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Review of 'The Orville' 2.11
2 days ago
A real diamond of an episode—2.11—of The Orville last night, right up there with the best time travel stories of Star Trek: TOS and TNG.
Well, it's not actually time-travel, it's a time capsule that s...
Review of 'Project Blue Book' Season 1 Finale
11 days ago
Well, Project Blue Book ended its first season last night pretty much the way it's been all season long: intriguing, worth watching, but still not getting beyond its cheesy pulp, though some of that w...
Review of 'The Case Against Adnan Syed' 1
14 days ago
The Case Against Adnan Syed debuted last night on HB0, the first in a four-episode documentary about the murder of Hae Min Lee on January 13, 1999, for which Syed was convicted. The podcast Serial in ...
Review of 'The Orville' 2.10
16 days ago
Well, critics are waking up, after the two-part episode last week and the week before, about how good and important The Orville is. Will Harris of The Verge observed that "With the two-part episode 'I...
Review of 'Project Blue Book' 1.9
18 days ago
Well, the shiny round object in Project Blue Book 1.9 wasn't in the sky, or even on the ground. It was in Barney's neck, and was evidence that he had been abducted by extraterrestrials.
In what passes...
Why Time Travel Is so Enjoyable
20 days ago
A little talk I gave at an academic conference this past Fall, fleshing out the very first essay I had published here in Futurism.