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The Walking Dead: World Beyond Episode 7 Review – Truth Or Dare

The Walking Dead: World Beyond Episode 7 This The Walking Dead: World Beyond review contains spoilers. It didn’t take long for Silas to reach critical mass. The moment another competitor for Iris’s attention came along, the danger meter slowly began to creep higher with every passing moment. The Walking Dead: World Beyond hit that point with a hammer. Iris and Percy laughing in the foreground, Silas starting daggers at them in the background. The two making plans to meet up after dark for what sounds like a make-out session? Silas lumbering in the distance, head down and ears open. Silas…
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The Walking Dead: World Beyond Episode 6 Review – Shadow Puppets

This The Walking Dead: World Beyond review contains spoilers. The Walking Dead: World Beyond Episode 6 Perhaps I’m just projecting the character of Abraham onto the actor, but as a director, Michael Cudlitz seems to be able to have fun with his material, no matter how dark. Throughout “Shadow Puppets,” there are a lot of fun little touches and moments to lighten things up and serve as an effective tension break during some of the more nervous moments. Towards the end of the episode, as Iris is skulking into an abandoned department store, there are two back-to-back scares, one a…
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Barbarians and Animal Symbolism: What Did Wolves Mean in the Ancient World?

If you’ve seen the Netflix series Barbarians, you can’t have missed the many, many references to wolves on both sides of the central battle. The first episode is titled ‘Wolf and Eagle’, the three Germanic leads each wear a wolf’s tooth around their neck, their tribe tells stories about a wolf that will come to devour the world, while Roman characters tell their own myths about children suckled by a wolf, and wolves prowl the surrounding forests. Were the ancient Germanic tribes and the ancient Romans really that into wolves? Well, yes, though they meant something quite different to the…
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The Walking Dead: World Beyond Episode 5 Review – Madman Across the Water

This The Walking Dead: World Beyond review contains spoilers. The Walking Dead: World Beyond Episode 5 When the Endlings left Campus Colony, they were four kids who didn’t really know each other. Even Hope and Iris, the two sisters, had secrets from one another. Silas kept the secret of why he ended up at Campus. And Elton, the quirky little fellow in the corduroy suit, had secrets of his own. On a show littered with traumatic stories, perhaps none is quite as traumatic as Elton’s, and The Walking Dead: World Beyond puts that trauma, as well as his mother’s manuscript,…
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When the Present is the Past: Carina Round Talks the World of Puscifer and Existential Reckoning

As the colossal disaster that is 2020 starts to wind down, frantic members of the public gather in socially distanced huddled masses, lined up to place their vote in the U.S. election as they stand under shadowy fears of doubt and uncertainty. Yet, these final months of this confusing time have a steady pipeline of great new music to help quell those worries and take our minds to a more peaceful plane of existence.  One of these treasures about to hit the market is the new album from the musical collective started by Tool’s Maynard James Keenan; Puscifer. Though originally…
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Archer Season 11 Concludes By Saving The World And Returning To Normal

This article contains spoilers for Archer season 11 episode 8. It’s definitely been a very memorable season for Archer. The show’s 11th year has successfully pulled Sterling Archer out of his multi-season coma and forced both him and his inner-circle to adjust to the many changes that they’ve faced. This season has featured Archer at his most alone and miserable, but it’s also highlighted a newly repentant side of the character. Against all odds, Archer has actually been able to exhibit personal growth, demonstrate newfound maturity, and even think about people other than himself. He also has a kick-ass new…
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The Walking Dead: World Beyond Episode 4 Post-Credits Scene Explained

This The Walking Dead: World Beyond feature contains spoilers. To understand what happens after the credits roll on The Walking Dead: World Beyond episode 4, one needs to look a little further back in The Walking Dead history. The final sequence of Rick Grimes’ last Walking Dead episode “What Comes After” features an anguished Jadis (Pollyanna McIntosh) on a walkie-talkie, communicating with a mysterious helicopter. “I have a B,” she announces. “Not an A, I never had an A.” The “B” she has is a delirious, impaled Rick Grimes, making his final appearance on The Walking Dead as a lead…
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The Walking Dead: World Beyond Episode 4 Review – The Wrong End of a Telescope

This The Walking Dead: World Beyond review contains spoilers. The Walking Dead: World Beyond Episode 4 A lot of people are critical of The Walking Dead: World Beyond for what the show is. It’s a teen-centric supernatural drama set in a zombie universe, like MTV’s Teen Wolf but not sexy due to the unspoken body odor surrounding every character. That’s not to everyone’s taste, which is understandable. The Walking Dead isn’t to everyone’s tastes, either. As such, a Walking Dead fan’s tolerance or interest in World Beyond is based heavily on just how much they enjoy watching melodramas meant for…
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Is World of Warcraft: Shadowlands Pre-Patch Friendly to New Players?

World of Warcraft‘s Shadowlands expansion may have been delayed until sometime later this year, but the expansion’s pre-patch is already live. While you won’t be able to explore Shadowlands‘ new zones, dungeons, bosses, gear, and other upcoming content as part of this patch, many of Shadowlands‘ core upcoming changes (including changes to the MMO’s leveling structure and classes) are already in the game. It’s around this time that many people start wondering whether or not this is a good time to return to World of Warcraft or even start playing it for the first time. After all, there’s theoretically no…
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The Walking Dead: World Beyond Episode 3 Review – The Tyger and the Lamb

This THE WALKING DEAD: WORLD BEYOND review contains spoilers. The Walking Dead: World Beyond Episode 3 The Campus Colony in The Walking Dead: World Beyond is less like a hard-scrabble camp and more like a small town protected by stone walls. There might have been thousands of people who lived and worked behind those walls, but that clearly wasn’t enough to allow someone like Silas to join the community without making a few waves. In a small town, nothing moves as fast as the rumor mill, and when the hulking new arrival comes from Omaha with whispers of violence in…
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Boy Meets World’s Slasher Episode Was Scarier Than it Had Any Right To Be

Blood-curdling screams. Taunting phone calls from a psycho killer. Creepy, ominous music with lyrics like “Here’s a knife. Here’s a gun. There’ll be fun for everyone. Death is on the menu tonight!” Elements of a forgotten ‘90s slasher classic? Nope. Just some highlights from the most memorable episode of ABC’s family sitcom Boy Meets World. With the launch of Disney+ and ample time to get nostalgic and revisit old movies and TV shows due to the pandemic, many older millennials are diving back into Boy Meets World, which ran for seven seasons from 1993 through 2000 as a staple of…
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Bellingcat: Truth in a Post-Truth World

Bellingcat: Truth in a Post-Truth World explores the promise of open source investigation, taking viewers inside the exclusive world of the “citizen investigative journalist” collective known as Bellingcat. In cases ranging from the MH17 disaster to the poisoning of a Russian spy in the United Kingdom, the Bellingcat team’s quest for truth will shed light on the fight for journalistic integrity in the era of fake news and alternative facts.Rated: Not RatedRelease Date: Oct 01, 2020
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The Walking Dead: World Beyond Episode 2 Review – The Blaze of Gory

This The Walking Dead: World Beyond review contains spoilers. The Walking Dead: World Beyond Episode 2 The teens of The Walking Dead: World Beyond have been given all the tools necessary to survive in the world around them. They’ve grown up with weapons training, martial arts drills, and walker-killing lessons from people who know exactly what they’re doing and how to do it. With a teacher like Felix (Nico Tortorella), who has been killing empties and in charge of campus security for quite some time, it’d be hard not to pick up the tricks necessary. Iris (Aliyah Royale), the class…
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Giveaway: Win a Copy of Robert Jordan’s The Eye of the World 30th Anniversary Edition

Den of Geek is hosting this giveaway in partnership with If you’ve been meaning to dive into The Wheel of Time, Robert Jordan’s epic fantasy series that inspired a generation of speculative fiction authors, now is the time. Yes, because the books are being adapted into an Amazon Prime series starring Rosamund Pike. Yes, because we are in the middle of a global pandemic and leisure activities that involve curling up at home are a good idea right now. And, yes, because Tor Books just released a gorgeous hardcover edition of the first novel in the series, The Eye of the…
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Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous Season 2 Confirmed by Netflix with Teaser

Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous Season 2 is officially in the works at Netflix, ready to reveal the fate of our calculatingly cliffhung sextet of teen survivors. Netflix’s renewal makes official what was up until now heavily teased regarding the second season of Camp Cretaceous, the animated series spinoff of the Jurassic World/Park film franchise. Thus, with Season 1 of the series having left its central characters to fend for themselves on an island populated by dinosaurs, the streaming giant is already signaling that the wait for Season 2 won’t be too long, revealing a 2021 release window. The announcement also…
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Jurassic World: Dominion Delayed Until Summer 2022

Jurassic World: Dominion has been encased in amber, set for a stasis from which it will be freed in 2022, one full year from its previous release date. Universal Pictures and Amblin Entertainment have officially pushed back the release date of the third film in the Jurassic World Trilogy to June 10, 2022, moving it from the previously set release date of June 11, 2021. The move occurs the same week in which fellow studio giant Warner Bros. made a 2022 shift of its own for DC movie reboot The Batman, and took its December 2021-slated Black Adam off the…
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Free Guy Trailer: Ryan Reynolds is a Video Game Character Trying to Save His World

Free Guy, a comedy that centers itself in a socially-distant video game virtual landscape, ironically finds itself as one of the most prominent stragglers in the dwindling group of major movies still on schedule for a theatrical release in 2020. Indeed, the December-scheduled film continues to tout its plans to hit theaters with the release of a new trailer. Shawn Levy (Stranger Things, Real Steel) directed the film off a script by Matt Lieberman (Scoob!, The Addams Family) and Zak Penn (Ready Player One, X-Men: The Last Stand). Ryan Reynolds stars as the eponymous Guy, a suddenly self-aware NPC (non-playable…
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The Walking Dead: World Beyond Civic Republic and Three Rings Explained

The following contains spoilers for The Walking Dead: World Beyond episode 1. Way back in the tenth episode of The Walking Dead’s sixth season, Paul Rovia a.k.a. Jesus (Tom Payne) made a promise to Rick Grimes (Andrew Lincoln).  “You’re world’s about to get a whole lot bigger,” the Messianic-appearing figure said. And it did not take long for Jesus’s promise to bear fruit. Rick Grimes’s world did get bigger with the introduction of the Hilltop Colony, The Kingdom, Oceanside, and even The Sanctuary.  Since that moment, the world of The Walking Dead has only continued to grow. That growth reaches…
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The Walking Dead: World Beyond Episode 1 Review – Brave

This The Walking Dead: World Beyond review contains spoilers. The Walking Dead: World Beyond Episode 1 Growing up is never easy, but growing up in a world where safety is clustering behind walls with a few hundred other people and visiting the next town over might involve a helicopter trip or a dangerous days-long trek through walker-infested wilderness is something else entirely. It’s been a decade since the Night the Sky Fell on The Walking Dead: World Beyond, and since then, Iris (Aliyah Royale) and her sister Hope (Alexa Mansour) have grown up in the relative safety and normalcy of…
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How Scorn Turned the Art of H.R. Giger into a Nightmarish Horror Game World

Ebb Software’s long-awaited horror shooter Scorn is designed to make you squirm in your seat from the second you lay eyes on it. Set in a gruesome world of bone, flesh, and sharp steel, the game is meant to be repulsive, but it’s also absolutely entrancing. The imagery is visceral and gory — from tendrils of meat hanging down from big, grotesque statues to the bloody creatures crawling all over the walls to the webby, diseased-looking membrane covering the skinless protagonist’s head — but you also can’t look away. According to game director Ljubomir Peklar, the game’s visual style is…
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