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‘Alkhallat+’ Ending Explained – Is There a Lesson Learned at the End?
An anthology is only as good as its strongest story, and unfortunately, Fahad Alammari didn’t order his stories properly in Alkhallat+ to keep audiences engaged. The...
‘Alkhallat+’ Review – A Fun Concept That Fizzles In the Second Half
Alkhallat+ is an anthology piece that is difficult to execute in a two-hour film. Some pieces will be more engaging than others, and it comes down...
‘Servant’ Season 4 Episode 2 Recap – How Will Dorothy Protect Herself from Leanne?
Season 4, Episode 1 seemed to pay homage to Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds, with a plague of pigeons descending upon the Turner’s neighborhood. In Episode...
‘Truth Be Told’ Season 3, Episode 1 Recap – Why Has Drea Spivey Gone Missing?
Only Murders in the Building may be the most popular mystery series out there about podcasters solving crimes, but Apple TV+ has its own equivalent...
‘The Legend of Vox Machina’ Season 2, Episodes 3 and 4 Recap – What Is In The Sunken Tomb?
After meeting with the Patron of the Slayer’s Take, aka the sphinx Osysa (voiced by Alanna Ubach), the Vox Machina have been given vital instructions...
‘The Legend of Vox Machina’ Season 2, Episode 2 Recap – Who Is the Patron of the Slayer’s Take?
The Vox Machina gang are up against their greatest rivals yet, a group of four deadly dragons known as the Chroma Conclave (fancy name, right?)....
‘The Legend of Vox Machina’ Season 2, Episode 1 Recap – Who are the Chroma Conclave?
The deranged adult animated series from Prime Video, The Legend of Vox Machina, returns for a second season, picking up where the first season left...
‘Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon?’ Season 4, Episode 14 Recap – A Thrilling Arc
Just when it seems like things can’t get any worse for Bell (Yoshitsugu Matsuoka) and his party, something even more heartbreaking happens that seems to take...
‘The Interest of Love’ Season 1, Episode 10 Recap – It’s Complicated Now
Ahn Su-yeong (Moon Ga-young) and Ha Sang-su (Yoo Yeon-seok) are officially playing with fire. They’ve held that burning desire for each other for too long, and...
‘Junji Ito Maniac: Japanese Tales of the Macabre’ Season 2 Possibilities Explained
The Netflix anime anthology Junji Ito Maniac adapts the collected works of beloved mangaka Junji Ito into 20 stories spread across 12 25-minute episodes. This breezy collection is an ideal...
A Breakdown of Every Episode of ‘Junji Ito Maniac: Japanese Tales of the Macabre’ Season 1
The Netflix anime anthology Junji Ito Maniac adapts the collected works of beloved mangaka Junji Ito into 20 stories spread across 12 25-minute episodes. Ito is a...
‘That ’90s Show’ Season 1 Review – Successfully Revamping a Beloved Series
Nostalgia is a surefire way to bring flocks of fans back. When That’90s Show released the cast list, hype ensued, with the memories of That...
‘Junji Ito Maniac’ Season 1, Episode 12 Recap – “Whispering Woman” / “Soichi’s Beloved Pet”
“Whispering Woman” is adapted from the eighth chapter of Ma No Kakera, and treads unusual territory by being rooted in friendship and a positive bond,...
‘Junji Ito Maniac’ Season 1, Episode 11 Recap – “Alley” / “Headless Statue”
“Alley”, essentially a murder mystery with a supernatural slant, is adapted from Back Alley, the fifth chapter of The Bully from Horror World of Junji Ito. For Ito...
‘Junji Ito Maniac’ Season 1, Episode 10 Recap – “Unendurable Labyrinth” / “The Bully”
This double-bill episode collects, I think, the weirdest pair of stories in Junji Ito Maniac, not in terms of their actual content but in how...
‘Junji Ito Maniac’ Season 1, Episode 9 Recap – “Tomie – Photo”
Tomie is one of Junji Ito’s most iconic characters. She got an entire volume devoted to her in Horror World of Junji Ito and her...
‘Junji Ito Maniac’ Season 1, Episode 8 Recap – “Layers of Terror” / “The Thing That Drifted Ashore”
Oh goodness, this is a weird one. There’s a case to be made that this is the most horrifying and imaginative episode of Junji Ito Maniac thus...
‘Junji Ito Maniac’ Season 1, Episode 7 Recap – “Tomb Town”
Junji Ito Maniac abandons the dual-story structure in its seventh episode to instead deliver a more comprehensive and focused adaptation of Street of Gravestones (or...