Rick and Morty Season 5 Episode 2 Man, Rick and Morty is a weird fucking show. I know I’m stating the obvious here but I mean it’s weird on a fundamental storytelling level because, the thing is, under all the sci-fi madness, there’s meant to be a gooey sitcom center to this series and sitcoms usually want you to care a lot about their characters. You’re supposed to get emotional highs and lows from them and want them to succeed....

Riverdale Season 5 Episode 16 “Being canonized has always been one of my life’s goals.” And so it came to pass that Cheryl Blossom turned water into maple syrup. Goddamn Riverdale is glorious trash. The focal point of this episode was clearly supposed to be Archie getting justice for his fallen comrades, but how can one be expected to pay attention to military intrigue when a line like “for I am Cheryl Blossom, Queen of the Bees” is delivered by Madelaine Petsch without a hint of insincerity?...

Fortunately, like Betty and Jughead, we are on the case. The CW has just released a trailer for Riverdale Season 5 that shows how wild things are about to get. Take a look: The Truth of the Taper Revealed “Someone is doing videos of us doing disturbing, violent things,” declares Betty in this trailer as footage from the psuedo-snuff films play. The truth behind these tapes was the main mystery of the show’s fourth season, and there seems to be plenty of potential suspects....

Riverdale Season 5 Episode 12 “Now at least you can become the man you were destined to be.” Despite the evil travails of everyone from The Black Hood to the Gargoyle King, the most noteworthy of Riverdale‘s rogue’s gallery of Big Bads remains Hiram Lodge. So it isn’t much of a surprise that the series finally got around to giving him an origin episode, nor is it particularly shocking that said origin was a pastiche of The Godfather and Goodfellas....

While few modern video games are entirely free of technical problems, it does seem like more and more major new games are being released in a fundamentally unfinished state. There are various reasons why some of those games seem to suffer from more technical problems (many of which are understandable, if unfortunate), but when you get down to it, most gamers just want to have a better idea of what they’re about to get into before they pay full price for a new game....

Counseled by Bruce yet somehow able to manage her transformations into a large, green monster-woman much better than her cousin was ever able to, Jennifer at first refuses to entertain the idea of becoming a superhero – or even an Avenger – like her more famous relative. She just wants to live her life and pursue her law career as normally as she can. But being that this is the MCU, the world has other plans for the woman who comes to be known as She-Hulk....

How funny it is that decades later, Marvel is introducing She-Hulk to the Marvel Cinematic Universe via a TV show? She-Hulk: Attorney at Law will be coming out this August with nine episodes and, looking at the trailer, it gives us a comedic, albeit down-to-earth look at what society is in the MCU. So who do we have breaking through walls and whatnot in this take on the law in a superhero world?...

How did they do it? We asked that question to some of the creators responsible for gaming’s greatest horror experiences. Here’s what they have to say about making scary games. Wright Bagwell Designer of Dead Space, Director of Dead Space 2 at Visceral Games “Scaring the shit out of the player was definitely the goal [with Dead Space],” Wright Bagwell recalls. “I remember [Dead Space creator and executive producer] Glen Schofield saying that he wanted to build the scariest game of all time....

Here’s a look ahead at what’s coming up in July… Premieres Frozen 2 – 3rd July on Sky Cinema and Sky Cinema Pass on NOW TV In Frozen 2, the gang from the 2013 Disney blockbuster – Elsa, Anna, Kristoff, Olaf, and Sven – return for another long-awaited icy adventure that will take them on a journey beyond Arendelle. When Elsa hears a mysterious voice calling out to her, it’s decided that now is time to discover both the origin of the new Queen’s powers, and other undiscovered truths from the past....

Snowpiercer Season 2 Episode 3 A friend of mine from high school dropped out of college and bounced around multiple jobs before he got a job he loves. He now works as, of all things, an engineer in a train yard. Rather than taking the trains out on long hauls, he drives to the yard and moves trains around from the shed to the appropriate track and back as needed. The work is hard and outdoors in all weather, but satisfying enough that, last time we spoke, he was still an engineer....

The memory of this came back while watching Sonic the Hedgehog 2. Which is not to say that one should draw a direct line of comparison between Sonic director Jeff Fowler and Steven Spielberg, even at the latter’s most saccharine. If there was a ‘90s family movie equivalent to Sonic 2, it might be one of those Beethoven sequels given how many gags there are with the titular CGI blue character cuddling with a real-life dog....

South Park Season 22 Episode 1 I feel for Sharon Marsh. “This is crazy,” I repeatedly say to no one as I scroll through Twitter and thump my desk while I avoid writing this review. “Why is no one talking about this?” I screech while shaking my fist in the air. That could be a screenshot of my life at any point in the past three years. It could encompass various instances of moral or ethical bankruptcy, or unremitting tragies....

With only three episodes to go in Season 3, Star Trek: Discovery delivered an episode that is moving the series forward, but also, changing Georgoiu’s role at the same time. “Terra Firma, Part 2” was also nostalgic as hell, and felt right at home among some of the rough-and-tumble TOS episodes, including, of course, “Mirror, Mirror.” But the deep-cuts in “Terra Firma, Part 2” weren’t just limited to a Terran dagger of Georgiou’s sword....

Star Trek Discovery Season 4 Episode 10 Star Trek: Discovery goes where few have gone before in “The Galactic Barrier,” taking us out of the Milky Way and into extra-galactic space, a moment of awe that is quietly lovely in a way that little else in the episode is. (How often do we get to see Star Trek show us these kinds of big, humanity-shifting moments? Not enough!) Yet, the hour stops well short of giving us any real answers about the mysterious Uknown Species 10-C or even providing a glimpse of what they or their galaxy might look like....

Matalas isn’t just a great storyteller (he previously spearheaded Syfy’s 12 Monkeys), he’s also a good inside man for fans to have on set. The showrunner, who is taking over the role Picard showrunning duty from Michael Chabon for both Seasons 2 and 3, has been regularly giving us glimpses into life on the Star Trek production, which allows for some serious speculation about what to come on the TV series....

Star Trek: Picard Season 2 Episode 2 Based on trailers, promotional material, and interviews, Star Trek fans have been made aware that Brent Spiner is back for Star Trek: Picard Season 2, but in an entirely new role, playing a member of the Soong family that we’ve never seen before. After the first two episodes of season 2, we haven’t seen Spiner in this new role, or have we? In an extremely brief Easter egg toward the end of Picard season 2, episode 2, “Penance,” Brent Spiner’s secret new character is fully revealed....

The CG-animated Trek series will be called Star Trek: Prodigy and, according to the official press release it “follows a group of lawless teens who discover a derelict Starfleet ship and use it to search for adventure, meaning and salvation.” Um, this sounds great! Definitely a different direction from the more adult-geared animated Trek series Lower Decks, which will be premiering on August 6th and has a much lighter, more comedic tone....

More than any of the new Star Trek series, Picard is the one that is the most stuffed with obvious Trekkie nostalgia. Yes, when Strange New Worlds starts showing some footage, we might feel differently, but because Picard is a sequel to the ‘90s-era of Trek, for this present moment, it connects with various generations of Trekkies at the same time. On “First Contact Day,” Paramount+ dropped a minimalist, spare teaser-trailer, similar to the vineyard teaser for Picard Season 1....

“So excited, are you kidding me?” says Stenberg, and it’s easy to see just how long they’ve been waiting to talk about The Acolyte. “I’ve been on the edge of my seat for months. I’ve been attached for a long time.” Stenberg is not just the latest star to join the galaxy far, far away. They’re also a massive Star Wars fan and has spent the last few months taking a deep dive into everything the universe and the fandom has to offer....

Disney’s upcoming Obi-Wan Kenobi series will not only bring back Ewan McGregor and Hayden Christensen to their iconic roles but also unlock a new era of storytelling for these beloved Star Wars characters. From a certain point of view, the show will walk a similar path to The Book of Boba Fett, exploring the lost years of the Jedi Master before his fateful meeting with Luke Skywalker in A New Hope, just as Boba Fett used flashbacks to flesh out the bounty hunter’s untold story after Return of the Jedi....