Tatiana Santos

Tatiana Santos

Contributing Writer

Was online: October 16 at 4:29 pm Last date of publication: October 16, 2026 5:13 pm Number of publications: 676
Team Startefacts

I'm no Aja Romano, but I try.

Marvel, Supernatural, Star Trek, and everything fandom-related in between. If it's worth reading, watching, or listening to — I'm on it, and telling you about it.

I've been at Startefacts since the actual beginning back in 2022.

One of my early assignments was covering CinemaCon in Las Vegas, where I sat in a dark hall geeking out over Doctor Strange footage and thought: God, this is a dream job for me.

Well, turns out — not THE dream job, per se. Entertainment journalism is hard, harder than ever in 2026, with AI threatening your integrity and your work ethic at every turn. But hey: I still try. I love what I do, and I love writing about the MCU, however shitty their movies have gotten over the last few years. I'm still in my chair in a movie theater when a new Nolan movie comes out, or a Guy Ritchie movie, or frankly any Statham movie.

What I cover: the MCU and superhero cinema, long-running genre TV (Supernatural, Star Trek, and their fandoms), fan culture and how it shapes what gets made, action filmmaking and the directors who take it seriously.

How I work: I watch the thing before I write about it — the whole thing, not the recap. I rewatch scenes when my memory isn't reliable, which is often. I check release dates, credits, production history, and source material against primary sources — press notes, the books, the people who made it — not the top-ranking aggregator. If I got something wrong, I fix it and say so in the piece.

Where else to find me: Twitter/X — tips, corrections, and complaints about my Statham opinions all welcome.

Latest News by Tatiana Santos

How did Zeke die in The Chi?
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Tatiana Santos
How did Zeke die in The Chi?
Off-screen, between seasons, and with a eulogy delivered by the man who used to blackmail him. Peak South Side.
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Dolly Parton earned an 8-figure sum off Whitney's 'I Will Always Love You' — in one decade alone: here's how much
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Tatiana Santos
Dolly Parton earned an 8-figure sum off Whitney's 'I Will Always Love You' — in one decade alone: here's how much
Dolly Parton died last Tuesday in Nashville. She was 80. Her people said it was a brief battle with cancer, and the internet has spent a week doing what the internet does, which is rediscovering that she was somehow even better than we'd all agreed.
4 songs from 1966 you can still sing without thinking — even if you hated them the first time
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Tatiana Santos
4 songs from 1966 you can still sing without thinking — even if you hated them the first time
There's a specific kind of song that doesn't ask permission. It gets into the house through a car radio in 1966 and it's still there sixty years later, folded into the part of your brain that also stores your childhood phone number.
Star Trek turns 60 next week — and Peacock just dropped all 3 reboot movies: the one fans still argue about is worth a rewatch
Tatiana Santos
Tatiana Santos
Star Trek turns 60 next week — and Peacock just dropped all 3 reboot movies: the one fans still argue about is worth a rewatch
On September 8, 1966, a network aired a show about a spaceship where nobody died of tuberculosis. Sixty years later that show is a religion with denominations, and the denominations do not get along.
Who voices President Curtis in Rick and Morty? Adult Swim just handed that voice its own spin-off
Tatiana Santos
Tatiana Santos
Who voices President Curtis in Rick and Morty? Adult Swim just handed that voice its own spin-off
The man in the Oval Office has 400-plus screen credits, an Emmy and a voice that could talk a Cronenberg down off a ledge.
I stopped making plain grilled cheese: 3 things Germans put in it — and it turns into a proper meal
Tatiana Santos
Tatiana Santos
I stopped making plain grilled cheese: 3 things Germans put in it — and it turns into a proper meal
For most of my adult life, grilled cheese has been the meal you make when you have given up. Bread, orange cheese, butter, a pan, twelve minutes of staring into the middle distance.
Who is Annie's biological father in Sterling Point?
Tatiana Santos
Tatiana Santos
Who is Annie's biological father in Sterling Point?
Season 1 of Prime Video's Sterling Point spends eight episodes taking a family apart, and it answers almost every question it raises about who fathered whom. Almost.
When does Hotch leave Criminal Minds? It wasn't planned — his exit was written in mid-season
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Tatiana Santos
When does Hotch leave Criminal Minds? It wasn't planned — his exit was written in mid-season
Thomas Gibson played Aaron Hotchner from the first episode in 2005, through 11 years and into a 12th season. The character's departure was not written into any season arc, and the writers were assembling it while the season was already on air.
Mike Judge and the show's own road signs disagree on what city King of the Hill is based in
Tatiana Santos
Tatiana Santos
Mike Judge and the show's own road signs disagree on what city King of the Hill is based in
Ask the man who created Arlen and you get a straight answer. Ask the highway signage inside his own cartoon and you get a different one, roughly 80 miles off.
How many episodes of World War II with Tom Hanks are there going to be?
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Tatiana Santos
How many episodes of World War II with Tom Hanks are there going to be?
The HISTORY Channel sold this one as event television, and the running order backs it up: one hour per milestone, no compression, no filler episodes. The obvious comparison is The World at War, the 1973 Thames series Laurence Olivier narrated across 26 episodes.