Tatiana Santos

Tatiana Santos

Contributing Writer

Was online: November 6 at 4:43 pm Last date of publication: November 6, 2026 5:27 pm Number of publications: 805
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 many books are there in My Life with the Walter Boys?
Tatiana Santos
Tatiana Santos
How many books are there in My Life with the Walter Boys?
Two on the shelf, one in the drawer, and a third that exists mostly as a rumor with a release year attached.
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Why are they after Jian in A Shop for Killers?
Tatiana Santos
Tatiana Santos
Why are they after Jian in A Shop for Killers?
Two seasons, one very expensive online store, and a niece who inherited more than a house.
Who is Hal in Furious? He isn't even in the main cast list
Tatiana Santos
Tatiana Santos
Who is Hal in Furious? He isn't even in the main cast list
He gets two episodes, one very bad evening and a Campbell Scott performance the show's own credits treat like a footnote.
Julie Andrews is 90 and feels like 50 — and the one thing she does first every morning isn't a diet or a pill
Tatiana Santos
Tatiana Santos
Julie Andrews is 90 and feels like 50 — and the one thing she does first every morning isn't a diet or a pill
Dame Julie Andrews turns 91 in October, and she has more energy than I had at 27, a fact I've decided to take personally.
The Oval season 5 cast: who died? The premiere's big death didn't last until episode two
Tatiana Santos
Tatiana Santos
The Oval season 5 cast: who died? The premiere's big death didn't last until episode two
Tyler Perry's The Oval is a show where the First Lady and the Second Lady go over a balcony together and both walk it off. So when the Season 5 premiere ended with a character taking a chestful of bullets in a hotel room, longtime viewers knew better than to send flowers.
Dolly Parton's secret California hideaway is for sale for $1.995M
Tatiana Santos
Tatiana Santos
Dolly Parton's secret California hideaway is for sale for $1.995M
Somewhere between the windmills and the Danish pancake houses of Solvang, California, sits a 1920s farmhouse where Dolly Parton spent a decade quietly being a person instead of an institution.
Sam Altman: a data center drinks no more than an office building — tell that to the neighbors in Georgia whose water turned muddy
Tatiana Santos
Tatiana Santos
Sam Altman: a data center drinks no more than an office building — tell that to the neighbors in Georgia whose water turned muddy
Sam Altman would like you to stop worrying about the water.
How does Mushoku Tensei end? The author posted the ending online for free back in 2015
Tatiana Santos
Tatiana Santos
How does Mushoku Tensei end? The author posted the ending online for free back in 2015
Most anime fans live in a state of permanent cliffhanger. The manga's ongoing, the light novel's on hiatus, the author has a wrist injury. Mushoku Tensei is the rare one where the whole story has been done for years, and the first version of it cost nothing.
It costs twice what wood chips do — and it's the cheapest mulch you'll ever buy: the one material you lay down once
Tatiana Santos
Tatiana Santos
It costs twice what wood chips do — and it's the cheapest mulch you'll ever buy: the one material you lay down once
There is a special genre of purchase I like to call the subscription you didn't know you signed up for. Gym memberships. Printer ink.
How did Sunfyre survive in House of the Dragon? The director's explanation also matters for Rhaenyra's fate
Tatiana Santos
Tatiana Santos
How did Sunfyre survive in House of the Dragon? The director's explanation also matters for Rhaenyra's fate
Aegon's dragon fell out of the sky at Rook's Rest in Season 2, landed in a heap, and got visited by tourists. For most of Season 3 he was a landmark, not a character.