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For over a decade, Netflix has been a leading platform for animated shows. Its first adult animated series, “BoJack Horseman,” was nominated for three Emmys and regarded as one of the best shows of the 2010s. The company has two animated feature Oscars under its belt after the success of “Guillermo Del Toro’s Pinocchio” and…

While comic books had certainly covered some of the dark themes that Watchmen showcased when it was first published in 1986, it felt like something totally different at the time. The series featured plenty of political commentary, took a look at many anxieties that people shared in the era, and, most notably, it deconstructed what…

Netflix’s “The Crown” turns 10 today, a milestone for the award-winning royal drama that ran for six seasons from 2016 to 2023. 

The late-night variety show premiered on Oct. 11, 1975, with creators Lorne Michaels and Dick Ebersol at the helm. Original cast members included Chevy Chase, Gilda Radner, Laraine Newman, Garrett Morris, Dan Aykroyd, Michael O’Donoghue andGeorge Coe who all brought their comedy chops to create a show that was irreverent, pithy, with top-tier comedy.

When people think of comic book movies, they think about superheroes. Thanks to the wild popularity of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, that’s what we’ve been trained to think a comic book movie is. Even when a comic book movie aims to be a bit more serious and less “comic booky” — think things like Christopher…

In the early 1990s, when Warner Bros Animation tasked Bruce Tim and Eric Radomski with adapting Batman into an animated series, superhero cartoons were far from a new genre. Beginning with the Fleischer Studios Superman shorts in the 1940s, brightly-costumed heroes ranging from Mighty Mouse to Freedom Force to Astro Boy (and many, many more)…

It has been 36 years since DC released a television series that remains mostly forgotten today but matched the comics well in its weirdness. In the 1980s, comic book adaptations on television were popular, but usually lived in an area of campiness that doesn’t quite fit in well with what fans today are used to.…