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Y: The Last Man – Why Did Yorick Survive?

This article contains major spoilers for the Y: The Last Man comic and potentially the TV series. Y: The Last Man showrunner Eliza Clark knew she had found her series’ lead character when she watched actor Ben Schnetzer run lines over Zoom whilst wearing a garbage bag as a poncho.  “From the first moment I saw him, I was like, ‘That is Yorick,’” she says. “There’s a sweetness to him and a naivety to the way he played the character. You love him even when he’s being an idiot.”  Being lovable whilst also being an idiot is the defining trait…
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Legends of Tomorrow: Can Sara Lance Survive This Space Oddity?

This Legends of Tomorrow review contains spoilers. Legends of Tomorrow Season 6 Episode 1 There’s a bit in the sixth season premiere of Legends of Tomorrow, “Ground Control to Sara Lance,” that made me furious. Gary, the comic relief sidekick who gets retconned this episode to have been an alien infiltrator, has explained his whole backstory to the abducted Sara Lance, who wakes up on an alien spaceship just in time to see it hyperdrive away from Earth from a rear window. Sara wants to get home, so she tells Gary, “Give me everything you know about this ship.” Gary’s…
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All American Season 3 Episode 2 Review: How to Survive in South Central

This All American review contains spoilers. All American Season 3, Episode 2 We’re back with a new episode and, as the premiere teased us, there is something that went down th summer before senior year with some of these characters. In “How to Survive in South Central,” All American does a good job of unraveling more of the melodrama mystery. But, I guess the slowburn of a certain secret is what makes it even juicier? Conflict, conflict, conflict. What else do you expect when a team gets a new coach they don’t feel like belongs on their turf, even when…
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Fear the Walking Dead: How Did Morgan Survive and Who Saved Him?

This Fear the Walking Dead article contains spoilers. If you’ve watched Fear the Walking Dead’s season 6 premiere, “The End is the Beginning,” you’d be forgiven for experiencing a bit of déjà vu during Morgan’s return. Fear the Walking Dead is fond of killing off its protagonists—Madison, Nick, and Travis immediately spring to mind. So it was reasonable to assume that the events of last season’s finale, “End of the Line” spelled certain doom for Morgan. But as it turns out, being grievously wounded and left for dead as walkers slowly drew closer was not enough to end Morgan’s journey.…
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Batman Villains Fight to Survive in The Joker War Zone

The Joker War rages on in Gotham, and ahead of the release of Batman: The Joker War Zone, DC shared new information about the tie-in book’s contents. Guess what that means? If you guessed “James Stokoe drawing a Clownhunter story”, please leave next Wednesday’s Powerball numbers in the comments. The 48-page book has five announced stories. The first looks at Poison Ivy’s return to Gotham (which happened in Batman #98). It’s called “Ashes of Eden,” written by Sam Johns (DC’s Crimes of Passion, Over the Garden Wall: The Benevolent Sisters of Charity) and drawn by Laura Braga (Harley & Ivy…
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