Runaways

Streaming libraries expand and contract. Algorithms are imperfect. Those damn thumbnail images are always changing.…

Runaways has always had a tenuous relationship with its superhero identity. The book has always been best when it…

Freeform’s Cloak & Dagger is a show about superhero teens that’s based on a Marvel comic. Hulu’s Runaways is a show…

Runaways may not have won the Eisner Award for Best Continuing Series at last week’s ceremony—the great Giant Days…

Hulu’s Runaways improved dramatically in its second outing, so we’re happy to report that Josh Schwartz and…

Putting “Last Rites” as early in the season as it is was a big gamble. The episode took a lot of long-standing…

For the bulk of the season, I’ve been talking a lot about how Runaways missions need to include all of the…

“Last Waltz” starts the process of setting up for the season’s endgame, which looks like it will shift Runaways’…

There’s some good stuff in “Hostile Takeover,” sort of. Gregg Sulkin has a lot of fun as Chase plays negotiator and…

With Jonah gone (for now), there’s a lot of open narrative space on Runaways. What are the kids doing, with their…

“Past Life” starts with the most important piece of information we could possibly learn: How the alien we now know…

Who would have guessed that the biggest accomplishment of the second season of Runaways would be humanizing its…

This feels like where we should be closer to the end of the season, right? Jonah is basically on full tilt, sick and…

So it looks like Topher is going to be mostly confined a two-parter, at least for now. By the end of “Rock Bottom,”…

Finally, some fresh blood... sort of. A lot of the running time of “Old School” is devoted to Topher. What’s his…

We’re only three episodes into the season, and one of the big plots has already been resolved, sort of. By the end…

“Radio On” is definitely a slower episode, starting to move pieces carefully into place so that they can inevitably…

Who knew it would take literal teenagers to make a Marvel show have even the slightest sense of play? There are…

James Marsters first gained genre-geek icon status with his turn as Spike on Buffy The Vampire Slayer, but since…

Season one of Runaways, Marvel’s series on Hulu about teens with superpowers and their villainous parents, was one…