The ‘Hrm. Maybe?’ THE WOODS ARE REAL trailer.

I was as skeptical as the rest of you would be about a movie described as “a folk horror twist on the story of Job”, but THE WOODS ARE REAL looks like it might have a vibe to it. The film at least gets points for picking for their protagonists a trendily good-works couple who are more than a little smug about it. Presumably they won’t quite break under the stress testing, but who knows? These days, if you really want to be transgressive in your art then there’s nothing better than unironic bourgeois morality.

Season two of HOMEBREW MERP/ROLEMASTER: LET’S PLAY to be the wrong kind of ‘edgier.’

And by ‘wrong’ I mean the new season of RINGS OF POWER probably won’t be particularly more salacious: “What I know and what I can say for a fact is that it’s going to be darker, and it’s going to be edgier and more character-driven.” I mean, if you’re going to go off the rails and do a GM homebrew version of the Second Age, you might as well tart it up more.

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