Avengers: Doomsday
The Multiverse Saga begins its finale December 18, 2026: Downey returns as Doctor Doom, the Russos are back, and the Fox X-Men come home. Early word preview, no score until it's seen.
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The Avengers: United They Stand
The Avengers cartoon FOX ran for thirteen episodes in 1999 and then buried. Hawkeye leads, Wasp has a visor, the theme song slaps. A curio worth knowing, 5.2 on IMDb.
Avengers Assemble
The movie face Avengers cartoon from Disney XD, 126 episodes across five seasons. The Cantons of Civilization genre episodes are the hidden gems. 7.0 on IMDb, all on Disney+.
The Avengers: Earth’s Mightiest Heroes
The 100% Rotten Tomatoes Marvel cartoon fans still call the best Avengers series ever animated. Founding members one per episode, then the Kree Skrull war. 52 episodes, all on Disney+.
Preacher
AMC's adaptation of the Ennis and Dillon Vertigo comic: Dominic Cooper as an outlaw preacher who commands anyone with a word, Graham McTavish as the Saint of Killers. 4 seasons of blasphemy, blood and jokes.
The Tick (2016)
Amazon’s version swaps joke density for heart: Peter Serafinowicz’s Tick is an amnesiac demigod in a blue suit moving to a city that runs on supervillain bureaucracy, and the show builds a serialized mystery around the character instead of a…
The Tick (2001)
The weirdest casualty of the 2001 fall season: a genuinely great live action superhero comedy starring Patrick Warburton as the Tick, aired by Fox at eleven p.m. against a lineup that buried it in nine episodes, half of which never…
Babylon 5
Babylon 5 is the one space station television ever built that behaved like an actual city: a neutral port where ambassadors scheme in corridors, dock workers strike, and a bartender pours whiskey for everyone about to make a terrible decision.…
Nash Bridges
Don Johnson spends the late nineties as a San Francisco inspector whose real calling is restoring classic cars he cannot afford, playing each case the way he plays the garage: loose, smirking, jazz where the script asks for sheet music.…
Magnum P.I.
A former Navy SEAL turned estate security man on Oahu, driving a Ferrari he does not own, taking cases the resort needs solved while Higgins clocks his hours. The 2018 reboot understands that the original was a character piece pretending…