Callie Hanna

× I was probably kinder than most to the first season of Netflix’s Avatar: The Last Airbender remake when it first released in 2024. While it definitely had its problems, and even the best possible version of it couldn’t hold a candle to the animated original, it was still a solid enough action fantasy series in its own right on top of being a serviceable adaptation of the source material, with plenty of room to improve in potential future seasons.

× Rick and Morty Season 9 reaches its halfway point with the fifth episode, “Jer Bud.” What kind of adventure awaits in this particular episode? Will Rick and Morty be together again or split up? And will the story actually involve Jerry being transformed into a basketball playing dog as the title suggests? All these questions and more will be answered in our full spoiler breakdown of “Jer Bud.” This is your final warning if you haven’t seen the episode yet, so let’s get cracking.

× Girls Like Girls has genuinely been one of my most anticipated releases of the year. A decade-plus-long passion project of writer, director, and all-around lesbian icon Hayley Kiyoko, based on her 2015 song and 2023 novel of the same name, a coming-of-age sapphic romance with an early-2000s aesthetic and girly pop needle drops is about as me-coded a thing as you can get without also going into genre fiction.