As some Roses finally achieve their dream of leaving Schitt’s Creek in the bittersweet series finale, others put down deeper roots. On the surface, the Rose family finds itself back where it started—that is, with enough disposable income to plan a future beyond the walls of their motel. But in all the ways that matter, they are not the same people who reluctantly retreated to this podunk town four years ago....

The sequence, which occurs during the ninth episode of Game of Thrones’ first season, ominously titled “Baelor,” is the one that came to define the show’s reputation for cruel thrills, and an unsentimental mean streak that allowed it to kill major protagonists off without a seeming second thought (a fact that still surprised fans, to their eventual anger, all the way up to the series finale). And there was apparently no forethought at all from King Joffrey Baratheon (Jack Gleeson), the vicious boy king who gave the order to claim poor dead Ned’s head....

This saves the effort and time of your overall software development team and delights your customers by meeting their expectations. The reason why it’s essential to learn about SDLC and implement it carefully is that software development is an extensive process involving many steps and complexities. And if any of these steps are not done well, it can affect the end result and customer experience. Hence, taking care of the overall process is important....

Open-source refers to something people can access, modify and share freely as the source code is freely available. An open-source application framework is a template for software development created by a group of software developers. There exist different types of templates used for different purposes, such as creating user interfaces, websites, and basic software applications. If you’re new to application development, getting started with Spring Framework might be a great start for you....

As referenced in the new “Star Trek Day” trailer for Picard Season 2, Q did warn Jean-Luc in “All Good Things…” that “the trial never ends.” But what does that mean exactly? In Picard Season 2, it appears that Q has done something in Earth’s past that has caused the “present” (roughly 2399) to become as Jean-Luc says a “totalitarian” version of Earth. But, Q’s whole point to Picard in TNG was that humanity was always on the brink of this kind of awful situation anyway....

For its first five episodes, Star Trek: Prodigy has mostly established its own identity, free and separate from the rest of the Trek franchise. Yes, a holographic Captain Janeway is an essential part of the crew, and yes, several episodes have touched on themes we’ve seen before. But, in terms of making nitty-gritty references to the larger canon of Trek, Prodigy has kept things pretty low-key. Until now… After taking a brief hiatus, Prodigy Season 1 is back with episode 6 titled just “Kobayashi....

Star Wars: The Bad Batch Episode 5 Over the weekend, I watched The Clone Wars with a friend. She likes the clones themselves a lot, so we jumped around a bit between episodes that focused on them. When I got to the Bad Batch arc, I warned her the humor was broad, the action goofy, the characters stock types. But she adored it. This team is the team in every war movie, she said, and loved them for their distillation of these archetypes she had such fondness for, such genre expectations around....

In “Battle Scars,” another familiar face returns and a clock counts down to zero. The Bad Batch head to an old Jedi cruiser to remove their inhibitor chips. While it’s too early to count out the Scrapper Guild patrols who control the starship graveyard, the real threat this week comes from within. Wrecker’s control chip activates, plunging him into an Order 66-induced rage. The Batch needs the help of an old friend to remove their chips once and for all....

Back in 2011, the novelist Karen Russell made a perfect observation about why we love orphan narratives in fiction. Speaking about her 2011 novel Swamplandia!, which tells the story of a group of teens working in an alligator-wrestling theme park, Russell said: “I think it’s expedient to get those authority figures out of the way. What if they had really authoritarian overprotective parents? Nothing would happen in the book. They would all apply to college!...

EW broke the news that Shipp will appear as Jay Garrick in the ninth episode of Stargirl Season 2, in what is called “a pivotal flashback episode” which places “the Golden Age Flash as a member of Earth-2’s Justice Society of America.” It’s a notable inclusion, since Garrick has been a founding member of the JSA in the comics since the team’s first appearance in 1940, but no live action version of the team has yet to feature the original Flash....

Supergirl Season 6 Episode 9 A number of much-loved shows are coming to an end, or have recently, that in some ways could have pushed their luck, but in other ways were a product of a moment – a moment that they looked up to find had passed. VEEP stands out as a clear example, as does Brooklyn 99, which is doing its best to be a fun cop show that knows cops aren’t good guys without – losing all its levity or becoming a documentary....

To be sure there are plenty of pleasant actors doing pleasant enough work in Superintelligence, from McCarthy as everywoman Carol Peters to Bobby Cannavale as her dude bro, professorial ex; Jean Smart is the president; and Brian Tyree Henry is Carol’s BFF. And then of course there’s James Corden, who voices the sardonic computer overlord with a gift for gab. But between them there is nary a chortle, guffaw, or chuckle....

The 100 Season 6 Episode 3 “Children of Gabriel” is so packed with mythology, politics and new dynamics for the Earthlings to sort out that it makes everything else feel like mere preamble. At several points, people from Sanctum or Children of Gabriel say lines where we don’t understand at least 50% of the words in the sentence because this world is so new and fully developed. It’s a fun feeling of discovery to have this far into a show, and one that rarely comes this genuinely....

The 100 Season 6 Episode 4 Sanctum’s Naming Day – an occasion for making amends – is perfectly timed for our Kru to do some much-needed exploring of their feelings. As Bellamy points out, they lost Monty and Harper just three days ago, which means the valley, the torture, and the fighting pit were mere days and weeks before that. Clarke goes on an apology tour to Raven and Bellamy, and after three episodes of Raven’s huffing and puffing, it was so satisfying to hear her tell Clarke off accurately, taking her to task for hurting everyone over and over, making her apologies feel meaningless....

The 100 Season 6 Episode 5 The 100 continues to embed more world-building per minute this season than I could have possibly imagined. It never feels like eating our exposition vegetables – on the contrary, I find myself pausing and rewinding to make sure I haven’t missed any of the precious nuggets the writers have seen fit to drop in, like in the old days with Lost or Battlestar Galactica. It’s hard to layer in this many kinds of details, about our new physical world, Sanctum and its secrets, the politics between Sanctum and those who live beyond its borders, and whatever else might be happening in a given scene....

As a project which made waves at Cannes in 2018—where it triggered a bidding war due to the sheer star wattage and talent of its five leads—the film arrives almost three years later in the ignominious release window of the first weekend of January. This is a timeframe that’s long been associated with low attendance for new releases, even before Omicron. And in its finished, entirely rote form you can see the ambitious idea Chastain and company were going for as five great actresses lead their own spy ensemble saga, playing in a genre traditionally dominated by white male leads....

The Affair Season 4 Episode 10 “It takes time…” “Are you okay?” It’s a very simple question, but it’s kind of the antithesis of what this finale — and the series as a whole — is all about. As The Affair checks in with these characters one last time this year, it wants to examine how everyone is doing as they prepare to ride off into the horizon. Tragic events have shaken up everyone’s world and so it’s only natural to look at the consequences of those events, but this has been a fundamental question ever since the start of the series....

From the moment humans decided to stop all that tiresome hunting and gathering, opting instead to settle down and get civilized, there’s always been a nagging fear. When you agree to live in a community with other people, you are also tacitly agreeing there are simply some things you can’t do anymore. If you want to take advantage of indoor plumbing and a centralized food supply, you can’t walk around naked all the time....

But time has been kind to the N64, with more modern gamers praising the system for the quality and innovation of its games (even if it lacked in quantity of titles). As Nintendo’s first dedicated 3D console, the N64 also gave us plenty of epic boss encounters that its predecessors could never handle. Many of these boss battles still continue to influence games to this day, while others simply deserve to be remembered more than they often are....

Through much of Prime Video’s surprisingly plentiful and revealing marketing material, the show has teased out the answers to many of those questions and more. One query, however, has not really been addressed: How’s Homelander (Antony Starr) doing? Vought Corporation’s ubermensch is not always entirely mentally sound, even on the best of days. But going into season 3, Homelander is decidedly far from the best of days. The man formerly known as John fell in love with a dashing new feminist hero Stormfront (Aya Cash) in season 2 only to discover that she is an ancient secret Nazi....