His Dark Materials: Season 1 - SPOILER-FREE Review

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His Dark Materials: Season 1 - SPOILER-FREE Review

Written by: Jack Thorne

Starring: Dafne Keen, Ruth Wilson, Ariyon Bakare, Gary Lewis, Lewin Lloyd, Amir Wilson, James McAvoy

Based on Philip Pullman's acclaimed novel series, His Dark Materials’ first season follows Lyra Belacqua (Dafne Keen), a seemingly ordinary but brave young woman from another world. Lyra's search for a kidnapped friend uncovers a sinister plot involving stolen children and becomes a quest to understand a mysterious phenomenon called Dust.

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Watchmen: Season 1 - SPOILER-FREE Review

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Watchmen: Season 1 - SPOILER-FREE Review

Created by: Damon Lindelof

Starring: Regina King, Don Johnson, Tim Blake Nelson, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Andrew Howard, Jacob Ming-Trent, Tom Mison, Sara Vickers, Dylan Schombing, Louis Gossett Jr., Jeremy Irons, Jean Smart

Set in an alternate history where masked vigilantes are treated as outlaws, Watchmen embraces the nostalgia of the original groundbreaking graphic novel of the same name, while attempting to break new ground of its own.

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Stranger Things: Season 3 - SPOILER-FREE Review

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Stranger Things: Season 3 - SPOILER-FREE Review

Created by: The Duffer Brothers

Starring: Winona Ryder, David Harbour, Finn Wolfhard, Millie Bobby Brown, Gaten Matarazzo, Caleb McLaughlin, Noah Schnapp, Sadie Sink, Natalia Dyer, Charlie Heaton, Joe Keery, Dacre Montgomery, Maya Hawke, Priah Ferguson, Cara Buono

It's 1985 in Hawkins, Indiana, and summer's heating up. School's out, there's a brand new mall in town, and the Hawkins crew are on the cusp of adulthood. Romance blossoms and complicates the group's dynamic, and they'll have to figure out how to grow up without growing apart.

Meanwhile, danger looms. When the town's threatened by enemies old and new, Eleven (Millie Bobby Brown) and her friends are reminded that evil never ends; it evolves. Now they'll have to band together to survive, and remember that friendship is always stronger than fear.

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Dragon Ball Super - SPOILER-FREE Series Review

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Dragon Ball Super - SPOILER-FREE Series Review

Created by: Akira Toriyama

Runtime: 20 min p/ episode

Dragon Ball Super is the official (or canon, whatever you prefer) follow-up to Dragon Ball Z (yes, Dragon Ball GT does not "exist") and it continues right after the Majin Buu arc. Goku goes on action-packed adventures, finding new worlds, strong warriors and limit-breaking powers, which will unfold through five arcs.

We will have memorable characters return to the screen, like Trunks or Freeza, as well as new powerful enemies who our warriors will have to defeat in order to protect everyone they love.

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Marvel's Jessica Jones: Season 2 - SPOILER-FREE Review

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Marvel's Jessica Jones: Season 2 - SPOILER-FREE Review

Created by: Melissa Rosenberg

Starring: Krysten Ritter, Rachael Taylor, Eka Darville, Carrie-Anne Moss, Janet McTeer

Marvel's Jessica Jones Season 1 is one of the best debut TV seasons of the most recent years, inside the comic-book genre or not. So what does Season 2 has in store for us?

Jessica Jones (Krysten Ritter) is beginning to put her life back together after murdering her tormenter, Kilgrave (David Tennant). Now known throughout the city as a super-powered killer, a new case makes her reluctantly confront who she really is while digging deeper into her past to explore the reasons why.

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Marvel's Jessica Jones Season 1 - SPOILER-FREE Review

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Marvel's Jessica Jones Season 1 - SPOILER-FREE Review

Created by: Melissa Rosenberg

Starring: Krysten Ritter, Rachael Taylor, Eka Darville, Mike Colter, David Tennant, Carrie-Anne Moss

In its debut season, Marvel's Jessica Jones starts with its hero working as a P.I. after Jessica's (Krysten Ritter) experiences as a superhero. A missing-person case seems to simply mean more profit until a mysterious man resurfaces.

Kilgrave (David Tennant) brings back Jones's troublesome past, putting her and others in danger.

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Stranger Things: Season 2 - SPOILER-FREE Review

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Stranger Things: Season 2 - SPOILER-FREE Review

Created by: Matt Duffer, Ross Duffer

Starring: Winona Ryder, David Harbour, Millie Bobby Brown, Finn Wolfhard, Gaten Matarazzo, Caleb McLaughlin, Noah Schnapp, Natalia Dyer, Charlie Heaton, Joe Keery, Sadie Sink, Dacre Montgomery, Sean Astin

The Duffer Brothers bring us the second season of Stranger Things, one of the most enjoyable surprises of 2016. Season 1 (please, forgive my old writing style)was a major success, leaving the stakes high for its follow-up.

This time around, the citizens of Hawkins, Indiana are still recovering from the damage caused by the Demogorgon and the Hawkins Lab. Will Byers (Noah Schnapp) was rescued from the Upside Down in the previous season, but a dark, sinister link to the "other side" threatens his and everyone's lives.

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Marvel's The Defenders: Season 1 - SPOILER-FREE Review

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Marvel's The Defenders: Season 1 - SPOILER-FREE Review

Starring: Charlie Cox, Mike Colter, Krysten Ritter, Finn Jones, Jessica Henwick, Sigourney Weaver, Elodie Yung, Scott Glenn, Rosario Dawson, Simone Missick

Runtime: 50 min p/ episode

Marvel's The Defenders is here! In case you haven't been alive for the last couple of years, we've had two seasons of Daredevil and one season of Jessica Jones, Luke Cage and Iron Fist, each.

In this new Netflix-Marvel partnership, our "heroes" finally get together to team up against a common enemy and save New York City.

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Marvel's Iron Fist: Season 1 - SPOILER-FREE Review

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Marvel's Iron Fist: Season 1 - SPOILER-FREE Review

Created by: Scott Buck

Starring: Finn Jones, Jessica Henwick, David Wenham, Jessica Stroup, Tom Pelphrey, Rosario Dawson

Marvel and Netflix team up once again to bring us the last hero of The Defenders, one of the most anticipated TV series of the year.

Marvel's Iron Fist tells us the story of Danny Rand (Finn Jones), a young man that returns to New York after 15 years of absence to take control of his family's business. However, his fate isn't to rule his company but to take on his long-fated enemy, who will test his martial arts skills and the power of the Iron Fist.

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The Night Manager (2016) - SPOILER-FREE Review

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The Night Manager (2016) - SPOILER-FREE Review

Directed by: Susanne Bier

Starring: Tom Hiddleston, Hugh Laurie, Olivia Colman, Elizabeth Debicki, Tom Hollander

Jonathan Pine (Tom Hiddleston) is a former British soldier that now works as a night manager for a luxurious hotel. After a very important guest asks him for help, his actions take him to Richard Roper (Hugh Laurie) and his world, as he is a powerful arms dealer.

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