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22 Oct

Rebecca Ending Explained: Netflix Thriller With a Dark Twist

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This article contains Netflix’s Rebecca spoilers. Taking on a new adaptation of a classic novel is daunting enough, but factoring in that the story was previously translated to the screen by Alfred Hitchcock, produced by David O. Selznick and starring Laurence Olivier and Joan Fontaine – a film that would win the Oscar for Best Picture – makes it a particularly bold move. As we point out in our review though, it works, and in part because Wheatley has hewn closer to the book in some respects but also added modern themes and sensibilities – particularly towards the end. You’ll…
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19 Oct

Lovecraft Country Ending Explained

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This article contains spoilers for Lovecraft Country episode 10. In the end, Lovecraft Country was all about legacy. The show follows Atticus “Tic” Freeman from estranged son and war vet to literal Magic Negro, and heir to a magical birthright. Tic, his father Montrose, friend-then-lover Letitia “Leti” Lewis, and her sister Ruby Baptiste become entangled with magic and the racist white folks who wield it. Tic seeks to understand and utilize the power inherent in his blood, and in doing so, is forced to face horror after horror in pursuit of his goal. The Lovecraft Country finale, “Full Circle” packs…
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19 Oct

Fear the Walking Dead: Strand’s Shocking Turn Explained by Colman Domingo

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This Fear the Walking Dead article contains spoilers. Fear the Walking Dead season 6 is underway, with each episode featuring mostly self-contained stories. “Welcome to the Club,” the second episode of the season and the first episode directed by Morgan actor Lennie James, focuses on Strand (Colman Domingo) and Alicia (Alycia Debnam-Carey) adjusting to their new life of servitude on Virginia’s (Colby Minifie) tightly-run settlement. “I think this season is more of an anthology…we get to get deeper into more character and conflict,” Domingo tells Den of Geek of the new season structure. “I think last year we were taking…
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15 Oct

PlayStation 5 Voice Chat Recording Controversy Explained by Sony

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Yesterday’s PlayStation 4 8.00 system update not only resulted in numerous technical issues for PS4 users who were suddenly unable to access a variety of console features (including party invites) but panicked prospective PS5 users with the insinuation that Sony will be recording and storing their party chats. PS4 parties being recorded means about 99% of y’all are getting locked up pic.twitter.com/MatrDWW5w1— Sam 🌎☄️💕 ® (@SamjaySJ) October 14, 2020 For those who can’t see the above tweet, the notice on the 8.00 update states: “We want PlayStation Network to be fun for everyone, which is why we have a Community…
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12 Oct

Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts Season 3 Ending Explained

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The following contains spoilers for Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts season 3. And so Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts has sadly come to an end with its third season. While it’s a shame that we’ve only had less than a year filled with new Kipo episodes at the least got a satisfying ending. The main conflict was resolved, Kipo and friends are onto new adventures, and HMUFA is going strong. Still, we have a few lingering questions after the finale that we dug into to make sure everything was clear.  What happened to Emilia? Despite Kipo’s repeated attempts…
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12 Oct

The Haunting of Bly Manor: Lady in the Lake Explained

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The following contains spoilers for every episode of The Haunting of Bly Manor. In the final episode of 2018’s The Haunting of Hill House, a sadly departed Nell Crain (Victoria Pedretti) explains to her living siblings what makes the red room in Hill House so haunted.  “The room is like the heart of the house. No…not a heart, a stomach.” For Netflix’s Hill House follow-up, The Haunting of Bly Manor, creator Mike Flanagan has a fresh explanation for what makes this latest titular haunted house a ghostly proving ground. It involves the trauma of a woman named Viola (Kate Siegel)…
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10 Oct

The Haunting of Bly Manor Timeline Explained

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The following contains spoilers for every episode of The Haunting of Bly Manor. The Haunting of Bly Manor’s dream-hopping conceit allows the dead and the possessed-living to jump from memory to memory, reliving key moments of their lives. Some memories, like Peter Quint’s encounter with his mother, are traumatic, but others, like Hannah’s first meeting with Owen, are sources of comfort. One thing the memories share is a disorienting effect on us as viewers, left to piece together the puzzle of exactly when everything is happening.  You can’t count on the past, Owen memorably tells Hannah, but you can count on the…
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10 Oct

The Haunting of Bly Manor Ending Explained

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The following contains spoilers for The Haunting of Bly Manor. While many have pointed out that The Haunting of Bly Manor is not quite as scary as its predecessor, it certainly has a more satisfying conclusion. The Haunting of Hill House seemed to lose its nerve in the final hour, delivering an ending that was too saccharine and unearned. On the flipside, Bly Manor concludes its story in heart wrenching, then bitter sweet fashion, revealing the identity of the series’ mysterious narrator, detailing the fates of the 1987-set characters, and expelling the spirits of the titular manor. Here is what…
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07 Oct

PlayStation Trophy System Changes Explained by Sony

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In a post on the PlayStation Blog, Toshimasa Aoki (Director of Product Management for Sony Interactive Entertainment) outlines some of the upcoming changes to the PlayStation Trophy system. “You’ve all heard that satisfying sound when a Trophy pops up on the corner of your screen,” Aoki says. “Trophies were first introduced on PlayStation 3, and have been an integral part of the PlayStation gaming experience. Today, we’re excited to announce we’re bringing some enhancements to the Trophy system.” The biggest change is that your PlayStation Trophy score’s range is going from “1-100” to “1-999.” This process will occur automatically when…
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05 Oct

The Walking Dead Season 10 Ending Explained

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This The Walking Dead article contains spoilers for episode 16. Rarely has there been more pressure on a Walking Dead finale than season 10’s final hour, “A Certain Doom.” Due to the coronavirus pandemic, editing wasn’t able to be finished in time for the episode to air as originally scheduled on April 11, 2020. So fans had to wait, and wait, and wait, and wait some more. Now “A Certain Doom” has finally had its say and The Walking Dead’s penultimate season was able to conclude as originally intended. And “A Certain Doom” was worth that wait for the most…
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05 Oct

The Walking Dead: Maggie’s Return Explained

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This Walking Dead article contains spoilers. In order to buy the members of his community time to escape Beta’s Whisperer assault, Gabriel racks his shotgun and prepares to make a final stand. He’s the only person between the last few escapees, who are climbing down an elevator shaft and the Whisperers who have managed to breach the hospital. As such, Gabriel is ready to make the ultimate sacrifice for his people. The first Whisperer through the door gets shot. The second gets a rifle stock across the teeth. But eventually, Gabriel is overpowered by the rushing Whisperers and taken down,…
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05 Oct

The Walking Dead: Connie’s Return Explained

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The Walking Dead season 10 finale, “A Certain Doom,” finally answered one of the season’s biggest questions: did Connie survive her run-in with the Whisperers and their walker horde earlier in the season? The final minutes of the massive episode that brought the communities’ war with the Whisperers to an end reintroduced the missing character, stumbling through the woods in a daze until she found Virgil. It remains to be seen if this is good or bad news for her. So where has Connie been all the time? Well, at one point, fans speculated she might be dead. Season 10‘s…
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05 Oct

The Walking Dead: Beta’s Death Explained

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This Walking Dead article contains spoilers. When it came to the Whisperers, Alpha was the leader, the planner, the brains of the operation, and Beta was her muscle. If The Walking Dead were an action movie, Beta would be the henchman that has to be dispatched before the hero confronts the real boss. But The Walking Dead, for all of the killing and fighting involved, isn’t an action movie. As Alpha learned earlier this year, the best way to kill the body is to take out the head. It works for walkers, and it works, eventually, for the Whisperers. With…
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01 Oct

The 100 Series Finale Ending Explained

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This The 100 article contains MAJOR spoilers for the ending of the series. Who had “Most of Humanity Will Turn Into Groot-Shaped Beings of Energy?” on The 100 series finale Bingo card? If so, you guessed it! The CW series has finally come to an end and, after seven seasons, showrunner (and episode director) Jason Rothenberg has written a Battlestar Galactica-like ending that attempts to tie all the bloodshed that has come before up with a neat, tidy bow. Does the episode accomplish that? Not entirely. Let’s break down The 100 finale… Clarke Sees Lexa, Fails The Test Let’s be…
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28 Sep

Hearthstone Battlegrounds New Rating System Explained by Blizzard

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Hearthstone‘s Battlegrounds mode will receive a new ratings and rankings system that will be added to the game as part of the upcoming 18.4 patch. The foundation of the new rating system is fairly simple. Basically, everybody’s Battlegrounds rating will be reset to 0 regardless of where they currently are. Following the reset, players will work their way through new progression tiers. However, your progression won’t really kick in until a player has reached over 2000 rating points. Until you’ve crossed 2000 rating points, it’s not possible for a Battlegrounds player to lose rating points. Between 2000 and 6000 points,…
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28 Sep

Utopia US Remake Ending Explained: Who is Mr Rabbit?

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Warning: contains major Utopia spoilers With newly invented characters and a whole new world wrapped around bad guys/pragmatic planet savers The Harvest (the US version of The Network), Gillian Flynn’s Utopia makes considerable changes to the Channel 4 original. It’s faithful though, in most of the ways that matter – Jessica Hyde, the unforgettable Arby, Wilson Wilson and more are all kept intact, just transplanted from London to Chicago. There’s some very close translation of a few memorable scenes, as well as a good amount of invention. Flynn rewrites the backstory to weave in new setting ‘Home’, and new players,…
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25 Sep

Enola Holmes Ending Explained: Eudoria, the Reform Act and What’s Next for Enola?

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Warning: contains Enola Holmes plot spoilers Netflix film Enola Holmes is a revolutionary parable about rejecting the status quo and choosing your own destiny. In it, Stranger Things’ Millie Bobby Brown plays the sixteen-year-old sister of Mycroft and Sherlock Holmes (Sam Claflin and Henry Cavill), a bright spark raised in splendid isolation by their mother Eudoria (Helena Bonham Carter) to think, fight and plot her own path through life. When Eudoria mysteriously disappears, Enola undertakes her first missing persons case and reconnects with her estranged detective brother along the way.  Based on the first in a six-strong series of YA books by Nancy…
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24 Sep

Marvel’s Spider-Man: Remastered PS5 Upgrade Options Explained

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Excitement quickly turned to confusion when Sony announced that a remastered version of Marvel’s Spider-Man would be released for PS5 as part of the upcoming Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales Ultimate Edition. What should have been a simple cause for celebration was complicated by questions regarding how this remaster would fit into the sometimes confusing world of next-gen upgrade options. See, if you buy the recently confirmed PS4 version of Spider-Man: Miles Morales, you can upgrade to the PS5 version of the game at no extra cost. By that logic, some fans assumed that those who own the PS4 version of…
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24 Sep

Star Trek: Lower Decks’ Post-Voyager Q Explained

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This Star Trek: Lower Decks article contains minor spoilers for “Veritas.” The voice-cameo of Jon de Lancie as Q in Episode 8 of Lower Decks is easily the series’ biggest callback to Star Trek: The Next Generation yet. In fact, the way Q appears in this episode is very reminiscent of how we think of him in TNG, down to his iconic judge’s robes, and his taunts about “testing humanity.” But, on some level, it feels like Q has actually regressed a bit. He’s still hilarious, but wasn’t he slightly more responsible the last time we saw him in canon?…
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19 Sep

Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous Ending Explained

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The following contains spoilers for Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous. Netflix and Dreamworks’ newest animated series, Jurassic: World Camp Cretaceous, takes the mythology of the Jurassic World franchise and focuses on a group of teen characters, surviving among the dinosaurs when the park’s safety features fail. Under the conceit that the park’s newest initiative is a camp for teens, a diverse group of young adults arrive to experience the wonder of living dinosaurs. But when, midway through the series, everything goes wrong, the kids are left on their own, forced to evade a carnotaurus and the incredibly dangerous Indominus rex.  Not…
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