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21 Jan

Peaky Blinders: Ending With a Film Makes Sense, But is it Fair to Fans?

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‘The city is a character in its own right’. ‘This cast gets on so well, we’re like a family!’ ‘I never read reviews, we made this for the fans.’  Of all the clichés uttered on the promotional circuit, the one most likely to sink the stomach is being told that a hot new series ‘is really a 10-hour movie.’ As a phrase, it’s so derided by now the real wonder is that anybody continues to say it (and yet they do. Perhaps they’re telling the truth about not reading their own press).  As explained neatly here by Vulture’s Kathryn VanArendonk, it’s…

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16 Jan

Outside the Wire: Does the Ending Set Up a Sequel?

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This article contains spoilers for Outside the Wire. Our spoiler-free review is here. In the new Netflix sci-fi action thriller Outside the Wire, young hotshot drone pilot Thomas Harp (Damson Idris) is busted down to combat duty in the militarized zone after disobeying a direct order. The year is 2036, and the U.S. military is on a peacekeeping mission in Eastern Europe where a warlord named Viktor Koval (Pilou Asbaek) is trying to get his hands on a stockpile of Russian nuclear weapons so that he can destabilize the world by aiming them at major international cities. Since this is…

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14 Jan

Star Wars The High Republic: Light of the Jedi Ending Explained

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This Star Wars: The High Republic article contains spoilers. Set 200 years before The Phantom Menace, the High Republic era was a time of relative peace for the galaxy. Wars weren’t being fought, and the Jedi weren’t limited by the Sith’s machinations. But that doesn’t mean there aren’t still some threats waiting out there in the far reaches of unexplored space. By the end of Light of the Jedi, the flagship novel by Charles Soule that kicks off Lucasfilm’s new The High Republic series of books and comics, a new conflict is just beginning, as a mysterious band of pirates…

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08 Jan

Star Trek: Discovery Season 3 Finale Ending Explained

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This Star Trek: Discovery review contains major spoilers for the end of Season 3. What a ride! The third season of Star Trek: Discovery was easily its most consistent and, dare I say, best yet? From the get-go, the series’ decision to vault its characters into the far future for its third outing proved itself a smart one, as the crew of the Discovery set about exploring this strange, new reality. The hour-long finale was a solid ending for the season, answering some questions we’ve had since the season premiere. In that way, “That Hope is You, Part 2” really…

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01 Jan

Chilling Adventures of Sabrina Season 4: Ending Explained

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This Chilling Adventures of Sabrina article contains MAJOR spoilers for the series’ ending. Obviously. We bid farewell to Greendale (for now at least?) and explore what it all means. This Chilling Adventures of Sabrina article contains nothing but spoilers. We have a spoiler-free review right here if you prefer. As the credits rolled on the final chapter of the saga of Sabrina Spellman, she had given her life to protect all of existence itself. A noble death to be sure, but one that is steeped in permanence. Or is it? For “The Sweet Hereafter” shares a more than passing resemblance…

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01 Jan

Vikings Ending Explained

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The following contains spoilers for Vikings season 6 part two. Vikings has always been concerned with legacy: that of the Vikings themselves, and of Ragnar and his sons. It’s clear from the show’s coda – Ubbe and Floki side by side on a distant beach, contemplating existence as the sun glows down upon the endless stretch of ocean before them –  that the two ultimately are inseparable. Bound up in this spider’s web of myth and mayhem, too, is the fate and legacy of the show itself. How will it be remembered now that it is gone? In a word:…

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26 Dec

Soul Ending Explained: What Happens Next to Joe?

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This article contains Soul spoilers. You can find our spoiler-free review here. What are you going to do with your life? It’s a looming question, and one that a few days ago Jamie Foxx’s Joe Gardner thought he knew the answer to. He was going to play jazz, professionally, and break into the music industry—specifically as the pianist for Dorothea Williams’ jazz quartet. But standing there on the ramp toward the Great Beyond, and staring at his second chance back on Earth, he’s posed the question again by a well-meaning Jerry. So just what are you going to do with…

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25 Dec

Wonder Woman 1984: Ending Explained

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This article contains major Wonder Woman 1984 spoilers for the ending of the film. We have a spoiler free review here. Wonder Woman 1984 fits a lot of story into its 2.5 hour runtime, especially in its action-packed third act as Diana faces off against not one, but two villains: Cheetah and Maxwell Lord. While audiences have been encouraged to think of the DC blockbuster as a relative standalone, there’s much about the sequel that harkens back to the first film (Steve Trevor, most of all) and there’s much about the movie that hints at what’s to come for our…

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21 Dec

Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom Ending Explained

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This Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom analysis contains spoilers. You can find our spoiler-free review here. Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom tells the story of a group of 1920s musicians, composites of session players at the time, waiting for “the Mother of the Blues” to bring her big voice to the big room at Hot Rhythm Recordings. “Ma” Rainey, positively channeled by Viola Davis in the film, owned the copyrights of her songs, some of which became blues standards. Her trumpet player, Levee, masterfully captured by Chadwick Boseman in his cinematic swan song, doesn’t catch that break. The young horn player spends…

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20 Dec

His Dark Materials Season 2 Ending: What Does the Post-Credits Scene Mean?

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Warning: contains spoilers for His Dark Materials season two and The Amber Spyglass That’s the lid closed on season two. Like Lyra, His Dark Materials is all packed away for the time being. The episode’s closing scene showed our hero kidnapped and drugged and stashed in a steamer trunk by her mother, who was promising to take her somewhere safe. Having learned that Lyra was destined to be the new Eve – the fate of every world resting on a choice she was foretold to make – Mrs Coulter vowed to stop her daughter from bringing about another Fall. She would protect Lyra and…

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16 Dec

Link Tank: Star Wars Concept Art Released for The Rise of Skywalker Ending

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These stunning new Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker ending concept art pieces will leave you breathless. “New visions of the ending of Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker have finally been revealed. Concept art has become a huge part of the Star Wars conversation during the sequel trilogy thanks in large part to the gorgeous books by Phil Szostak.” Read more at Gizmodo. From the Caterpillar Club to The Sons of Lee Marvin, here are some unusual clubs that exist (for some reason). “Did you know there’s a club for people who have been ejected out of a plane,…

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14 Dec

Cyberpunk 2077: Every Ending Explained

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This Cyberpunk 2077 article contains spoilers. Whether you blaze through Cyberpunk 2077‘s main story or take your time and complete as many side missions as possible, all roads through CD Projekt Red’s incredibly controversial game lead to one of several possible endings. Yes, there are multiple endings in Cyberpunk 2077, but you’re certainly forgiven if your first run through the game didn’t leave you with the impression that there are different conclusions. In fact, most of Cyberpunk 2077‘s endings aren’t even accessible to those who just fought all the game’s bugs and blazed through the main story. Here’s what we…

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12 Dec

The Wilds: Ending Explained

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Amazon’s new female-centric castaway series The Wilds doesn’t hold back when it comes to throwing mysteries at its characters (and the audience) and, following its first ten episodes, the two timelines we’ve been following both conclude with cliffhangers of differing kinds. One, which has been following the girls as they try to survive on a seemingly uninhabited island, cuts out just as Rachel is attacked by a shark and Nora runs into the water to save her. The second, taking place in the present after the girls have been transferred to a facility 150 miles away, leaves the audience just…

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06 Dec

Why Vikings Is Ending

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Vikings season 6 returns for its second half on December 30 to conclude the series, but rather than airing weekly on the History channel, all ten episodes will drop on Amazon Prime Video. Those without a subscription will still be able to watch the final season on History, but not until 2021, begging the question: has the haphazard manner in which Vikings has aired contributed to its cancellation, or is there another reason? Even before the deal with Amazon, some may have wondered if the separation of the later seasons into two halves, each with large gaps in between, alienated…

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05 Dec

What the Mank Ending Leaves Out About Orson Welles and Citizen Kane

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This article contains Mank spoilers. You can read our review here. It’s like the climax of a Western. Two men stare across from each other in a showdown of ego and calculation. And Gary Oldman’s Herman J. Mankiewicz (or “Mank”) has just told Orson Welles (Tom Burke) he wants writing credit for the Citizen Kane screenplay. This is not going to end well. Before this moment, Welles had been conciliatory to Mank, feigning concern for his health and offering to take sole rewriting duties on the gargantuan script. He’s even providing $10,000 from RKO Pictures as a consolation. It’s of…

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02 Dec

The Expanse Season 4 Recap: Ilus, the Ring Gates and the Cliffhanger Ending

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Warning: contains spoilers for The Expanse season 4 At the beginning of The Expanse season four, the show’s characters stood at the crossroads of a brave and expansive new world, as did the cast and crew in their new home at Amazon. It was a marriage made in heaven. The Expanse was bigger, slicker, bolder, and grittier, but just as gloriously deep, rich and complex as ever. As season five gets ready to drop, let’s remind ourselves of the ups, downs, ins, outs, fights, smites and subterfuge of season four. We’ll start with the set-up and then look at each…

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30 Nov

Ready Player Two Ending Explained: How the Sequel Jumps the Shark

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This article contains MAJOR spoilers for Ready Player Two. You can read our spoiler-free review of the sequel here. At the end of Ernest Cline’s 2011 novel Ready Player One, Wade Watts a.k.a. Parzival inherits everything he set out to win in James Donovan Halliday’s Easter egg hunt: the OASIS creator’s massive fortune, as well as control over the digital world itself. So how could Cline, and Halliday, top that with Ready Player Two? By helping humanity level up. The sequel’s ending definitely goes in a very different direction than how Ready Player One ended, both relating to the book’s…

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30 Nov

The Undoing Finale Ending Explained: Nicole Kidman Drama Closes With a Bang

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HBO’s glossy six part drama The Undoing has come to a close providing answers to some burning questions, not least of which is who killed Elena Alves (Matilda De Angelis). The show closed with quite the bang though, raising other issues that had been playing out in the background throughout the series.  The Undoing was created by David E Kelley and is loosely based on the 2014 novel You Should Have Known by Jean Hanff Korelitz – Susanne Bier is the series director. Nicole Kidman plays Grace Fraser, a wealthy and accomplished clinical psychologist, married to charming Oncologist Jonathan (Hugh…

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30 Nov

How the I Hate Suzie Ending Perfectly Balances Hope and Despair

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CONTAINS SPOILERS FOR I HATE SUZIE “No one is coming to rescue you.”  “Every home should feel safe and warm and supportive. Everywhere is home.” These two ideas are at the centre of the series finale of Sky Original I Hate Suzie (now airing on HBO Max). It’s a perfect dichotomy of utter hopelessness and never ending hope that closes the series absolutely as it should. Former teen pop sensation Billie Piper stars in this searing semi-autobiographical eight part show. It’s a funny, raw, personal drama following former teen pop sensation Suzie Pickles (played by Piper), who has moved into…

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30 Nov

The Walking Dead: World Beyond Season Finale Ending Explained

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This The Walking Dead: World Beyond feature contains spoilers. With The Walking Dead: World Beyond only getting a two season run, there’s a certain expected economy of storytelling. There’s not an opportunity to drag anything out past a few episodes, so big reveals tend to come faster and character arcs tend to bend more quickly than they might on other programs with more hours to fill and more opportunity for long-form stories. As such, there’s a lot of stuff that changed during the two-episode finale event to drill down into. Here is what happens in the conclusion of The Walking…

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