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Yellowjackets Twists the Knife Further in a Devilishly Fun Season 2: Review

The Emmy-nominated thriller returns for a second season of '90s nostalgia and puzzle-box mystery solving. Yellowjackets Twists the Knife Further in a Devilishly Fun Season 2: Review Clint Worthington

The Last of Us Episode 5 Was the Most Brutal, but Most Important Yet

What does it actually mean to "Endure and Survive"? The newest episode of the HBO drama puts it into focus. The Last of Us Episode 5 Was the Most Brutal, but Most Important Yet Eddie Fu and Liz Shannon Miller

Yellowjackets Season 2: Everything We Know About the Showtime Series’ Return

Last year, Showtime premiered Yellowjackets, a survival series that melded the horrors of the wilderness with the horrors of adolescence. With a killer ensemble cast including Melanie Lynskey, Juliette Lewis, Christina Ricci, and Tawny Cypress, the show was nominated for seven Emmy Awards in its first season, including Outstanding Drama Series, Outstanding Lead Actress for Lynskey, and Outstanding Supporting Actress for Ricci. Now, Yellowjackets is gearing up for Season 2 with the news that Elijah Wood has joined the cast. In honor of the new addition, we’ve rounded up everything else we know about the forthcoming season. What is Yellowjackets About? Created by Ashley Lyle and Bart Nickerson and run by Jonathan Lisco, Yellowjackets chronicles the journey of a ...

Jessica Biel Can’t Help Hulu’s Confused Candy Coalesce: Review

The Pitch: The story of Candy Montgomery is almost too gruesome and eerily-timed to feel true: On Friday, the 13th, one June in 1980, a pleasant, well-liked suburban housewife in a bucolic northeastern Texas town went over to her friend and neighbor Betty Gore’s house, and murdered her with an axe. She slashed her 41 times, 40 of them while her heart was still beating. Then, she took a shower in Betty’s home to clean off the blood, and drove back home to continue her day like nothing had happened… with Betty’s newborn infant crying in her dead mother’s home for thirteen hours before the body was found. Even crazier than that? Candy would end up being found not guilty. Naturally, it’s the kind of lurid true-crime story that would spawn not one, but two miniseries in our murde...