You’ve Never Met a Hitman Quite Like FX’s Mr Inbetween

This September, IGN is highlighting the best TV coming your way in the 2018-2019 season. Today, we’re delving into the Australian criminal underworld with FX’s Mr Inbetween, a dark comedy created by writer-star Scott Ryan and directed by Nash Edgerton. Here’s how FX describes it: “Juggling a new relationship, parental responsibilities, friendship, and a sick brother while earning a living would be difficult for anyone, but it’s particularly difficult when you’re a hitman. Ray Shoesmith ‘takes care of people’ — often on a permanent basis. Ray demands respect and does not tolerate anyone who doesn’t live up to his very strong and very clear code of ethics. The few he trusts — daughter Brittany (Chika Yasumura), brother Bruce (Nicholas Cassim), and best friend Gary (Justin Rosniak) — he’ll do anything for, so when Gary is set up by his own brother-in-law, Ray rips the lid off a Pandora’s box of inter-gang conflict and personal retributions. As a series of very unfortunate, very bloody, and darkly funny events play out, the bodies pile up, and Ray must avoid being one of them.”

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Making a Murderer Season 2 Finally Gets a Netflix Release Date

Netflix’s wildly popular Making a Murderer documentary series is returning for a second season on Oct. 19.

Filmmakers Laura Ricciardi and Moira Demos, who won multiple Emmy Awards for the show’s first season, went back to the Midwest to interview Steven Avery and co-defendant and nephew Brendan Dassey, the supposed crimes and ensuing prosecutions and convictions of whom were the focal points of Season 1.

Season 2 will spend 10 episodes showing audiences the postconviction process and its effects on those involved.

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Mark of the Ninja: Remastered Gets Switch Release Date

Klei Entertainment will release Mark of the Ninja: Remastered for Switch on Oct. 9, the studio announced Tuesday.

The remastered version features upgraded visuals, audio, cutscenes and effects over the original 2012 release. Klei’s also added an entirely new story level, a new character, additional items and developer commentary to the remaster.

Mark of the Ninja: Remastered was originally announced at Game Developers Conference in March and was initially given an autumn 2018 release window. Klei also plans to release it on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC but has yet to reveal release dates for those consoles.

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Telltale’s Sudden Closure Was Reportedly the Result of a Failed Round of Financing

Following the news last Friday that Telltale Games is shutting down, fans have been wondering how and why this happened so suddenly. According to a report yesterday, the culprit is a failed round of funding that Telltale’s board was counting on to keep it above water.

“The company was working diligently to close a round of financing,” Telltale co-founder Dan Connors told Variety. “Unfortunately, when the last potential financial backer abruptly pulled out, we were left in a position where we had no choice but to stop production. Sadly, everyone was so focused on doing what was required to keep the company going that when the last potential partner backed out, there were no other options.”

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