenon has been one helluva ride. The Season 5, Volume 1 finale left us hanging on the edge of our seats with a brutal episode that broke our hearts once more. At the end of Season 4, we were shocked by the death of Nairobi (Alba Flores). But Season 5 Volume 1 was even worse. The death of Tokyo (Úrsula Corberó) was a twist that no one saw, despite ample foreshadowing. With that fatal stroke, Money…

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