The Horror Returns - THR - Bonus Episode: 10 Best Horror Television Series of 2025

Episode Date: January 6, 2026

This episode Brian and Nez rundown Bloody Disgusting's list of the 10 Best Horror Television Series of 2025. Bloody Disgusting: https://bloody-disgusting.com/editorials/3922694/bloody-disgustings-10-best-horror-television-series-of-2025/   The Horror Returns Website: https://thehorrorreturns.com THR Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thehorrorreturns/ Join THR Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1056143707851246 THR X: https://twitter.com/horror_returns?s=21&t=XKcrrOBZ7mzjwJY0ZJWrGA THR Instagram: https://instagram.com/thehorrorreturns?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y= THR Threads: https://www.threads.net/@thehorrorreturns?igshid=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ== THR YouTube Channel: https://youtube.com/@thehorrorreturnspodcast3277 THR Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thehorrorreturns THR TeePublic: https://www.teepublic.com/user/the-horror-returns SK8ER Nez Podcast Network: https://www.podbean.com/pu/pbblog-p3n57-c4166 E Society Spotify For Podcasters: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/esoc  

Yo, yo, what's up everybody? The horror returns, bonus episode. Brian and I are here tonight, and we are going to come at you guys with Bloody Disgusting.com's 10 best horror television series of 20. I hope you guys listen to our last episode when we did was it 10

the top 10 best horror movies of 2025 okay I don't remember exactly what it was yeah we dropped stream stream fiends a regular episode

we watch action returns all right here is yeah the 10 best horror movies of 2025 that's all of you listen to that right on you guys rule but we had a lot of good uh tv series i am sure i didn't see all of them but uh speaking a tv series go over to uh skaternest podcast network for the latest uh or the first best of episodes uh we're doing three of them and we uh did uh did dropped to the our top 10 best TV shows of the year of 2025 so go listen to that but all right let is start rolling down this list this this article actually came out last year

December 29th of 2025 so let's see what they have here okay they don't have these So I'm just going to assume this is 10. I have not seen this yet. I think I'm a few seasons behind. But Black Mirror, Season 7, did you watch that? I am not caught up with Black Mirror. Yeah, I'm like way behind. I think the last one I seen was the one that had to,

did you see the episode where somebody got murdered and like the they were like checking memories or something trying not to spoil it for anybody the last one I remember is a one with um does it

not fat damon what's his name skinny damon yeah um oh the the Star Trek yeah the that's the last thing I remember yeah that's that's the last season i've seen okay yeah i don't even remember what season that was i know the new season they did a it was neither the new season or last season they did a second part to that

hmm i think gosh shit i'm gonna have to go back and just start from the beginning maybe you know what that's what i did recently i'm on that first season with the pig fucker and the episode where they're riding bikes or riding bikes for like points to better their lives or whatever yeah was that the season when that one girl was um she kept repeating it over and over she was like running outside trying to hide from someone i can't remember i'm only on the second episode that's that's why i'm watching black mirror because they're all like i can tell you you different episodes, but I couldn't tell you what seasons they were.

Yeah, I have just vivid memories of what. I think if I watch them, I'll remember them. But yeah, that Star Trek one is the last episode that I remember. So, but I guess we got some more catching up to do. I didn't even realize

there was a season seven. I didn't even watch that movie they did. Oh, Vander Snatch? Yeah, I didn't even watch. choose your own adventure type stuff yeah yeah they took that off netflix oh that was it not good or i i thought it was cool i never i never finished it because i kept choosing the wrong thing that was like that one um but i think they took all the because they had other uh choose your own stuff on there they get rid of wwee one the undertaker

and I think so New Day I got rid of that one I think we did a review on that like years ago I think that was one of the 31 days I don't remember

or for something bonus yeah I think that's gone too yeah I remember liking it I think yeah I don't know

but yeah I'm after get back on black mirror but let me see yeah I don't I don't even know anything about this I'm sure some of you are watching it

I know Lance is fully caught up on it he said I should watch it all right does a return to Silent Hill coming yeah this month it's a sequel to the direct this direct sequel to the first one they just erase in the second one

yeah same director is the first movie, too. I don't even remember the second one at all. Do you play the game? I played the first game. Okay. From what I understand, the second movie is

the second game. Okay. Well, I'll check it out. I mean, it's good. It's going to the theaters, so. But, all right. This is number nine. Talamaska,

The Secret Order? Oh, it's in that interview with the vampire universe, that series. I've seen the first episode, but I only started watching. I haven't finished an interview with the vampire and I haven't watched that Mayfair witches yet. But I started that one under the impression because I was told you didn't have to watch any of the other shows to get into this one. And halfway through the first episode, they started talking about stuff from the interview with the vampire series, and I stopped. I never, I never even tried with any of that. I mean, the movie was cool.

I didn't care for the one with Alia. Yeah, I've seen like three or four episodes of the interview with the vampire series. it's it's pretty good from what i've seen i just there's just so many shows that i think it just kind of got lost in the shuffle somehow but that's that's why i knew they were they were referencing because the character from that series pops up in the telemaska because i kind of got vampireed out yeah um after twilight and uh true blood i didn't even finish that it was just starting to just lose me i've never seen true blood it was it was it was good in the

beginning i the ending i was just like okay come on just keep inventing all these other monsters and everything and i was like uh oh i was good i just wanted jessica um what's her name from uh daredevil oh uh redhead what is her name uh uh uh I wasn't going to call her Karen Page But that's her name from Daredevil Oh something wool Debra Ann Wool Yeah her

She was too fine Yeah she is I met her at Comic Con The first year I saw her But she was sitting on a bench crying And her husband or whatever Was it's like

Kind of rubbing her back and I was like, oh, I didn't want to walk up and go, hey, what's up? I just kept walking, but the next year after that, they had a party at the Hard Rock, and she came walking out and I saw her, oh, my God, I ran over there. It was just me and her, and there was like other people there, but I don't even think that anyone knew who she was, so I had to express my love. But, yeah, I don't even know. never even heard of this show but yeah it's i think it's essentially like a secret group that

investigates like paranormal stuff and creatures and from what i saw in the first episode they were recruiting the main characters getting recruited into the organization all right well here's another one i never heard of the institute I started this one It's on MGM Plus Yeah, well I just got that So I might as well Give it a shot

For those of you that don't know What it is like me Came out over the summer July I remember them hyping this up at Comic Con But I didn't know what it was A group of psychic children Unites to take on

The shadowy organization That has kidnapped them and claims to be using the power to quote's save the world it kind of gave me new mutants fives it's got that one chick from weeds Mary Louise Parker oh yeah she's the only one in this poster that I recognize

but well I might as well make use of MGM Plus instead of watching all these canon movies yeah it's uh based off Stephen King book yeah that's what it says here Stephen King has become a brand name and IP in himself it's never too long until

a new King adaptation is upon us I've seen a couple episodes he did the monkey too right his son oh his son did yeah I don't know that movie was awesome I loved it

I needed you on that episode I was the only one defendant that movie well spoiler alert everyone it's making my horror list because I thought that movie was hell of good

making mine I like that it was something different from Oz Perkins it was good man it was I wasn't expecting really anything and what I got

I enjoyed me and my son saw now Keeper that's what I expect from Oz Perkins yeah but the monkey came out of nowhere for me and I enjoyed it I thought it was hilarious I thought everybody was great in it is that streaming anywhere uh Hulu okay uh the monkey

yeah yeah Hulu all right I have to check that out but man yeah from what I've seen in the institute it was it was the good the couple episodes I've seen I just, again, another show got lost in the shuffle, but it gave me new mutant spies with the with the kids being in the institute and having powers and stuff. I'll check it out. I'll watch it.

I don't know. They're loose with this word horror. You guys know how I am. So we'll see. Oh, from what I've seen in those couple episodes, they're very, very light on the horror. All right. maybe a horrific situation so yeah we'll see but i've never i've heard of this show this next one i don't

even know i've never seen any of it gen v season two never seen it yeah i don't even i'm not even not even done with the boys this is it a part of that this spinoff it's like college kids that have powers. Like the new mutants? Yeah. I heard it's really good. Oh, okay. It's just, I've just heard you gotta be up to date with the boys to watch Chin B.

All right. The lives of hormonal, captive superheroes as they put their physical, sexual, and moral boundaries to the test. Oh, okay Yeah, I've seen a trailer There's one character She has like cool power

She's like a blood bender Instead of water She like her blood comes out Her hands And she bends it like Avatar Hmm So they're not just running around banging everyone

Well if it's anything like the boy Somebody's banging somebody I guess it says after the 4 season of the boys is when this takes place on, uh, okay. Marie Moreau and the rest of her friends

returned to Godokin University after months of suffering uh where a new dean trans soups to be soldiers or trans trains supes to be soldiers

On the brink of war between humans and soups, the team discovers a program that could change everything. Damn, make me watch. Are you up to the, have you watched the boys? I saw the first season. I'm on season three, I think. Okay. Well, I'm going to have to go and see what this is.

Yeah, the final season starts in a few months, I think. all right oh man let me see all right yeah I'll check it out I mean

Eric I don't know if he's watching my son I don't know if he's watching Gen V but he he loved the boys he went through all that so I'm sure he's caught up okay I'd ask him but he's he's not here down in Texas

all right on to what was that 10 9 8 7 all right this is number 6 haunted hotel it's an animated show on netflix never seen it i never even heard of it until now uh here adult cartoon okay uh after inheriting a hotel from her late brother a single mom discovers I'm sorry moves in with his good-natured ghost and high-maintenance guests who never checks out. I'm okay. Um,

all right, I'll give it a shot, man, I'll check it out. I never even heard of it. Yeah, adult animated series. I'll put it on the list.

Oh, man. Yeah, we'll see. Uh, how many episodes is this? Uh, looks like there is 10. How long are the episodes? Does not say.

Let me see. Oh, you guys are killing me. Uh, 25 minutes. Oh, that ain't bad. Yeah, you can zip through those pretty quick. well haunted hotel i'm sure uh someone's on that as well you guys need to watch it but the animation looks cool i mean and the premise sounds interesting i'll check it out

damn one of these shows i've even heard of uh this next one pluribus i think that's uh that's a new apple tv plus show made by uh uh what's his name that makes the made breaking bad um that guy Vince Gilligan yeah

yeah Gilligan Gillian whatever yeah I'm not done with the show but I'm super into it okay

it's real it's not horror it's real science fiction this is drama here yeah it's got um oh no that was

yeah her. I thought it was the wife. I would have tapped. Skyler? Yeah, I hate it. I'd have tapped out. Oh, man. It's the one for Better Call Saul. Yeah, I liked her. She was cool. Yeah, man, Skyler, man.

They needed to whack her. Man, she was messing with his money. And giving it to some of the dude she was banging. Hell no. She would have had to die. But anyway, spoiler alert. They'd break it back. Yeah. Pluribus, what's, Rhea Seahorns.

Pluribus, the most miserable person on earth must save the world from happiness. Okay, and this is... And I'm going to tell you, go into it only knowing that, because I'll try to explain it to you, and I'll spoil it, but you'll still be confused. All right, well, I'll give it a shot. I have Apple TV Plus or whatever the hell's called. Yeah, season, season one is done now, I believe. Ah, finally something I've seen.

Stranger Things, Season 5. Are you caught up on all of it? Yep. Watch the finale on New Year's Eve. I just, um, I binged. I waited until the last few episodes were done. I didn't, I didn't watch them. I guess that,

second batch when it came out oh christmas yeah yeah i waited until the finale was there i didn't realize that was going to be two hours but i was like well that would have been awesome to see in the theater like a lot of people but um the whole series was good this it wrapped it up pretty good i liked what they did uh to watch these young kids from being little kids to young adults now I liked everybody in it 11 she bugged me

kind of through the whole thing um max I liked her um Sadie Sink what was a little um was a little black gentleman

was that Lucas Oh yeah Caleb McLaughlin His sister I liked her Oh Erica You can't spell America Without Erica

She was awesome Dustin was cool, but he got on my nerves every now and then, but... Yeah, his attitude switch in the final season bugged me. Steve, I loved him from the beginning. He was awesome every season.

And I had some issues with the end. Oh, I had a lot of issue yeah i was god for those you that haven't seen it spoiler for anybody i'm just going to say a little too happy my issue was with um what's her nuts uh sarah connor whatever her character oh the the most useless character in a series ever like it got to the end and then uh okay well i guess our missions is over see you guys

that person's not here no more okay everybody pack it up i was like wait what i mean they distracted us with the other things and um throughout the whole series the the music selection was awesome i loved everything that was in it and this this season the season didn't have that song though oh yeah it did that final episode it had three songs in it oh man it destroyed me i was like wow i was it feels you go see it you probably know what it was but when that first lick on the guitar i went ah man that was that was brutal and uh everything the whole whole will story his journey from beginning to the end that was yeah people need to calm down about that yeah i i do they were teasing that reveal for seasons and then he finally had his moment and it was

a good scene not a long scene either and just people just review bomb the shit out of that episode it's like the lowest rate of episode out of the entire series and i'm like Like, really because of that? Just people with no heart because I was sitting there tears pouring out my eyes. I was like, man, this kid was pouring a soul out. And I'm like, good for you, man. Because after that, you could see the change in him. And he was like, just had the weight lifted off his shoulders.

And I was like, man, good for you. I wish they would have gave joy something to do more. She was enough for me. she was just on every time she was on the screen I mean she had her moment there at the end yeah I'm so I was shocked there

just kind of hanging around for eight episodes they got me fired up Winona forever she looks older than me she's a month younger than me too so I was like man

well she'd been in for the camera and I'm sure all the lights of Hollywood. Yeah, I just thought everything wrapped up a little too happy for what everybody went through. Yeah. Yeah, for all the hell, I mean, especially Will of him. I mean, it started with him. I did not, well, I guess they had to, the de-aging of him in the beginning.

Oh, and the flashbacks? Yeah. I was kind of like, yeah, okay, I mean, but you had to do it. I mean, he's not a little boy anymore. He's a tall, tall young adults, so, but the whole Vecna thing, I liked it. I liked how he looked when he was all whatever he was, weeds or vines or whatever. Yeah. The actor that played him when he wasn't him.

I didn't realize that was that. guy in witchboard the remake yeah yeah so i i really liked his character and i don't care what anyone says that witchboard remake was awesome i loved it but um yeah everything about season five i enjoyed that first batch that came out and when that that i think it was the fourth episode when it ended i was like wow i was on the edge of my seat and i was like man then we had to wait however long until Christmas but then I just waited until

the final episode was up and then I just sat there and watched all of them and I enjoyed it. I thought it was a really good series. It didn't make my best of the year. I mean probably because it's just

the last episode came out on the last day of the year. So I don't know. I had already had a ton of good TV shows. on my list already. So it was more of an honorable mention. Not to say it wasn't good. It would have made my list

if it finished earlier in the year. But I like what they did. My hats off to them and the Duffer Brothers and everybody at Netflix that put this thing. This little show, little idea, and it just turned into a big, huge, worldwide phenomenon.

Yeah, a show that they didn't even plan on a season two. Yeah. I mean, they really sat down there and thought about it. Of course, there's plot holes, but. And Linda Hamilton, Sarah Connor, whatever her name was in the show. Good for her. She kept it real.

Face ages, face aged and all. She did no plastic surgery, no nothing. She just, just aged. I like her. So I was, I was shocked. I didn't even know she was in this season so when she popped up on the screen I was like oh cool

didn't care for that last Terminator movie but it was good to see her come back I guess from some other different timeline because she died and one of the many timelines of Terminator yeah was it rising the machines

no that was the third one I know but what the well John Connor mentioned that she she died and that one I liked Rise of the Machines

I mean I know a lot of people didn't care for them but I didn't mind that one I thought it was cool the other ones the one with Batman

and Genesis and then Dark thing I've only seen that once Which one? The one with Batman Salvation Yeah

I saw in the theater Yeah I saw in the theater I bought it And I think I watched it once And I just it's on the shelf with the other Terminator movies

and they were trying to make that one guy something the Avatar guy yeah like putting them in that and Clash of the Titans remake and yeah it was I may have to rewatch it again

but I remember I was excited for it because at WonderContin wonder con and comic con i went to the to the panels and i think it was mcg that directed that one and the stuff that was showing us it looked cool i mean i i am a fan of those two uh charlie's angels movies the first ones not not the one with um bella and whoever else was in that one but i didn't mind those movies they were goofy i mean action off-the-wall action films but I was excited for this, for salvation, but when I saw it, I was kind of like, hmm, I didn't, I wasn't as hyped up as I was just watching what they were showing us at the panel.

So, but I don't know, maybe I'll have to dig it out and watch it again. I'm sure it's streaming somewhere, but strange things, season five, I give it a thumbs up, I thought it was awesome. Yeah, same here. This next one, I didn't really care after the last season. this is Dexter resurrection I'm not even done with the first series oh you didn't the first

whole first go around I've seen season one and that's it damn I watched was it on Netflix when I first started streaming I think so I don't know it was on something because everyone kept telling me to watch it

you'll like it you'll like it watch it, watch it. And then I don't really care for him. I liked his sister. Jennifer Carpenter. Oh, Emily Rose. Yeah, I liked her. So that's what kept me watching that show because she was awesome.

And then everyone else that was a part of it. But, yeah, that last season, I was like, eh, rebirth or whatever the hell it was called. I was like, hmm. All right. I mean, if this is it. I mean I like the way

the first batch of movie how it ended before they brought him back I thought that was a good ending I didn't mind it and I was a little sad spoiler alert his sister died

but I was like you didn't you didn't need to bring back I mean because I had issues with the whole series because he's like the sloppiest serial killer

because unless they didn't show it he would run around no gloves on and all these crime scenes leaving his fingerprints everywhere when he was killing everyone yeah he gloved up and everything

but I was like damn look at this fool but I don't know he was one of the was a splatter analyst or whatever yeah I'd probably go back and start that season over or that whole series over Lance swears by this new series

I'll eventually get to it But yeah after that last season I was like I was I was pumped Yeah And I watched it and I was like I mean I want to check it out Because of his excitement over it I know there's like three or four weeks in a row

That was like as cool of the week And Peter Dinklage is in the new season And uh jessica Jones I see I don't like her hated her in Breaking Bad Spoiler alert Glad that she died I tried Jessica Jones

That first season's good I didn't like it at all I liked her in Defenders I know everyone hated that show Everyone hated that whole Luke Cage Iron Fist and all that Iron Fist was trash

kept telling everybody who he was Finn Jones I'm the immortal iron fist I was like stop or else you're never going to get the mask and then he kept saying it a hundred times and I was like he's not going to wear the outfit

oh man I enjoyed all of those Luke Cage was probably my favorite one out of those yeah and when the defenders came out I was all for it and the way

the last Daredevil season ended when he was saying yeah I'm going to get some help or I got some help coming and I was like hell yeah don't recast bring all of them I liked Jessica Jones and the defenders she's gonna be in the second season

all right good so and rumor is Luke Cage is coming back i've heard nothing about fin jones i didn't mind him but if they recast it okay but no you got to keep jessica jones and you got to keep uh luke gauge so see if you would have put him in the mask you could have got somebody that was a martial artist doing the stunt scenes yeah yeah because Iron Man and Power Fist I mean I'm sure that

I'm sure he took his mask off at times I don't remember I just remember him always in that mask kicking ass I don't know we'll see but Dexter Resurrection now I'll get to it but all right here

this one I just recently finished this series about a week ago and this is it Welcome to Derry Did you watch all of this? Favorite show of 2020. Oh, my God. I wasn't expecting much.

I thought it was awesome. I wasn't expecting much when I heard it was the HBO Mac show. Yeah. But once they said, no, no, no, no, no, no. This is HBO direct. I was like, okay, you guys are going to put some quality into it. i was a little wonky at times i'll never forgive that one episode the kids riding their bikes through the the cemetery yeah they did not put money into that episode i mean yeah i mean

some of that i mean they went practical and cg i which i was cool with yeah um i liked everything that happened i got i was kind of i did I mean, I don't know what it was. I mean, when it, the first chapter came out and Strangers thing was big and Finn Wolfhard was in that, I was kind of getting all that mixed together. Stranger's thing comes back. This is already out. And I was kind of going back and forth watching those and I was getting it all mixed up because there's kids in it.

But I liked what they did with this. I like what they're doing with it. Obviously Stephen King had. maybe some input on it other than yeah man here's my story go for it make it your own i liked what they did they did their research and i don't know if this this uh back history of pennywise is what uh stephen king maybe thought but i mean he obviously yeah man gave him to go ahead and it was cool and then them tying in some of the other stories in the king universe i mean dick hollering uh from the shining bringing him in we all know

his demise but that's the kind of stuff i wanted from that show castle rock yeah i didn't even watch that yet my son and my wife watched it they said it was good so i say he should watch you should watch it i said it's on netflix now oh okay and i just like there's a lot of Easter eggs in this. So, I mean, just find the list and then go through it. Yeah. But, man, it was,

I waited until the whole thing was done. I didn't want to week to week. I was week to week. I was so tuned in. The, okay, well, you'll want, you like it, you like it, watch it. I said, I'll watch it, but. He watched it? Yeah, because he had seen the movie.

I made him see those movies. Oh, okay. Because he didn't want to see the movie. He was like, yeah, it's not from, I said, dude, this is like one of the biggest movies at that time. I said, you got to go see it. So he went and saw the first chapter and he was like, man, that was pretty good. And then he waited for the second one. And now that one, I didn't care for.

But, I mean, but I liked what they did in this one. It's 27 years before the movies. And I like what they're doing this when they're going backwards. So the next season is 27 years in the past. So I'm really looking forward to seeing what they're going to do. I don't know how far back they're going to go season-wise. I think they said a three-season story art. All right.

Well, I mean, that's fine. I'm all for it. Make it good. Just make it good at this one. I thought it was amazing. Bill Scarsgard, reprising his role as Pennywise, I thought that was amazing And of course the spoilers are already out there

Everyone was mad where is he where is he He didn't pop in until the fifth episode They built it up just right for me Yeah Because when he showed up You were like fuck yeah So I I was all in

I liked what they did with him I mean Hashtag not my penny wise But I like what he does In this and I liked what he did in the first two movies. I'm going to have to re-watch the chapter two again because I remember sitting there

in the theater going, this is boring. It needed to be cut down. Yeah, it was hell long. And rest in peace to groan, Eddie. Yeah. James Ransome, I think, is his name. Yeah, we lost him a week, a week ago. Yeah.

A week or two. but everything that they did in this I loved what they were what they were talking about the story arc um the stuff that happened in it chapter

uh one what they were talking about we got to see what happened uh that dealing with that fire I thought that was cool and when the way Pennywise looked at the very end uh I know one of the figures is coming out from NECA

I like that But there's that other thing That Penny Wise was If you guys haven't seen it yet I won't spoil it They better make a figure of that Because that looked awesome And

Yeah I mean If you did watch it And you didn't catch all the Easter eggs Um yeah Just tons of people made videos of it Or there's lists of it you can find And just run down at all And who knows

Maybe make you rewatch the whole season again Because reading some of the list, yeah, it made me want to re-watch the whole thing. I caught some of them. I didn't catch every, all of them. So, but, I mean, this, this is definitely made it my, it made my list of best TV series this year. Because I was not expecting much. I was like, all right. And that's why I didn't week to week it.

I was, I'll just wait till it's done. I was, I was, that was in no rush to watch it. But then when I said, okay, it's done, let me, let me sit through it. Oh, my God. I watched the first couple episodes at home, and I was like, man, I was so juiced, I couldn't wait to get home. I just downloaded them all onto my iPad,

and I was watching them at work when I could. So, but yeah, this series was hell of good. All right, rolling on. This is, I believe, number one. It made my list as well, but it was higher on the list. from the dairy but this is um alien earth amazing show i liked what was happening i had issues with it but it was good it wasn't just xenomorphs that we had to deal with it it just wasn't uh the

synthetics we had to deal with we dealt with other alien creatures that could kill you that eyeball thing was the coolest thing yeah i also like the fact that we got introduced to other it wasn't just whaling utani there was a bunch of other ones we never even heard of i think they said five yeah and uh the the tyrell corporation yeah that does that tie into blade runner i don't know you never know i don't know because there is a blade Runners series coming out this year if you

if you guys caught it I mean some of you did maybe some of you didn't if you remember an aliens James Cameron's aliens when the company was debriefing Ripley on the back screen we see a picture of Dallas

and it kind of lists some things and who he had worked for and it said the Tarell Company which was that company in Blade Runner and then they pop up in this as well so I

is it the same company? I don't know it could be it could not be I have no idea but if it does tie into Blade Runner hey I'm all for it because of the replicants I mean they that's basically what all these these guys were it was sad

on what some of them the synthetics or whatever they were called um on what i mean what they were doing having these kids spoiler alert putting these kids minds into these uh cyborgs synthetics or whatever they were calling them there was a bunch of different ones i liked that whole thing um the main girl in it i really liked her character sydney chandler what do you call her so wendy yeah that's uh what's his name's daughter from friday night lights oh is it yeah

i liked what they did through the whole thing i thought it was awesome um i believe we're getting more from because everyone enjoyed this i mean i'm sure cost a billion dollars season two was green light all right there was a billion dollars in it put into this um I think the biggest issue I had, but, I mean, they did kind of, we kind of know why. Because, again, going to aliens when they're debriefing, Ripley, one of those ladies said, you're, she goes, you're describing something that has not been reported in over, however many planets that they visited. They haven't reported it yet in Alien Earth Yeah, so I figured

Because yeah, nobody really knows No knew about it I mean they knew that ship crashed But then They went in there and they took everything And then they took it to Wonderland Or wherever that guy's Little Islands were

They took it all down there Oh, boy genius Yeah, they took it all down there So but I was like Yeah, okay nobody knew what was on that ship and then you took everything out of there

and to some faraway islands somewhere on the planet so I was like okay I mean that's how you're getting around that I loved Romulus but there was too much in that that I was like no

you can't fix it whatever you say I don't believe it only because I know the alien the first alien movie but not to say It wasn't a bad movie. I thought it was an awesome movie. I just had more issues with that than this series. But it was entertaining. Every episode kept me on the edge of my seat and the way each episode ended with some awesome-ass song that they picked. I was like, fuck yeah. And I was like, man, they must have flew to the future to get these songs. Well, what year was? Did this take place? I can't remember. it took place I gotta fold up right

two years before the events of Alien and that was okay this one is 2120 well okay well I guess all they they needed to go all those songs that they play

yeah they could have got uh how already had them um acting as a prequel to the original alien film which set in in 21, 22. And then

Romulus was between alien and aliens. How many? How many years was that? What year? Alien timeline? Okay, Prometheus, I'm going to run through it all, was 2089 to 2093. Covenant was 2104, alien Earth, 2120, Alien, 202,

Romulus was 2142, then aliens, and aliens and Alien 3 was 2179. and Resurrection was 2381. I liked it. I know a lot of people hated Alien 3. I love that film. I like the director's cut. And everyone, I didn't like the director's cut.

Well, I didn't like it coming out of a yak or whatever that was. I thought that was stupid. I didn't mind the dog. I thought that was cool. Alien Resurrection, they mentioned, call my girl Winona forever

when they realize that she was a synthetic but she wasn't one like bishop or ash she was some other special one that they only made so many of but then I guess they got too smart and some people were saying they were the replicants

because then they all went on a run and she and that one guy the one Mexican guy that's and he was um he wasn't breaking bad the crazy dude oh tuka yeah him he was like damn i didn't think i'd ever see one and he was the one that said yeah man they made these whatever were different ones and they they all got smart and took off and that's what call was so i'm not sure if these ones in alien earth if they're maybe we'll get answers in the blade runner series

yeah because in that one it was just replicants So, I mean, there could have been other ones. I need to watch that at that last movie. I just saw it the one time, and I don't even remember. Yeah, series is a sequel to the last movie, and it's called Blay Runner, 2099. It's coming to Prime, and this year, and it stars Michelle Yao as a replicant.

Okay. All right, let me see From the top Take it as his number 10 What was it? Black Mirror, season 7 Number 9 Telemuska

The Secret Order Number 8, the Institute That one I want to check out Gen V or number 7 Gen V season 2 I guess I need to finish the boys and everything else. Number six, Haunted Hotel, streaming on Netflix.

Um, five, pluribus. Um, what'd you say? MGM Plus? Uh, Apple TV. Or Apple TV. Excuse me. Um, Stranger Things, season five.

And number, that was four. Number three, Dexter resurrection. Number three, or number two, I'm sorry, it, and number one is alien earth I just saw it as a

side-by show but you throw monsters in there trying to kill you all right you can throw the horror in it the horror movies out of the alien series to me my personal opinion only alien that's it after that they kind of just turned into action films with aliens trying to kill you

and then with Prometheus and all that, that was more sci-fi dramas. I won't what's his name to come back at some point. David, Michael Fastbender, I liked his character.

Covenant, I don't know what Ridley was thinking on that one. Covenant had so much potential. It did, man, because Prometheus left you, I left the theater with more questions and there was answers I didn't even get

They messed up when they killed What's their name off screen? Noonie were pace Yeah you had to watch that little Ten minute In between Prometheus and Covenant movie When we find out what happens

It was like Alien 3 all over again When they killed Most of the Previous cast in the very beginning and the opening credits. I guess they had issues with Michael Bean, so that's why they killed him off. They have issues with new?

Well, they, she aged. I don't know. I guess they just couldn't get a new. They weren't hyper sleep. Well, the actor, she aged. So I don't know. if i she's always at conventions if i ever see her i'll ask her and why i know i've seen videos of her explaining it but i want to tell me why they they didn't come to you see what she says

but all right everyone that was who i was i said did i press record um that was bloody disgusting's 10 best horror television series of 2025 horrific stuff in black mirror but you know me and i guess this other one with vampires okay i'd replace black mirror with the crete tapes season two the what the crete tapes i never even heard of that what's that you ever see crete yeah oh that yeah okay what's that on i haven't even started that yet uh shutter amc plus okay there's some stuff coming on screen box I might have to get it

I'm like man how many streaming services I found a new one that's free that's all found footage movies what's that it's called found TV you can watch

the movies with ads or you can pay $499 for no ads damn what is 699 what happened to 499 screen box uh they they're getting more movies now yeah they are

in the air I can pay 60 bucks for the year or do seven bucks a month what was the other one called found box or found found tv all right this is free

yeah there's ads you said yeah I guess it's like to be except if you want you can pay for no ads and I take it's like 499 that's not bad well shit maybe I might have to hold off on

the screen box one because yeah I told you guys last time I forgot to cancel stars so they zapped me for the 80 bucks or whatever so i'll hold on to it for the year uh ESPN you bastard you got me and why are they throwing everything on netflix now because they don't know what they're doing because originally they said they was don't it on youtube you know the www vault channel yeah they were doing that and then one day i was scrolling on netflix and i seen all this

old pay-per-view content on there, and I was like, what? Yeah. So I typed in WWE, and it's all there. I know. I was like, you guys better not. If they do throw them on, I know over the pond, the PLEs are on Netflix. That's where they need to be. Shout out to Stephanie McMahon.

She told everyone to get that VPN. Yeah. They were not happy with her for that. It's probably why that she's not on the show anymore. I love you, Steph. But I don't know. We'll see what's going to happen. If they leave ESPN or do whatever, I'm canceling that quick.

Because there's only two things on there. And the Wins Rumble, end of this month. Yeah, which. I canceled because they were going to get a free month out of me that I was paying for ESPN Plus that I was not going to watch it because my billing cycle was before Rumble. And you still got to have Peacock because there's going to be a Saturday night main event in a couple weeks. Yeah, I was talking it over and I looked at there's a ton of things I watch on Peacock. so I'm like, ha, all right,

might as well keep it. Yeah, I drop Peacock, too. I just. I held on to it, so we'll see. But, all right,

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