After three seasons of timeline shattering storytelling, the Netflix original series Dark has come to an end. More importantly, it pulled off a finale that managed to resolve many of the mysteries of its narrative, while leaving just enough ambiguity for viewers to chew on after the credits rolled.
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Elliot Stabler's complexity is what makes him such an unforgettable part of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit: He's a passionate cop, a man with anger issues, and a loving father, all at once. We're here to unravel his backstory, from his rough childhood to his multifaceted career as a cop.
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French filmmaker Gaspar Noé's Love made major waves at the Cannes Film Festival in 2015. The erotic drama is only the fourth film in Noé's oeuvre, but its bold presentation and confrontational style -- not to mention all the unsimulated sex scenes -- earned the feature a fair amount warranted buzz.
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One of the best services Netflix provides is a major platform for obscure foreign films to reach a broader audience. The latest international action thriller from the streamer has just about everything you've come to expect from the genre, including an explosive ending that can be hard to follow.
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The two-part season 2 finale of Netflix's The Order offered plenty of thrills, kills and blood spills — as well as plot twists that leave us clamoring for season 3. Here's the ending of The Order season 2 explained.
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The exiled heir to the throne of the Fire Nation grappled with concepts of loyalty, family, and pride in one of the most fleshed-out arcs we've ever seen for an antagonist. This is Prince Zuko's entire backstory explained.
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From armies of dragons to tragic heroes, legions of balrogs, massive wars, dirtbag treachery, and a trio of superpowered gems that make the One Ring feel like your great-grandmother's wedding ring, here are the events that shaped the First Age of Middle-earth.
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Like the best of Scorsese's masterworks, The Departed weaves a layered story that will stick with you long after the credits roll. There is so much to think about even after the movie is over, thanks largely to a conclusion that initially feels abrupt and even jarring.
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The seven episodes of The Politician season 2 were a whirlwind — never settling on any one character, event, or moral for long before turning the tables again. Not to worry, though: We're here to round up the biggest points of the last couple episodes and discuss where they might be leading.
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7500 is the story of a skyjacking told from the perspective of the airplane's cockpit. A group of hijackers has made their way onto a flight from Berlin to Paris with a desire to crash the plane and kill everyone onboard.
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Riverdale has never met a cliffhanger it didn't love, and the Riverdale season 4 finale didn't disappoint in terms of twists and spooky reveals. Confused as to what happened, and why we didn't get all of the answers we were promised this season? We've got you covered.
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Blumhouse Productions has a new chiller waiting to disrupt your sleep cycles, and it's available everywhere on VOD. You Should Have Left is exactly the kind of disturbing film we've come to expect from Jason Blum's venerable horror production house.
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Disney's long-awaited adaptation of Irish author Eoin Colfer's beloved Artemis Fowl series is finally here, and it's not exactly what fans were hoping for.
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The Vast of Night is the latest science-fiction movie burning up the charts on Amazon's Prime Video streaming service. Viewers have responded with overwhelming enthusiasm for director Andrew Patterson's maiden cinematic voyage into the unknown, and it's no secret why.
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Netflix has been landing top tier filmmakers for its original features for a while now, but any new film from legendary director Spike Lee is worthy of notice. Now feels like the right moment to hear from Lee with a follow-up to 2018's outstanding BlacKkKlansman, and Da 5 Bloods does not disappoint.
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Gibbs' is one of the most fleshed-out and deeply realized characters in the NCIS world — but when you're talking about police procedurals, a deep backstory is rarely a good thing. Gibbs' life has been a blend of professional success and extreme personal tragedy, and we're here to break it all down.
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After 15 seasons and 324 episodes, Criminal Minds took its final bow on CBS on February 19, 2020. The crime procedural had many actors come and go in its storied history, but its final episode prioritized those who had been there from the beginning and made it to the finish line.
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To explain everything that's going on in the many long and tangled timelines of Power Rangers would take, well, multiple seasons of television, but we'll do our best to give you the broad strokes in chronological order.
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Summer is just starting, but Netflix has already dropped what's sure to be one of its hottest — and most controversial — movies of 2020. 365 Days, known outside the U.S. as 365 Dni, is an erotic thriller based on a novel series from Polish author Blanka Lipińska. Here's the ending fully explained.
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Today, Toy Story is a franchise boasting multiple movies, TV spin-offs, and merchandise galore. We're here to take it back to its essentials with this timeline chronicling the entire Toy Story saga, from the first film in 1995 to 2019's tear-jerking Toy Story 4.
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If you're curious about the fates and futures of the citizens of Springfield, here's what will happen to the characters of The Simpsons ... eventually.
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What if I told you there was more to Laurence Fishburne's Morpheus than meets the eye? The Matrix trilogy is the story of Neo and his destiny to save humanity, but what about the man who discovers him? Here's the story of Morpheus' escape from the Matrix, and howe he came to find the One.
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The final season of 13 Reasons Why has been released, and wraps up the story of Clay Jensen, Jessica Davis, and their friends at Liberty High. Even with some loose threads left unexplored, fans were able to get some kind of closure. Here's how 13 Reasons Why season 4 ended.
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Olivia Benson is officially the longest-running prime-time live-action TV character of all time. With 21 seasons worth of storytelling under her belt, her history has grown enormously complex. We're here to untangle Olivia Benson's backstory, one event at a time.
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After five nostalgia-fueled seasons, Netflix's reboot of the beloved sitcom Full House has come to an end with a big wedding. To commemorate the happy occasion, we're going to break down the ending of Fuller House: The Farewell Season, including that shocking twist ending.
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With so much dwarvish lore in The Lord of the Rings, we thought we'd take a deep dive into the dwarves of Middle-earth in order to see what makes them different from the ostentatious men, froufrou elves, and beardless hobbits that surround them on all sides.
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Crime thrillers thrive on mystery and misdirection, which often makes unpacking their climaxes a bit of task. Netflix's latest entry from this genre, Intuition, is no exception. Here's the ending explained.
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