Review by guest contributor Sammi Freund. On a niche retro television message board, a user brings up a long forgotten show from their childhood local TV station. As more users remember and bring forth memories, they share details about Candle Cove that seem believable for Read More …
SyFy’s latest hard-sell effort, The Magicians, broaches concepts I’ve never seen from fantasy stories before, many of which are the kinds of things, as a longtime fantasy fan, I’ve been quietly hoping for. However, the show is hampered in many ways by its occasionally clunky Read More …
Science fiction as a genre has been in vogue lately, and an unexpected trend has seen claims of watering down stories in favor of action beats and ease of accessibility. Indeed, recent remakes of Total Recall and Minority Report have shed the philosophical and existentialist questions Read More …
Last week, SyFy premiered Ascension, a three-night miniseries event. Deadshirt editors Christina Harrington and Dylan Roth had a look, and were pretty damn impressed. Christina: If Ascension did one thing for me, it made me really miss the days when SyFy took its programming seriously, like Read More …
I rewound my DVR twice to make sure I heard it right, and yes, it’s definitely there: ten minutes into the pilot of Helix, the best faux-curse word on network TV makes its grand return. “This is gonna be the most frakked-up family reunion ever,” Read More …
I’m taking a stand. You should be incredibly excited about the US Season 4 Premiere of Canadian supernatural show Lost Girl. You… haven’t heard of it? Don’t feel bad. Most people haven’t. I probably wouldn’t have except for the wall-to-wall Facebook geek-outs of some friends Read More …
Last night SyFy aired Sharknado, the most recent addition to the noble genre of Shark Horror, brought to you by the masters of C Movies pretending to be B Movies, The Asylum. It was gory, really stupid, and filled with bad acting, and also sharks. Read More …