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“Deutschland 89 is really about how people have to reinvent themselves during a crisis,” says Deutschland series co-creator Joerg Winger. “So I think, in that way, it does reflect today, but that was not intentional.” From the beginning, the Deutschland series—which launched in 2015 with Deutschland 83, continued in 2018 with Deutschland 86, and just concluded with Deutschland 89—has used history as a metaphor for contemporary politics. Because of this and because, as Faulkner famously wrote, “The past is never dead....

SNMP is a standardized network protocol used to collect and organize device information on a network. It does this over UDP port 161. It was initially developed in 1980 when the size and complexity of many IT organizations were increasing at a fast pace. And today, in the field of network monitoring, SNMP is the most widely used network protocol. In this article, I will discuss SNMP in detail. So, let’s get started....

iZombie Season 5, Episode 12 iZombie has always gone all-in with its season finales and, as the season finale to end all iZombie season finales, “All’s Well That Ends Well” was the epitome of that. Of course, just because the series finale was epic, doesn’t mean it wasn’t straight-up hokey and weird, too. This finale wanted to have its cake and eat it too, wanted to raise the stakes of its zombie-fied world without actually following through on any of those stakes’ inevitable consequences for its main characters....

According to Deadline, MGM issued a statement saying, “MGM, Universal and Bond producers Michael G Wilson and Barbara Broccoli today announced the release of No Time To Die, the 25th film in the James Bond series, will be delayed until 2 April in order to be seen by a worldwide theatrical audience. We understand the delay will be disappointing to our fans but we now look forward to sharing No Time to Die next year....

Killing Eve Season 4 Episode 2 In an episode that feels very vintage Killing Eve, the titular character has some serious success in her quest to take down The Twelve, due in no small part to things she’s picked up from Villanelle over the years. While season 3 felt like watching Eve stare over the edge as she nearly became Villanelle, this season is something quite different. Eve has harnessed everything she’s learned in the previous three seasons, but she’s the one controlling it for her own aims....

Murder is not the worst thing to happen in Rian Johnson’s shrewd, incisive whodunnit Knives Out. The sparkling, secret truth at the heart of Benoit Blanc’s investigation—and how Johnson brilliantly subverts the entire genre—is the even greater depths to which the Thrombey clan can sink to protect their wealth. Harlan Thrombey (Christopher Plummer) dies on his 85th birthday, arguably at the peak of his career, which also coincides with the end of a good, long life....

Walking into Knives Out, a delightful murder mystery as fun as it is clever, you’d be forgiven for thinking the “it” in the “whodunnit” framework refers to the apparent murder at the center of the film’s promotional material. Sure, Harlan Thrombey’s (Christopher Plummer) death the night of his 85th birthday party drives the plot, but that’s not the “it” director and writer Rian Johnson is most interested in dissecting. Instead Johnson turns his masterful lens on a different crime: the sense of entitlement and abuse of power that grow from unchecked privilege....

This is no doubt in large part due to Lady Bird being a deeply personal film, one that like her revelatory Noah Baumbach collaborations—Frances Ha and Mistress America—provides an intimate and exceedingly rare snapshot of the age-group the press has sneeringly dubbed “millennials.” Turning back time to before her more well-known New York stories, Gerwig captures here a unique moment: that awkward breath between 9/11 and the War on Terror; the mainstreaming of cell phones before the advent of social media; and the difference between living in the 20th and 21st century....

Nintendo capped off their latest Direct presentation by revealing a new trailer for the next Zelda game. While virtually everyone expected that game to cap off the latest Direct showcase, few expected that the project’s next trailer would finally reveal the project’s full title: The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom. Even better, we now know that the game will launch on May 12, 2023. That little trailer gives us a lot to talk about, and we hope to bring you more thoughts and analysis in due time....

Legends of Tomorrow Season 7 Episode 7 I don’t know that any DC show has ever had the kind of run that Legends of Tomorrow is on. We’ve reached the midseason finale, at about the midpoint of an odd season – going by COVID-adjusted production and air schedules, this feels more like a season 6.5, even if season 7 has its own distinct identity and vibe. But at this point in the season, it’s incredible that not only have we not had a bad episode, we haven’t even had a mediocre one....

The poster features all the returning cast members – Caity Lotz as White Canary Sara Lance; her girlfriend, Ava Sharpe (Jes Macallan); Matt Ryan as the platonic ideal of John Constantine; Nick Zano as the heart and soul (and liver) of the Waverider, Shotgun Nate Heywood; Tala Ashe’s Zari Tarazi; and Dominic Purcell as Heat Wave. The poster also features new regulars – the delightful Gary (Adam Tsekhman); Constantine fixer-upper success story Astra Logue (Olivia Swann); Behrad Tarazi (Shayan Sobhian), Zari’s brother and the superhero equivalent of Schrodinger’s sibling; and newcomer Lisseth Chavez as Spooner Cruz, a conspiracy theorist terrified of being abducted by aliens in a world where that literally happened at the end of last season to Sara....

Legion Season 3 Episode 4 Time travel is in vogue. Not only did it serve as a major plot device in the summer’s biggest hit film, it’s also rumored to be where Stranger Things is headed in Season 4, and could possibly be a factor in wrapping up the Star Wars Skywalker saga. Time travel has always been a nifty narrative device for waving away story complications, staging important meetings between two characters that aren’t contemporaries, and generally reveling in a fictional universe’s own mythology....

Lethal Weapon: Season 2, Episode 10 “Riggs, don’t you think you deserve to be happy, too?” The holiday season is usually the time where families are able to reunite and a year’s worth of grievances can be buried and forgotten. It’s an incredibly forgiving, inclusive time of year that can put a whole lot of things into perspective. The holidays might be all about togetherness and helping lost souls find each other, but Lethal Weapon is also a series where family is a gravely important element in the first place....

“The New York Times documentary Framing Britney Spears aired Friday night on FX and Hulu, delivering an insightful and reflection on the career of Britney Spears and the current legal issues surrounding her conservatorship. Among all the things the documentary touched on, the most important thing we all have to reckon with is the sexist and ableist environment that festered around her.” Read more at The Mary Sue. For those of you who miss Girl Scout cookies this year, you can buy them on the Girl Scout Cookie Care digital platform....

“Peanut butter and jelly. Batman and Robin. Rock and roll. Fried chicken and video games. Some things just go together—like KFC Gaming and Cooler Master, which teamed up to create a game console with a built-in roaster.” Read more at PCMag. From National Hangover Day to Bubble Wrap Appreciation Day, here are some offbeat holidays to celebrate in the first month of the new year. Read more at Mental Floss....

“It looks like we’re finally getting some more details about the Rosario Dawson-led Ahsoka series, scant though they may be. In the latest casting news, we learn that Ray Stevenson, known for playing Volstagg in the Thor movies, has been announced as a villain in the series. The only detail we have other than that is that he will be playing an admiral. And no, this is not the admiral Ahsoka was on the hunt for when she made her live-action appearance in the second season of The Mandalorian....

“The dark day we’ve all been waiting for in fear has finally come: The Office is officially leaving Netflix. Starting January 1, 2021, you’ll no longer be able to revisit your favorite episodes or re-watch the series for the 100th time, as all nine seasons of the show are leaving the streaming service on December 31.” Read more at Thrillist. Check out five strangely relevant tips from World War I to help you celebrate Thanksgiving this year....

“These eyes have seen a sight I never thought I’d see: a trailer for Avatar 2. After over a decade of development and production, writer-director James Cameron finally debuted the teaser trailer for his long-awaited, highly anticipated sequel at CinemaCon in Las Vegas. And while you can’t see it just yet, you’ll see it soon. Here’s what you need to know.” Read more at Gizmodo Win Tickets to see Life of Pi in the West End!...

“Each day brings us closer and closer to the release of Stranger Things Season4. In case you’ve been living in the Upside Down and missed the announcement earlier this spring, the fourth season will be broken up into two parts, making it the biggest and boldest installment of the series yet. Volume 1 makes its debut on May 27, with Volume 2 following on July 1.” Read more at Tudum The last few days have been a wild ride for Doctor Who fans, with famed British actor Hugh Grant rumored to be taking over the role....

“Keanu Reeves has been a constant dream casting choice for many of our favorite heroes in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. He is constantly on the tip of our tongues when we’re suggesting who he could play, and apparently, the star of The Matrix Resurrections has met with Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige, and the two are working on finding something that works for both the MCU as a whole and Reeves....