The Handmaid’s Tale: Season 2 has cast Get Out star Bradley Whitford in a recurring role.
Deadline reports Whitford will portray Commander Joseph Lawrence, the gruff and intimidating architect of Gilead’s economy. The character is described as a mysterious presence for his newest Handmaid due to his flashes of kindness. Whitford is known for his roles as Dean Armitage in Get Out and Josh Lyman in The West Wing.
The second season of Hulu’s hit series will focus on Offred’s pregnancy and her battle to free her future child from Gilead’s dystopian society. The show will return on April 25 with two new episodes premiering on Hulu. Each subsequent episode of Handmaid’s Tale’s 13-episode season will be released on Wednesdays.
One of the biggest questions going into Ubisoft’s next entry of the Far Cry series is just what exactly is changing in Far Cry 5. It’s a fair question, and while Far Cry 5 will definitely be familiar to those who’ve come to know the series, there are quite a few new elements that modify the core gameplay.
As part of our deep dive into Far Cry 5, I got to go roughly 15 hours of hands-on gameplay with the impressively sprawling slice of Montana, and I took note of a few big changes and several smaller ones that expand the game in new ways. While I can’t talk about everything, and I’m sure there are things the I didn’t spot – it’s a big game, after all – you can watch the video above to see everything I know is coming your way on its March 27 release.
As it does occasionally, Rockstar is providing a welcome freebie to players of Grand Theft Auto V. Players will be able to get some free money in GTA Online for a limited time, and in a roundabout way, everything available for sale will be discounted.
Attributing this to a move by the fictional San Andreas Treasury Department, Rockstar has announced a stimulus package for all players on PC, PS4, and Xbox One. By logging into GTA Online between now and February 26, you’ll qualify for $250,000 of in-game cash. This won’t be handed over immediately–you can expect it to reach your Maze Bank account sometime between February 27 and March 6.
In addition to that, Rockstar has kicked off a promotion that requires you to have GTA money now but will save you some in the long haul. Any in-game cash you spend from now until February 26 will get you a 10% refund (for example, spend $500,000, and you’ll get $50,000 back in the bank.) The most you can earn back through this promotion is $1 million, though that’d require you to spend a whopping $10 million. The refund will be delivered on February 27.
You can stack this offer with this week’s new sales, which include 25% off Executive Offices, all 10-car properties, and the Nagasaki Buzzard attack helicopter, among other vehicles. It’s also not too late to take advantage of some of the other bonuses going on in GTA 5 this week, which coincided with the release of a new vehicle, the Vapid Hustler.
Marvel Studios head Kevin Feige wants Ryan Coogler to direct a Black Panther sequel.
In an interview with Variety, Feige discussed the possibility of getting more Black Panther movies, teasing there are still plenty of stories to tell about Wakanda and its ruler. Though Feige made sure to emphasize Marvel Studios only works on one project at a time, he believes fans haven’t seen the last of T’Challa in his own standalone film.
“We always say we work on one movie at a time,” Feige said. “If you have any good ideas, put it in the movie you’re making. If you don’t, you might not be able to make another one. That said, Panther has been around for more than half a century in the comic books and there are many, many stories to tell.”
In news that shook this writer to the core more than he expected, McDonald’s is aiming to reduce the number of calories in its Happy Meals, and the humble cheeseburger is taking the hit.
As reported by USA Today, McDonald’s plans to have all US Happy Meals reduced to 600 calories by June this year, with half of its franchises across the world hitting the same threshold by 2022. Currently, in 20 countries, only 20% of Happy Meal combos meet the new standard.
The upshot is that cheeseburgers will no longer be a part of the standard Happy Meal line-up – although they can be provided on request.
If you only watched the first few minutes of Netflix’s newest original show, Everything Sucks, you’d be forgiven for thinking it’s a Freaks and Geeks rip-off that exists to pander and peddle nostalgia to millennials. But you’d be wrong.
The ’90s references in the first few episodes verge on excruciating. Everyone drinks Surge, obsesses over Tori Amos and Oasis, and enthusiastically impersonates Ace Ventura. The nerdy kids argue over whether the still forthcoming Star Wars remasters will be a ruin of messy CG or a revelation.
We get it. This show is set in the ’90s. Its target demographic of navel-gazing millennials suffer pangs of nostalgia whenever we see a snap bracelet or a Jonathan Taylor Thomas poster. But you can’t hang an entire 10-episode series on that alone, which is exactly what it seems like Everything Sucks is trying to do–at first.
The show follows a handful of high schoolers, including the geeks Luke (Jahi Di’Allo Winston), McQuaid (Rio Mangini), and Tyler (Quinn Liebling), as well as the the freaks/theater kids, primarily Emaline (Sydney Sweeney) and Oliver (Elijah Stevenson), on their various quests to fit in, find love, get high, and stand out. In the opening episode, the freshman year nerds join A.V. club in the hopes of meeting girls, and Luke quickly falls for sophomore Kate Messner (Peyton Kennedy), the principal’s daughter.
That’s boilerplate, Degrassi-level high school schlock. And despite some likable actors and the charming locale in ’90s small town Oregon (the town is literally named Boring; their morning announcements close with the sign-off “Have a Boring day”), it’s hard to get into Everything Sucks‘ first episode. But there’s a hint of something more interesting at the end of that premiere, when Kate–Luke’s crush in the A.V. club–gingerly turns the pages of a cheesy porno rag, her breath quickening, apparently experiencing a sexual awakening right before our eyes.
That’s not exactly the turning point–more a hint of where the show ultimately heads. Unfortunately, the next few episodes are almost unbearably uncomfortable as we cringe through Luke’s long, doomed courtship. He uses his A.V. skills to lip sync Oasis’s “Wonderwall” and recreate music videos by artists like Nirvana and Alanis Morissette (again, we get it), asking Kate out in front of the entire school. He gets her tickets to a Tori Amos concert (oh my god, please stop). All the while, she wrestles with the cruel, casual homophobia of Emeline’s little high school gang, who suspect (but don’t yet know) that Kate is gay. It’s hard to watch.
But then, things slowly start to turn around. Kate witnesses two women kissing at the Tori Amos concert and realizes for the first time that there might be a place in the world where she can be herself. Suddenly the ’90s setting is actually relevant as more than cheap set dressing, as a time when youth culture hadn’t yet fully shifted into the mainstream acceptance widely seen today. Kate rejects Luke once and for all, tears down her JTT poster, and pierces her nose (in her room, with a safety pin).
As Luke and the other characters who were initially presented as the protagonists fade further into the background, the real story emerges. And before you know it, Kate is the main character.
Everything Sucks is actually less a Freaks and Geeks rip-off, and more an adorable gay high school romance. It’s not really about the nerds finding love, or the theater kids and the geeks coming together to make an awesomely hacky homemade sci-fi movie, or the cliques and social castes of high school at all. It’s about Kate Messner, a gay teenager in 1996 small town Oregon, learning how to be herself and find acceptance among her friends and family.
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Throughout the season, a B-plot brews involving sparks between Luke’s mom, a flight attendant estranged from her deadbeat husband, and Kate’s dad, the corny, kindhearted school principal. Their romance is sweet and mostly simple, a stark contrast with the high schoolers’ emotional complexities. As the season goes on, the adults’ lack of malice begins to trickle down into the rest of the show, until it all builds to a cathartic, sweet, hopeful, satisfying conclusion.
Everything Sucks won’t be for everyone, and it’s far from perfect. But for those who can get past the cringey assault of forced ’90s references and discover what the show is actually about, the prospect of a second season–which the final scene sets up in the most obvious way possible–won’t seem so bad.
Following an earlier giveaway to coincide with the launch of its Chinese New Year sale, GOG has now kicked off another. For a limited time, you can grab a free PC game–and not a bad one at that.
Offering something a bit more recent than last time around, Dungeons 2 is currently free on GOG. You can claim it from either its game page or GOG’s homepage; either way, you’ll have a DRM-free copy of the game to play permanently–it doesn’t require the use of Steam or GOG’s (optional) Galaxy client. It’s only available for a total of 48 hours, expiring on February 18. GOG’s sale runs until February 20 and includes Dungeons 2’s DLC, among many other things.
The 2015 strategy game is in the mold of the classic Dungeon Keeper, putting you in the role of an evil Dungeon Lord who has to establish a complex dungeon that keeps out any heroes and protects his precious gold. Where the game attempts to distinguish itself from other Dungeon Keeper-esque games is in its overworld portion, which plays out like a real-time strategy game as you go on the offensive. You can read more about the game in our Dungeons 2 review. A sequel, Dungeons 3, was released last year.
The scientific field isn’t immune to ‘fake news’, after an anonymous ‘biologist’ submitted a paper based purely on an episode of Star Trek.
io9 reports that the paper took its cue from the events of Star Trek: Voyager’s ‘Threshold’ episode, in which Captain Janeway authorises Tom Paris’ attempt to break the transwarp barrier – which he does, but at a price. Travelling at warp 10 accelerates the human evolution process and turns him into an amphibian.
Rapid Genetic and Developmental Morphological Change Following Extreme Celerity was accepted by four different journals and actually published in the American Research Journal of Biosciences, who asked for $50 in exchange.
