Val Kilmer behind a fence ready to aim a weapon in HeatImage via Warner Bros.
Director Michael Mann’s crime classic Heat remains as influential as ever, with a long-awaited sequel finally inching toward production. The star-studded movie will be headlined by Leonardo DiCaprio and Christian Bale, and several other A-listers who’ve jumped at the opportunity to work with Mann as he enters the final stages of his career. In the three decades since Heat’s release, scores of other filmmakers have borrowed liberally from its samurai-like depiction of crime and punishment in Los Angeles. Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knightis perhaps the most prominent example of a movie that was influenced directly by Heat, but there have been several more low-key movies as well, including the recent Crime 101. Now, one of the most overlooked cops-and-robbers alternatives to Heat is available to stream for free.
Collider Exclusive · Taylor Sheridan Universe Quiz Which Taylor Sheridan Show Do You Belong In? Yellowstone · Landman · Tulsa King · Mayor of Kingstown
Four worlds. All of them brutal, complicated, and built on power, loyalty, and the price of survival. Taylor Sheridan doesn’t write heroes — he writes people who do what they have to do and live with the cost. Ten questions will reveal which one of his worlds you were made for.
🤠Yellowstone
🛢️Landman
👑Tulsa King
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⚖️Mayor of Kingstown
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Where does your power come from? In Sheridan’s world, everyone has leverage. The question is what kind.
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Who do you put first, no matter what? Loyalty in Sheridan’s universe is always absolute — and always costly.
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Someone crosses a line. How do you respond? Every Sheridan protagonist has a line. What matters is what happens after it’s crossed.
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Where do you feel most in your element? Sheridan’s worlds are as much about place as they are about people.
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How do you feel about operating in the grey? Nobody in a Sheridan show has clean hands. The question is how they carry the dirt.
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What are you actually fighting to hold onto? Every Sheridan character is fighting a war. The real question is what they’re defending.
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How do you lead? Authority in Sheridan’s world is never given — it’s established, maintained, and constantly tested.
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Someone new arrives and tries to change how things work. Your reaction? Every Sheridan show has an outsider disrupting an established order. Sometimes that outsider is you.
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What has your position cost you? Nobody gets to where these characters are without paying for it. The bill is always personal.
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When it’s over, what do you want people to say? Sheridan’s characters all know the ending is coming. The question is what they leave behind.
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Sheridan Has Spoken You Belong In…
The show that claimed the most of your answers is the world you were built for. If two tied, both are shown — you’re complicated enough to straddle two Sheridan universes.
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🤠 Yellowstone
🛢️ Landman
👑 Tulsa King
⚖️ Mayor of Kingstown
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You are a Dutton — or you might as well be. You understand that some things are worth protecting at any cost, and that the modern world’s indifference to history, to land, to legacy, is not something you’re willing to accept quietly. You lead from the front, you carry your family’s weight without complaint, and when someone threatens what’s yours, you don’t escalate — you finish it. You’re not cruel. But you are absolute. In Yellowstone’s world, that combination of ferocity and loyalty doesn’t make you a villain. It makes you the only thing standing between everything that matters and everyone who wants to take it.
You thrive in the chaos of high-stakes negotiation, where the money is enormous, the margins are thin, and the wrong word in the wrong room can cost everyone everything. You’re a fixer — the person called when a situation is already on fire and needs someone with the nerve to walk into it. West Texas oil country rewards exactly what you are: sharp, adaptable, unsentimental, and absolutely clear-eyed about what people want and what they’ll do to get it. You’re not naive enough to think this world is fair. You’re smart enough to be the one deciding who it’s fair to.
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You are a Dwight Manfredi — someone who has served their time, paid their dues, and arrived somewhere unexpected with nothing but their reputation and their wits. You adapt without losing yourself. You build loyalty through respect rather than fear, though you’re not above reminding people that the two aren’t mutually exclusive. Tulsa King is for people who are still standing when everyone assumed they’d be finished — who find, in an unfamiliar place, that they’re more capable than the world gave them credit for. You don’t need a throne. You build one, wherever you happen to land.
You carry the weight of a system that is broken by design, and you do it anyway — because someone has to, and because you’re the only one positioned to do it without the whole thing collapsing. Mike McLusky’s world is for people who are comfortable operating where there are no good options, only less catastrophic ones. You speak every language: law enforcement, criminal, political, human. That fluency makes you invaluable and it makes you a target. You’ve made your peace with both. Mayor of Kingstown belongs to people who understand that keeping the peace is not the same as being at peace — and who do the job regardless.
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Here’s Where You Can Watch the Heist Thriller
We’re talking about director Nimród Antal’s Armored. The movie follows a gang of robbers whose attempt to steal $42 million from an armored truck goes awry. Produced on a reported budget of $20 million, the film was only able to gross $23 million worldwide. It now sits at a 42% score on the aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, where the consensus reads, “This B-grade thriller has a good cast and director but is undone by plot holes and messy conclusion.” The Heat comparisons feel warranted, but the movie should also appeal to fans of Guy Ritchie’s Wrath of Man, which revolves around a similar heist gone wrong. Interestingly, the film was shot by Andrzej Sekuła, who worked with Quentin Tarantino on Reservoir Dogs — another heist classic — and Pulp Fiction. You can watch Armored on Pluto TV this month, and stay tuned to Collider for more updates.
Editor’s note: The following contains major spoilers for The Walking Dead: Dead City Season 3.
Summary
In ‘The Walking Dead: Dead City’ Season 3, Maggie finally embraces leadership, trusting Hershel and choosing to rebuild this new community.
Maggie and Negan shift from enemies to an uneasy, sibling-like partnership of brutal care and trust.
Season 3 is full of firsts: broken people, risky joy, and choosing new possibility over past pain.
Everything that’s been building over the course of Season 3 of the AMC series The Walking Dead: Dead City came to a head in the finale, entitled “Tenebrae.” Maggie (Lauren Cohan) finally came to terms with just how much a part of her life Negan (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) really is, and she decided to step into the leadership role that he had been pushing for all along. She also decided to trust that Hershel (Logan Kim) could hold his own and supported his involvement in their plan to take their new community back from those trying to take it and Negan down. Now, it will be interesting to see how this new dynamic evolves moving forward and what this civilization could become next.
Collider recently got the opportunity to chat with Cohan about how this felt like “a season of firsts” for The Walking Dead and how that could affect things moving forward. During the interview, she discussed Maggie’s frame of mind, how all of these characters are broken in their own way, redefining Maggie and Negan’s relationship, why their dynamic reminds her of the one she has with her own brother, finding a balance between being a mother and being a leader, and where things could go next, in a possible Season 4.
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Lauren Cohan Says It Was Nice To Give Maggie a Bit of a Break in ‘The Walking Dead: Dead City’ Season 3
“This is such a season of firsts in our universe.”
Lauren Cohan as Maggie with her head tilted to the right while standing in a bar in The Walking Dead: Dead CityImage via AMC
COLLIDER: Having karaoke with a stripper pole in a bar is not a moment that you often get in The Walking Dead. What was it like to figure out who Maggie is when she just cuts loose and doesn’t have the weight of absolutely everything on her shoulders all at once?
LAUREN COHAN: I feel like this is such a season of firsts in our universe. And not just Dead City, but The Walking Dead as a whole. It was amazing. It was funny because Maggie being tipsy, just on an actor level, when you’re with people who you know and you’re familiar with, it’s definitely easier to do that because you can imagine being merry with them. That part feels like, “Okay, cool, so now all I have to remember is, in some sense, this is more of a friendship with Jeff [Dean Morgan] than a Maggie dynamic with Negan.”
The episode leads up to a point where there’s a lot of relief for the group and they’ve taken a risk and it’s paid off, and it’s a whole new frame of mind for her. The only way through now is to do something different, and that applies across the board. When we did that episode, what made it so much fun was watching Jimmi [Simpson] and Aimee [Garcia] sing karaoke naturally makes you feel really relaxed and drunk-happy. There were definitely a lot of elements of uncharted territory, but also genuine fun in the episode and in a lot of moments during the season.
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The tension that Maggie has had for so long became these exercises for me. The tension of needing to see things a certain way or needing to keep rigid or keep your horse blinders on, or keep safe and keep people safe, or maintain a point of view, if you just remove that one thing, it’s the equivalent of suddenly being on the beach for a normal person. It was so fun for us to do it. We had so many moments like that this season.
Maggie and Negan Are Both Just Doing the Best That They Can in ‘The Walking Dead: Dead City’
“I really believe, in life and in the show, that people are in your life for a reason.”
There’s the moment in the finale when Maggie says to Negan, “You’ve got me. We’re forever connected. We’re chained to one another.” She’s never going to forgive him, but they’ve moved past it. Is she the only one who can humanize him in that way?
COHAN: People feel really connected to Negan in a lot of ways, and that’s testament to Jeff’s charisma and warmth and the relatability of Negan. He does these abhorrent things. He does less of them now, obviously. There’s just something relatable, even in his reactivity and how he traipses through life and what a broken person he is. Everybody that’s left is broken and is a patchwork of coping mechanisms. I hope they never change. Everybody is a total Tin Man. To answer that question now, to me, almost tries to get ahead of the way I might be able to say it when all of The Walking Dead is over, and I look back in five years at what it meant.
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I really believe, in life and in the show, that people are in your life for a reason, and you either continue to face the challenges that they bring up for you, or you say, “Thank you,” you move on, and you realize that it was a moment, or you kill them. There’s a million times when I’ve looked at it like, “She should have just killed him. When Rick stopped her, she should have pushed him out of the way and gone for it.” I always feel Hershel Sr. is on my shoulder, and I always feel like there’s a dichotomy in Maggie of a cut and dry brutality, trying to learn how to lead people and being a hugely compassionate person.
There are so many moments within the season, and it isn’t completely magnanimous. He sees the good in Maggie and tells her, and I see the brokenness and the good in him and I tell him, and I thank him for how he’s helped. The archetypes of these characters have always been pretty front and center. If you think about what makes someone a hero, what makes someone brave, what makes someone a leader, what makes someone a fighter, and what makes someone just a little bit of some of those things some of the time, but also completely screwed up and fumbling through and not knowing what you’re doing, it’s a giant metaphor for parenting. Everybody’s just doing the best they can with the information that they have at the time. It’s the friction that comes from them both being around and both being in each other’s orbit that’s fascinating to me.
It’s especially interesting this season because they’ve formed more of a partnership now. Throughout the season, she resisted being a leader, and it seems like finding a partnership is what allows her to be able to step into that leadership position. She hands him that badge and says she wants him to lead security while she’s in charge. Why do you think Negan saw her as a leader before she saw it in herself, and what do you think it is that really helped her finally see it?
COHAN: When I think about that scene, or I think about the season, I feel how much he wants her forgiveness and how much he wants to help her and how much he cares for her, which is very natural. If you take away the main part of their history, I do think it’s like brother and sister. People ‘ship Negan and Maggie so hard, but if I think about my relationship with my own brother, I give him shit, but I know what he’s capable of. You just have these little quirks, and there’s certain people in the world who can lovingly call them out and make fun of them but also know that you’re a fucking badass. I feel like that’s how Negan is to Maggie.
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To survive in this world, there are so many things, and not just in this world [of the show]. I really think you can get lost in the past or lost in resentment in life, and it’s like, “Am I going to, or am I going to find the best way to move forward?” What begins as, “I cannot forget this thing and I hate you, and I see everything you do through this lens” becomes, “You are synonymous with this thing, but I haven’t killed you and I’m not going to kill you” to, “Yes, this thing happened, but I’m focusing on something else right now. I’m choosing to focus on this” to, “If people can change in a lifetime — and The Walking Dead, because of all the shit they go through, is somehow many, many lifetimes — then maybe they can change monumentally in this one.”
The leadership thing came about in an interesting way because I got fatigued by giving people these monikers. With Maggie, I don’t want it to just be, “Leader, mother, warrior.” What it led to in the season was a real working mother deciding if she can hold down a CEO job and still raise her kids. We wanted to put that inside the apocalypse, but not quite so literally as that. What permission do you need to give yourself to fulfill your own potential and still be there for your kids? The thing that I think allows it to happen this season is Hershel saying to Maggie at the beginning of the season, “I remember all the times you were there.” And then, we see the mentorship through Luis. We see that he doesn’t want her to hurt anymore, and he’s okay with her allowing Negan to be a part of this new world that they’re building and sees the strengths in him and wants to be a part of this community.
She’s been so afraid to open up to the idea of these possibilities, as well as being with a new community and potentially failing again and losing people again. But I think she realizes that she did okay by her son. He is equipped to jump in and come on the ride. But it’s more than that. It’s never literal. It’s never just, “I’m going to literally just stare at and be with my child.” It’s more like, “Will I have the bandwidth?” It’s like teaching. If you can, you should.
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In ‘The Walking Dead: Dead City’ Season 3, Maggie Has Realized That Negan Is Family, for Better or Worse
“Our skill sets complement each other.”
Jeffrey Dean Morgan and Lauren Cohan in The Walking Dead: Dead City Season 3 Episode 5Image via AMC
What do you think this new partnership between Maggie and Negan will be like? How do you see this new dynamic working out between them?
COHAN: It’s funny, it goes back to the sibling thing. What’s been realized, without necessarily being explicitly said, is that our skill sets complement each other. That, for me, comes down to recognizing and encouraging him. Within the season, there’s the light versus the fight. But when it comes down to it and I say to him, “You’re the only one that understands the brutality that it really does take,” it’s not all sunshine and roses. It’s never going to be. Whether Maggie realizes it or not, there is this subconscious recognition that when the shit comes down, she can rely on him to do the thing that will keep people safe, which is his greatest pride, ironically, and his excuse for some of the insane things that he did. If you asked him, he would say that it was to protect his people. Maggie will never believe that. However, with the Negan that is now, she does believe that it’s possible.
I think the most important thing that will influence them moving forward is that it’s like being family. They may not like each other all the time. She may still want to kill him sometimes. She may still find him insufferable. He may find her insufferable and stubborn. But Maggie and Negan have known each other the longest of anyone that we know that’s still living. Rick and Michonne, and Daryl and Carol, and Eugene — these people are still alive, but we don’t know where they are. Maggie and Negan have known each other longer than she’s had her kid. They’ve been through the fire together, even if it has been inflicted by one or the other. From that basis, they will go into uncharted territory, in terms of building something new. I really think this could be the beginning of a huge, robust civilization, ironically born from the ashes of how they met.
Pink servedup a dose of mother-son fun at the 2026 US Open men’s singles final.
Pink, 47, stepped out at the Sunday, September 13, championship between Ben Shelton and Alexander Zverev alongside her 9-year-old son, Jameson. After walking the official red carpet together, Pink and Jameson watched the match from the stands.
Pink sported a green blazer with coordinating sunglasses, while Jameson also opted for green, which complemented his bright pink hair. (Jameson previously showed off his rose-colored locks at the 2026 Tony Awards in June, which his mom hosted.)
In addition to Jameson, Pink and her husband, Carey Hart, share 15-year-old daughter Willow. They recently relocated to New York City in order to better support Willow’s budding theater career.
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“We actually moved here because I am an amazing mom,” Pink explained onThe Kelly Clarkson Show in March. “And also so Willow could study theater and experience more Broadway.”
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Pink even cited Willow as her inspiration for accepting the gig to host the Tonys this summer.
“Tonight, I am here as Broadway’s biggest fan — well second biggest next to my daughter, Willow,” the rock star gushed in her opening monologue. “I don’t know where she is [in Radio City Music Hall], but I did not take this job so my kid could get Broadway selfies, although [we have backstage before tonight].”
Earlier that month, Pink gushed that “more talented” than her famous mom.
“She’s more talented than I ever was at her age. And she’s also just really earnest, she’s a hard worker, she’s an A-plus student,” Pink said on CBS Mornings during a June interview. “She once said, ‘I want to get Broadway out of the way so I can be a trauma surgeon,’” she shared. “She’s so confident, and she walks through the world with such poise and grace. I’ve seen her on stage and I’m like, ‘Who is that person?’”
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Even before tackling the Tonys stage, Pink made sure that Willow approved of the position.
“When I was asked to host the Tonys, I immediately thought, ‘I have to get permission from my daughter.’ I’ve never been on Broadway, and shouldn’t you have to have been on Broadway in order to host? That seems fair and right,” Pink noted in an April statement. “But when I asked my daughter, she was really excited about being able to have a ticket to go to the Tonys, so I’m hosting the Tonys and I’m really, really excited and very nervous because that girl is a tough crowd!”
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Pink was joined at the Tonys by Hart, 51, and their two kids.
Justin Bieber and Hailey Bieber are seemingly marking their eighth wedding anniversary with a friendly game of pool.
“8 years until infinity ❤️ NEW BEGINNINGS ♾️,” Justin, 32, wrote via Instagram on Sunday, September 13, sharing a handful of images of himself playing a round of the beloved bar game with his wife, 29. “I love you baby Happy Anniversary 😘.”
Hailey replied in the comments section, writing, “8 years of me being horrendous at playing pool 😍😍.”
The Rhode founder reposted Justin’s PDA-filled roundup to her Instagram Stories, along with the caption, “🙈🤍.”
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The “Peaches” singer and Hailey have been married since September 2018, later welcoming son Jack Blues in August 2024. (Jack turned 2 late last month, which the couple commemorated with an intimate pancake breakfast.)
“It’s total bliss for the two of them,” a source exclusively told Us after Hailey gave birth. “Hailey is enjoying and savoring these moments being a new mom. She is over the moon and in [the] mom zone, and completely focused on the health of the baby.”
The insider further noted that Justin was a “very hands-on” father to Jack.
While raising their son, Justin and Hailey also learned new truths about their marriage.
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“We’re just taking it a day at a time,” Hailey told GQ in a November 2025 profile. “We both feel very protective of our son and I don’t think that’s ever going to change, but our life is our life and it is really public, so I think we’re just going to cross every bridge that we need to when we get there. But as of right now, I feel really comfortable about the way we are sharing things and not sharing things.”
At the time, Hailey hinted whether she and the Grammy nominee had plans to expand their family of three.
Justin and Hailey Bieber’s son, Jack Blues, is officially out of the baby stage after turning 2 on Saturday, August 22. Taking to her Instagram Stories, Hailey, 29, offered a glimpse of the family of three’s festivities. “2 ❤️,” the Rhode founder captioned a pic of a plate full of pancakes topped with swirls upon […]
“I don’t think there’s anything someone can tell you about it that will ever, ever, ever prepare you until you do it yourself,” she told the outlet. “But I feel much more prepared to do it again, as opposed to how not prepared I felt doing it for the first time. And I think for me personally, there’s so much unknown to it, but so much happens and so much changes and you evolve in a totally different way that you would never be able to prepare for until you do it.”
As for Justin, he’s equally enjoyed life as a family man. His latest album, Swag, even features sweet shout-outs to both Hailey and Jack.
Editor’s note: The following contains major spoilers for The Walking Dead: Dead City Season 3.
Summary
Season 3 of ‘Dead City’ experiments with sitcom beats and alternate realities while staying true to what ‘The Walking Dead’ is known for.
Maggie will never forgive Negan, but they grow closer and form a fraught, pragmatic partnership.
Showrunner Seth Hoffman vows more boundary-pushing in a possible Season 4, exploring Maggie and Negan’s working conflicts over rebuilding the city.
The Walking Dead franchise kicked off on AMC in 2010, and after 11 seasons and a variety of spin-offs, it’s still going strong, 16 years later. But that doesn’t mean the cast and showrunner of Dead City didn’t want to shake things up in Season 3, deciding to experiment and take chances with elements that haven’t been explored previously. Whether it was pushing the character dynamics in different directions, showing an alternate reality of life without the apocalypse and walkers, or letting us see what a sitcom in this world would look like, things have definitely felt different this season. One thing that is exactly the same is that Maggie (Lauren Cohan) and Negan (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) are fighting walkers to keep their community safe while human enemies often become an even greater threat to their survival.
After watching the season finale, Collider got the opportunity to chat with new showrunner Seth Hoffman, who previously worked on Seasons 4, 5 and 6 of the mothership series, about his approach to Season 3 of Dead City and how he’d like to continue to experiment moving forward in possible future seasons. During the interview, he discussed doing new things with the series while still making it feel like classic The Walking Dead, his hope to keep doing things that haven’t been seen in the franchise previously, clearly defining Maggie and Negan’s relationship, and how this new partnership between them could play out in Season 4.
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‘Dead City’ Wanted To Shake Things Up for Season 3 While Still Feeling Like Classic ‘The Walking Dead’
“The way I solved that puzzle was to go, ‘Okay, let’s bring these characters back to who they were.’”
COLLIDER: When I spoke to both Jeffrey Dean Morgan and Lauren Cohen about this season, they talked about how exciting it was to be trying some new things and experimenting a bit with characters that they thought they couldn’t know any better than they already did. Why did this season feel like the right season to shake things up in that way?
SETH HOFFMAN: I think for a couple of reasons. When I came on, in talking to the network, they wanted to know, “What can we do that’s new?” And some of the producers wanted it to feel like classic The Walking Dead. It was a puzzle. It was about, “Okay, how do I make it feel classic, but also make it feel new?” The way I solved that puzzle was to go, “Okay, let’s bring these characters back to who they were.” Let’s bring back a version of Maggie that is the hopeful, optimistic version of herself that she was in Season 2, 3, and 4 of the mothership. Let’s bring back the version of Negan that is unpredictable and a little bit of a live wire, who the audience fell in love with in Season 7 and 8 before he got thrown in jail and before he got put under the thumb of the Croat and the Dama. Let’s put those versions of those characters back center stage, and those versions of those characters have never interacted with each other. In that way, it can feel like classic The Walking Dead, but by them engaging with one another, it will feel new and fresh. That was the hope for Season 3.
Is that where the alternate reality episode came from, and even just the little snippet of the sitcom that we get at the beginning of the finale?
HOFFMAN: Yeah. It was, “Here are two characters, and they’re going to be driving us through this season. The concept for Episode 6 was less of a micro decision. I want to push this franchise that I love and that I worked on for three years and that is one of the highlights of my entire career in new directions. I want to see what the limits are for what a Walking Dead episode can be. When I came up with the idea for that episode, when I pitched it to the network, it was, “The Walking Dead does stories where people feel dread, and these people are going to feel dread in this episode because they’re going to be worried that Maggie and Negan are going to hook up. It’s a horror romantic comedy.”
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I wanted to push the episodes in different directions, so there are all these little micro decisions like, “How far can we push that scene in the top of the finale towards sitcom and make it still feel like The Walking Dead?” In Episode 5, when we’re introducing the characters in The Dead Squad, that isn’t necessarily a cinematic choice that we’ve seen in The Walking Dead before, but can that be part of The Walking Dead’s language? There were lots of ways in which I was trying to push and make it feel fresh and new while also making it feel like The Walking Dead.
Do you still have some ideas for that kind of experimentation for another season? Like how much have you thought about what a Season 4 could be and what more you could do with it?
HOFFMAN: If we’re lucky to get a Season 4, I will continue to push the envelope. People will see things in a Season 4, if we’re lucky enough to get it, that they’ve never seen in The Walking Dead universe, but also, they will feel like The Walking Dead stories.
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‘The Walking Dead: Dead City’ Season 3 Clearly Defined Maggie and Negan’s Relationship so They Can Move Forward Together
“In a Season 4, that would be a really exciting dynamic to explore.”
Jeffrey Dean Morgan as Negan standing outside with Lauren Cohan as Maggie in The Walking Dead: Dead CityImage via AMC
There’s a moment in the finale that feels like it’s been a long time coming when Maggie says to Negan, “You’ve got me. We’re forever connected. We are outright chained to one another.” She’s never going to forgive him, but they’ve moved past it and they’ve gotten closer. What do you love about that moment between them and about how Maggie humanizes Negan?
HOFFMAN: It was important for us to really clearly define Maggie’s relationship towards Negan. I think Negan’s relationship towards Maggie is pretty clear. He kills for her. He wants to protect her. She is so important to him. Maggie’s feelings towards Negan, for a long time, were very defined by, “I hate you, you killed my husband.” In this season, she has let some of that go. So, where is she? We worked hard to really parse the language in that scene to make it clear that she’s not forgiving him and she will never forgive him. She isn’t happy about the fact that Negan, in some ways, makes her a better person. She probably really hates the fact that Negan makes her a better person, but he does.
That’s where they are right now. She could fight against that and try to move away from him and live her own life. Part of what we were trying to say in Episode 6 is, “If you do part, then maybe you’ll fall into old patterns that aren’t necessarily the best version of yourself. Let’s see what happens if the two of you actually do work together for the greater good.” I think, in a Season 4, that would be a really exciting dynamic to explore.
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Airing that out also opens it up for Hershel to work with them as a little trio, which you couldn’t have gotten to if that hadn’t happened.
HOFFMAN: A hundred percent. To think about where the two of them were at the beginning of this season versus where they are at the end of this season, it’s a monumental change. Now that these two characters are where they are, it would be incredibly exciting to explore what their next step would be.
‘The Walking Dead: Dead City’ Season 4 Would See Maggie and Negan Having New Conflicts
“They’ll be in conflict about that.”
Jeffrey Dean Morgan as Negan holding a gun to the back of Lauren Cohan as Maggie in The Walking Dead: Dead CityImage via AMC
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At the end of the finale, Maggie hands that badge to Negan so that he can lead security while she’s in charge. What do you think that new partnership between them could be like? How do you see that dynamic working out?
HOFFMAN: A big thing that we’ve done this season is to give both of them something that they care deeply about. They cared deeply about this community, and they want it to thrive. Everything the Croat said in Episode 1, this city has everything to rebuild society in. Both of them, by the end of the season, have really embraced that. This is home. They’re moving into a working relationship, which they’ve never had before. They have different worldviews, they have different strategies, they have different tactics, and they both want the best for the city, but that doesn’t necessarily mean the same thing. Maggie might think one thing is the best, and Negan might think a different thing would be the best. And so, they’ll be in conflict about that, but their conflict won’t be rooted in the fact that Negan killed Glenn. It’ll be rooted in present-day circumstances, which is something both of them really want. That is where their relationship would live in a Season 4.
Joey King is addressing claims she underwent plastic surgery to prepare for her appearance at this year’s Met Gala back in May.
“I didn’t get a facelift,” King, 27, told Owen Thiele on the Friday, September 11, episode of his “In Your Dreams” podcast. “I’m glad we’re talking about this. … Just want to let you know, didn’t get work done, didn’t get a facelift.”
The Practical Magic 2 star went on to reveal what she actually did to get ready to walk the steps of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City for the second year in a row.
“What I did do, I got a spray tan,” she recalled. “And then I did a 36-hour fast. No food, nothing but water, which I don’t promote that.”
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King explained that she had attended a bachelorette party the weekend before the Met Gala, which resulted in her “looking swollen” because she was “drinking a lot.”
“I looked busted,” she continued. “And I was like, ‘I gotta do a reset. I’m going to do a 24-hour fast, which is good for you to do once a month if you’re healthy enough to do anyway. By the time I woke up and ordered lunch the next day, it wound up being 36 hours and everything.”
In addition to fasting, King said she got a “lymphatic massage” and a facial the day before fashion’s biggest night, followed by another face massage the day of the event.
“We were doing everything we could to look amazing on the carpet, and guess what, it worked because everybody thought I had plastic surgery,” she concluded.
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King turned heads at this year’s Met Gala by wearing a sheer Miu Miu gown. She pulled off another stunning sheer look at the Practical Magic 2 premiere in London on August 26, making headlines for her floral gown with yellow Miu Miu undergarments.
King’s casting in Practical Magic 2 as Kylie Owens, the younger daughter of Sandra Bullock’s Sally Owens, has been met with backlash due to the Kissing Booth star replacing Rachel Evan Wood, who played the character in the 1998 original film. (Maisie Williams also replaced Alexandra Artrip as Antonia Owens, Sally’s older daughter.)
Days before Practical Magic 2’s premiere, Wood, 38, threw shade at the cast while praising King.
“I really appreciated Joey King reaching out to me because no one who worked on the original film did. She’s a sweetheart,” she wrote via her Instagram Stories on September 1.
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King also told The Hollywood Reporter that she had a “lovely” conversation with Wood in light of the recasting decision.
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“I just was so appreciative of the support that she showed to me and to the rest of the cast. She is so talented and so beautiful and she made this role so special when she was a young girl,” King said. “I feel so grateful to be able to play Kylie at this age but I love Evan so much and I’m so appreciative of her kind words and the exchange that her and I shared.”
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Wood previously claimed in July 2025 that she was not “asked to come back” for the sequel despite offering her “services.” The film’s director, Susanne Bier, told THR that recasting was necessary to create a “certain age group.”
“In the story, they’re just, like, literally out of college, and with Joey and Maisie it just felt completely right,” she explained.
2026 might go down as one of the most successful years for horror movies in some time. While nothing has quite stacked up to the box office might of The Odyssey or Spider-Man: Brand New Day, the genre dominated the conversation heading into the summer with one hit after another. Despite being by far the lowest-rated entry in franchise history, Scream 7 continued the franchise’s run of success by scaring up a $214 million global haul. Yet this was the year lower-budget YouTube creators put Hollywood on notice with original ideas that surpassed expectations and earned rave reviews. It began with Mark “Markiplier” Fischbach‘s adaptation of Iron Lung earning a surprising $51 million during a very limited self-distributed release in January before May rolled around and brought with it A24’s highest-grossing film ever at $394.1 million, Backrooms, directed by Kane Parsons based on his own viral horror series.
For all their accomplishments and the other acclaimed macabre titles released so far, like 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple and Hokum, horror’s best year in a while also has an obvious standout — Obsession. Much has been made of YouTuber and Milk & Serial director Curry Barker‘s breakout hit, from its $512.6 million global box office haul, which makes it one of the most profitable movies ever made against its reported $750,000 budget, to its breakout performances from Michael Johnston and especially Inde Navarrette. The film has become nothing short of a cultural phenomenon, both proving how desirable an original IP from a creator outside Hollywood can be and inserting itself into awards conversations. Now that it’s officially available from home, it’s only continuing to dominate on streaming and VOD.
This week, Obsession pulled off a digital trifecta by reaching #1 on Prime Video, Apple TV, and Google VOD charts. Making the feat more impressive is the fact that it’s also available to stream on Peacock, yet it’s handily outperforming the titles directly behind it on each list, like Steven Spielberg‘s Disclosure Day and Antoine Fuqua‘s billion-dollar biopic, Michael. With spooky season just around the corner, there may only be more momentum coming for Barker’s smash hit as viewers look to catch up on the scariest films of the year. It certainly managed to frighten critics and audiences as it followed Bear (Johnston) experiencing the increasingly dark and horrific consequences of wishing his crush, Nikki (Navarrette) would love him more than anyone in the world.
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Collider Exclusive · Horror Survival Quiz Which Horror Villain Do You Have the Best Chance of Surviving? Jason Voorhees · Michael Myers · Freddy Krueger · Pennywise · Chucky
Five killers. Five completely different ways to die — if you’re not smart enough, fast enough, or self-aware enough to avoid it. Only one of them is the villain your particular set of instincts gives you a fighting chance against. Eight questions will figure out which one.
🏕️Jason
🔪Michael
💤Freddy
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🎈Pennywise
🪆Chucky
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Something feels wrong. You can’t explain it — you just know. What do you do? First instincts are the difference between the survivor and the first act casualty.
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Where are you most likely to find yourself when things go wrong? Setting is everything in horror. Where you are determines which rules apply.
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What is your most reliable survival asset? Every survivor has a quality the villain didn’t account for. What’s yours?
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What kind of fear is hardest for you to fight through? Knowing your weakness is the first step to not dying because of it.
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You’re with a group when things start going wrong. What’s your role? Horror movies are brutally clear about who survives group situations and who doesn’t.
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What’s the horror movie mistake you’re most likely to make? Honest self-assessment is a survival skill. Denial is not.
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What’s your best weapon against something that can’t be stopped by conventional means? Every horror villain has a weakness. The survivors are always the ones who find it.
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It’s the final scene. You’re the last one standing. How did you make it? The final survivor always has a reason. What’s yours?
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Your Survival Odds Have Been Calculated Your Best Chance Is Against…
Your instincts, your strengths, and your particular way of thinking under pressure point to one villain you actually have a fighting chance against. Everyone else — good luck.
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Camp Crystal Lake · Friday the 13th
Jason Voorhees
Jason is relentless, but he is also predictable — and that is the gap you would exploit.
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He moves in straight lines toward his target. He doesn’t strategise, doesn’t adapt, doesn’t outsmart. He simply pursues.
Your ability to keep moving, use the environment, and resist the panic that freezes most victims gives you a genuine edge.
The Crystal Lake survivors were always the ones who stopped running in circles and started thinking about terrain, water, and distance.
You think like that. Which means Jason, for all his indestructibility, would face someone who simply refused to be where he expected.
Haddonfield, Illinois · Halloween
Michael Myers
Michael watches before he moves. He is patient, methodical, and almost impossible to detect — until it’s too late for anyone who isn’t paying close enough attention.
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But you are paying attention. You notice the shape in the window, the car parked slightly wrong, the silence where there should be sound.
Michael’s power lies in the invisibility of ordinary suburbia — the fact that nothing ever looks wrong until it already is.
Your spatial awareness and instinct to map every room, every exit, and every shadow before you need them is precisely the quality Laurie Strode had.
You are not a victim waiting to happen. You are someone who already suspects something is wrong — and acts on it.
Elm Street · A Nightmare on Elm Street
Freddy Krueger
Freddy wins by getting inside your head — using your own fears, your own memories, your own subconscious as weapons against you. That strategy requires a target who can be destabilised.
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You are harder to destabilise than most. You’ve faced uncomfortable truths about yourself and you haven’t looked away.
The survivors on Elm Street were always the ones who understood what was happening and chose to face it rather than flee from it.
Freddy’s greatest weakness is that his power evaporates in the presence of someone who refuses to give him the fear he feeds on.
Your psychological resilience — the ability to stay grounded when reality itself becomes unreliable — is exactly the quality that keeps you alive here.
Derry, Maine · It
Pennywise
Pennywise is ancient, shapeshifting, and feeds on terror — but it has one critical vulnerability: it cannot function against someone who genuinely stops being afraid of it.
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The Losers Club didn’t survive because they were braver than everyone else. They survived because they faced their fears together, and faced them honestly.
You ask the questions others avoid. You look directly at what frightens you rather than turning away.
That directness — the refusal to let fear fester in the dark — is Pennywise’s worst nightmare.
It chose the wrong target when it chose you. You are exactly the kind of person whose fear tastes like nothing at all.
Chicago · Child’s Play
Chucky
Chucky’s greatest advantage is that nobody takes him seriously until it’s already too late. He exploits the gap between how something looks and what it actually is.
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You don’t have that gap. You take threats seriously regardless of how they present — and you never make the mistake of underestimating something because of its size or appearance.
Chucky relies on surprise, on the delay between recognition and response. You close that delay faster than almost anyone.
Your instinct to treat every unfamiliar thing with appropriate scepticism — rather than dismissing it because it seems absurd — is the exact quality that keeps you breathing.
Against Chucky, not laughing is already winning. You are very good at not laughing.
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What’s Next for the Main Stars Behind ‘Obsession’?
All of Obsession‘s key players have wasted no time lining up their next big roles. Before the film even appeared in front of general audiences, Barker was already tapped to write and direct the next Texas Chainsaw Massacre installment under A24, but that’s just the beginning. His next film with regular partner Cooper Tomlinson, Anything But Ghosts, is already shot and dated for 2027, and Universal and Blumhouse also paid through the nose to secure his next horror pitch.
Navarrette, meanwhile, has a date with the MCU, as she was revealed at D23 to be playing the mutant Rogue in Jake Schreier‘s X-Men movie. Her star will also continue to rise in the bonkers sci-fi package, The Waffle House Index, under Apple Original Films, casting her as a Waffle House graveyard shift employee enduring the most disastrous night imaginable. Last but not least, Johnston hasn’t formally been attached to any projects or confirmed anything yet, but reports have indicated he’s in talks to join Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weisz in the new The Mummy movie from Radio Silence.
Obsession is available to stream on Peacock and purchase through digital retailers. Stay tuned here at Collider for more on all the hottest films on streaming throughout the year.
No one can deny that Netflix wields an impressive sci-fi library, but it’s the few out of the many that feel so carefully made that every single episode can stand as something defiantly special. The best of Netflix sci-fi hits do so much more than introduce time travel, strange technology, apocalyptic mysteries, or alien threats; they use those amazing tropes to explore identity, survival, fear, grief, connection, and the choices that genuinely change lives. These few out of the streaming platform’s extensive catalog represent brilliance, with each installment feeling purposeful, even as the quieter scenes that may initially seem a bit redundant ultimately contribute something significant to the larger narrative, characters, or their world.
Iconic gems like the complex sci-fi watch, Dark, which ensures viewers must pay close attention to every single detail within each of its episodes in order to find what is hidden, and the survival thriller, The Eternaut, which transforms what could have been a generic apocalyptic event into a tense story about ordinary people trying to survive a world that has suddenly become unknowable and dangerous, are just two in Netflix’s sci-fi library that host episodes where every one is a true masterpiece. Compiled on this list are five worthy works of science fiction out of Netflix’s impressive catalog that are not just imaginative, but also controlled, unforgettable, and genuinely brilliant from episode to episode.
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‘The Eternaut’ (2025–Present)
Ricardo Darín as Juan Salvo in The Eternaut wearing a gas mask in falling snow in Season 1.Image via Netflix
The gripping Netflix series The Eternaut definitely belongs on this list of sci-fi shows that wield masterful episodes because, with just six installments, it transforms the end of the world into something horrifyingly personal. Set in Buenos Aires after a deadly snowfall that kills anyone who comes into contact with it, the adapted series follows Juan Salvo (Ricardo Darín) and the people sheltering with him as they quickly realize that survival depends on improvised protective clothing, disciplined cooperation, and isolation; only Juan can’t remain indoors since he desperately needs to find his daughter Clara (Mora Fisz).
The Eternaut can be easily defended as a true masterpiece. Not one of its episodes acts as narrative waste; instead, each captivating chapter pushes survivors further into the mystery while excellently raising the stakes. The Eternaut is definitely a chilling slow-burn with careful progress that doesn’t seem to ever lag, as it uses twists and gradual reveals to deepen its mystery and make the true scale of the threat all the more terrifying. The adapted series is consistently fantastic, with each installment another necessary step into a much larger nightmare. The Eternaut is genuinely able to keep its viewers entertained due to its powerful, high-quality momentum episode after episode, marking it as a well-balanced masterpiece that’s a perfect fit for this list of Netflix’s brilliant sci-fi gems.
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‘Pluto’ (2023)
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This series is honestly one of Netflix’s most thoughtful sci-fi shows to ever exist. Set in a technologically advanced future where highly sophisticated robots live alongside human beings and possess families, emotions, occupations, and legal protections, the captivating 2023 anime, Pluto, centers around one of the world’s most advanced robots, Europol investigator Gesicht (Shinshu Fuji), who is assigned to investigate a sequence of murders beginning with the destruction of the beloved Swiss robot, Montblanc (Hiroki Yasumoto).
Out of the five on this list, Pluto is definitely the easiest literal case for an amazing series with absolutely no disposable chapters. The anime takes its time, with even the story’s first episode never rushing forward through its setup of the central mystery. Pluto hosts only installments that truly matter, working as double construction as each one solves or complicates a piece of the case, while also asking a much larger ethical question. Pluto is an animated marvel, but its masterpiece status does not rely on its spectacle alone. In actuality, the series is at its most brilliant in its quieter and more emotional scenes, when it dives deep into war, prejudice, hatred, and what it truly means to be human. Even seemingly small conversations can completely reshape how audiences understand a conflict or character. Across eight memorable episodes, Pluto delivers truly masterful works of fiction, making it a remarkable sci-fi series that is worthwhile.
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‘Arcane’ (2021–2024)
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Arcaneis a beloved Netflix animated series that is genuinely one of the clearest examples of Netflix’s most masterful shows, that wields episode after episode of high-quality content. The sci-fi drama, set between the shining city of Piltover and the oppressed underground of Zaun, follows Vi (Hailee Steinfeld) and Powder, later known as Jinx (Ella Purnell), who are ripped apart by a childhood tragedy. As the sisters grow up on opposite sides of an escalating conflict, an incredibly smart inventor, known as Jayce Talis (Kevin Alejandro), helps develop the revolutionary technology known as Hextech, all the while tensions thicken between Zaun and Piltover.
Arcane is one of Netflix’s most visually stunning works of fiction. Each one of its episodes changes the characters or their world in a way that directly affects what comes next, making it fantastically tough to pinpoint a single chapter that could be removed without weakening the entire series. Even the show’s much quieter episodes are packed full of political tension, significant character development, and quality details that become increasingly important as the series moves forward. Arcane simply doesn’t just use its installments to move characters toward the next major spectacle; instead, the breathtaking animated series ensures every chapter has a narrative and emotional purpose of its own. It’s one of Netflix’s very best and an easy fit for any list of the platform’s sci-fi shows, where every episode is absolutely masterful.
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Collider Exclusive · Sci-Fi Survival Quiz Which Sci-Fi World Would You Survive? The Matrix · Mad Max · Blade Runner · Dune · Star Wars
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Five universes. Five completely different ways the future went wrong — or sideways, or up in flames. Only one of them is the world your instincts were built for. Eight questions will figure out which dystopia, galaxy, or desert wasteland you’d actually make it out of alive.
💊The Matrix
🔥Mad Max
🌧️Blade Runner
🏜️Dune
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🚀Star Wars
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You sense something is deeply wrong with the world around you. What do you do? The first instinct is often the truest one.
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In a world of scarcity, what resource do you guard most fiercely? What we protect reveals what we believe survival actually requires.
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What kind of threat keeps you up at night? Fear is useful data — if you’re honest about what you’re actually afraid of.
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How do you deal with authority you don’t trust? Every dystopia has a power structure. Your approach to it determines everything.
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Which environment could you actually endure long-term? Survival isn’t just tactical — it’s physical, psychological, and very much about where you are.
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Who do you want in your corner when things fall apart? The company you keep is the clearest signal of who you actually are.
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Where do you draw the line — if you draw one at all? Every survivor eventually faces a moment that tests what they’re actually made of.
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What would actually make survival worth it? Staying alive is one thing. Having a reason to is another.
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Your Fate Has Been Calculated You’d Survive In…
Your answers point to the world your instincts were built for. This is the universe your temperament, your survival instincts, and your particular brand of stubbornness were made for.
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The Resistance, Zion
The Matrix
You took the red pill a long time ago — probably before anyone offered it to you. You’re a systems thinker who can’t help but notice the seams in things.
You’re drawn to understanding how the system works before figuring out how to break it.
You’d find the Resistance, or it would find you — your instinct for spotting constructed realities is the machines’ worst nightmare.
You function best when you have access to information and the freedom to act on it.
The Matrix built an airtight prison. You’d be the one probing the walls for the door.
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The Wasteland
Mad Max
The wasteland doesn’t reward the clever or the well-connected — it rewards those who are hard to kill and harder to break. That’s you.
You don’t need comfort, community, or a cause larger than the next horizon.
You need a vehicle, a clear threat, and enough fuel to outrun it — and you’re good at all three.
You are unsentimental enough to survive that world, and decent enough — just barely — to be something more than another raider.
In the wasteland, that distinction is everything.
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Los Angeles, 2049
Blade Runner
You’d survive here because you know how to exist in moral grey areas without losing yourself completely.
You read people accurately, keep your circle small, and ask the questions others prefer not to answer.
In a city where humanity is a legal designation rather than a feeling, you hold onto something that keeps you functional.
You’re not a hero. But you’re not lost, either.
In Blade Runner’s world, that distinction is everything.
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Arrakis
Dune
Arrakis is the most hostile environment in the known universe — and you are precisely the kind of person it rewards.
Patience, discipline, and political awareness are your core strengths — and on Arrakis, they’re survival tools.
You understand that the long game matters more than any single victory.
Others come to Dune and are consumed by it. You’d learn its logic and earn its respect.
In time, you wouldn’t just survive Arrakis — you’d begin to reshape it.
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A Galaxy Far, Far Away
Star Wars
The galaxy far, far away is vast, loud, and in a constant state of violent political upheaval — and you wouldn’t have it any other way.
You find meaning in being part of something larger than yourself — a cause, a crew, a rebellion.
You’d gravitate toward the Rebellion, or the fringes, or whatever pocket of the galaxy still believes the Empire’s grip can be broken.
You fight — not because you have to, but because standing aside isn’t something you’re capable of.
In Star Wars, that willingness is what makes all the difference.
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‘Sense8’ (2015–2018)
The cast of Sense8 look serious, facing the same direction and looking at something off-camera.Image via Netflix
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Among some of Netflix’s most ambitious gems is a sci-fi series unlike any other in TV history. The quality masterpiece, Sense8 centers around eight strangers—Will Gorski (Brian J. Smith), Riley Blue (Tuppence Middleton), Sun Bak (Bae Doona), Nomi Marks (Jamie Clayton), Kala Dandekar (Tina Desai), Wolfgang Bogdanow (Max Riemelt), Lito Rodriguez (Miguel Ángel Silvestre), and Capheus Onyango (Toby Onwumere)—who, despite being separated by oceans, are mentally and emotionally linked, able to share memories, feelings, skills, and terrifying danger.
Sense8 is a true sci-fi spectacle, acting not only as a pure celebration of love, understanding, and what makes humanity beautiful, but also a thrilling exploration of identity, psychic connection, and survival that frequently finds new ways to bring its protagonists together despite them living so very far apart. It’s a truly powerful series, with each of its episodes expanding the idea that being truly seen by someone else can be its own form of desperate survival. Sense8 is no doubt one of Netflix’s most rallying shows, as it rose from cancellation through the pure devotion fans held for the amazing series. The series is a spectacular gem that is simply too underrated for its status as a genuine masterpiece. Sense8’s boldness and will to go where very few TV shows have makes it a quality pick for this list of shows with truly masterful installments.
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‘Dark’ (2017–2020)
Louis Hofmann as Jonas wearing a yellow jacket on a road in DarkImage via Netflix
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Dark is a complex sci-fi drama that brilliantly wields its episodes as if they’re carefully placed pieces of an incredibly large design. The captivating German series kicks off with the disappearance of children in the small town of Winden. This sets off an investigation that gradually exposes generations of strange events surrounding the town’s nuclear power plant, buried family secrets, and a mysterious passage capable of connecting different periods of time. As the mystery grows, the lives of several families become irrevocably intertwined, revealing that nearly every relationship, character, and seemingly minor event plays a role in a much larger cycle of cause and effect.
Dark is an extremely intricate masterpiece, and each of its episodes holds that very title simply because not one of the show’s chapters stands as wasteful. The series is incredibly complex, and tends to handsomely reward its audience for paying close attention to what may initially seem like insignificant conversations, relationships, objects, and background details, often becoming exceedingly important several installments—or even entire seasons—later. There is definitely no passive viewing with a series like Dark, as its episodes frequently reveal and establish new pieces of the larger, puzzling mystery. With very careful construction, the show delivers extraordinary chapters that can be reasonably announced as masterpieces, ones that maintain an impressive level of quality across three seasons. Dark makes certain that every detail within its compelling story matters, marking it a Netflix sci-fi banger that is a clear example of a 10/10 viewing experience that easily earns its spot on this list.
Reality TV star Tom Sandoval may very well be eyeing his next potential project after Danny Booko and Nia Sanchez walked away from Bravo’s The Valley.
“I mean, I think I would be open to it,” Tom, 44, exclusively told Us of potentially joining the cast of The Valleyon Saturday, September 12, while at the Celebrity Travel Lounge presented with Travel By Peta.
“I think I’d be open to it,” Tom reiterated of possibly joining the show.
Brittany Cartwright isn’t sure if she can picture Tom Sandoval being part of The Valley’s ensemble cast. “I mean, no ill will towards Sandoval, but he doesn’t hang out with any of us,” Cartwright, 37, exclusively shared with Us Weekly on Wednesday, April 15. “Maybe [Tom] Schwartz, but I don’t ever see Sandoval. None of […]
“We will not be returning to The Valley. We’re incredibly grateful for this experience but our priority is protecting our peace and our family. We are fully committed to each other and our beautiful children,” the pair wrote in a joint statement shared via Instagram at the time. “We want to thank everyone for all the love and support you’ve shown us. Thank you to Bravo and the team for everything. We are looking forward to what the next chapter brings.”
Sandoval told Us that he’s currently close to many of the remaining cast members, revealing why fans have yet to see him appear on the hit reality TV series.
Things are going to messy during The Valley season 3 — according to the cast’s panel during BravoCon 2025, that is. Danny Booko, Nia Booko, Luke Broderick, Brittany Cartwright, Jason Caperna, Janet Caperna, Kristen Doute, Jasmine Goode, Jesse Lally, Michelle Saniei and Zack Wickham took the stage on Friday, November 14, bringing with them some […]
“I would say [I’m close to] Zach, Jesse, Jason, Janet, Luke, Schwartz — obviously — [and] Jasmine,” Sandoval told Us on Saturday. “I’m cool with all of them. You just don’t see me around a lot because, at this point, you know, I like my privacy.”
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Sandoval continued of his relationship with BFF and former business partner Schwartz, “Me and Schwartz are doing great. I just hung out with him and [his girlfriend] Kiana [Carroll] this past weekend. It was great. They came to my house, I made them cocktails [and] we had a great time. Great time.”
All three seasons of The Valley are currently streaming on Peacock.
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Choosing bottoms is easy, but finding a wear-everywhere top is the hard part. Luckily, Kristen Bell makes it simple, rocking the dreamiest baby blue sweater style that pairs well with literally any bottoms. Better yet, the look is only $24!
Bell dropped an Instagram Reel that made Us pause mid-scroll to admire her luxe-looking sweater. Baby blue, slouchy in all the right places and stunning with denim, the chic style makes dressing expensive seem effortless.
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Like Bell’s, this Zeagoo Sweater Top nails the loose-but-tailored silhouette. It’s made from a lightweight, breathable knit fabric that has a bit of stretch, so it drapes without clinging. In other words, it’s mega comfortable and flattering, too.
You know that awkward stretch between summer linens and winter knits? When mornings feel crisp but afternoons still swelter, you need a chic, breathable sweater top. That’s probably why this lightweight pick is flying off the shelves! This comfortable Rumia Short-Sleeve Sweater Top works with trousers at the office and jeans on the weekend, and […]
The ribbed crew neckline keeps things classy, as does the dusty blue color. One five-star shopper wrote, “I wanted a lightweight sweater that would look good under a blazer, and this sweater is perfect . . . I can see this pairing well with jeans or leggings and giving a more polished look to the outfit.”
Another happy fan summed up the appeal: “Holy smokes! This feels high-end. Beautiful and great fit!”
A soft blue knit isn’t a statement piece, but rather a layer you reach for when you want to look pulled together without trying. It’s comfortable enough for a long weekend, refined enough for the office and priced low enough that adding a second color feels reasonable.
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If you’re bored with your top-and-denim duos lately, wait until you see Cindy Crawford‘s latest twist. Instead of a plain tee, Crawford wore a billowy, linen-like blouse that screamed ‘expensive,’ and we found the look on sale for only $17! Crawford stepped out of a West Hollywood salon as though she wandered off a Vogue […]
Death, taxes, and an endless stream of Sherlock Holmes adaptations — these are the realities of life. In the last couple of decades, fans have received Guy Ritchie’s swashbuckling film series starring Robert Downey Jr., his more recent Young Sherlock show on Prime Video, an Enola Holmes trilogy on Netflix, and the acclaimed modern-day reimagining starring Benedict Cumberbatch. There have been other adaptations of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s legendary stories, but one movie often slips under the radar for several reasons. For starters, it was critically panned and commercially unsuccessful, but more importantly, audiences had simply too many alternatives to choose from. That said, the overlooked Sherlock Holmes adaptation is now available to stream for free to those who have the courage to check it out.
It was released in 2018, only three years after Mr. Holmes, in which Ian McKellen played an aging Sherlock who must solve his final case while combating a deteriorating mind. The acclaimed BBC series starring Cumberbatch had ended its run only a year earlier. In other words, the appetite for new Sherlock Holmes content was still alive. However, the 2018 movie ended up grossing $42 million worldwide against a reported budget in a similar range, proving that audiences weren’t going to turn up for every adaptation. It must be mentioned that this movie wasn’t a classic take on the material at all; in fact, it appeared to be presenting the character as if he exists in the world of Borat.
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Collider Exclusive · Oscar Best Picture Quiz Which Oscar Best Picture Is Your Perfect Movie? Parasite · Everything Everywhere · Oppenheimer · Birdman · No Country
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Five Oscar Best Picture winners. Five completely different visions of what cinema can be — and what it can do to you. One of them is the film that was made for the way your mind works. Ten questions will figure out which one.
🪜Parasite
🌀Everything Everywhere
☢️Oppenheimer
🐦Birdman
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🪙No Country for Old Men
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What kind of film experience do you actually want? The best movies don’t just entertain — they leave something behind.
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Which idea grabs you most in a film? Great films are driven by a central obsession. What’s yours?
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How do you like your story told? Form is content. The way a story is shaped changes what it means.
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What makes a truly great antagonist? The opposition defines the protagonist. What kind of opposition fascinates you?
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What do you want from a film’s ending? The final note is the one that lingers. What do you want it to sound like?
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Which setting pulls you in most? Where a film takes place shapes everything — mood, stakes, what’s even possible.
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What cinematic craft impresses you most? Every great film has a signature — a technical or artistic element that makes it unmistakable.
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What kind of main character do you root for? The protagonist is the lens. Who you choose to follow says something about you.
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How do you feel about a film that takes its time? Pace is a choice. Some films sprint; others let tension accumulate slowly, deliberately.
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What do you want to feel walking out of the cinema? The best films leave a mark. What kind of mark do you want?
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The Academy Has Decided Your Perfect Film Is…
Your answers have pointed to one Oscar Best Picture winner above all others. This is the film that was made for the way your mind works.
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Parasite
You are drawn to films that operate on multiple levels simultaneously — that begin in one genre and quietly, brilliantly migrate into another. Bong Joon-ho’s Parasite is a film about class, desire, and the architecture of inequality that manages to be darkly funny, deeply suspenseful, and genuinely shocking across a single extraordinary running time. Your instinct is for cinema that hides its true intentions until the moment it’s ready to reveal them. Parasite is exactly that — a film that rewards close attention and punishes assumptions, right up to its devastating final image.
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Everything Everywhere All at Once
You want it all — and this film gives you all of it. The Daniels’ Everything Everywhere All at Once is one of the most maximalist films ever made: action comedy, multiverse sci-fi, family drama, existential crisis, and a genuinely earned emotional core that sneaks up on you amid the chaos. You are someone who responds to ambition, who doesn’t want cinema to choose between being entertaining and being meaningful. This film refuses that choice entirely. It is overwhelming by design, and its overwhelming nature is precisely the point — because the feeling of being crushed by infinite possibility is exactly what it’s about.
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Oppenheimer
You are drawn to cinema on a grand scale — films that understand history not as a backdrop but as a force, and that place their characters inside that force and watch what happens. Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer is a film about the terrifying gap between what we can do and what we should do, told with the full weight of one of the most consequential moments in human history behind it. You want your films to feel important without feeling self-important — to earn their ambition through sheer craft and the gravity of their subject. Oppenheimer does exactly that. It is enormous, complicated, and refuses easy comfort.
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Birdman
You are drawn to films that foreground their own construction — that make the how of the filmmaking part of the what it’s about. Alejandro González Iñárritu’s Birdman, shot to appear as a single continuous take, is cinema examining itself through the cracked mirror of a fading actor’s ego. You respond to formal daring, to the feeling that a film is doing something that probably shouldn’t be possible. Michael Keaton’s performance and Emmanuel Lubezki’s restless camera create something genuinely unlike anything else — a film that is simultaneously about creativity, relevance, self-destruction, and the impossibility of ever truly knowing if your work means anything at all.
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No Country for Old Men
You are drawn to cinema that trusts silence, that refuses to explain itself, and that treats dread as a form of meaning. The Coen Brothers’ No Country for Old Men is a film about the arrival of a new kind of evil — implacable, arbitrary, and utterly indifferent to the moral frameworks we use to make sense of the world. It is one of the most formally controlled films ever made, and its controlled restraint is what makes it so terrifying. You want your films to haunt you, not comfort you. You are not interested in resolution if resolution would be dishonest. No Country for Old Men is honest in a way that most cinema never dares to be.
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Here’s Where You Can Watch the Critically Panned Sherlock Holmes Movie for Free
We’re talking about Holmes & Watson, starring Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly. The duo had previously proven their chemistry in cult hit comedy films such as Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby and Step Brothers. Holmes & Watson wasn’t able to continue the successful streak, earning a poor 10% score on Rotten Tomatoes. The aggregator website’s consensus reads, “The lowest and vilest alleys in London do not present a more dreadful record of the adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson than does Holmes and Watson.” The movie had quite a stacked cast, including Rebecca Hall, Rob Brydon, Bella Ramsey, Ralph Fiennes, Hugh Laurie, and Steve Coogan. Coogan hilariously said a year after the film’s release, “In 20 years’ time, when all the dust has settled and people are able to look at that film objectively, they’ll still think it’s shit.” You can watch Holmes & Watson on Pluto TV this month, and stay tuned to Collider for more updates.
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