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  1. toss a coin to your witcher
    The Witcher’s Geralt Is a Hero for the Gig EconomyOur favorite freelance witcher spends the entire season underpaid, underappreciated, and underemployed. Who can relate?
  2. timeline
    The Witcher Season One: A Straightforward ChronologyThe series’ convoluted three-timeline structure can get confusing, and fast, so here’s a helpful guide to the season’s biggest moments, in order.
  3. spoilers
    Let’s Discuss The Witcher’s Biggest SpoilersThese are the many baffling moments Netflix deemed too significant to share before the series began. Do they live up to the hype?
  4. overnights
    The Witcher Season-Finale Recap: Under SiegeThe final episode of the season is surprisingly light on the witcher himself, but makes up for it in magical spectacle.
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    The Witcher Recap: Life During WartimeThe era of the sword and the axe is nigh, as the series returns to where it started to begin bringing its three timelines together.
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    The Witcher Recap: Imagine DragonsIf The Witcher is going to really dig into this world, it probably needs to start establishing what’s interesting about Geralt’s enemies.
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    The Witcher Recap: I Dream of DjinnOur two most dynamic protagonists — Geralt and Yennefer — meet for the first time in an episode that’s light on plot and heavy on sexual tension.
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    The Witcher Recap: Wedding CrashersA social contract known as the Law of Surprise lives up to its name.
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    The Witcher Recap: The Belle of the BallAs Geralt’s latest gig finds him in the middle of a whodunit, Yennefer takes drastic measures to grab power on her own terms.
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    The Witcher Recap: Do You Believe in Magic?While Geralt is on a fun little adventure with an obnoxious but charming new friend, a parallel plot introduces us to the young sorceress Yennefer.
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    The Witcher Series Premiere Recap: I Put a Spell on YouMeet Geralt of Rivia, a witcher just doing his best to not kill anybody despite everybody wanting him to kill somebody.
  14. overnights
    BoJack Horseman Midseason Finale Recap: Collateral DamageAgainst all odds, BoJack has changed, but the wreckage he’s left in his wake is about to catch up to him.
  15. overnights
    BoJack Horseman Recap: Peace Be With YouBoJack’s decision to live a newly generous and relatively selfless life sparks a series of theoretical happy endings.
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    BoJack Horseman Recap: Renal RecallA signature Todd mess-around adventure is also an acknowledgment of one of the series’ biggest blind spots.
  17. overnights
    BoJack Horseman Recap: They Tried to Make Me Exit Rehab, I Said No, No, NoWhile BoJack manufactures reasons to stay ensconced in the warm hug of the rehab clinic, his friends deal with dramatic problems on the outside.
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    BoJack Horseman Recap: But Is There a Mrs. Peanutbutter?The truth was always going to come out eventually — and just as inevitably, it was going to come out at the worst possible time.
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    BoJack Horseman Recap: Mergers and AcquisitionsWhile Diane takes a break from L.A., GirlCroosh gets folded into a massive, incoherent-sounding media company.
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    BoJack Horseman Recap: Why Princess Carolyn Still Can’t Have It AllPrincess Carolyn got what she wanted, which means it’s time for her to realize she doesn’t know what she wants.
  21. overnights
    BoJack Horseman Season-Premiere Recap: Rinse and RepeatThe final season kicks off with some new and hopeful signs that BoJack’s patterns of self-destruction may finally be breaking.
  22. chat room
    Rosa Salazar Has No Answers About Undone and Likes It That Way“You always want to be in the fluctuating space of that question. The desire for answers. And the silence that follows.”
  25. sleepless in seattle
    The Dogs in The Last of Us Part II Are Going to Kill YouAs are many other things, based on this unnerving first look at the highly anticipated sequel.
  26. overnights
    Undone Finale Recap: Does That Make Me Crazy?The season draws to a close with plenty of answers and at least one big question hanging over the series.
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    Undone Recap: Alma at the WeddingThe battle between the demands of Alma’s day-to-day life and those of her dead father come to a head, inevitably, at Becca’s wedding.
  28. overnights
    Undone Recap: Would You Light My Candle?An episode spent outside of Alma’s very unique headspace shows us how she looks to the rest of the world — and frankly, it’s not always great.
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    Undone Recap: Coming CleanAlma’s ability can now break down the barriers between her and other people as easily as it can break down the barriers of reality and time.
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    Undone Recap: Jedi Mind TricksJacob’s advice for how Alma should navigate her superpower, while practical, is also terrible advice for living a fulfilling human life.
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    Undone Recap: Snap Back to RealityWhile Alma’s current-day life passes uneasily, her relationship with her mysterious father is coming into sharper focus.
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    Undone Recap: Stuck in a Moment You Can’t Get Out OfAn absolute dazzler of an episode embraces the full potential of rotoscope animation while deepening the series’ central mystery.
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    Undone Series-Premiere Recap: WreckedRaphael Bob-Waksberg and Kate Purdy’s terrific new series keeps its cards close to the vest in a deceptively realist first episode.
  34. backstories
    The Hardest Effect I Ever Pulled Off42 filmmakers, cinematographers, and effects artists on making the impossible happen.
  37. we used to be friends
    Veronica Mars Season Four’s Familiar Faces, RankedThe new revival series is packed with recognizable supporting characters, which we’ve ranked according to how excited we are to see them again.
  38. we used to be friends
    Everything You Need to Remember About Veronica Mars Before Its ReturnLet’s review the twists from three seasons, one movie, and two books that may have a part to play in Hulu’s new revival.
  39. overnights
    NOS4A2 Recap: Meeting of the MindsHaving successfully established Manx as a figure of menace, it’s time for NOS4A2 to start raising the stakes a little.
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    NOS4A2 Recap: Psycho Killer (Qu’est-ce Que C’est?)In its current form, this show may not be built to handle its increasingly horrifying material.
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    NOS4A2 Recap: Art School ConfidentialThis series’ dual paths finally start to converge as Manx attempts to track down the mystery person who’s been using the Shorter Way.
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    NOS4A2 Recap: Ice, Ice, BabiesEverything good about this episode rests squarely on the shoulders of gentle, troubled giant Bing Partridge.
  43. overnights
    NOS4A2 Series Premiere Recap: Christmas Came EarlyA chilling cold open hints at the dark places AMC’s new horror drama might go, once it gets all the obligatory place-setting out of the way.
  44. vulture lists
    Which Love, Death & Robots Episodes Are Worth Your Time?Netflix’s experimental animated series is, like most anthology series, a mixed bag. Here’s your guide to the best and worst of its 18 short entries.
  45. vulture lists
    11 Story Lines That Umbrella Academy Season Two Could Borrow From the ComicsThe JFK assassination plot, a homicidal Eiffel Tower, an alien space prison, a whole bunch of new villains, and much more.
  46. special effects
    How The Umbrella Academy’s Swole Gorilla Man Got So Absurdly Swole“I looked at the comics before I was officially cast, and I was like, Oh, my God, this guy is a human head on a gorilla body.”
  49. overnights
    The Umbrella Academy Season-Finale Recap: Apocalypse NowIt’s the end of the world as we know it, and Vanya feels fine.
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    The Umbrella Academy Recap: Last Night on EarthAs the Vanya situation comes to a head, there are no good answers — and it’s about to get a lot worse.
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    The Umbrella Academy Recap: A Little Less ConversationWith Vanya spiraling out of control, an inevitable family confrontation ends in tragedy.
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    The Umbrella Academy Recap: Live, Die, RepeatIn a wheel-spinning episode, what should be the season’s emotional high point ends up being a variation on the same stuff we already know.
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    The Umbrella Academy Recap: There and Back AgainWith the Doomsday Clock ticking, love is in the air — until it’s not.
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    The Umbrella Academy Recap: Time Enough at LastFor all the superpowers we’ve seen members of the Umbrella Academy demonstrate, we’ve never seen anyone quite like the Handler.
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    The Umbrella Academy Recap: Tick, TockKlaus the cockroach lives another day — but at what cost?
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    The Umbrella Academy Recap: Just DessertsAfter a couple of plot-heavy introductory episodes, the series pumps the brakes to explore the consequences of a superpowered childhood.
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    The Umbrella Academy recap: A Wrinkle in TimeThe show stumbles in its premature eagerness to flesh out other corners of its universe, but at least makes compelling strides in its central mystery.
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    The Umbrella Academy Series Premiere Recap: Reunited (and It Feels So Bad)Netflix’s adaptation of the Gerard Way comic book rips through the standard origin-story stuff in a stylish, kinetic premiere.
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