We may be living in a golden age of TV, but panning through all the dross to find that gold can be time-consuming and tedious. For every much-discussed hit like Severance, House of the Dragon, and The Bear, there are dozens of new original shows that barely tip the cultural needle. And with so many new streaming services competing with HBO, Netflix, Hulu, Amazon, and Disney Plus, it’s impossible to keep up with everything new to view. But The Verge’s TV section is ready to help. Our news, reviews, and interviews help you find the next Stranger Things or Star Trek: Strange New Worlds in time to keep up with the cultural conversation. And our essays and analysis invite you to consider the deeper context of what you’re watching.
Why does the villain in this Knuckles series sneak peek look familiar to me? Is it because he was in Game of Thrones and Slow West? Nope, didn’t see those. Season of the Witch? No, he had a bit part.
It seems the only role I’ve seen Rory McCann play is Michael Armstrong, aka the “yarp” guy, in Hot Fuzz. Anyway, Knuckles starts streaming Friday on Paramount Plus.
Some Westworld props are being auctioned off over at Heritage Auctions, beginning tomorrow, April 24th. Props from the canceled show include a self-driving car — complete with “manual gas throttle” and a “hidden compartment to operate vehicle.” (See the image gallery below.)
Also available are a table, some e-bikes, and assorted sous-vide bags of Dolores’ skin.
1/5
Bringing Fallout’s gritty retrofuturism into the real world
Production designer Howard Cummings talks glass houses, Red Rockets, and how Fallout became a verb.
It’s very common for US-based studios to outsource big chunks of their animation projects overseas where production costs are significantly cheaper. Less common, though, are things like CNN’s report about production sketches from Amazon’s Invincible series and Max’s Iyanu: Child of Wonder show somehow winding up on a computer server located in North Korea.
This Vault-Tech number appeared in episode six of Prime Video’s Fallout adaption — and you can call it or text it for a nice little Easter egg.
The Knight Rider Historians channel used ChatGPT, Amazon Polly, and a Raspberry Pi to make the world’s most annoying version of KITT, the AI that helps David Hasslehoff from its home inside the fictional Pontiac Firebird Trans Am from the Knight Rider series.
What do we think? 3 out of 10? 4?
And so I’m warning you. If you haven’t watched X-Men '97’s fifth episode, take extra care with TikTok’s search function, as today, one of the trending topics’ names might spoil a big development for you (as it just did me).
Instead of tapping TikTok’s search icon, I’d suggest reading Charles’ interview with the show’s sound designers.
While the new season of Doctor Who premiering next month will focus on Ncuti Gatwa’s Fifteenth Doctor and Milie Gibson’s Ruby Sunday, the BBC has announced that Andor’s Varada Sethu is joining cast as yet another new companion who will appear in the show’s next season premiering in 2025.
Today Netflix dropped the latest (and first full-length official) trailer for the third season of Bridgerton. It is equal parts ridiculous and delightful and seemingly packed with way more intense stares-into-eyes than previous seasons. The first batch of episodes drop in a little over a month and I for one can’t wait to see what the members of the Ton are up to.
The last time Heroes was brought back from the dead led to one of the most befuddling bits of superhero storytelling to ever make it to air, but Tim Kring is reportedly shopping around a new show — Heroes: Eclipsed — that will feature “familiar villains and new enemies.”
The best entertainment of 2024
Our guide to the most interesting games, movies, and TV shows of the year.
Filed under:
Amazon’s Fallout show gets the postapocalyptic vibes exactly right
It’s Fallout’s jokes, rather than its plot, that make it one of the most faithful — and best — video game adaptations.
The second episode of Prehistoric Planet Immersive will be available on April 19th, according to the Apple TV Plus page for the series.
The first episode was a pretty demonstration of the Vision Pro, rather than the David Attenborough-narrated, pretend nature documentary that Prehistoric Planet is. But the younger version of me that saw Jurassic Park and Prehysteria in theaters welcomes it, anyway.
Avatar’s Paul Sun-Hyung Lee wants to geek out with the fans of the future
As Paul Sun-Hyung Lee sees it, truly loving a genre franchise means wanting to share it and pass it along to the next generation of fans.
3 Body Problem stars on the show’s big question: would you push the button?
Actresses Rosalind Chao and Zine Tseng answer a ‘what would you do’ question for the ages.
Unfortunately it’s not real. But the fictional arcade game The Rise of Jubilee from yesterday’s episode of X-Men ‘97 hit all the right nostalgic notes. If only it wasn’t so hard to find a Motendo to play it on.
Geralt is getting a whole new face season four of Netflix’s live-action The Witcher adaptation. But in addition to Liam Hemworth, the show has also added Sharlto Copley as Leo Bonhart, James Purefoy as Skellen, and Danny Woodburn as Zoltan to the cast.
1/3