THE BIG NEWS in sf television this week is the premiere of SyFy’s Helix, from producer Ronald Moore whose reboot …
The New Posthuman: SyFy’s Helix
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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. …
In Praise of Quitting
Dear Television, I’VE QUIT ONE JOB, I’ve quit two sports, I quit one (very ill-advised) diet. I finish all my …
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 …
