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The trailer for The Angry Birds Movie 3 came out today, and it managed to encompass all of the chaos of the prior two movies — but in a family-comedy-shaped package. Angry Birds 3 will follow Red as he raises his three kids. They take after their father, to his dismay, and get into various hijinks of their own. The first two movies, based on the popular mobile game, followed Red as he saved the birds from the villainous green pigs and then allied with the same pigs to defeat the eagles.

Five Nights at Freddy’s gave video game fans two box office smashes that brought Freddy and his friends to the big screen. So, it is not at all shocking that there’s a Five Nights at Freddy’s 3 in the works with writer Gary Dauberman on board. Dauberman is behind films like 2017’s IT and IT: Chapter 2 as well as The Nun. According to The Hollywood Reporter, it is not clear if the previous film’s stars will return for this next installment.

Alicent Hightower made a shocking offer in House of the Dragon‘s season two finale. After a lifetime of service and a fatal deathbed misunderstanding, the Queen Dowager wanted the war to end. In exchange for the crown, Rhaenyra just had to grant Alicent and her daughter Helaena the freedom to live peacefully. In House of the Dragon‘s third season, Rhaenyra was eager to accept even if her advisors feared a trap. Were they right? Or was she finally able to claim the Iron Throne?

If you’ve ever read a fanfic, you know the high. (And if you’ve never read a fanfic, what are you doing with your life?) That unbelievable euphoria that comes when the stars align, the writing is on fire, there’s hurt, there’s comfort, there’s a deep tangle of confused feelings, and yet some fated, universal thing is irresistibly pulling two characters together in exactly the way you’d hoped for.

Happy Pride! As we near the end of this celebratory month, The Vampire Lestat gods decide to bestow upon us a gift. And by us, I mean Devil’s Minion shippers. In The Vampire Lestat episode four, Armand and Daniel share several beautiful, emotional, and deeply complex moments together. But the Devil’s Minion ship also does something else.

In episode four of The Vampire Lestat, a long-awaited reunion finally comes to pass. After three excruciating episodes of separation, Armand and Daniel reunite for the first time since Armand turned Daniel into a vampire. Their first collision with one another in The Vampire Lestat doesn’t go so well—Daniel becomes drenched in complete rage at the very sight of Armand, and Armand attempts to communicate with Daniel by reading from a script. But the course of true love never did run smoothly.

The Vampire Armand is finally back in full force in The Vampire Lestat. And, as always, his true intentions are hard to parse. At times, Armand appears contrite for the wrongs he’s managed to stir up in the lives around him, worried about the state of vampire kind and the safety of those he… loves? But, of course, with Armand, multiple motivations are always at play. And it’s hard to tell where tenderness bleeds into manipulation, bleeds into sincerity, bleeds into lies.

In Interview with the Vampire season two, the series gives us glimpses of the complicated past that is Armand’s; a series of tragedies that have left the vampire with an intense hunger for survival and the inability to ever truly find or trust peace.

In a significant flashback in episode four of The Vampire Lestat, “The Devil’s Road,” we see a major life milestone moment in the personal development of Sam Reid’s Lestat. And it explains so much of his later behavior with so many other characters, particularly his fledglings, Louis and Claudia. Episode four shows us the first time his mother, Gabriella, picked up and abandoned him for years and years. This left a hole in his heart that he always tried to fill with the love of others.