Blooper reels, once common in comedy films, are fading from cinema partly due to the rise of dramatic post-credit epilogues and the shift from DVDs to streaming platforms, experts say.
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Brittney Melton,
NPR,
30 Mar. 2026
Television would seem to be a medium well suited to epilogues.
Parents are choosing names with softer sounds and vowel endings such as Alonso, Ilyas, Amos, and Lennon for boys, and Rhea, Rosalina, Aura, Ines, and Zeina for girls.
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Saman Shafiq,
USA Today,
9 June 2026
The end of Dexter is so widely hated that it’s considered by many to be among the worst TV show endings ever.
—
Brianna Zigler,
Entertainment Weekly,
9 June 2026
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