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18. Rhea Seehorn (Better Call Saul)

The title of Better Call Saul might reference shady lawyer Saul Goodman–real name Jimmy McGill–but fans of the Breaking Bad-spinoff know that the most important character is Kim Wexler. The constant girlfriend, business partner, supporter, and defender of the increasingly undeserving Jimmy, Kim is one of TV’s strongest and most interesting female characters, brilliantly played by Rhea Seehorn. This year’s Season 4 was the one where she really came into her own, as the gulf between her and Jimmy grew even wider. As Jimmy killed time working in a phone store while temporarily banned from practicing law, Kim worked, negotiated, and hustled her way to a dream job, basically cancelling out the plans that she and Jimmy had to work together. And yet she still found time to help Jimmy get back on his feet.

Better Call Saul is a show populated by gangsters, drug dealers, and money-hungry lawyers, and Seehorn’s sympathetic, captivating performance provides the show with a much-needed antidote. Sure, Kim is not above bending the rules, but always at the service of someone else, never for her own gain. While the Episode 9 showdown with Jimmy was filled with verbal fireworks, it was the final moments of Episode 10 that resonate most. As Kim realizes that Jimmy’s “performance” in the appeal to get his license back was built entirely on deception, her face falls from jubilation to a look of surprise, disappointment, and disgust. It’s no accident that the final shot in the entire season is not of Jimmy, but of Kim, standing betrayed and alone.–Dan Auty

Crunchyroll has announced the Anime Awards are coming back for a third year in a row. The ceremony itself won’t happen until 2019, in order to give 2018 Fall anime series time to conclude.

The full list of categories and the roster of judges will be announced in mid-December, and voting will start on January 11, 2019 before ending on January 18. Winners for each category will be revealed on February 16, 2019.

The hit series My Hero Academia dominated the second annual Anime Awards, winning Best Animation, Best Opening, Best Action, Best Boy, Best Girl, Hero of the Year, and Villain of the Year. The show did not, however, nab the top prize of Anime of Year, which instead went to Made in Abyss. Other notable standouts were Your Name for Best Film, Land of the Lustrous for Best CGI, and My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness for Manga of the Year.

If you need to catch up on anime prior to Crunchyroll’s Anime Awards, refer to our guide of anime you should be watching for the Fall 2018 season. It lists every series airing on Crunchyroll, Funimation, Hidive, Netflix, and Amazon so you can catch up on dozens of quality anime. Bloom Into You is a notable standout, telling the story of two girls who struggle with accepting themselves until they learn to rely on each other. Zombie Land Saga is also a pretty good show this season, mixing together idol tropes and zombie story stereotypes to create a story that runs the gambit of bizarre to heartfelt. If you’re not watching either one, you should consider adding them to your queue.

Season 6 of Fortnite is coming to an end this week, which means Season 7 of the hit battle royale game is just around the corner. As it has done in the lead up to previous seasons, developer Epic has now shared the first teaser image for Season 7 on Twitter, confirming that the season will kick off later this week.

“A bitter ice spreads… 3 days to Season 7,” the official Fortnite Twitter account tweeted. That means that the new season is set to begin this Thursday, December 6–the same day that Season 6 formally ends. That’s a much shorter gap between seasons than usual; typically, there would be at least a day or two between when one season ended and the next one began, as was the case with Season 6.

The tweet also seems to confirm that Season 7 will have some sort of winter theme, as players had speculated. The accompanying teaser image further reinforces this, as it features a mysterious icy silhouette of what will presumably be one of the new skins coming to the game. If that wasn’t enough, the right side of the image also features a character skiing or snowboarding down a slope.

Players first began speculating that Season 7 would be winter themed when they noticed distant clouds appear in the ocean surrounding the island. Since then, there have been other subtle indications that the temperature on the island is dropping, and players have discovered that the aforementioned clouds are actually shrouding an iceberg that is slowly approaching.

What all this means for Season 7 remains to be seen, but we won’t have to wait too long to find out. In the meantime, you still have a few more days to complete any remaining Season 6 challenges and unlock the last Season 6 Battle Pass rewards. If you need a helping hand, you can find tips for the trickier missions in our complete Season 6 challenges guide.

The fourth season of Black Mirror arrived on Netflix nearly a year ago, and while we know that Charlie Brooker’s acclaimed sci-fi satire is set to return at some point, it hasn’t been clear when this would be. However, a now-deleted tweet from the streaming giant suggests we might be getting some more Black Mirror before the end of the year.

As reported by Forbes, Netflix tweeted a list of shows and movies that are set to debut on the service throughout December. While most of these have already been announced, there was one title that had not–Black Mirror: Bandersnatch, which is seemingly scheduled for December 28. The tweet was rapidly deleted, but not before it was screen-captured.

Netflix is yet to confirm this show, and we don’t know for sure what ‘Bandersnatch’ refers to. However, it has rumored that an interactive “choose-your-own-adventure”-style Black Mirror episode has been in development, and if this was to be a standalone episode it would make sense that it might get released ahead of a full season. Netflix are also reportedly working on a number of other interactive shows.

The Bandersnatch is a creature in Lewis Carroll’s classic fantasy story Alice Through the Looking-Glass. In addition, a video game with that title was developed back in 1984, and behind-the-scenes images of the Black Mirror set taken in April this year suggest that an episode with an ’80s setting was in production.

It had also been rumored that the next season of Black Mirror will also return to the worlds of two previous episodes–namely, Season 2’s White Bear and Season 3’s Juniper. However, Brooker has subsequently denied this.

For more on Black Mirror, check out GameSpot’s guide to the most WTF moments in Season 4.