Tag: television

Star Trek: Lower Decks bows out on business as usual

The following article discusses the fifth season of Star Trek: Lower Decks and older Treks. There’s no such thing as “dead” in Star Trek, the sprawling, perpetual opus that has thrived in spite of itself for almost sixty years. What started as a cornball space-ships and punch-fights show for atomic-age…

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Amazon is rebooting its live-action adaptation of the God of War reboot

Amazon is reshuffling the deck with its God of War series. After the success of Fallout, it wants its next Prime Video gaming adaptation to live up to those lofty expectations — and it’s apparently willing to start fresh to do so. Deadline first reported on Thursday that the series…

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Say goodbye to Boomerang, the streaming service dedicated to classic cartoons

Warner Bros. Discovery is shuttering Boomerang, a streaming service dedicated to classic cartoons, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The platform started as a digital cable channel back in 2000 before expanding to a streaming platform in 2017. Boomerang will officially cease operations on September 30, giving subscribers around two months…

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Fallout’s 16 Emmy nominations show that successful gaming adaptations are no longer a fluke

Prime Video’s Fallout has followed The Last of Us in video-game adaptations making smashing freshman debuts at the Emmys. The Academy of Television Arts and Sciences unveiled this year’s nominations on Wednesday, and Amazon’s adaptation of Bethesda’s franchise picked up an impressive 16 nods, including Best Drama, Best Actor –…

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HBO’s The Last of Us season two will only be seven episodes long

Somehow, it’s already been almost a year and a half since the first season of The Last of Us arrived on HBO. Things are well underway with the second season, and we’ve known for a while that it won’t premiere until 2025. We still don’t know exactly when to expect…

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X-Men ‘97 didn’t have to go that hard

The following article discusses spoilers for the first season of X-Men ‘97. I was excited about the return of the ‘90s Saturday morning cartoon version of the X-Men. Still, I wasn’t sure Marvel, under the auspices of Disney, could deliver on the flavor of the original while also making a…

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