'S.W.A.T.' Finds New Streaming Home at Netflix

As part of CBS’ deal forS.W.A.T., the current seasons of the series are available on Paramount+ for their duration as well as a few months after they end their broadcast run. The series’ first three seasons are also currently available on Hulu to stream. Meanwhile, over at Netflix,S.W.A.T.co-showrunnerShawn Ryan’s newest series,The Night Agent, delivered an impressive first season run at the streamer,debuting in the weekly top ten. The Team BehindS.W.A.T. S....

August 6, 2025 · 2 min · 338 words · Michael Parker

'The Handmaid's Tale's Major Character Return Has a Deeper Meaning

Editor’s note: The below contains spoilers for The Handmaid’s Tale Season 6 premiere. The final season ofThe Handmaid’s Taleis already pulling emotional punches — and one of its most powerful surprises is the return of Emmy-winning actressCherry Jonesas Holly Maddox. In the Season 6 premiere, June (Elisabeth Moss) arrives at a refugee camp in Alaska and finds her mother alive — years after believing she’d died in the Colonies.It’s a reunion that’s been long in the making, and it couldn’t come at a more pivotal moment....

August 6, 2025 · 4 min · 823 words · Allison Elliott

'The Witcher' Season 3 and 'The Out-Laws' Lead Netflix Top 10 Chart

Now in its second week following its June 29 premiere,Season 3ofThe Witcherseems to be maintaining its spellbinding effect on viewers. According to Netflix, the popular fantasy series has once again claimed the top position on its Top 10 English-language TV charts for the second consecutive week. With a staggering 13.8 million views (equivalent to 66.5 million hours viewed divided by the show’s runtime), the show dominated the week of July 3....

August 6, 2025 · 3 min · 513 words · Taylor Munoz

'Young Sheldon' Sneak Peek — Mandy Tries to Correct Georgie's Flaws

Georgie (Montana Jordan) and Mandy (Emily Osment) have jumped through many hoops in the last few seasons ofYoung Sheldon. An unexpected pregnancy, and now a happily married couple, the pair are in the infant stages of nurturing their bond but family might be a challenge. It is no secret that Mandy’s mother, Audrey (Rachel Bay Jones) does not like her son-in-law very much. But for the most part, they have found a way to tolerate each other....

August 6, 2025 · 3 min · 531 words · Mario Thompson

10 Best Ash Ketchum Pokemon That Aren't Pikachu, Ranked

WhenPokémonreleased its anime adaptation, it chose to follow a new protagonist rather than Red, the star of the original games. Enter Ash Ketchum, a ten-year-old from Pallet Town with big ambitions to become a Pokémon Master. With his first Pokémon and best friend, Pikachu, he traveled to numerous different regions, made friends with both humans and Pokémon and eventually defeated Leon, the number one ranked trainer in the world. While Ash and Pikachu arean iconic anime duo, Ash trained and befriended many other Pokémon on his journey to the top....

August 6, 2025 · 10 min · 1982 words · Wesley Morrison

10 Bleak Anime Series That Are Almost Too Much To Handle

Animeis generally an uplifting medium. The most popular genre is action-adventure series, in which the protagonist grows to be a leader through hard work and dedication. However, there are plenty of dark series, such asAttack on TitanandJujutsu Kaisen, that blend into the mainstream. But just because dark shows are getting more famous doesn’t mean audience members don’t have a limit. Bleak is a step above dark, commonly associated with some of the most depressing movies and TV shows ever put to screen....

August 6, 2025 · 7 min · 1455 words · Angela Perez

10 Medieval Fantasy Movies to Watch Before the ‘Dungeons and Dragons' Movie

Dungeons & Dragonshas been the premiere fantasy role-playing game (RPG) since its creation in 1974. A text-based medium, the game revolves around adventure and magic in a medieval landscape and allows players to craft complex characters and explore a lush imaginative world. Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thievesis the upcoming film adaptation of the famous RPG, starringChris PineandMichelle Rodriguezand directed byJohn Francis DaleyandJonathan Goldstein. Longtime fans of the game need no further reasons to see the film, but non-players curious about how to prepare for this medieval fantasy should queue up the following films....

August 6, 2025 · 7 min · 1333 words · Amber Mullins

1917 Review: Sam Mendes Perfectly Crafts a Stunning WWI Odyssey

The “hook” ofSam Mendes’ new movie,1917, is that it’s all shot to look like it’s done in one take. However, the most important thing to note is that this hook is no gimmick. In a story about the race against the clock, the one-take approach puts you in the psychological headspace of the lead characters and conveys the unrelenting march of war. By removing cuts, Mendes captures the cruelty and indifference of war, and how that contrasts against the humanity of those trapped inside of it....

August 6, 2025 · 4 min · 849 words · Brandon Russell

2019 Emmy Predictions: Who Will Win and Possible Upsets

The Discourse will bemightyinteresting when the 2019 Emmy Awards are all said and done. Like the best twisty TV, we’re looking at a night that could go down several different roads, depending on whether voters are feeling nostalgic or revolutionary. On one hand, you’ve got two HBO titans,Game of ThronesandVeep, repping their respective categories in their final seasons.Veep’s swan song was relatively criticallyacclaimed, but—and I don’t know if you heard about this—Game of Thrones season 8 was kind’ve divisive....

August 6, 2025 · 8 min · 1615 words · Alfred Nielsen

Ant-Man Revisited: An MCU Series Retrospective

Ant-Manis a movie I’m always arguing with myself over whether or not I should buy it. On the one hand, it’s not a great movie. It’s barely a pretty good one. It’s rife with problems that clearly stem from conflicting visions of what original directorEdgar Wrightwanted the movie to be and what Marvel dictated it needed to be in order to fit in with the style and tone of the rest of the Marvel Cinematic Universe....

August 6, 2025 · 6 min · 1109 words · Andrea Washington

Arrival: New Movie Conveys the Power of Empathy

I’ve been feeling pretty pessimistic for the past week. We’re always going to be divided in some ways, and that’s not necessarily a bad thing. There are things where we can have honest disagreements and still end the day as friends. But in our political system, our divisions have become antipathy, and when we don’t understand each other, when we lose our empathy for those who aren’t like us, that’s when everything goes horribly wrong....

August 6, 2025 · 4 min · 796 words · Kevin Glover

Avengers: Endgame Thursday Box Office Sets New Record

In the days ahead, we’re going to see a lot of box office records fall asAvengers: Endgameplows ahead and makes a ridiculous amount of money. The very fact that theaters are staying open for 72 hours balances out the film’s 3-hour run-time, and by givingEndgamemore screenings, the film should easily eclipse the totals of previous record-holders. Take for example Thursday Night Previews. Since midnight screenings no longer exist and films traditionally premiere on Thursday nights, this has become a new metric to see how excited people are to become the first to catch a movie....

August 6, 2025 · 2 min · 347 words · Brian Romero

Baby Driver 2 Update: Ansel Elgort and Edgar Wright Tease Sequel

As the days go by, it feels more and more likely thatBaby Driver 2might actually happen. Writer/directorEdgar Wright’s music-driven action filmBaby Driverreceived positive reviews, enthusiastic audience response, and even three Oscar nominations when it was released in 2017. Bolstered by the $226.9 million worldwide gross of the R-rated film, Sony Pictures asked Wright to think aboutpenning a sequelto the original film, and he obliged. The last update we had onBaby Driver 2came last summer, when Wright tweeted on the film’s one-year anniversary that Baby could“get back on the road soon....

August 6, 2025 · 2 min · 416 words · Mary Hogan