THE LAST OF THIS YEAR’S new science fiction programs, Fox’s Almost Human, debuted this week, a co-creation of J.H. Wyman and J.J. …
Robot Revolutions: “Almost Human”
Recap
Trust Fumes: Staying With Homeland
SPOILERS AHEAD FOR ALL SORTS OF STUFF… Dear Television, THIS WEEK, AHP and I will be talking about the virtues …
Steampunk Dracula
SCIENCE FICTION television this season continues to work through the anxieties of our contemporary moment in coded ways, from Revolution’s …
The Fastest Show on TV: On The Good Wife
A COUPLE WEEKS AGO, in this very column, I made an off-hand claim that The Good Wife is “the best …
You Won’t Read This Review of “Masters of Sex”: The Problem of Episodic Criticism
I WANT TO TALK with you about Masters of Sex. I want to talk about Michael Sheen’s acting, Lizzy Caplan’s …
Sex and the Slightly Unreliable Narrator
Dear TV, I’D HOPED Masters of Sex would resist following Mad Men down the sepia brick road to the land of overburdened …
The Exquisite Repulsion of “American Horror Story”: An Essay on Abjection
Dear Television, An African-American albino. A 200 year old woman who looks 45. A vagina that destroys all that enters …
Men Behaving Badly: White Masculinity in Science Fiction Television
TELEVISION IS A PLACE where we work through our cultural anxieties and project idealized versions of our selves. Even if …
Return of the Living Series: Season Premieres
IN RECENT DISCUSSIONS among scholars of speculative fictions, the science fictionalization of contemporary life is a frequent point of reference. …
Science Fiction Television: Still Lost in Space?
WE LIVE IN A GOLDEN AGE of television, as the recent Emmy Awards broadcast never failed to remind us. Although …
