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The following contains spoilers for Star Trek: Strange New Worlds. The clip begins with Uhura, donning her dress uniform, exiting the turbolift to meet with a much more casually dressed Lieutenant Ortegas. Apparently, Ortegas thought it would be funny to tell Uhura that she should wear her dress uniform to the dinner gathering Captain Pike his hosting. Yes, this is apparently what hazing looks like on the Starship Enterprise, and it is delivered and accepted as good-naturedly as it sounds....

The Mandalorian Season 2 Episode 8 The core of The Mandalorian has always been the connection between Din Djarin and Grogu. After the first live-action Star Wars TV offering proved in its first season that a story about a faceless Mandalorian could have so much heart (something I hope remains true in the many upcoming shows), that connection became even more vital to the storytelling in the second outing. Instead of the twisted family relationships between the Skywalkers, Din and Grogu were a found family dream, propelling the Child into households everywhere....

If you want to read the canon books in chronological order, where do you start? And where do they fit with regards to the movies? This list includes both adult and YA novels, and does not include audio dramas, direct movie adaptations, or middle grade books. Reading all of the books in chronological order is a big endeavor, especially since more come out every year. Whether you want to start at the beginning or jump around depending on what era you care about, here’s our guide to what’s what…...

For the rest of us watching at home, there are a few things we should expect to learn during the convention’s many panels (several of which will be live streamed for online audiences). The most important panel to keep an eye on is Thursday’s Lucasfilm Studio Showcase, which will cover upcoming live-action Star Wars projects, including The Mandalorian, Obi-Wan Kenobi, and Andor. Could this also be the panel where Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy will outline the franchise’s plans on the big screen?...

The reason seems clear. No installment in the Disney era of Star Wars films has been more divisive than The Last Jedi, which sought to push the franchise forward in a way its predecessor, the very nostalgic The Force Awakens, had not. But its twists and shocking left turns — such as the death of a broken Luke Skywalker — left some fans aghast and others incredibly angry. Petitions for Lucasfilm to “undo the damage” Johnson had done to their beloved saga soon appeared online....

Not long after we learned EA will no longer be the (mostly) exclusive home of Star Wars games, fans everywhere started dreaming of the projects that are now possible as a terrible ten-year deal comes to an end. Well, the truth of the matter is that access to the Star Wars franchise will likely still be limited to a select number of major studios rather than doled out to any developer with a good idea....

But Donner’s vision and Reeve’s performance were so definitive that they’ve influenced every new take on Superman since, from comics to TV and back to the big screen. But fans still dream of what other, better sequels could have looked like, and DC has answered the question with Superman ’78 by Robert Venditti and Wilfredo Torres. Venditti, a longtime comics writer with wildly successful runs on characters like Hawkman, Green Lantern, and, yes, Superman under his belt, has always had an affinity for the Reeve era....

Sports streaming service DAZN and Apple have partnered to produce a short clip in which AFC Richmond football (or soccer, if you prefer) coach Ted Lasso of Apple TV+’s Ted Lasso and real life Tottenham Hotspur gaffer José Mourinho share a conversation about the beautiful game. The spot aired during the real life UEFA Champions League final between Bayern Munich and Paris Saint-German (better luck next year PSG!). You can watch the conversation below....

The 100 Season 5 Episode 9 This episode of The 100 came the closest this season has in a long while to showing what we’ve needed to see all along: Octavia struggling with these tough choices, the secret tears, the heartbreak and hesitation that no one else sees. This episode still didn’t go quite far enough when it comes to getting inside her head – I’m still not all that sold on why Octavia is doing some of these more drastic things, other than that the plot requires her to....

TV writers understand this fact very well, using the dinner table as the conduit for producing key plot points, iconic lines, and legendary performances. Most of the time, the results are awkward and uncomfortable, just like at our own tables. With Thanksgiving here, we thought it would be fitting to look at the times supper made us cringe, close our eyes, and maybe even burst out laughing! (NOTES: The selections are unranked)...

Two questions that define Raymond “Red” Reddington (James Spader) on The Blacklist are “how far is he willing to go?” and “why does he do what does?” The genius of Red as both sinner and saint creates a character that is certainly akin to a normal human being, though larger-than-life. But that doesn’t mean Red’s endgame is larger-than-life as well. His endgame may be a reward that is utterly and undeniably just normal....

At the end of The Capture season 2 opener, DCI Rachel Carey revealed her real reason for having accepted the job with MI5. Hers wasn’t a case of “Can’t beat them, join them”, as she’d been accused by DS Flynn, but rather ‘join them so that she could beat them’. Carey was no turncoat. She had agreed to work for the intelligence service to secretly gather evidence and expose the practice of Correction, putting an end to the state-assisted fabrication of CCTV footage....

The Expanse Season 6 Episode 1 Fans of The Expanse don’t want their show to end, and although they only had to wait eight months between seasons 5 and 6, everyone wants each of these last six episodes to be as full and satisfying as possible. In that sense, “Strange Dogs” was both triumphant in signaling the show’s return and disappointing in merely setting up the action to come. Although the premiere was a necessary introduction to the continuing story, a desire for more created a paradoxical urge to get to the next episode while simultaneously not wanting to rush the little story we have left to enjoy....

Both WandaVision and The Falcon and the Winter Soldier had big cameos in store during their fifth episodes, but unlike WandaVision’s Evan Peters reveal, which ultimately proved to be no more important to the MCU than a boner joke, The Falcon and the Winter Soldier’s surprise introduction of Julia Louis-Dreyfus as Contessa Valentina Allegra de Fontaine will have much more of an impact on the future of the MCU – and we may see her again very soon after the series ends....

Just when you thought this whole Forces of Nature story on The Flash couldn’t possibly get any weirder or more excruciating to watch, here comes Season 7’s “Family Matters, Part 1,” which not only forces us to watch Barry Allen bully a grown woman he unironically refers to as his “daughter,” it blurs the lines even further between what these Forces are supposed to be, do, or mean within the world of the show....

Prior to 1972, the gangster movie genre traditionally presented a disillusioned underclass in morality plays which sent the same message: “Crime doesn’t pay.” The Godfather says it does. The Corleone Family at the center of the film and novel turn a profit. Puzo’s book charts the rise and fall of the “Mafia,” a word never spoken in the movie, from the vantage point of the most upwardly mobile of New York’s Five Families....

And yet, when Kennedy, a producer on Jurassic Park, toured ILM studios alongside Frank Marshall, there it was “in the background” on one of Spaz’s computer screens: a fully digital T. Rex walking with a fluidity hitherto unseen in giant monster movies. The industry would never be the same. When Williams and filmmaker Scott Leberecht, the latter of whom has just completed the documentary Spaz about his friend’s extraordinary career, enter the Den of Geek studio at SXSW, the digital animator is thoughtful about what an inflection point for the industry this moment was....

The Magicians Season 4 Episode 1 The Magicians was already remarkable for having improved on its storytelling from its uneven first season to its stellar sophomore outing to its top-notch quest for the seven keys in season three, but if “A Flock of Lost Birds” is any indication of what’s to come, season 4 will outdo them all. This amazing premiere was by no means a sure thing given the shocking but somewhat worryingly disruptive finale last year, but somehow this fresh take on the characters we love with their new identities is like re-discovering The Magicians all over again....

The Magicians Season 4 Episode 6 In the comments for our previous review, one reader pointed out that this season of The Magicians was a slower burn than season 3, and that’s starting to become noticeable. The tight writing, the excellent character development (especially for Margo), and the new structure of magic have all been excellent, but this week there was the distinct impression that all of that innovation is expected and thus less exciting....

“Do ya really wanna, do ya really wanna taste it?” Well…do ya?!?!? Following a funny cold open that picks up right after the events of The Suicide Squad and finds John Cena’s titular antihero convalescing in and then absconding from a hospital, Peacemaker launches into one of the most unabashedly fun opening credits sequences on television in years. The credits take place in what appears to be an abandoned ‘90s mall photo studio – a sparse set featuring only neon laser coloring....