DESPITE SOME B-grade acting and melodramatic character back stories which do not inspire me to take their emotional depths seriously …
Technology, Entertainment, Design: SyFy’s Helix

Weekly rundowns on the latest science fiction television series by Sherryl Vint
DESPITE SOME B-grade acting and melodramatic character back stories which do not inspire me to take their emotional depths seriously …
In 1982, cultural critic Fredric Jameson published “Progress verses Utopia: or, Can We Imagine the Future” which argued against the …
THE BIG NEWS in sf television this week is the premiere of SyFy’s Helix, from producer Ronald Moore whose reboot …
THERE IS NO QUESTION that two of the dominant forces in genre television right now are J.J. Abrams and Joss …
By Jonathan Alexander I’LL BEGIN WITH A DISCLAIMER: as much as I love SF, time-travel stories are my least favorite. …
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. …
THE TERM TVIII has been used in television studies to describe the state of television in the 21st century. This …
SCIENCE FICTION television this season continues to work through the anxieties of our contemporary moment in coded ways, from Revolution’s …
by Jonathan Alexander ONE OF THE PLEASURES of TV these days is the Netflixable delight of watching entire seasons in …
TELEVISION IS A PLACE where we work through our cultural anxieties and project idealized versions of our selves. Even if …