Thanks to COVID-19, the fall TV season is in a very odd shape, but shows have continued to trickle out over the last few weeks. A lot of stuff comes from the streamers (who apparently have a healthy backlog), but even the broadcast networks are trying to stay in the game as a few shows…
Category: Sci-fi
Fall TV 2020 – Genre Series Fun!
In a normal year, I might be getting ready for the new fall TV season soon. But it’s no small understatement to say that this is not a normal year. Since all production was halted a while ago due to the ongoing pandemic, we won’t be expecting much from the networks. Streaming channels have built…
TV Universes Keep Expanding, part 2 – Marvel
Continued from part 1, about Star Trek/Star Wars Last, but far from least is the multi-billion-dollar mega-franchise of Marvel’s cinematic universe. Unlike the others, where expanding the universe means coming up with new characters and new stories (backstories) around existing characters, Marvel Comics already has a decades-long backlog of some of the most epic characters…
TV Universes Keep Expanding
One of the best things about streaming TV is that it’s giving media companies a channel to expand their cinematic universes. For us fans, it means there is no end in sight to the new shows being announced, at least for three of the biggest sci-fi properties around: Star Trek, Star Wars, and Marvel (MCU)….
What I Watched in Quarantine – 10 Shows
While it’s far from the most important problem of the current pandemic (and its accompanying prolonged global shut-down), one of the side-effects will be that pretty soon (especially by the time the fall TV season is regularly scheduled to begin) TV networks and streaming services will run out of new content. That is a trivial…
Spring TV 2020 – Amazing Stories & Tales from the Loop
While self-isolation has everyone binge-watching TV and movies to pass the time, I’ve probably been watching less than I used to. Rather than finding relief from the anxiety of the outside world, I find myself reminded of the things that we have temporarily lost. Nevertheless, even with my gloomy demeanor, I can be uplifted by…
Winter TV 2020
I keep saying that there’s so much TV I want to watch that I can’t keep up, but never has that been more true than this winter. Here’s a rundown of 15 new and returning shows that just kicked off in the last month or so. I have to be brief in my reviews of…
10 Favourite Movies of the Decade
Even though I’ve posted reviews of most of the movies that I’ve seen, it’s harder than I expected to pick my 10 favourite movies of the past decade. Keep in mind, they’re not the 10 “best” movies, since I have hardly seen even a small percentage of all the movies that came out so I…
10 Favourite TV Shows of the Decade
This past 10 years has seen a lot of change on TV. We barely still call it “TV” because it’s mostly watched via internet streaming, and on-demand. This age of “peak TV” has brought some big names (and big budgets) to the small screen, and we get to enjoy the fruits. Now that the 2010s…
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