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The first episode of The Legend of Korra was released on April 14, 2012, a little over 7 years from when Avatar the Last Airbender was first released. Unlike its predecessor, The Legend of Korra was not about freeing the world from the Fire Nation or any specific overarching bad guy. In fact, The Legend of Korra (other than Korra’s own narrative) had no overarching conflict. The Legend of Korra is separated into four books, each with their own main antagonist: Amon, Unalaq, Zaheer, and then Kuvira....

Marc Maron’s stand-up career has had its ups and downs, but ever since he started his own podcast, his reputation as an interviewer and broadcaster has been steadily improving over more than ten years. Maron’s conversation-based approach eschews the traditional promotional interview, which has now been reduced to insufferable discussions on Late Night talk shows. Maron brings the same guests on his show, he’s not competing in the stream of all public relations outlets, but he brings a one of a kind style and demeanor that creates a completely different atmosphere with show people....

Formerly known as “The Learning Channel,” TLC has long since resigned any educational pretenses and now focuses entirely on sensational reality TV. Borderline exploiting its stars and offering a highly-dramatized look into the lives of some of the country’s most unusual people, the network is now famous for a litany of weird controversies and eyebrow-raising decisions. That’s not to say that TLC has no redeeming qualities, but the network’s ills were all but laid bare during the Josh Duggar controversy of 2015, and the station has yet to recover in the eyes of some viewers....

Of all the characters in the Marvel Universe, Galactus is probably one of the most beloved and hated of them all. His purpose is to seek out new life and destroy it by consuming the very energy that makes life special. For all the destruction he has caused, you wouldn’t think he had a big fan base, but the readers have always loved him. Despite his purple armor and spiked helmet, fans have been reading this character for more than 40 years and his actions in the Marvel Universe have shaped events as much or more than those of Thanos, which is saying something....

The first Apple TV 4K was announced back in 2017, but the company also kept the fourth-generation Apple TV, also known as Apple TV HD, in its lineup. However, with the announcement of the new generation Apple TV 4K on Tuesday, Apple has discontinued the Apple TV HD, which is no longer sold in the company’s official store. Apple TV HD is finally gone Introduced in 2015, the fourth-generation Apple TV was the first model to run tvOS, an entirely iOS-based operating system that was also the first to bring the App Store with third-party apps to Apple TV....

Relationships and romance have been an integral part of Star Trek from the beginning. Even in Gene Roddenberry’s advanced, progressive vision of the future, the human desire for love and connection was one thing that never changed. However, it did take vastly different forms over the course of the franchise, exploring relationships that were taboo in other media of the time. Star Trek explored relationships that ranged through a wide spectrum, crossing lines of race, gender, religion, and species....

WARNING: This post contains SPOILERS for Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. and Avengers: Infinity War. Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. aired its latest episode on the day Avengers: Infinity War releases, so we break down that one reference to the movie. When Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. first launched in 2013, it was a spinoff from the movie side of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Specifically, it resurrected Phil Coulson after his death in The Avengers and featured the S....

Planning one big - or the ever fateful final - score takes months of intricate planning and plotting. First, you have to assemble your team in a globe-trotting field trip in search of people with all kinds of unique talents. Then, you have to case the joint for a few days or weeks to understand the workflow of the people inside and the traffic of the world outside. You have to find a way to gauge police interception - how long will it take for the police to get there?...

April 2016 may have brought only one bonafide blockbuster – namely, Jon Favreau’s critically lauded live-action version of Disney’s The Jungle Book – but May has several highly anticipated releases in store for moviegoers, including a pair of Marvel adventures that bookend the month. However, the weeks ahead also have plenty to offer moviegoers looking for alternative fare, with a number of intriguing smaller films making their way to theaters. It’s destined to be a busy time at the movies....

Aquaman hype is in full swing, which means we’re going to see a lot of James Wan in the next two weeks. Recently, Wan sat down with Heroic Hollywood to discuss the DC flick and comic book heroes, but Aquaman’s name wasn’t the only one that came up. Apparently, James Wan is very interested in doing a Batman film, but not the way you might expect. No, Wan’s Batman film would be an outright horror movie, focusing on the creepy elements of the Dark Knight’s world....

The Marvel Cinematic Universe has turned the post-credits scene into something of an art form. Never before have audiences have waited so patiently throughout the credits sequence of films in order to see what awaits. Whether it is a humorous capper to the patient fan or something a little more substantial depends on the movie. While the use of a post-credits scene has been around for decades, especially in ’80s comedy films, it’s safe to say that the Marvel Cinematic Universe really ramped it up for most....

Warning: SPOILERS ahead for Supergirl season 1 - Having only just wrapped its first season, CBS’ Supergirl has already earned a passionate fanbase and an equally numerous cadre of detractors, with fans divided over its unique mix of soapy working-girl melodrama, Millennial rom-com hijinks and candy-colored superheroics. Yet audiences seem to have embraced Melissa Benoist’s plucky interpretation of the Girl of Steel, and a second season order is widely regarded as a likely next step....

RuPaul’s Drag Race has taken television by storm and has been successfully flaunting the most fabulous and fierce queens on our screens for almost a decade now. You can forget America’s Next Top Model; this show will out-fashion and out-drama Tyra and her girls any day of the week. Taking a group of the most talented drag queens out there, RuPaul puts his stars through the works, from sewing challenges to diva battles where the contestants lip-sync for their lives....

Due to his time travel backstory, Booster Gold is “the greatest hero you never heard of.” He is an obnoxious glory hound and he only becomes respectable, but not respected, over a long term character arc. He eventually learns no one from this time will ever know of his heroic feats, so he’ll never win the respect he actually deserves. On a meta level, the tag works too. In the vast oeuvre of DC’s catalogue, Booster Gold doesn’t exactly get much of the attention the holy trinity of Batman, Superman and Wonder Woman do....

As much as we love certain comic book characters as couples, sometimes they are just destined to fail. Whether their personalities clash, space and time separate them for eternity, or they are just plain toxic for one another, doomed lovers exist across the realms of Marvel, DC, Image Comics and beyond. No fandom is immune from love that is destined to fail, no matter how big, how perfect or even how popular that love may seem....

Fan artists can produce wonderful reinventions of all of your favorite characters. A few games have inspired as much fan art as the long-running Pokémon series. It’s a good thing it has, despite the early games being absolute classics, their simple graphics could only do so much. Although things are a lot better now, the series still draws very heavily from cute, bright Japanese anime for its character and creature design....

A new 5G smartphone record was set in January, when fifth-generation mobiles accounted for more than half of all smartphone sales for the very first time. The iPhone 13 played a huge role in this milestone, accounting for more than a third of all 5G phone sales … Bloomberg reports. The next-closest brand, Samsung, accounted for just 12% of 5G sales, followed by Xiaomi and Vivo at 11% each, and Oppo at 10%....

Shonda Rhimes is one of TV’s biggest powerhouses. She made a name for herself writing projects like HBO’s Introducing Dorothy Dandridge and the Britney Spears vehicle Crossroads before hitting it big on the silver screen with Grey’s Anatomy. Since that show’s debut in 2005, she has been behind hit after hit, including Grey’s spinoff Private Practice, Scandal, and How to Get Away With Murder (HTGAWM). This run of successful programming has yielded Shondaland, a production company that has kept a Rhimes-made show on the air since 2004....

Gore Verbinski hasn’t made a film since The Lone Ranger in 2013. Despite that movie’s critical and financial shortcomings, it maintained the distinct style of its director, who developed a reputation for certain whimsical visual flourishes with the 1997 Nathan Lane film Mousehunt, and then, later with his 2002 adaptation of the Japanese horror film The Ring. That film demonstrated Verbinksi’s knack for bringing his stylish sensibilities to horror, turning what could have been another bland American remake of a foreign hit into a well-regarded adaptation with ideas of its own....

American Horror Story, through all of its ups and downs, has remained a hotbed of acting talent since day one. Every performer gives their all each season to bring the wild and horrific imaginations of Ryan Murphy and Brad Fulchuk to life. There are clear standouts in the regular cast including Evan Peters, Jessica Lange, and Sarah Paulson. One of the more underrated performers, though, has been a series regular from the beginning and remains one of the show’s most valuable players: Lily Rabe....