Our thoughts on TV shows
While The Expanse doesn’t have quite enough women to pass the Bechdel Test every episode, the occasions where two women have been speaking, they usually aren’t talking about a guy (I’ll give a pass for Season 1’s conversation between Holden’s momRead more…
I’ll admit, when I first started watching Incorporated on SyFy, I didn’t expect to really like the female characters. Allison Miller’s Laura Larson, wife of the main character and daughter of the other main character, seemed timid and to tooRead more…
Some of the strongest characters on television today are women. And they’re in science fiction shows. Perhaps no show embodies this more than 12 Monkeys. I am a huge fan of the original Terry Gilliam film and was extremely skepticalRead more…
When “12 Monkeys” came out in 1995, Brad Pitt was a rising superstar and Bruce Willis was no longer a superstar, but was on the comeback trail. And Terry Gilliam fans flocked to the movies to see his latest mind-twistingRead more…
In going back to the past to change it, are we simply creating the future we live in or a completely new future that does not negate the present we live in? Or something like that. What I love aboutRead more…
Once in a while, there’s a show I watch where I can’t be online when it’s on. I don’t want to miss anything; I want to concentrate. Lost, unsurprisingly, is chief among those shows. Battlestar Galactica was another. Fringe almostRead more…
As it is with every year, a whole bunch of science fiction-y shows were canceled at the end of the season, but I have to give it to the networks for trying a bunch of new ones next year. ItRead more…