Post-apocalyptic sci-fi series Snowpiercer has returned for a third season, with new episodes streaming weekly on Netflix. Featuring a new status quo, a new direction and new cast members, the premiere episode rattles along. Matthew Turner gets on track. The previous season of Snowpiercer pulled off a clever narrative trick with its cliffhanger, essentially dangling the basics of it … Read more
Patrick Stewart has confirmed that the third season of Star Trek: Picard will be the last. In an interview with SFX magazine, the star said the plan was always that there would be just three seasons. The third season is currently being filmed back to back with Season 2, after a delay due to positive Covid tests within the crew. In … Read more
A monkey becomes an assassin in the latest animated series from Marvel Studios, with all ten episodes available to stream on Disney+ from January 26. Combining a decent plot, appealing animation and a strong comic performance from Jason Sudeikis, it’s an entertaining series that greatly improves upon its source material. Matthew Turner enjoys some monkey … Read more
Production on season 2 of Star Trek: Picard has had to be postponed due to more than 50 positive Covid results among the cast and crew – though Patrick Stewart is not among them. Work on the second season was just about to begin following the Christmas break when results from the test came in with more than … Read more
Lucifer is currently bidding goodbye with the last season now streaming on Netflix. Sarah Cook provides the final judgment. Well, hell be damned; Lucifer Morningstar is now God! Yes, the fallen angel has come a long way over six series. He has dabbled with all sorts of trouble on a biblical scale, but the conclusion … Read more
Live-action DC superhero show Titans has returned for a third season, with all 13 episodes currently available to stream on Netflix UK. Introducing two DC Comics favorites to the cast, the show vastly improves on the previous two seasons, thanks to a compelling central villain, a change of location and a more streamlined approach to … Read more
We’ve only just started getting episodes of the first season of Superman and Lois in the UK but, in the States, they are already flagging the launch of Season Two in January. Here’s the first trailer for the return of the series on the CW Network and it looks like Clark Kent has some issues with allegiance … Read more
The first trailer for Raised by Wolves season 2 is here. The Ridley Scott-produced sci-fi series returns on February 3, 2022. In season 2, Android partners Mother (Amanda Collin) and Father (Abubakar Salim), along with their brood of six human children, join a newly formed atheistic colony in Kepler 22 b’s mysterious tropical zone. But navigating this strange new society is only … Read more
It’s official: Netflix’s Squid Game has been renewed for a second season. Not that it’s a surprise, considering the show took the world by storm back in September, as it set new records, including breaking 3 billion minutes of watch time by its second week. AP broke the news, after speaking to the program’s creator, Hwang Dog-hyuk, about … Read more
25 years on to the day from its first US broadcast date, James Cooray Smith returns to the Wormhole to reassess Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. This week, the crew goes uncover as Klingons in ‘Trials and Tribble-ations’. The production of ‘Unification’, in the autumn of 1991, had set something of a precedent for Star Trek … Read more