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The Verge - TV ShowsX-Men ’97 is Marvel’s omega-level nostalgia play
Image: Marvel Animation Disney Plus’ new X-Men animated series is a throwback to the days when comics adaptations could focus on their own stories instead of cinematic franchises. Outside of a few recent cameos, the X-Men have been conspicuously absent from Marvel Studios’ projects thanks to a yearslong corporate beef with Fox, which used to own the characters’ rights. It has been fascinating but weird to watch Marvel build an entire cinematic multiverse with nary a mutant in sight considering...
The Verge - TV ShowsBatman spinoff The Penguin is pure crime drama in first trailer
Image: Max We may be waiting a while to see Robert Pattinson return as Batman, but the franchise isn’t going totally quiet. Max just released the first teaser trailer for The Penguin, which sees Colin Farrell reprise the titular role from the 2022 film The Batman. As a teaser, the short clip doesn’t give much away, but the vibes are clear: this is going to be a crime drama, only set in Gotham. Matt Reeves, who directed The Batman, will serve as an executive producer, while Lauren LeFranc...
The Verge - TV ShowsNew House of the Dragon season 2 trailers — plural — are a call to pick sides
House of the Dragon’s first season closed out with House Targaryen divided into two factions readying themselves for an all-out war to claim the Iron Throne, and in the show’s new season 2 trailer(s), both sides seem ready to burn the entire world down in order to win. Keeping in theme with this season’s further exploration of George R.R. Martin’s novella The Princess and the Queen, or, the Blacks and the Greens, HBO has debuted two new House of the Dragon trailers — one “Black” and the other...
The Verge - TV ShowsDive into the world of Netflix’s 3 Body Problem
ED MILLER/NETFLIX Check out all of The Verge’s coverage of Netflix’s upcoming 3 Body Problem series based on Cixin Liu’s epic sci-fi novel. The idea of trying to adapt Cixin Liu’s The Three-Body Problem for a Western audience sounds wild at first blush given how complex and deeply rooted in Chinese identity the book is. But every glimpse of Netflix’s new series based on the epic novel has made it feel like showrunners David Benioff and D. B. Weiss and executive producer Alexander Woo might have...
The Verge - TV ShowsNetflix’s 3 Body Problem adaptation channels the book’s spirit but not its brilliance
Sea Shimooka as Sophon in Netflix’s 3 Body Problem. | Image: Netflix Though David Benioff, D. B. Weiss, and Alexander Woo’s 3 Body Problem is impressive, it really feels like just an introduction to Cixin Liu’s deeper ideas. In his 2008 sci-fi novel The Three-Body Problem, Cixin Liu created a fascinating world where cutting-edge particle physics, VR gaming, and Chinese history played crucial roles in shaping humanity’s response to an imminent planet-wide threat. It also seemed unfilmable. The...
The Verge - TV ShowsMrBeast’s $5 million game show for Prime Video could one-up Netflix’s Squid Game
Photo by Chris Unger / Zuffa LLC via Getty Images YouTuber MrBeast (Jimmy Donaldson) has struck a deal with Prime Video to host a new reality competition series called Beast Games. The show will have 1,000 contestants competing for a $5 million reward, which the press release claims is “the biggest single prize in the history of television and streaming.” There aren’t any details yet about what kinds of challenges Beast Games contestants will participate in. It’s a remarkable turn of events,...
The Verge - TV ShowsDoctor Who’s new season streams in May
Ncuti Gatwa as The Doctor, and Millie Gibson as Ruby Sunday. | BBC / Disney Plus Doctor Who’s most recent Christmas Special gave us a interesting taste of what showrunner Russell T Davies has been dreaming up for Ncuti Gatwa’s run as the time traveling alien, and it won’t be long until we get to see what’s coming next. Disney Plus announced today that Doctor Who season 14 starring Ncuti Gatwa as the Fifteenth Doctor and Millie Gibson as his companion Ruby Sunday will premiere with two new...
The Verge - TV ShowsPokémon Horizons: The Series is an evolutionary fresh start for the anime
Image: Netflix Pokémon Horizons brings a refreshing new energy to the anime franchise by amping up the action and making the larger Pokémon world feel like a more cohesive place. We were all sad to see Ash Ketchum go, but his still being the Pokémon anime’s 10-year-old main character after 25 years of adventures was a huge part of why the show seemed stuck in the past. Though Ash never really changed all that much, the larger Pokémon franchise did. And while the anime always took cues from the...
The Verge - TV ShowsAmazon’s new Fallout trailer looks just like the games: grim, goofy, and gruesome
Image: Amazon It’s still too early to say if Amazon’s live-action take on Fallout will be any good. But the first few trailers at least make one thing clear: the show seems like it’s nailing the distinct vibe of the games. The newly released second trailer follows a lot of the same beats as the first, tracking a Vault Dweller named Lucy (Ella Purnell) heading out into the Wasteland only to discover how dangerous things have become two centuries after the apocalypse. The show looks gritty and...