Ani Bundel

Avengers: Infinity War may be the biggest Marvel movie to date, even bigger than Black Panther, which broke half a dozen records in its first week of release. The 19th film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, this "beginning of the end of Phase III" fi…

When Westworld debuted 18 months ago, it was a long game puzzle that slowly clicked into place over the course of ten episodes. At the end of the finale, the last tumbler clicked into place, unlocking the "New Narrative" and ending the series in a bl…

Last night the Gladiator's run came to an end. Backed into a corner by Vice President Cyrus Beene, in his attempt to impeach Mellie Grant and take the Oval Office for himself, everyone put on their white hats and marched into Congress to testify abou…

After seven years, Scandal finally draws to a close. Thursday, April 19's episode didn't go gently into that good night, though. As befitting a show in which every episode is rocked by, well, scandal, this series finale is entitled "Over A Cliff" and…

Westworld Season 1 told the story of a theme park set in the future where things began to slowly unravel, as the android "Hosts" gained self-awareness and rebelled. While fans learned by the finale that this was a long-term project set off by Robert …

Game of Thrones Season 8 has been a paragon of secrecy so far this season. For years, Game of Thrones filming, especially the outdoor stuff in Spain and Croatia, was a free-for-all for in the spoilers department. Seasons 5 and 7 were especially leaky…

Westworld is a series that leaves fans with as many questions as they do answers in every episode. During Season 1, they also had season-long mysteries, trying to hide some of the characters true natures or true motivations from the audience until th…

Every time fans turn around, it seems like they're adding more actors to Avengers: Infinity War. The film arrives next week, and yet it was only a day or two ago that the production revealed that actress Carrie Coon (of the sublime series The Leftove…

Game of Thrones celebrated an important milestone this week. April 17, 2018 was the seventh anniversary since the show began airing. Seven gods, seven kingdoms, seven books, seven years of seasons. For those like me who have been writing about the sh…

One of the most confusing things about Westworld Season 1 was the timeline of events. Due to Hosts reliving memories wholesale instead of as misty fuzzy images like humans, some scenes were set at multiple points in time with a Host both experiencing…

Westworld Season 1 was all about the narrative twists and shocking surprises. That was especially true of Bernard, who believed himself to be a real person but turned out to be a Host replica of park creator Arnold Weber. (His name, Bernard Lowe, was…

Westworld Season 1 was a long con. Everything the show told us when it wasn't outright lying, was either a half-truth, a truth from an unreliable narrator, or a truth from a certain point of view only. One of the most frustrating parts was being able…

Westworld is a show that lives and dies on theories. The twists and turns of Season 1 dominated the discussion of the show when it came out in 2016. More importantly, those theories that Reddit came up with as a collective all turned out to be absolu…

The Handmaid's Tale is a show that I compare regularly to being punched in the face. The intensity of the series coupled with the subject matter would make for a captivating show even without musical accompaniment. But Hulu's flagship series also hap…

The first season of Westworld was full of twists and turns, driving fans over the edge trying to figure out what the puzzle was. Reddit went insane decoding every clue, but eventually, their collective brainpower figured it all out. Bernard was Arnol…

Westworld Season 1 began airing over 18 months ago in October of 2016. Season 2 was beset by delays, first with the script, then by acts of God, including the 2017 wildfires and actor injuries. Finally, HBO decided to hold the series and debut it in …

Avengers: Infinity War finally brings our band of heroes on Earth face to face with a Big Bad that's been swirling in the background for over five years: Thanos. We first met Thanos in the mid-credits sequence in 2012's The Avengers. He was establish…

Solo: A Star War Story tells the story of Han's world before he ran into a farm boy and a daft old man who followed some crazy religion and changed his entire life. The trailers so far have shown fans hints of the night he won the Millennium Falcon f…

Pose will be the last show for FX that Ryan Murphy develops before leaving for Netflix this coming July. Murphy has been with FOX as a writer and producer for 15 years, and during that time he has slowly built up a cultural cache with them. But even …

Star Wars: The Last Jedi was lauded by critics as one of the most cinematic films, if not the most cinematic film, the franchise has ever produced. Fans were more divided on the details, feeling like Rian Johnson had failed to stick to the story's ca…