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The villains in the X-Men comics are some of the most colorful and interesting in Marvel’s long history. Some have proven to have real staying power, while others were very “of their time.” The first 20-ish years gave readers Magneto and his Brotherhood of Evil Mutants, the Hellfire Club, anti-Mutant hate groups and their Sentinels,…

Superheroes are no strangers to stealing the spotlight in the TV awards season. Back in 2021, WandaVision received a staggering 23 Emmy nominations, breaking the record for any Marvel live-action series ever produced. Since then, other iconic projects like Hawkeye, Moon Knight, and Loki have all seen their fair share of critical success, resulting in…

What does it take to dramatize the history of America on television? It must be more entertaining than slumber-inducing historical reenactments and demand more of its audience than being passive observers of a comfortable, sanitized civic mythology. There might have been a time when a network was happy to slap a recognizable actor with a…