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“Though the Heavens Fall” is arguably the best episode of the season so far. It moves the story forward while also meaningfully addressing themes of getting older, facing death, and dealing with loss. The episode focuses on a visit to Vought Villages, a retirement community for supes, where former actress Golden Geisha lives. Because she and Bombsight used to be a couple, she’s the key to finding him and obtaining the remaining V-One samples.

This week’s episode, titled “Commitment,” continues Daisy’s story, revealing how she ended up under Lydia’s care. We learn about the short time between her life with her family and her arrival as a Pearl Girl. Last time we saw Daisy, she was in Canada, instructed to wait at a diner for someone from the Mayday resistance. It turns out the waitress who’s been serving her coffee is the contact she’s been waiting for – Linda. Linda brings Daisy to a safe house owned by Rita, a familiar face from the Boston uprising in The Handmaid’s Tale. It’s reassuring to see that Rita escaped Gilead and is now living freely in Toronto, even attending culinary school.

The film centers around three characters. Professor Wong, a neurologist from Hong Kong played by Tony Leung, travels to Marburg to study children’s brains, only to find himself stranded there during the COVID-19 lockdown. Feeling like an outsider, he’s left alone in the university, observed only by Anton, the janitor, who becomes wary as Wong starts experimenting on a ginkgo tree. We also see the story of Grete (Luna Wedler), a botany student at Marburg in 1908. During her entrance interview, she faces inappropriate and sexually suggestive questioning from her professors, who seem determined to test her limits. Finally, there’s Hannes (Enzo Brumm), a student in 1972 who initially wants to study poetry. He falls for Gundula (Marlene Burow), a researcher studying how geraniums respond to stimuli. Though he grew up on a farm and dislikes plants, Hannes agrees to look after Gundula’s flower while she’s away, and soon becomes fascinated by how aware it seems to be.

Joe Russo, one of the directors of Avengers: Doomsday, recently discussed with Metro UK how difficult it was to prevent spoilers for the upcoming Phase 6 movie. He explained that while audiences enjoy being surprised, the need to keep everything secret can sometimes go too far, making fans hesitant to interact with any related content.

Chace Crawford, who plays the Deep in The Boys, has discussed a significant death in season 5, episode 6. The episode features a shocking fight where the Deep supports an oil pipeline that explodes, causing massive harm to marine life and turning him against the ocean. This happens after Black Noir reveals he sabotaged the pipeline to avenge Adam Bourke’s death. The Deep then fatally stabs Black Noir with his own knife during a confrontation in the recording studio.

For a long time, movies based on video games had a reputation for being bad, but that’s starting to change thanks to successes like the Sonic the Hedgehog movies and Exit 8. However, Mortal Kombat II shows that making a good video game movie is still difficult. This sequel is Warner Bros. and director Simon McQuoid’s second attempt, and they’ve tried to learn from the mistakes of the first Mortal Kombat film from 2021, which wasn’t very well received but seemed better because most video game movies are generally poor. This time, they’ve focused more on the actual Mortal Kombat tournament and reduced the role of Cole Young, a character created specifically for the first movie.