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11 Apr

Line of Duty Series 6 Episode 4 Review: Mother of God!

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This review contains Line of Duty spoilers.  Like a plump Christmas stocking, the real treats of series six have worked their way down to where we are now – somewhere around the heel. Having dutifully unwrapped the first couple of episodes and politely smiled at the satsumas and novelty tissues, we’ve reached the really good stuff. Episode four was nothing but single malt miniatures and Hotel Chocolat, both of which, incidentally, would be excellent ways to recover our nerves after all that excitement.  Everyone fortified? Let’s go. RIP Jonesy. RIP Jimmy. RIP AC-12? Of all the balaclava-men-and-bolt-cutter peril the team has survived…
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05 Apr

Link Tank: Game of Thrones Spinoff Writer Hopes Canceled Series Will Still Happen

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The writer for one cancelled Game of Thrones spinoff is still holding out hope that the series will happen. “In a post-Game of Thrones universe, HBO is still looking for its next huge hit. Is the answer more Game of Thrones? After initially announcing plans for several spinoffs only to cancel all of them except House of the Dragon, HBO signed a new five-year deal with George R.R. Martin in late March of 2021.” Read more at Inverse. The newest Spanish-language crime thriller on Netflix, Sky High, is a lackluster heist movie not worth your time. “As you scroll through…
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05 Apr

Line of Duty Series 6 Episode 3 Review: The End of the Line?

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This Line of Duty review contains spoilers. If looks could kill, they’d be clearing the corpses from Hillside Lane Station with a forklift right now. That whole hour was a filthy stare-a-palooza. Jo to Steve. Steve to Jo. Kate to Buckells when he announced the death of PC Lisa Patel with the emotion of somebody passing on a change to the office recycling policy, not missing a beat between his ‘sad news…tragically… thoughts with her family’ platitudes and a PR-friendly photo op.  The dirtiest of all stares was a look of such fiery incredulity, it came through the screen and set off…
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05 Apr

Line of Duty Series 6 Episode 3: Buckells, Steve’s Painkillers & All Our Questions & Theories

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Warning: contains spoilers for Line of Duty series 6 episode 3. Now three episodes in to Line of Duty series six, the questions and theories are piling up. Jo Davidson is clearly up to her neck in it, but she’s not the one pulling the strings. Who is Jo talking to on that laptop? Is it H? What hold does the OCG have over her, and what might it have to do with that photograph of her mother from episode one? The final four episodes will tell. In the meantime, after you’ve read our weekly episode review, there’s all this to ponder……
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02 Apr

What It’s Like to Play Control on an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 30 Series Laptop

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This article is presented by NVIDIA. The first thing I notice on returning to the Federal Bureau of Control for the first time in over a year is just how shiny everything looks. Janitor Ahti has clearly done a bang-up job in my absence, despite his – SPOILERS – fairly significant duties in the Oldest House. Because the laptop I’m using – a top-of-the-line NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080-toting MSI GS66 Stealth – is comfortably the most powerful gaming setup I’ve ever used, ray tracing is maxed out on the 2K screen and it really shows wherever you look.  Ray tracing,…
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02 Apr

Star Wars Clone Wars: Which Parts of the Tartakovsky Series Can Still Be Canon?

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Party like it’s 2003! On April 2, Disney+ will begin streaming the Genndy Tartakovsky version of Clone Wars, which means, for certain generations of Star Wars fans, a slightly alternate version of the iconic storyline will be available to watch on the app for the first time. Along with Clone Wars, Disney+ is also dropping two of the made-for-TV Ewok movies, and the animated ‘80s TV series Ewoks. And while all of that Ewok action certainly makes us nostalgic, let’s get serious: the Tartakovsky Clone Wars is the real deal.  Besides being the first animated series set during the Clone…
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30 Mar

How the Game of Thrones Play Fills a Major Gap from the Series

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Game of Thrones may have concluded its story in a divisively pyrrhic fashion, but the franchise wasn’t exactly left in ashes, thanks to a backlog brimming with several spinoff shows supported by creator George R.R. Martin’s purportedly eight-figure, five-year deal recently signed with HBO. However, it appears that the mythology, adapted from Martin’s novels, is set to invade another arena, a Broadway stage, with a Game of Thrones play now in development. Interestingly, rather than rehashing the show, the play will instead showcase a heretofore unseen storyline crucial to the hit TV series. The Great Tourney at Harrenhal will serve…
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29 Mar

Line of Duty Series 6 Episode 2 Review: What is Kate’s Game?

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DCI Jo Davidson: D for Devious. C for Corrupt. I for I wonder what hold the OCG has over her. Because that flappy car tantrum was not the act of an ice-cool customer solely in it for the spondulicks. Jo’s a foe in woe. Why? We don’t know. What we do know is that AC-12’s shade-ar now has a 100% detection rate. Every time it’s pointed at a potentially bent copper, it finds one. The moment Davidson picked up that burner phone from Beardy Blue Van Man, she lost all claim to innocence. Everything now points to her having 1)…
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29 Mar

Line of Duty: Did the Daniel Morgan Murder Inspire Series 6?

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Warning: contains spoilers for Line of Duty series six, episode two. From the Brink’s-Mat Robbery, to predatory sex offender Jimmy Savile, the scripts for police drama Line of Duty are peppered with mention of real-world criminal cases. Blending reality and fiction cements the show’s naturalism and feeds into each series’ themes. Series six revolves around the investigation into the murder of fictional journalist Gail Vella, played by Andi Osho. The first episode opens just over a year since Vella was fatally shot outside her home, in which time no suspects have been charged. The officer leading the investigation is suspected…
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29 Mar

Line of Duty Series 6 Episode 2: Ryan, Davidson & All Our Questions & Theories

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Warning: contains spoilers for Line of Duty series 6 episode 2 If you’re left with niggling doubts and unchecked hunches after reading our weekly episode review, we can help. Consider the below a communal evidence wall on which to pin mugshots of potentially bent coppers connected by red string and Post-Its scribbled with question marks. Join us as we delve into this week’s Line of Duty theories and questions… Jargon of the Week: Reg 15 Stands for a Regulation 15 Notice, or Yellow Notice. It advises an officer that they’re going to be investigated by professional standards and therefore enter Line of…
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25 Mar

New Green Lantern Series Expands Cosmic DC Universe

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Geoffrey Thorne is very detail-oriented. That helps explain the density of Green Lantern #1, his new book bringing the Green Lantern Corps into the Infinite Frontier era.  “I apologized to Dexter [Soy, one of his creative partners on Green Lantern] and to Tom Raney [his art partner on Future State: Green Lantern],”  Thorne tells us in an interview about the new run, “because the first things they had to draw that I wrote had a cast of thousands.” But it works: the new book launches with Lanterns from several corps accompanied by a veritable who’s who of DC’s cosmic stable…
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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

Does The Lord of the Rings Series Have a Hidden Title?

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While Amazon’s anticipated Lord of the Rings television series has been fueling fan speculation for years now, it has yet to supply the convenience of an actual title. Indeed, the series, currently in production in New Zealand, continues to be referred to in an official capacity under the generic placeholder of The Lord of the Rings on Prime. However, the show’s latest development, the addition of director Wayne Che Yip, was revealed with an intriguing image that has fans speculating that a title might have been secretly decided. Amazon officially revealed that Wayne Che Yip will direct four episodes for…
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22 Mar

Line of Duty: Who is DC Chloe Bishop? Fan Theory Suggests Series 1 Link

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Six series in, and Line of Duty has pinged a Jack-in-the-Box into the audience’s face so many times that we’ve learned to approach new episodes with the vigilant, arms-crossed suspicion of a mum whose teenager wants to have a party. Have you forgotten what happened last time? You can promise whatever you like, son, but ever since that girl got pushed out of that window, we have no reason to believe you. In this state of high-alert vigilance, Line of Duty fans trust nothing and nobody. Worse than that: we start to listen out for the next loud bang, trying…
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21 Mar

Line of Duty Series 6 Episode 1 Questions & Theories

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Warning: contains spoilers for Line of Duty series 6 episode 1 Line of Duty requires attentive viewing. Try to watch it while doing the ironing and it’ll be burnt shirt collars and confusion for you, son. Every sly look, slight frown and worried swallow by the characters needs to be absorbed by fans if we’re to construct our usual baroque theories week by week. (A bold, early suggestion: DCI Davidson is the first innocent copper AC-12 has ever investigated; she simply has the ability to see things happen in slow-motion, like a housefly, and is a keen collector of high-end door locks. Show…
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21 Mar

Line of Duty Series 6 Episode 1 Review: Who Killed Gail Vella?

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This Line of Duty review contains spoilers. Is this allowed? Somebody please check. Can Kate just leave AC-12? She’s a third of the operation. One of the three pyramids at Giza may as well stand up and walk away. The strawberry from Neapolitan ice cream, silver Olympic medals, degrees 240 – 360 of all circles… could they also just call it a day? Unacceptable. This is AC-12 we’re talking about. 12 as in four times three: the gaffer, Steve and Kate – the corners of the straight-backed, clean-nosed triangle of truth.  No wonder Ted is feeling sore about it. The Super could barely bring himself…
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19 Mar

How NVIDIA GeForce RTX 30 Series Laptops Supercharge Your Gaming

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This article is presented by NVIDIA. Ray tracing is a feature so graphically revolutionary that NVIDIA named a whole series of GPUs after it. And after a big impact in the desktop gaming PC space, NVIDIA next turned to laptops. RTX 20 series laptops brought a whole new world of power to PC gamers who no longer had to choose between portability and power. Now NVIDIA has brought its Ampere architecture powered GeForce RTX 30 Laptop GPUs to the masses, and the results are as impressive as you’d expect from technology which the company describes as its “biggest generational leap…
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17 Mar

Loki May Already Be the Most Popular Marvel Disney+ Series

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The Falcon and The Winter Soldier is almost here! And you know what that means: it’s time to start thinking about the next project in the Marvel Cinematic Universe canon. Hey, Marvel has no one to blame but themselves for its audience always looking forward to the next thing. You play with post-credit scenes, sometimes you get burnt. After The Falcon and The Winter Soldier, of course, is Loki, which is set to premiere on Disney+ this June 11. It always seemed that this show had the most potential of any of the early MCU series the studio announced. Tom…
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17 Mar

Line of Duty Series 5 Recap: Framing Ted Hastings

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Warning: contains major spoilers for Line of Duty series 5 For almost a decade, Ted Hastings’ AC-12 has been a thorn in the side of Line of Duty’s organised crime group. In series one, the OCG blackmailed DCI Tony Gates with his lover’s corpse so he’d stymie investigations into their money laundering and drug dealing operation, AC-12 uncovered it all – and they’d only been called in to investigate a freebie bacon sandwich. In series two, the OCG blackmailed DS Jayne Akers and DI Lindsay Denton to reroute the police transport of former gang leader-turned-witness Tommy Hunter so they could ambush…
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16 Mar

Does the Latest Lord of the Rings Amazon Series Cast Exit Signal Trouble?

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If there is a definitive reason for genre fans to maintain their Amazon Prime subscriptions (besides the free 2-day shipping), it’s the company’s long-gestating untitled Lord of the Rings television series. The New Zealand-based production successfully endured a lengthy pandemic-era hiatus to complete its pilot this past fall, and continues work on subsequent episodes. Yet, the recent exit of cast member Tom Budge seems to signal that the purportedly billion-budgeted series is facing creative difficulties. Budge (Bloom, Judy & Punch) revealed his departure from the ensemble of Amazon’s The Lord of the Rings series with an Instagram announcement, which was…
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