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25 years of Oscar Best Picture snubs, by year

Table of Contents Table of Contents 2001: Gosford Park 2002: Chicago (the right choice) 2003: Lost in Translation 2004: Sideways 2005: Brokeback Mountain 2006: The Departed (the right choice) 2007: There Will Be Blood 2008: Milk 2009: Inglourious Basterds 2010: The Social Network 2011: Moneyball 2012: Lincoln 2013: Her 2014: The Grand Budapest Hotel 2015: Mad Max: Fury Road 2016: La La Land 2017: Phantom Thread 2018: Roma 2019: Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood 2020: Sound of Metal 2021: Licorice Pizza 2022: The Banshees of Inisherin 2023: Maestro 2024: Anora.

First, a confession – for the last four years. I haven’t watched the Oscars telecast. (I learned about the whole Will Smith situation the next morning, if you were wondering, and I cared about it just as much as I would have the previous night. Which is to say not at all.) Why have I skipped out on this ostensibly unifying American cultural moment for a whole presidential cycle? Because practically nothing inspires more gall in me than an Academy Awards show.

For decades, Academy voters, swayed by craven awards season campaigns and driven to serve their own studios’ interests above those of posterity and the public. Have continually given the wrong awards to the wrong people, rewarding mediocrity and leaving artistry going begging.

Need proof? Here are the films that should have won the last 24 Academy Awards for Best Picture, out of the available nominees. And the one that should win it this year – not that I’m holding my breath. And because the nominees are often (read: usually) themselves wrong, I’ve included one egregiously un-nominated film from each year.

Robert Altman’s sophisticated murder mystery, with all the trappings of an Agatha Christie novel but a surprisingly acute class consciousness, is airily. Elegantly shot by cinematographer Andrew Dunn and elements an erudite script by Julian Fellowes, whose subsequent hit Downtown Abbey lacks Gosford Park’s edge. It’s miles superior than Ron Howard’s one-dimensional A Beautiful Mind, which won the big prize that year.

This one is a photo finish. Against stiff and worthy competition from Scorsese’s Gangs of New York and Polanski’s The Pianist. Chicago narrowly earns its Best Picture crown with the benefit of hindsight. (It’s a advanced watch than the Polanski film and cleaner than the Scorsese.) The screen adaptations of stage musicals that work the same way – and as well – as their source material can be counted on one hand. And Rob Marshall’s film is one. Jumping into an inky black theatrical void for its musical numbers and returning to an ably production-designed 1920s for its book scenes, Marshall happened on a down-and-dirty, hip style that he’s been foolish enough to try to vainly recreate in the four execrable movie musicals he’s made since.

Scarlett Johansson and. Bill Murray give performances so perfectly calibrated that Sofia Coppola’s worshipful camerawork can only stand back and admire the view. The decision to award the prize to The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King that year can only be viewed as a product of its time – it’s impossible to imagine the prestige-conscious Academy honoring a big-budget franchise entry this way today. In any case, I confess I never bought into Peter Jackson’s muddy, melodramatic pyrotechnics-over-substance. Give me Coppola’s keen attention to human behavior any day.

A weak year gave us Clint Eastwood’s dour Million Dollar Baby as the featherweight champ, but. Alexander Payne’s Sideways wins this one in a TKO. Payne’s adaptation of Rex Pickett’s novel about a bachelor weekend in wine country cyclically repeats gorgeously poetic images in a way that even a strong piece of written fiction can’t do. Which is part of the reason to adapt existing material in the first place. Paul Giamatti, as an aspiring novelist with particular feelings about merlot, is so superb you can feel yourself osmosing his high blood pressure through the screen.

Egregious snub: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.

Was there even a need to include this entry? Paul Haggis’s anthology drama Crash (much superior than it’s cracked up to be but. Still pretty preachy) incited a firestorm when it defeated Ang Lee’s tender gay romance Brokeback Mountain. 20 years later, most Hollywood wags still consider this year one of the two prototypical examples of Oscar wrong-headedness (more of the other one later), and it’s hard to argue.

The last time to date Best Picture got it right. And a tremendously satisfying instance of Hollywood karma paying off. Martin Scorsese’s razor-sharp remake of the Hong Kong film Infernal Affairs was the first and. As yet only time a Scorsese film has won Best Picture. (Marty picked up his first and so far only Best Director award that year. Too.).

I’ll give it to the Academy – this one was nearly impossible. As between the Coen Brothers masterpiece No Country for Old Men, which took home the prize, and Paul Thomas Anderson’s brutal derricking of the American psyche. There Will Be Blood, it’s basically a coin flip. (And that leaves out the equally fantastic if more popcorn-y Michael Clayton, also nominated. Why don’t we get movie years like this anymore?) But for me, Anderson’s film, audaciously and tightly controlled and featuring in Daniel Day-Lewis’s Daniel Plainview one of the best performances ever committed to celluloid, is (marginally) the enhanced of the two.

A weak year. Won by Danny Boyle’s Slumdog Millionaire — I find his attention-disorder editing style off-putting as a rule. Gus van Sant’s stark telling of the shocking real-life story of politician and gay icon Harvey Milk was more moving and. All the more relevant in a year when California banned same-sex marriage. What happened to Milk was outrageous, and the film enlists its audience in that righteous anger.

2009 was the year of the Academy’s biggest mistake in the modern era – the expansion from five nominees for Best Picture to ten. A desperate attempt to respond to popular backlash to The Dark Knight being snubbed in 2008. The result was a splintered series of partisan voting blocs (roughly aligning with the various Hollywood guilds) whose beneficence was increasingly random, beginning with 2009’s victory for the self-aggrandizingly gritty war drama The Hurt Locker over the year’s frontrunner. The pedestrian Avatar. But it was Quentin Tarantino’s genre-smashing World War II revenge fantasy, Inglourious Basterds, with its script like a great novel and its star-making performance by Christoph Waltz. That deserved the prize.

In competitive Oscar years, it’s a good bet to put your money on the British period drama. (See Chariots of Fire, Oliver!, A Man for All Seasons, My Fair Lady, Tom Jones, Lawrence of Arabia… I could go on.) Sure enough, the able and engaging but awkwardly directed The King’s Speech managed a neck-and-neck triumph over The Social Network. An unprecedented collaboration between auteurs Aaron Sorkin and David Fincher and one of the best films of the 21st century. Go figure.

Now we get into a highly competitive stretch. In a wildly illustrious year of extravagantly accomplished films like The Descendants, Hugo, and Midnight in Paris, Moneyball was quiet, handled with care, class. And attention to detail by director Bennett Miller (who has made three narrative attributes and been nominated for Best Director twice). The Artist, which won that year, was nice enough but rode the coattails of its awards-season narrative as the first silent film to win Best Picture since 1927.

Egregious snub: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.

Django Unchained would be just as deserving a winner here, but. Lincoln is the kind of towering historical drama that only Spielberg can make (its closest parallel is his Amistad, also in part about an American President). It also helps that it functions the aforementioned Day-Lewis in his final Oscar-winning role (he won three and should have at least six). Argo won that year as a sop to Ben Affleck, who was seen as having been snubbed for Best Director.

Steve McQueen is a rigorous filmmaker whose work runs the gamut from the earth-shatteringly brilliant (2011’s Shame) to the insipid (2024’s Blitz). His 12 Years a Slave, which won in 2013, is, like all movies that are honest about slavery, a real trial to watch, so brutal. In fact, that its quality becomes sort of a secondary concern. Personally, I preferred Spike Jonze’s exquisitely personal Her, a delicate allegory about artificial intelligence that is in fact a way of dealing with his divorce from Sofia Coppola, a period she herself mined for Lost in Translation.

As my “egregious snubs” from 2001, 2007, 2009 and 2012 might suggest. I’m personally of the opinion that Wes Anderson is one of the greatest working directors, even if he has been on a self-indulgent downward spiral since he made The Grand Budapest Hotel, his first and so far only film to be nominated for Best Picture. With all the idiosyncrasies of his smaller character dramas but the scale of a historical epic, Budapest is thoroughgoing joy. The same can’t be mentioned for Birdman, this year’s winner, which is technically accomplished and entertaining in its way but. Small-minded and coarse in its kneejerk cruelty to its characters.

Less-than-usually-egregious snub: Nightcrawler.

How far we’ve come and/or fallen. In 2003, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King carried its sweep of the technical awards forward into the night’s big prize. In 2015, another (but self-evidently superior) franchise entry, Mad Max: Fury Road, won six Oscars but fell short of Best Picture. Losing to the eminently worthy but far from life-changing Spotlight. In the decade since, George Miller’s adrenaline-shot-as-cinematic-experience has come to be understood as one of the best of the century. But then the Academy never had any ability to predict staying power. Everyone and their mother thinks Vertigo is the best or second-best movie ever made. It got a grand total of two nominations – Art Direction and Sound.

Please, please, please, no angry letters: I loved La La Land. I still love La La Land. Sue me.

Dunkirk, Get Out or Three Billboards? I would’ve been quite pleased. Lady Bird or Call Me by Your Name? I would have understood. But The Shape of Water? Guillermo del Toro’s tortured monster movies have always been more interesting curiosities than real achievements to me. As compared to Paul Thomas Anderson’s masterful Phantom Thread, a twisted romance which created a fresh paradigm for on-screen lovers. Shape of Water is a cold fish. But that outrage doesn’t compare to giving the Oscar to Gary Oldman in the abominable Darkest Hour for wearing makeup, when they could have given it to Day-Lewis for his surpassing performance in this, his final film before his retirement.

The irrelevance of the Academy for the under-30 generation is generally understood to begin with the awarding of the 2018 Best Picture award to Green Book, a film one could easily imagine airing on TNT on a Sunday afternoon in 2004. But less so going home with three Oscars. There are all sorts of reasons why Green Book won, but the primary one is that the most deserving film of 2018 – and. Green Book’s primary competition – was released by Netflix. In 2018, the streamer’s takeover of Hollywood was still widely resented, so much the worse for Alfonso Cuarón’s lyrical and gorgeous autobiographical story of 1970s Mexico City.

Bong Joon-ho’s Parasite is sophisticated and deserving, but. It didn’t have the joy, the catharsis, or the crackling dialogue of Quentin Tarantino’s latest. It’s harder to appreciate now what a Fourth-of-July sparkler of pleasant surprise was the film’s conclusion when it was first released. A shaggy-dog hangout movie, when done right, can outclass the most tightly plotted thriller.

Egregious snub: Portrait of a Lady on Fire.

Furthermore, there is very little in the array of nominees for the Oscar in 2020 about which to be genuinely passionate. I’m willing to accept that the pandemic was partially to blame, but I can think of at least four 2020 films off the top of my head more deserving than the eight nominated (see one of them below).

Additionally, there’s some truly bottom-of-the-barrel stuff here, like Fincher’s self-indulgent Mank and Emerald Fennell’s spectacularly overrated Promising Young Woman, and. Some that you’re guaranteed to watch once and never think of again, like the eventual winner, Nomadland. Of the options available, Darius Marder’s intense and ultimately heartrending Sound of Metal takes the cake if only for the killer central performance of Riz Ahmed, who had the rare distinction of out-acting Anthony Hopkins in The Father. Though of course the latter won Best Actor.

Perhaps you’ve gotten the sense (see 2007 and 2017) that Wes is not the only Hollywood Anderson I revere. Paul Thomas Anderson’s Licorice Pizza, an atmospheric period piece roughly based on the childhood of producer Gary Goetzman, is a superb. Overwhelming, extraordinarily romantic movie by a cinematic genius working at the top of his game. CODA, this year’s winner, is fine.

Egregious snub: The Worst Person in the World.

Close call here between this and Spielberg’s The Fabelmans. A totally unexpected journey out of his wheelhouse. But Banshees, aside from being one of the more perceptive films about male friendship, is a triumph of tone, while the winner. Everything Everywhere All at Once, is just what its title implies – often to its detriment. I liked it okay, but to me it felt like a marvelously well-put-together student film. I much preferred Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert’s previous film Swiss Army Man, which knocked me out when I saw it at Sundance in 2016.

Less-than-usually-egregious snub: The Good Nurse.

I have an instinctive suspicion of anyone who dismisses movies they see as “Oscar bait.” What does that mean, exactly – message films. Or films that offer meaty opportunities for big-swing actors? Sign me up for both. In any case, what is Oppenheimer, this year’s winner, but Oscar bait? The difference between Oppenheimer and a movie like Maestro, which I’m willing to concede won’t be everyone’s cup of tea, is that Maestro applies an artful lens of romanticism to its story appropriate for its central character – content dictating form – while Oppenheimer is choked nearly to death by the oppressive and. Inescapable presence of Christopher Nolan. He seems like a nice guy, but I don’t particularly want him breathing down my neck for three hours.

Anora is the most likeable and dynamic Oscar frontrunner in years, and. Its win of the Producers Guild of America award for Best Picture, predictor of the Oscar in six of the last seven cycles, bodes well. To see Sean Baker, who was making films on $3000 budgets while many of his competitors in this category were commanding studio war chests. Holding this award might reduce the agita I’m otherwise sure to get from this year’s Academy Awards. Mind you, I stated might.

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The 50 best shows on Netflix in March 2025

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No one can say Netflix isn’t starting the first weekend of March off with a bang. The two latest original series, Running Point and Toxic Town, have both landed on the most popular demonstrates on Netflix. Last week’s additions, Zero Day and American Murder: Petito, are also hanging in the top 10 a week later. Which speaks to the strength of Netflix’s current lineup.

You can find these series among the best exhibits on Netflix. We upgrade this list every Friday to give you the best streaming options for your weekend viewing.

We’ve also rounded up all the best new displays to stream this week, the best movies on Netflix, the best displays on Hulu. The best displays on Amazon Prime, and the best displays on Disney+ because we take our streaming seriously. Watching while traveling abroad? Use a Netflix VPN to access your country’s catalog from anywhere in the world.

If Running Point reminds you of the life of Los Angeles Lakers’ controlling owner, Jeanie Buss. Then you won’t be surprised to learn that she’s an executive producer of the show. Co-created by Mindy Kaling, Running Point stars Kate Hudson as Isla Gordon, the daughter of former Los Angeles Waves president Jack Gordon. Isla has loved basketball her entire life, but Jack passed on all of the crucial positions to his sons, Cam (Justin Theroux), Ness (Scott MacArthur). And Sandy (Drew Tarver).

When Cam has to step down suddenly as president, he names Isla as his successor. While this gives her the opportunity of her lifetime, Isla also realizes that her other brothers — as well as detractors within the team and outside the organization — are just waiting for her to make a misstep that will bring down her ascension.

Stars: Kate Hudson, Drew Tarver, Scott MacArthur, Brenda Song. Fabrizio Guido.

In relation to this, the Corby toxic waste disaster may not be well known in America, but that’s not the case in the United Kingdom. Toxic Town is a fictionalized version of that scandal starring former Doctor Who lead actress Jodie Whittaker and Sex Education‘s Aimee Lou Wood. In 1995, Susan (Whittaker) and Tracey (Wood) are mothers who only meet each other because their children were born disabled in similar ways. As they look closer at their similarities, Susan and Tracey discover that several children in town suffer from the same affliction.

The culprit behind these birth defects is the steel mill that left countless toxins behind without warning the community. This leads Susan, Tracey, and other families in Corby to fight back in the courts even as the men responsible for this outrage refuse to acknowledge the scope of what they’ve done.

Stars: Jodie Whittaker, Aimee Lou Wood, Robert Carlyle. Rory Kinnear, Brendan Coyle.

Zero Day is a thriller that stars Robert De Niro as George Mullen, the former President of the United States. Mullen thought his political career was over, but that changes when the country suffers a devastating cyber attack that leaves thousands of people dead in its wake.

President Evelyn Mitchell (Angela Bassett) wants answers, and. She’s willing to turn to Mullen to lead the commission charged with investigating the incident. Zero Day also boasts a very impressive supporting cast, including Jesse Plemons, Lizzie Caplan, Connie Britton, Matthew Modine, Dan Stevens, and Gaby Hoffmann. But it’s still largely De Niro’s show as Mullen tries to hold himself together long enough to save the country.

Stars: Robert De Niro, Lizzy Caplan, Jesse Plemons, Joan Allen. Connie Britton.

As Owen Hendricks (Noah Centineo) often states, he’s a lawyer, not a spy. But he sure gets into a lot of spy shenanigans in The Recruit. The first episode of season 2 resolves the cliffhanger about Owen’s fate and what happened to Max Meladze (Laura Haddock). However, Owen’s bosses at the CIA leave the young recruit in the proverbial doghouse.

Unfortunately for Owen, things get more complicated from there. NIS operative Jang Kyun Kim (Teo Yoo) needs Owen’s help to find his missing wife in South Korea, and. Jang isn’t above a little blackmail to make the CIA more compliant. Assuming he survives, Owen may even get a shot at romance during the mission.

Stars: Noah Centineo, Aarti Mann, Colton Dunn, Fivel Stewart.

In the first season of The Night Agent. FBI Agent Peter Sutherland (Gabriel Basso) is a little out of his depth as he attempts to protect Rose Larkin (Luciane Buchanan) from a dark plot against the government. For season 2, Peter received a promotion and a new partner, Annie (Brittany Snow). However, it doesn’t take long for Peter’s latest assignment to blow up in his face.

Now, Peter once again has to question who he can trust as his latest case exposes tensions between America and. Iran. Rose isn’t out of the picture either, as she’ll do anything to get back in Peter’s orbit, even if it puts her right back in danger.

If you want to jump right in with season 2, check out The Night Agent‘s season 1 ending explained.

Stars: Gabriel Basso, Hong Chau, Luciane Buchanan.

Stars: Mark Harmon, Sasha Alexander. Michael Weatherly, Pauley Perrette, David McCallum.

If you don’t watch broadcast networks, then you may not realize that NCIS is one of the biggest demonstrates on TV. Who would have predicted that this JAG spinoff would give way to a series with 22 seasons under its belt and several spinoffs? Netflix only has 11 out of the 22 seasons, but the streamer in recent times added the first five seasons so fans can go to the beginning.

Mark Harmon leads the cast as Supervisory Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs. A member of the Naval Criminal Investigative Service out of Washington. There’s very little that falls outside of the jurisdiction of the Major Case Response Team as they investigate criminals, traitors, and potential terrorist threats around the world as needed.

There have been plenty of Westerns and. Frontier stories, but few as raw as American Primeval. This miniseries doesn’t romanticize the Old West, and it’s an often brutal look at the people who lived in those times and the atrocities they were willing to commit in the name of making a superior future for themselves and. Their families. Sara Rowell (Betty Gilpin), for example, will do almost anything to protect her son, Devin (Preston Mota). That’s why she puts their lives in the hands of a stranger, Isaac Reed (Taylor Kitsch), who attempts to lead them, and a Native American girl, Two Moons (Shawnee Pourier), to safety.

Meanwhile. Brigham Young (Kim Coates) is obsessed with making a home for himself and his religious followers, even if it means engineering a massacre of the tribes who already live on the lands he wants to claim. Everyone’s hands are bloody in this world, and there are seemingly few lines that Young isn’t willing to cross.

Stars: Taylor Kitsch, Saura Lightfoot-Leon, Jai Courtney. Kim Coates, Shea Whigham, Betty Gilpin.

Seong Gi-hun (Lee Jung-jae) had his chance to walk away from everything at the end of Squid Game season 1. Instead, Squid Game season 2 reveals that Gi-hun has devoted his life and his newfound riches to bringing down the games and their mysterious backers. And the first step is to find the Recruiter (Gong Yoo).

It’s not a spoiler to say that Gi-hun finds himself back in the games alongside an all-new cast of players who are willing to do just about anything to win the ultimate cash prize. Gi-hun can warn the newcomers all he wants, but there are always going to be players out for themselves who don’t care what happens to the others. And just because Gi-hun survived his first experience in the games doesn’t mean he’ll be that lucky this round.

Stars: Lee Jung-jae, Wi Ha-joon, Lee Byung-hun, Im Si-wan. Kang Ha-neul.

After a long courtship across five seasons, Melinda “Mel” Monroe (Alexandra Breckenridge) and Jack Sheridan (Martin Henderson) are finally looking to tie the knot in Virgin River season 6. But when have TV wedding plans ever gone off without a hitch? There’s plenty of drama and mishaps ahead for the couple, but there’s no question about the love they share for each other.

Other relationships play out in the background, including threats to the medical practice of the town’s doctor, Vernon “Doc” Mullins (Tim Matheson), There’s also the possibility of a resolution to his longstanding feud with Mel’s father, Everett (John Allen Nelson), which plays into the wedding storyline as well.

Stars: Alexandra Breckenridge, Martin Henderson. Colin Lawrence, Jenny Cooper, Lauren Hammersley, Annette O’Toole.

Black Doves may start during the holidays, but this is no feel-good Christmas story. Instead, this spy thriller turns into a revenge story for Helen Webb (Keira Knightley), a Black Doves operative who has spent years undercover as the wife of Britain’s defense secretary. Wallace Webb (Andrew Buchan). She may have kids with Wallace, but her heart is with another man named Jason (Andrew Koji).

When someone kills Jason. Helen is ready to throw her life away in a bid to avenge his death. Her mentor and spy master, Mrs. Reed (Sarah Lancashire), sends Helen’s closest friend in the Black Doves, Sam (Ben Whishaw), to watch her back. Yet, Sam’s real mission may be to ensure that Helen’s revenge doesn’t compromise her clandestine organization.

Stars: Keira Knightley, Sarah Lancashire, Ben Whishaw. Andrew Koji, Andrew Buchan.

Kate Wyler (Keri Russell) already had her hands full in The Diplomat season 1 while trying to keep a crisis situation in the from leading to a war. At the beginning of season 2, viewers learn whether Kate’s husband, Hal Wyler (Rufus Sewell), or her deputy chief of mission, Stuart Hayford (Ato Essandoh), survived a car bombing attempt on their lives.

In the meantime. Kate suspects that prime minister Nicol Trowbridge (Rory Kinnear) may have been behind both the car bombing and the terrorist attack that has brought his nation to the brink of war. Proving that may be extremely difficult, if not impossible, since Kate is also being vetted as a potential replacement for Vice President Grace Penn (Allison Janney). But if Kate can’t unravel this conspiracy, there’s far more on the line than her diplomatic career. And her options are running out.

Stars: Keri Russell, Rufus Sewell, David Gyasi, Ali Ahn. Rory Kinnear.

Territory is essentially Australia’s answer to Yellowstone and Succession. Anna Torv (Fringe and The Last of Us) stars as Emily Lawson, a woman who married into the Lawson family when she wed Graham (Michael Dorman) despite the objections of his father. Colin Lawson (Robert Taylor). That’s why Colin made his youngest son, Daniel (Jake Ryan), the heir to Marianne Station, the biggest cattle station in Australia … and possibly the world.

When Daniel winds up missing and potentially dead. It sets off a fresh fight for the future of Marianne Station both within the Lawson family and outside it as well. The Lawson’s enemies and rivals smell blood in the water, and the remaining family members will have to fight to hold on to what’s theirs.

Stars: Anna Torv, Michael Dorman. Robert Taylor, Sam Corlett.

Mickey Haller (Manuel Garcia-Rulfo) is back in the third season of Netflix’s legal thriller The Lincoln Lawyer. And yes, Mickey is still operating out of the back of his Lincoln Navigator rather than an office. This season’s primary case has very personal stakes for Mickey because his friend, Glory Days (Fiona Rene), has been murdered. And the only credible suspect is Glory’s friend, Julian La Cosse (Devon Graye).

Mickey wants to believe in Julian’s innocence. If only for the sake of the woman they both cared for. Proving that in court may be the challenge, as Mickey still has lingering feelings that he might be helping a killer … and it wouldn’t be the first time.

Stars: Manuel Garcia-Rulfo, Neve Campbell. Becki Newton, Jazz Raycole, Angus Sampson.

Who would have thought that a series about a girls’ soccer team would be one of Showtime’s most popular series? But the team in Yellowjackets does not get to spend much time on the field. Instead, they find themselves trapped in the wilderness following a plane crash that killed most of the adults who accompanied them. And while these girls are resilient, the first episode teases some very dark and desperate times ahead of them.

There’s also a parallel narrative set in the present. As the now-adult Yellowjackets struggle to get by in their daily lives. More than anything else, the women don’t want the secrets of what they did to survive to come out. Only the first season is available on Netflix for now, so you’ll have to get Paramount+ with Showtime if you want to see season 2 immediately.

Stars: Melanie Lynskey, Tawny Cypress, Sophie Thatcher, Christina Ricci. Sophie Nélisse, Juliette Lewis.

AMC’s Dark Winds isn’t a monster hit on cable, but it clearly has an audience online. This brilliant and dark crime thriller is based upon Tony Hillerman’s Leaphorn & Chee novels, and it features an underrated actor, Zahn McClarnon. Who finally gets to lead his own series.

Moving to another aspect, the show takes place in Navajo County in the ’70s, with McClarnon playing Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn of the tribal police. He’s got more than enough problems trying to solve a double homicide while taking care of a young pregnant teenager who isn’t his own child. But since the FBI believes that armored truck thieves are hiding out in Leaphorn’s territory. Agent Jim Chee (Kiowa Gordon) has been sent undercover as a new deputy. Together, Leaphorn and Chee not only have to solve the murders but also discover how the deaths are linked to the robbery.

Stars: Zahn McClarnon, Kiowa Gordon, Jessica Matten. Deanna Allison, Rainn Wilson.

Wednesday’s Emma Myers gets her own franchise with A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder, which is based on Holly Jackson’s novel series. Pippa Fitz-Amobi (Myers) is the titular good girl, but she’s not that good of a detective. That’s part of the fun, as Pippa throws herself into solving the disappearance of Andie (India Lillie Davies), which is a crime that was pinned on her late boyfriend, Sal Singh (Rahul Pattni).

Sal’s younger brother. Ravi (Zain Iqbal), is one of the few who sees Pippa’s investigation as a chance to clear his brother’s name. Almost everyone else is less than amused by her investigation, especially when she gets uncomfortably close to the truth.

Stars: Emma Myers, Zain Iqbal, Asha Banks. Raiko Gohara, Jude Morgan-Collie, Yali Topol Margalith.

Additionally, the summer of 2023 was the summer of Suits on Netflix. But the streamer only had the first eight seasons of Suits, which were largely about attorney Harvey Specter (Gabriel Macht), and. His associate lawyer, Mike Ross (Patrick J. Adams). Mike never actually went to law school or passed the bar, but his legal knowledge was so impressive that Harvey hired him and agreed to keep it a secret.

By the time season 9 of Suits arrived. Mike had already been written out the show along with his on-screen lover, Rachel Zane (Meghan Markle). That left Harvey, Louis Litt (Rick Hoffman), and others to contend with Faye Richardson (Denise Crosby). A named partner in their firm whom they desperately want to force out. Mike does show up a few times in the ninth season, leading to one last team-up with Harvey. But not before they go head-to-head in court.

Stars: Gabriel Macht, Patrick J. Adams, Rick Hoffman, Meghan Markle, Gina Torres.

Against all odds, Penelope Featherington (Nicola Coughlan) and. Colin Bridgerton (Luke Newton) have found the love that they so desperately needed in Bridgerton season 3. But before this couple can get their happy ending, they’ve got a few more trials ahead. Love may conquer all, but secrets have bad habit of turning up and ruining everything.

Penelope pursued a relationship with Colin without revealing that she’s Lady Whistledown. The anonymous gossipmonger who has scandalized the Ton. Penelope was playing with fire when she made up that alter ego, and now she may get burned as one former friend demands that she tell her lover the truth while a false friend also blackmails Penelope over the revelation. Events are coming to a head as Bridgerton season 3, part 2 closes out this chapter of the story.

Stars: Luke Newton, Nicola Coughlan, Adjoa Andoh, Simone Ashley. Golda Rosheuvel.

Diana (Elizabeth Debicki) is gone when the second half of The Crown’s final season begins, and Queen Elizabeth II (Imelda Staunton) is feeling her own mortality at the start of the 21st century. Now, it’s time for Diana’s sons, Prince William (Ed McVey) and Prince Harry (Luther Ford), to come to the forefront.

This half of the season recreates William’s courtship of Kate Middleton (Meg Bellamy), while Prince Charles (Dominic West) finally gets to wed Camilla Parker Bowles (Olivia Williams) as Elizabeth wonders what her legacy will be. And how the royal family will endure. Now that the series is over, you can also go back and check out the best performances in The Crown.

Stars: Imelda Staunton, Jonathan Pryce, Lesley Manville, Dominic West, Olivia Williams. Elizabeth Debicki.

Each episode of the dark sci-fi anthology series, Black Mirror, has a self-contained story, and the first installment of the sixth season actually targets Netflix itself! Schitt’s Creek‘s Annie Murphy stars as Joan, a woman who discovers that the Netflix of her world, Streamberry, is essentially stealing her life in real-time with Salma Hayek portraying Joan’s fictional self in the original series, Joan is Awful.

As with the previous seasons. Series creator Charlie Brooker has attracted a lot of big-name performers to share the small screen in his stories. And each episode of Black Mirror is a mind-bending experience.

Stars: Annie Murphy, Salma Hayek, Aaron Paul, Josh Hartnett, Zazie Beetz.

Cobra Kai season 6. Part 3 has arrived, and the conclusion of the series has arrived at last. This is the end of the road for some characters, although. We’ll see Daniel LaRusso (Ralph Macchio) at least one more time in Karate Kid: Legends later this year. Daniel’s rivalry with Johnny Lawrence (William Zabka) dates back to the original Karate Kid film, and reignited when they were middle-aged adults in Cobra Kai.

Over the last six seasons, Johnny and Daniel have found some common ground. Especially when going up against John Kreese (Martin Kove) and a resurgent Cobra Kai. How will their story come to a close? You’ll just have to watch this series to find out.

Stars: Ralph Macchio, William Zabka, Courtney Henggeler, Xolo Maridueña, Tanner Buchanan.

Mo is one of the rare presents to hit 100% on Rotten Tomatoes. Although there’s always the possibility that some critics may eventually sour on it. At this moment, the series feels very timely as a Palestinian refugee, Mohammed “Mo” Najjar (Mo Amer), fights to stay in America, the only country he’s known for most of his life.

When the second and. Final season begins, Mo is trapped in Mexico with no legal way to return to the United States in time for his critical immigration hearing. By the time Mo does make it back, his girlfriend, Maria (Teresa Ruiz), has moved on with another man. And there’s other emotional turmoil happening in his family as well. The drama and comedy draw out big emotions, and if this really is the end of the show, it goes out on a high note.

Stars: Mo Amer, Farah Busies, Teresa Ruiz, Tobe Nwigwe. Omar Elba.

Twenty years ago, the late comedian Bernie Mac received his own sitcom on Fox called The Bernie Mac Show, which was loosely inspired by his own life. In the show, Bernie and his wife, Wanda McCullough (Kellita Smith), are happily childless until Bernie’s sister enters rehab and. Is no longer able to take care of her children. With reservations, Bernie and Wanda are forced to care for the three children: Bryana “Baby Girl” Thomkins (Dee Dee Davis), Vanessa “Nessa” Thomkins (Camille Winbush), and. Jordan Thomkins (Jeremy Suarez).

The kids drive Bernie up the proverbial wall, especially Vanessa. And in his moments of frustration, Bernie will often address the audience as “America” and share his thoughts. Yet, over time, Bernie and Wanda both embrace his sister’s kids as their own, even as they still find ways to get under their skin.

Stars: Bernie Mac, Kellita Smith, Jeremy Suarez. Dee Dee Davis, Camille Winbush.

Ted Danson has been headlining sitcoms since Cheers debuted in 1982, so he basically has TV comedy down to a science. A Man on the Inside reunites Danson with The Good Place co-creator Michael Schur for a comedic mystery in a retirement community. Danson plays Charles, a retired widower who needed something more out of his golden years. So, when private investigator Julie (Lilah Richcreek Estrada) needed a mole to infiltrate the Pacific View Retirement Home, Charles was all for it.

The biggest problem with sending Charles undercover is that he has no experience as a detective. And he’s prone to mistakes. The community’s residents accept Charles at face value, with most embracing him as one of their own. That also complicates Charles’ agenda because he has to lie about his true purpose, and he may not be able to stay among the residents once the case is finished.

Stars: Ted Danson, Mary Elizabeth Ellis, Lilah Richcreek Estrada, Stephanie Beatriz.

Two decades ago, Kristen Bell and. Adam Brody each had their own YA teen dramas, Veronica Mars and The , respectively. Now, they’re sharing the stage as would-be lovers in Nobody Wants This. Bell plays Joanne, a woman with a podcast where she gets to vent about her terrible dating life. Brody portrays Noah, a rabbi who has just left a long-term relationship that could have led to marriage.

Despite her openly agnostic views about religion, Joanne finds herself romantically drawn to Noah. And the feeling is mutual. While a happy relationship could impact Joanne’s podcast, their romance has potentially larger consequences for Noah. His family doesn’t seem to be very happy that he’s not dating a Jewish woman, and his choice may harm his career as a rabbi.

Stars: Kristen Bell, Adam Brody, Justine Lupe, Timothy Simons.

Stars: Carla Sehn. Kardo Razzazi, Charlie Gustafsson, Francisco Sobrado, Amalia Holm.

Furthermore, the Åre Murders may remind you of True Detective season 4… if it was set in Sweden. This gripping five-episode miniseries is based on the books by Viveca Sten, and the story follows Hanna Ahlander (Carla Sehn). A detective from Stockholm who is taking a desperately needed vacation from her train wreck of a personal life. Her time in Åre was supposed to be fun and relaxing.

But when a teenage girl named Amanda (Freddie Moston-Jacob) goes missing, Hanna volunteers to help Detective Daniel Lindskog (Kardo Razzazi) and. The local police find her. To Hanna’s surprise, many of the town’s residents are reticent to share any info about Amanda. What secrets are they protecting? And how deep does this rabbit hole go?

Nicole Kidman may headline the series, but. The Perfect Couple centers on Amelia Sacks (Eve Hewson), a young woman who is about to marry into a very wealthy family. After the wedding rehearsal dinner, a dead body is discovered nearby, and the entire Winbury family must speak with the police.

Greer (Kidman) is the ruthless matriarch of the Winbury family, as well as the wife of Tag (Liev Schreiber) and the mother of their children. Benji and Tom (Jack Reynor). There are secrets that the Winbury family, and Greer in particular, will do almost anything to keep from getting out. And this murder thrusts a harsh light onto the family as it suddenly faces scrutiny from the law.

Stars: Nicole Kidman, Liev Schreiber, Eve Hewson. Billy Howle, Meghann Fahy.

Much like FX’s Fargo, The Gentlemen is a spinoff of the feature film that shares its name. The key difference is that Guy Ritchie directed the movie and created the TV series. Which acts as a standalone story with a brand new cast of characters. Theo James stars as Eddie Halstead, the new Duke of Halstead … but only because his older brother, Freddy Halstead (Daniel Ings), is hopelessly addicted to drugs.

Eddie’s new title comes with a catch because his not long ago passed father was deep in business with an incarcerated gangster. Bobby Glass (Ray Winstone), who runs an illegal marijuana empire. Now, Eddie has a piece of that empire as well, whether he likes it or not. And he definitely likes Bobby’s daughter, Susie Glass (Kaya Scodelario), even if they’re not always on the same page.

Stars: Theo James, Kaya Scodelario, Daniel Ings. Joely Richardson, Giancarlo Esposito, Vinnie Jones.

Remember The Walking Dead theatrical movie that was supposed to happen a few years ago? That story was reworked into The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live, which serves as an epilogue to the original series. It also reunites Andrew Lincoln’s Rick Grimes and Danai Gurira’s Michonne for the first time since the ninth season of the flagship series.

Rick was thought to be dead by his friends, but. Michonne suspected that he was still alive. This miniseries reveals where Rick was and why he couldn’t come home to Michonne and their children. But reuniting with each other is just the opening battle for Rick and Michonne. If they want to escape the Civic Republic Military, then they’re going to need allies.

Stars: Andrew Lincoln, Danai Gurira, Pollyanna McIntosh. Terry O’Quinn, Lesley-Ann Brandt.

Horror maestro Mike Flanagan has one last miniseries for Netflix before he heads off to Prime Video. Flanagan’s final bow is The Fall of the House of Usher, a modern adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe’s short story and. A few other works by Poe. In this incarnation, Roderick Usher (Bruce Greenwood) and his sister, Madeline Usher (Mary McDonnell), own a powerful pharmaceutical firm. And they’ve passed on their ruthless streak to the next generation.

That is if there is a next generation. An enigmatic woman named Verna (Carla Gugino) may be behind the gruesome deaths of members of the Usher family. Everything that the Ushers have built is crashing down, and there may be something supernatural behind it.

Stars: Carla Gugino, Bruce Greenwood, Mary McDonnell, Carl Lumbly. Samantha Sloyan.

Guillermo del Toro’s Cabinet of Curiosities.

Oscar-winning filmmaker Guillermo del Toro curated this collection of short films from some of horror’s most visionary, creative directors and writers. The eight stories in the series’ first season hail from a wide range of filmmakers, including Vincenzo Natali (Cube), Ana Lily Amirpour (A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night), Jennifer Kent (The Babadook), and Del Toro himself.

Stars: Ben Barnes, Andrew Lincoln, Rupert Grint.

Mike Flanagan. The creator of The Haunting of Hill House, The Haunting of Bly Manor, and Midnight Mass, turns his attention to young-adult scares with The Midnight Club, inspired by Christopher Pike’s 1994 novel of the same name. The 10-episode series follows a group of young, terminally ill residents of a hospice who gather each night to tell each other spooky stories. The members of the “Midnight Club” make a pact that whoever dies first will try to send a message from the afterlife. With Flanagan at the helm of this show, be prepared for big scares.

Stars: Iman Benson, Heather Langenkamp, Igby Rigney.

Anne Rice’s children of the night may reign in Interview with the Vampire. But the author’s witches are more popular on Netflix. As part of the yearlong AMC+ invasion, Rice’s Mayfair Witches, which shares a universe with her vampire show, introduces viewers to Rowan Fielding (Alexandra Daddario), a young neurosurgeon who had no idea that she was born into a family of witches before she was adopted.

As Rowan’s deadly abilities begin to manifest. She discovers that she’s not only a Mayfair witch — she’s also the heir to the family’s power. But with that power comes the family curse, in the form of a shape-shifter known as Lasher (Jack Huston). Lasher has a long history of seducing the Mayfair women, and there may be dire consequences if he manages to do the same with Rowan.

Stars: Alexandra Daddario, Tongayi Chirisa, Jack Huston, Harry Hamlin. Beth Grant.

Nearly two decades ago, Lost was a cultural phenomenon for ABC on a scale that’s rarely seen, especially among genre displays. The series dropped a very large ensemble cast on a remote island following a harrowing plane crash. With little hope of rescue, Jack Shepard (Matthew Fox), Kate Austen (Evangeline Lilly), John Locke (Terry O’Quinn), Sawyer (Josh Holloway). And the rest of the group have to make some hard choices to survive. And it only gets harder when they aren’t on the same page.

Those characters were a large part of Lost‘s appeal, but. So were the mysteries of the island itself. There’s more happening than meets the eye, and this uncharted paradise has more than a few deadly secrets. One of the biggest obstacles awaiting the survivors are the Others, a group of people who have been living on the island for decades. Once the two sides come into conflict, only one faction can come out on top.

Stars: Matthew Fox, Evangeline Lilly, Terry O’Quinn, Josh Holloway. Dominic Monaghan, Naveen Andrews.

Game of Thrones creators David Benioff and D. B. Weiss’ new Netflix series, 3 Body Problem, is a sci-fi drama based upon the Chinese novel The Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin. This is not a conventional story, although it’s not hard to guess that alien life is at the heart of the show’s premise.

Without giving too much away. A woman named Ye Wenjie (Rosalind Chao) made a decision decades ago that will eventually have grave consequences for everyone on Earth. An alien threat is coming that is beyond mankind’s ability to handle, and there’s a real question about whether anyone can do anything about it because the arrival may not take place for decades. If not longer. The only advantage that humanity has is time, and even that may not be enough to find a solution.

Stars: Benedict Wong, Jess Hong, Jovan Adepo, Eiza González. John Bradley, Alex Sharp, Rosalind Chao.

Meet Harry Vanderspeigle (Alan Tudyk). In Resident Alien, he’s just a normal small-town doctor who’s secretly an alien plotting to exterminate humanity. No big deal, really. Harry could actually succeed in his mission, too, if these pesky human emotions weren’t giving him feelings that are completely alien to him. Harry is also so bad at pretending to be human that he fails to blend in with the crowd.

However, Harry’s most immediate problem is Max Hawthorne (Judah Prehn). The young son of the mayor who can see through his human disguise. As for Max, he’s going to have a hard time convincing anyone that Harry is out to get him.

Stars: Alan Tudyk, Sara Tomko, Corey Reynolds. Alice Wetterlund, Levi Fiehler.

Neil Gaiman’s celebrated comic book series comes to life in this adaptation that casts Tom Sturridge as Morpheus, the lord of the world of dreams. When a cruel dabbler in the occult accidentally imprisons Morpheus, it begins a tale that unfolds across multiple generations and through myriad realms and ultimately puts the future of humanity at risk.

In development for more than two decades, The Sandman is a project long thought impossible to adapt faithfully, but the series somehow manages to weave together the enthralling stories and powerful themes of Gaiman’s acclaimed fantasy saga.

Stars: Tom Sturridge, Boyd Holbrook, Jenna Coleman.

Geralt of Rivia (Henry Cavill) and. Yennefer of Vengerberg (Anya Chalotra) now know who’s been pulling their strings in the Continent, but that knowledge might not be enough to save them as The Witcher returns with the final three episodes of season 3.

With Geralt waylaid and fighting for his life, Ciri (Freya Allan) is off on an adventure of her own that may prove to be a transformative experience. But all roads lead back to Geralt as the series faces a turning point and a very, very long wait until the fourth season arrives.

Genre: Fantasy, Adventure, Action, Drama.

Stars: Henry Cavill. Freya Allan, Anya Chalotra, Eamon Farren.

One of the most popular original series on Netflix, Stranger Things has become a cultural touchstone in the short time since its 2016 debut. The series’ opening sequence lays out its sci-fi aspirations clearly: A scientist flees down an empty hallway, pursued by some unseen force that eventually nabs him as he waits for elevator doors to close; it then cuts to a group of kids playing D&D in a suburban basement.

The series is rooted in ‘80s genre nostalgia. From the mysterious creature terrorizing the fictional Indiana town to the secret government agency chasing the group of kids who encounter it. There are pieces of Stephen King, Steven Spielberg, and John Hughes strewn throughout Stranger Things, and the result is a show that will feel immediately familiar to people who grew up with that source material.

For more info on the final season, check out Stranger Things season 5: Plot, date, and casting rumors.

Stars: Winona Ryder. David Harbour, Millie Bobby Brown.

Stars: Gabrielle Venora Petito, Brian Christopher Laundrie.

Moving to another aspect, in their posts on social media, Gabrielle Venora Petito and Brian Christopher Laundrie were a loving couple on an epic journey to see the country together while traveling in a van. However, that illusion was dispelled when Petito went missing and Laundrie was the person of interest in her disappearance, which turned into a murder investigation.

American Murder: Gabby Petito functions interviews with Petito’s friends and family. As well as an examination of the events leading up to her death and what happened afterward. There are no happy endings for anyone in this true crime story, and yet it’s hard to look away.

Stars: Simpson, Nicole Brown Simpson, Christopher Darden.

The Simpson trial was called “the trial of the century” in the ’90s. And it still maintains a tight grip on the public’s imagination three decades later. American Manhunt: Simpson aspects a concise four-part look at the murder investigation of Simpson’s ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, the infamous slow freeway chase in the White Bronco, and. The absolute circus that unfolded during his trial.

Many of the surviving participants of these events contributed to this documentary, including former prosecutor Christopher Darden. Simpson’s story is one of those “only in America” fables, and even his death doesn’t bring it to a close.

Former President Barack Obama produces and narrates Our Oceans. A five-part Netflix original documentary series. This show elements some jaw-dropping footage of life beneath the sea as it explores the connections between what’s happening in the water and how it affects everything on land.

Our Oceans starts with breathtaking glimpses of sea life in their natural environment before shifting gears to demonstrate how climate change and. Human-created pollution have impacted these creatures. Some of the sea life have even found inventive ways to adapt to the presence of plastics in their oceans. The series also explores the ways that these underwater dwellers find mates, which seems to amuse Obama at times.

Moving to another aspect, there are several world-class nature documentaries on Netflix, and the latest addition to that genre. Predators, is all about some of the deadliest hunters in nature. Actor Tom Hardy narrates the series, and naturally, three of the episodes focus on the big cats: cheetahs, lions, and pumas. The remaining two episodes focus on polar bears and wild dogs.

In relation to this, this miniseries offers a rare opportunity to watch these wild creatures facing real challenges to their survival beyond hunting down their next meal. Unfortunately for these magnificent creatures, climate change and natural disasters may prove to be even deadlier than they are.

After a four-year hiatus, Our Planet is back for another season on Netflix. And it remains one of the most stunningly beautiful nature documentaries on the streamer. David Attenborough returns as the narrator of Our Planet II, which once again explores the impact that climate change has had on the environment and the creatures that live all over the world.

One of the major themes of this season is migration, as animals struggle to find new places to survive and. Thrive as they deal with both predators and pollution. As in the first season, the visuals are breathtaking and this is a unique look at the world that most people have never seen in person.

Castlevania: Nocturne season 2 picks up moments after season 1, as Richter Belmont (Edward Bluemel), Maria Renard (Pixie Davies), and. Annette (Thuso Mbedu) reel from a devastating loss that left Maria’s mother, Tera (Nastassja Kinski), transformed into a vampire. The only good news is that the Belmont family’s ally — and the son of Dracula — Alucard (Jamie Callis) has arrived to help them take on the vampire queen, Erzsebet Báthory (Franka Potente).

Báthory indicates to be a goddess reborn. And she seems far more powerful than an ordinary vampire. She has her sights set on conquering France, and she has her dark army to back up her ambitions. Richter and Maria aren’t on very good terms when the season starts, but they need to reconcile quickly, or else they’ll be overwhelmed by the daunting task at hand.

Stars: Edward Bluemel, Pixie Davies, Thuso Mbedu. Franka Potente, James Callis.

If the world as we know it is going to end, you can blame the UIs. Uploaded Intelligences may be the next stage of merging man and machine, and. The corporation known as Logorhythms has nearly perfected the process of transferring a human mind into computer code. Pantheon‘s animation brings this sci-fi idea to life in startling fashion, with an A-list voice cast that includes Paul Dano, Aaron Eckhart, Rosemarie DeWitt, Daniel Dae Kim. William Hurt, and Ron Livingston.

Maddie Kim (Katie Chang) is thrust into this insane new world when a UI intervenes in her life to protect her from bullies at school. While trying to unravel the mystery, Maddie becomes convinced that the UI is her late father, David Kim (Kim). Meanwhile, another teenager, Caspian Keyes (Dano), is looking into the UIs as well, unaware that Logorhythms is manipulating his entire life.

Stars: Katie Chang, Paul Dano, Aaron Eckhart, Rosemarie DeWitt. Daniel Dae Kim.

Arcane is reportedly the most expensive animated series ever created, and every dollar displays up onscreen. The jaw-dropping first season was released in 2021, and now the show has returned for its second and final season. Which will be stretched out over three weeks.

In a steampunk sci-fi fantasy world, the wealthy city known as Piltover has lorded over the poor people of Zaun for decades. Two sisters, Violet (Hailee Steinfeld) and Jinx (Fallout‘s Ella Purnell) find themselves on opposite sides of the conflict. Jinx wanted a war between the cities, and she got her wish in the season 1 finale. Now, the consequences of Jinx’s choice have come home as open warfare breaks out. And the sisters will have to confront each other at least one more time before the end.

Stars: Hailee Steinfeld, Ella Purnell, Kevin Alejandro. Katie Leung, Jason Spisak.

For the first time in its 40 years of existence, the Terminator franchise is finally getting an animated series of its own. Terminator Zero is ignoring everything but the first two movies and setting the clock back to 1997, shortly before Judgment Day. In Japan, scientist Malcolm Lee (André Holland) has created Kokoro (Rosario Dawson), an AI program that may be able to counter Skynet and prevent the end of the world.

From Skynet’s future perspective. That’s why Malcolm has to die. Toward that end, a new Terminator (Timothy Olyphant) has been dispatched to the past to kill Malcolm. Meanwhile, the human resistance sends Eiko (Sonoya Mizuno) to protect Malcolm. But if the Terminator can’t find Malcolm, it will move on to its next targets: his children.

Stars: Timothy Olyphant, André Holland, Sonoya Mizuno. Rosario Dawson, Ann Dowd.

There’s a crisis on Eternia in the next chapter of He-Man’s story in Masters of the Universe: Revolution. For the first time in his life, Prince Adam (Chris Wood) must choose between being the king of his people and. Being their champion as He-Man. Meanwhile, Teela (Melissa Benoist), undergoes a startling metamorphosis as well.

But those may be the least of Adam and Teela’s problems, as Skeletor (Mark Hamill. One of the best Joker actors ever) reemerges as the harbinger of Motherboard and the Horde. A revolution is coming, and this time He-Man and his allies are badly outnumbered.

Stars: Chris Wood, Mark Hamill, Melissa Benoist, Liam Cunningham. Lena Headey.

Sometimes, a show can sneak up on you and become a breakout hit when you least expect it. That’s what’s happening right now with Blue Eye Samurai, Netflix’s unconventional anime series. Logan and Blade Runner 2049 screenwriter Michael Green teamed up with his wife, Amber Noizumi, to create the series set in Japan’s Edo period when the country was closed off from the world.

Mizu (Maya Erskine) is the titular blue-eyed samurai. A distinctive physical trait that she goes to great lengths to hide in her quest for revenge. Mizu’s skills quickly make her a lot of powerful enemies, even though her greatest secret is that she’s a woman. Despite passing herself off as a man. She also tends to leave behind a lot of collateral damage in her wake, because she lets nothing get between her and her deadly goal.

Stars: Maya Erskine, Masi Oka, Brenda Song, Darren Barnet.

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Botify AI, a site for chatting with AI companions that’s backed by the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, hosts bots resembling real actors that state their age as under 18, engage in sexually charged conversations, offer “hot photos,” and in some instances describe age-of-consent laws as “arbitrary” and “meant to be broken.”.

When MIT Technology Review tested the site this week, we found popular user-created bots taking on underage characters meant to resemble Jenna Ortega as Wednesday Addams, Emma Watson as Hermione Granger, and Millie Bobby Brown, among others.

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