His Dark Materials
It seems hard to remember now, but when BBC One and HBO announced they were finally getting His Dark Materials off the ground to series, it was an exciting development for fans of the book. Unlike George R.R. Martin, who knew enough about the industry to keep A Song
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His Dark Materials got lucky and unlucky in the BBC's decision to speed greenlight the series and start filming Season 2 before it debuted in November 2019. It meant Season 2 was nearly done when the pandemic hit, with only the final episode altered to make it work.
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It is tradition for HBO to drop a look ahead trailer for the year to come every December. For nearly a decade, this was one of the most highly anticipated teasers of the year because it usually held the first look at the new season of Game of Thrones. The
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After the pandemic upended filming for His Dark Materials Season 2, leaving it an entire episode short of the original order, Season 3 has finally put boots on the ground to start filming. The series, which the BBC renewed for a third and final season in December of 2020, has
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Had the team behind His Dark Materials had their druthers this morning, you would be reading a recap of Season 2's final installment, Episode 8. But like many things in 2020, things didn't go as planned. The production never finished the season's final installment.
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In last week's recap, I mentioned that the original plan for His Dark Materials Season 2 was to do eight episodes, the last of which was still unfinished as of the premiere date due to the coronavirus pandemic. During the series' Comic Con at Home panel over
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It's official: His Dark Materials will return for a third season, officially bringing the story of Philip Pullman's trilogy to a close. HBO and BBC One have renewed the series for an eight-episode final outing based on the third novel in Pullman's series, titled
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His Dark Materials Season 2 was initially ordered at eight episodes, the same as Season 1. The BBC put in this order in early fall of 2019, sending the cast and crew back to work early. Of those eight episodes, seven were completed before the end of the year. The
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As His Dark Materials reaches the back half of the second season, the main plot thread continues to focus on Will and Lyra as they plan out a high stakes heist to get the alethiometer back from Boreal. This week's A-plot is all about the two of them
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When His Dark Materials introduced Lyra's Earth in Season 1, it did so directly and straightforwardly. One might even say (and I did, several times) that it was so matter-of-fact in its delivery, it drained the magic out of a mirror universe to our own, which was filled
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It's the final month of 2020, a year that turned out a way no one expected. The biggest story of the year was always about the proliferation of streamers. However, no one thought it would become the leading industry purveyor of entertainment quite so centrally, at least not
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This week's His Dark Materials begins with Lyra taking a chance that she can get away with infiltrating Will's Earth twice without getting caught. Even without Pan sounding the alarm, audiences can guess that the second round won't go nearly as smoothly as the