Month: December 2024

This article contains spoilers for Squid Game season 2. There’s a fascinating meta-narrative threaded throughout the second season of Netflix’s megahit Squid Game. It’s about how little creator Hwang Dong-hyuk actually wants to make a second season of Netflix’s megahit Squid Game. Hwang, bless him, has been remarkably candid in discussing how he had no

Warning: contains spoilers for Doctor Who “Joy to the World”. It wouldn’t be Christmas without a Doctor Who special, and it wouldn’t be a Doctor Who special without some sneaky little Easter eggs tucked in to the story for fans to discover. Steven Moffat-written “Joy to the World” doesn’t disappoint , and not only tips

This article contains no spoilers for Squid Game season 2. Near the end of Squid Game season 2‘s second episode, returning antagonist Hwang In-ho a.k.a. The Front Man (Lee Byung-hun) hits our hero Seong Gi-hun a.k.a. Player 456 (Lee Jung-jae) with an unlikely movie reference. “Have you seen The Matrix?” the masked man asks the

This article contains spoilers for Squid Game season 2 character details through episode 3. One of the biggest questions facing a second season of Squid Game is “who is even gonna be in this thing?” Thanks to its bloody premise, the first season of the Netflix global hit killed off roughly 99% of its characters

This article contains spoilers for Squid Game season 2. Squid Game doesn’t work without choice. The first season of Netflix‘s global hit made that clear with its standout second episode, “Hell,” in which contestants in the sprawling competition of deadly childrens’ games successfully vote to void their contract and exit the event. Without that single

This article contains spoilers for Squid Game season 2. There are a lot of great characters in this season of Squid Game. With all players but Seong Gi-hun (Lee Jung-jae) dying in last season’s games, series creator Hwang Dong-hyuk had the lofty task of coming up with a whole new cast of contestants, in addition

This article contains spoilers for Squid Game season 2. The stakes of Squid Game season 2 somehow feel even higher than the last. With Seong Gi-hun (Lee Jung-jae) returning to the games in an effort to bring them down from the inside, he soon discovers that, despite his warnings, the promise of potential wealth that

This article contains spoilers through episode 5 of Star Wars: Skeleton Crew Star Wars: Skeleton Crew has had two major mysteries at the center of the story from the beginning. The first being – what the hell is At Attin’s deal? And the second – whose ship did the children find and what happened to

This article contains spoilers regarding the games introduced in Squid Game season 2 (but no major spoilers about their results). Netflix survival drama Squid Game is back for a second season and with it comes a new batch of deadly childrens’ games. Season 1 covered many of the classics like Red Light, Green Light and

Warning: contains spoilers for “Joy to the World” Let joy be unconfined! Doctor Who has returned to its rightful place on the Christmas Day TV schedules with a big, heartfelt timey-wimey adventure. A lonely Doctor stumbles into a mystery involving returning corporate bad guys Villengard, who want to use the Ronseal-named Time Hotel to hatch

Gift-giving scenes are often the most emotional in a festive movie or TV special. They’re usually a quiet moment among the madness, when one character shows another how cherished they are, and why they needn’t have obsessed about the turkey or the decorations or their missing Christmas bonus, because what truly matters at Christmas is

Warning: contains spoilers for “A Ghost Story for Christmas: Woman of Stone”. Each of the five short stories adapted by Mark Gatiss so far for the BBC’s revived A Ghost Story for Christmas strand (M.R. James’ “The Tractate Middoth”, “The Dead Room”, “Martin’s Close”, “The Mezzotint” and “Count Magnus”, plus Arthur Conan Doyle’s “Lot No.

Yes, yes, it’s better to give than to receive, but in these few, special cases, receiving wins out. That’s because the below are a different class of givers – they’re fictional for a start, some of them have magical powers, and at least one of them is a bear.  These are the movie or TV

Everybody loves Jason Nesmith. At least, that’s what Jason Nesmith thinks. As the star of the long canceled sci-fi show, Galaxy Quest, Jason regularly enters to cheers from crowds of admirers, even if they’re really cheering for his character, Commander Peter Quincy Taggart of the NSEA Protector. But behind the closed door of a men’s

This article contains spoilers for Dune: Prophecy season 1. “Come princess,” Valya Harkonnen Emily Watson) tells Ynez (Sarah-Sofie Boussnina) in the final scene of “The High-Handed Enemy,” the sixth and final episode of Dune: Prophecy. “The path to our enemy begins here.” “Here,” of course, is Arrakis, which isn’t a huge surprise. The desert planet

We’re not afraid to say that TV is looking pretty hot in 2025. Any lull we may have experienced in the aftermath of the WGA and SAG strikes of 2023 seems to be nonexistent, with many long-awaited shows set to debut and make their triumphant return this year. The first few months of 2025 are

“Endings are hard. We’ve always known endings are hard,” says Steve Pemberton in new BBC Two documentary Inside No. 9: The Party’s Over. He’s not just talking about devising the perfect conclusion, with the right balance of surprise and satisfaction, for an Inside No. 9 story; he’s talking about concluding the whole show. The new

Unlike series 14’s episodes, the new Doctor Who Christmas special won’t have an early streaming release followed by a later BBC One airing, meaning that everybody will be able to see it from the exact same time on December 25. “Joy to the World” is a 54-minute special adventure written by former showrunner Steven Moffat