Excerpts fantasy Read an Excerpt From Thistlemarsh by Moorea Corrigan Faeries disappeared over one hundred years ago, as suddenly as slipping through a doorway… By Moorea Corrigan | Published on March 24, 2026 Comment 0 Share New Share We’re thrilled to share an excerpt from Thistlemarsh by Moorea Corrigan, a debut fantasy publishing with Berkley on April 21st. In the wake of The Great War, the world is a decidedly unmagical place for Mouse Dunne. She once dreamed of becoming a Faerie anthropologist, but with one telegram, her world shattered. At the Battle of the Somme, her cousin’s body disappeared into the mud, and her brother was left with debilitating shell shock. It was time, she knew, to put aside childish dreams.When Mouse receives news that her uncle has left her the Faerie-blessed Thistlemarsh Hall, a dilapidated manor in the English countryside, she must leave her brother’s side and return to her childhood home to claim her birthright. But there is a catch in her uncle’s offer: If Mouse does not rehabilitate the crumbling house in one month’s time, she will forfeit her inheritance and any hope of caring for her brother.It quickly becomes clear it’s impossible to repair the manor in the allotted time, until a mysterious Faerie appears with a proposition. He offers to restore Thistlemarsh…for a price. Mouse knows better than to trust a Faerie—especially one so insufferably handsome and arrogant—but she is out of options. There are dark and magical forces at work in the house, and Mouse must confront the ghosts of her past and the secrets of her heart or lose Thistlemarsh, and herself, in the process. There was still plenty of light by the time Mouse regained her composure and ventured into the woods again to visit John and collect the bike. Dante’s statue was not in its usual place. Unsettled, Mouse pressed on. Her attention caught on an overgrown fork in the path. Sunlight slid across the earth in a strange way, and a golden memory flooded her senses, her father smiling at her over his shoulder as he led her to a blooming meadow at the end of this exact path. The sun was still up. She had time, and the longer walk would help her decompress, she decided. Stones jutted across the path, forcing her to weave in and out of its borders. A few statues lined the track, arms outstretched like Dante’s, but time had worn them down to faceless, featureless forms. Summer foliage coated them in ghoulish mantles. A patch of flowers caught her eye beyond the trees, and she quickened her pace toward the comforting burst of color. She was almost at the end of the path, feet away from a carpet of flowers, when a shape loomed out of the shadows. Mouse jolted back. A rock snagged at her heel, and she tumbled down. Half dazed, she gazed up at the shape. Dante was there, reaching out to her. “You scared me half to death,” Mouse croaked. She scanned the tree line for a sign of mischief‑makers. Her heart thundered in her ears. “Come out, children. You’ve had your fun.” No one answered. In the dimming light, a sparkle near Dante’s eye caught her attention. She tensed. Surely, she was imagining things, but it struck her that the stone was not of the natural world. She steadied her breath, tightening her hold on her heartbeat. Nonsense, she admonished herself. You’vefacedbloodandgore,andhereyouareterrifiedby a practical joke. She forced herself up and forward, taking in Dante’s form. Beneath the moss growing across the stone, there were a few marks she’d never noticed before. Under the foliage there was a white line across his exposed eye, like a scar. His stone torso split in the middle of his chest, creating a gap between the two sides of his rib cage. The hole was covered in moss and vines, but Mouse could make out a shape behind it. She worked her fingers through the greenery. They met with something cool and smooth. Her fingertips tingled. There were words written around the hole in his chest. Although Mouse was not fluent in the Faerie language, she could recognize enough of it to roughly translate the passage. Speak, and unbind me, it read. She sounded out the letters, the Faerie words airy as they passed her lips. In an instant, mist rose around Mouse, and the statue nearly vanished from view, even though her fingers were still pressed against its chest. At first, she thought of smoke, of fires from bombs or artillery. Then, her rational mind caught up to where she was. The village children must still be playing a trick on her. The air did not smell of anything but musky forest. “That’s enough,” she called out again, squinting through the haze. “If you put the statues back and swear to never do something so pea‑ brained again, I won’t tell Reverend John Martin about this.” “Sorry if I gave you a fright,” said a low voice from the mist, its droll tone not sorry at all. It was not a child’s voice. Mouse blinked. She could see Dante’s form better, but there was something about the shape that stopped her short. Where before he had only one whole arm, now his outline had two. Her mind stuttered. “Dante, did you just… speak?” Mouse asked meekly. “Yes,” he said, as logically and calmly as though statues spoke to humans as often as people passing in the street. For a moment, Mouse did not know what to think. Perhaps she’d hit her head? She prodded the back of her skull, but there was no pain. Had she gone mad, then? No, she could not accept that Thistle‑ marsh had already driven her to a cracking point. Instead, she focused on the figure. The mist had mostly cleared. Buy the Book Thistlemarsh Moorea Corrigan Buy Book Thistlemarsh Moorea Corrigan Buy this book from: AmazonBarnes and NobleiBooksIndieBoundTarget In Dante’s place stood a man, a shock of white‑blond hair slicked back on his head. He wore an odd coat of deep green with embroidery on his cuffs. A thin white scar ran across his eye down to his cheek. There was a sharpness to his features. But more than that, he was so handsome it was like looking into the sun. It hurt. And Mouse only knew of one creature with looks that could burn. She forced herself to speak. “Are you… a Faerie?” The creature tilted its head at her. “Yes.” She backed away. Her hands were shaking. “You aren’t dreaming. And it would be damn inconvenient if you ran away.” Instinct finally kicked in, and Mouse screamed. She scrambled down the path, keeping her eyes on the man as she moved. He snorted and held out his hand. A root lifted from the earth and wrapped around her ankle, stopping her in her tracks. The magical vine dragged her back, unbothered by her struggles. “I hoped you would behave like a rational creature about all this. But clearly, I was wrong.” “A rational creature?” Mouse squawked in indignation. “You’re… you’re a High Faerie.” “Obviously,” he said. “And you just attacked me.” “Attacked you? Do not be so dramatic. All I’ve done is detain you. As soon as you have heard what I came to say, you may go. Mortals are so skittish. It took a lot of work to find you here. Moving around as a statue is exhausting. But, because you freed me from my enchantment, I am feeling generous. I will ignore your lapse of judgment.” “Generous?” Mouse echoed. “Indeed.” He rubbed the bridge of his nose. “Let’s get this over with.” The branches twisted behind her to form a low seat. The Faerie raised his eyebrows at her. “Can I trust you to sit? If so, I will remove the vines from around your legs.” Mouse said nothing. The Faerie sighed and clicked his fingers. The vines pulled away. Her legs were free, but the sting of the bark through her trousers remained. He gestured to the stool. She eyed the path, but the vines flicked with authority. Mouse sat. Fear, shock, and anger all battled for dominance in her mind. A Faerie had not been seen in England for over a hundred years. Was it possible that one would appear to her now? What did that mean for the rest of the country? Were there more of them? And how should she act? Mouse longed for the guidance of her mother or even Blakeney’s. One thought in the cacophony rang clear above all others. What could this Faerie possibly want with her? “Wonderful,” the Faerie continued. “Now we can be diplomatic with each other. For the duration of our acquaintance, you may call me Thornwood. May I have your name?” “No, you may not,” Mouse said without hesitation. The corners of Thornwood’s mouth pulled into a flicker of a frown. “You are familiar with one of my kind?” “I am familiar with your customs.” Even without Blakeney’s, Faer‑ ies were part of her upbringing in the same way that gardening had been. Her mother made it clear that you never gave your name to a Faerie. The Faerie tilted his head, smiling sardonically. “I wanted to speak with you about your predicament.” “Which predicament is that?” “News moves fast, even in the forest. You are at the mercy of your uncle’s will, and I can help.” “Why? Because I freed you from an enchantment?” “Precisely. You need my help, and I am happy to offer it.” “For a price, of course,” Mouse said. The Faerie’s smile sharpened. “I do not give out favors, but this can be mutually beneficial.” “And of course, my freeing you does not count toward this price,” Mouse scoffed. “What could I have that is of any interest to you?” “It depends on the size of the task you need me to complete. Rearranging a bookshelf might cost you a fingernail clipping. Killing a man might cost you your heart.” “Charming,” Mouse said with a grimace. “This has been a delightful conversation, but I am exhausted. You’ve miscalculated. You are too late. Once I would have been fascinated by a deal with you, but now I have more pressing matters than Faeries. I will need all my organs to finish my work. Now, either turn me into a snail or let me go.” Her mother would be appalled at the tone she was taking with such a dangerous creature, but she could not find it within herself to care. “I think I would prefer you as a rabbit,” the Faerie said, baring his teeth. Despite herself, Mouse shuddered. “However, I am aware that my offer is unconventional. You need some time to think things over. Meet me in the clearing where we first met tomorrow night when the moon is highest. I will have your answer then.” The wind shook the trees. Everything leaned toward them, and the earth thrummed with desperate energy. It reminded Mouse of the feeling when waiting for a bomb to drop from a zeppelin. “I will be waiting,” Thornwood said. The energy lifted, and he was gone. Excerpted from Thistlemarsh by Moorea Corrigan Copyright © 2026 by Moorea Corrigan. Excerpted by permission of Berkley. All rights reserved. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permission in writing from the publisher. The post Read an Excerpt From <i>Thistlemarsh</i> by Moorea Corrigan appeared first on Reactor.

Books Five Books About Five Books Where Time Can’t Be Trusted Five books that remind us that time is a slippery thing… By Casey Scieszka | Published on March 25, 2026 Photo by Zulfa Nazer [via Unsplash] Comment 0 Share New Share Photo by Zulfa Nazer [via Unsplash] I have always loved books where time cannot be trusted— immortal characters, time travel, parallel multiverses. We all tell ourselves that time is a linear construction that runs from the past to the present to the future, but most of us experience it bending and stretching and compressing throughout our lives. Remember how long summer felt when you were young? And tell me, where oh where did today already go? When I was writing The Fountain, this was exactly what I wanted to get into. Vera, the main character, is a secretly 214 year old young-looking woman who returns to her hometown in the Catskill Mountains to figure out what did this to her so she can reverse it and finally be released. I wondered: what would time feel like if you had an infinite supply of it? Freedom? Punishment? Some very complicated combination of both? Here are 5 books I adore that remind us that time is a slippery thing. Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi Before the Coffee Gets Cold is a quick and charming read about a coffee shop in Tokyo where customers can time travel.  It follows a handful of characters who each harbor their own reasons to seek out another time— an unfinished love story, an Alzheimer’s diagnosis, a reunion with an estranged sister, and even a foray into the future to try to see an as-of-yet unborn child.  Naturally, nothing goes exactly as planned. Memories can’t always be trusted and the past is seemingly impossible to change. But the future is perhaps where everyone’s chance at the redemption they seek actually waits if they can only fully understand and accept the reality of their present.   There are rules of course. Most importantly: you cannot leave the shop during your travel and the trip can only be as long as it takes for your coffee to get cold. I promise, you won’t want to get out of your own chair while reading, and you’ll slurp this one down quicker than a cup of coffee!  In Universes by Emet North In Universes is a heady, dense, and rewardingly complex read about a queer physicist studying multiverses.  As their dissatisfaction with their own life in the lab grows, they become increasingly obsessed with the idea that there might be other versions of themself living better lives in parallel worlds.  We as the reader get to experience these worlds, and the kaleidoscope of characters, locations, and interests that overlap and shimmer and change throughout all of them makes a gorgeous puzzle that you’ll be tempted to “solve”, but the beauty lays in holding all of the possibilities simultaneously in your mind, the way a multiverse itself supposedly works. “Time” here isn’t the only thing that gets slippery here. It’s also space and reality itself! Get ready for your own personal trip down all the multiverse “what ifs” of your life every time you close the book. To Be Taught if Fortunate by Becky Chambers To Be Taught if Fortunate is a delightful novella that follows four astronauts in the twenty-second century whose work takes them to far away planets they are surveying for the possibility of human habitation. Incredible advances in biomedical technology allow these explorers to survive in otherwise hostile environments and do amazing things like turn previously dangerous levels of radiation into food.  There’s just one catch— going into a cryopreservation-like state while hopping lightyears through galaxies means when these astronauts reawaken it’s been years since they closed their eyes.  Unsurprisingly, eventually, as the planet hopping adds up, the Earth they once left behind is no longer the same. The people who once knew them have significantly aged or are even gone, and the purpose of their mission grows less and less clear now that things are different back home.  You’ll be moved by the bravery it would require to not only take on such physically dangerous work off-planet, but to sacrifice one’s entire experience of normal time.  A fantastic read, especially as an intro for folks who don’t consider themselves space sci-fi fans.  Be sure to also check out the Q & A at the end between the author and her mother Nikki Chambers who’s an astrobiology professor who consulted on the science of the book! Kindred by Octavia E. Butler Kindred is a time travel classic for a reason and Butler is an absolute queen of speculative fiction.  This one follows Dana, a Black writer in 1970s L.A. who is repeatedly thrust back in time to an 1800s plantation in Maryland through dizzy spells she cannot control.  Where hours pass in her experience of the past, just minutes go by in the present, befuddling both her and her white husband Kevin who has been at her side the whole time. While at first he doesn’t entirely believe Dana (who would?), during the next incident he too slips through time and together they are transported back to the past. It’s a blisteringly close look at slavery, interracial marriage, the Antebellum south, what has and hasn’t changed in America over no matter how much time has passed. High drama, high stakes, you will be racing through pages late into the night.  After you get obsessed, you can also read the graphic novel adaptation by Damian Duffy and watch the miniseries on FX.  Retro by Jessica Goldstein Retro follows Ash, a failed actress who gets a job at a time travel tourism company that caters to the super wealthy.  Think: your 21st birthday at a speakeasy in the roaring 20s, history buff dads rubbing elbows at a Philadelphia tavern with Benjamin Franklin, coworkers keeping lovers in multiple decades that they hop the Retro Metro to visit on their lunch breaks.  It’s a page-turning examination of the nature of nostalgia and how we all want different things from the same, shared past– a past that may not be quite as resilient to interference from the future as the mysterious CEO of Retro wants everyone to believe. Absolutely chock full of delicious details from every era, with workplace drama and romance to boot. It’s funny and punchy and smart and you’ll want to go back in time to read it again for the first time as soon as you finish.[end-mark] Buy the Book The Fountain Casey Scieszka Buy Book The Fountain Casey Scieszka Buy this book from: AmazonBarnes and NobleiBooksIndieBoundTarget The post Five Books Where Time Can’t Be Trusted appeared first on Reactor.

News The Lord of the Rings Stephen Colbert and His Son Are Writing That Tom Bombadil Movie We Never Exactly Asked For Hey dol! merry dol! ring a dong dill-NO! By Molly Templeton | Published on March 25, 2026 Screenshot: Warner Bros. Comment 0 Share New Share Screenshot: Warner Bros. If you were old enough to be online when Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings movies were being made, you probably remember the debates about what would and would not be included. Some people really, really wanted Tom Bombadil, the quirky fellow who helps the hobbits on their way and rescues them from some barrow-wights. Some really didn’t want Tom and his songs (personally, I always cared more about his companion, Goldberry). Stephen Colbert is apparently in the former camp. Last night, in honor of Tolkien Reading Day, Peter Jackson got online to provide an update on The Hunt for Gollum, the questionable LOTR film Andy Serkis is making. Jackson says the script for that one is coming together, and that he thinks it’s going to be “a really good film.” But then Jackson, in his very casual way, announces that another film is in development, and invites a guest to explain. That guest was Colbert, who says, “The thing I found myself reading over and over again were the six chapters early on in the Fellowship that y’all never developed into the first movie back in the day.” He goes on to specify the chapters: “Three Is Company” through “Fog on the Barrow-Downs.” Some things that happen in those chapters: Frodo, Sam, and Pippin leave Bag-End (Merry has gone ahead to prepare Frodo’s new house). They sing some songs. They eat some meals. A fox wonders what these hobbits are up to. The hobbits meet some elves. (The scene with the elves is a favorite of mine; it would, I admit, be nice to see some less depressed elves than the ones Jackson gave us.) They get a ride from Farmer Maggot. They see some Nazgul, though they don’t know what they are yet. Merry and Pippin get stuck in a grumpy willow tree, and Tom Bombadil comes to the rescue. When they leave him, they encounter some barrow-wights, and Tom Bombadil comes to the rescue. And then they go to Bree and meet Aragorn, and the rest is cinematic history. These chapters are great. It’s also very easy to see why they were cut from Jackson’s The Fellowship of the Ring. Colbert says, in the video, that he thought, “Oh, wait, maybe that could be its own story that could fit into the larger story. Could we make something that was completely faithful to the books while also being completely faithful to the movies that you guys had already made?” And that’s what he—and his son Peter McGhee, and regular LOTR writer Philippa Boyens—are doing. The film is called The Lord of the Rings: Shadow of the Past, and Variety reports that it has a logline: Fourteen years after the passing of Frodo, Sam, Merry, and Pippin set out to retrace the first steps of their adventure. Meanwhile, Sam’s daughter, Elanor, has discovered a long-buried secret and is determined to uncover why the War of the Ring was very nearly lost before it even began. After Jackson’s Hobbit trilogy, and with Serkis’s upcoming unnecessary Gollum movie, it is really hard not to see this as these men squeezing every last franchise dollar out of these novels, even as they talk about how much they love Tolkien’s work. It also feels like they’re trying to get ahead of criticisms that these books have few female roles. (Have they considered other books?) It’s not clear if Jackson will direct this film, or if any actors will return from his original trilogy. But we have time to prepare ourselves; The Hunt for Gollum is still being made, and this movie is next in the franchise pipeline.[end-mark] The post Stephen Colbert and His Son Are Writing That Tom Bombadil Movie We Never Exactly Asked For appeared first on Reactor.

News Daredevil: Born Again How Daredevil: Born Again Season 2, Punisher: One Last Kill, and Spider-Man: Brand New Day Are All (Supposedly) Connected Marvel’s next big releases share some crucial connections By Matthew Byrd | Published on March 24, 2026 Photo: Disney+ Comment 0 Share New Share Photo: Disney+ Daredevil: Born Again Season 2, Punisher: One Last Kill, and Spider-Man: Brand New Day are not just the next major entries in the MCU; they’re three closely related projects that will all feed into each other as part of Marvel’s attempt to bring some order back to their unwieldy cinematic universe ahead of Doomsday‘s debut. But while we know that the Daredevil show, The Punisher special, and the Spider-Man movie are all connected, Marvel has been characteristically cagey regarding the specifics of that relationship. “It’s complicated,” one might say. But because I (and you, if you’re here, I assume) refuse to wait for answers, here’s a breakdown of how those projects are (and are not) connected to each other. How Daredevil: Born Again Season 2, Punisher: One Last Kill, and Spider-Man: Brand New Day Fit Into the MCU Timeline Timeline-wise, Daredevil: Born Again season two is set roughly six months after the end of the show’s first season and just before the events of Spider-Man: Brand New Day (the exact time gap between the two is unknown). The Born Again team has been very clear about the show’s lead-in status (including how some Born Again characters will appear in Brand New Day), even if they’re being elusive about the details. More on that in a bit. Punisher: One Last Kill is a bit trickier to nail down. Charlie Cox has said that the special “does connect into the time and place that Daredevil: Born Again season two takes place,” which would seem to suggest that it’s set around the same time as the show’s second season. Punisher actor Jon Bernthal has also said that the version of the character in Brand New Day could “walk off of the Spider-Man set and could walk on to the special set,” which implies that the two are both spiritually and chronologically connected. The story specifics of that relationship are being kept close for now, though the idea of Daredevil and One Last Kill leading into Brand New Day still holds. The Street-Level Crime Connection One phrase you often hear associated with Born Again, One Last Kill, and Brand New Day is “street-level.” While that phrase has often been associated with Daredevil and Punisher in their various shows, comics, and movies, the idea of Spider-Man dealing with more day-to-day threats rather than supervillainy and cosmic carnage is a bit of a departure for the MCU version of the character. That departure is the key component of the relationship between all of these releases. Tom Holland has previously expressed his preference for Spider-Man to get back to his street-level roots, and Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige was quick to hype up that element of Brand New Day before we knew pretty much anything else about the movie. Crucially, Feige also noted that characters like The Punisher are an integral part of helping Holland’s Spider-Man transition into dealing with more street-level threats. So while it’s not fair to call Born Again and One Last Kill simple set-ups for Brand New Day, they are very much trying to establish that one aspect of the film. Is Daredevil Going to Be in Spider-Man: Brand New Day? According to actor Charlie Cox, Daredevil will not be in Brand New Day. In an interview on Jimmy Kimmel Live, the actor said “No” when asked if he’s in the upcoming Spider-Man film and added “If I was in the movie, I would also say no, to be clear. But I’m not in the movie.” So clearly, Cox is being a bit cheeky about the situation. For what it’s worth, though, Cox previously gave an interview during New York Comic-Con 2025 in which he said that “I know that they all think I’m in Spider-Man because I’m filming something in London, which I’m not… I’m not in Spider-Man.” And although everyone is more than a little skeptical about this information (it wouldn’t be the first time Marvel tried to get away with such shenanigans), other reports suggest that Daredevil/Matt Murdoch has simply never been a big part of the Brand New Day story. So if Daredevil is in the movie, it will likely be a relatively minor role. Will Kingpin Be in Spider-Man: Brand New Day? According to Kingpin actor Vincent D’Onofrio, Kingpin is prohibited from appearing in any MCU movies and therefore will likely not appear in Spider-Man: Brand New Day. “I’m only usable for television shows… Not even a one-off Wilson Fisk movie,” said D’Onofrio in a 2025 interview on the Happy Sad Confused podcast regarding the possibility of him appearing in Brand New Day. “It’s all caught up in rights and stuff. I don’t know when that would work out or if it ever would work out at all.” That’s a seemingly definitive statement on the matter, though it is a bit of an odd explanation. It sounds like the bizarre business relationship between Sony and Marvel regarding the use of Spider-Man and all associated characters is once again the culprit here. The nature of that arrangement remains complicated and largely mysterious, but precedent tells us that Sony would likely have the right to determine if a Spider-Man villain gets to appear in an MCU movie. It seems that rule doesn’t apply to Marvel television (or perhaps they got special permission in those instances). Theoretically, Marvel could reach a deal with Sony that allows Kingpin to make his MCU big-screen debut. However, it’s unlikely that such a potentially major deal would be made just to get the character in what is already shaping up to be a villain-bloated film. In any case, we’ll likely get something of a resolution to the Mayor Fisk storyline in Born Again season two simply so Kingpin won’t have to be a character in Brand New Day. Is The Punisher Going to Be in Spider-Man: Brand New Day or Daredevil: Born Again Season 2? While the first Brand New Day trailer confirmed that The Punisher will be in the movie, we were shocked to learn that the Punisher will not appear in Daredevil: Born Again season two. Actors Charlie Cox and Vincent D’Onofrio confirmed the Punisher’s absence while promoting the new season of the show. Both gave somewhat similar explanations that essentially boil down to Jon Bernthal being unavailable to appear in the show because he was busy filming Brand New Day and One Last Kill. Specifically, D’Onofrio recently stated “If John wasn’t busy making his own hour-long Punisher film and hangin with that insect we would have wanted him to join us in Season 2 for sure.” If that explanation strikes you as incomplete or unusual, then join the club. As is the case with Charlie Cox denying that he’s in Brand New Day, there is the possibility that Bernthal will appear as the Punisher in Born Again season two and that everyone involved is simply keeping that under wraps. However, given what else we know about the timeline of those projects relative to the rest of the MCU, it does make sense that Bernthal’s Born Again-adjacent adventures will be featured in One Last Kill rather than that show’s second season. As mentioned above, Bernthal has stated that the version of the Punisher we’ll see in Brand New Day and One Last Kill is a “high-octane” version of the character who fits into both projects seamlessly. While this is mere speculation, it is worth noting that Bernthal previously expressed frustration with the direction the Punisher was going in during Born Again’s tumultuous creative process. Though it seems some rewrites helped to address some of those concerns (as did the addition of The Punisher showrunner Dario Scardapane to the series), it does seem possible that everyone involved found it easier to give The Punisher additional room to move in a slightly different direction rather than to squeeze him into the Born Again season two plot. That said, it’s strange to think that The Punisher will not be involved with the show’s second season at all given how much of a role he played in the first season and seemingly had left to play moving forward. Ideally, One Last Kill will tie up some of those loose ends. The Current Release Dates For Daredevil: Born Again Season 2, Punisher: One Last Kill, and Spider-Man: Brand New Day Daredevil: Born Again season two premieres on March 24 at 9pm ET/6pm PT on Disney+. Subsequent episodes will be released every Thursday leading up to the release of the show’s eighth episode (and season finale) on May 5. Punisher: One Last Kill will premiere almost one week later on May 12. Interestingly, Born Again’s second season was originally scheduled to end on that same date. It’s not clear why the scheduling swap was necessary, though their close release proximity certainly strengthens the idea that One Last Kill will fill in some of Born Again Season 2’s missing pieces or run parallel to that story in a way that suggests you may benefit from watching Born Again first. Spider-Man: Brand New Day, meanwhile, will be released in theaters on July 31. Given how absurdly popular it figures to be, don’t expect to see it hit streaming anytime soon. [end-mark] The post How <i>Daredevil: Born Again Season 2</i>, <i>Punisher: One Last Kill</i>, and <i>Spider-Man: Brand New Day</i> Are All (Supposedly) Connected appeared first on Reactor.

News School Spirits Paramount+ Renews School Spirits for a Fourth Season Season three of the show just ended earlier this month By Vanessa Armstrong | Published on March 24, 2026 Photo Credit: Ed Araquel/Paramount+ Comment 0 Share New Share Photo Credit: Ed Araquel/Paramount+ Less than three weeks after the third season of Paramount+’s School Spirits aired, the streamer broke the news that the young adult paranormal series will be back for season four. The show is centered around Maddie (Peyton List). The official summary of the series describes Maddie is “a teen girl stuck in the afterlife investigating her own mysterious disappearance. Maddie goes on a crime-solving journey as she adjusts to high school purgatory, but the closer she gets to discovering the truth, the more secrets and lies she uncovers.” At the end of season three, she and other ghosts trapped in the high school are now free to roam outside its halls. Co-creators Nate Trinrud and Megan Trinrud will serve as showrunners on the upcoming season, with previous showrunner Oliver Goldstick (Bridgerton) returning as a consultant. In addition to List, season three starred Kristian Ventura as Simon Elroy, Spencer MacPherson as Xavier Baxter, Kiara Pichardo as Nicole Herrera, Sarah Yarkin as Rhonda, Nick Pugliese as Charley, Rainbow Wedell as Claire Zomer, Josh Zuckerman as Mr. Martin, Maria Dizzia as Sandra Nears, Ci Hang Ma as Quinn, Miles Elliot as Yuri, and Milo Manheim as Wally Clark. No news yet on whether there will be new faces for season four or when we’ll see those episodes on Paramount+. [end-mark] The post Paramount+ Renews <i>School Spirits</i> for a Fourth Season appeared first on Reactor.