Marvel's Runaways to sprint into a third season for Hulu
Hulu’s Runaways improved dramatically in its second outing, so we’re happy to report that Josh Schwartz and Stephanie…
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Runaways ends its second season with all-out war and some new villains
Putting “Last Rites” as early in the season as it is was a big gamble. The episode took a lot of long-standing…
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The penultimate Runaways kicks everything into high gear with a rescue mission
For the bulk of the season, I’ve been talking a lot about how Runaways missions need to include all of the…
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The kids throw a party on a fun, sad Runaways
“Last Waltz” starts the process of setting up for the season’s endgame, which looks like it will shift Runaways’ focus…
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Runaways swings and misses with a big standoff
There’s some good stuff in “Hostile Takeover,” sort of. Gregg Sulkin has a lot of fun as Chase plays negotiator and…
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Loyalties constantly shift on a muddled Runaways
With Jonah gone (for now), there’s a lot of open narrative space on Runaways. What are the kids doing, with their…
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The kids check in while Jonah checks out on a setup-heavy Runaways
“Past Life” starts with the most important piece of information we could possibly learn: How the alien we now know as…
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Jonah steals the spotlight on an action-packed Runaways
Who would have guessed that the biggest accomplishment of the second season of Runaways would be humanizing its…
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Everyone comes clean in a tense, suspiciously uneventful Runaways
This feels like where we should be closer to the end of the season, right? Jonah is basically on full tilt, sick and…
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The kids stage an intervention and two dads fight on an exciting Runaways
So it looks like Topher is going to be mostly confined a two-parter, at least for now. By the end of “Rock Bottom,”…
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Karolina hangs out with her dad and everyone else gets suspicious on a decent Runaways
Finally, some fresh blood... sort of. A lot of the running time of “Old School” is devoted to Topher. What’s his deal?…
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Runaways makes its bones in a fast-paced episode
We’re only three episodes into the season, and one of the big plots has already been resolved, sort of. By the end of…
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Love is in the air as Runaways tones it down a notch
“Radio On” is definitely a slower episode, starting to move pieces carefully into place so that they can inevitably be…
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Look, Runaways season two really does hit the ground running, okay?
Who knew it would take literal teenagers to make a Marvel show have even the slightest sense of play? There are moments…
James Marsters on Runaways, Marvel, and whether it's worth it to kill people if it saves the world
James Marsters first gained genre-geek icon status with his turn as Spike on Buffy The Vampire Slayer, but since then,…
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In its second season, Marvel’s Runaways finally earns its title
Season one of Runaways, Marvel’s series on Hulu about teens with superpowers and their villainous parents, was one long…
The best comics of 2018
In a year full of hate, there’s a lot of love in the world of comics. Romance is a shared theme among many of this…
An old frenemy returns in this exclusive Runaways #13 preview
Rainbow Rowell and Kris Anka’s Runaways has been all about getting the old team back together, resurrecting both Gertrud…
Marvel's Runaways gets a season 2 premiere date and an MCU connection tease
One of the more annoying aspects of Netflix’s Marvel shows—beyond the overly long seasons—is the weird insistence on…
James Marsters is ready to return to the Buffyverse
There were many cries of excitement across the internet last month when it was announced that Joss Whedon would be…