Browsing: SciFi

While it might sometimes feel like there’s “nothing to watch” on television, the truth is that there are some genuinely great series out there for fans to check out. This is especially true when it comes to genre series, like sci-fi and horror. The issue, however, is that some of the best programs end up…

Every TV fan knows the pain of a too-early cancellation. It’s heartbreaking to know that characters we’ve come to know and love will never get the closure they deserve, or that we’ll never truly get to experience the full scope of the writers’ vision.

If shows like “Firefly” taught TV fans anything, it’s that great sci-fi doesn’t always get the runway it deserves. A show can launch with Ridley Scott behind the camera or millions of viewers on its first night, go on to win an Emmy, and still leave the public conversation. That’s what happened to the shows on…

Over the years, Netflix has proven itself to be a force when it comes to original television series. They have put out some of the biggest, most popular, and most acclaimed shows in recent memory, ranging from Stranger Things to Wednesday to Squid Game. These are projects that people talk about extensively during the long…

Many times, a TV show announcement that’s based on a popular movie sounds like a studio trying to squeeze every last ounce of life out of an intellectual property. So many ideas work better as a two-hour film rather than stretched across 10 to 15 episodes. The fact that the top 10 worst TV shows…

There are so many problems with streaming media, but a big one is that each of these companies is hellbent on creating new movies and shows to fill out their library of licensable titles. There’s a lot that’s worth watching, but there’s nowhere near enough time to watch these worthy works. As a result, great…

In the early and mid-aughts, Peter Krause was a particularly hot property on television, mainly due to his greatest role in Alan Ball’s family drama masterpiece, “Six Feet Under.” Once the HBO show ended in 2005 after five seasons, Krause was immediately cast in the lead role of “Civic Duty,” a conspiracy thriller that flopped…

If you want a taste of what’s coming in director Denis Villeneuve’s third and final Dune film, you need to read Frank Herbert’s 1969 novel, Dune Messiah. Luckily, there’s a new option for interested Dune fans, as Abrams ComicArts is continuing its line of Dune graphic novels with the first of two Dune Messiah adaptations.

A Steven Spielberg and Michael Bay project just made a major pivot. The long-delayed adaptation of Robopocalypse is finally moving forward with some big names attached.

Harlan Ellison is one of the defining science fiction writers of the 20th Century, and one of the lights on the fuse of his imagination was the comic books he read as a child. He never outgrew them, either, maintaining a huge archive of his comic collection well into adulthood that he called the “living…