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The Expanse Season 3 Episode 9 The Expanse slows things down this week the same way the Ring has its speed limit, but the narrative still holds its impact as it embarks on the mystery of the pocket universe that the Rocinante finds itself in. Exploring what it means for each of the system factions to cross the threshold will no doubt be explored as the finale nears, but in the meantime, it’s important to take a breath to unpack the motivation behind Melba’s frame job and to allow Holden to formulate a plan in this foreign environment....

In the latest episode of The Expanse, Bobbie Draper reminds the Rocinante crew that they’re harboring a convicted felon, Clarissa Mao, and it’s easy for the audience to forget that she was in a maximum security prison on Earth for blowing up a ship full of innocent people in season 3. The forgiveness she earned from Amos in the intervening seasons has now been extended by Holden in this week’s most touching scene, and saving Bobbie’s life was a big part of her redemption arc....

The Falcon and The Winter Soldier is over and it ended with one doozy of a post-credits scene. Sharon Carter is back, and she’s apparently flipped on the United States. At the end of The Falcon and The Winter Soldier episode 6, Sharon finally gets her pardon. Senator Government Official (no, seriously, he’s credited as “Government Official” in the credits), the unnamed, definitely not Senator Kelly guy who has been moving the plot forward all show, sits in an extremely insecure presumably Intelligence Committee hearing room and offers Sharon a full pardon, and her old job in intelligence back....

One of the most surprising reveals from Marvel’s The Falcon and the Winter Soldier was the introduction of Seinfeld and Veep star (and all-around comic legend) Julia Louis-Dreyfus as Contessa Valentina Allegra de la Fontaine, also known in the Marvel comic book canon as Madame Hydra. While it remains to be seen how faithful the character will be to her comic book origins and narratives, it’s clear from the start that the Contessa (Val for short) is a schemer and string-puller who has leverage in some very high places....

The Flash Season 8 Episode 3 As crossovers go, The Flash’s five-part Armageddon event is pretty low-key, so much so that it’s easy to see why showrunner Eric Wallace doesn’t really like the idea of calling it a crossover at all. And maybe that’s a good thing, in the end, because rather than going for the spectacle of, say, a Crisis on Infinite Earths or Crisis on Earth-X, the show has time to give us quieter, richer character moments of the sort we so rarely get between heroes from different shows....

Yes, this is a movie about Ezra Miller’s Barry Allen, the DCEU’s superhero youngster who is still learning the ropes since his team-up with the grown-ups in 2017’s Justice League, but the film is also much bigger than that. Not only will it feature many of the greatest superheroes in comic book history, but it will bring in Batmen from two separate movie universes, as well as Supergirl (Sasha Calle), to team up with the Scarlet Speedster for a multiverse-spanning adventure....

Focusing not on the character of the invisible man but his victim, this is a story about domestic abuse and the horror of not being believed. Elisabeth Moss plays Cecilia, married to the increasingly controlling sociopath Adrian (Oliver Jackson-Cohen). In a nerve-shredding opener that immediately sets the pace, a terrified Cecilia must escape the prison-like complex where they live, as silently as possible so as not to wake her sleeping husband....

Ever since Ahsoka Tano sent Mando and Grogu to Tython to find a Jedi who could train the little baby Yoda, fans have been speculating whether this means that yet another classic character from the saga is set to appear on The Mandalorian. At a time when there are so few Jedi left in the galaxy, the list of potential cameos is short, and at the very top is Luke Skywalker, who is arguably the most powerful Jedi still active five years after Return of the Jedi....

We’ve already seen our first glimpse at the Merovingian, who’s clearly fallen on hard times since he last tormented our heroes during a deadly bondage rave inside the Matrix, and now a new trailer finally shows Smith back as Niobe. It’s not in the way you think, though. “It’s so easy to forget how much noise the Matrix pumps into your head. Something else makes the same kind of noise: war,” a much older Niobe tells a reawakened Neo in the video....

The Nevers Episode 1 Who is The Nevers for? Not kids, clearly. The frolicsome humour, cartoony performances and grade school social commentary might suggest so, but the nudity, cursing and blood say no. It’s meant for adults then, those of us happy to go along with the essential YA-ness of its ‘Victorian orphanage for superpowered misfits’ premise. Episode one opens with a flashback montage introducing the ensemble of – mostly but not all – women in 1890s London....

However, as the years went on and Power Rangers continued on television its fame slowly evaporated. It fell into the background; successive seasons of the TV show were enjoyed by new generations of kids and hardcore fans but never captured the public consciousness again like it had in the ‘90s. Multiple attempts were made to try and bring it back into the spotlight but they all had little success in the grand scheme of things....

“The Book of Matthew tells of nation rising against nation – a time of famines, pestilence, and earthquakes. Sound familiar?” patriarch Eli Gemstone (John Goodman) asks the crowd with a wink. “Are you saying people need Jesus’s love now more than ever?” prodigal son Kelvin (Adam DeVine) responds, emerging from the crowd in trademarked ripped jeans. “Oh, we always need Jesus’s love, but especially now,” eldest son Jesse (Danny McBride) replies....

In the penultimate episode of The Rings of Power, we see the immense destruction and devastation wrought by the awakening and subsequent eruption of Mount Doom at the end “Udûn.” The Southlands once full of life have now been transformed into the fiery, volcanic wasteland we know as Mordor from The Lord of the Rings trilogy. The human survivors, displaced by this not-so-natural disaster, now need a new home. In “The Eye,” Bronwyn (Nanzanin Boniadi) reveals that she is leading many of the survivors to a place called Pelargir, which has major implications for the future of the Men of Middle-earth....

The Simpsons Season 32 Episode 20 While the Minor Arcana didn’t foretell a major disaster, The Simpsons Season 32 episode 20, ” Mother and Child Reunion,” is a letdown they should have seen coming. The audience sure did. We’ve seen all these scenarios before, and done better. Very much like most Mothers’ Day gifts, the box doesn’t live up to the wrapping, which have been set high for this season. We all know Lisa is going to be president someday....

Five years ago, Will Smith uttered the instantly meme-able line, “So that’s it, huh, we’re the patsies, we’re some kind of Suicide Squad.” Yet by the end of that 2016 film, barely anyone in that squad was put six feet under. How times have changed. For the entire rollout of his pseudo-sequel/reboot, writer-director James Gunn has insisted he had carte blanche to kill off any character in his The Suicide Squad roster....

The Good, The Bad & The Ugly These shows were initially a great way to finish off your evening after a long hard day at school or work, just like a late night chat show helps to wind our American friends down after the watershed. They were satirical, witty and a fun and fresh look at everything from politics and current affairs to pop culture and more highbrow knowledge. Many of us don’t watch the news these days, especially since the rise of the smartphone....

Based on the 2014 novel You Should Have Known by Jean Hanff Korelitz, Kidman plays the aptly named Grace, a highly successful therapist about to publish a book, married to perfect husband and father Mike (Hugh Grant), with a son, Henry (Noah Jupe), who attends a super elite school. Grace is the absolute picture of elegance and benevolence but the arrival of young mother Elena Alves (Matilda De Angelis) into Grace’s school fundraising committee causes a stir, especially when Elena breastfeeds her baby daughter in front of the group....

The Walking Dead Season 11 Episode 20 One of the hallmarks of The Walking Dead has been a pretty strong ethos of community survival. No man is an island, and one of the things real-life disaster preppers mention is that forming a community of people with different skills and similar values is an invaluable part of continuing on past the fall of mankind. The cold open of this week’s episode makes that abundantly clear; from scenes of Carol getting rescued by Daryl in the early days to Carol leading a one-woman assault on Terminus in “No Sanctuary”, having friends has always been the key to surviving the stickiest of situations....

Nature or nurture appears to be the theme moving forward, as the What We Do in the Shadows’ season 3 finale dropped a bundle on viewers. The vampire housemates are left scattered on ship ports and train platforms, and may be rudderless as an unexpected arrival throws all their plans to the wind. The ending leaves Nandor (Kayvan Novak) relentlessly waiting for Guillermo (Harvey Guillén), who has been nailed into a coffin by Laszlo (Matt Berry) to ensure a safe passage for his love Nadja (Natasia Demetriou)....

Titans Season 2 Episode 4 This week Titans flashes back five years to a happier time when our heroes smiled a lot more — right before they were introduced to Deathstroke – in an episode that feels hollow, despite that brutal ending. Something that works well for Titans is that it’s created the sense of a shared history between Dick, Hank, Dawn, and Donna. Despite their young age, they each have seen combat, and carry the scars....