Marvel superheroes face everything from death-obsessed robots to hailstorms of bullets to Infinity Stone-wielding aliens on an almost daily basis. But it turns out that the most terrifying thing in the Marvel Cinematic Universe is... Marvel itself. T…

Hollywood has been forced into a reckoning in the past year with the rise of the #MeToo and Time's up movements; as a result, many films and TV series quickly course corrected and began telling more stories about women as a reaction to the sudden cul…

In a road-tripping trio on a quest to find God with a capital G made up of a centuries-old vampire and a cussing, fighting preacher with a dark past, it can be hard to stand out. But Tulip O'Hare (Ruth Negga) on Preacher Season 3 manages to be the mo…

Spoilers ahead for the Luke Cage Season 2 finale. Is the Hero for Hire about to become the criminal he used to fight against? Luke Cage's second season ended on an extremely ominous note suggesting that very idea, with Luke Cage (Mike Colter) taking …

Spoilers ahead for Luke Cage's Season 2 finale. And just like that, the Stokes' legacy lives on — for better or for worse. In a symbolic nod to Luke Cage Season 1, in which villain Cornell "Cottonmouth" Stokes (Mahershala Ali) was brutally murdered b…

When Simone Missick first debuted her version of the iconic comic book character Misty Knight on Luke Cage two years ago, she was as badass as fans had hoped. The NYPD cop was fierce, strong, and yet still commanded every ounce of her femininity and …

When Luke Cage hit Netflix two years ago, the villains of Marvel's third Defenders series seemed pretty cut and dry. There was Cornell "Cottonmouth" Stokes (Mahershala Ali), the nightclub owner doing some shady dealings, and his slippery sidekick Her…

After 31 years of appearances in Marvel comics, the antihero Ghost is finally going to be unmasked. July 6's Ant-Man sequel, Ant-Man and the Wasp, is going to put both a face and a name to the mysterious comic book character whose alter ego has remai…

Luke Cage made his first appearance in Netflix's Marvel universe in a steamy romance with Jessica in Season 1 of Jessica Jones. He's since moved on to his own Netflix series, and also appeared in Netflix's Marvel crossover series The Defenders. But w…

It's been over a month and a half since Avengers: Infinity War unleashed the snap heard 'round the universe, and Marvel fans can't stop freaking out over that devastating ending. With only one end credits scene teasing the upcoming Captain Marvel, au…

Every superhero needs an origin story, right? That's certainly the narrative we've been given time and time again from Marvel and DC. Yet while origin stories aren't necessarily bad — in fact, they're often necessary steps on a hero's journey — they …

A lot can happen in 14 years. People grow up, technology changes and society evolves. But in the world of The Incredibles, 14 years is just the blink of an eye, because Incredibles 2 picks up at the exact moment the original film ended. To recap what…

Secrets were revealed and lives were forever changed in Younger's Season 5 premiere. The game-changing episode was jam-packed with so much intense drama for Liza (Sutton Foster), Charles (Peter Hermann) and Kelsey (Hilary Duff) that in some ways it f…

Spoilers ahead for Younger Season 5 Episode 1. Well, that didn't go as planned. After four seasons of tenuous secrecy, someone on Younger finally told Charles the truth about Liza's age — without her knowing. The big moment that the entire series has…

Sarai Walker's best-selling novel Dietland first hit bookstores back in 2015, and yet the subversive, feminist tome has never been more timely. The story delves into body positivity while seeing a group of women bring misogynistic, criminal sexual as…

Three years ago, Younger debuted its series premiere with a clever twist on the old rom-com trope: Liza (Sutton Foster), struggling to re-enter the workforce as a 40-year-old divorced mom, lies about her age to get hired as a twenty-something assista…

Spoilers ahead for 13 Reasons Why Season 2 Episode 6. If you thought Zach Dempsey's treatment of Hannah Baker was disappointing in the first season of 13 Reasons Why, he isn't coming off of Season 2 looking much better. In fact, one of the biggest tw…

Spoilers ahead for 13 Reasons Why Season 2. Alex Standall is lucky. After suffering a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head at the end of the first season of 13 Reasons Why, speculation ran wild about his fate. Did Alex take after his friend Hanna…

Hannah Baker (Katherine Langford) may have started telling her story in the first season of 13 Reasons Why, but she's not the only person at Liberty High who has suffered at the hands of others. By the end of Season 1, it was revealed that problemati…

Spoilers ahead for the New Girl series finale, "The Curse of the Pirate Bride/Engram Pattersky." Can a marriage be cursed before the wedding even takes place? New Girl's Nick (Jake Johnson) and Jess (Zooey Deschanel) certainly thought so in the two-p…