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If you were a fan of John McCrae’s epic superhero web serial Worm during its 2011-2013 heyday, when it racked up a million views per month, this will be excellent news. But even if you’ve never heard of Worm before—or if you discovered it after the fact, contributing along the way to its 80 million…

Sci-fi Westerns existed before “The Wild Wild West,” but the ’60s TV series is one of the sub-genre’s most influential works. The show is an early example of steampunk because it introduced futuristic technology to an Old West setting — along with other elements we associate with fantasy and sci-fi. What’s more, it had an…

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For a lot of kids, Saturday morning meant one thing: a fun time to eat junk-food cereal and watch awesome cartoons. You knew the schedule. You knew the theme songs. And you knew which characters you wanted to see before you even turned on the TV. Then, on September 20, 1997, one of Marvel’s biggest animated hits came to an end. After five seasons, it was over. For a generation of kids who stuck with the characters, along with…

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Netflix is still the undisputed king of the streamers, having been doing it since 2007 and making its own shows since 2012. That means that while it has accumulated a vast number of hits, award winners, and record-breakers, it’s also had its fair share of originals that once broke new ground and ruled the conversations,…

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Netflix has its fair share of exclusive titles in the form of Netflix Originals, but of all the titles in the niche library, only a few can truly be recognized for being groundbreaking. Some pioneered new film-making techniques, others raised the bar for animation, and a few have reshaped television today.