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Science fiction. Fantasy. The universe. And related subjects.
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Welcome to THE BEST BOOKS OF 2025: REVIEWER'S CHOICE!! Reactor's book reviewers have come together to recommend their favorite 2025 reads. How many have you picked up?
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Reviewers' Choice: The Best Books of 2025 - Reactor
Reactorâs regular book reviewers talk about notable titles they read in 2025
https://reactormag.com/reviewers-choice-the-best-books-of-2025/
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Worlds Beyond Number
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Once again, honored to be included here!
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Tyler Dean
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My second article in as many weeks on
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The Best Moments of Stranger Things - Reactor
As the series comes to a close, a look back on some of the show's greatest hits.
https://reactormag.com/the-best-moments-in-stranger-things/
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Hunting for FESTIVENESS? Trying to fit an ENTIRE FIR TREE in your MOUTH? We're collecting all holiday-themed articles and reruns into one jolly tag:
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Holiday Cheer - Reactor
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There are many Brainiacs, and not all are created equally:
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Lars Eidinger Cast as Brainiac in Man of Tomorrow, But Which Version of the Villain Will the Superman Movie Use? - Reactor
There are many Brainiacs, and not all are created equally
https://reactormag.com/lars-eidinger-cast-brainiac-man-of-tomorrow-which-version/
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We asked you to vote for your favorite books, movies, TV shows, short fiction, video games, and more of 2025...and now, Reactor is excited to present the results! Congratulations to all the winners!
#booksky
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Readers Pick Their Favorite SFF of 2025 - Reactor
What an excellent year for speculative fiction â in all its many forms!
https://reactormag.com/readers-pick-their-favorite-sff-of-2025/
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Nine years. Five seasons. Tyler Dean breaks down the best moments of Stranger Things!
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The Best Moments of Stranger Things - Reactor
As the series comes to a close, a look back on some of the show's greatest hits.
https://reactormag.com/the-best-moments-in-stranger-things/
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What's the Reactor team doing over the holidays? What are YOU doing over the holidays???
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What to Watch and Read for the Rest of 2025: The Books, Movies, Games, and Shows on the Reactor Staff's Backlogs - Reactor
The holidays offer us a rare chance to watch, read, and play some of the things we've been meaning to get to
https://reactormag.com/what-to-watch-read-this-weekend-december-19-2025/
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Some polar/Arctic Horror recs to send a chill down your spine this December đ§
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Sinners! Pluribus! Ladyknight books! Matt Murdock praying to the patron saint of lawyers! Aspect ratios! Yves from LOONA! The wedding music in Andor! It's a weird, nerdy world. Here were some of our favorite examples from 2025:
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A Few Things That Brought Us Nerdy Joy in 2025 - Reactor
No matter how rotten the year is, we will still find joy in it
https://reactormag.com/a-few-things-that-brought-us-nerdy-joy-in-2025/
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Angela
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Canât believe enough people submitted my booktube channel for me to make the list! Truly made my day đ
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Here are 22 wintery book recommendations for maximizing cozy vibes:
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Cozy Up With These 22 Chilly Winter Reads - Reactor
Get a blanket and a mug of something warm, and settle in with a stack of wintry books...
https://reactormag.com/cozy-up-with-these-22-chilly-winter-reads/
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Emma Newman
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Absolutely tickled pink to see Starship Alexandria as one of the winners! Thank you so much to those who voted for the show. I am having so much fun making it with
@aptshadow.bsky.social
! A lovely surprise in the last days of a very tough year x
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We asked you to vote for your favorite books, movies, TV shows, short fiction, video games, and more of 2025...and now, Reactor is excited to present the results! Congratulations to all the winners!
#booksky
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Readers Pick Their Favorite SFF of 2025 - Reactor
What an excellent year for speculative fiction â in all its many forms!
https://reactormag.com/readers-pick-their-favorite-sff-of-2025/
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ionomycin
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The Marvel Cinematic Universe wants to know if we remember this guy? We all like this guy right? We'll promise go to the theaters and see a movie if he's there right?
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Steve Rogers Will Be Daddy in Avengers: Doomsday - Reactor
You can see him yourself in the Avengers: Doomsday trailer if you get to your screening of Avatar: Fire and Ash a bit early...
https://reactormag.com/steve-rogers-in-avengers-doomsday-trailer/
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Round out your end of the year with some excellent short fiction curated by
@bookjockeyalex.bsky.social
, including gardeners on Mars and demonic serial killers:
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Must Read Short Speculative Fiction: November 2025 - Reactor
Add some of the best new short fiction stories to your end of year reading lists!
https://reactormag.com/must-read-short-speculative-fiction-november-2025/
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Molly Templeton
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tbh my favorite moment in mainstream media this whole year is still yelena belova forgiving herself đ
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@mollytempleton.com
addresses the most difficult question for The Holiday Season: How do you buy books for other people??
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The Art of Buying Books for Other People - Reactor
What books will you gift to your loved ones?
https://reactormag.com/the-art-of-buying-books-for-other-people/
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We're excited to share Reactor Original Short Fiction Highlights 2025!! This free bundle (available in PDF/EPUB) gathers a few of our excellent short stories from the year into one place, including works by
@wenyilee.bsky.social
,
@lateonsetgirl.bsky.social
,
@tadethompson.bsky.social
, &
@isabel.kim
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Download Reactor Original Short Fiction Highlights 2025! - Reactor
Were you intimidated by our impressive list of All of Reactorâs Short Fiction in 2025? Do you want to dive in, but donât know where to begin? Try our new short fiction bundle! Our new bundle, Reactor ...
https://reactormag.com/download-short-fiction-highlights-2025/
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Leah Schnelbach
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Every year, no matter how bad the year, we at Reactor find at least a little joy, and then it's a joy to share it with all of y'all. Joyception!
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Christina Orlando
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this is my favorite thing we do every year - nerdy joy is so precious to me. this year i went off about: -
@dimension20.bsky.social
live at MSG!!! - the kpop demon hunter girls finding success after years of shitty idol training! - and of course, CANADIAN GOVERNMENT FUNDED HOCKEY GAYS!!!!!
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Sinners! Pluribus! Ladyknight books! Matt Murdock praying to the patron saint of lawyers! Aspect ratios! Yves from LOONA! The wedding music in Andor! It's a weird, nerdy world. Here were some of our favorite examples from 2025:
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A Few Things That Brought Us Nerdy Joy in 2025 - Reactor
No matter how rotten the year is, we will still find joy in it
https://reactormag.com/a-few-things-that-brought-us-nerdy-joy-in-2025/
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The Younger Russell to continue the family tradition, starring in a show about unknowable Creatures and Cold War tensions:
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Monarch: Legacy of Monsters Enters the Cold War With New Lee Shaw Prequel Series - Reactor
Sadly, economic cutbacks will seemingly reduce the series to one Russell
https://reactormag.com/monarch-legacy-of-monsters-cold-war-lee-shaw-prequel-series/
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From Bloody Mary to "there was a hook on the handle of the door!", urban legends carve out permanent space in our collective psyche. Here are five short horror stories that capture the feeling of classic urban legends đ»
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Five Scary Short Stories That Read Like Urban Legends - Reactor
When dark rumors, local legends, and disturbing memes suddenly become all too real...
https://reactormag.com/five-scary-short-stories-that-read-like-urban-legends/
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"Here, the humans cause the haunting. The objects hold the memory."
@mollytempleton.com
reviews Midnight Timetable, Bora Chung's new short story collection about a research center for haunted objects:
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Ghosts in the After Hours: Bora Chung's Midnight Timetable - Reactor
What becomes of an object thatâs held a story for someone? Molly Templeton reviews Bora Chung's new "novel in short stories."
https://reactormag.com/book-review-midnight-timetable-by-bora-chung/
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Join us for the last Martha Wells Book Club of the year!
@bookjockeyalex.bsky.social
takes us through Network Effect, the fifth entry and first full-length novel in the Murderbot series. Hope you're ready for a lot of corpses?
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Martha Wells Book Club: Network Effect - Reactor
Murderbotâs two friend groups collide over wormholes and alien remnants...
https://reactormag.com/martha-wells-book-club-network-effect/
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Celebrate the 550th entry of Reading the Weird by WATCHING the Weird instead, by which we mean a deep dive into season two, episode two of American Horror Story: "Aura"
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That Knock Could Be a Homicidal Maniac: American Horror Storiesâ âAuraâ - Reactor
Surveillance technology gets *even more* sinister...
https://reactormag.com/that-knock-could-be-a-homicidal-maniac-american-horror-stories-aura/
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sanctimonious bikehole
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the annual tordotcom / now reactormag original story collections are one of my fave things to read in the new year! and it's FREE!!
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You are traveling through another dimension, a dimension not only of sight and sound but of mind. It is a dimension as vast as space and as timeless as infinity... It is an area which we call the Twilight Zone Christmas Episodes:
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Good People Also Get What's Coming to Them: Revisiting The Twilight Zoneâs Christmas Episodes - Reactor
The Twilight Zone's Christmas episodes may seem like anomalies, but they get to the heart of the sci-fi series
https://reactormag.com/revisiting-the-twilight-zone-christmas-episodes/
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wen-yi lee
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this fantasy dark academia story is one of my favourites i've ever written and you can read it here with a lot of other writers i love!!
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Ilana Masad
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Thrilled to see what is probably my favorite piece of writing this year (other than my novel) on his lovely list:
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1964's "Santa Claus Conquers the Martians" is an incredibly stupid, delightful movie. Join the Sci Fi Film Club as we discuss murderous Martian hijinks, misfit toys, and Santa's enthusiasm for child labor! đ
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Santa Claus Conquers the Martians: This Terrible Movie Is Actually Amazing - Reactor
Hands down the greatest movie ever made about Martians kidnapping Santa.
https://reactormag.com/santa-claus-conquers-the-martians-this-terrible-movie-is-actually-amazing/
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Jenny Hamilton
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delighted to see my article on TV's Angel and its weird, weird, weird relationship with sex on this list!
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Christina Orlando
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ALL HITS NO SKIPS
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Okay yes we love books at Reactor but we ALSO love movies, TV, and witches. Here are some of our favorite nonfiction articles from 2025, featuring David Lynch, folk horror, Kpop Demon Hunters, and Master & Commander:
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Some of Reactorâs Best Articles About TV, Movies, and Pop Culture in 2025 - Reactor
We're looking back at some of our favorite non-fiction articles from the past year, highlighting essays focused on visual media.
https://reactormag.com/some-of-reactors-best-articles-about-tv-movies-and-pop-culture-in-2025/
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We're excited to share Reactor Original Short Fiction Highlights 2025!! This free bundle (available in PDF/EPUB) gathers a few of our excellent short stories from the year into one place, including works by
@wenyilee.bsky.social
,
@lateonsetgirl.bsky.social
,
@tadethompson.bsky.social
, &
@isabel.kim
!
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Download Reactor Original Short Fiction Highlights 2025! - Reactor
Were you intimidated by our impressive list of All of Reactorâs Short Fiction in 2025? Do you want to dive in, but donât know where to begin? Try our new short fiction bundle! Our new bundle, Reactor ...
https://reactormag.com/download-short-fiction-highlights-2025/
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"I missed this book when I finished it." Maura Krause reviews Caskey Russell's The Door on the Sea, a Tlingit response to Tolkien within the classic quest narrative of The Hobbit:
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An Epic Beginning: The Door on the Sea by Caskey Russell - Reactor
An unexpected hero and a foulmouthed raven star in this Tlingit indigenous response to The Lord of the Rings.
https://reactormag.com/book-review-the-door-on-the-sea-by-caskey-russell/
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Who would pass up a chance to talk with your favorite animals and find out what they really think? What could go wrong?!
@jdnicoll.bsky.social
on five books in which humans and animals can communicate with one another!
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Five Books About Conversing With Animals - Reactor
How great would it be to talk with animals, through magic or technology or⊠whatever?
https://reactormag.com/five-books-about-conversing-with-animals/
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"Is a River Alive?" is a gorgeous, thought-provoking exploration of the Rights of Nature movement framed around trips to three threatened rivers, as well as a rich potential source for speculative ideas and discussion
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From Cloud Forests to Toxic Trampolines: Robert Macfarlaneâs Is A River Alive? - Reactor
What does it mean, and how does the world change, if we see rivers as living entities?
https://reactormag.com/from-cloud-forests-to-toxic-trampolines-robert-macfarlanes-is-a-river-alive/
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Who's doing the deep dive into why all the alien languages are clicky now??!?
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Emily Blunt Might Be an Alien in the Trailer for Steven Spielberg's Disclosure Day - Reactor
Who's doing the deep dive into why all the alien languages are clicky now??!?
https://reactormag.com/steven-spielberg-disclosure-day-teaser/
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Emmet Asher-Perrin
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Look, I made a joke about it before, but I'm back with receipts this time, and my logic is unassailable...
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What if The Muppets Christmas Carol is about something else:
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The Secret Weirdo Underbelly of The Muppet Christmas Carol - Reactor
Holiday fun, or a roleplay gone wrong? You decide!
https://reactormag.com/the-secret-weirdo-underbelly-of-the-muppet-christmas-carol/
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Approximately THREE HUNDRED (300)! new sci-fi, fantasy, and horror young adult books came out this year. Thankfully,
@bookjockeyalex.bsky.social
is here to tell us the top 30!
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Notable Young Adult Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror of 2025 - Reactor
Check out 30 of the best young adult titles of the year
https://reactormag.com/notable-young-adult-science-fiction-fantasy-and-horror-of-2025/
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Reactor is proud to continue our history of genre-focused literary criticism. Here's some of our favorite essays on reading, writing, and fiction from the year:
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Some of Reactorâs Best Articles About Fiction, Reading, and Writing in 2025 - Reactor
We're looking back at some of our favorite non-fiction articles from the past year, highlighting book-centric essays.
https://reactormag.com/some-of-reactors-best-articles-about-fiction-reading-and-writing-in-2025/
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Violet Thistlewaite is turning her life around. She's retiring from the Thornwitch, assistant to a dark lord, and settling down to a cute little shop with absolutely NO destruction. Or so she hopes.
@readingtheend.bsky.social
reviews how that goes...
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Redemption and Romance in Violet Thistlewaite Is Not a Villain Anymore by Emily Krempholtz - Reactor
Jenny Hamilton reviews a warm, compassionate cozy fantasy debut.
https://reactormag.com/book-review-violet-thistlewaite-is-not-a-villain-anymore-by-emily-krempholtz/
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"The central mystery of Dust Bunny on its face would seem to be: Is the monster real or a metaphor for one little girlâs trauma? And because itâs Bryan Fuller, that question will not be answered the way you expect."
@use-theforce-em.bsky.social
reviews Bryan Fuller's first movie!
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Dust Bunny Will Have You Demanding That Bryan Fuller Make More Movies - Reactor
Monsters-as-metaphor is a tactic Fuller knows all too well â and he will not be playing by âthe rules.â
https://reactormag.com/dust-bunny-will-have-you-demanding-that-bryan-fuller-make-more-movies/
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The season finale of IT: Welcome to Derry smashes ghosts, a funeral, and a terrifying school assembly together while ALSO addressing what didn't work about IT: Chapter II. Take my hand. Float with me towards the review:
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IT: Welcome to Derryâs Season Finale Is Chaotic, But Mostly Satisfying - Reactor
Plus there's an appearance by a Very Special Ghost.
https://reactormag.com/tv-review-it-welcome-to-derry-episode-eight-season-finale/
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Vanessa Armstrong
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Had a great time interviewing Pluribus costume designer Jennifer Bryan! Some fun details below...
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The trailer for Hokum puts Adam Scott into witchy situations and predicaments:
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Adam Scott Is on a Terrible Irish Vacation in the Teaser Trailer for Hokum - Reactor
Ding, dong, there's a witch and she's definitely not entirely dead
https://reactormag.com/hokum-teaser-trailer-adam-scott/
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