• Cookie on My Mind

    By Magdalena Edwards It’s Wednesday again and I miss Cookie. I know I’m not the only one, given how Fox’s …

    Technology, Entertainment, Design: SyFy’s Helix

    DESPITE SOME B-grade acting and melodramatic character back stories which do not inspire me to take their emotional depths seriously …

    The New Posthuman: SyFy’s Helix

    THE BIG NEWS in sf television this week is the premiere of SyFy’s Helix, from producer Ronald Moore whose reboot …

    Best Television GIFS of 2013

    Phil: Mad Men  I WON’T BELABOR this, because DearTV covered it at length in the spring, but this was a …

    Year-End Free Skate: Best Endings, Worst Ending, Best Episode

    PHIL: Best Episode Ending (Also, Best Musical Cue, Best Shocking Violence) Game of Thrones S3.E3 Spoilers, okay? I DON’T KNOW if …

    The Year in Television: Favorite Performance

    Phil: KRISTEN SCHAAL as LOUISE in BOB’S BURGERS SO, HERE BEGINS our round-robin discussion of the year in television. Today we …

    Who would win in a fight between Bad Robot and Mutant Enemy?

    THERE IS NO QUESTION that two of the dominant forces in genre television right now are J.J. Abrams and Joss …

    Back to the Present of the Future: Continuum and the War on Terror

    By Jonathan Alexander I’LL BEGIN WITH A DISCLAIMER: as much as I love SF, time-travel stories are my least favorite.  …

    Good, Giving, and Game: Towards a Theory of SNL Hosting

    Dear Television, WHEN PHIL FIRST emailed to ask if we wanted to cover this week’s Saturday Night Live, he was …

    Robot Revolutions: “Almost Human”

    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. …