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#netflix

There are times in a TV critic's life when a series to which they are assigned inspires them to write reams of text, sometimes because said series is good, sometimes because it's bad. Then there is what I like to call critic purgatory, when the series inspires nothing. Neither impressive nor dreadful, the series is adrift in the doldrums of artistry. If they handed out Emmys for dull television, then I am certain "Hostage," a limited British series now airing on Netflix, would make a clean sweep.

there are ongoing conversations about what weight the fight will be contested at,

Director Guillermo del Toro began publicly speaking about wanting to adapt Frankenstein in 2007 when he told Jo Blo that he "would kill to make" a "Miltonian tragedy" version of Mary Shelley's classic. In the intervening years, the film began to take shape. Confirmed for Universal in 2008 with Doug Jones as the monster, it was shelved for the Dark Universe, per Jones himself.

Netflix initially implemented CQRS for Tudum, utilizing Kafka and Cassandra to optimize read performance while a third-party CMS managed content updates through a dedicated ingestion service.

I thought it was a horrible crime at first, until it started to fall apart.

Dan Levy's latest Netflix venture, Big Mistakes, has begun production and features a cast led by Levy and Taylor Ortega as two incapable siblings blackmailed into organized crime.

Toronto-based Zone-ify added free casual games to its ad-supported streaming service in June, making it part of a larger trend among streaming services.

The recent deal between Netflix and WWE includes heavy branding on the mat and ring posts, which became visible only during live broadcasts.

Margo is the queen bee of suburban Maple Brook with a wide smile and cowboy boots that hide an array of secrets: an unstable childhood in a trailer park, an ascension to her businessman husband's side through sex work, and an array of extramarital relationships.

My Oxford Year, debuting on August 1, stars Sofia Carson as an ambitious American student whose dreams of studying at Oxford are complicated by a romantic encounter.

Viewing hours for Netflix's original films slid in the first half of 2025, down 7% from the second half of 2024 and significantly from the 10.3 billion hours in early 2023.

Wendy's is collaborating with 'Wednesday' to launch the Meal of Misfortune, featuring dishes like Raven's Blood Frosty and Dips of Dread, aimed at Gen Z.