HBO has always been synonymous with prestige television. The network has built its reputation on ambitious storytelling that aims to provide more than just entertainment. There’s no denying that the classics, including The Sopranos and Band of Brothers, are in a league of their own, but the last 10 years have also marked a noticeable shift for HBO.
The network’s modern slate feels more daring, introspective, and willing to tell uncomfortable stories. In an era dominated by oversaturation and algorithm-driven content, HBO has doubled down on content that requires the audience to actively engage with it. Here is a list of the greatest HBO shows of the last 10 years that linger long after the credits roll.
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‘Sharp Objects’ (2018)
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Sharp Objectsmight be a miniseries, but it leaves the kind of impact that many long-running shows fail to have. The psychological thriller follows the brilliant Amy Adams as Camille Preaker, a reporter who has recently been discharged from a psychiatric hospital. She is then tasked with investigating the strange murders of two young girls in her hometown of Wind Gap, Missouri. However, once Camille returns to her childhood home, she is forced to confront the personal trauma she has avoided for years.
The most interesting part of the show is how the protagonist’s own life intertwines with the case she is trying to solve. The narrative unfolds in an almost dream-like manner as it reveals information about Camille’s past in fragments. Her complex relationships with her controlling mother, Adora (Patricia Clarkson), and half-sister Amma (Eliza Scanlen) add another layer of intrigue to the whole story. Sharp Objects is the kind of show where every little thing feels intentional. It rewards the audience’s attention by delivering a climax that ties up every loose thread and delivers answers that are both shocking and inevitable at the same time.
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‘Big Little Lies’ (2017–2026)
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Big Little Lies, based on Liane Moriarty’s novel of the same name, is a psychological thriller, domestic drama, and social commentary all rolled into one relentless narrative. The show is essentially a murder story told in reverse. It’s set in the wealthy seaside community of Monterey, California, and opens with a death at a school fundraiser. The story then rewinds to explore how five women’s lives slowly collide with the central mystery and uncovers the events leading up to it. However, Big Little Lies is much more than a conventional whodunit.
The identities of the killer and the victim are initially withheld, and that slow-burn approach ensures that the show hooks the audience in right off the bat. The ensemble cast includes Reese Witherspoon, Nicole Kidman, Shailene Woodley, Laura Dern, and Zoe Kravitz as the leads, all of whom deliver compelling performances. The plot unfolds through time jumps, interrogations, and unreliable perspectives, and serves as a character study for all these women who are complex and messy in their own ways. Big Little Lies asked uncomfortable questions about motherhood and trauma, and in doing so, it paved the way for more female-led dramas.
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‘The White Lotus’ (2021–Present)
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The White Lotusis a delicious satire on power, privilege, and wealth. Each season of the anthology series, written and directed by Mike White, is set in a different White Lotus luxury resort and features a bunch of interesting characters to explore all kinds of power dynamics. Every installment unfolds over the course of a single week. So far, the stories have all opened with a death before rewinding to show how a brand-new group of guests and staff spiral toward the inevitable outcome. Rather than relying on traditional murder mystery mechanics, The White Lotus uses subtle microaggressions, miscommunications, and emotional cruelty to build its constant sense of tension.
The dynamics between the guests and the lesser-privileged staff of the resorts serve as some of the most memorable moments on the show, especially because of how the setting serves as a bubble where the rich barely face the consequences of their actions. The format of the show also keeps it from ever feeling stale, with every new season exploring similar themes, but from a completely different lens and in a completely different context. Visually, The White Lotus feels like pure escapism with its sunny skies, infinity pools, and grand interiors, but that only reinforces the idea that money can’t erase moral rot. The show strikes the perfect balance between dark humor and social commentary, and thrives on its unpredictability. All of this makes The White Lotus one of the most bingeable shows on HBO right now.
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‘Mare of Easttown’ (2021)
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Mare of Easttownis a bleak,character-driven crime drama that follows a murder mystery, but quickly expands its emotional scope to deliver a story that stays with the audience long after the credits roll. The series, created by Brad Ingelsby, is set in a small Pennsylvania town where everyone knows each other, and no one ever truly escapes their past. The story centers on Marianne “Mare” Sheehan (Kate Winslet), a worn‑down detective who is grieving the suicide of her son, fighting to maintain custody of her grandson, and facing public resentment for failing to solve a year‑old missing persons case involving a local girl. The stakes are already high, but when teenage mother Erin McMenamin (Cailee Spaeny) is found murdered in the woods, Mare is put under intense pressure to deliver justice.
This leads her and her new partner, Detective Colin Zabel (Evan Peters), down a rabbit hole of secrets that keep getting worse. Every lead implicates someone close to Mare, which reinforces the idea that in a small town, solving a crime means betraying someone. The show complicates this mystery with shocking twists and red herrings to constantly keep the audience and Mare on edge. The protagonist operates in this morally gray area where she manipulates evidence and crosses legal lines to protect herself and whatever is left of her family. In doing all this, Mare of Easttown talks about how communities deal with tragedy and forces its characters to confront the painful truths they have spent years avoiding. The show easily stands out as one of the strongest HBO dramas of all time, one that isn’t exactly easy to watch, but is worth every second.
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‘Barry’ (2018–2023)
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Barrybegins as a small-scale crime drama, but expands into a story that uses dark comedy to interrogate violence and guilt. The series, created by and starring Bill Hader, follows Barry Berkman, a former Marine suffering from depression and emotional detachment, who now works as a contract killer. The story picks up when he is sent to Los Angeles for a job, but ends up wandering into an acting class led by Gene Cousineau (Henry Winkler). The experience awakens something in Barry by offering the validation and purpose he has been looking for.
It allows him to truly believe that he can become someone new, but the catch is that the reality of his life is never too far behind. Barry’s handler, Monroe Fuches (Stephen Root), refuses to let him walk away from his work, which becomes the central conflict of the story. As Barry juggles auditions, personal relationships, and murder, his two lives begin to seep into each other in ways he is not okay with. As the story goes on, the tone of the show darkens and becomes increasingly uncomfortable. The series refuses to paint Barry as black or white, and that makes him feel real despite all the heightened drama unfolding around him.
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‘House of the Dragon’ (2022–Present)
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House of the Dragon is aGame of Thronesspinoff that strips the fantasy spectacle of the original into something that feels way more brutal. The series adapts George R. R. Martin’s Fire & Blood, and narrows the scope of the story to explore inheritance and pride within the House of Targaryen. The show is set roughly 200 years before the events of the original series, at the height of the Targaryen rule.
Things pick up with King Viserys I Targaryen (Paddy Considine) naming his daughter Rhaenyra Targaryen (Milly Alcock and Emma D’Arcy) as the successor to the Iron Throne. However, the decision defies centuries of patriarchal precedent and plants a seed of instability that festers slowly but surely. Things only grow more complex when Viserys remarries and produces male children with Alicent Hightower (Olivia Cooke). The plot unfolds over years, which allows relationships to evolve and resentments to really settle. At the same time, the series never frames its conflict in simple terms and shows how everyone is capable of cruelty within systems of power.
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Collider Exclusive · TV Medicine Quiz Which Fictional Hospital Would You Work Best In? The Pitt · ER · Grey’s Anatomy · House · Scrubs
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Five hospitals. Five completely different ways medicine goes sideways on television — brutal, chaotic, romantic, brilliant, and ridiculous. Only one of them is the ward your instincts were built for. Eight questions will figure out exactly where you belong.
🚨The Pitt
🏥ER
💉Grey’s
🔬House
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🩺Scrubs
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A critical patient comes through the door. What’s your first instinct? Medicine under pressure reveals who you actually are.
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Why did you go into medicine in the first place? The honest answer says more about you than the one you’d give in an interview.
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What do you actually want from the people you work with? Who you want beside you under pressure is who you are.
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You lose a patient you fought hard to save. How do you carry it? Every doctor who’s worked a long shift has had to answer this question.
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How would your colleagues describe the way you work? Your reputation on the floor is usually more accurate than your self-image.
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How do you feel about hospital protocol and procedure? Every institution has rules. What you do with them is a choice.
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What does this job cost you personally? Nobody works in medicine without paying a price. What’s yours?
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At the end of a long shift, what keeps you coming back? The answer to this question is the most honest thing about you.
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Your Assignment Has Been Made You Belong In…
Your answers have pointed to one fictional hospital above all others. This is the ward your instincts, your temperament, and your particular brand of dysfunction were built for.
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Pittsburgh Trauma Medical Center
The Pitt
You are built for the most unsparing version of emergency medicine television has ever shown — one that puts you inside a single fifteen-hour shift and doesn’t let you look away.
You need your work to be real, not romanticised — meaning over drama, honesty over aesthetics.
You find purpose inside the work itself, not in the chaos surrounding it.
You’ve made peace with the fact that this job takes from you constantly, and gives back in ways that are harder to name.
Pittsburgh Trauma Medical Center demands exactly that kind of person — and you would not want to be anywhere else.
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County General Hospital, Chicago
ER
You are the person who keeps the whole floor running — not the most brilliant in the room, but possibly the most essential.
You show up, do the work, absorb the losses, and come back the next day without needing the job to be anything other than what it is.
You care about patients as individual human beings, not as cases to solve or dramas to live through.
You believe in the system even when it fails you — and you understand that emergency medicine is about holding the line just long enough.
ER is television about endurance. You have it.
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Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital, Seattle
Grey’s Anatomy
You came to medicine with your whole self — your ambition, your emotions, your relationships, your history — and you have never quite managed to leave any of it at the door.
You feel things fully and form deep attachments to the people you work with.
Your personal and professional lives are permanently, chaotically entangled — and that entanglement drives both your greatest disasters and your most remarkable saves.
You understand that extraordinary medicine often happens at the intersection of clinical skill and profound human connection.
It’s messy at Grey Sloan. You would not have it any other way.
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Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital, NJ
House
You are drawn to the problem above everything else — the symptom that doesn’t fit, the diagnosis hiding underneath the obvious one.
You’re not primarily motivated by the patient as a person — though you are capable of caring, even if you’d deny it.
You work best when the stakes are highest and the standard answer is wrong.
Princeton-Plainsboro exists to house one extraordinary, impossible mind — and everyone around that mind is there because they’re smart enough to keep up.
The only way forward here is to think harder than everyone else in the room. That is exactly what you do.
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Sacred Heart Hospital, California
Scrubs
You understand that medicine is tragic and absurd in almost equal measure — and that the only sane response is to hold both of those things at the same time.
You are warm, self-aware, and funnier than most people in your field.
You use humour to get through terrible moments — and at Sacred Heart, that’s not a flaw, it’s a survival strategy.
You lean on the people around you and let them lean back. The laughter and the grief are genuinely inseparable here.
Scrubs is a show about learning to become someone worthy of the job. You are still very much in the middle of that process — which is exactly right.
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‘The Night Of’ (2016)
DA John Stone (John Turturro) sits in court with his client Nasir Khan (Riz Ahmed) in ‘The Night Of’ (2016).Image via HBO
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The Night Of is a slow‑burn crime drama that uses a single murder case to expose the brutal workings of the American criminal justice system. The HBO limited series unfolds less like a traditional whodunit and more like a bureaucratic nightmare where truth becomes secondary to process. The story begins with Nasir “Naz” Khan (Riz Ahmed), a shy Pakistani‑American college student who borrows his father’s taxi for a night out in New York City. After meeting a mysterious young woman, Andrea Cornish (Sofia Black‑D’Elia), the two spend the evening together before Naz wakes up in her apartment to find her brutally murdered beside him, and that’s when his fate is pretty much sealed.
Soon enough, Naz is arrested and shoved into a system that isn’t interested in uncovering the truth. He is represented by small-time defense attorney Jack Stone (John Turturro), who becomes his only ally amidst all this chaos, but that, too, is not the most reliable one. The show doesn’t really rush toward a conclusion. Instead, it explores the devastating transformation Naz goes through in prison, where he is isolated, frightened, and eventually hardened. Every episode takes the investigation in a new direction while exploring the consequences Naz has to face for something he might not have even done. The Night Of avoids heated courtroom battles because it focuses on how tedious it really is for justice to be delivered. By the time the truth finally comes out, Naz is no longer the same person, and that’s exactly the statement the show is trying to make.
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‘The Pitt’ (2025–Present)
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The Pitt is quickly earning a reputation for revitalizing the medical drama genre with its exhausting approach to storytelling in the ER. With each season set almost entirely within a single shift in the titular emergency room, the HBO series pulls no punches in how it immerses viewers into the chaos of modern healthcare. Expect overworked doctors and nurses making impossible decisions as they deal with overcrowding, the emotional toll of the job, and more.
The Pitt impressed fans and critics alike with its dedication to realism, both in its depiction of medical cases and the broken system that healthcare workers have to deal with on a daily basis. It’s a stressful TV series that keeps you hooked from start to finish, leaving you just as tired as its well-written characters, who remind fans that healthcare workers carry incredible burdens with them long after their shifts end.
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‘Succession’ (2018–2023)
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Succession is a black comedy that satirizes the corporate world. Beneath that, though, it’s a messy, complex, and wild family drama at heart. The series, created by Jesse Armstrong, centers on the Roy family, owners of the multinational media conglomerate Waystar Royco. The story begins with patriarch Logan Roy’s (Brian Cox) declining health, triggering a succession crisis that he has no intention of actually resolving. His children, Kendall (Jeremy Strong), Siobhan “Shiv” (Sarah Snook), Roman (Kieran Culkin), and Connor (Alan Ruck), are all desperate to earn their father’s validation and the throne he sits on. This leads to a race where the siblings constantly swing between sabotaging each other and teaming up to try to sabotage their manipulative father.
The drama involves boardroom coups, hostile takeovers, media scandals, and political backroom deals, but all of this only serves as the backdrop for the show’s larger exploration of how parental neglect manifests in strange ways. Nothing in Succession feels permanent, and that gives the show a cyclical nature that compels the audience to keep watching. Despite all that, though, the series portrays its characters as fully-realized humans, shaped by the world they have grown up in. All of that is punctuated by the show’s devastating yet fitting finale that is still being talked about simply because of how brilliant it truly was.
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‘Watchmen’ (2019)
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Watchmen reimagines Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’ iconic graphic novel through the lens of American history, racial trauma, and power. The series, created by Damon Lindelof, is set decades after the original events, and opens with the historical violence of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, which immediately grounds the show in real-world atrocities. From there, the story shifts to an alternate-reality present day where masked law enforcement has become necessary following a wave of anti-police violence.
The narrative follows detective Angela Abar (Regina King), who is operating under the vigilante persona Sister Night. Angela’s work gradually pulls her into a larger conspiracy involving policing, memory, inherited trauma, and the unresolved consequences of the original Watchmen’s infamous ending. That’s when the line between her personal history and her work begins to blur. Watchmen takes a slow-burn approach to resolving its mystery, with tons of detours along the way. The show never presents anything as purely good or bad to show that power without accountability always reproduces some kind of harm.
Everything is better with dinosaurs, that’s a scientific fact. Or even if it isn’t, maybe it should be, because science makes sense that way. You know what? Bill Nye would probably back us up on that one. One of the biggest franchises in the world is heading into much bigger, stompier territory this summer, and the Science Guy is one of the key figures involved in dealing with some dino DNA.
The PAW Patrol gang is heading for a new adventure, crash-landing on an island full of dinosaurs, which feels like a lot for a group of dogs who already have to deal with Mayor Humdinger on a regular basis. Some of them just want a quiet life. This time around, the PAW Patrol pups end up shipwrecked on an uncharted tropical island full of dinosaurs, and it’s there that they meet Rex, a young dog who’s been stranded on the island for years and is essentially Dr. Alan Grant at this stage. Things quickly get worse when Mayor Humdinger begins recklessly mining the island for its natural resources, accidentally triggering a huge dormant volcano. That isn’t good.
The new trailer for PAW Patrol: The Dino Movie will also arrive on Wednesday, June 10, ahead of the film’s theatrical release on August 14, 2026. The movie will also feature a new Backstreet Boys single, “Bottle Up,” presumably because if you’re making a kids movie that might end up driving parents round the bend, you may as well through in a bop full of pop nostalgia for the parents too.
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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
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
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🏜️Dune
🚀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.
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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.
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.
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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.
Los Angeles, 2049
Blade Runner
You’d survive here because you know how to exist in moral grey areas without losing yourself completely.
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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.
Arrakis
Dune
Arrakis is the most hostile environment in the known universe — and you are precisely the kind of person it rewards.
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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.
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.
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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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Who’s Involved in ‘PAW Patrol: The Dino Movie’?
PAW Patrol: The Dino Movie features Mckenna Grace (Ghostbusters: Afterlife), Terry Crews (Brooklyn Nine-Nine), Meredith MacNeill (Baroness von Sketch Show), Ron Pardo (PAW Patrol: The Movie), Jennifer Hudson(Dreamgirls), Jameela Jamil (The Good Place), Paris Hilton (The Simple Life), and Snoop Dogg (Training Day), with Henry Bolan making his debut. The film is directed by Cal Brunker, who co-wrote the screenplay with Bob Barlen. Jennifer Dodge, Laura Clunie, and Toni Stevens produce, with Ronnen Harary executive producing.
Based on the television series created by Keith Chapman, PAW Patrol: The Dino Movie opens in theaters on August 14, 2026. Stay tuned to Collider for more updates.
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WithBackrooms, Obsession, and Masters of the Universe dominating headlines this past week, a major update slipped through the cracks. No, it isn’t the underperformance of The Mandalorian and Grogu, to the point that the movie is now trailing Solo: A Star Wars Story. Nor is it the textbook counter-programming provided by the World War II drama-thriller Pressure, starring Brendan Fraser and Andrew Scott. This past weekend, when all these titles were jostling for space in the upper half of the domestic box-office list, a holdover mega-hit passed a milestone that no other movie has passed this year.
This time in 2025, the Chinese animated hitNe Zha 2 had already cemented itself as the biggest movie in the world with more than $2 billion at the box office. In Hollywood, the live-action Lilo & Stitch remake became the first film of 2025 to hit the $1 billion mark. Would you believe that no 2026 movie — domestic or otherwise — had managed to replicate this achievement until now? What’s more surprising is that 2026 is leading 2025 in year-on-year box-office returns by around $300 million domestically. However, this past weekend saw The Super Mario Galaxy Movie hit the $1 billion milestone, a little more than two months into its run, and after it had been made available on the PVOD market. The movie debuted in theaters on April 1, and has since gone on to make $428.5 million in North America and $571.5 million in other territories for a cumulative global haul of exactly $1 billion.
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Collider Exclusive · Marvel Personality Quiz Which MCU Hero Are You? Spider-Man · Daredevil · Iron Man · Punisher · Thor · Cap
Six heroes. One destiny. Answer 10 questions to discover which Marvel Cinematic Universe hero shares your personality, values, and fighting spirit. Will you swing, fly, or thunder your way to glory?
🕷️Spider-Man
😈Daredevil
🤖Iron Man
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💀Punisher
⚡Thor
🛡️Cap
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What drives you to do what’s right? Choose the answer that feels most like you.
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It’s 2 AM. Where are you? Your answer says more about you than you’d think.
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How do you handle a villain who keeps escaping justice? Every hero has a method. What’s yours?
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How do you feel about keeping a secret identity? The mask — or the lack of one — says everything.
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You’ve lost someone important because of your heroism. How do you carry that? Every hero pays a price. The question is how they pay it.
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What’s your role when working with a team? Who you are under pressure is who you actually are.
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Where do you draw the line between justice and revenge? The answer defines what kind of hero you really are.
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When you’re not saving the world, what does life look like? The person behind the mask is always the more interesting story.
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What keeps you up at night? Fear is useful data — if you’re honest about what you’re actually afraid of.
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The battle is lost. You’re outnumbered, outgunned, and exhausted. What do you do? This is your tiebreaker — choose carefully.
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Your Hero Has Been Identified Your MCU Hero Is…
Based on your answers, the Marvel hero who matches your spirit, values, and instincts has been revealed.
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Queens, New York
🕷️ Spider-Man
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You carry the weight of the world on shoulders that are younger than they should have to be — funny, loyal, and endlessly self-sacrificing.
You do the right thing not because it’s easy, but because no one else will.
You understand that responsibility isn’t a burden you choose — it’s one that finds you.
Whether it’s a neighbourhood mugging or a multiverse crisis, you show up.
Peter Parker’s lesson — that great power demands great responsibility — isn’t a slogan to you. It’s the code you live by, even when it costs you everything.
Hell’s Kitchen, New York
😈 Daredevil
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You fight in the shadows between law and chaos, guided by a fierce moral compass that refuses to let the guilty walk free.
You use every tool available — your mind, your body, your faith — to protect those the system overlooks.
You’ve looked into the darkness and chosen not to become it, though the line has never been easy.
Matt Murdock’s duality — champion in the courtroom, devil in the alley — mirrors your own.
Relentless, conflicted, and unwilling to stop. That is exactly you.
Stark Industries, Malibu
🤖 Iron Man
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Brilliant, driven, and occasionally insufferable — but always the person who solves the unsolvable problem.
You lead with your mind and back it up with resources, innovation, and a stubbornness that borders on heroic.
You started out looking out for yourself, but somewhere along the way the world became your responsibility.
Tony Stark’s arc — from ego to sacrifice — is your arc too.
You build, you plan, and when the moment comes, you’re willing to give everything. Because in the end, you’re Iron Man.
New York City
💀 The Punisher
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You’ve been through fire that would break most people — and it did change you, completely. What’s left is unyielding, relentless, and operating by a code forged in grief.
You don’t ask for forgiveness, and you don’t expect gratitude.
You see a corrupt, broken world and you’ve decided to do something about it, consequences be damned.
Frank Castle’s war is born from love twisted by loss — and so is yours.
Uncompromising and unflinching — the world may not agree with your methods, but your conviction is absolute.
Asgard · Protector of the Nine Realms
⚡ Thor
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Powerful, proud, and on a lifelong journey to become worthy of the legend you carry.
You lead with strength but have learned — sometimes painfully — that true greatness comes from humility and growth.
You’re larger than life, yet more vulnerable than you let on.
Thor’s story is one of transformation: from arrogant prince to worthy king, from isolated warrior to beloved protector.
You bring the storm when it’s needed — and the warmth when it matters just as much.
Brooklyn, New York · The Avengers
🛡️ Captain America
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You believe in something bigger than yourself — and you fight for it even when the world has moved on and nobody else will.
You don’t bully the small guy, and you never stop when it gets hard.
Steve Rogers didn’t become a hero when he got the serum — he was always one. So were you.
Your strength isn’t in your fists; it’s in your refusal to compromise what’s right, no matter the cost.
In a world full of people taking the easy road, you’re the one who picks up the shield and stands up — every single time.
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‘The Super Mario Galaxy Movie’ Doesn’t Need Positive Reviews
The sequel was released three years after The Super Mario Bros. Movie, which shattered expectations to gross $1.3 billion worldwide. These movies have given Universal and Illumination another franchise to rely on, especially with the Despicable Me series in flux. That said, the Despicable Me franchise will return shortly with Minions & Monsters. Produced on a reported budget of $110 million, The Super Mario Galaxy Movie brought back Chris Pratt and Charlie Day in the central roles, along with Anya Taylor-Joy and Jack Black. Brie Larson, Donald Glover, and Glen Powelljoined the franchise as new characters. Like its predecessor, The Super Mario Galaxy Movie wasn’t exactly critically acclaimed. It holds a 42% score on the aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes. However, the film’s “Verified Hot” 88% audience score paints an entirely different picture, and perhaps explains why it’s the year’s first $1 billion blockbuster. Stay tuned to Collider for more updates.
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April 1, 2026
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98 Minutes
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“No, I don’t think so,” the former talk show host, 64, told E! News at the 2026 Tony Awards on Sunday, June 7.
O’Donnell said she decided to get a facelift, despite previously being against the procedure, after losing a considerable amount of weight, which caused her to have excess skin on her face.
“I’m on [diabetes and weight loss drug] Mounjaro for the last three years. I have diabetes, and I lost over 50 pounds and then was responsible for a lot of the extra skin that I had around my face,” she explained. “And there were two lines that made me look sad. In Ireland, people would say, ‘Are you upset, darling? What’s the matter, love?’ and I’m like, ‘That’s just my face. I’m not upset. It’s just how I look.’”
While some prefer to fly under the radar when they get plastic surgery, celebrities including Denise Richards, Secret Lives of Mormon Wives’ Jessi Ngatikaura and Heidi Montag keep it candid. After getting some of her enhancements reversed in 2013, Montag exclusively told Us Weekly that she struggled with the decision. Thank You! You have successfully subscribed. […]
The former View cohost, who moved to Ireland last year, first shared her transformation in a May 25 Substack post, admitting that she initially felt the procedure “was a betrayal. Of feminism. Of aging. Of our team of women worldwide.”
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However, since going under the knife in January, O’Donnell said she wants to be open and honest about the work she’s had done.
“Authenticity is the goal in these days and times, and people are lying about everything all day to the American public. It’s very depressing to me and unsettling, and I think all that matters is truth and love,” she said. “And so, I wanted to be truthful and say all the complicated feelings I had about it.”
“I just felt it was better to be truthful than not, and I didn’t want some tabloid to go, ‘Gotcha!’” the comedian went on. “I just wanted to say, ‘Here’s what I did, here’s the doctor…’ and if you want to, it’s very expensive. It’s more expensive than any car I ever bought, but I can’t drive around in my face.”
Rosie O’Donnell surprised fans in May 2025 by revealing a positive update on her weight loss journey — which she credited to using the medication Mounjaro. The injectable drug (also known as tirzepatide) is similar to Ozempic and Wegovy in that it is used primarily to treat diabetes, but can also be effective in weight […]
In her Substack post, O’Donnell addressed how her appearance changed after losing weight, writing, “It wasn’t wrinkles — it was gravity. I’d look in the mirror and think, ‘This isn’t aging, this is melting with intention.’ I tried to be evolved about it and say things like, ‘This is natural. This is earned.’ And then … ‘Umm, how earned does it have to look?’ There’s a point where acceptance starts to feel like lying.”
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O’Donnell said she enlisted a doctor who had worked with some of her friends and is pleased with the results of her procedure.
“I wanted to still be me, just … less haunted. And I do look like me — a slightly more well-rested, emotionally stable version of me,” she wrote.
“I didn’t disappear, I didn’t become someone else — I just stopped arguing with the mirror,” O’Donnell added. “And maybe that’s enough. Or at the very least … it’s what a lower deep plane facelift looks like when it minds its own business.”
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The unstoppable Ridley Scott has a new project in the works, and this time he’s brought Hugh Jackman along as his first mate. Together, the two are set to sail the seven seas in a new nautical adventure adapting one of the most beloved seafaring tales of all time. However, the film is looking for a movie studio to be its port of call.
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According to reports, Jackman is set to star in a new adaptation of the classic Robert Louis Stevenson novel Treasure Island. Jackman will play iconic pirate Long John Silver in the film, which is looking for a studio home. Scott has traditionally worked with 20th Century, and did present the project to the studio; however, as 20th Century is now an arm of the Disney octopus, the studio did not want to release a pirate project that might compete with its blockbuster Pirates of the Caribbean franchise, which the studio intends to continue or reboot at some point in the future.
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“I think Yana Grebenyuk Taylor [Sheridan] is going to let me hang around,” Thornton, 70, exclusively told Us Weekly while attending the Newport Beach TV Fest sponsored by Visit Newport Beach on Saturday, June 6, hinting that his character won’t be killed off just yet.
Thornton’s insight comes after season 1 of the hit Paramount+ series concluded with Monty (Jon Hamm) dying after suffering numerous strokes. The death shocked viewers, considering Hamm’s status as a main cast member. In season 2, Thornton’s character took over Monty’s role at the oil tycoon’s company M-Tex.
Tommy has since branched out from M-Tex, but he is once again at the center of the business, which has made some fans worry that it could cause health issues down the line. While the audience can breathe easy about Tommy’s faith for now, season 2 left a lot of unanswered questions.
Taylor Sheridan‘s hit series Landman was renewed for season 3 — but which stars are and aren’t returning after that shocking firing? Inspired by the “Boomtown” podcast series, Landman is focused on the West Texas oil industry with a specific focus on crisis executive Tommy Norris and his family. The Paramount+ show, which premiered in […]
Both Ali Larter and Andy Garcia revealed to Us that they were in the dark about what is still to come.
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“I really can’t even assume or try to guess what Taylor is going to imagine for season 3,” Larter, 50, shared at the event. “One thing I know is that to be able to get this far into our story lines, we all know each other. So the characters really understand what their dynamics are.”
Larter, who plays Angela, teased that Sheridan will “just lean into that,” adding, “And I think what’s nice is that it’s not the first time. So when you’re going back down, it’s not the anxiety and the nervousness. You’ll get a little bit of the jitters, but to be able to go down and just do what we love [is wonderful].”
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Garcia, 70, had a similar outlook on the experience.
“I’m in Taylor’s hands. I’m in it to win it. So, whatever he wants or has plans for me, I’m ready to execute,” he told Us. “It all starts from the writing. He’s the writer — and he’s the storyteller — and I think he writes all the characters in a very specific way. They are very well rounded and the stories are intertwined in a way that’s very engaging and he has a flair for the dramatic.”
Garcia continued, “He also [has] an understanding of humanity and empathy and he has an insight into relationships that are very keen. Whether it’s husband and wife, or father and daughter, or father and son, or in case maybe a businessman. It’s a privilege. When you have great writing, it’s always a privilege.”
Taylor Sheridan‘s Landman introduced some shocking twists and turns — but where would season 3 go after Demi Moore‘s Cami fired Billy Bob Thornton‘s character Tommy? Landman, which premiered in November 2024, is Sheridan’s newest hit series, joining the ranks of Yellowstone, Mayor of Kingstown, Tulsa King, Lawmen: Bass Reeves and Lioness. Based on the […]
Thornton, for his part, showed his support for Sheridan’s work — and once again took the chance to advocate for the prolific producer’s lack of award show recognition.
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“It’s like, ‘If you have a disagreement over someone’s way or vibe or whatever it is, that’s not the point,” he noted. “The point is, is he good? He writes great stuff.”
The actor continued, “He’s created quite an empire — and you have to respect him for that. He has the fame, he has the success, he deserves to be recognized for his work in TV shows, for sure.”
Euphoria‘s Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje is addressing the confusion over Alamo and Maddy’s shocking hookup.
“With regard to the wonderful Alexa Demie — and what a great performance of Maddy — there was a lot of conjecture as to whether she slept with him,” Akinnuoye-Agbaje, 58, exclusively told Us Weekly.
“He laid out the bikini, he put on Etta James, he got the champagne, he’s in the hot tub in a snake skin speedo,” he noted. “I don’t think he’s there to play with the tootsies. So I just thought that was pretty obvious.”
Euphoria has caused a lot of confusion for viewers throughout the seasons — and now they are asking what exactly took place between Maddy and Alamo. Ahead of the season 3 finale, Maddy (Alexa Demie) had to ask Alamo (Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje) for money after Cassie (Sydney Sweeney) found out that Nate (Jacob Elordi) only had […]
The actor has enjoyed the offscreen reaction to his character’s development, adding, “What has been amusing is I’ve seen a few memes of what they call M and M — Mo and Mads — with four cocoa colored babies. That’s kind of fun. But I’ve done my part. I leave the rest for you guys to make your own movies.”
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Euphoria viewers were initially confused after a May episode of the hit HBO show had Alamo forcing Maddy to put on a bathing suit and get in a hot tub with him. He ultimately agreed to help Maddy get the $1 million needed to save Nate (Jacob Elordi), but the scene cut off before the rest of their interaction was shown.
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In the season 3 finale, which aired earlier this month, Maddy visited Alamo at his strip club, where he made a move on her while proposing they have four kids together. Alamo started to touch Maddy — who got on his lap — before the scene cut out again amid an implied but unseen kiss.
“I think he saw things in Maddie that reminded him of himself,” Akinnuoye-Agbaje shared. “She’s a business woman, she’s bold and she’s well put together. She’s a no-nonsense person.”
Akinnuoye-Agbaje thought Alamo was “turned on by that,” saying, “He was inspired by that. The point that she came into his life, he had achieved everything, he defeated the DEA, he defeated Laurie, he got rid of Rue the rat and he’d gotten all of the drugs and the money. He was on top of the world.”
“He realized he has everything but nothing. He had this wonderful moment of self-reflection — this epiphany that he had been exploiting women all this time — and now he wanted to surrender to them,” he continued. “He mistakenly — or rightly — thought that, ‘OK, Maddy, you’re The One.’ But obviously when push comes to shove — excuse the pun — he threw her out the window and used her as a bulletproof shield.”
Akinnuoye-Agbaje only saw one ending for Alamo. “He was always going to be about himself first,” he told Us. “That is the man. So would they have had a future? I think he would have tried. They would have had their cocoa colored babies, perhaps. But I think anytime he was under threat — his empire or his life — he would have sacrificed her in a minute as we saw in the showdown.”
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After playing such a divisive character, Akinnuoye-Agbaje is curious what role will come his way next, adding, “I personally always like to go with things that challenge me to do something different. It could be humor or could be a comedy. The one thing I would say is that I’ve played a character that’s been so rich, complex, and layered that anything I do has to be at least on that level.”
He concluded, “How that manifests, I don’t mind. But I think I always like to keep my audience guessing. I enjoy disappearing from myself and transforming. So it would be probably something different for what I’ve played. It could be something that’s the antithesis to what I’ve just played.”
Benedict Cumberbatch, Sabrina Carpenter, Gwendoline Christie, more stars pop up in Madonna’s eye-popping “Confessions II” short film teasing upcoming biopic.
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Billowy dresses, tailored trousers, delicate florals — who wouldn’t want to look like a Parisian rich mom? Luckily, you don’t need a plane ticket to channel effortless Left Bank energy. These chic summer dresses, blouses, two-piece outfit sets and more look straight out of a seventh arrondissement boutique, and they start at only $7!
The trick is leaning into quality fabrics, relaxed silhouettes and prints with a little soul. Whether you’re running errands, lounging at the beach or meeting the girls for lunch, these 11 Parisian-style pieces capture that je ne sais quoi without the jet lag. They’ll quietly upgrade your wardrobe all summer long.
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11 Summer-in-Paris Pieces — From $7
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4. Zimmermann Vibes: Designer lookalikes usually disappoint, but this colorful printed maxi nails the breezy silhouette without the four-figure price tag.
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Remember when dad sneakers and clunky clogs were everywhere? That moment is over. Everyone’s replacing polarizing kicks with these sleek, expensive-looking styles that make any outfit appear polished. Refined footwear is officially back! We’re talking about chic flats, summery sandals, clean sneakers and mules you can slip on without a second thought. These 13 summer […]
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8. Wardrobe MVP: Skip the basic tee. This textured top is much more sophisticated, and at only $25, you can grab two.
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11. Could Be Linen: Instead of mixing and matching, Parisian gals opt for this linen-looking two-piece set. You can wear them together or split them up with denim and a tee.
Sam Raimi isn’t only one of the best horror and superhero directors of the last 40 years, he’s also an incredibly successful producer who kickstarted the 90s syndication boom. Hercules, Xena, Young Hercules, Jack of All Trades, all of them were executive produced by Raimi and filmed in New Zealand. There’s another show in his stable, one that doesn’t get talked about as much as the others, and unlike all of them, it’s sci-fi. Cleopatra 2525 is so campy, it makes She-Spies seem grounded, and it was another Raimi hit that aired for two seasons. Today, you can’t find it streaming anywhere, which has denied generations the chance to see a stripper save the future.
Cleopatra 2525 Is A Sci-Fi Fever Dream
Cleopatra 2525 is as goofy as the title. Cleo (Jennifer Sky), an exotic dancer, was cryogenically frozen after a simple cosmetic procedure went wrong, and wound up waking up 500 years later in a future where humanity lives underground. AI has taken over the surface using drones called Baileys to keep humanity in check. Cleo joins the resistance fighters Hel (pre-FireflyGina Torres) and Sarge (Victoria Pratt) as they are given missions by The Voice (Elizabeth Hawthorne). Three women, missions given by only a voice? It’s sci-fiCharlie’s Angels.
Most of the plots center around Betrayers, which, as the name implies, are humans working for the Baileys. In practice, this turns episodes into games of Among Us where the team has to deduce who the Betrayer is, or go out of their way to capture a Betrayer, and you get the idea. As with Xena and Hercules, the majority of the episodes are self-contained adventures, though as with Raimi’s other shows, there’s a stable of supporting characters that pop in and out of the series.
What you can expect every episode is Cleo impressing the residents of the 25th century with her deep, philosophical musings, such as “The truth is out there” or “Live long and prosper. The Force is with you.” It’s a take on Idiocracy, years before Mike Judge released his documentary. Pop culture of today is to the future what Shakespeare is to us.
The Golden Age Of Campy Sci-Fi
The most surprising fact about Cleopatra 2525 isn’t that this fever dream of a sci-fi show was made in the first place, it’s that it lasted two seasons. As a reminder, Firefly, Almost Human, Flashforward, Terra Nova, 1899, none of those made it to two seasons. Amazingly, Jack of All Trades, which aired back-to-back with Cleopatra 2525 also made it to two seasons, proving that Sam Raimi knows exactly what to do to make a low-budget go as far as possible.
Cleopatra 2525 is available as an out of print DVD box set but other than that, it’s not streaming anywhere. For the longest time, it was on Tubi, which means it’ll likely pop back up at some point and when it does, it’s well worth checking out. The early 2000s were a Golden Age of campy, low-budget sci-fi that holds up remarkably well. It’s insane, the special effects looked dated back then, and yet, Cleopatra 2525 has more heart and joy than the majority of today’s sci-fi.
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