By now, it’s no surprise that Bridgerton is one of Netflix’s most successful original series. Seasons 1 and 3, for example, are among the streaming giant’s 10 most-watched shows of all-time. So, perhaps unsurprisingly, the much talked-about Season 4 of the series is following suit.

Bridgerton‘s Season 4 of the series, which was released in two parts with Part 1 on January 29, 2026, and Part 2 on February 26, 2026, is seeing impressive viewership numbers. So much so that when Part 1 was released, the series quickly rose to the #1 spot worldwide, a position it’s once again snagged since the release of Part 2, per FlixPatrol. From the numbers alone, it’s safe to say Season 4 is giving the past seasons some tough competition.

‘Bridgerton’ Season 4 Racking Up Major Numbers

Season 4 of Bridgerton has been so successful that Part 2 of the series broke the viewership number set by Part 1. According to Samba TV and Broadsheet, Netflix saw 5.6 million households watching Episode 5 of the series in the first four days it was available. As a comparison, that’s an 11% increase from the viewership tuning in to Season 4, Episode 1 back in January. In other words, while fans were eager to watch the beginning of Season 4, even more of them couldn’t wait to see how the story continued in Episodes 5 to 8.

Per Tudum, the season so far has received 28 million views. The number combines both Part 1 and Part 2 of the series, meaning a viewership total for Season 4 Part 2 alone isn’t available. Season 3, for instance, which is #9 in Netflix’s most-watched shows of all time, was seen by a whopping 106 million viewers in the first 91 days since its release. So, while 28 million is still far behind it, Part 2 has only just reached the platform. Many million views will surely be added to the equation.

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What Is ‘Bridgerton’ Season 4 About?

Season 4 of Bridgerton follows the second-eldest son of the Bridgerton clan, Benedict (Luke Thompson), on his journey to find “The One.” The story kicks off when he falls head over heels for a masked woman in silver at a masquerade ball, and seemingly leaves his non-committal, rebellious days behind him just to find her. While searching, he sparks a connection with a sweet and fascinating maid named Sophie Beak (Yerin Ha) and their connection is undeniable. Can their love go beyond the societal expectations of the time? Will the Bridgertons accept Sophie as their own?

Like any season of Bridgerton, Season 4 of the series has continued to be a hit for Netflix. With over 28 million views so far, and viewers dropping everything to see Part 2 when it was released, it’s safe to say Season 4 of the series has kept the series’ magic. With a steamy romance, a gorgeous period setting and even societal commentary this time around, Season 4 has everything to potentially break into Netflix’s Top 10 of all-time.

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December 22, 2020

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Tom Verica, Tricia Brock, Alex Pillai, Alrick Riley, Bille Woodruff, Cheryl Dunye, Sheree Folkson, Julie Anne Robinson

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Abby McDonald, Sarah L. Thompson, Daniel Robinson, Oliver Goldstick, Leila Cohan-Miccio, Azia Squire, Sarah Dollard, Eli Wilson Pelton, Janet Lin

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2025 was a big year for animated movies, with Disney’s Zootopia 2 breaking box office records, Pixar’s Elio winning audiences’ hearts, and Netflix’s KPop Demon Hunters becoming a worldwide phenomenon. Amid this high-profile competition, however, stood an independently made French film that managed to top them all in terms of cinematic brilliance.Filled with memorable characters, fantastic animation, and a story that brings many elements together effortlessly, Arco is a rare discovery in the animation genre, offering something genuinely new for audiences to enjoy.

This French Oscar Hopeful Takes Us to Another World

Produced by Oscar-winner Natalie Portman, the title refers to ten-year-old Arco, a boy living in 2932, where humanity has learned to time-travel. Prohibited from traveling himself before he is twelve, he steals his sister’s time-traveling cape and magic gemstone to travel back to the time of the dinosaurs, but instead crashes into the year 2075, where he befriends a young girl named Iris. Determined to get Arco home, the pair (along with Iris’ robot nanny, Mikki) learn that they may be the only ones who can save the Earth from peril.

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Movies about the future often speak to the anxieties of the present, but the language of Arco is one of hope. Our hero’s idyllic timeline and his insistence that Iris’ future isn’t written yet, deliver a message that our fate is in our hands, that is written by the choices we make in the present. It’s a story that views the world with the wonder of a child, never losing sight of the beauty of friendship and discovery.

Animation That’s Both Spectacular and Moving

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The film has been compared to the work of Hayao Miyazaki, not only due to its wonder-filled, colorful aesthetic, but also its ability to weave whimsy with reality. Many animated films aim for either visual ambition or intimate, character-based storytelling, but it’s a rare film that combines them both.

Both Arco and Iris live in extraordinary times – the former in a brightly colored, aspirational timeline filled with adventure and otherworldly architecture; the latter in a world not dissimilar to our own, but with fantastical elements such as robot nannies and holograms. The hand-drawn animation balances past and present, feeling nostalgic in a genre where computers dominate, but also offering design that looks cutting-edge.

These flourishes are not just for show, however, as the beauty of the visuals serves to highlight the journey of the characters, and vice versa. Arco crash-lands, leaving a trail that resembles a rainbow, which Iris follows to find her new friend. This colorful introduction outlines the story’s intentions, offering hope and adventure as we come along for the ride.

‘Arco’ Truly is a Family Movie for Everyone

In previous generations, a family movie would often aim squarely for younger viewers, but Arco is a prime example of how the medium has moved on. From the early 2000s, studios such as Pixar, Dreamworks, and Studio Ghibli all began making movies that entertained the kids, but had something for the accompanying adults. Arco represents the next step in that evolution, where films can meet people of all ages on an emotional level.

The story speaks to a deeper message about the environment, family, and responsibility, something that will be clear to children without losing their attention, as well as grasping adults who can read into the greater subtext. Better still, it can tap into that sense of fascination that children have, and adults remember, allowing everyone to gasp at what is unfolding.

What ultimately comes across to all generations is how sincere the film feels at its core. Long after the plot resolves, the film’s spirit continues to resonate, offering a rare blend of optimism and artistry that feels both refreshing and necessary. It can spark conversations between younger and older viewers that wouldn’t happen in a less thoughtful movie.

Arco is a testament to what can happen when creativity is allowed to flourish without compromise. Rather than leaning on nostalgia or formula, Ugo Bienvenu’s film charts its own path, inviting viewers to embrace curiosity and courage in equal measure. In a year filled with impressive releases, Arco earns its place by reminding us why animated storytelling remains one of cinema’s most powerful forms, regardless of budget.Arco is available to rent or buy on VOD services.

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October 22, 2025

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Ugo Bienvenu

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Natalie Portman, Sophie Mas, Elliott Whitton, Bill Way, Douglas Choi

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Sterling K. Brown had a surprisingly NSFW reaction to his wife, Ryan Michelle Bathé, finally meeting Heated Rivalry‘s Connor Storrie.

“This happened and I just want everyone to know that I didn’t fall. I didn’t collapse. I gushed,” Bathé, 49, said in an Instagram video posted on Wednesday, March 4. “I gushed all over him.”

She continued: “Look at him! Isn’t he the best? He was so cool.”

Brown, 49, took to the comments section with a colorful response, writing, “You ‘gushed … all over him?’”

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Bathé is one of many celebrity fans of HBO’s overnight hit. Based on Rachel Reid‘s Game Changers book series, Heated Rivalry follows rival professional hockey players Shane Hollander (Hudson Williams) and Ilya Rozanov (Storrie), whose animosity on the ice is just a front for a secret — and very passionate — romance.

While fans wait for another season of Heated Rivalry, Bathé and Brown are both currently starring on Hulu’s hit series Paradise. Brown teamed up with creator Dan Fogelman on the science fiction series, which marks their first collaboration since This Is Us.

Paradise, which premiered in January 2025, initially appeared to be set in a serene and wealthy community forced to face the realities of a shocking murder. In typical Fogelman fashion, the political thriller introduced a twist when Paradise was revealed to be an underground bunker housing the world’s most prominent individuals after an apocalyptic event destroyed the rest of humanity.

Brown stars as Xavier while Bathé is set to appear later in the second season — and is hosting the show’s companion podcast.

“Initially, I was a little bit lukewarm about doing the podcast because I was like, ‘There’s no way [they can top season 1],’” Bathé exclusively told Us Weekly last month. “Dan is a genius. He’s got great writers but I thought that it’s not going to be as good as season 1.”

Bathé was happy to be proven wrong. “How do you top perfection? You can’t match perfection. So I was going to try it but I was [preparing] for a sophomore slump. I was wrong. Not only was I wrong — but I was so very wrong.”

She continued: “It’s incredible. I don’t know how they create a perfect season of television in season one and then take it apart and take the pieces and put them back together in an even more — or just as interesting — way. I kept asking that question and they’re all so humble.”

Bathé’s love for the show allowed her to get all our burning questions answered, saying, “I truly love the show and I hope that the way I like to watch the show and the questions that I ask match up with the rest of the fandom. I’m a true fan — but I just hope that I make the fandom proud.”

Paradise premieres February 23 on Hulu with new episodes of the show — and the companion podcast — airing every Monday.

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While I have no qualms about railing on my landlord for taking over 18 months to replace the window in my master bedroom, I still try to keep some perspective despite the still-unfilled maintenance request. I rent from a large property management group that’s at the mercy of its various contractors, at least that’s the excuse, even though they’ll fire off a nasty email if I even think about sending the rent check an hour late. In 1990’s Pacific Heights, on the other hand, the dynamic is a little different and a lot more terrifying.

Here, a young couple purchases a house and does everything they can to make sure their new tenants feel right at home. That is, until their worst nightmare shows up looking for a rental unit and completely destroys their lives in the process. With their hands tied by the legal system, and with no clear or easy way to evict him, they’re stuck in a rental agreement they never wanted in the first place.

Batman’s New Secret Lair

The setup for Pacific Heights is simple and escalates to the point of no return in no time. When we’re first introduced to Drake Goodman (Matthew Modine) and his pregnant fiancée Patty Palmer (Melanie Griffith), they’re wide-eyed, bushy-tailed, and maybe just a little too green to take on a project like the one they’ve sunk their entire savings into. They’ve purchased a beautiful Victorian house in Pacific Heights with plans to renovate into a rental property.

They rent the first unit to the Watanabe family (portrayed by Mako and Nobu McCarthy) without issue, and it’s the perfect setup. They get passive income from low-maintenance tenants and can continue renovations on the rest of the house unbothered. Their house-flipping dream quickly becomes a disaster when Carter Hayes (Michael Keaton) shows up to rent the other available unit, immediately raising more red flags than they can count.

Carter refuses a credit check but offers to pay the first six months’ rent via wire transfer. While Drake and Patty are still weighing the arrangement, Carter locks himself inside the apartment, changes the locks, and starts using power tools throughout the night, scaring off the Watanabes. Oh yeah, and he never pays them like he promised, so he’s living rent free. 

Realizing they need legal action, they hire lawyer Stephanie MacDonald (Laurie Metcalf) to start the eviction process, which proves more complicated than they ever imagined. Drake’s attempts to force Carter out, like cutting the power and heat, only result in the police siding with Carter, who appears to be the innocent tenant with the tyrannical landlords. Further antagonized, Drake eventually comes to blows with the squatter, exactly what Carter planned all along.

Now slapped with a restraining order that legally prevents him from entering his own home, Drake has to find somewhere else to stay, further straining his relationship with Patty. They’re already drowning in legal fees on top of their original investment, and without Drake in the picture, Carter can finally zero in on Patty.

Keaton At His Most Menacing

What really sells Pacific Heights is just how calculating Carter Hayes truly is, thanks to Michael Keaton. It’s clear from the beginning that he’s a con artist, but no one can quite pin down his endgame. He spends much of the film coming and going, locking himself in the apartment, infesting the house with roaches, and staring down Patty whenever she thinks she’s alone. Drake, rightfully losing his grip, wants to protect what’s his, but Carter has already anticipated his every move. Each attempt to remove him only makes his presence, both seen and unseen, more aggressive and menacing.

The suspense in Pacific Heights comes from knowing Drake and Patty are being systematically dismantled with almost no way to protect themselves from the squatter living inside their nest egg. As Carter’s motives slowly come into focus, we learn what he’s truly after, but by then it’s far too late for a clean resolution.

As of this writing, Pacific Heights is streaming for free on Tubi.

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Apple TV’s monumental sci-fi series Monarch: Legacy of Monsters returned to the streamer for Season 2, and to find out what fans are in store for this time around, Collider’s Steve Weintraub sat down with stars Kurt Russell and Wyatt Russell, who both portray Army officer Lee Shaw. In this spoiler-free half of their conversation, the father and son duo discuss how Season 2 compares to Season 1, teasing what fans can expect this year.

After the revelations of Monarch Season 1, Legacy of Monsters Season 2 picks up with the fate of this organization, and the world as we know it, hanging in the balance. Our heroes, and their foes, reunite on Kong’s Skull Island, where long-buried secrets come to light, as well as a mysterious new village, and yet another mythical Titan surfaces from the sea. Here, the past and present collide, confusing the lines between friends, family, and enemies, as humans face off against a new threat.

Check out the full conversation in the video above, or the transcript below, where Kurt and Wyatt Russell discuss this “moving train,” and what we can expect from Wyatt’s spin-off series, producer Tory Tunnell describes as “punk rock.” The pair also jokes about Kurt Russell’s Super Bowl team-up with Wyatt’s Thunderbolts*‘s co-star Lewis Pullman, and brainstorm an all-star response to that collaboration.

‘Monarch: Legacy of Monsters’ Season 2 Is a “Moving Train”

And this ride’s just getting started.

COLLIDER: Gentlemen, I really want to start with thank you both for your work. I have really loved your work my entire life. And I’m really loving your work. I just want to say thanks.

KURT RUSSELL: Thank you. Steve.

WYATT RUSSELL: I love your work.

KURT RUSSELL: Go ahead and tear it apart now.

[Laughs] Season 2 is fantastic. It is just like an adrenaline shot. It’s nonstop. I hate doing the generic thing, but how would you compare Season 2 to Season 1?

WYATT RUSSELL: It’s a great question. Season 2 is more like a moving train. You’re on it, and you’re going, and it’s more linear in certain ways. Season 1 was like you’re finding your footing, you’re learning who these characters are, and that always presents an element of newness that just takes a minute to get going. Then, for me, in Season 2, you know these people, you know what their personalities are like, you know their dynamics, and you see it blossom. I enjoyed that about it. It felt easier for me.

KURT RUSSELL: A lot of things that presented questions in [Season] 1 would begin to be answered in [Season] 2. The first year was Alice goes down the rabbit hole, and we deal with it, and you meet this guy who’s part of it somehow. Season 2 is really, Grandma comes out, and what she found down the rabbit hole comes out. Now they’re dealing with something that also came out with Grandma.

Wyatt Russell’s ‘Monarch’ Spinoff Makes the MonsterVerse Human

“You’ve got absolutely no fucking clue what to expect.”

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I know that you are filming a spinoff series of Monarch this year. What can you tease people about it?

WYATT RUSSELL: I can tease that it’s going to be something that you’ve got absolutely no fucking clue what to expect. I think people are going to expect one thing and be like, “Holy shit, this is not what I expected.” It’ll go deeper into Lee’s experience after he came up, and being sort of put on ice, in 1982, and then what happens after that, and why he’s needed and the mission he goes on. I’m so excited about it. More excited about that than I’ve been excited about something in a very long time.

I’ve gotten the first episode, and it’s so well written. Joby Harold’s writing it, showrunning it. Having it come together the way it’s come together, I’m very excited and excited about exploring more of what this character becomes as you’ve seen him, an older version, that you see these experiences that he’s had that inform much more of what you’re going to continually be seeing in Monarch.

KURT RUSSELL: Which, in the first two seasons, we dropped a few things that inform that in a certain way.

I don’t want to drill down too much, because I know you can’t say too much, but have they told you, is it more like a Titan thing, or is it more like Cold War kind of stuff?

WYATT RUSSELL: It’s both, but in a way that… I don’t even know what I can talk about, so you guys figure that out later.

KURT RUSSELL: Watch Collider! [Laughs]

WYATT RUSSELL: But it’s so well integrated into both of those things, the way that they’ve dealt with and are dealing with their hand on how they infused monsters and infused the world of the MonsterVerse into a very, very, very human story, a la Monarch. It’s a little bit simpler because it’s less people. It’s less focused on a past and more focused on a present experience, mission, goal. But Joby has fused these elements so, so, so well, and I’m just excited.

I will not pressure you anymore.

WYATT RUSSELL: I know. Sorry, I’m trying to give you a good answer.

No, I appreciate that.

KURT RUSSELL: It’s great. I’m with you. I think this is going to be really interesting.

This is how I know the show is doing very well, because if they’re willing to do a spinoff.

KURT RUSSELL: And there’s someplace to go.

I’m all in.

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Wyatt Russell on His ‘Thunderbolts*’ Castmate Sharing Scenes With His Dad

“What the f*ck?”

I definitely have to ask the most important question, which is, you did a Super Bowl commercial, and you had Lewis Pullman as the person you’re training. Were you a little upset that it was Lewis being trained and not you?

WYATT RUSSELL: I called Lewis, and I was like, “What the fuck?” Nah, I’m kidding. I was so excited. I was like, “You’re doing Super Bowl commercial with my dad! You’re gonna have so much fun!”

KURT RUSSELL: He did. He asked me. He said, “What’s the story?” And I gave him a little thing. He said, “So who’s the guy?” I said, “Lewis Pullman.” He said, “Lewis Pullman? That’s great!”

WYATT RUSSELL: I was like, “Oh, my god, you’re gonna have so much fun.” Then I was like, “Well, now I’m going to have to do a commercial with Bill about, like, sleeping pills.” [Laughs] Something where it’s like you’re not getting enough sleep, and it’s me and Bill Pullman hocking sleeping pills.

It would actually be great if it were you and Bill, and Lewis and Kurt opposite you guys.

KURT RUSSELL: Anheuser-Busch, are you listening?

[Laughs] Just an idea.

WYATT RUSSELL: I love it.

Monarch: Legacy of Monsters is available to stream on Apple TV+. Keep an eye out for the spoiler half of this conversation later this season.

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November 16, 2023

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Chris Black, Matt Fraction

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Julian Holmes, Matt Shakman, Mairzee Almas, Andy Goddard, Hiromi Kamata

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Al Letson, Karl Taro Greenfeld, Chris Black, Mariko Tamaki, Amanda Overton, Andrew Colville, Matt Fraction, Milla Bell-Hart

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