The Last of Us season 2 is just days away, but it seems that HBO doesn’t want to leave everyone in suspense about what’s next for one of its most popular series. The network announced on Wednesday that the series has been renewed for season 3 via a short video teaser. It can’t be for nothing. Season 3 is coming. #TheLastOfUs pic.twitter.com/q5HxyvK9O6— Max (@StreamOnMax) April 9, 2025 For those that...

Part of the fun of cultural acceleration is that it’s now possible to feel nostalgia about things that happened as little as a few months ago. These days, fads and memes and modes of entertainment emerge in our shared zeitgeist like bubbles reaching the surface in boiling soup, and they pop almost as soon as they reach air. Most will be forgotten within three months. But one fad from an...

Apple is offering a rare discount on its ad-free Apple TV Plus streaming service through Thursday, April 24. New and returning subscribers can pay just $2.99 per month for three months (totaling $9) before the price goes back up to its normal $9.99 per month cost. Discounts for Apple TV Plus are typically tied to wireless carrier promotions, or reserved for those who buy new Apple hardware, so I suggest...

The first images from Murderbot, Apple TV’s adaptation of Martha Wells’ The Murderbot Diaries series, lacked personality. In retrospect, this makes a certain amount of sense; the titular cyborg of the books is, after all, only just learning to express its personality in the first place. In hindsight, this also makes sense because the first trailer for the show, released Wednesday, is full of personality. The footage introduces Murderbot itself,...

A lot has happened to Daredevil in the first season of Born Again. Foggy died; his nemesis ran for mayor of New York and won; his attempts to go straight have hit some roadblocks; he dealt with a serial killer who targeted two people he knew personally. Also, he got a girlfriend.  The fact that Matt Murdock (Charlie Cox) has found some happiness amid all this drudgery should seem like...

I’m a huge enthusiast when it comes to independent animation. Whether it’s stop-motion animation like Takahide Hori’s Junk Head or one-man masterpieces like Shingo Tamagawa’s Puparia and Kenji Iwaisawa’s On-Gaku: Our Sound, I’m an ardent believer in both seeking out and championing passion projects that exist both within and outside of the mainstream animation industry. Michinoku-toge is one such project. Set in an alternate version of feudal Japan, the series...

Say “Predator period piece” three times fast — or say it slow, because that’s what Predator: Killer of Killers is. A three-episode animated miniseries from the director of Prey, featuring Predator attacks in three different periods of humanity’s past. A newly released trailer for the show has all the gore, ominous de-cloaking, and weird clicking sounds you could want from the franchise. The series — which takes place in historical...

After a three-year break, Netflix’s adult animated sci-fi anthology series, Love, Death & Robots, returns! A first, very M-rated trailer shows off some of the new shorts, which include dinosaurs, incredibly fluffy cats, giant babies, flashers at a concert, and a whole lot of explosions. All very intriguing concepts, but we’re specifically on the look out for the promised love, death, and robots. For the past three seasons of the...

Jimmy Donaldson, better known as MrBeast, is suing a former employee, Leroy Nabors, for misappropriation of trade secrets and breach of contract, according to a lawsuit filed April 4 in a North Carolina court. Among the allegations in the complaint, which Polygon has reviewed, Donaldson’s lawyers claim Nabors also installed hidden cameras “throughout Beast’s offices.” Though Donaldson as MrBeast is the face of the brand, his company is expansive; he...

“I don’t think that Game Changer gets meaningfully more ambitious than this season without me getting arrested,” Sam Reich — CEO of Dropout but, more pertinently, host of its flagship competition series, Game Changer — tells Polygon.  Seven seasons in, Game Changer has hosted miniature versions of half a dozen reality shows, pulled off even more unique feats of intricately constructed mindfuckery, and variously terrorized, rewarded, thwarted, and bamboozled Dropout’s...