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Just like the reputation of movies based on them, television shows adapting video games tend to get a bad rap. While there have admittedly been weak adaptations like Netflix’s live-action “Resident Evil” series or “Mortal Kombat: Defenders of the Realm,” there are a lot of great shows too. This time around, we’re looking at the…

There’s a reason that HBO is considered in the minds of many to be synonymous with prestige television. After taking off with hit shows like “The Sopranos,” “Band of Brothers,” and more in the late 1990s and early 2000s — not to mention the cultural phenomenon that was “Game of Thrones” for eight seasons from…

Sometimes even the best detective TV shows don’t always get the attention they deserve. Anyone who even remotely follows television is familiar with “Columbo,” “The Wire,” “Law & Order,” and other other hit shows that have graced the small screen throughout the years. That said, some of the greatest detective yarns are a mystery to many…

DC Comics has been on fire lately. The publisher has been able to wrest control of the sales charts from Marvel Comics, overtaking the House of Ideas as the topselling purveyor of superhero comics. All of this started with 2023’s “Dawn of DC”, when the publisher fixed, for lack of a better word, several of…

At this point, Stephen King is as prolific a recommender of TV shows and movies as he is an author. King only just delivered a glowing review of the underseen Apple TV series “Last Seen” which followed his endorsement of Netflix horror miniseries “My Sad Dead.” Now, he’s back with yet another dispatch from his…

The Marvel Cinematic Universe has had several villains over the years, some very big names in comics and some more obscure. Early villains were mostly the heroes’ main villains, from Obadiah Stane in Iron Man and Red Skull in Captain America: The Fist Avenger to Abomination in The Incredible Hulk and Loki in Thor and…

As television grew more prestigious as a medium, so too did the miniseries. That doesn’t mean Hollywood has been perfectly diligent in making sure the form’s best efforts gain the recognition they deserve.

Marvel Comics is undoubtedly the pioneer of anti-heroes in superhero comics. As far back as the 1940s, Marvel has been creating characters like Namor the Sub-Mariner who walk a fine line between hero and villain. Since then, Marvel has created some of the most iconic and influential anti-heroes in modern history, including Wolverine, the Hulk,…

There are a lot of reasons why the X-Men are so popular and one of the biggest has always been their villains. It all began with bad guys like Magneto, an enemy who represented the antithesis of everything that the X-Men represented, and just went on from there. We’ve gotten best of all-time villains like…

For decades, NBC has essentially been the gift that keeps on giving. This is the network that delivered all-time television classics like “Cheers,” “Frasier,” “Friends,” and “The Office.” Want reality TV? NBC aired “The Voice” and “America’s Got Talent.” Want drama? Check out “Chicago Fire” and “ER.” Johnny Carson made his mark with “The Tonight…