The Exorcist Season 2 Episode 4 The Exorcist Season 2 Episode 4 “One For Sorrow,” finally brings all the major players to one location. Last week, former priest and perennial exorcist Marcus Keane (Ben Daniels) held his younger, more impassioned partner Father Tomas (Alfonso Herrera), from performing the rite of exorcism on a young girl. While the episode followed most of the rules of television storytelling based on available materials, it asked questions and pursued a direction that was both new, and expected....

The Expanse Season 5 Episode 7 There may be some division among The Expanse fans as to the effectiveness of this episode, particularly in its decision to focus mostly on the drama between Naomi, Marco, and Filip. Perhaps some were struck by the surprising relevance to current events of the dangers presented by a charismatic demagogue, while others found themselves wishing for more action like the battle between the Rocinante and the Zmeya or more Amos on Earth....

That all changed with the bombshell report late Thursday night that Kit Harington has signed onto what is essentially a Game of Thrones sequel where we will follow his character Jon Snow on further adventures. The Hollywood Reporter broke the story before HBO or Harington could officially announce the project—or notably provide any context, including a logline. Nonetheless, the news has left fans reeling. Another Game of Thrones spinoff is in development before the first actual greenlit series, House of the Dragon, has even hit television screens?...

The Little Things can be seen as a tainted police procedural with its murky ambiguity and troubling ending. But it’s also the story of a man for whom the allure of a charismatic serial killer goes too far. After all, serial killers make up less than one percent of homicides but they average a double-digit percentage of Hollywood crime films, and probably a majority of prison fan mail. What is it about these one-percenters we love so much?...

So that was something, huh? To those who have not yet seen The Nevers episode 6 “True” yet, the above headline may seem fairly overwrought. Really? The most surprising? Wasn’t the Invincible finale just like two weeks ago? To those who have seen the episode in question, however, that designation probably rings true. How else are we supposed to describe an hour that begins, not in 19th century Victorian era London like the show’s first five episodes, but rather in a far flung future in which 5 billion people are dead and Earth’s atmosphere is toxic?...

“Scenario: Your target has just severed the femoral artery of a woman you have been intimate with. What do you do?” Brosnan’s not-so-super spy bellows right before slicing a young woman across the thigh. He all but sneers as he leaves the rookie to clean up his mess. This is just one of several anti-Bond set-pieces in The November Man, which is an even uglier piece of work now than when it premiered seven years ago....

The Orville Season 1 Episode 5 While the latest episode of The Orville entitled “Pria” benefited from featuring the talents of the incomparable Charlize Theron, a clunky romance plot interfered with what was otherwise a series of enjoyable interactions between secondary characters. Practical jokes, adventures in engineering, innovative special effects, and even a bit of time travel (this writer’s weakness) provided wonderful moments for viewers to enjoy, but whenever Captain Mercer is the weak spot of the show, as he is all too often, it taints even the best of episodes....

Rick and Morty is fighting a losing battle with its own canon. The show has demonstrated time and time again that it prefers crafting episodic, self-contained stories to fully realize the potential of playing in a massive sci-fi sandbox. Like Rick Sanchez himself, the writers of the show understand that infinite universes (and a hefty 70-episode order from Adult Swim) means that a concept as earthbound as “story” will soon become pointless....

The first image is of the sandman himself, Morpheus the Dream King, Lord of the Dreaming, played by the hypnotically raspy-voiced Tom Sturridge (Sweetbitter). In this poster, Dream looks out at the viewer with his trademark shadowed brow and spiky hair. Across his face falls the shadow of a raven, a symbol of this incarnation of dreaming. The bird also reminds us of Dream’s messenger raven, Matthew, who will be voiced by Patton Oswalt in The Sandman....

The Simpsons Season 32 Episode 16 The Simpsons Season 32, episode 16, ” Manger Things,” is the 700th installment of the series. That’s more episodes than Rocky and Bullwinkle and Gunsmoke put together. To celebrate, they are gifting us with a second holiday episode. This one is a Christmas story of failing and redemption, like every other yuletide tale. It stars the Simpsons’ neighborinos, Ned and Maude Flanders. As Bart says, Christmas is no time to think about your neighbors, but “Manger Things” repays the indulgence....

The Simpsons Season 32 Episode 3 While it may not be a masterpiece, The Simpsons season 32, episode 3, “Now Museum, Now You Don’t” can hang in most galleries. Beyond the humor, the visuals are quite impressive, and varied. This is another story-time episode for The Simpsons, repopulating pages from history with Springfield residents. Lisa is home sick, so delirious she thinks she’s in school. Marge, ever the enabler, encourages her in her fantasia....

The Simpsons Season 33 Episode 5 With “Lisa’s Belly, The Simpsons presents something the series used to avoid, a very special episode. The Simpsons family has had their share of issues, therapeutic and otherwise, and while they always come together as a family, it is usually from a skewed angle. When Bart and Lisa overcame sibling rivalry on a hockey field, Homer’s takeaway was “they’re both losers.” Marge once commented how the Fox Network became a soft porn channel so slowly no one realized it was happening....

It’s also likely he never could have guessed his vengeful demonic metaphor would evolve into a goofy cartoon for a while, become a defender of Japan, would have a couple kids, and would become a symbol of everything from environmental responsibility to the Cold War to the economy. And I bet he also couldn’t imagine his deeply tragic film turning into an action series or a string of hi-tech military thrillers....

Daryl revisits this unseen period in his life while out hunting with Carol, as memories of his lost years begin to come back to him. But we won’t spoil what’s coming up in the episode. Just read the synopsis for “Find Me” below for some hints: “Daryl and Carol find an old cabin that takes Daryl back to his years away from the group after Rick disappeared. He relives the painful memory of meeting a reticent survivor and the toxic events that amplified his relationship with Dog....

The Walking Dead Season 10 Episode 20 The Walking Dead has made a lot of hay with their six bonus episodes following the pandemic-shortened season 10. Rather than doing a ton of world-building or doing too much to push into territory best covered in season 11, they’ve doubled down on character pieces. Maggie, Daryl, Aaron and Gabriel, and now Princess have all come into focus, allowing the show’s creative team to work on digging into their characters, rather than providing much elaboration on big world-building events....

The Walking Dead Season 11 Episode 7 There’s an importance to personal relationships in The Walking Dead that isn’t quite as prevalent in the real world. Sure, knowing the right people can get you pretty far in life in our reality. In the zombie apocalypse, knowing the right people can mean the difference between rotting in a jail cell or serving on a work crew, working in an office versus working in a field picking beans, and risking your life versus living a life of ease....

According to studio estimates, the Taika Waititi-directed Thor: Love and Thunder is poised to total about $143 million at the domestic box office this weekend. This is just within the broader projections (if on the lower end), which had pegged the movie’s opening anywhere between $140 million to $160 million. The number is also demonstrably bigger than the last MCU movie released in summer months during relatively “normal” times for the box office—beating out 2019’s Spider-Man: Far From Home, which opened to $92....

Thus Spoke Kishibe Rohan is set in the JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure universe, but each of its stories are self-contained incidents from Rohan’s life that aren’t necessarily even playing out in chronological order. Part of what makes Thus Spoke Kishibe Rohan so interesting is that it paints Rohan as a consummate adventurer and that these are only a handful of the bizarre events that he’s experienced. These four installments are labelled as episodes 16, 2, 5, and 9 to further illustrate that they’re just slices of Rohan’s life....

Donna Troy is the most well adjusted, fully realized character on Titans. It’s true. Widowed, magical duplicate, savior of the Titans of Myth, mother to Lord Chaos, Donna Troy/Wonder Girl/Troia has it together better than anyone on the television incarnation of Titans. So much of that comes from Conor Leslie (The Man in the High Castle), who stepped into the role in episode 8. “She is an incredibly strong, independent force to be reckoned with, somebody who doesn’t operate from a place of fear,” Leslie told us....

Titans Season 2 Episode 3 Reunited, and it feels … mostly good. For the third episode of Titans season 2, “Ghosts,” most of our heroes converge on Titans Tower in San Francisco for an interesting character examination, and not-so-bottled tension. Meanwhile, Slade Wilson and Doctor Light make their first villainous moves. Although it has really only been one episode that everyone has been split up, I agreed with Rachel’s “Finally” when Donna, Hank, and Dawn arrived outside the tower....