If you've seen season 2 of The Umbrella Academy, then you already know the jumping-off point for season 3. Having returned triumphantly to modern times after their sojourn in '60s Texas, the Umbrellas — Luther (Tom Hopper), Diego (David Castañeda), Allison (Emmy Raver-Lampman), Klaus (Robert Sheehan), Number Five (Aidan Gallagher), and Viktor (Elliot Page) — discover to their surprise that the present is not as they left it. A different group of superpowered siblings called the Sparrow Academy now lives in their house, having been raised by Sir Reginald Hargreeves (Colm Feore) in the Umbrellas' stead after he was displeased by meeting them in the '60s. Read More...
Black Mirror returned to Netflix this month with its first new episodes in four years. That's just a blip in the grander scheme, but the world nevertheless looks a lot different than it did in 2019. Simulated realities, AI chatbots, endless data breaches — life's begun to feel more malleable than ever and season 6 of Charlie Brooker's renegade mind-bender reflects that eerie truth. Black Mirror's sixth season, comprised of five episodes, indulges in comedy, tragedy, and good old-fashioned scares. Read More...
For all its beauty, ballet can only be born out of pain. And in the violence lurking beneath the exquisite art form, Megan Abbott found the twisted soul of The Turnout (out now via Putnam). The Dare Me author's latest thriller (for which eOne has already snapped up the TV rights) chronicles a tense winter season at a run-down ballet school operated by two sisters with a fraught history. Dara and Marie are two sides of the same coin, inseparable since their childhood spent in their mother's dance studio, where their bodies — and minds — were warped in pursuit of the relentless perfection of ballet. Read More...
