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The Devil Wears Prada was first released in 2006. And in so many ways, we lived in a much different world then. There have been countless changes in the last 20 years, but most importantly, in 2006, the internet, though already a critical part of existence, was just starting its massive takeover of how we imagine, create, and, for lack of a better word, consume our “content.” In that time, our technological advancements have, of course, brought us many gifts, but in the most recent years, feel like they’ve taken a darker turn—especially as it pertains to our creative lives and industries. The very places, which, as The Devil Wears Prada 2 so astutely notes, humanity should showcase its greatest achievements. This existential threat is something I meditate on every day. And our current fictions do meditate on it as well, but often through the lens of extreme sci-fi dystopia and deranged horror monsters, rather than in plain realism that lays the issues bare. And so, it is with something like awe that I am pleased to report that The Devil Wears Prada 2 makes it its core mission to reflect on the current state of media and journalism in a stylish, funny, heartfelt, nostalgic, and extremely honest way. Thus, in my opinion, The Devil Wears Prada 2 becomes one of the most important movies of the year. Let’s dive into our full review of this sequel film.

We’ve seen many nostalgia sequels in recent years. And it’s not hard to imagine why a studio might want to bring back a big hit with a built-in audience. But harder to imagine is whether there is actually a core reason, beyond just the guaranteed slam dunk of a well-known title, to unearth these beloved stories. And that’s where The Devil Wears Prada 2 rises above the rest of its ilk. It would have been simple to make an all-style, no-substance sequel to The Devil Wears Prada—one that leans into the gossipy fun and dazzling designs of the original and little more. It would have been simple to keep the story a fun springtime blockbuster, all fluffy snark and interpersonal relationship drama.

But those creating The Devil Wears Prada 2 realized that the world in which The Devil Wears Prada had been born no longer truly exists. That things have changed, and, in most cases, changed direly. And the film refuses to pretend otherwise for the sake of fun fiction. And it is precisely this commitment to the bleak reality that Andy, Miranda, Nigel, and the rest would find themselves surrounded by in 2026 that makes this story so worth telling.

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If you’d asked me whether The Devil Wears Prada 2 would deliver one of the most sharply satirical and brutally honest looks at the issues with media and journalism today, I wouldn’t have said I found that very likely. And yet, when Andy begins the movie sitting at a journalism awards reception with her co-workers, literally getting honored for their thoughtful and important work, and at once, all of their phones go off with texts notifying them of a mass layoff, I knew that this movie simply understood. And from that moment forward, The Devil Wears Prada 2 takes its viewers on a well-written, gorgeously clothed, hilariously snarky walk through so many of the main issues that threaten not only an entire industry, but also all those who it informs and shapes, the very truth of public consciousness itself.

From predatory investment firms that lack all passion and creativity buying and selling digital publications like they’re monopoly properties to the need to please advertisers to survive, to the constant danger of imagining AI can do the work of a human being, to the wild instability that exists in current media positions and the constant fear of the word “restructuring” to the need to package “content” for clicks versus prioritizing vision and meaning, The Devil Wears Prada 2 literally understands it all.

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But what it also understands is that those for whom journalism, storytelling, and the chronicling of our very human existence are the truest calling and highest passion will always fight against impossible odds to continue creating and engaging with the subject matter that touches their hearts. That even as it feels like the way forward is shrinking to nothing, there will always be those intensely determined to keep art alive. And that message, in my opinion, extends not only to journalism and writing, nor only to all creative pursuits, but also to all pursuits and industries that find themselves on unsteady ground thanks to the way modernity has unrolled.

Although the movie cannot necessarily tell us how to fight the truths we face outside of its fictional narrative, it reminds us that within us, within people, within community, and within human hope, there will always be a way forward. And so The Devil Wears Prada 2 becomes universally necessary, as it both sheds light on the reality we live in, painting its evils brightly, and bolsters us with the strength we need to thrive within it.

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Of course, on top of all of this gravity, the movie revives everything we loved about the original. The clothing is exquisite, the banter is witty, and the characters feel familiar. There’s genuine love that comes through the various relationships, offering a lived-in feeling to the material. Anne Hathaway, Meryl Streep, Emily Blunt, and Stanley Tucci bring back all our favorite characters from the original without missing a single beat. I sincerely cried during, at minimum, three different points in the movie… And laughed more times than I can count.

Was The Devil Wears Prada 2 the sequel movie I was expecting when I walked into the movie theater? No. But it turns out, it was so much more important than that. Instead of just another nostalgia beat, it was a movie that unapologetically examined the times we live in and promised that although the fight is hard, it’s worth fighting, worth hoping, and worth appreciating every moment where we can create and share beauty and meaning. It didn’t promise a solution, but it promised that we’re not alone.

The Devil Wears Prada 2 releases in theaters on May 1, 2026.

The Devil Wears Prada 2 ⭐ (4.5 of 5)

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The live-action Stranger Things series might be over, but that’s definitely not the end of the franchise. While we wait for a potential spin-off from the Duffer Brothers, Fanboy & Chum Chum creator Eric Robles has created an animated “in-betweenquel,” Stranger Things: Tales from ’85. The show takes us back to the flagship show’s early era, before our favorite D&D lovin’ kids had their voices crack. With season one behind him and a success, we spoke with Robles about creating a new, unexplored era in the Hawkins timeline.Netflix

Note: This interview was conducted before we knew of the season two renewal for Stranger Things: Tales from ’85.

NERDIST: How did you get involved in Stranger Things: Tales from ’85, and how long was this show in development before you came on board? Was it always set between seasons 2 and 3 of the live-action series?

Eric Robles: This is my understanding. It was something that was in development for a little while before I even showed up. But the biggest challenge was that the Duffer Brothers did want this to take place between seasons two and three. Their big ask for anybody they would bring on to try to figure this out was, “It has to take place between two and three, but you cannot open up a gate.” And as much as people tried, I guess that they just weren’t figuring that out.

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And at the time, I had pitched a horror series to Netflix, and we were talking about it for a while. They ended up saying, “Oh, you know what, we’re going to have to pass on it, because we have something that would compete against what you’re doing.” Because I was doing a horror series and they had Stranger Things, which I didn’t know at the time.

And then, after they said, “We’re gonna pass,” they’d call me back like two weeks later or something like that, and they were like, “Hey Robles, do you want to come check out what we got?” And I said, “Absolutely.” They told me it was Stranger Things. I’m like, oh my gosh. Are you kidding me? I would love to take a stab at this. And the challenge was to set it between 2 and 3. And that’s when I kind of went away and figured out this idea of what we can do, and how we can make this series happen.

Tales from ’85 takes place in the winter, which is a season the live-action show avoided. Probably because it’s hard to film in the snow. How do you feel the season changed the kind of story you wanted to tell?

Robles: It was exciting for us to be placed in the winter because we’re trying to clean the slate for what you expect in Hawkins. And so it just gives you a new palette to play with, which allowed us to have these great stories, which start from the first episode, which is our “snow shark,” right? I’m a huge horror fan. So Jaws obviously has a huge impact. And I was just like, “Wait a second, you have Hawkins completely covered in a sea of white snow.” So you want to have your own snow shark. And it just really allowed us to play. Like the way we have the big storm that happens in episodes 6 and 7? That’s part of an actual thing that happened in Indiana in 1985. We did our research, and there was a big winter storm that actually happened during that period.

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Stranger Things: Tales from ’85 keeps the tone of the live-action show for the most part, but there are elements that feel tailor-made for animation. One of those was the pumpkin creatures in episode two. How much did you feel you needed to balance stuff we expect from the Hawkins we know with elements that only work in cartoon form?

Robles: Yeah, I think this series wasn’t meant to be this fill-in-the-blanks of the flagship series. We literally meant for it to become The Real Ghostbusters, right? And, you know, being a kid of the ’80s myself, like when The Real Ghostbuster came out, I was so excited about just having that animated series of my favorite characters, right? And so the Duffer brothers also grew up watching a lot of that stuff, and they said, “We want to just kind of create this little pocket of adventures that we can have, allowing for these things to happen.” The truth of the matter is, you know, yes, you have pumpkins, but with the science and how we put it together, technically you can make that happen even in live-action, because it’s all science-based, right?

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So at the beginning of episode six, there’s a scientist who injects his formula into dead plant matter, which is Upside Down matter, and brings those to life. So the creature is made of that, and then it allows the spores to circulate throughout Hawkins. That lands in a pumpkin field. It could have landed on anything organic, and it would have brought that thing to life. The fact that it landed in those pumpkins at Eugene’s farm was very Stranger Things specific. It allows for those Demogorgon-type creatures to exist. So yes, the fact that it’s something we can do in animation and make it really extreme is super fun for us. But technically, the science behind that would also work in live-action. But because they are a lot more grounded in that world, this allows us to have fun with what we can do with the series.

You pared down the epic cast of Stranger Things to focus almost entirely on the Hawkins AV Club kids. Was there ever a consideration to include the rest of the cast in a bigger way? Or was just focusing on the kids always the plan?

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Robles: You want a real inside scoop on this? Ok, you’re gonna be the first one to get this. Originally, we started writing the show to be a lot more like the live-action series, believe it or not. We had Hopper involved in the story of a missing kid, which was Jeff. He was just off the board, and that really triggered this Hopper story. And then we started splitting the stories, as the live-action show does. You have the adults’ story, with Hopper into an investigation, and the kids kind of on their own journey. And eventually it would all come back together. But then we started seeing how it became very serious and very much like the live-action show. And it just went against what we were thinking of doing originally. Something which was more like the fun adventures, with a focus on just the kid adventures themselves.

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As a Latino creator, how important was it for you to include characters like Rosario? And was there a push from your end to give her a bigger role in the series?

Robles: I was looking at the cast as a whole, and being a Latino myself, that’s when I said, “You know what, why don’t we incorporate this girl Rosario to be part of the story as well.” Yes, it was a character that we could have had any ethnicity for, right? We needed an antagonist there, someone who eventually becomes infected and creates the pumpkin queen. But ultimately, when it came down to it, I just wanted to throw a little more diversity into Hawkins. Just to see who else we can put in there. So I decided to put Rosario as part of it.

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This series covers the early winter of 1985. But the third season of the live-action show begins in the summer. Do you feel there’s room for another story set in the spring?

Robles: Season one of the flagship show, it doesn’t take place over a month. It’s literally like a week and a half or something like this, right? It’s not a lot of time. And if you look at our show as well, and you look at the dates, it literally is also the same, very similar timeline. And we start in January, right, which gives you technically February, March, April, May, June, until you get to July. So if you wanted to keep telling stories, even within the scope that we have, we have plenty of time to continue these stories within the timeline that we currently have.

Stranger Things: Tales from ’85, season one is now streaming on Netflix.

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Daredevil: Born Again season two is moving along and things were interesting from the first episode. It was six months past the first season’s finale, and NYC is different. Matt and Karen are living in seclusion and still trying to take down Fisk. A few old faces pop up in season two’s first episode, but there is one new character who intrigues us deeply… and makes us laugh. That’s Matthew Lillard’s Mr. Charles. But who is Mr. Charles in Daredevil: Born Again season two and how does he connect to our heroes? Let’s explore what goes down with him.

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Through a mysterious source, Karen discovers that Fisk is using the port for smuggling weapons. Daredevil locates them on a vessel called the Northern Star, but things go awry quickly. The ship’s captain and first mate are advised to flood the ship should someone interfere, and that’s what they do. Of course, Daredevil makes it off the vessel in time but now the Mayor’s office has to deal with a half-sunk ship. 

We meet Mr. Charles, who is in DC, as he takes a phone call about all of the mess that’s gone down. He shows up during a tense meeting that Fisk’s office is having with the Attorney General, who wants to have some oversight over Fisk’s policies. He particularly mentions the “safer streets” initiative, calling it aggressive. Mr. Charles pops in very casually wearing a plaid shirt and scarfing down a gyro. He claims to be from Langley and it is clear that he knows Fisk.

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The Attorney General tries to berate him, but that doesn’t go on for long. The Attorney General’s  phone rings and Mr. Charles tells him to answer it. Whoever is on the other line quickly changes the AG’s tune, who says that Fisk will have his full support on vigilantism and safer streets policies. Meanwhile, Fisk tells his right hand man Buck to find the ship’s captain and first mate to ensure that no strings are left open. The Anti Vigilante Task Force finds them, killing the captain but allowing the first mate, Christoffi, to escape. 

Later on, Mr. Charles has dinner with Fisk and his wife Vanessa, who finds Charles to be off-putting and annoying. (She’s not wrong.) Fisk calls out Mr. Charles for his grandstanding in his office, while Charles says it is divine intervention. We learn that whomever Charles works for are grateful for using Fisk’s port but that things are messed up. He says his job is logistics and that it is necessary to move all the cargo without anyone knowing it. Charles’ plan is a dark one involving hiring some sailors to do it because they will be easy to discard and kill so nothing traces back to either of them. Way harsh, Mr. Charles. It is now clearer that he is indeed a power player in the CIA.

We don’t see Mr. Charles again until episode four. It’s after Fisk had the Anti Vigilante Task Force blow up the Northern Star following Daredevil’s successful attack. Mr. Charles wants to know why there’s a delay in moving the weapons to Guinea-Bissau, and Fisk tells him to basically chill out. Mr. Charles questions if Fisk can hold up his end of the bargain, and rightfully so.

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So, in episode 6, Charles goes to Governor McCaffrey, who absolutely doesn’t want to partner with nor support Fisk following Vanessa’s death, and says he will help her boot him from office. He also sends men to attack Jessica Jones, who is living in solitude with her daughter Danielle, because she didn’t want to work for him. In episode 7, Jones confronts Charles about the attack and he reveals that her man Luke Cage is working for the CIA overseas, which causes her to back off a bit. Charles does the right thing by tipping off Jessica about Fisk’s plans to take out the Governor, which allows Daredevil to make a deal with Bullseye to protect her.

Could this mean that Mr. Charles is perhaps flipping to the good side? Or is he just looking out for himself and determined to stick it to Fisk? We will see what happens in the finale.

Originally published on March 24, 2026.

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Marvin T. Milk a.k.a Mother’s Milk b.k.a. MM, played by the fantastic Laz Alonso, is one of the most grounded and well-crafted characters on The Boys. He isn’t the fearful Hughie nor the often callous and unpredictable Butcher. He’s not a supe but instead a highly skilled medic, loving father, clever fixer, and a man whose past haunts him. And, in the midst of many hijinks, he’s the serious yet caring guy who’s often unintentionally funny as hell. But, there’s one more claim to fame for MM: T-shirt God. It’s a small detail that many may not notice; however, it says a lot about his personality and style.Prime Video

Alonso himself spilled the details about his threads, affirming that the shirt choices are intentional. “I work with our onset costume coordinator, the head of the costume department, and every episode, we pick a shirt that kind of thematically encompasses what MM is going through and where we are in the story,” he tells Nerdist. “We have always done groups and artists and this season, we also started doing songs. For example, we did Childish Gambino’s ‘This is America.'”

And that’s just one of many incredible choices. In honor of his style, here’s an ode to a bunch of the awesome shirts that Mother’s Milk wears on The Boys. 

Jump To: Season 1 Shirts // Season 2 Shirts // Season 3 Shirts // Season 4 Shirts // Season 5 ShirtsThe Best T-Shirts That Marvin “MM” Milk Wears in The Boys Season 1Episode 7 – De La SoulPrime Video

When we first meet Marvin Milk, we don’t know much about him. In fact, he’s the last member of the OG Boys crew who begrudgingly returns. Soon, we uncover more about his life in almost perfect tandem with the intro of his incredible shirts, majority of which lean into Black culture. This one’s an ode to the eclectic hip-hop trio responsible for songs like “Me Myself and I.” It’s a nice nod to a group that was highly influential when MM was likely coming of age. 

Episode 8 – The Big XPrime Video

Mother’s Milk wears a black T-shirt with a big X scrawled across the front. It’s presumably a sign for “don’t cross me,” which, well, says a lot about him. (Sometimes, an X is used to represent the Bronx; however, MM is a Harlem native so that’s probably not it.) He doesn’t have the powers (or twisted mind) of supes like Homelander but he’s still a force when pissed off. And, he looks really, really good in black. Or anything, to be honest. Moving on…

The Best T-Shirts That Marvin “MM” Milk Wears in The Boys Season 2Episode 1 – Wu-Tang ClanPrime Video

Wu-Tang ain’t nuthing ta f*** with and neither is Marvin. Once again, this logo shirt speaks volumes. I’m pretty sure that Laz Alonso himself likes Wu-Tang (because why wouldn’t he?!) but it is a known fact that MM is a Wu fan. And if you don’t know about Wu-Tang, you better ask somebody. 

Episode 2 – Boogie Down Productions Prime Video

Boogie Down Productions was a hip-hop collective in the ‘80s featuring the legendary KRS-One, DJ Scott La Rock, and D-Nice, the DJ who infamously made the beginning of covid more tolerable with his “Club Quarantine” live DJ sets. Strong political and social commentary anchored their storytelling about the harsh realities of the South Bronx. It’s very dope to see him show such a pivotal and frankly underrated group so much love. 

Episode 3 – Public Enemy Prime Video

Once again, MM doesn’t miss, this time paying homage to Public Enemy. Long before Flava Flav became a reality show icon, he was a part of this collective alongside Chuck D. There isn’t a person over the age of 30 who doesn’t know “Fight the Power,” which is essentially what MM does as a Boys member. A true king of the people. Too bad it gets whale guts all over it. 

Episode 4 – NY Giants LovePrime Video

MM is a NY native, so it’s not surprising to see this Giants shirt. This one has those nice pops of color that we all recognize from the NFL team’s uniform colors. More blues and reds, please. 

Episode 4 – Power to the People Prime Video

MM rarely gives us a double dose of T-shirts in one episode. He is a busy guy, after all. But we get a wardrobe change into a Black Panther shirt. No, not the comic character but the organization. His shirt is particularly about the program ran in the late 1960s-early 1970s to feed Black youth breakfast before school. And, I must admit, the material looks soft and cozy against his muscles.

Episode 5 – Run-DMC Prime Video

The odes to NY hip hop abound with the infamous Run-DMC shirt that MM rocks with his signature leather jacket. MM’s taste in music and T-shirts is truly unmatched. 

Episode 6 and 8 – Black Fist Hoodie Prime Video

A shirt looks great but a hoodie. Wow. Perfection on MM. This hoodie is actually a part of Mississippi rapper and humanitarian David Banner’s “Black Fist” clothing collection. Love to see him in a hoodie so nice that he wore it twice.  

Episode 7 – Camouflage Yankees Prime Video

The New York Yankees get some love in this episode with a camouflaged logo shirt. Marvin is a former Marine (and yes, they do wear camo sometimes) so it’s a small homage to his past.

Episode 7 – Phife ForeverPrime Video

MM pays homage to Phife, a member of A Tribe Called Quest. The rapper died in 2016 and Forever is the name of his final album, which was mostly completed at his time of death. 

The Best T-Shirts That Marvin “MM” Milk Wears in The Boys Season 3Episode 3 – N.W.A. Prime Video

Our precious guy links up with the Boys and gets back on his T-shirt bullsh*t in the best way. He rocks an N.W.A. shirt as the crew reunites. We even hear the group’s single “Express Yourself” playing as MM does his usual meticulous cleaning. And he brings back the jacket AND shades. Very hot content. 

Episode 4 – Ruff Ryders Prime Video

RIP to DMX. MM’s Rough Ryders shirt is for the label and rap collective that included X, Eve, Swizz Beats, The Lox, and more. The “R” is instantly recognizable to ‘90s hip-hop fans, appearing on shirts as well as pendants for chains. 

Episode 5 – Stop the ViolencePrime Video

What a phrase to wear when you’re always in the midst of it. We’ve seen MM wear a Boogie Down Productions shirt and “Stop the Violence” is one of their song titles. Interestingly, this coincides with the division among the Boys when Butcher and Hughie start taking sh*t too far. 

Episode 6 – This Is America Prime Video

MM is tired of taking the high road and having to keep a level head as a Black man. (I’m not a man but whew, I get it.) This lines up well with his “This Is America” shirt, which shares a title with Donald Glover’s song about the injustices that Black people face. I don’t think MM will ever wear this shirt again, cause, well, Herogasm. 

Episode 6 – The TNT Smile Time HourPrime Video

This is one shirt that’s actually just specific to this universe and something that MM would never wear. It’s a shirt from the supe twins’ former show but you gotta wear what you can wear when your shirt gets… messed up. I must say, that color looks impeccable on his skin. 

Episode 7 – Dark Man XPrime Video

Like the Ruff Ryders logo, DMX’s is also iconic. And MM continues his deep love of Black shirts, rocking one with a red logo on it. Love to see it. Alonso tells us more about why he wanted MM to wear this shirt in episode seven. “We did a shoutout to DMX and the Ruff Ryders this season,” he says. “The DMX one is in the episode where I knock out Todd. That [moment] was declarative. And we wanted to have that shirt during a moment when MM exhibits a moment of gaining back his family and control.”

Episode 8 – Snoop Dogg Prime Video

The West Coast gets a little love with this Snoop Dogg shirt. Perfect 10, no notes. 

Episode 8 – 2Pac Prime Video

He ends the season and this episode with a shirt that makes total sense considering his Snoop shirt. 2Pac is heavily associated with Cali thanks to his Death Row days; however, he’s an East Coast native who spent his high school years in the DMV, Baltimore to be specific. It turns out that Laz Alonso is himself a native of the area, hailing from DC. 

The Best T-Shirts That Marvin “MM” Milk Wears in The Boys Season 4Episode 1 – GangStarrPrime Video

MM starts The Boys season four off right with a Gang Starr shirt in the show’s opening scene. This Boston, MA hip-hop duo found success primarily in the ’90s and early 2000s. DJ Premier continues to work in the music industry to this day. Unfortunately, Guru passed away after a bout with cancer in 2010. Leave it to MM to always honor legends.

Episode 1 – EPMD Prime Video

The crew is back at Boys headquarters and a perpetually stressed MM is trying to log into his damn CIA account. In this scene, he’s wearing an EPMD T-shirt, which obviously honors the influential hip-hop group featuring Erick Sermon and Parrish Smith. They came to rise in 1987 and gave us hits like “Strictly Business” and “You Gots To Chill.”

It’s the perfect shirt for MM, who is trying to handle being the leader of the Boys and always standing on business.

Episode 1 – The LOX – “Money, Power & Respect”Prime Video

At first, it is hard to make out what this shirt is while MM, Frenchie, and Kimiko are tracking Todd. But, during the Starlighter/Homelander supporter showdown, we can clearly see the shirt honors The LOX, a rap trio comprised of Styles P, Jadakiss, and Sheek Louch, who were popular in the late ’90s as a group prior to each person finding their own success.

Episode 2 – Eric B & Rakim Prime Video

Eric B & Rakim are a classic rap duo, much like MM and Butcher are a great pair. Well, they used to be. MM is wearing this shirt when Butcher tells everyone about his diagnosis and he subsequently kicks him out of the Boys. Then, he beats Butcher up with this shirt on. Good lord. Eric B & Rakim rocked the mic during the golden age of hip-hop in the late ’80s with classics like “Paid in Full” and “I Know You Got Soul.”

Episode 2 – OutKastPrime Video

OutKast is everlasting and also a great addition to MM’s T-shirt lineup on The Boys. The Southern rap legends Andre 3000 and Big Boy are two of the most influential and successful musicians of all-time. MM slides this great shirt in at the end when he chats with Butcher and decides he’s truly done with his s**t.

Episode 3 – MF DOOMPrime Video

MF Doom is what’s on MM’s chest when he is at the headquarters and suggesting that he will get A-Train to work with them. It’s a simple black hoodie (it is near Christmas and cold, apparently) with white lettering that honors the late, great British rapper who died in 2020.

Episode 4 – Big Pun Jasper Savage/Prime Video

As MM decides to bring Butcher back into the fold, he’s wearing a Big Pun shirt. The Bronx rapper rose to fame in the mid-’90s with hits like “Still Not a Player.” Sadly, he died in the midst of a growing career in 2000. It’s lovely to see MM continue to honor rappers who are no longer with us. It is the only shirt he wears throughout the episode.

Episode 5 – Big Pun (Again!)

At the beginning of the episode, MM keeps his long-sleeved Big Pun T-Shirt for this episode. This makes makes sense considering time isn’t passing very quickly. But he soon goes for a quick change that’s closely related with a fun hoodie.

Episode 5 – Fat Joe Prime Video

MM honors Big Pun’s partner-in-music Fat Joe with an all-black hoodie. His hoodie gets quite dirty, thanks to some Compound V-fueled chickens at Victoria’s hellacious farm.

Episode 6 – The Notorious B.I.G.Prime Video

Outside of his professional attire, we only see MM in one hip-hop shirt this episode. It is an obvious reference to the Notorious B.I.G., a ‘90s rapper who became an eternal legend after his shooting death in 1997. The East vs. West Coast battle between his crew and 2Pac’s is a sad era of rap history that ended with both of the promising rapper’s untimely demises. 

Episode 7 – Black SheepPrime Video

MM sticks to one shirt and his ongoing penchant for wearing black with this shirt. Black Sheep is a late ’80s-early ’90s hip-hop duo who found success with “The Choice Is Yours.” (Most people recognize the song’s “you can get with this or you can get with that” lyrics with “uhh come on” ad-libs.)

Episode 8 – Dead PrezPrime Video

This is a pitch perfect shirt to wear for this season finale, considering the plot against President Robert Singer. Dead Prez is a hip-hop duo that has been around since the mid-1990s whose music encourages social justice through force and Black pride. They eschew media influence and are pioneers of the “conscious rap” subgenre.

The Best T-Shirts That Marvin “MM” Milk Wears in The Boys Season 5Episode 3 and 4 – Salt-N-Pepa Jasper Savage/Prime Video

MM starts off this final season wearing anything but hip-hop shirts for unfortunate reasons. The season opener finds him in a freedom camp where he’s forced to wear a sweatshirt with Homelander’s smug mug on it. And, after escaping, he ends up wearing a pretty cool Britney Spears shirt. But, episode three takes the Boys to a new homebase, and MM finds a Salt-N-Pepa shirt. The rap collective consisting of Salt, Pepa, and DJ Spinderella dominated the ’80s and ’90s with songs like “Push It” and “Whatta Man.”

We also see him wearing this in episode 4 when everyone completely loses their s**t at Fort Harmony.

Episode 5 – Naughty By Nature

In episode five, the Boys are back at their homebase, which gives MM the opportunity to change into his Naughty By Nature shirt. It’s kind of shocking that he hadn’t worn a shirt from this collective yet. Like Salt-N-Pepa, this trio consists of two lyricists, Treach and Vin Rock, and a DJ, Kay Gee. Most people know them for their 1991 smash “O.P.P.”

I’m thankful for every dope ass T-shirt he wears and how they fit. Give that costume person and Laz Alonso a raise!

Originally published July 8, 2022.

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Every Spider-Man movie is a huge deal, but Sony and Marvel’s latest Peter Parker partnership is an especially important big-screen installment for the friendly neighborhood superhero. No one on Earth-616 knows who Peter is after Spider-Man: No Way Home. What will that mean for the beloved webbed slinger in Spider-Man: Brand New Day? The first three pages from Spider-Man: Brand New Day‘s script show that overwhelming loneliness won’t just cause him emotional harm. It’s also going to take a physical toll on him. And that could mean we really are getting Man-Spider. Here’s the biggest reveal we found in Spider-Man: Brand New Day‘s newly released script.

Entertainment Weekly shared the first three pages from the script for Spider-Man: Brand New Day. The pages also include insightful annotations and notes from director Destin Daniel Cretton, Tom Holland, Zendaya, Director of Photography Brett Pawlak, and other department heads. There’s some very fun stuff in here, including news that the film will feature a new “Marvel Studios” title card sequence. This new opening will show all of the memories Peter no longer shares with his loved ones, disappearing him from them. The Spider-Man: Brand New Day script also reveals a big opening action sequence and how Spider-Man is adapting to no longer having access to Stark Tech. (It helps being a young genius with engineering and coding skills.) But the biggest focus is on Peter’s growing loneliness… and we feel like that’s gearing up to reveal something very important.

Annotated script pages from Spider-Man Brand New Day have been released

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From following Ned and MJ on social media, to staring at momentos that remind him of the both, to re-reading the letter he didn’t send MJ nine months prior at the end of No Way Home, Holland’s Peter is a sad, lonely guy. He’s also clearly about to go through something. The most intriguing revelation from the Spider-Man: Brand New Day script pages comes almost immediately on page one. Here’s what the script says about what happens while he’s loading a web shooter (italics are as written in the screenplay):

Suddenly, he gets a small, sharp headache (our first inkling that living completely in the shadows is taking its toll on Peter — something is changing, and maybe not for the better…) Peter shakes it off, hoping it’s nothing.

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The film’s trailers have hinted at Peter evolving, possibly even mutating. As we covered, they’ve also teased the possibility that the film could introduce Man-Spider. That would definitely qualify as Peter “changing,” a word important enough that the Spider-Man: Brand New Day script italicized it on page one.

We no longer have an “inkling” about how important this change will be. Whatever is going to happen to Peter physically is clearly going to play a huge, huge role in the film. It’s a major enough plot point that it’s arguably the first idea the Spider-Man: Brand New Day script develops. It’s going to be a big deal in a movie that is already a big deal.

We can’t wait to see the Spider-Man: Brand New Day script come to life. The Spidey movie releases on July 31, 2026.

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In the DC Comics universe, Lex Luthor is the world’s smartest man. Well, it might actually be Batman or Mister Terrific. But Lex Luthor is definitely somewhere in the top three when it comes to the world’s smartest people. But if he’s so brilliant that he’s amassed billions of dollars and become one of the world’s most powerful men, why can’t he figure out that Superman is really mild-mannered reporter Clark Kent? Well, DC Studios head and Man of Tomorrow director James Gunn tackled this question head-on recently on Threads. Here’s what he had to say:DC Studios

Lex doesn’t know who he is but I don’t know how he would. A) Lex thinks Superman is a disconnected alien who wants to take over the world, so I’m not sure why he’d assume he has a “secret identity.” B) Hypno Glasses are real. Clark looks like another person. C) Being a genius in some ways (in Lex’s case, genetics, electrochemistry, nanotechnology, nuclear & quantum physics, to name a few) doesn’t mean you are a genius in all fields. Like many scientists (& artists!) he can miss basic things.

All of this gels with the comics. No one suspects David Corenswet’s Clark is Superman, because no one knows Clark has a secret identity. Unlike Batman (or any other masked character), Superman shows his face to the world. So that means the average citizen of Metropolis has no idea that he’s anyone other than Kal-El of Krypton, sent to Earth to protect it. Most people think being Superman is enough of a full-time job in all likelihood. Also, as Gunn pointed out, the hypno-glasses actually work. As long as Clark is wearing them, people see anyone but Clark Kent. For all we know, to everyone else, Clark looks more like Justin Bieber.

In the comics, back in John Byrne’s ’80s Superman run, Luthor once had a computer program tell him that Superman was actually Clark Kent. But the CEO of LexCorp simply refused to believe it. He couldn’t conceive that someone as powerful as Superman would ever “lower” himself to live his life as an ordinary person. It went completely against how he would be if he had the powers of a god. We can imagine that the DCU version of Luthor has much the same mentality when it comes to his Superman. We can already picture Nicholas Hoult’s Lex having the biggest tantrum ever if and when he ever finds out.

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The Boys season five’s fifth episode ended as many of the show’s episodes do: with total bloody chaos. Soldier Boy and Homelander go to visit Mr. Marathon, a former Seven member who has info about V-One and Bombsight, and things go nuts from there. Wild comedian cameos, commentary about Homelander ruining America, a Supernatural actor reunion, and a lot of blood and flesh everywhere all culminate in one truly diabolical sequence. During our interview with Misha Collins, he revealed that there was a lot of improv while filming that particular The Boys scene.

“A lot of the portion of that scene, which was with the cast of celebrities, was a lot of improvisation that went into our filming,” said Collins, who played the gaseous supe Malchemical. “As is quite customary, we shot what was scripted. We managed to get that portion filmed as scripted. And then I think we probably spent twice as long filming additional footage that was improvised. There was more extensive riffing and improvising than we ever did on Supernatural, and we did it sitting around that table.”

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While he was not totally sure how much came to the screen because he hadn’t seen the episode at the time of our chat, he felt admittedly a bit intimidated by it all. But, it was an overall blast for him, thankfully. “It went on for a very long time and it was a lot of fun,” Collins affirmed. “And I was like, ‘Oh my God, I’m sitting around at this table doing improv with Saturday Night Live guys. I’m out of my depth.’ But it was actually a lot of fun and I quite enjoyed that. So for me, that was the most memorable aspect.”

We were so happy to see Misha in The Boys and to have a scene reuniting him with Jared Padalecki and Jensen Ackles. And, when you add in all the one-liners and great jokes, its a sequence that will go down in infamy.

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It’s been two years since The Acolyte premiered on Disney+ and was just as quickly canceled. The Star Wars series, set in the time of the High Republic, was divisive to say the least. Many fans loved the show’s “forbidden romance” energy between a former Jedi (Amandla Stenberg) and a Sith Lord (Manny Jacinto), while a vocal portion of the fanbase hated it before they ever saw a frame. The show got decent ratings to start, but fell off hard after that, and Lucasfilm quickly announced there wouldn’t be a season two. Despite fan outcry and petitions, Disney+ did not budge on The Acolyte’s cancellation. But now, it seems The Acolyte has had a resurgence in viewership, enough to make the Disney+ top ten series two years later. And, of course, The Acolyte fans are rallying for season two at the news.Lucasfilm

According to FlixPatrol (via Comic Book Resources), for the week ending April 22, The Acolyte returned to the Disney+ top ten series in the number nine position. Now, there’s one key factor here as to why. Currently, Star Wars: Maul – Shadow Lord is the top show on Disney+, and at the end of each episode, as the credits run, Disney+ suggests The Acolyte as a show you might enjoy to watch next. Clearly, some people are finally sampling the Star Wars series because of Maul’s popularity. But whatever the “why” is, they’re clearly watching enough for The Acolyte to climb into the Disney+ top 10 again.

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Does this mean we’re finally getting a second season of The Acolyte? Well, probably not. The show was very expensive, and the days of Disney+ giving movie budgets to streaming shows may be behind us. But even if we don’t get a direct continuation, there could be something that finishes the story of Osha and Qimir. There are still so many unanswered questions. What does Darth Plagueis have to do with everything? Will Qimir truly form the Knights of Ren? Fans want to know. Certainly, Maul has shown that animation is just as good a format for such a story as anything live-action. And it’s far more cost-effective. Why not deliver The Acolyte season two in the form of a Star Wars animated show?

If you’re still holding out hope for another season of The Acolyte in any form, it certainly can’t hurt to post #renewtheacolyte on social media.

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Toy Story has been around to witness the passing of several generations of toys. The franchise’s latest endeavor thrusts Woody and company into the tech age. Woody, Buzz, and the gang are on high alert when a new threat makes its way to playtime: electronics. If that’s not enough to have you quaking in your boots, there’s another detail from the trailer that fans just can’t stop talking about. Once you see it, you can’t unsee it. I’m talking about Woody’s bald spot. Evidently, being around for 30 years is starting to wear on the friendly cowboy. Tom Hanks hilariously sums up why Woody is going bald in Toy Story 5. Pixar

I don’t know what’s scarier: aging or iPad kids. When the official trailer for Toy Story 5 dropped earlier this year, people couldn’t help but notice the shiny patch on Woody’s head. I mean, how can you not? The trailer makes it pretty obvious. Tom Hanks, who famously voices the lovable toy, explains Woody’s sudden baldness.

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“He has been played with to excess,” he said in an interview with Entertainment Weekly. “You put a rubber hat on top of a rubber head again and again and again and again, something’s gonna chafe. So, yeah, he does have… let’s say a worn area on the back of his head.”

Hanks isn’t wrong. Realistically, when a toy has been around for as long as Woody has, it’s bound to show some wear and tear. It’s a double entendre. The joke pokes fun at aging and going bald, but it’s also an accurate representation of what happens to toys over time. Another wholesome thing to think about is that the people who grew up with Toy Story have also aged since the first movie. Some of them might even be rocking the same hair that Woody is.

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Toy Story 5 introduces kids’ obsession with technology. When a new toy named Lilypad rolls into town, Jessie is afraid she’s losing Bonnie to the addictive device. The toys must stand together to take down the tech toy and win back Bonnie. Toy Story 5 hits theaters this summer.

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Misha Collins made his arrival in The Boys season five in delightfully chaotic and gross style. He was one third of a Supernatural actor reunion, joining the show’s mainstay Jensen Ackles (Soldier Boy) and Jared Padalecki (Mr. Marathon) for one wild scene at a mansion. In it, we discover that Misha Collins’ character Malchemical uses his powers in an attempt to dethrone Homelander because, well, he sucks and is ruining America. We caught up with Misha Collins to talk about this big reunion, his filming experience, and why he was so stoked to join The Boys in its final season. 

Nerdist: Fans have been waiting to see you reunite with your Supernatural co-stars Jensen and Jared for a while, and we finally got that in episode five! What was it like to reunite with them onscreen and collaborate once again?

Collins: It was very familiar in a lot of ways. We had Jared, Jensen, and I, and most of the scenes that I had, we were all there together. And Eric Kripke was on set and is the showrunner and creator of The Boys and Supernatural. And we had Phil Sgriccia there, who was our producer and director on Supernatural, and he’s a producer and director on The Boys. So there was a lot of familiarity to it and a lot of comfort, I think, in that. And yet it was a wildly different show with wildly different characters. And stepping into that also felt a little uncomfortable. So I think it was a funny dynamic of shaking off the familiar in order to do something new and was a lot of fun.

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Indeed. And speaking of doing something kind of wildly different, your character Malchemical is a super with a weird power who has some great interactions with Homelander. What were your initial thoughts when you read about his powers and how he’d end up using them?

Collins: Well, I was quite gratified to learn that I was powerful enough to knock out Homelander. That felt like a big deal. And then my ego was brought back down to earth by the fact that Jensen so very quickly dispatches me. [laughs]  So I took the good with the bad. It was like, “Oh, I’m powerful. Oh, I guess I’m not that powerful.”

I wasn’t expecting you to get choked like that! Pretty much everyone else got ran through by Mr. Marathon and got to have bloody deaths. Were you a little jealous that you didn’t get that gross and full Boys death experience? 

Collins: I was deprived of the full Boys experience with my death! I’ll be honest with you. Yeah, I was a little disappointed by that.

Yeah, but it was such a great scene all around. What was filming that sequence with so many awesome actors and one-liners? 

Collins: A lot of the portion of that scene, which was with the cast of celebrities, was a lot of improvisation that went into our filming. As is quite customary, we shot what was scripted. We managed to get that portion filmed as scripted. And then I think we probably spent twice as long filming additional footage that was improvised. There was more extensive riffing and improvising than we ever did on Supernatural, and we did it sitting around that table.

It went on for a very long time and it was a lot of fun. And I was like, “Oh my God, I’m sitting around at this table doing improv with Saturday Night Live guys. I’m out of my depth.” But it was actually a lot of fun and I quite enjoyed that. So for me, that was the most memorable aspect.

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I love that! Of course, you know Eric Kripke well and that was surely a factor, but what else made you want to be a part of The Boys, even for a small role? 

Collins: Well, there are two things that made me want to be a part of The Boys. One, my son loves the show and he has said repeatedly, “Dad, why aren’t you on The Boys? It’s Eric Kripke’s show! Why aren’t you on the show?” So that was one. I wanted to not disappoint my child. 

And two, the thing that I love most about The Boys is its satirical commentary on wealth and abuse of power and the notion that absolute power corrupts absolutely. And it’s not very subtle commentary on extreme right-wing political perspectives. I have been increasingly impressed by all of that. Eric Kripke, I think, has been a real champion and advocate of being clear-eyed about the current state of American political affairs. And I think that this show so successfully delving into those waters has been an important voice in the political landscape in America.

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So I was excited about participating in something that is doing that storytelling and excited to lend my support to what Eric has been doing in that department. So those are the two reasons. Well, there’s a third reason. I actually just f**king liked the show. I have been waiting for each new season to come out with bated breath like, “Come on, when’s The Boys going to come out again?” It takes so long these days with these incredibly high production value, incredibly in- depth post-production schedules for new seasons to come out. It’s not like the old days where you expected everything to start airing in the beginning of September every year with only a three-month hiatus or whatever. 

Yeah, now it takes years for some shows to return! 

Collins: Right. It drives me crazy. So those are the three reasons. No, okay, fine! The fourth reason is I just wanted to be reunited with Eric and Phil and Jensen and Jared in filming something. So I guess I probably could come up with more reasons, but those are the first ones that come to mind.

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