Take the Black: Dune: Part Two and Shōgun are fantastic, Avatar remake is meh

We give you our early review of Dune: Part Two, celebrate Shōgun, feel disappointed by Avatar: The Last Airbender, and narrow down the release date for Avatar: The Last Airbender.

By Dan Selcke | Feb 29, 2024

(L-r) ZENDAYA as Chani and TIMOTHÉE CHALAMET as Paul Atreides. in Warner Bros. Pictures and Legendary Pictures’ action adventure “DUNE: PART TWO,” a Warner Bros. Pictures release. Photo Credit: Courtesy Warner Bros. Pictures © 2023 Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. All Rights Reserved. /

We have a full plate this week on Take the Black, our weekly chat show about all things fantasy, sci-fi, movies and TV. Let's dig in

We kick off the show with some new news about the release for House of the Dragon season 2, which we've narrowed down to just a few days in June. We'll see if our guess is borne out. From there, we have an early review of Dune: Part Two, which opens this weekend! I really enjoyed it. Meanwhile, Daniel really loved Shōgun, a new show on FX and Hulu. And we're both pretty lukewarm on Netflix's new remake of Avatar: The Last Airbender. Watch the full show below!

And as always, we run through a list of smaller stories at the end of the episode and give our 20-second opinions on them. It's the WiC News Lightning Round, and it's breathlessly exciting.

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