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On the Monday episode of Raw, WWE announced that there would be a Superstar Shakeup where wrestlers would be traded between WWE’s two main shows, Raw and Smackdown. The three-hour long show had quite a few surprises–not as many as the Raw after Mania though. The surprises included a Smackdown title holder, a stable, and two best friends coming over to the Monday night show.

Here are the major moments from this week’s episode of Raw, which also included one of Raw‘s top talents being traded to Smackdown in order to engage in a rivalry with the former Smackdown general manager. We’ll be back tomorrow night with a recap of Raw superstars who were traded to Smackdown.

During the opening of the show, Jinder Mahal joins Raw and comes to the show with his United States Title. He makes quite a few demands as champion. Kurt Angle tells him that he needs to be a fighting champion and makes the announcement that he has to defend title against anyone who wants to challenge him. Jeff Hardy comes out and ends up beating Mahal, becoming the US Champion in a pretty good match. Mahal later states he’ll fight Hardy for a rematch at Greatest Royal Rumble. Welcome to Raw, Jinder Mahal.

During the end of a battle between Sasha Banks and Bayley, the two were attacked by Smackdown‘s The Riott Squad: Liv Morgan, Sarah Logan, and Ruby Riott. There were no other developments from this moment.

During an episode of MizTV–a show within a show–Miz announced the two newest members of Raw: Sami Zayn and Kevin Owens. Kurt Angle came to break up the part, but Zayn had a letter from Stephanie McMahon saying their would be allowed a spot on Raw. This all lead to the main event of the evening, featuring Miz, Bo Dallas, Curtis Avel, Zayn, and Owens taking on Finn Balor, Seth Rollins, Braun Strowman, Bobby Lashley, and a mystery partner.

In addition to all of that, Angle announces that Daniel Bryan wants Miz back on Smackdown. However, he’s going alone. Curtis Axel and Bo Dallas are staying on the Monday night show.

Breezango shows up on Raw and tells The Bar their outfits have no theme. They proceed to give them tickets. They fought The Bar later on in the show and beat them in an upset.

While Kurt Angle and Ronda Rousey were talking, Natalya showed up. Rousey embraces Natalya. Later in the show, Rousey came out to the ring to help Natalya against Absolution, which recently lost their leader, Paige, who became the Smackdown general manager.

Dolph Ziggler shows up with his entrance that contains an audio clip of a record player being scratched. He begins to cut a promo about one thing that’s changed for him but is cut off by Titus Worldwide. Dolph explains he brought someone with him, and Titus is attacked from behind by Drew Mcintyre. Now, all three former members of 3MB are on Raw.

Baron Corbin heads over to Raw via promo video, which featured plenty of footage of Corbin beating up Kalisto. He never actually appears live on Raw.

During the final 10-man tag team match, Finn Balor and company revealed their tag partner to be former Smackdown United States Champion Bobby Roode.

Check back tomorrow night for coverage of Smackdown‘s Superstar Shake-Up.

Streaming giant Netflix is now even bigger. The network announced results for its fiscal first quarter today, confirming that it added 7.4 million new subscribers worldwide, which includes 1.96 million in the US alone. That was good for its second-biggest quarter in history in terms of subscriber growth. Overall, Netflix now has 125 million subscribers around the world.

Netflix’s strong quarter comes amid some amount of controversy. High-profile director Steven Spielberg said Netflix movies should not be eligible for the Academy Awards. Netflix releases some of its movies in theatres on a very limited basis to allow them to qualify. Additionally, the Cannes film festival recently announced that Netflix movies are banned.

Netflix said in a statement: “We regret our films not being able to compete at this year’s Cannes film festival. The festival adopted a new rule that means if a film is in competition at Cannes, it can not be watched on Netflix in France for the following three years . We would never want to do that to our French members.

“We will continue to celebrate our films and filmmakers at other festivals around the world but unfortunately we will have to sit out Cannes for now so that our growing French membership can continue to enjoy our original films.”

In an earnings call, Netflix chief content officer Ted Sarandos said the company is not going to change its stance about giving some of its movies limited theatrical runs. “Defining distribution by what room you see it in is not the business we want to be in,” he said, according to GameSpot sister site CNET.

Also during the presentation, Netflix confirmed that it will spend between $7.5 billion and $8 billion on original content across formats such as series, films, unscripted shows, documentaries, comedy specials, and non-English language content. Netflix said it’s investing heavily so as to “serve the diverse tastes of our growing global membership base.”

In honor of GOG.com’s The Most Wanted Games Sale, we’re giving away 800 PC game codes free from their catalog. The PC game codes will be a mystery code, redeemable on GOG’s platform, and are DRM-free. (Scroll down to enter below.)

Some of the mystery codes include The Witcher 3, Thimbleweed Park, Undertale, Transistor, Owlboy Collector’s Edition, SOMA, This War of Mine, Hotline Miami, SUPERHOT, and more.

Competition ends Tuesday, April 17 at 11:00 AM PT. Eight-hundred (800) winners will be emailed a code. Open worldwide, void where prohibited. No purchase necessary.

For more info on the sale, check out: Lots Of PC Game Deals In GOG’s Most Wanted Sale

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Big budget sci-fi or not, a show in which an imperfect but ultimately wholesome family overcomes great obstacles and realizes they can do anything if they work together might sound too cheesy to possibly be any good. But that’s exactly what Netflix’s Lost in Space is: great science fiction with a positive message that’s safe for the whole family to watch together. The fact that it’s also a faithful, yet transformative adaptation of a decades-dormant sci-fi classic only makes it sweeter.

In the new Lost in Space, the Robinsons aren’t the vanilla nuclear family you remember from the original. John Robinson (Toby Stephens) is a secretive soldier who, before the family’s journey, was more or less estranged from his wife and kids. Maureen (Molly Parker) is a mother who will do anything for her kids–right or wrong be damned. Daughter Penny (Mina Sundwall) doesn’t fit any stereotypes–she’s obsessed with books, but isn’t afraid to take the wheel and steer the ship when she has to. Judy (Taylor Russell) is Maureen’s daughter from a previous marriage, and has darker skin–she’s a skilled teenage doctor, but becomes hindered by trauma on the journey. The youngest, Will (Max Jenkins), is a capable kid who’s troubled by the notion that he doesn’t belong there.

Put these five together with some great writing that feels true to how families actually communicate, and you get a surprisingly realistic dynamic. The Robinsons aren’t some idealized American family, despite the fact that they’re some of the best humanity has to offer (it’s not easy to qualify for the trip on the colony ship that spirited them away from Earth). Their bonds are messy and complex, which is much more interesting.

The show’s first season opens with the Robinsons’ personal familial ship, the Jupiter 2, crash-landing on a mysterious planet in the wake of some disaster on their much larger colony vessel. Over the course of the season, they’ll meet other survivors: Ignacio Serricchio’s pragmatic Don West, Parker Posey’s conniving Dr. Smith, Raza Jaffrey’s leadership-minded Victor, and more. These characters bounce off and orbit one another in ways that move the story forward, even as they all face obstacle after obstacle.

If there’s one criticism of this show, it’s that it relies far too heavily on Murphy’s Law–anything that can go wrong, will go wrong. I noted this after reviewing the first episode, and it only got more true throughout the rest of Season 1. Every time these survivors overcome one obstacle, two or three more pop up in its wake. Lost in Space definitely vibes on The Martian, as the Robinsons and co. are forced to use everything at their disposal, from planetary resources to debris from their wrecked ships, in order to survive.

Oh, and the robot helps a lot. The robot! If there was one thing on this show that might have threatened to sink the whole thing with raw cheesiness, it was the robot. Little kids watching the original Lost in Space dreamed of having their own pet robot; how could that not turn out corny? But by making the robot alien in origin–a new twist on the old character–Netflix’s Lost in Space reinvigorates it. The robot is still Will’s best friend, and yes, it utters that iconic phrase, “Danger, Will Robinson.” But the more the Robinsons learn about it, the more interesting their relationship with the robot becomes. It’s at the center of some of the season’s best moments.

But Lost in Space isn’t just about relationships and family drama. The fact that all this takes place against a backdrop of hardcore science fiction is borderline incredible. Even when you factor in futuristic technology, it seems like some of the show’s finer scientific points must be dramatized past the point of realism, but it’s not usually easy to tell. Hopefully Neil Degrasse Tyson weighs in soon.

What makes Lost in Space a true binge is not the moment-to-moment drama. It’s the characters and the talented actors who portray them. Fresh off his memorable stint as the lead pirate on the Starz drama Black Sails, Toby Stephens puts in some of his best work as a gruff dad who’s trying to do better for his family. Molly Parker matches his performance with ease, and Maureen is a complicated mother. The younger actors are all great as well, particularly Max (who plays Will), whose last job–no joke–was performing in the circus.

The one weak link in the characters is Parker Posey’s Dr. Smith, who’s written just a bit too villainously in the show’s first season. Her motivations and actual personality get lost in her sociopathic schemes, and by the end it’s hard to remember what her goal even is. Why is she so evil? If you have it all figured out, feel free to drop a comment below.

That Netflix will grant Lost in Space a second season is pretty much guaranteed. For now, enjoy one of the best sci-fi shows in recent memory–with your whole family, if you want.

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