After spending much of episodes 1 and 2 with important characters such as Stu Redman (James Marsden), Frannie Goldsmith (Odessa Young), Harold Lauder (Owen Teague) and Larry Underwood (Jovan Adepo), the new miniseries version of Stephen King’s The Stand brings in or fills out the backgrounds of several more key personnel in episode 3, titled “Blank Pages.” This episode (written by Jill Killington and Owen King, son of Stephen) of the nine-part CBS All Access limited series introduces the characters of Nick Andros (Brazilian actor Henry Zaga from The New Mutants), Ray Brentner (Irene Bedard) and Tom Cullen (Brad William Henke), all of whom play a major role in King’s tale — and all of whom have received a fairly significant overhaul for the new adaptation....

In episode 2 of the new CBS All Access adaptation of Stephen King’s The Stand, “Pocket Savior,” we are introduced to Larry Underwood (Jovan Adepo), a musician and drug addict who’s on the cusp of success when the Captain Trips superflu circles the globe and lays waste to 99% of the population. We also meet Lloyd Henreid (Nat Wolff), a convicted murderer who does everything possible to stay alive behind bars until, alone, starving and losing his mind, he comes suddenly face to face with the Dark Man, Randall Flagg (Alexander Skarsgard), who makes an offer that Lloyd can’t refuse....

It’s always been clear to Star Trek fans that the heart of this franchise is in the friendships it features. Whether it’s Kirk, Spock, and McCoy, Trip and Malcolm, or Tom and Harry, it’s those relationships that we celebrate in Star Trek, and that’s what this week’s episode of Star Trek: Lower Decks, “Room for Growth,” focuses on. “Room for Growth” sees the Lower Deckers lamenting the lack of space in their shared quarters with the rest of the lesser-ranked (and dressed!...

Instead Hayden attempts to read off the names of every American who died in Vietnam since this sham trial began. It’s a symbolic act of defiance, and a welcome one that sends the court into temporary pandemonium. It doesn’t change anything, other than maybe Hayden’s sentence, but the audience can savor the good fight against corrosive authority, so perfectly personified by Langella’s judge. That’s all well and good, but what happened afterward?...

Aaron Poole stars as a small town cop named Carter whose relatively quiet overnight shift takes a disquieting turn when he discovers a blood-soaked man (Evan Stern) in the middle of a country road (we had seen the man escaping earlier from a sinister house and a cruel murder scene). Carter takes the man to the local emergency room, conveniently staffed by Carter’s ex-wife Allison (Kathleen Munroe), two other nurses and Dr....

One of those spinoffs would have seen Daryl and Carol going on a road trip to new, as of yet unexplored locations. Well, this show is still happening but now only Norman Reedus is going on the trip. AMC confirmed that Melissa McBride has exited the show due to logistical issues. “Unfortunately, she is no longer able to participate in the previously announced spinoff focused on the Daryl Dixon and Carol Peletier characters, which will be set and filmed in Europe this summer and premiere next year,” AMC said in a statement to TV Line....

There are plenty of reasonable, skeptical folks don’t who believe in such things as ghosts or hauntings. The question for them often translates to the largely rhetorical “would you like to live in a large historical mansion?” to which the answer is obviously “yep.” Even for the true paranormal believers, however, rising mortgage interest rates and a tight housing market has to have them considering “how haunted is too haunted?...

Voiced by Theo James (Castlevania), Vesemir appears in the trailer for The Witcher: Nightmare of the Wolf as a shrewd slayer-for-hire, not overly concerned with the low opinion normal humans have for those of his profession. While a certain moral code has always been embedded in The Witcher stories, it’s also true that “every deal has a price,” as Vesemir says in the promo. The monster hunter can be seen interacting with the sorceress Tetra, voiced by Laura Pulver (Sherlock), who is descended from one of the Continent’s first mages, according to press materials....

“‘Prey’ is maybe the most fun I’ve ever had writing at Marvel. Thor fans are going to lose their minds over this one and I can’t wait to unleash this terrifying beast on them!” Cates said. “Nic Klein is back and at the top of his game on this one. I promise you this, True Believers, just like the mighty thunder king himself…..you won’t see this one coming. Behold…the return of Donald Blake!...

While it’s certainly possible to enjoy and beat Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands regardless of which class you pick at the start of the game, it’s pretty clear that the developers intended for each class to offer a fairly unique experience. That was obviously a great decision in terms of gameplay variety and replay value, but it also means that you really need to know what you’re getting into before you pick your class....

Solitaire offers exceptional entertainment to the players that they can spend even hours playing this game. Although its origin date is centuries back, but on PCs, Windows OS first introduced Solitaire in 1990. Since then, it has been one of the favorite pastimes of office workers, students, and people of all ages. The rules of this gameplay are simple. This is not just a game for entertainment, but it is also used as a way of exercising the brain....

If you check the source code of a website’s front-end at random these days, chance are you’ll find Bootstrap underneath. We’ve all become so used to concepts like container-fluid, row, col-sm-6, etc., that it’s hard to imagine that any other style of front end development is even possible. And so when we have to build the next project, we reach for Bootstrap unconsciously. That said, the popularity doesn’t make Bootstrap a good fit for all projects and needs....

As of writing, asynchronous is no more just a buzzword in the Python community. With the release of its asyncio library in 3.5 version, Python acknowledged the impact of Node.js on web development and introduce two new keywords into the language — async and await. This was a very big deal because the Python language is extremely wary of expanding the core syntax unless there’s a pressing need, which only indicates how fundamentally important the Python developers considered the asynchronous capabilities....

How High We Go in the Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu Type: NovelPublisher: William MorrowRelease date: Jan. 18 Den of Geek says: Sequoia Nagamatsu’s debut promises to be for 2022 what rereading Emily St. John Mandel’s Station Eleven was for 2020: a speculative plague narrative that may hit too close to home, but that may also be just the catharsis we need as we continue to adjust our lives in a post-covid era....

This is not about your computer connected to the printer or a few devices connected to your organizational network. It’s much deeper and bigger. Although mapping is easier for a network involving a few devices, it’s difficult for an organization with thousands of devices in its network. It becomes tougher for the IT team to discover every device in the network and monitor it. The process may take significant time, effort, and resources....

Williams takes centre stage here as Kim Oakes, an early 20-something oddball who, since the murder of her father, has been sequestered away in the wilderness with her doomsday-prepping mother (Sian Clifford) for most of her life. Feeling compelled to go on a belated coming-of-age adventure, Kim sets out to find her dad’s killer and along the way ropes mismatched brothers Jay (Taheen Modak) and Nicky (Mawaan Rizwan) into her scheme....

Vampires vs. the Bronx comes from Dominican Republic-raised director Oz Rodriguez, who has worked on Saturday Night Live, A.P. Bio, The Last Man On Earth, and Shrill and Sunnyside. Rodriguez co-wrote the screenplay with Blaise Hemingway (UglyDolls). With the picture being produced by Lorne Michaels, Erin David, Bert Hamelinck, and Michael Sagol, Vampires vs. the Bronx will be suitable for all ages and reflect the city’s multiculturalism and youth. “Three gutsy kids from a rapidly gentrifying Bronx neighborhood stumble upon a sinister plot to suck all the life from their beloved community,” reads the official synopsis....

In its final season Vikings tied up the story of Ragnar and his sons, and ended with a pitch-perfect, almost poetic, coda. Ragnar, however, was just the beginning of the Vikings’ story. Later this year, Netflix will bring us the saga’s concluding chapter, Vikings: Valhalla. Set more than 150 years after the events of its parent show, Vikings: Valhalla charts the Vikings’ last glorious push as a cultural force with which to be reckoned, while chronicling some of the early 11th century’s most intrepid, influential and powerful figures....

Vikings Season 4 Episode 14 “I cannot kill you, yet you must die.” It’s been an amazing four-year run. As we’ve watched Ragnar Lothbrok regretfully age, both physically and emotionally, we always knew the time would come when we’d be forced to accept his death whatever the circumstances and decide whether or not Vikings could survive without him. However, “In the Uncertain Hour Before the Morning,” we’re not asked to come to terms with that quite yet, and instead this chapter resolves some long standing issues that require other deaths before Ragnar finally meets his own....

Season five of Vikings saw Ivar’s dreams of rule, romance, and Godhood collapse around him like a volcano on Floki’s head. Defeated by his band of brothers, betrayed by his wife, Freydis, the tyrant was forced to disguise himself as a peasant and smuggle himself out of Kattegat in the back of a merchant’s cart. Ivar’s Far, Far Away A dejected Ivar makes his way along the Silk Road. He and his bodyguard Vigrid are captured by the Kievan Rus and taken before Prince Oleg the Prophet....