• 20 Minutes into the Future

    Weekly rundowns on the latest science fiction television series by Sherryl Vint

    Technology, Entertainment, Design: SyFy’s Helix

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

    The Future, As Seen on TV

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    In 1982, cultural critic Fredric Jameson published “Progress verses Utopia: or, Can We Imagine the Future” which argued against the …

    The New Posthuman: SyFy’s Helix

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

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

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    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

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

    Robot Revolutions: “Almost Human”

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    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. …

    Superheroes and TV IV: Possibilities and pitfalls of contemporary television

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    THE TERM TVIII has been used in television studies to describe the state of television in the 21st century. This …

    Steampunk Dracula

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    SCIENCE FICTION television this season continues to work through the anxieties of our contemporary moment in coded ways, from Revolution’s …

    One Season Wonders: “Outcasts” and “Terra Nova”

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    by Jonathan Alexander ONE OF THE PLEASURES of TV these days is the Netflixable delight of watching entire seasons in …

    Men Behaving Badly: White Masculinity in Science Fiction Television

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    TELEVISION IS A PLACE where we work through our cultural anxieties and project idealized versions of our selves. Even if …