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The Flash Finally Gave Killer Frost the Redemption Story She Deserves

The following contains spoilers for The Flash through Season 7, Episode 8, Going into an episode of The Flash with a name like “The People v. Killer Frost,” you know there are certain things, you, as a viewer, are just going to have to accept. The CWs’ Arrowverse, writ large, has next to zero understanding of the American legal system and The Flash is one of the franchise’s worst offenders when it comes to creating believable courtroom drama. Remember when Barry went on trial for a murder he didn’t commit but also just strolled out of the courtroom when he…
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The Flash Finally Made the Right Decision with Caitlin and Frost

This The Flash article contains spoilers for Season 7, Episode 5, “Fear Me”. The Flash’s “Fear Me” is an entertaining enough Season 7 installment that gets to play with a long-standing genre trope, that of an outside entity – think demon, alien, magical dust, or, in this case, a metahuman known as Psych who’s able to project nightmare hallucinations onto others – who somehow allows us to explore the deepest fears of our favorite characters. (Plus, Cecile in The Thinker’s chair was pretty darn cool.) But it’s also an hour of The Flash that does something so necessary, that it…
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Shaun of the Dead Gets Coronavirus Remix from Simon Pegg and Nick Frost

Over 15 years since Simon Pegg and Nick Frost discovered a shortcut to the Winchester in Shaun of the Dead, the pair are reprising their zombie killers from the beloved cult classic. And for good reason. While in the Edgar Wright movie, Shaun (Pegg) and Ed (Frost) dealt with a very different type of viral outbreak—something to do with the dreaded Z-word—their experience is a great case study in what not to do right now. Both in terms of zombies and the novel coronavirus. In the below public service announcement video, the two riff on one of Shaun of the…
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