Adult Swim put out another short teaser for Rick and Morty: The Anime, and when I say short I mean it’s less than one minute of some out-of-context footage. There’s not much to explain Summer doing her best Sayla Mass impression or Rick doing the Umbrella Academy meme with parallel universe versions of himself, but it all feels on-brand.
The bad news is, according to Deadline, Max has canceled Warrior, leaving the show with three seasons. The good news is that Netflix made a deal to stream those seasons in Max’s markets.
The other bad news is it may not get a fourth season, since, the article notes, the actors are no longer under contract, and the show’s lead, Andrew Koji, is already otherwise obligated.
In his year-end Screenwriter newsletter, Bloomberg’s Lucas Shaw seeded some new TV rumors while laying out why the spinoff apocalypse is nigh.
According to Shaw, Netflix is considering an Uncle Fester spinoff from Wednesday and is making two Peaky Blinders shows. And maybe it’s not a new rumor, per se, but Shaw says Disney really is making that new, Ryan Coogler-produced X-Files.
Netflix’s The One Piece will be a “fresh new remake” anime adaptation of Eiichiro Oda’s manga. It’s separate from the impressive live action series and the existing anime that’s already 20 seasons deep, with “cutting-edge visual technology to reimagine Luffy’s adventures through the beloved East Blue saga.”
There’s no release date, but it’s produced by Wit Studio, which is behind AOT and Spy x Family. An adaptation of another Oda manga, Monsters 103 Mercies Dragon Damnation, will premiere on Netflix in January.
OK, yes, Wonka is in theaters, but most of this week’s releases are things you can enjoy from the comfort of your couch.
Barbie is now streaming on Max, and there’s a bunch on Netflix: Yu Yu Hakusho, Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget, Carol and the End of the World, and the final season of Hilda, which I highly recommend if you need something to watch with kids. And if you’re looking for something fun and holiday-themed, Merry Little Batman is on Prime Video.
When it comes to games, the GTA trilogy is now on mobile (it’s free if you’re a Netflix subscriber), God of War has a free roguelike expansion, and the classic cat-collecting game Neko Atsume gets some new life in mixed reality.
Platonic has been renewed! Given the first season ended on a pretty definitive note it will be curious to see where season two goes. I hope it immediately addresses the whole “we saw aliens” subplot by pivoting the show into being a prequel to Invasion, also on Apple TV Plus.
Instead, it will probably just continue to be a really good show about Millennials reckoning with growing old.
No thank you for waking me up.
We’re just weeks away from a new year (no, really, I checked), but before the calendar flips over, the MCU will deliver a new season of its animated What If...? series on Disney Plus.
They reworked the 12 Days of Christmas carol as a reminder it’s on the way, just in case anyone forgot.
Russell T. Davies’ hearts are in the right place, but the introduction of Ncuti Gatwa’s new Doctor Who was marked by a number of questionable decisions and racist tropes.
The streamer continues to ever-so-slowly move away from binge releases, at least when it comes to some of its biggest shows. The third season of Bridgerton will follow in the footsteps of Stranger Things and The Witcher by releasing in two parts: the first premieres on May 16th, followed by another batch of episodes on June 13th.
