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A slightly older Hilda and the gang travel to Tofoten to visit Great-Aunt Astrid for a relaxing holiday —but adventure soon comes knocking at their door. [more inside]
posted by 1970s Antihero on Dec 8, 2023 - 9 comments

Fearless, free-spirited Hilda finds new friends, adventure and magical creatures when she leaves her enchanted forest home and journeys to the city. [more inside]
posted by 1970s Antihero on Dec 15, 2020 - 9 comments

It's the latest season of the zombie epic. Somehow things keep getting worse. [more inside]
posted by Happy Dave on Nov 18, 2019 - 4 comments

Disenchantment returns to Netflix after a 13-month "midseason hiatus" in its 20-episode first season. [more inside]
posted by Etrigan on Sep 20, 2019 - 6 comments

We pick up a few hours after where the first season left off, but quickly return to find out what happened in the standoff between Beth and Rio, with Dean's life hanging in the balance. [more inside]
posted by Etrigan on Mar 6, 2019 - 30 comments

Two years after the events of season two, the Team battles metahuman trafficking on a worldwide scale. The Light continues its plotting, and new characters from the worlds New Genesis and Apokolips make their appearance.
posted by lesser weasel on Mar 5, 2019 - 6 comments

A lot can change in five years, as our super heroes are about to find out. And there’s some new residents to be found at Mount Justice: new team leader Nightwing, Wondergirl, Blue Beetle, Batgirl, Bumblebee and Beast Boy. Young Justice will need all the help it can get as an alien presence has infiltrated Earth, while certain members of the Justice League are forced to stand trial at the criminal hearing off-world.
posted by lesser weasel on Mar 5, 2019 - 2 comments

Hilda follows the adventures of a fearless girl as she travels from her home in a vast magical wilderness full of trolls, elves, giants and other strange creatures, to the bustling city of Trolberg, where she meets new friends and discovers mysteries stranger than she ever expected. [more inside]
posted by fimbulvetr on Sep 26, 2018 - 10 comments

Matt Groening returns to TV (well, Netflix) with a fantasy-based, more serialized story than his previous work. [more inside]
posted by Etrigan on Aug 20, 2018 - 51 comments

Covering the brief period between Election Night and Inauguration Day, Scandal's sixth season features a mad scramble for the Oval Office after President Elect Frankie Vargas is assassinated during his acceptance speech. Suggested talking points include dinosaur bones and boxed bricks, yet another shadowy organization of ruthless killers, endless double crosses, Huck and David Rosen's continuing awful taste in women, BTW where is Susan Ross, the attempted redemption of Parents Pope, more flashbacks than you probably wanted, and Olivia Pope's rise to power and predator. The liquor cabinet is over there.
posted by yellowbinder on May 22, 2017 - 2 comments

From the Amazon description:

Rob and Sharon have faced down unexpected pregnancy and abrupt parenthood, but can they survive Rob's discovery of a suspicious receipt?

[more inside] posted by Etrigan on May 10, 2017 - 5 comments

A London-based woman tries to cope with life in a big city while coming to terms with a tragedy. [more inside]
posted by bleep on Sep 24, 2016 - 24 comments

The third season of El Rey's wrestling/mythology/crime story. It's not a wrestling show, it's a show about a wrestling show. [more inside]
posted by Etrigan on Sep 7, 2016 - 3 comments

Since we last saw Adam ruining things, he started a podcast, got picked up for 14 more episodes, obliterated all stereotypes about millennials in one presentation, and appears to have lost all his friends, judging from the first episode.
posted by Etrigan on Aug 24, 2016 - 6 comments

A seeming afterthought in TBS's new comedies (buried under the advertising for Angie Tribeca and The Detour), Wrecked started off like a Lost parody (the title of the first episode was, in fact, "All's Not Lost"). It shed that after a few episodes and got significantly better. [more inside]
posted by Etrigan on Aug 8, 2016 - 4 comments

The return of the dearly-loved-by-at-least-a-few-of-us Channel 4 series to American streaming via Amazon. The first season ended on a down note -- will Sharon and Rob reconcile? Of course they will, but will it take? [more inside]
posted by Etrigan on Apr 8, 2016 - 5 comments

We probably don't need to have a post per episode, but the second season of LU has been crazy-good, and Aztec Warfare II was everything that wrestling can and should be and deserves to be talked about.
posted by Etrigan on Apr 1, 2016 - 6 comments