In the first episode of The Lincoln Lawyer, it’s established that Mickey Haller is a mess. Fresh out of an 18-month stay in rehab, he’s got no money coming in, no clients, and a big gap in his resume. It’s only because of the murder of a legal acquaintance that he’s able to get enough clients to get back on his feet, and it’s only due to his skill as a lawyer that it seems as though he’s reestablished a practice and rehabilitated his professional life....

The show itself is among the year’s most engaging animated efforts, buoyed by its stellar voice acting. At our Den of Geek Suite at San Diego Comic-Con last month, we had the opportunity to chat with Aubrey Plaza and the DeVitos about everything from the allure of evil to the difficulties of doing voicework in a conversation that was as hilarious as it was enlightening. Take a look. Den of Geek: Danny, what is it about evil characters you find so appealing?...

The Magicians Season 3 Episode 5 What show other than The Magicians could get away with showing an entire lifetime of existence catering to a specific “ship” in its fandom while still beautifully serving the overall story? The aptly named “A Life in the Day” not only lends the perfect amount of gravitas to the acquisition of the third key in the quest; it also manages to add depth to the ongoing evolution of its many and varied female characters while continuing to make good use of callbacks to successful elements from previous seasons....

The Man in the High Castle Season 3 Episode 1 We may have had to wait almost an extra year for The Man in the High Castle season 3, but it appears to have been worth the wait. Similarly, the passage of time within the story helped the principal characters shift into roles that are both new and familiar to viewers who enjoyed season one. Juliana Crane and Joe Blake in particular feel much more true to their original selves than they did last year, and the addition of a Neutral Zone storyline gives us hope that we’ll see more of that third culture in the coming season....

You’d be forgiven for not knowing all of that, though. After all, by the time Metroid Dread launches for Nintendo Switch on October 8, it will have been a staggering 19 years since Samus was asked to save the galaxy in 2002’s Metroid Fusion. Don’t know where the Metroid timeline begins and ends? You’ve come to the right place. In this article we’ll break down every mainline Metroid installment in chronological order, covering their basic plot elements and explaining in detail how each game leads into the next....

Marvel Studios just made a triumphant return to Hall H at SDCC, with MCU maestro Kevin Feige laying out his exciting plans for the next two phases of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. With a veritable smorgasbord of movies and TV shows in the works, it may have first appeared that Marvel was laying all their cards on the table for any fans who might have become frustrated with the rollout of Phase 4....

The Orville: New Horizons Season 3 Episode 10 The episode title “Future Unknown” represents so many aspects of what is occurring both on and off screen within the Orville universe. Most notably, the show is still awaiting word on an official renewal from Hulu and parent-company Disney. Yes, fans want to know about their beloved show, and what is going to happen in our reality, but within the fictional reality of the series, there’s much to deal with as well....

Disney+ has given Den of Geek an exclusive first look. The Real Right Stuff gives The Right Stuff the “Jennings Treatment.” Award-winning filmmaker Tom Jennings has a history of digging up rare footage to put together narrator-less documentaries composed of compelling and never-before-seen audio and video from the era. Jennings told Den of Geek the goal of this style of filmmaking is that his audience “can experience it as close to what it was like to be around during that time....

Well, it has finally been confirmed – The Rings of Power’s Halbrand is, indeed, Sauron, as so many viewers had already guessed! For some of us, this was a bit unexpected. Even actor Charlie Vickers didn’t know the truth about his character for sure until he was deep into production, although he had a hunch. “I knew from the third episode, so I filmed that sequence on the raft [in episode 2] wholeheartedly as Halbrand,” Vickers tells Den of Geek....

Amidst the chaos and speculation about the future of DC Studios, Johnson has tried to make a case for continuing Black Adam’s adventures after Variety reported that “the movie stands to lose $50 million to $100 million in its theatrical run, according to the estimates of insiders as well as rival executives with knowledge of similar productions.” Along with an announcement from Deadline, Johnson countered that story, arguing that the movie “will PROFIT between $52M-$72M....

In some ways, the Netflix adaptation of The Sandman is not too different from other popular television shows. It told a satisfying story across its first season, one that saw Morpheus aka Dream (Tom Sturridge) stop renegade nightmare the Corinthian (Boyd Holbrook) and deal with living dream vortex Rose Walker (Kyo Ra). Along the way, it laid the groundwork for future storylines, including the division between Dream and his sibling Desire (Mason Alexander Park) and a rivalry with Lucifer (Gwendoline Christie), ruler of Hell....

The Shannara Chronicles Season 2 Episodes 9 & 10 Shannara! Why are you walking away? Where are you going? Was it something I said? Was it multiple things I said – on more than one occasion? Come back! Fine, Shannara. Be that way. The Shannara Chronicles is over. For now, at least. Its second year has been a bumpy ride with potholes (and plotholes) of varying size and quality. But, here we are....

Detective Harry Ambrose’s (Bill Pullman) arc drew to an end with the final episode of the fourth season of The Sinner, closing out on a surprisingly cathartic note for a series mired in the very worst things people do to one another. As Ambrose spent much of his run struggling with mankind’s capacity to lie, cheat, steal, and kill, the story allowed him to leave us while gazing into the bright blue sky, finally at peace with what he’d seen and done....

The strange thing is that little of the raw emotion stirred up by the finale was connected with the actual assassination of Tony Soprano. Hardly anyone flinched, raged, gasped or wept for the terminated Don. Do you know why? Because hardly anyone – myself included – even knew that it had happened. Over a million witnesses to a murder, and not one of them could give a credible statement or offer reliable testimony....

What makes it worse is that the movie deals with some intensely painful and very real subjects: depression, grief, and that most unspeakable horror of all, the death of a child. Yet the script by Matt Harris (which somehow found its way onto the 2005 Black List of most-liked unproduced screenplays) never finds anything coherent or interesting to say about any of this, and the direction by Theodore Melfi (Hidden Figures) is heavy-handed and tonally disjointed....

“The character is definitely done justice,” Robbie tells us of Capaldi’s work, adding that The Thinker (along with King Shark) was one of the characters she was particularly excited to see brought on for The Suicide Squad. The character first appeared in DC Comics (All-Flash #3) back in 1943. Also known as Clifford DeVoe, The Thinker got his alternate moniker because of the “thinking cap” he uses to augment his intelligence....

And that’s on purpose, according to creators Katrina Crawford and Mark Bashore. The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power fans will likely recognize the duo and their work, as their Seattle-based studio Plains of Yonder was also responsible for that intricate title sequence full of swirling sand and shifting symbols. But while their work on The White Lotus may look very different, those opening credits are just as full of hidden meaning....

The X-Files Season 11 Episode 1 It was all a dream! Well, it’s more complicated than that. Actually, it’s all rather confusing and I had to watch The X-Files Season 11 premiere, “My Struggle III,” 2.5 times to feel confident that I had the plot straight and how it relates back to the long, winding history of the show’s myth arc. I’m still undecided if the premiere clears up the outstanding issues created by season 10, or even makes some of them worse, but a few overarching elements of series creator Chris Carter’s narrative (the complete four-part arc titled My Struggle) did set up some semblance of a compelling intro to the season....

“Humans of the planet Earth. While you slept, the world changed.” The opening line of Jonathan Hickman and Pepe Larraz’s House of X hit like a bolt of lightning, and everything it promised paid off. Hickman took over the floundering X-Men line of comics, isolated and diminished after years of corporate meddling, and reinvigorated them creatively and financially with an exciting five-year plan. House of X and Powers of X was Hickman, Larraz, RB Silva and Marte Gracia’s overture....

To be sure, part of the thunder god’s longevity can be attributed to the character’s reinvention in Thor: Ragnarok, in which director Taika Waititi took advantage of the comedy chops star Chris Hemsworth revealed in Ghostbusters to create a goofy cosmic adventure. But even as fans have high hopes for Hemsworth and Waititi’s reteaming in Thor: Love and Thunder, the Australian star knows that he can’t continue to wield Mjolnir forever....