Alex Cranz

While Netflix may have the rights to Rian Johnson’s future Knives Out films, Peacock is the home of his Columbo-esque collaboration with Natasha Lyonne, Poker Face.

Hello my fellow geriatric millennials (and everyone else), remember Willow? The movie starring Warwick Davies and Val Kilmer got a TV show sequel, also called Willow, and its first season is concluding today on Disney Plus. With snappy, if modern, dialogue, an incredible wealth of young acting talent, and a myriad of terrifying and/or goofy monsters, this adventure story has been a blast.

In Renfield, the titular character is struggling with his co-dependent relationship with Dracula and slowly realizing that maybe gathering victims for an immortal serial killer is, perhaps, wrong. But also Dracula is played by Nicholas Cage and Renfield is played by Nicholas Hoult, and Awkwafina is the woman he’s got a big crush on, and there are big fight scenes instead of atmospheric horror ones. It’s got hyper commercial What We Do In Shadows vibes.

Evil Dead Rise is the latest film from the Evil Dead franchise, and like the last theatrical release, the super gory 2013 Evil Dead, this one seems to lean way in on the horror. This time around the film follows a woman and her niece battling her possessed sister. While I prefer more cartoonish Bruce Campbell in my Evil Dead, this still looks like it’ll be a fun, if super creepy, one. You can watch the red-band trailer on YouTube.

You will be forgiven if you forgot broadcast TV exists, but it does! I watched so much Fire Country this weekend on it. But broadcast TV also kind of sucks, and ATSC 3.0, the next generation of the standard, is supposed to fix that.

The fake Nilay Twitter account created by Verge managing editor Alex Cranz — that was “verified” and recommended to many during Elon’s messy first attempt at a $7.99 Twitter Blue subscription — has met its end.

In case you missed it (I kind of missed it), Netflix launched its new ad tier recently. Unfortunately, not enough people have signed up yet, which means Netflix has struggled to deliver the promised views to advertisers, who are now asking for some of their money back. The advertisers Digiday spoke to didn’t seem worried about Netflix’s prospects—these are early days and there will be issues—but the stock market was a little more reactive to the news.