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Our line-up of news, reviews, opinions, commentary, and everything in-between for this morning covered a wide range of topics, including Amazon's The Boys brings us to "Herogasm," Nathan Fillion not having a problem working with Joss Whedon again "in a second," the Arrowverse keeps fighting on, FX's What We Do in the Shadows drops a[...]

And as we've mentioned before, one thing that separates this work from others is the access that Katz had to those in the know who helped him craft an examination that addresses both the franchise's immense impact on pop culture and society as well as a number of its failings (including directly addressing the abuse[...]

For fans of Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel, we can't stress enough how much you need to get a copy of Evan Ross Katz's recently-released Into Every Generation a Slayer Is Born: How Buffy Staked Our Hearts (you can purchase it here)- an exploration of the franchise's impact on pop culture and society as well[...]

Agent Maria Hill" sound? Image: NBC/Marvel Studios Checking in with the Happy Sad Confused podcast, Baccarin offered some backstory on how she came to audition for the role in Joss Whedon's The Avengers (with the two having worked together on Firefly) While the controversial figure was keen on her for the role (likening it to a famous[...]

Since that time, things had been very, very quiet- until Whedon took part in Monday's "The Undoing of Joss Whedon" by Lila Shapiro for New York Magazine For a rehash of some of the points that stuck out to us yesterday, you can check out our coverage here and here But now we're starting to[...]

Okay, just to be clear? When we wrote in our article earlier today "Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Can There Be a Post-Joss Whedon TV Future?", we speculated that we would be hearing from Joss Whedon sooner rather than later because his ego wouldn't allow him to keep quiet We also believed that there was a[...]

Rowling, "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" fans have their own moral "fork in the road" to face with Joss Whedon Back in February 2021, BtVS & Angel star Charisma Carpenter went public with accusations against Whedon that involved years of unprofessional and abusive behavior Carpenter's posts would bring a number of others who had worked with[...]

As most of you know by now, Buffy the Vampire Slayer & Angel star Charisma Carpenter (Cordelia) went public with accusations against series creator Joss Whedon that involved years of unprofessional and abusive behavior The posts would bring a number of others who had worked with Whedon in the past to offer Carpenter their support[...]

With the second half of the first season expected to debut in 2022, new showrunner Philippa Goslett is taking over for Joss Whedon (who departed the series after serving as showrunner for Part 1, with HBO's blessing) with a writers room that's already planned out episode E07-E12 as the series was premiering. Image: HBO Created and executive[...]

Bleeding Cool prides itself as a website that has long supported the plight of firebronies, the colloquial term for hardcore fans of prematurely canceled Joss Whedon television show Firefly Whedon himself may be canceled at this point, but somehow, Firefly lives on, and the latest issue of explosive publisher BOOM! Studios' Firefly comic, Firefly: Brand[...]

The Nevers is a show full of Joss Whedon's common tropes, held aloft by the strongest actresses he ever got A show lives or dies by its actors regardless of the pitch Shows attract fans when they become interested, intrigued, invested in the characters Once a show has characters who are fan favourites, it becomes[...]

Joss Whedon, after all, is responsible for creating the Strong Female Heroine archetype for television and many of the clichés and conventions that now dominate female-centred genre storytelling in books, movies, and TV. The Nevers, Image: HBO Here are what we saw in The Nevers pilot: Steampunk Feminism The Nevers declares itself a Steampunk feminist fantasy where the heroines[...]

Written & directed by Joss Whedon. Image: HBO April 18: Episode 2: "Exposure": With the city reeling from Maladie's (Manson) opera debut, Mundi (Chaplin) takes a personal stake in tracking her down, while Amalia (Donnelly) launches an investigation of her own Meanwhile, the charitable Lavinia Bidlow (Olivia Williams) seeks to destigmatize the Touched at a society event,[...]

The allegation was included in a larger The Hollywood Reporter expose on actor Ray Fisher's allegations of misconduct leveled at Joss Whedon and others with regard to the production of Justice League. Cameron Cuffe, who went on to play the role of Superman's grandfather Seg-El, tweeted that Page was "an inspiration to me and thousands of other[...]

We have a feeling that the last thing he was expecting to be pulled into was an expose from The Hollywood Reporter going into further details on actor Ray Fisher's allegations of misconduct leveled at Joss Whedon and others with regard to the production of Justice League But at one point in the report when other[...]

Written & directed by Joss Whedon. April 18: Episode 2: "Exposure": With the city reeling from Maladie's (Manson) opera debut, Mundi (Chaplin) takes a personal stake in tracking her down, while Amalia (Donnelly) launches an investigation of her own Meanwhile, the charitable Lavinia Bidlow (Olivia Williams) seeks to destigmatize the Touched at a society event, Hugo[...]

Written & directed by Joss Whedon. Image: HBO April 18: Episode 2: "Exposure": With the city reeling from Maladie's (Manson) opera debut, Mundi (Chaplin) takes a personal stake in tracking her down, while Amalia (Donnelly) launches an investigation of her own Meanwhile, the charitable Lavinia Bidlow (Olivia Williams) seeks to destigmatize the Touched at a society event,[...]

Written & directed by Joss Whedon. April 18: Episode 2: "Exposure": With the city reeling from Maladie's (Manson) opera debut, Mundi (Chaplin) takes a personal stake in tracking her down, while Amalia (Donnelly) launches an investigation of her own Meanwhile, the charitable Lavinia Bidlow (Olivia Williams) seeks to destigmatize the Touched at a society event, Hugo[...]

With less than a month to go until HBO and showrunner Philippa Goslett's (Little Ashes, Mary Magdalene) sci-fi, fantasy, action/drama The Nevers graces our screens (and less than a day after the official trailer and poster were released), series stars Laura Donnelly (Amalia True) and Ann Skelly (Penance Adair) are offering their thoughts on what it[...]

Of course, the week wouldn't be complete without hearing from Attack of the Show! and X-Play – so let's get started. Image: Screencaps First up, Jerry_XL reveals how G4 will perfect "The Art of The Cheap & Ill-Informed" to create G4's very own official video game- while back in reality, Ovilee and Frosk screen the latest batch of[...]

But today's anniversary is a bittersweet one, with the cast and fandom faced with the difficult task of separating the show and characters they love so much from the disturbing allegations that have been made public against series creator Joss Whedon– first, Buffy and Angel star Charisma Carpenter and then by others. Image: WarnerMedia Taking to Twitter,[...]

A menace to stuffy Victorian society, she would die for the cause and kill for a drink (but we're not sure it's always in that order):   View this post on Instagram   A post shared by The Nevers (@nevershbo) A Look at the Cast for HBO's The Nevers Created and executive produced by Joss Whedon; executive produced by Goslett, Bernadette[...]

While many assume it's more a matter of "when" than "if" Joss Whedon will address Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel star Charisma Carpenter's public accusations of abuse and unprofessional behavior during their time together work on both series, Carpenter is going public once again- this time, to offer advice on how to be either an[...]

No matter who she works with or for, Annie trusts only Annie- and her fire. Image: HBO Here's a look at Neil's Annie aka Bonfire in action- with what we're sure is the first in a series we'll most likely start getting on a daily/every-other-day basis:   View this post on Instagram   A post shared by The Nevers (@nevershbo) Created and[...]

The annual convention celebrating all things related to Joss Whedon has had a tough time of it They postponed their 2020 Whedoncon comic convention in Los Angeles to 2021, and have postponed it again, noting that the vaccine rollout to the general population is expected to take until late summer and the Los Angeles area[...]

Two years ago, Boom Studios pulled Firefly away from longtime publisher Dark Horse, courtesy of being part-owned by Fox, and relaunched the franchise at

Whether that's Joss Whedon, Roland Moore or Pikachu or more, the Daily Lying In The Gutters remains a long-running run around the day before and the day ahead You can sign up to receive it as an e-mail here. You can also catch a vlog interview with Matt Garvey embedded above! Daily LITG: Joss Whedon to Lucifer – [...]

Whether that's Joss Whedon, Roland Moore or Pikachu or more, the Daily Lying In The Gutters remains a long-running run around the day before and the day ahead You can sign up to receive it as an e-mail here. You can also catch a vlog interview with Matt Garvey embedded above! Daily LITG: Joss Whedon to WandaVision – [...]

Though Joss Whedon has yet to address Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel star Charisma Carpenter's public accusations of abuse and unprofessional behavior during the production of both series, others are On Friday, Variety posted an exclusive report based on conversations with 11 individuals who either worked directly on one or both series or were familiar[...]

Whether that's Joss Whedon, Roland Moore or Pikachu or more, the Daily Lying In The Gutters remains a long-running run around the day before and the day ahead You can sign up to receive it as an e-mail here. You can also catch a vlog interview with Matt Garvey embedded above! Daily LITG: Joss Whedon, Gina Carano, Jack[...]