Simon Gallagher

Countess Wear, United Kingdom

Executive Editor at ComicBook.com

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Articles

Netflix Just Added One of the Creepiest Thrillers of All Time (Without Announcing It)

1 week ago | comicbook.com | Simon Gallagher

Netflix‘s catalogue of movies and TV shows has just grown with the addition of one of the most underrated, and legitimately creepiest thrillers ever made, and they appear to have forgotten to announce it. The 1990s thriller joins the likes of Alfred Hitchcock’s seminal Vertigo, Gerard Butler’s Plane, and Vin Diesel’s The Last Witch Hunter in the (very varied) list of new additions this month.
7 Great Sci-Fi Shows From The 1990s Nobody Talks About

1 week ago | comicbook.com | Simon Gallagher

Science fiction has been providing some of TV’s best storylines since the late 1930s, but while sci-fi saw a boom in the 1990s, you might not remember every popular sci-fi TV show from the final decade of the 20th Century. Various Star Trek franchise installments, The X-Files, and Babylon 5 were some of the most successful and ambitious series of the ’90s, cementing the decade as a notable period for sci-fi.
7 Superhero Shows That Deserved A Better Ending

2 weeks ago | comicbook.com | Simon Gallagher

In recent years, superheroes have taken the TV world by storm, but not every superhero-centric series has been given the ending they deserve. Superheroes, whether they’re associated with Marvel, DC, or anything in between, have been the subject of some of the best TV shows of the last few decades, but also the subject of some of the most divisive and polarizing.
7 TV Shows That Continued Great Movies (& Still Failed)

3 weeks ago | comicbook.com | Simon Gallagher

Some movie premises are too strong to be confined just to the big-screen, but not every TV continuation or reimagining has achieved the same level of success as their theatrical origins. It’s often great to see epic movie storylines transferred to TV, especially when there’s a lot of lore, backstory or unseen character dynamics in movies that a long-form series format would be much better equipped to explore.
Marvel Finally Has The Hulk Replacement The MCU Has Missed Since Endgame

1 month ago | comicbook.com | Simon Gallagher

17 years after Ed Norton’s Hulk debuted in the MCU, the franchise is basically full of Hulks. The not-so classic Banner-Hulk remains active (and will return for Avengers: Doomsday), but now we’ve also met She-Hulk, Tim Roth’s Abomination and of course Thunderbolt Ross made his bow as Red Hulk in Captain America: Brave New World. And that’s not to mention Banner’s Son Skaar, the weird variants introduced in What If…? or the embarrassment of incel She-Hulk villain HulkKing.
7 TV Spinoffs That Completely Surpassed The Original Show

1 month ago | comicbook.com | Simon Gallagher

It might be surprising to learn that some of the most notable and long-running shows on TV actually started as spinoffs from lesser-known series. For many series, the development of spinoffs is the best way to expand the universe, introduce new characters, or explain key pieces of backstory, character development, and world-building. Oftentimes, spinoffs struggle to achieve the same popularity and success of their parent show.
10 Cancelled Superhero Shows That Deserve a Reboot

1 month ago | comicbook.com | Simon Gallagher

Even with the high quality of recent shows like The Penguin and Daredevil: Born Again, it’s always a shame when great superhero TV shows get cancelled before their time. Superheroes have taken up space in many TV shows long before the days of the MCU and the DC Universe, and while these franchises have made superheroes mainstream – they’re now everywhere we turn – there are many other series that we hope get second chances.
7 Great Time Travel Movies Nobody Talks About

1 month ago | comicbook.com | Simon Gallagher

Since it was first experimented with in the silent films of the early 20th Century, the concept of time travel has become a very prominent theme in cinema. The fantastical and outlandish idea of traveling through time often opens the door for striking visual effects, interesting explorations of historical events and imaginative constructions of possible futures.
12 Most Satisfying Heroic Sacrifices in TV

1 month ago | comicbook.com | Simon Gallagher

Every good TV series in history has someone to root for, and these heroes have often shown just how special they are by sacrificing themselves for the benefit of others. Many heroic sacrifices in TV have caused controversy among audiences, and have contributed to some of these series’ most emotional and heartfelt moments, as this pattern often involves fan-favorite characters losing their lives and being removed completely.
Alien's New TV Show Can Finally Deliver On Joss Whedon's Rule-Breaking Movie Plans

1 month ago | comicbook.com | Simon Gallagher

The newest installment in the Alien franchise, FX’s Alien: Earth series, will finallydeliver on Joss Whedon’s almost three-decade-old rule-breaking plans for Alien:Resurrection. Following the successful 2024 release of dark standalone prequelAlien: Romulus, Alien: Earth will act as yet another prequel to Ridley Scott’s original1979 sci-fi spectacle, taking place in 2120, only two years before the voyage of theUSCSS Nostromo in Alien.