The first Supergirl reactions are here and, honestly, we weren't expecting so many comparisons to Mad Max.

Still, you'll be pleased to know that there's plenty of positive sentiment towards the upcoming DCU movie, the first not written or directed by James Gunn.

Our own deputy entertainment editor Fay Watson was a fan of Supergirl – with plenty of praise for lead Milly Alcock. She wrote on Twitter, "Supergirl is the film I wish I'd had as a teenager who loved superhero movies. Milly Alcock is perfect, bringing humour, heart, and incredible drunk acting. Really loved Craig Gillespie's vision of this world. Mad Max vibes for sure, but #Supergirl is something all of its own."

Writer Mike Ryan stated, "SUPERGIRL is not at all what I was expecting. I, too, assumed 'superhero space movie with needle drops' would have a similar tone to GOTG or even Superman. Instead it looks and plays more like a Mad Max movie, with dirty worlds, gross villains and a self destructive hero."

ComicBook's Chris Killian also felt the Mad Max influence, writing, "If you threw GOTG, True Grit, and Mad Max into a DC blender, you’d get #Supergirl - a grimy, funny, yet surprisingly somber space adventure. Milly shines, especially when we get into Kara’s tragic backstory, but Jason Momoa is having the fraggin’ time of his life as Lobo."

CBR's Sean O'Connell was also part of the positive feeling surrounding Supergirl. He wrote, "Had a lot of fun with SUPERGIRL, which helps expand the current DC Universe by taking a hard left turn away from James Gunn's SUPERMAN and doing its own thing. Much like Tom King and Bilquis Evely's book, it's episodic, edgy and vengeful."

Others, though, weren't so keen. Mama Geeky's Tessa Smith – a self-proclaimed fan of the source material – described the spacefaring DCU adventure as a "mixed bag" and that "some adaptation choices and a bland villain keep it from greatness."

Another wrote, "Fans of the comic might be expecting a different movie, but I think audiences will heavily resonate with this regardless."

See more Supergirl reactions for yourself down below.

Supergirl flies into cinemas on June 25 in the UK and June 26 in the US.

For more, check out our complete guide to DCU Chapter One, plus a look ahead to all the upcoming DC movies currently in the works.

After 16 years of playing the fan-favorite crossbow-wielding survivor Daryl Dixon, Norman Reedus is walking away from The Walking Dead franchise after filming his final season.

On June 16, the star took to Instagram to share some behind-the-scenes snaps from The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon season 4, and said goodbye to the franchise. "I can’t wait for people to see this show," said the star. "The feeling of accomplishment when it was over was just amazing. Such hard work and so much heart put into this, I think you’re gonna feel it. It was a special season. I can’t wait for you to see it. It hits just way differently this time."

Now, we already had a feeling that Reedus would be exiting the franchise after this season. In July 2025, the Daryl Dixon spin-off was renewed for its fourth and final season. Then in November 2025, Reedus confirmed he had filmed his last scene. "Last filming day today for Daryl Dixon," said Reedus on Twitter. "It’s been such a joy for me to play this guy with all of u for this long. I feel really blessed. Truly."

However, many fans were holding out hope that the end of the spin-off wouldn't mark Dixon's last zombie venture. Even Andrew Lincoln returned as Rick Grimes in the 2024 spin-off The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live after he exited the main show early in season 9. Reedus then led the series for two more seasons. Since then, Reedus hasn't really had much of a break, so, understandably, he'd want to explore other projects.

The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon season 4 does not yet have a release date, but is expected to air sometime in 2026. The final season will conclude Daryl and Carol's (Melissa McBride) rather lengthy journey across Europe, as they try to make their way back home to America.

Next up for Reedus, the actor will star in The Black Swan writer Mark Heyman's psychological horror film Pendulum, and is set to be part of the third The Boondock Saints movie, which is currently in pre-production.

For more, check out our list of the best Walking Dead episodes, and our guide on how to watch The Walking Dead in order.

Slay the Spire 2 just released a major balance patch—and aside from forcing me into an update for my Silent Ascension 10 guide in the near future—it's delivered a whole heap of changes to the game, including one fascinating RNG bugfix discovered at the hands of a determined player.

RNG can always be a nightmare to figure out, mostly because human brains just don't perceive games of chance all that well. If you've ever missed on a 99% chance shot in XCOM, you know this feeling—a 1 in 100 chance is unlikely, but not impossible. And yet your brain tells you that some great and unforeseen injustice has visited you if it happens.

Anyway, one player spent about eight hours trying to prove they weren't crazy. User tckmn on the subreddit released a manifesto that's credited in the patch notes, an "eight-hour descent into madness", without which "we wouldn't have caught the issue."

The problem in question relates to Neow's Bones, a starting option that allows players to take on two starting relics in exchange for a curse—which could either be a non-event, giving you a curse that's just a dead card. Or you could get something like Debt, which could utterly spoil the economy of your run.

Turns out, you could tell if certain runs were more likely to give you Debt than others—specifically, if you started in the Underdocks, Neow's Curse was 54% likely to give you the Debt curse.

As the devs themselves explain it: "Most games, including STS2, use pseudo-random number generators (PRNGs). A PRNG is fed a seed value, and given the same seed value, a PRNG will always generate the same sequence of random numbers.

"Since we fed different seeds to each PRNG, we expected their results to be completely unrelated. But we were wrong, and it turns out that our strategy allowed players to predict outcomes given knowledge of unrelated parts of the game."

The issue was that the decimals which governed which Act 1 you got also happened to correlate to your Neow's Bones curse: "For example, if our act roll is >0.5 (we’re in the Underdocks), then it’s highly likely that our Neow’s Bones curse roll will be <0.5, which cuts the potential curses you can obtain in half."

But rest assured, "your suffering is now truly random!" Mega Crit's swapped to a system that's far less predictable.

The patch itself also has a ton of other changes—balance adjustments for instance, which impact the Regent most of all. It's swings and roundabouts, with some cards like Monarch's Gaze getting a bump, and others, like my darling Reflect, being nerfed slightly.

The Doormaker has also been laid low: "As we said in the patch notes of the beta patch that brought this change: while Doormaker had interesting micro decisions in the fight, he was over the complexity threshold of what we want and had lingering issues. We decided that starting over fresh will let us hit what we actually want for an Act 3 boss."

He's now been replaced by the Aeonglass, a fearsome boss that's a bit of a DPS race, pumping Wither curses into your hand that deal damage to you, ramping rapidly whenever the boss upgrades them. You can view the full patch notes on Steam.