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How did Brandon die in The Chi? The show never filmed it — the details arrived a season later
The Chi opened its third season with a funeral for its lead character and no explanation of how he got there. Here's what the show did show, why the death happened off screen, and how the answer eventually arrived a full season later.
September 20, 2026 9:09 pm
What happens at the end of Scandal? The series finale "Over a Cliff", explained beat by beat
Scandal ended in April 2018 with "Over a Cliff", an hour that put nearly every surviving character in front of a Senate committee. Here's what happens across the episode, beat by beat, and where each of them lands by the closing montage.
September 20, 2026 8:18 pm
What Castle in the Sky is based on, in Miyazaki's own account of the film's origins
Studio Ghibli's first release began with a comic Hayao Miyazaki read as a schoolboy, a satirical novel from 1726, and a research trip to South Wales. Where each piece of Castle in the Sky came from, in the director's own account — plus the four titles it nearly had.
September 20, 2026 5:03 pm
How accurate is The Pacific? Checked against the two Marines' memoirs it was built on
HBO's The Pacific was adapted from two Marine memoirs and a third man who never wrote one. Where the series follows Eugene Sledge and Robert Leckie exactly, where it merges and rearranges them, and which of its hardest scenes came straight off the page.
September 20, 2026 4:02 pm
La La Land ending explained: what that final sequence means, in Damien Chazelle's own words
La La Land ends with an eight-minute sequence that rewrites everything the audience has just watched, then snaps back. Damien Chazelle has explained repeatedly what that epilogue is for, which film he was copying, and why the ending was locked before the rest of the script existed.
September 20, 2026 2:41 pm
Mutiny on the Bounty true story: what the 1789 record says that three Hollywood versions didn't
Three Hollywood studios have filmed the 1789 mutiny on HMS Bounty, and all three agreed on who the villain was. The ship's log, the court-martial minutes and the Pitcairn records tell a different story about William Bligh, Fletcher Christian and what actually happened after the launch was cut loose.
September 19, 2026 9:01 pm
What does NCIS use for dead bodies? The autopsy-room method, straight from producer Mark Horowitz
Executive producer Mark Horowitz casts every corpse on NCIS himself, and the job is far stranger than it looks from the sofa. Here is how the show fills its autopsy table week after week, and why living actors usually beat the very expensive dummies.
September 19, 2026 2:37 pm
Who is Marcello in Harry Wild?
Series 4 of Harry Wild finally produces the one relative the family had managed to avoid for decades. Here's who Marcello is, how he connects to Harry and Charlie, and why his arrival in Dublin brings the Wilds a great deal of trouble.
September 18, 2026 2:11 pm
All blood, no pulse — Ryan Murphy’s Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story just drags
Ryan Murphy’s Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story goes bonkers, stretching true crime; Sarah Paulson and Rebecca Hall are great, Ella Beatty’s good — but does it really work?
September 18, 2026 11:54 am
Thought House of Cards was dark? The villain arc you didn’t see was darker
Cody Fern says his House of Cards character was rewritten after Kevin Spacey’s exit — and the darker version you were meant to see never reached screen.
September 18, 2026 9:54 am
Zack Snyder told Variety he wants to make the Rick and Morty movie — Warner Bros. has already given it to Jacob Hair
Zack Snyder hasn’t given up on making a Rick and Morty film — never mind that another take is already quietly bubbling away elsewhere.
September 18, 2026 2:14 am
Why did Gabriela leave Fire Country? Stephanie Arcila learned of it while filming the season 3 finale
Stephanie Arcila's Gabriela Perez left Fire Country after three seasons. Here's when Arcila found out, what she and the producers said about how the decision was made, and whether the character is gone for good.
September 17, 2026 6:29 pm
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest: what the title means — Kesey wrote the novel on night shifts at a psychiatric ward
The title of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest comes from a nursery rhyme, but the novel came from a night job at a Californian veterans' hospital and a CIA drug programme. Here's where Ken Kesey got both.
September 17, 2026 3:17 pm
The first Marvel Zombies season 2 news since the renewal came from its new director's own post - no holds barred martial arts and gore
Marvel Zombies Season 2 just lurched closer, as Marvel Animation signs a key creative — real movement at last, even with Disney+ still holding back a date.
September 17, 2026 6:34 am
What country is MobLand based in? The Harrigans' home turf, and the second country the production crossed into for one episode
MobLand is set in one city and shot across several English counties, with a single episode that sent the crew out of the country. Here's where the Harrigans operate, where it was really filmed, and what changed for season 2.
September 15, 2026 7:31 pm
Diablo took thirty years to reach the screen, and Blizzard is sending it to Netflix as a cartoon
Netflix has announced it’s finally bringing Diablo to TV — though not in the form some fans have been picturing.
September 14, 2026 11:45 pm
Jennifer Lawrence joined Instagram after a decade, and warned she'll leave if it turns nasty
Barely settled on Instagram, Jennifer Lawrence has already issued a big ask to the people filling her comments — delivered via a Story.
September 13, 2026 6:26 pm
What happened to Ruby in Death in Paradise? Shyko Amos has talked about how rough viewers were on her at first
Ruby Patterson left Death in Paradise after two series. Here's how the show wrote Shyko Amos's character out, what the BBC said at the time, and Amos's own candid account of how viewers received Ruby at first.
September 12, 2026 6:42 pm
Which book is House of the Dragon based on? It isn't a novel — it's written as an in-world history
The book behind House of the Dragon explained: what Fire & Blood by George R.R. Martin actually is, why it reads like a history textbook with three unreliable narrators, which parts the HBO series adapts, and how much source material remains for the final season.
September 11, 2026 11:06 pm
What happens at the end of The Long Walk? Stephen King loved the ending — Mark Hamill's first reaction was "uh oh"
How The Long Walk ends — Francis Lawrence's 2025 adaptation makes a major change to the finish of Stephen King's 1979 novel, one the author personally signed off on and one that gave Mark Hamill pause when he first read the script. The full film ending, the book comparison, and what everyone involved said about the switch.
September 8, 2026 6:12 pm
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