Posts

TV villainscan often make or break an entire series. While heroes are the characters we typically root for, it’s those we love to hate who tend to keep us tuning in to watch our favorite shows. A good villain can captivate us for a whole season or story arc. A great villain will live on in television infamy forever. But there are also those villains who, in reaching for the purest form of evil imaginable in the context of a TV show, actively repel us from watching their terrible exploits....

Fan-favorite reality TV showSurvivorhas been nominated for the Emmy Awards again after being shockingly snubbed last year.The Outstanding Reality Competition Program category debuted in 2003, withThe Amazing Racedominatingthe early years.Iconic series likeDancing with the Stars,Top Chef, andRuPaul’s Drag Racefollowed, earning multiple nominations and wins, and showing that reality TV is now taken more seriously. Survivor, the genre pioneer, has stood the test of time with 69 Emmy nominations and seven wins, largely in technical and hosting categories....

Warning: contains spoilers for recent issues ofThundercats! Thundercatshave given a first look at the designs for the mysterious Knights of Thundera.Dynamite’s mega-successfulThundercatstitlehas entered its second year, and continues to expand franchise lore in new and exciting ways. In the upcomingThundercats#18, a new faction arrives at the team’s home base of Third Earth: the Knights of Thundera, and these warriors promise a new status quo for Lion-O and company. Thundercatswriter and cover artistDeclan Shalveyshared a first look at the two covers forThundercats#18 on X, formerly known as Twitter, which will be written by Shalvey and drawn by Drew Moss....

Warning: contains spoilers forStar Trek Omega! Uhura makes a final return to theStar Trekuniverse in a reunion fans did not know they needed. TheEnterprise’sCommunications Officer, Uhura, has been absent from the franchise for many years, leading to intense speculation about her final fate.Star Trek Omega, the capstone ofan epic era inTrekcomics,brings Uhura back, giving her a bittersweet reunion with a former colleague. Star Trek Omegawas written by Christopher Cantwell, Jackson Lanzing and Collin Kelly and drawn by an all-star roster of artists, all of whom worked on the line....

Fortnitehas been building to a pre-Season 10 event for a while now, and Saturday morning Epic Games once again delivered. For some, the expectation may have been a little too high as far as what effects the event would have on the game, but this was still something unique for players to enjoy. As rumored and speculated, theFortniteseason 9 eventfeatured an alien creature appearing to seemingly wreak havoc on the map....

Whatever one’s opinion of wrestling may be, there’s no denying the popularity of theWWE– and this holds true for the company’s lineup of licensed video games. Every year a brand new title in the series is released by publisher 2K Games with the hopes of once again capturing the attention and hard-earned dollars of dedicated wrestling aficionados, or at least that held true for everyone but Nintendo fans who’ve been left without an official WWE game for five years now....

Armageddondelivers blockbuster thrills in abig-budget disaster moviefrom Michael Bay, but NASA experts are quick to dismantle the movie’s realism.Armageddonwas released in 1998,starring Bruce Willisas the leader of a ragtag group of oil drillers who are tasked with flying into space to help stop an asteroid heading right towards Earth. Despite earning a lot of negative reviews from critics, the movie grossed over $550 million worldwide (viaBox Office Mojo). However, even the movie’s biggest fans cannot defend the logical issues withArmageddon....

The multiverse has given birth to DC’s most viciousSupergirlvariants. At her core, Supergirl lives up to her moniker as the Woman of Tomorrow, proving to be justas inspirational as her cousin Superman, if not more so. However, this speaks to who Kara Zor-El is on Prime Earth, the main DC Comics continuity. DC’s multiverse has showcased a different Supergirl from multiple universes, all darker than the last. Not every Supergirl is a beacon of hope as she is in the main canon....

Before we had NPR’sTiny Deskmusicseries or services where any musician/creator with a camera and the internet could livestream or upload songs from any intimate setting for audience viewing, there wasMTV Unplugged. Running in its first heyday iteration from 1989 to 1999,Unpluggedwas MTV providing its viewers with another way to digest the work of their favorite artiststhat didn’t involve music videos(orhow they shook up expectations). Instead,acts would play in an acoustic-based “stripped-down” setting, bringing a different life or set of performative ideas to songs that fans (often) knew so well....

In a decade that saw many musical arrangements,some of the crowning achievements of the 1990s occurred when the biggest artists teamed up for major collaborations. While some musicians were already established, others were making a name for themselves, likesuperstars making their pop debuts. However, a great collaboration helped build their foundation. Having a performance like this succeed is not easy, as it must compete withthe greatest collaborations of all time. This means having their work compared to the likes of Michael Jackson, which is daunting....

AfterTammy Slaton’s skin removal surgery and successful weight loss transformation,Amy Slatonappears to have become a supporting cast member on1000-Lb Sisters. The Slaton sisters, who made their reality TV debut in their early 30s, decided to document their weight loss journeys by sharing their daily lives and struggles on the show. Initially,Amy took center stage as the main characterby quickly shedding weight and improving her health. Not only didshe undergo successful weight loss surgery, but she also achieved her dream of becoming a mother....

Star Trek: Enterprisesent Captain Jonathan Archer (Scott Bakula) to an infamous Klingon prison 141 years before Captain James T. Kirk (William Shatner) was sentenced to the same punishment. Of course,Enterpriseis the firstStar Trekprequelseries that began production 10 years afterStar Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country,the final film about thecast ofStar Trek: The Original Series.Star Trek: Enterpriseseason 2 condemning Archer to the same Klingon penal planet as Kirk is a clever retcon....

Attack on Titanmay be over, but it’s certainly not forgotten, remembered as one of the best manga series to follow the Big 3 andDragon Ball, setting the stage for the next generation and ensuring the legacy of the shōnen genre goes forward. Despite its ups and downs,fans can relive Eren’s journey through the manga’s exclusive sale. Written by Hajime Isayama back in 2009,Attack on Titanwas a much darker entry into the shōnen franchisefor its post-apocalyptic setting and monstrous Titans that hunted humans without feeling or satiable hunger....