Despite a rocky start, Dark Matter has gotten quite good, if you can forgive some occasionally mediocre acting. In its first season I kept thinking it would have made an excellent first-run syndicated sci-fi series in the late 90s (except that it's partly serialized and that sort of thing wasn't acceptable back then)…

Killjoys is at least co-produced by Universal, a.k.a. the Comcast-NBC-Universal-Syfy blob, so it sort of is a Syfy show. Kind of.

Do not confuse this show with (almost) everything else Jay Mohr has ever said, done, or starred in. This show was amazing enough to transcend him. In fact, he's perfect for this role because you are supposed to hate him. His character is a delightfully awful, miserable scum-sucking dirtbag. It's brilliant.

I strongly suspect that the ratings for this show were entirely accurate. It was very dark, very nasty (hilariously so IMHO), and very very inside-baseball. There's no way a mass major network audience would have cared. On a business level, I have no idea what Fox was thinking here, but on an artistic level, I love…

Have you seen the ratings for CBS's summer dramas lately? This show could probably *at least* do better than Zoo and American Gothic and definitely better than BrainDead. That said, if it were to have gone anywhere on TV, it would've more likely been the CW or Showtime. The real reason it won't be on regular TV is…

Oh please, like she doesn't have enough sense not to push the button. And I do not trust any reports saying anybody here "started" that mess. Georgia and Russia were both spoiling for a fight.

If you don't want to be reduced to a gibbering wreck like me, then keep thinking those reassuring thoughts about checks and balances, and don't read this:
http://www.politico.com/mag…
"In the atomic age, when decisions must be made very quickly, the
presidency has evolved into something akin to a nuclear monarchy. With a
…

I think you're thinking of the Ancillary books by Ann Leckie. And if not, then check them out, they'd be your speed. Lots of deconstruction of the nastiness of colonial/imperial planetary annexation. There's also Blake's 7 if you want an evil Federation, though IMHO that show was a little overrated because it never…

Does this mean Wentworth Miller should stick to acting? Was the screenplay for Stoker better than this?

B-Ark? So it's got two of every breed of dog?

Is season 4 as terrible as season 3?

Oh shit, I don't know what happened there! I'd swear on the soul of my aunt's dead pet spider monkey's anus that I actually upvoted. I must have clicked it twice by accident, thus accidentally rescinding the upvote. Re-upvoted!

Upvoted for the use of "mononym."

It'll be easier to blame Drumpf when he buys this channel at the last possible moment at a pittance to make it his horrible and terrifying new TrumpNews Net (with lots o' toxic Breitbart-y content & conspiracy theories). Ugh.

John C. Reilly jumped onto a PATH train I was riding a few weeks ago in Harrison, NJ. What the fuck he was even doing in Harrison, I have no idea. Nobody films anything in NJ anymore since they stopped with the tax incentives. He was wearing slightly ragged-around-the-edges clothing. He fidgeted a lot, made some…

Finally, the Eastern Shore of Maryland gets some of that delicious peak TV attention, and it's something on Hallmark?! Ah, crap.

If you're looking for some nice drug-fueled violence and horror, Salisbury is the place for you! Well, certain parts of Salisbury anyway. Per capita, as bad or worse than Baltimore!

You've never seen this raging tire fire of a CBS procedural? Thank your lucky stars, you bastard. It's not only brain-scorchingly stupid, but also vile and ultra-sleazy, with lots of the camera implicitly whispering, "uh oh, an attractive lady is getting tortured and murdered… mmm, yeah, let's watch!" (Or at least…

I find TV show location work interesting, so I'm tempted to watch an episode of this dreck just to see how laughably badly it does making L.A. (I assume) look like various places around the world. But since it's CM and thus it probably contains lots of gross, prurient torture and murder scenes, I figure, eh, no…

Wait, how are they going to make a ride based around getting blackout drunk all the time, tripping over things and breaking your fingers, and then covering it up? That just doesn't seem very tenable.