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The Flash Season 7 Premiere Adds New Layers to Mirror Master

This article contains spoilers for The Flash season 7 episode 1. The Flash season 7 premiere episode, “All’s Wells That Ends Wells” isn’t quite a traditional season premiere. In nearly every way that matters, it’s an episode held over from the pandemic-shortened season 6, and an episode with this very title was supposed to end after what ended up being that season’s finale before all of this nightmarish real world stuff intervened. But considering how strong that season was, all this means is that it get The Flash season 7 off to a particularly strong start…one that isn’t afraid to…
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Star Trek: Discovery — What Do Georgiou’s Mirror Universe Flashbacks Mean?

This article Star Trek: Discovery article contains spoilers for Season 3, Episode 6. One of the boldest aspects of Star Trek: Discovery Season 1 was the shocking revelation that a character from the Mirror Universe — Captain Lorca — had really been pulling the strings in the Prime Universe the whole time. And, if you thought you’d left the Mirror Universe behind when the USS Discovery jumped back in Season 1, think again. In Season 3, Episode 6, “Scavengers,” Discovery teases that the events in the Mirror Universe may still be hugely relevant to what’s happening now. Though it wasn’t…
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How Black Mirror Embraced Its Horror Potential with Playtest

Monster specialist Grant Walker of award-winning VFX studio Framestore was excited when he received an offer to work on an episode of sci-fi anthology Black Mirror’s third season. But the nature of the job, for an episode called “Playtest”, proved to be an unexpected one. “I thought: ‘they want to make monsters for Black Mirror? I don’t get it,’” Walker says. Through two seasons and six episodes on Channel 4, the monsters of Black Mirror were largely metaphorical and unseen, signals and dispatches from mobile devices in a dubiously fictional world. Then the show was picked up by Netflix, which…
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