Science-Fiction

Episode 2 of What If…? Season 3, “What If… Agatha Went to Hollywood?”, reinvigorates that godforsaken movie and some of its concepts by pairing Agatha Harkness – very much Marvel’s flavor of the month after Agatha All Along – with Kumail Nanjiani’s Kingo.

Everything that happens in Episode 6, “The High-Handed Enemy”, is in service to the kind of big-picture multi-season storytelling that HBO was doubtlessly looking for in a Duniverse project.

What if… the MCU had a baby with Godzilla and the Power Rangers? I have no idea how that would work genetically speaking, but the offspring would probably look a lot like the Season 3 premiere of Marvel’s What If…?

In many ways, this double-bill is a two-part lesson in why you shouldn’t see the best in people, which is the mistake that all of the survivors in this show have been getting away with constantly.

Now this is more like it. I was worried about Creature Commandos, I must admit, especially after it got so bogged down in simplistic political...

Mayor Holland’s grip on Silo 18 continues to slip in Episode 6 of Season 2, which is imaginatively titled “Barricades” and finds Mechanical rising up...

Episode 4 seems a little early for a show like Skeleton Crew to be resorting to filler, but “Can’t Say I Remember No At Attin” does feel a bit like that.

It’s fair to say that Dune: Prophecy hasn’t exactly resonated with viewers the way HBO probably wanted.

Episode 3, “World Without End”, moves the timeline further along and introduces a few new characters, but things still seem to be going too right too often for any real edge to take root in the setting.

I still like Creature Commandos, and I still think it has a lot of potential, but Episode 3 made me wonder if the concept was...

By the high standards already set by Silo Season 2, “Descent” is comparatively slow-paced. But don’t mistake Episode 5 for filler, since it’s anything but....

I have no idea where or how Skeleton Crew fits into the wider Star Wars mythos, and I think that’s probably a good thing. I...

Amazon’s anthological series Secret Level is pretty unprecedented as far as such things go – a collection of animated video-game-inspired short films released in two...

Dune: Prophecy is a lot better when Desmond Hart is around, isn’t it? I suggested that in my recap of the previous episode, which brushed...

The premiere of Earth Abides was, in a word, bleak. And that set my expectations for Episode 2, “The Space Between”, which to be fair...

In most shows, Rebecca Ferguson doing an extended high-pressure underwater sequence like it’s Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation all over again would be the standout...

Welcome, says the two-part premiere of Creature Commandos, to the new DC Universe. Well, new-ish, I suppose. Episodes 1 and 2 of Max’s adult animated...

Thailand’s Black Mirror equivalent Tomorrow and I blesses Netflix with four – albeit almost feature-length – episodes of speculative science-fiction. They’re all separate stories in...

The debut of any Star Wars project is fraught with peril these days since The Discourse™ is inevitable and certain to be embarrassing. I can’t...

It had to happen eventually, and it finally does here in Season 1, Episode 3 – Dune: Prophecy shows some weakness in its storytelling. The...