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Evil Dead Burn saves its most unexpected connection to Evil Dead Rise until almost everyone in the theater has probably started heading for the exit. Back at the crematorium, a young girl notices an urn labeled “Ellie Bixler.” Moments later, Ellie appears in a mirror before the Deadite somehow manifests behind the child in physical…
Alice Price spends nearly all of Evil Dead Burn trying to escape a family that was dangerous to her long before the Deadites arrived. By the finale, she has survived the burning Price home, defeated the demonic version of her husband Will and dragged herself far enough from the construction site to be found by…
Annie Jacobson arrives at Sterling Point looking for answers about her dead mother, not a boyfriend. Romance is barely on her summer agenda. She already has Oliver back in New York, even if their relationship has quietly become an arrangement neither of them believes in. Then Rory offers Annie the excitement of a proper summer…
Sterling Point never treats Ramona’s feelings for Oona as a mystery. The uncertainty comes from whether those feelings can survive being returned. Ramona has spent years loving her best friend while quietly assuming that friendship is the most she will ever get. Oona, meanwhile, moves through brief romances with the confidence of someone who knows…
Ted Lasso returns for its fourth season with a new club, a new coaching challenge and a familiar collection of people trying to work out where they belong. Apple TV’s revived comedy now follows Ted as he considers leaving Kansas City to coach AFC Richmond’s second-division women’s team. Yet the premiere also creates a conspicuous…
Furious is sold as a cat-and-mouse thriller, but its most combustible slow-burn relationship belongs to Alice Black and Danny Kelly. Alice, played by Emmy Rossum, is rebuilding her career after leaving the NYPD, while Scoot McNairy’s Danny remains the former partner who cannot decide whether supporting her means listening or intervening. Official character details describe…
Created by Elizabeth Meriwether, Hulu’s Furious follows FBI agent Alice Black (Emmy Rossum) as she hunts a calculating female serial killer played by Lola Petticrew. “Flash Flood,” released on August 3, 2026, is the fourth episode and sends Alice and Danny Kelly (Scoot McNairy) out of town while Catherine assumes another identity. The episode finally…
House of the Dragon has found a particularly cruel time to give Baela Targaryen a love triangle. She is still grieving Jacaerys, flying dangerous patrols for Rhaenyra and trying to prove that she is more useful as a dragonrider than as somebody’s future wife. Then Addam quietly reveals that he has been imagining a future…
The Walking Dead: Dead City introduced Dillard as one of Season 3‘s strangest new characters, even by Manhattan’s increasingly unusual standards. Played by Jimmi Simpson, Dillard operates the walker-filled bar where Negan has been hiding instead of helping Maggie establish her new community. He drinks, plays video games and treats the restrained dead like familiar…
72 Hours builds its comedy around Joe’s belief that youth culture can be studied, packaged and sold before his employers realize he has lost touch with it. The accidental Miami bachelor party appears to offer a perfect shortcut. Mason, Nick, Hunter and Freshman think an unusually generous stranger has joined their weekend. Joe sees a…
The Walking Dead: Dead City Season 3 Episode 2 is finally putting Maggie and the Dama on a collision course, and the real question is no longer whether Maggie wants her gone. It is whether she can stop herself from delivering another execution. Official images from “Haven” place Maggie Rhee (Lauren Cohan) face-to-face with the…
The biggest reveal in The Walking Dead: Dead City’s Episode 2 clip is not that Dillard can turn a walker groan into a joke. It is that he treats the groan as an answer. When Negan watches Dillard conduct what looks like an ordinary conversation with the dead, the moment changes how his strange bar…
