Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 107, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you’re new here, welcome, hope you’re having a lovely and long weekend, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.) This week, I’ve been reading about Faker and Chinese EVs and […]
The holidays are a great time to see family, exchange gifts, and enjoy a good meal. It’s also the perfect time to gather around a TV and catch up on must-see shows and movies. Vince Gilligan’s Pluribus is a fantastic new sci-fi series, while Hulu is the only place you can catch the buzzy Alien: […]
After the last two episodes of Pluribus – in which Carol (Rhea Seehorn) was involved with an exploding hand grenade and an ill-advised truth serum – I couldn’t help but wonder just how long the hive mind would tolerate her destructive ways. Well, here we are in episode 5, and I have an answer. “We […]
It has been a decade since the Stranger Things phenomenon began, and the Duffer brothers had had ample time to craft a strong finish to their breakout hit series. But the beginning of the show’s fifth and final season feels like a frantic race to the end. While Stranger Things wasn’t Netflix’s first breakout hit, […]
Apple TV removed The Hunt from its streaming slate last week after concerns were raised about plagiarism. The move, previously reported by Apple Insider, comes after French media journalist Clément Garin claimed that the story closely follows Shoot, a 1974 novel written by Douglas Fairbairn. The Hunt was originally supposed to premiere on Apple TV […]
A decade after it first premiered, Netflix’s most impactful show is coming to an end. The fifth and final season of Stranger Things is being split apart into a three-part event that spans multiple holidays: it premieres on November 26th, with a second batch of episodes on Christmas, followed by the final episode on December […]
In case you missed it, Paramount Plus is raising prices by $1 a month starting on January 15th, 2026, taking the ad-supported Essential plan from $7.99 to $8.99 and the ad-free Premium plan from $12.99 to $13.99. Thankfully, Paramount’s Black Friday promo has arrived just in time to (somewhat) soften the blow. Now through December […]
When Stranger Things first premiered in 2016, Netflix was still courting new subscribers with splashy original projects that were meant to have broad audience appeal. The company had solidified itself as a major player in the streaming wars with massive hits like House of Cards, Orange Is the New Black, and a collection of live-action […]
Three movies in, Knives Out is really showing its range. After starting out with a mystery on a cozy New England estate, followed by a sequel set on a Greek island owned by an Elon Musk-style tech bro, the series gets much darker with Wake Up Dead Man. This time, director Rian Johnson crafted a […]
The first Chinese-made car Omar Rana ever drove was a gas-powered SUV that he rented while on a trip overseas in 2015. To say it didn’t leave much of an impression would be an understatement. “It sucked really bad,” Rana, aka OmarDrives, tells me. “A horrible experience.” Flash forward nearly a decade to last year, […]