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It’s an interesting Sunday of deals, as one of our highlights is none other than Yoda. In LEGO form that is, as this 16″ statue is on sale, with of course user-assembly required. Best Buy has a great projector and screen combination that’s ideal for a first time user of the hardware, and GameStop has a ton of awesome collectibles on sale this weekend as well. It’s a flat 20% off anything over $100, which really helps ease the burden on the wallet when making those big purchases.

Daily Deals for April 18

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Mare of Easttown premieres Sunday, April 18 on HBO and HBO Max. This is a spoiler-free review.

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HBO’s new deliciously dreary crime series, Mare of Easttown, starring Oscar-winner Kate Winslet as an emotionally weighed-down detective in a blue-collar crevice of Pennsylvania, is a chilling and thrilling piece of Neo-noir.

Like famous Dennis Lehane books-turned-movies Mystic River and Gone Baby Gone, Mare of Easttown is a mystery that rests on the frustrated, reluctant shoulders of its unhappy characters, who are resentful of their monotonous lives and overwhelming responsibilities. It’s superbly made and Winslet is a sluggish, bitter force as Mare Sheehan. Mare is Easttown’s former high school basketball star, who now lives in a post-divorce world of ghosts — both personal and professional. Not everything is spelled out right away in this first episode, “Miss Lady Hawk Herself,” but the setup is grand and the ensemble is somewhat of a magnificent misery parade.

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Mare is a year deep into a missing persons case that’s gone absolutely nowhere, and now a new detective from the county is being called in to assist (though he, played by Evan Peters, won’t arrive until episode 2). As the episode ends, a whole new case of nightmares opens up for Mare and the town in a way that suggests that the overarching “whodunnit?” stories shouldn’t be seen as the absolute focus here. For sure, they’re a big element, but the main draw is Mare and the chaos that engulfs her on a daily basis. There will be crimes around her, and they’ll (presumedly) be solved by the end of this limited series, but the primary arc we’re following is Mare — her family, her grief, and how (it sure seems like) everyone in her area code resents her for different reasons.

With a rogue’s gallery of suspects contained in a capable cast featuring the severely dressed-down Jean Smart, Guy Pearce, David Denman, Neal Huff, James McArdle, and more, Mare of Easttown gives us a formidable look inside the town’s inner drama. It’s the kind of show that hits you with big broad beats, but also sort of winks at the smaller moments, letting you know that you should be paying attention to everything said and shown because it’ll probably come back in some shape or form.

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Guy Pearce plays an out-of-towner who takes an immediate liking to Winslet’s Mare, despite her best efforts to shun him and most everyone else around her. It’ll be interesting to see (perhaps) how he creeps into her life as a romantic interest as the series progresses. She’s so reluctant to allow herself any happiness that his adoration is almost immersion therapy. Naturally, we have all the reasons in the world to be suspicious of Pearce’s character, but since he’s one of the more notable faces in the cast he could just be a Red Herring, and proof that Mare isn’t the only one to back away from a potentially good thing. The genre itself, like life, trains us as viewers to do the same.

The other story we follow in this premiere is teen mom Erin, played by Devs’ Cailee Spaeny, who’s beset on all sides by an abusive dad, a good-for-nothing baby daddy, and a local girl who wants to beat her ass. Erin and Mare’s story run side by side, proving that age has nothing to do with characters finding themselves trapped in ruthless ruts. Erin does her best to soar towards her new opportunity while Mare, for all intents and purposes, just envisions nothing but dead-end days.

Written (and created) by The Way Back’s Brad Ingelsby, and deftly directed by Craig Zobel (The Leftovers, Westworld), Mare of Easttown uses the first episode to paint a portrait and then nails us with a casket drop at the end. In a sense, the meatiest mystery doesn’t kick off until close to the closing credits, but again, the story is all about Mare and the town. It wants to make sure you’re invested in the characters before the story starts digging up dirt on all of them.

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The Falcon and the Winter Soldier’s Wyatt Russell has said that he has no interest in replacing his father Kurt Russell as Snake Plissken in an Escape From New York reboot, as that would be “like career suicide 101.”

As reported by ComicBook.com, Russell, who is the son of Kurt Russell and Goldie Hawn, was speaking to Esquire and responded to a fan question about this rumored reboot of Escape From New York and whether or not he’d be interested in the leading role or if he could convince his father to “go the Logan route and make a new one.”

“Although that’s very kind, that will not be happening,” Russell answered. “There will be no Snake reboot from me, that’s like career suicide 101. That’s like what not to do. I don’t know if anybody else could be Snake Plissken. Good luck, go get ‘em, I sincerely wish you the best of luck. I just don’t know how it’s possible. And for me, if I really wanted to get people sending me hate mail, I think that’s what I should do. I will not be ever doing anything like that.”

The reboot of 1981’s Escape From New York has been rumored for some time. In 2019, a report came out that Saw co-creator Leigh Whannell was being considered to both write and direct the film.

While Wyatt may not become Snake Plissken, he is currently the new Captain America in Disney+’s The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, which will be wrapping up its first season next Friday, April 23.

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Halo Infinite is making some major changes to the series’ art direction, focusing on the simpler and iconic design of the original trilogy, but there is also a lot of work going into the game’s sound. The tricky balancing act of blending the old with the new was a challenge for 343 Industries, and the development team has offered some details on what you can expect.

In a new Ask343 development video, the audio design team spoke about the iconic elements it’s keeping from past games, including the classic charging sound of the Plasma Pistol. It will also feature the ramping-up music that makes every battle feel so climactic, building in an enormous crescendo as the action gets more intense. Tools, including ones 343 created in-house, are used to keep track of what both you and the enemies are doing at all times in order to have the music play differently.

This also includes examining player-intention. For example, if you are staying far away from some Elites as you snipe them, there won’t be the same music as if you went in with guns blazing.

“You might be walking through the world and get a piece of music while you’re just exploring that then carries over into combat engagement,” said music supervisor Joel Yarger. “Whereas if you just walking into the combat engagement without that piece of music playing, you get something else.”

And because music is a huge part of the Halo experience, the studio’s goal is for streamers and other video creators to be able to use all of it in their videos, rather than having to disable it to avoid takedowns.

Multiplayer got plenty of attention, as well, including how shots sound different from allies versus enemies. One fan also asked about the different multiplayer announcer voices available in Halo 5 and the Firefight mode from previous games.

The team wasn’t to talk specifics regarding customization on this front for Halo Infinite, but it sounds like there will be something for people who enjoyed that content. And most importantly, Jeff Steitzer will return as the multiplayer announcer, delivering his legendary “Double Kill!” lines. Steitzer has been with the franchise since the very beginning, acting as the announcer for every mainline game as well as Halo 3: ODST and Halo Wars 2.

Halo Infinite releases this fall for Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, and PC. It was previously planned to release alongside the new console last November. We know the character Spartan Griffin will appear after previously appearing in a novel.