This is an advanced (mostly) spoiler-free review of the Season 1 premiere of Amazon Prime Video's Hanna. The episode will be available for 24 hours, from February 3rd at 9:30 pm ET until February 4th at 9:30 pm ET. All 8 episodes will drop in March 2019.
The tried and true narrative trope of a battle-hardened older man molding a young girl into an efficient killing machine gets a new addition with Amazon Prime Video's electrifying action thriller, Hanna. Based on the 2011 film of the same name, and scripted by David Farr (co-writer of the movie), the series feels like a stylish sibling to Fox's Logan and Naughty Dog's The Last of Us. And while you've probably seen this storytelling method before, Hanna stands apart with thrilling action and memorable performances from Joel Kinnaman (Altered Carbon) and Esme Creed-Miles (Dark River).
Regularly drawing around 100 million viewers each year, if not more, the Super Bowl lures in both fans of the two teams vying for the championship, but also those who don’t want to miss the funny, touching, and memorable commercials.
According to Business Insider, CBS is billing more than $5 million for a 30-second spot. The heavy hitters — Pepsi, Amazon, Anheuser-Busch, Doritos — are all back and vying to be the most talked about thing after television’s biggest event. And there’s definitely no shortage of celebrities — Cardi B, Steve Carell, Alex Rodriguez, Jeff Bridges (as The Dude!), Sarah Jessica Parker, Harrison Ford, Jason Bateman, Luke Wilson, Christina Applegate, Serena Williams, Chance the Rapper and the Backstreet Boys, Michael Buble, Sarah Michelle Gellar, and more all pop up in this year’s batch of game day ads.
But, you don’t actually have to wait until Super Bowl Sunday to see who’s getting in on the action (TV and movie trailers not included). So without further ado, here is our running list of every commercial (plus the teasers) that will air Sunday during the matchup between the New England Patriots and Los Angeles Rams.
The producers of The Good Fight told reporters Wednesday that they briefly considered incorporating the beloved The Good Wife character, played by Julianna Margulies, into the third season of their CBS All Access spin-off that returns March 4.
“We thought maybe about making a big episode where she would be at the resistance, Diane and her face each other. But that would be the end of the story,” Robert King said at the annual Television Critics Tour in Pasadena, Calif. “It felt like an asterisk.”
Alicia is never far from the narrative, though. Executive Producer Michelle King admitted that the character is “referenced with regularity.”
But something else is making a comeback this season: The Good Fight will once again pay homage to the old Schoolhouse Rock interstitials that used to air during ABC’s Saturday morning programming block by bringing back Jonathan Coulton to write and perform instructive animated shorts for every episode. His first one that debuted during season 2 focused on the impeachment process. This season’s crop of interstitials will explore Russian troll farms, non-disclosure agreements, and the infamous Roy Cohn (Sen. Joseph McCarthy’s chief counsel during the Army-McCarthy hearings), among other topics.
There’s a reason for that latter interstitial. The Kings are introducing a new lawyer this season played by Michael Sheen, who is fashioned after both Cohn and Roger Stone. “Whether he’s liberal or conservative doesn’t matter,” explains Robert King of the character Roland Blum. “What matters is he’s winning. He’s like a devil, a satan within our law firm. He’s embracing the ID.”
One last fun detail about the new crop of episodes: the Kings will steal a page from Friends by naming their episodes in a similar fashion. So look for episodes called “The one inspired by Ron Cohn,” or “The one inspired by Proud Boys.”
“It will be the biggest, the most complicated one that they’ve done, but I am proud to say that they are doing it and we are supporting them,” Pedowitz told reporters at the 2019 Television Critics Association winter press tour on Thursday.
Next year’s crossover event was revealed at the end of 2018’s “Elseworlds” crossover, which concluded with a dramatic title card that revealed “Crisis on Earth Infinite Earths” was coming in 2019. For the uninitiated, the crossover shares a title with a 12-issue maxiseries that resulted in some major deaths, forever changing the DC Universe. Pedowitz couldn’t say how closely the CW’s adaptation of this important story will hue to the comics.
“I can’t tell you if it will follow the comic book version, but it will take some big swings,” he said.
Furthermore, it appears as though a decision has not yet been made on whether or not DC’s Legends of Tomorrow — which was not part of 2018’s “Elseworlds” crossover — would be involved in “Crisis on Infinite Earths.” When asked about it, Pedowitz said, “I hope so.”
“It’s going to be the biggest one we ever did,” he said. “The only reason Legends wasn’t this year was the complications in production of doing these things. We don’t want to wear out everybody before the season ends. But we’re talking about a number of different ways to go. It is Crisis on Infinite Earths and if you know the history, things collapse.”
Supergirl airs Sundays at 8 p.m. ET, Arrow airs Mondays at 8 p.m. ET, and The Flash airs Tuesdays at 8 p.m. ET on the CW. DC’s Legends of Tomorrow returns April 1.
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This week’s episode of Star Trek: Discovery, “Point of Light,” saw the return of the Klingons, with Mary Chieffo’s L’Rell and Shazad Latif’s Tyler (formerly Voq) sharpening their bat’leths as they faced off against several new threats, both external and internal. (Read our review here!)
I spoke with Chieffo for a post-mort on the episode and all of its Klingon intrigue and treachery, but we also looked to the future of L’Rell on Star Trek. Could she still be leader of the High Council by the time Kirk is captaining the Enterprise? Read on for our chat!
Full spoilers follow for the Star Trek: Discovery episode “Point of Light.”
The CW has officially renewed 10 shows for the 2019-2020 television season, including all of the Arrowverse shows, Riverdale and more.
These early renewals were announced by CW president Mark Pedowitz during the network’s session at the Television Critics Association Press Tour in Pasadena, California. Returning shows include Arrow, The Flash, Supergirl, DC’s Legends of Tomorrow, Black Lightning, Charmed, Dynasty, Legacies, Riverdale and Supernatural.
"The early renewal of these signature CW series gives us a head start on laying out the 2019-2020 season, and this is just the beginning,” said Pedowitz. “These shows provide a strong foundation for our multiplatform programming strategy, and we look forward to building on this with even more returning and new shows as we approach the May upfront.”
The first half of the new promo shows the rest of the team trying to recover following the loss of Coulson; Mack is struggling with his new leadership role, May is reminiscing over her final days with her lost love on a beach in the real Tahiti; and Simmons is searching for Fitz, who is frozen somewhere in space because... time travel! Luckily, things seem to be business as usual for Daisy, who appears to be channeling her grief into kicking butt.
Update: New reports have once again confirmed Gunn's involvement in the next Suicide Squad movie, with THR reporting he will direct the next film featuring the DC team following confirmation he would write it late last year.
However, THR reports Gunn's new Suicide Squad movie will not be a direct sequel but in fact a relaunch of the property, with new characters and a mostly new cast.
Samsung said it had started mass production of its eUFS 2.1 storage solution featuring a 1 TB capacity for smartphones. Apart from its massive capacity, the drive offers a sequential read performance that is two times faster when compared to a typical SATA SSD. Samsung expects the device to be used by high-end smartphones “soon”.
The entire fate of humanity is in jeopardy on The Good Place, and the writers are really starting to feel the pressure going into Season 4.
The Season 3 finale twist essentially rebooted the fake Good Place neighborhood back to the very beginning of the series – with Eleanor taking over from Michael as the architect – to prove that humans can become better people after death. But with the Bad Place picking the four new human subjects specifically to torture Eleanor, Chidi, Tahani and Jason, Chidi ended up being faced with his ex-girlfriend Simone, and chose to have his memory wiped so he wouldn't blow the whole experiment and doom all of humanity to the Bad Place.
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A new video has surfaced of Xiaomi's foldable device. This time, Lin Bin, the company's co-founder and president is demonstrating it on camera. It isn't entirely clear whether the video was intended to be released or not - but whatever the case may be - we have a closer look at Xiaomi's foldable phone.
The video below was reposted to YouTube from Chinese social network Weibo.
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The Meizu Zero is here - the world's first phone without physical buttons, speaker cutout and even without a USB port for conventional wired charging.
The Meizu Zero uses touch capacitive panels on the side as replacements for the conventional power and volume buttons (similar to what HTC did with the U12+, only without the buttons protruding the frame). For a speaker the Meizu Zero uses a piezoelectric transducer under the display (akin to what Sharp and Xiaomi have done with phones like the Aquos Crystal and Mi Mix).
Meizu Zero
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4K Ultra HD (ultra high definition) is the resolution that brings you more pixels than ever to your home TV.
Not long ago, Full HD (full high definition) was the sharpest picture you could get. This brings four times as many pixels as HD. But now, enter 4K resolution, which has completely changed the level of visual detail and clarity we've come to expect from our screens.
Whereas traditional HD is limited to 1920 vertical columns and 1080 horizontal rows of pixels, Ultra HD has a total resolution of 3,840 pixels by 2,160 – a slightly smaller resolution than the 4,096 x 2,160 pixels seen on most cinema screens (that, for the record, is called Cinema 4K).
It's pretty hard these days to get a TV that isn't 4K, with even budget small TVs opting for the detailed resolution to entice viewers. And some of the truly premium sets out there are now opting for 8K resolution instead – but 4K is still the king for now, and near enough all the new sets announced at this year's CES 2020 expo are pushing the Ultra HD resolution.
At the end of the day, though, it might not be the raw resolution of 4K that tempts you into your next TV purchase, but the inclusion of other cool technologies like High Dynamic Range (HDR), Quantum Dot and OLED panels.
But before we get into the specifics of each technology, here's a video outlining 4K in a nutshell.
What is 4K?
Put simply, 4K means a clearer picture. To achieve this, it's more pixels (8,294,400 to be exact) on the screen at once being used to create images that are crisper and capable of showing more details than standard HD. That's it.
What is the resolution of 4K?
4K resolution, at least the way most TVs define it, is 3840 x 2160 or 2160p. To put that in perspective, a full HD 1080p image is only a 1920x1080 resolution. 4K screens have about 8 million pixels, which is around four times what your current 1080p set can display.
Think of your TV like a grid, with rows and columns. A full HD 1080p image is 1080 rows high and 1920 columns wide. A 4K image approximately doubles the numbers in both directions, yielding approximately four times as many pixels total. To put it another way, you could fit every pixel from your 1080p set onto one-quarter of a 4K screen.
Why is it called 4K?
Because the images are around 4,000 pixels wide. And before you ask, yes, the industry named 1080 resolution after image height, but named 4K after image width. For extra added fun, you also might hear this resolution referred to as 2160p. Welcome to the future. It's confusing here.
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Do all of those extra pixels matter?
That's where it gets sticky. We're talking about a similar jump in resolution as the one from SD (480 lines high) to HD (1080 lines high). And 4K screens are noticeably sharper than 1080p screens.
But if you're sticking with roughly the same size of television, and are used to sitting pretty close, you may not see that much of a difference – especially if you're still mostly watching HD content rather than 4K video.
How close do I need to sit to a 4K screen?
Remember when Apple made a big fuss about "retina" displays a few iPhones back? "Retina" refers to screens that have sufficient resolution that at a normal viewing distance your eye can't make out individual pixels. Get far enough away from a 1080p set and, hey presto, it's a retina display!
More importantly, at that same distance, your eyeballs won't be able to squeeze any more detail out of a 4K image than a 1080 one. If you're at "retina distance" from your 1080p set now and don't plan on moving your couch closer, upgrading to 4K may not make a big difference to your experience. This chart shows how close you need to sit at any given screen size to see the difference.
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Difference between Ultra HD and 4K
Technically, "Ultra High Definition" is actually a derivation of the 4K digital cinema standard. However while your local multiplex shows images in native 4096 x 2160 4K resolution, the new Ultra HD consumer format has a slightly lower resolution of 3840 x 2160.
This is one reason why some brands prefer not to use the 4K label at all, sticking with Ultra HD or UHD instead. However, the numerical shorthand looks likely to stick.
Why should I care about 4K Ultra HD?
There are many reasons why 4K should make you rethink your next TV purchase (actually, there are eleven and you can read about them here), not all of them immediately obvious.
Photographers who routinely view their work on an HD TV are seeing but a fraction of the detail inherent in their pictures when they view them at 2160p.
A 4K display reveals so much more nuance and detail – the difference can be astonishing. While 3D has proved to be a faddish diversion, 4K comes without caveats. Its higher resolution images are simply better.
The higher pixel density of a 4K panel also enable you get much closer without the grid-like structure of the image itself becoming visible –this means you can comfortably watch a much larger screen from the same seating position as your current Full HD panel.
Ultra HD Premium
If you're sitting there thinking that all these new technologies and acronyms sound confusing, you'd be right. That's why a group of companies decided to form the UHD Alliance with the expressed aim of defining what technologies should be included in the next generation of TV sets.
The UHD Alliance is comprised of 35 companies including television manufacturers such as LG, Panasonic, Samsung, Toshiba, Sony, Sharp, audio companies such as Dolby, and film and television production companies such as Netflix and 20th Century Fox.
The idea then is that if everyone can agree on what features they think UHD should include, then Disney (an example member of the alliance) can produce a movie that Netflix will be able to stream through a Samsung TV, and the eventual image will be exactly what the director at Disney intended.
The result of this alliance was the UHD Premium specification announced at CES 2016. The specification comprises a list of features that should be included in products like TVs and Blu-ray players to ensure maximum compatibility with other content and hardware produced.
Currently, in order to adhere to the UHD Premium specification a product must have:
A resolution of at least 3840x2160
10-bit color depth, allowing for 1,024 shades of each of the three primary colors red, green and blue, as opposed to the 256 allowed by the current 8-bit standard.
Be capable of displaying pixels at a certain brightness and darkness for HDR purposes (technically this light level is from 0.05 to 1,000 'nits' for LEDs and 0.0005 to 540 'nits' for OLED sets for all you number lovers out there). Adhering to these standards means blacks should look truly dark as opposed to just milky black and whites should really pop.
Samsung and Panasonic are embracing the new standard, with both of their flagship lineups wearing their UHD Premium badges with pride. Sony however have decided to go down a more confusing route and have decided to stick with their internal '4K HDR' label despite their sets all actually meeting the required specification. Philips won't be using the alliance's badge, but its sets don't currently meet the specification anyway.
It's only natural that while a technology is still emerging these problems will continue to exist, but we hope that soon we'll be able to recommend looking for a UHD Premium set without reservation. Until the whole industry unambiguously backs the standard however, we'd still recommend you tread carefully to ensure maximum compatibility.
And what about 8K?
We thought that might come up. You may have heard some of the buzz around 8K resolution - a new visual standard with four times the number of pixels of 4K.
Basically it doubles the pixel height and width again to yield approximately 32 million pixels. It's a regular pixel party - though you can find out more about the new resolution in our 8K TV guide.
Confusingly, an 8K display would also be considered 'Ultra HD'.
Should I just get an 8K TV instead?
If you want? The 8K standard was, until recently, still primarily for the exhibition market (aka movie theaters). To make that many pixels matter, you need to be feeding a pretty big screen and sitting close enough to tell the difference.
We're starting to see commercial 8K televisions come to market, though they'll cost you - and there isn't much in the way of 8K content to truly recommend them. You'll still get the benefit of advanced upscaling from HD or 4K, though, and if you fancy being at the cutting edge of TV technology, an 8K TV is probably what you want.
My friend told me about 4K OLED. What's that?
More acronyms! Isn't this fun? OLED - organic light emitting diodes - have been around for some time, but producing big screens using this technology has proven to be prohibitively expensive, something which has so far prevented OLED television from being a mainstream proposition.
It's a real shame because OLED technology can be stunning, offering vibrant colors, deep blacks and bright whites. But don't give up hope just yet. Several companies (most prominently LG) are laboring away to bring OLED to 4K televisions. They're certainly gorgeous, though pricing remains high years after they first came to market - and it's generally accepted that they don't have the longevity of LCD screens.
I've heard Netflix has been streaming in something called HDR. What is that?
HDR, UHD, OLED... there's no shortage of acronyms in home entertainment.
HDR, or high dynamic range, essentially increases the difference between the lightest and the darkest portions of an image. Blacks get properly dark rather than milky grey, and whites get blindingly light.
This means that images have more depth to them, and you should also be able to perceive more detail in the lightest and darkest portions of the image.
Netflix was the first content provider to release HDR video in 2015, but Amazon Instant Video also offers high dynamic range content. HDR has also been included in the new Ultra HD Blu-ray standard. You can read our full explainer on High Dynamic Range here.
Why isn't broadcast TV all in 4K?
Because every 4K frame contains four times the information of HD, 4K content is four times more bulky than regular HD content in terms of its raw file size. That makes it a challenge to get it to you.
On the streaming side, bandwidth is a definite issue. The internet's bandwidth is already dominated by Netflix's traffic, prompting ISPs to go after them for extra cash, and that's with most of its streams at SD and HD levels. Upping everything to 4K doesn't sound like a reasonable option just yet. And even if it were possible to stream 4K content to everyone without breaking the internet, streaming 4K content requires a 25Mbps or faster downstream internet connection, which is faster than most people have at the moment.
So what can I watch in 4K?
Your best UHD options right now come from Netflix and Amazon.
Netflix is leading the 4K streaming waters with most of its original shows (The Defenders, House of Cards, Dark, The Blacklist) being available in 4K, alongside select films (Ghostbusters, The Smurfs 2).
The selection might be more limited than the amount of HD content, but it's increasing day by day.
Amazon has also gotten into the 4K UHD streaming game by offering some of its highest-rated shows – Transparent, Mozart in the Jungle, Man in the High Castle, The Grand Tour and Mad Dogs – in Ultra HD.
Both streaming services say even more content is on its way and expects the roll-out to ramp up once more TV watchers make the jump to the higher-resolution standard.
If you have the bandwidth, you can now watch some Netflix shows in Ultra HD 4K
What about gaming in 4K?
We had 4K gaming on the PC for a while before consoles, but the more advanced versions of Sony and Microsoft's gaming machines can certainly compete.
Sony got the ball rolling with the PS4 Pro, which uses an advanced form of upscaling to generate a 4K image. It might not be native 4K, but we think the results are excellent.
Although Microsoft dipped its toe in the 4K water with the similarly upscaling Xbox One S, things got serious with the release of the Xbox One X - a powerhouse console which offers native 4K resolution on a handful of titles.
Some recent big video games available in 4K on various platforms include Red Dead Redemption 2, Spiderman and God of War, as well as many others.
What kind of cables will I need for 4K?
The two standard cables you're most likely to use are either a standard HDMI, or if you're connecting a PC to a Ultra HD monitor, DisplayPort.
HDMI cables now come in four flavors: high speed with ethernet; high speed without ethernet; standard speed with ethernet and standard speed without ethernet. Standard speed cables are capable of 1080i, but aren't able to handle the bandwidth of 4K. High speed cables can do anything higher than 1080i.
Now, as long as you're using the same class of cable, there is no distinguishable difference in terms of performance between one manufacturer's set of cables and another's.
The speed of your connection, however, will depend on the types of connectors. HDMI 1.4 connectors support a 3820x2160-resolution at 30 frames per second (fps), while HDMI 2.0 can output video at Ultra HD resolution at 60 frames per second, and HDMI 2.0a is capable of HDR.
The latest spec, HDMI 2.1, goes that bit further with 4K at 120fps, or 8K at 60fps.
The bottom line is that if your HDMI cable is able to handle 1080p (the standard for a number of years now) then it should be able to also do 4K. Don't get conned into buying expensive cables.
The other type of cable you can use is DisplayPort. DisplayPort carries 4K image and audio signal from most high-end graphics cards to monitors without any noticeable artifacts or delays.
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So should I buy a 4K set now or should I wait?
If you're buying a TV that's 50-inches and above you should absolutely think about investing in 4K. All of the major players are embracing it as the new standard, and the amount of content is only going to increase over time.
If you're buying a TV smaller than 50-inches, the answer is less obvious.
The problem is not that 4K doesn't make enough of a difference at these sizes, but instead that the additional technologies that have been combined with 4K in most sets haven't trickled down to the smaller models just yet.
As a result, while it's totally possible to get a 4K TV that's as small as just 40-inches, at this point it's unlikely to have a decent level of HDR (which we'd consider as going as bright as 1000 nits or more), 10-bit color, or wide color gamut.
Sure you'll get the right amount of pixels, but they won't have the additional technologies to make them look really beautiful.
Eventually they'll make their way to small TVs, but for now 4K is at its best at 50 inches and above, where you can get all the bells and whistles that really matter.
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Scott Alexander originally contributed this article.
Rick Remender knew what he wanted when he created his graphic novel, Deadly Class (with art by Wesley Craig), and he wasn’t about to compromise that vision for TV. “I said, ‘look, I'm not handing this over. I'm going to be writing it and running it and doing all the music.’” And that’s exactly what Syfy and his producing partners, the Russo Brothers (you may know them from those tiny little Avengers films), let him do.
Deadly Class is the ‘80s-set story of orphan Marcus Lopez Arguello (Benjamin Wadsworth) and his classmates at King’s Dominion High School for the Deadly Arts. A training ground for the deadliest assassins in the world, run by the mysterious Master Lin (Benedict Wong), Marcus must survive not only his lessons, but his classmates, and the people seemingly always out to get him after he burned down his old orphanage. Oh yeah, and Marcus — by the way — wants to kill Ronald Reagan. (It’s a whole thing.)
The show’s landmark hour (airing Feb. 4), was written by Marc Guggenheim and Emilio Ortega Aldrich. It will showcase a documentary called The Hood and the Rise of Vigilantes, which stars Oliver Queen/Green Arrow (Stephen Amell) and Felicity (Emily Bett Rickards), and will be narrated by Kelsey Grammer. The “documentary” will feature interviews with the rest of the team about their masked activities and Green Arrow’s role in Star City.
Of course, the camera crew picked an awkward time to follow Oliver: Not only is the Emerald Archer busy dealing with a new threat to the city, but his son William has also just returned from boarding school. (That last bit also raises questions about season 7’s flash-forwards because Adult William, played by Ben Lewis, previously said that Oliver and Felicity left him behind. Perhaps he wasn’t referencing Felicity’s decision to send him to boarding school?)
Here’s the full logline for “Emerald Archer” from The CW: “The 150th episode of ‘Arrow’ showcases a documentary entitled ‘The Hood and the rise of vigilantism’ starring Oliver Queen (Stephen Amell), Felicity Smoak (Emily Bett Rickards), and the rest of Team Arrow. As a camera crew follows Oliver and team around to talk about their past as vigilantes and what the Green Arrow means to Star City, Oliver must also deal with William’s (guest star Jack Moore) return from boarding school as well as a new threat to the city. The episode will feature “documentary footage” captured by the BTS crew and interviews from those who have worked alongside the Green Arrow. The documentary is narrated by Kelsey Grammer. Glen Winter directed the episode written by Marc Guggenheim & Emilio Ortega Aldrich”
Before we get to the 150th episode, however, we’ll spend some time getting to know Emiko Queen (Sea Shimooka), a.k.a. the new Green Arrow and Oliver’s newly discovered half-sister, in the winter premiere and experience A.R.G.U.S.’s Ghost Initiative, which is comprised of Diaz (Kirk Acevedo), China White (Kelly Hu), Slade’s son Kane Wolfman (Liam Hall), and Carrie Cutter (Amy Gumenick).
Having a bad hair day? Sophie Turner had bad hair years.
The Game of Thrones star says she had to abstain from washing her hair during the filming of the latter seasons of the show.
In an interview with InStyle, the actress who portrays Sansa Stark reveals, “For the first few seasons I was allowed to wash my hair because I was an aristocratic young girl. Towards season five, they started asking me to not wash my hair and it was really disgusting. I wear a wig, so I can wash my hair whenever I want, which is nice. But yes, for a couple of years I was living with pretty greasy hair. really itchy! Also, we would have the snow machines going so we would have little snow paper particles that would get stuck in the grease. It was disgusting.”
And, yes, in case you’re wondering, Turner says her male co-stars were asked to do the same thing. Principal photography for on Game of Thrones can typically last up to seven months per season (or, in the case of the upcoming final season, 10 months).
Turner is naturally blonde and for years dyed her hair to play the redheaded Stark, then went back to her natural color in 2017 and began wearing an elaborate wig on the show like her co-star Emilia Clarke (Daenerys Targaryen).
The actress added that Sansa’s hairstyle evolution over the years has been rather carefully plotted. “The first few episodes she was a Northerner in Winterfell and took after her mother with a simple braid down the back,” she said. “Then when she went to King’s Landing it was a big, decadent halo that was very much like what wore. With Littlefinger, she dyes her hair black and wears all black. Then she goes back to Winterfell and returns to her mother’s hair. She created her own identity in season seven and that kind of runs through to season eight. She’s chosen how she wants her hair to be, and she’s finally the leader and influencer instead of being influenced by everyone else.”
National City is about to get a new costumed avenger!
On Friday, Supergirl unveiled the first look at Nicole Maines, who plays Nia Nal, in costume as the pre-cognitive superhero Dreamer. This a historic moment because Maines as Dreamer is the first transgender superhero on TV.
Check out the epically badass image below, which highlights Nia’s psychic powers:
“I hope they feel validated, especially trans folks. I hope they feel that sense of, ‘Oh my gosh…'” Maines, who is transgender, previously told EW. “That’s when it’ll really sink that we have a trans superhero. I mean, it’s so important and I can’t wait.”
Maines will fully suit up as the superhero Dreamer in the episode “Menagerie,” which airs Feb. 17; however, we’ll catch our first glimpse of the costume in the Jan. 27th episode “Blood Memories,” which will introduce Nia’s family (Scandal‘s Kate Burton plays her mother) and explore the origin and the cost of Nia’s powers. Showrunners Jessica Queller and Robert Rovner are especially looking forward to “Blood Memories” because spending time in Nia’s very liberal hometown provided a reprieve from the National City’s xenophobic atmosphere.
“One thing that we’re excited about is going to the town where was raised, and we’re going to see that it’s a very sort of liberal oasis,” Queller told EW in our midseason preview interview. “It’s a small town that’s always been very welcoming of aliens and where aliens and humans live in harmony. In fact, one of her parents is human and one is alien. Going home and seeing those dynamics and seeing a place will be a little break from all of the intense hatred and politics that we’ve been experiencing in National City. Then, we’ll focus on the family dynamics and what exactly has been holding Nia back from owning herself as Dreamer.”
She added, “It was a very special episode and very relationship-oriented, and it was really, really wonderful to explore Nia’s origin story, I guess, and learn more about who she is and where she comes from.”
The Redmi Note 7 looked solidly-built in its official teardown video, but there's only one real way to prove that a phone is tough - smash a walnut with it. Okay, maybe that's not the proper way to do it, but who are we to argue? After all, this video was posted by Lin Bin, co-founder and President of Xiaomi.
And not just that, the video was shot in 960fps with a Mi 8 so you can see the carnage in slow motion. To be clear, it was the nut that got smashed to bits.
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Yes, you did read that correctly - Microsoft has officially set a sunset date for Windows Phone. In a Microsoft support page titled "Windows 10 Mobile End of Support: FAQ" some questions are answered regarding the eventual drop of support for the Windows Phone platform.
Under "What should Windows 10 Mobile customers do now?" Microsoft recommends that Windows Phone users "move to a supported Android or iOS device." Windows Phone devices will no longer receive security on December 10 of this year. Though third party apps may continue supporting Windows Apps, Microsoft will no longer support...
Fortnite made a whopping $2.4 billion in revenue last year and now holds the record for the most annual revenue of any video game in history, according to SuperData's Year in Review - and that's not including figures from Android or its PvE mode, Save the World.
SuperData also reports that 34% of all US players "regularly" bought Battle Passes, contributing to last year's impressive figures.
Researchers have taught a robot dog to overcome one of the toughest challenges for a four-legged droid: how to get back up after a fall. In a paper published in the Science Robotics journal, its Swiss creators describe how they trained a neural netwo...
The act of gambling on games of chance has been around for as long as the games themselves. For as long as there's been money to be made wagering on the uncertain outcomes of these events, bettors have been leveraging mathematics to give them an edge...
John Deere has been to CES before. The company known for its dark green tractors with the yellow deer on them has rubbed shoulders with the smart TVs, smart light bulbs, smart cars, smart switches and smart toothbrushes for years. But 2019 was a...
Louis Vuitton is bringing its luxury brand to the world of audio. The French fashion house is teaming up with New York City-based audio company Master & Dynamic to create Louis Vuitton's first branded earbuds. The Louis Vuitton Horizon Earphones...
Brie Larson is set to star in a Netflix movie that highlights startup sexism as part of a two-film deal with the streaming service. Lady Business is based on a Fast Company article about two female entrepreneurs who invented a fake male cofounder in...
After laying waste to the best Go players in the world, DeepMind has moved on to computer games. The Google-owned artificial intelligence company has been fine-tuning its AI to take on StarCraft II and today showed off its first head-to-head matches...
Microsoft's Edge mobile browser has started flagging fake news sites as part of its latest update for iOS and Android. Previously only available as a desktop plug-in, the feature is powered by news rating company NewsGuard -- which makes a point of u...
Researchers have taught a robot dog to overcome one of the toughest challenges for a four-legged droid: how to get back up after a fall. In a paper published in the Science Robotics journal, its Swiss creators describe how they trained a neural netwo...
The act of gambling on games of chance has been around for as long as the games themselves. For as long as there's been money to be made wagering on the uncertain outcomes of these events, bettors have been leveraging mathematics to give them an edge...
John Deere has been to CES before. The company known for its dark green tractors with the yellow deer on them has rubbed shoulders with the smart TVs, smart light bulbs, smart cars, smart switches and smart toothbrushes for years. But 2019 was a...
Louis Vuitton is bringing its luxury brand to the world of audio. The French fashion house is teaming up with New York City-based audio company Master & Dynamic to create Louis Vuitton's first branded earbuds. The Louis Vuitton Horizon Earphones...