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Horrors Week

Doom scrolling: The scariest horror stories on Twitter, Instagram, and TikTok

Some horror stories were meant to be consumed online

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Back in 2013, people really, really hated on the Dexter finale

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Zack and Kelly are still together and nothing hurts in the new Saved By The Bell trailer

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A standout episode of We Are Who We Are highlights the power of its cast

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This pre-CG teaser image from Avatar 2 is a lot to deal with

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Best Deals of the Day

The 10 Best Deals of October 27, 2020

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Best Tech Deals

One of LG's Best 4K OLED TVs Is Back on Sale at Its Lowest Price Ever

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Put All Your Riches In This Real Life Animal Crossing Bell Bag, Now Bundled With the Game for $55

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What's On Tonight

Sarah Cooper and This Is Us are well aware it’s 2020

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10 episodes of “noice” teamwork from Brooklyn Nine-Nine

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Forever young: 8 grown-ass actors who can only play teens

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Sacha Baron Cohen tells Stephen Colbert that Giuliani scene was even creepier than you thought

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For Horrors Week, we present 6 scary podcasts for Halloween listening

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Here's what's coming to Peacock in November (and December)

Peacock has been in the streaming game for a while now, but November is going to be an important one for the NBCUniversal platform: That’s when Peacock is getting the new Saved By The Bell sequel series, which could be Peacock’s equivalent of…

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NXIVM founder Keith Raniere sentenced to 120 years in prison

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Netflix and Ubisoft team up for another attempt at a live-action Assassin's Creed adaptation

We’d say that it couldn’t get much worse than the ill-fated 2016 film adaptation of Ubisoft’s ever-popular Assassin’s Creed but if 2020 has taught us a singular lesson, it’s that anything has the capacity to get way, way worse. Still, we’re going to…

Shannon Miller

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David Cross is the subject of a new documentary podcast featuring Bob Odenkirk, Janeane Garofalo

Bob Odenkirk, Janeane Garofalo, H. Jon Benjamin, Sarah Silverman, and Julian Casablancas of The Strokes, among others, are lending their voices to a new audio documentary about actor, comedian, and writer David Cross, Mr. Show co-creator and Never…

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Great Job Internet

This is what irradiated film looks like

Explaining nuclear radiation in layman’s terms can sound a lot like a fantasy novel’s black magic: See, there’s this invisible force within the building blocks of nature that can be harnessed for near limitless energy, or misused to literally melt…

Andrew Paul

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Wow, Fred Durst was in a lot of video games

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Earth is beyond saving in the dramatic trailer for George Clooney's The Midnight Sky

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American Gods drops season 3 premiere date, letter from Neil Gaiman: "America must be for all of us"

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Mark Strong on a life playing spies, villains, and morally compromised doctors

Mark Strong on a life playing spies, villains, and morally compromised doctors

In the NXIVM docuseries showdown, Seduced is the clear winner

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The Undoing dares to suggest Hugh Grant’s abundant charm is hiding something sinister

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10 episodes of “noice” teamwork from Brooklyn Nine-Nine

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Sacha Baron Cohen tells Stephen Colbert that Giuliani scene was even creepier than you thought

Kazakhstan stops resisting Borat, adopts "Very nice!" tourism slogan

GOP tweets happy birthday to Hillary Clinton in douchiest way ever

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Oscar Isaac might be Marvel's Moon Knight on Disney+

Tom Green on Bigfoot, letting go, and his new podcasting van

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Here's what's coming to Peacock in November (and December)

NXIVM founder Keith Raniere sentenced to 120 years in prison

Netflix and Ubisoft team up for another attempt at a live-action Assassin's Creed adaptation

David Cross is the subject of a new documentary podcast featuring Bob Odenkirk, Janeane Garofalo

This is what irradiated film looks like

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Heartstopper Volume 2 finds joy in the quiet moments of teen romance

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The lights go out in Don DeLillo’s familiar yet slight The Silence

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