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18.03.2024 - 16:09 / polygon.com / Jennifer Hale / Ray Chase / Pablo Schreiber / David Benioff
This week’s TV is a sort of choose-your-IP-adaptation adventure: The X-Men of the ’90s returns, complete with nostalgic animation vibes, in X-Men ’97. If you’re looking for an alternate-timeline version of a classic video game (and a kind of silly one at that), there’s the finale of Halo season 2.
Then there’s 3 Body Problem, Netflix’s big-budget adaptation of the blockbuster science fiction novel of the same name (and its follow-ups). As our executive editor Matt Patches put it in his review, 3 Body Problem “feels epic in scale while probing the messiness of human instinct.”
Among these, there aren’t really any wrong choices; it’s all TV, it’s all a good time. And it’s not even the limit: There’s still ongoing TV, and a few more new options. Here’s all the notable TV premieres and finales this week.
Genre: Big-budget sci-fi
Release date: March 21, with all eight episodes
Showrunners/creators: David Benioff, D.B. Weiss, and Alexander Woo
Cast: Eiza González, Liam Cunningham, Benedict Wong, and more
Physics is breaking, and it’s the end of the world as we know it — at least, unless a group of brilliant scientists can join forces with a shadowy detective to expose the greatest threat to humanity in all of history.
That’s about as deep as I can go without spoiling it, but the other headlines for this show are: It’s from the showrunners of Game of Thrones and The Terror season 2, and based on the hit sci-fi book by Cixin Liu.
Genre: Throwback superhero cartoon
Release date: March 20
Head writer: Beau DeMayo
Cast: Ray Chase, Jennifer Hale, Alison Sealy-Smith, and more
X-Men ’97 will be continuing the story from the X-Men: The Animated Series show of the ’90s. The animation — a throwback in style and tone — will be picking up with your favorite X-Men (or, at least, the main ones) after the death of Professor X.
Genre: Video game adaptation
Release date: March 21
Showrunner/creator: David Wiener
Cast: Pablo Schreiber, Bokeem Woodbine, Natasha McElhone, and more
It’s the final episode of Halo season 2 and Master Chief is… still not on Halo (yet!). Maybe soon. At the very least, this season we have learned a lot more about the UNSC and got some time with the Arbiter. And again: Maybe Master Chief is en route to Halo right now!
Genre: Reality competition
Release date: March 20 at 9 p.m. EDT on Bravo, next day on Peacock
Host: Kristen Kish
Cast: A top group of top chefs who want to chef their way to being The Top Chef
You know the drill: A group of chefs compete for $250,000 and (perhaps more importantly) the prestige of being dubbed top chef. This season marks the first time the show won’t be hosted by Padma Lakshmi, with Top Chef: Seattle winner Kristen Kish taking over as host. Will this impact the show’s flavor?
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Greetings, Polygon readers! Each week, we round up the most notable new releases to streaming and VOD, highlighting the biggest and best new movies for you to watch at home.
From the world of Neil Gaiman's Sandman comes a spooky new series starring two dead boys who decide to ditch the afterlife and quite literally become detectives.
The latest update for Helldivers 2 is here, and it ought to shake up the game in a fairly significant way. The big news is that the level cap is increasing from 50 all the way to 150. Meanwhile, Arrowhead Studios have also added a couple of new planetary hazards (blizzards and sandstorms), rebalanced a long list of weapons, tweaked the specifics of how certain missions work, and more.
Helldivers 2 releases a new and bigger update for players which brings new gameplay elements, balancing to missions and weapons, as well as general adjustments and quality of life tweaks. The live service shooter from Arrowhead Game Studios continues to evolve since its launch back in February. Helldivers 2 has managed to achieve this through a combination of new updates and a dynamic world that is constantly in flux thanks to the push and pull of the players and enemy factions across the map.
It’s April Fools’ Day, but this post is no joke: There is a lot of new TV to watch this week. In a lot of ways it’s a showdown of tense situations — “tense,” here, being used to cover things like Tom Ripley (Andrew Scott, in the new adaptation) trying to con his way into high society, American Horror Story: Delicate’s Anna (Emma Roberts) attempting to figure what’s a real haunting and what’s in her head, Mark (Steven Yeun) trying to live up to the title of Invincible while he protects his family, or Larry David (Larry David) just trying to make it through the end of Curb Your Enthusiasm alive.
On April 8, a solar eclipse will be visible across most of North America, varying in degree depending on location, according to NASA. Residents within the path of totality, extending from Texas to Maine, will observe a total eclipse, while those outside this band will witness a partial eclipse. To engage the public, NASA is organizing in-person events, providing opportunities to experience NASA science, and offering online streaming options.
U.S enhances restrictions on AI chip exports to China; US Congress enforces ban on Microsoft's AI Copilot for staff usage; CPI(M) introduces AI anchor 'Samata' for upcoming Lok Sabha elections; NYC to pilot AI gun scanners in the subway; All this, and more in our daily roundup. Let us take a look.
Another F-Zero game is on the way to Switch.
Storage is one of the major concerns when it comes to owning a portable PC. So, if you're soon to be a new owner of a Steam Deck, ROG Ally, or Nintendo Switch, you should absolutely consider getting a microSD card alongside and boosting the available storage that they have up considerably. Below, you can find a selection of excellent SD card deals.
That’s it, guys, we made it: Time for March to go out like a lamb, as the old adage says, and spring has sprung — most notably (“most” here for if you are not the type who wants to go touch literal grass) in the form of our spring preview, which forecasts some of the best TV shows, movies, books, anime, and more coming this season.
The Heirloom is a visually stunning 2D game that blends Scottish thriller with puzzle elements. It will be available this October on PC, Mobile, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation, and Xbox.
Chef and restaurateur Jose Andrés inviting actors Jamie Lee Curtis, Bryan Cranston and O'Shea Jackson Jr. over for dinner in a new TV special and Jake Gyllenhaal starring in an update of the pulpy cult classic “Road House” are some of the new television, movies, music and games headed to a device near you.