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Shadow and Bone’s Best Change From the Books is Mal & Alina’s Relationship

This Shadow and Bone article contains spoilers. Netflix’s Shadow and Bone is a sweeping fantasy epic that includes everything from an elite magical subclass (Grisha) that can manipulate the matter in surrounding elements and physical material, to a war-torn kingdom struggling to destroy a growing swath of literal darkness, and a girl whose heretofore undiscovered abilities just might be the key to changing the world. It’s also a story that’s unabashedly romantic in every sense of the word, firmly grounding its central narrative in complex human connections rather than Grisha magical castes or other more distinctly fantasy-oriented themes and tropes.…
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WandaVision Represents the MCU’s Evolving Relationship with Death

This article contains spoilers for WandaVision episode 5. The Marvel Cinematic Universe isn’t particularly well-known for its jump scares. Though the studio’s suite of 23 films have adeptly blended genres at times, at the end of the day these are all still PG-13 action movies…not horror. That all changed last week, however, when the studio’s first official television effort, WandaVision decided to spring a dead body on an unsuspecting audience. For one brief moment, Wanda Maximoff loses focus in maintaining her fabricated sitcom world. In that moment, the false image of her colorful android husband falls away and reveals the…
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How The Simpsons Enjoys a Special Relationship with Santa Claus

Santa Claus has been a consistent presence on The Simpsons from the very first episode, and not strictly contained within the holidays. Homer wanted to be him. Abe and Bart wanted to kill him. The family dog is named after him, and Mr. Burns routinely releases the hounds on him. The very image of Santa once saved Homer’s life. The town of Springfield brought a class action suit against him, even if they do trust him enough to hawk TV savings at Sprawl-Mart or buy Dancing Santas off YouTube. Here are the many ways in which Santa Claus has impacted…
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In a Relationship

Owen (Michael Angarano) & Hallie (Emma Roberts) spent the first half of their twenties together, and now they?re hitting a wall. Just as they decide to take a break, their friends Matt (Patrick Gibson) & Willa (Dree Hemingway) embark on an unexpected romance of their own. The two couples? fates intertwine over the course of a single summer.Rated: Not RatedRelease Date: Nov 09, 2018
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