The Orville is full of charmingly flawed but good people in an optimistic, Roddenberryesque future.

This isn’t about “arc” vs. “stand-alone”. The title of the article nails it (even if the article itself strays): the issue is that contemporary “prestige TV” is serialized, just like Dickens novels used to be serialized in newspapers. Series like Game of Thrones are conceived, written and directed as one long, giant…

The European Refugee Crisis is a climate change catastrophe driven by long-term drought in the Middle East, Northern Africa and Southwest Asia. It’s happening right now. The migration and related phenomena could trigger nuclear conflict (Russia, Ukraine, Israel, Pakistan, India, France and G.B. are all directly or…