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15 Sep

Supergirl’s Final Season Soars When Focused on Character

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This SUPERGIRL article contains spoilers for Season 6, Episode 11, “Mxy in the Middle.” Supergirl Season 6 Episode 11 Mr. Mxyzptlk makes his triumphant return, and not a moment too soon. He sings, he dances, he makes Patrick Swayze references, and Supergirl distracts a giant cat the same way you distract a regular cat – with her lazer vision, of course. It’s all good fun on a light and lovely episode of Supergirl that serves as a reminder of why this show was seen as a breath of optimistic fresh air years before Ted Lasso made it cool and Emmy-worthy. Mxy is…
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13 Sep

Final Fantasy’s Multiverse Fan Theory Will Change How You Look at the Franchise

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Many beloved video game franchises try to maintain a semblance of continuity and worldbuilding. Usually, those attempts consist of linear a-to-b narratives across sequels, but there are times when the connections between games in a franchise can be a bit perplexing. For instance, each Legend of Zelda game seems insular at first, but they actually take place in a shared world and timelines. The timeline barely makes sense, but it’s there. Final Fantasy, meanwhile, seemingly reinvents its wheel with each entry. Every title takes place in its own world with its own history and lore that is, on paper, completely…
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03 Sep

Brooklyn Nine-Nine’s Final Season is a Bit of a Letdown

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This article contains spoilers for Brooklyn Nine-Nine season 8 episodes 7 and 8. The uneven final season of Brooklyn Nine-Nine continues this week with two episodes that feel like by-the-numbers installments that do little to dramatically improve the feeling that Season 8 has been a disappointment. By trying to serve two masters — responsibly telling stories about policing in a post-George Floyd world while also telling silly detective stories — Brooklyn Nine-Nine has given viewers tonal whiplash.  The dramatic moments don’t quite land and can feel heavy-handed, while the laughs simply have been few and far between. While “Game of…
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03 Jun

How Death Note Redeemed Itself In Its Final Episode

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This article contains major spoilers for both the manga and anime of Death Note. There’d never been a manga (and later anime) quite like Death Note. A psychological thriller mixed with the supernatural, the series followed high schooler Light Yagami, who’s given a notebook with the ability to kill anyone whose name is written in it. The premise alone is incredibly enticing but it was the way Death Note evolved that made it a beloved and still talked about series to this day. The funny yet dark interplay between Light and the Shinigami who gave him the notebook, Ryuk. The…
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26 May

Final Fantasy Origin Rumors Hint at Dark Souls Style PS5 Game

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It wouldn’t be E3 season without a few good rumors, and one of the biggest E3 2021 rumors we’ve heard so far involves a Final Fantasy spin-off currently known as Final Fantasy Origin. Seemingly inspired by the critical and commercial success of the Final Fantasy 7 remake, Square Enix is reportedly interested in pursuing a variety of Final Fantasy related projects at the moment. While we already knew about Final Fantasy 16 and the upcoming PS5 port of the Final Fantasy 7 remake (which will include new content), recent rumors and a report from Fanbyte that cites Square Enix sources…
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25 May

How Final Destination Went From Real-Life Premonition to Horror Phenomenon

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The year 2000 was a scary one for horror films and not always in a good way.   While American Psycho and The Cell offered up visually striking nihilistic thrills to genre fans, the majority of horror movies released at the dawn of the new millennium were at best forgettable and, at worst, lamentable – yes, we’re looking at you, Leprechaun in the Hood.   This was the year of duff sequels like Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2, Urban Legends: Final Cut and, though it is painful to admit, Scream 3. Horror fans were screaming out for something different, something exciting.…
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22 May

The Flash Reveals Details About Final Cisco Episode

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Well, we’ve all known this is coming for a while, but it’s getting more real by the day. Cisco Ramon is leaving Team Flash. Which means in the real world that Carlos Valdes is leaving The Flash. No more Vibe. No more cool and nerdy t-shirts. No more awesome villain names. It’s a bummer. To be fair, it feels like The Flash has been teasing Cisco’s departure forever by now. Cisco took a hiatus from the team last season to go investigate post-Crisis on Infinite Earths anomalies and to visit Atlantis. The show has been trying out potential new Team…
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28 Apr

Black Lightning is Making the Most of Its Final Season

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This Black Lightning article contains spoilers through Season 4, Episode 9. The fourth season of Black Lightning will be its last and, barring any CW superhero crossover cameos or the greenlighting of the Painkiller spinoff, this may be the last time we will see these particular iterations of these comic book characters. The benefit of knowing the end is coming—a relative rarity in broadcast network TV, which are traditionally designed to run forever—is that it can allow writers to go places they might not otherwise go. With four episodes left ever, Black Lightning certainly isn’t holding any of its punches.…
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17 Apr

Van Helsing Returns For A Final Season And Adds Time Travel To Its Narrative Palette

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This Van Helsing article contains major spoilers for the season 5 premiere. From the dynamically retooled opening title sequence to the Jack-centric Transylvania storyline, it takes only moments to recognize that Van Helsing’s fifth and final season promises to take fans on a wild ride as it brings to a close its delightfully circuitous tale of horror’s most iconic vampire hunting family. Season premiere “Past Tense” doesn’t represent the first time the Van Helsing family story finds itself in the past, but there seems to be a more concerted effort this time to employ traditional time travel elements as the…
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25 Mar

Star Trek: Judgment Rites Was the Final Season The Original Series Deserved

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There are times when it’s still nearly impossible to believe that a beloved and revolutionary show like Star Trek: The Original Series TV run was unceremoniously ended after a final season that often showcased the series at its very worst. While Star Trek would live on and the original Enterprise crew would get the chance to enjoy a more appropriate farewell across six film adaptations, millions were long left wondering what could have been if Star Trek’s final days weren’t ruined by a combination of production problems, bad decisions, and worse timing. Remarkably, though, it turns out that we never…
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24 Mar

Tina Documentary Directors Talk About Making an Artist’s Final Statement

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HBO’s feature documentary Tina is an intimate overview of Tina Turner, the person behind the musical icon. It is also a final statement, as the singer is moving on from the performance part of her life. The documentary tells Tina’s story the way the singer wanted it told: honestly. Some of Turner’s musical highpoints are skipped, like her scene-stealing role as the Acid Queen in Tommy or her appearance on the bulk of Frank Zappa’s Overnight Sensation. But the story of her early rise to fame, and the oppressive influence her musical mentor, husband and onstage partner Ike Turner had…
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09 Feb

Star Trek: Nichelle Nichols’ Final Project Isn’t a Fan Film

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Nichelle Nichols is about to retire from acting forever, but her final project will be a time-and-space-spanning adventure that will find her co-starring alongside a new actor, Loren Lott, playing her younger self. But, Lott is not playing a younger version of Nyota Uhura from Star Trek, but instead, a new sci-fi anti-hero called Ominara. “What would Uhura’s character be like in the Mirror, Mirror universe?” Frank Zanca, producer of Renegades: Ominara tells Den of Geek. “Because Nichelle has Alzheimer’s and is retiring, we kind of wanted to do a send-off. Instead of Uhura, it’s Ominara, and she’s the captain…
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08 Feb

50 Best Fighting Game Final Bosses from Street Fighter, Mortal Kombat, Tekken, and More

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When it isn’t about rage-quitting against your best buddy sitting next to you on the couch, or some guy playing against you across the country, fighting games are all about beating the arcade mode. Doing so means defeating the pesky final boss. We’ve fought so many final bosses over the last 30+ years. Whether they’re godly megalomaniacs or bloodthirsty loners out to prove they’re the best, there are pleny of cheap-ass villains standing in the way of character-specific epilogue cutscenes. So I’ve decided to rank the 50 best final bosses in fighting game history. This ranking includes both default final…
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03 Feb

Why Final Fantasy XII’s Story is the Best in Franchise History

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The Xbox team’s recent announcement that Final Fantasy 12: The Zodiac Age will be added to Game Pass in February means that we’re this much closer to being able to experience every main entry into the RPG franchise via Microsoft’s subscription service. It also means that we have a chance to revisit Final Fantasy 12‘s story. It’s a plot that’s been called a disappointment by fans as well as its own creators who felt that the title’s production problems ultimately hindered their efforts. Final Fantasy 12 received a warm welcome in 2006, but there’s long been this asterisk next to…
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24 Jan

Godzilla vs. Kong Trailer Promises Epic Final Battle, Hints at Larger History

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It’s the championship bout that we’ve all been waiting for…and apparently it’s happened before. No, we’re not talking about 1962’s Toho classic King Kong vs. Godzilla, which brought the big ape from Skull Island and the nuclear-powered dinosaur from the Sea of Japan into conflict for the first time onscreen. But as we find out in the first trailer for Godzilla vs. Kong — the fourth entry in the modern-day series of films known as the “Monsterverse” — these two gigantic icons of monster mythology have possibly met before…in the distant past. “The myths are real,” says Rebecca Hall, one…
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15 Jan

Attack on Titan: “No One is Safe” in Final Season, Stars Say

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Plenty of anime series grow into phenomena over time and build a reputation for themselves, but Attack on Titan in particular has seen great success ever since its debut. The anime’s premise, where a community of resistance fighters live in a walled city to protect themselves from gigantic man-eating monsters known as Titans, is instantly addictive. It’s not uncommon for popular anime to lose momentum over time or struggle to stick their landings, but each season of Attack on Titan has only improved upon what’s come before it.  Attack on Titan gloriously defies expectations and it’s led to a final…
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01 Jan

Vikings Season 6 Episode 16 Review: The Final Straw

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This Vikings review contains spoilers. Vikings Season 6 Episode 16 “The gods work in mysterious ways.” Amidst a plethora of intense soul searching, Vikings finds itself weighted down in a morass of despair, self-loathing, and regret.  And while introspection and personal assessment are necessary growth elements for both characters and storylines, “The Final Straw” plods along before finally revealing the next move for Ivar the Boneless. With Kjetill and the other Greenlanders in the rear view mirror, Vikings leaves that thread behind, at least for the time being, and hopefully brings some closure to Floki’s Icelandic debacle. Of all the…
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17 Dec

How Chadwick Boseman Created His Final Performance in Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom

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Last August, the world lost Chadwick Boseman, an incredibly talented actor whose relatively short filmography already included a number of great films. His indelible work as T’Challa in the groundbreaking Black Panther and other films in the Marvel Cinematic Universe — along with his transformation into a bona fide movie star — was a major step forward for the expansion of Black filmmaking and cultural recognition, both inherent aspects of Boseman’s career aspirations. Despite his struggle with colon cancer, which finally claimed him at the age of 43, Boseman made one last film before his death. Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom,…
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24 Nov

The Expanse Season 6 Confirmed by Amazon, Set as Final Season

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The Expanse has officially set course toward a bittersweet threshold crossed by many-a-beloved shows: an advance renewal for its final season. Indeed, as the beloved and beleaguered sci-fi series prepares to premiere its fifth season in December, Amazon Studios has announced the renewal for a sixth and final season for The Expanse, as Deadline reports. Interestingly, while showrunner Naren Shankar and most of the main cast are expected to return for Season 6—notwithstanding plot developments in the upcoming Season 5—the sixth frame will bear a notable absence with the reported ousting of cast member Cas Anvar, who, having played Alex…
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