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Tatiana Santos
October 22, 2026 12:41 pm
The New Stanford Prison Experiment: Netflix put 30 volunteers in a real prison — the 1971 original didn't survive six days
Philip Zimbardo planned two weeks in a Stanford basement and shut it down on day six. Netflix planned two weeks in a real Georgia jail, and the people who ended it early were the prisoners.
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Tatiana Santos
October 22, 2026 12:09 pm
What happened to Cruz on Chicago Fire? 'Almost like a death' — the showrunner's own words about what the rescue cost him
Joe Cruz came out of the West Pershing warehouse alive, and the two people he went back in for didn't.
Daniel Okafor
October 22, 2026 10:45 am
Is there any Star Trek after Strange New Worlds? Roddenberry admits it's at a 'crossroads'
The franchise turns 60 with one show canceled, one ending, a movie without a date — and its future in the hands of a brand-new owner.
Daniel Okafor
October 22, 2026 10:10 am
Netflix's Natalee Holloway trailer has viewers asking about Joran van der Sloot's other victim
Netflix promises the mother of Natalee Holloway will finally tell the whole story. Under the trailer, the most-liked comments are about a name the marketing never mentions.
Hannah Whitlock
October 22, 2026 9:33 am
The Avatar: Seven Havens timeline has a 225-year hole
Avatar: Seven Havens is set more than two centuries after Korra, and its new Avatar is nine. Either Korra outlived Kyoshi, or the world lost track of several Avatars in a row.
Hannah Whitlock
October 22, 2026 9:13 am
The Dexter: Resurrection ending puts Dexter on the wrong side of the kill room
Leon Prater spent a whole season building a private museum of serial killers. In the finale, he locks Dexter inside it as the newest exhibit, with Batista's body for company.
Hannah Whitlock
October 22, 2026 8:54 am
Where is RJ Decker filmed? Barely any of its 'South Florida' is Florida — the real town has been faking bigger shows for decades
R.J. Decker is a Fort Lauderdale show built on Carl Hiaasen's Florida. Most of it is shot in Wilmington, North Carolina, a town that has been playing somewhere else since 1983.
Hannah Whitlock
October 22, 2026 8:16 am
VisionQuest's main villain may be an android the movies never introduced
The villain VisionQuest kept out of its own marketing takes Vision apart in episode 4.
Hannah Whitlock
October 22, 2026 7:57 am
A Remarkable Place to Die episode 5 explained: one murder, two bodies
The two bodies at the campsite in episode 5 are found lying one on top of the other, and the show calls one of them "innocent."
Hannah Whitlock
October 22, 2026 7:38 am
Who voices the Apu character now? His return to The Simpsons comes without Hank Azaria
Apu's first lines on The Simpsons in nine years are a threat.