You know that feeling when you pick up a book for the first time and think, “yeah, I’m going to read this in all of two seconds” because of how quickly the storyline sucks you in? Well, the books released in just the first week of March will reel you in faster than you can say “literary, literally.”
Books do a lot for readers: They provide a place to escape, insight into worlds you’d never thought possible and an uncanny ability to help solve problems you didn’t even know existed. Just yesterday,
Black Panther: Tales of Wakanda hit the shelves, giving us yet another way of interpreting the fictional world of Wakanda through the eyes of authors across the African diaspora like Nikki Giovanni, Harlan James, Danian Jerry and more. Other mystical tales include
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As a viewer, sometimes it’s all too easy to want answers before the mysteries are even done being outlined. This was certainly true of Marvel’s
WandaVision, which did three episodes of full-on TV parodies before throwing in a cliffhanger that revealed the world outside of an idealized, sitcom-ready Westview, New Jersey. Before the show even had a chance to say, “See, Wanda has recreated the idyllic sitcom fantasies of her youth, tapping into previously unknown amounts of power in a desperate bit to hold on to the happiness she found with Vision,” people were filling social media feeds with theories, questions, and demands to know what the hell is happening, already. But now, those people should rest easy, knowing that even being one of the starring cast members didn’t make it any clearer at first.
For weeks, WandaVision star Paul Bettany has been teasing a huge cameo as the Disney+ Marvel show came to a close. But as the show’s penultimate episode ended, and a new “character” emerged, people started to rethink things. Now the truth comes out!
Just as “Success Is Assured” didn’t play much like a season finale, “All’s Well That Ends Well” doesn’t resemble a traditional season premiere, and for similar reasons. “Success” was the last episode completed before COVID-19 hit a year ago and shut down all production, but the season still had three episodes to go. At least some portion of “All’s Well That Ends Wells” was shot before the shutdown, although it’s hard to say how much of the story was retooled over the extended break, if at all. Ten long months after the previous chapter, “All’s Well” drops us right back into the action without much ado.
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