WiC Weekly: January 5-11, 2025

We have an early review of Severance season 2, fantasy/sci-fi book recommendations to kick off the new year, a new movie based on a book by George R.R. Martin (not that one), and more!

House of the Dragon season 2
House of the Dragon season 2

It's the first full week of 2025, and you know what that means: the same thing it means every week. It's time for WiC Weekly, where we go over the biggest and best stories we featured in this corner of the internet over the past seven days.

Let's start with a recap of the 82nd Golden Globes, where House of the Dragon star Emma D'Arcy didn't win any hardware but did look fantastic not doing it:

Speaking of deserving actors who nevertheless never won Golden Globe awards, Sarah Michelle Gellar talks about the possiblity of a Buffy the Vampire Slayer revival:

The second season of Severance is coming to Apple TV+ in just a few days! We have an early review:

Two decades later, we're still getting new information about the Star Wars prequel trilogy:

George R.R. Martin doesn't seem any closer to finishing work on The Winds of Winter, but another one of his short stories is getting the big screen treatment:

Sticking with all things Westeros, Emma D'Arcy teases a potentially combustible dynamic between Rhaenrya and Daemon Targaryen in the upcoming third season of House of the Dragon:

We have yet to get a Game of Thrones video game that becomes a huge hit. Maybe this will be the one?

One more Game of Thrones thing before we move on: it looks like Rory MaCann, aka the Hound, will be swinging around a lightsaber in the second season of Star Wars: Ahsoka:

The fifth and final season of Stranger Things is coming this year! What fresh dangers await our heroes?

Finally, we have a bunch of a great new book recommendations to kick off the year:

We'll be back every Sunday of every week of the year to do this again! And while you're waiting, why not check out some of our other stories?

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