Sci-Fi Dramedy BIOSPHERE Opening July 7 In the not-too-distant future, Billy (Mark Duplass) and Ray (Sterling K. Brown) are lifelong best friends, brothers from another mother—they also happen to be the last two men on earth. Their survival is largely due to Ray, a brilliant scientist who designed the custom…
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STP: Ghost In The Machine Pits The Crew Against All Their Favorite Holodeck Programs For The Ultimate Living Construction
When something is amiss (mainly because you’re on a starship and it shouldn’t be cloudy or swampy), you can’t quite put your finger on it. All photos courtesy of Paramount+, CBS/Viacom. Ghost In The Machine is another knockout ep that this time puts our crew at wits with a corrupted…
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Decal’s Sci-Fi Movie I’m Totally Fine Has Laughs, Loss, Grief, And A Lot Of Heart
Starring Jillian Bell, Natalie Morales, and Blake Anderson I’m Totally Fine centers around Jennifer (Bell) who has recently lost her best friend and business partner Vanessa (Morales), and now must figure out how to go on without her. Before Vanessa’s death, a party had been planned at a rental…
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Mid-Season Finale Of NBC’s Quantum Leap Pays Homage To Stand By Me Sans The Corpse But Not The Friendships
I can’t imagine what it would feel like to leap into another human’s body and then technically push said body’s consciousness aside for a bit (I don’t even like drinking out of the same glass another person has no matter well I know them. I mean, what they just ate…
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Season Opener Of Star Trek: Prodigy EP 111 Asylum Proves The Series Has Lost No Momentum Since 110
“Sometimes it just takes a leap of faith” In the mid-season opener, we see the crew preparing to meet Star Fleet and things get a bit wet, squishy, and yes, fishy (come on, it’s a kids’ show.) Along the way to the closest Star Fleet outpost, they perform multiple tasks…
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Fx’s Adaptation Of Octavia E Butler’s Award-Winning Novel Kindred Is A Bridge Between Two Worlds That Reflects All The Light And Darkness That Comprises Humanity
Sometimes it is only through the eyes of travelers that we see the realities of our own history. Starring Mallori Johnson and Micah Stock Kindred is a brilliantly written story that links the present to the past in the most painful and unknowingly consequential ways. It centers around Dana James…
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Star Trek: Prodigy Continues To Impress With EP 116 Preludes
Everyone has a backstory. All photos courtesy of Paramount+ So after our motley crew beat the odds by surviving the Romulan ambush at Noble Isle (not to mention the rockets red glare from the Dauntless) they waste no time trying to get the Protostar back in action but hit a…
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Quantum Leap Halloween EP O Ye Of Little Faith Is Heavily Inspired By The Exorcist But With A Twist
Talk about a leap of faith. Tonight’s episode is based on The Exorcist, a 1973 horror involving demonic possession that to this day is still considered one of the most terrifying horror movies of all time. In O Ye Of Little Faith we see a respectful nod to the OG…
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Quantum Leap EP 104 “A Decent Proposal” Is 80’s Los Angeles In All Its Wild Crime Syndicate Glory
They say there’s a first time for everything but for Ben every leap is definitely a first time. Ben drops into Eva Sandova (Anastasia Antonia) a beautiful yet tough bounty hunter who’s catching bond jumpers in Los Angeles in the early 80’s. Her boyfriend, Jake, is dearly in love with…
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Quantum Leap EP 103 “Someone Up There Likes Ben” Is A Loving Tribute To Family, Friends, And To Our Nations’ Verterans
Oh Janis, what have you done? In ep 103 it’s the 1970’s and Ben has leaped into Danny Hill, a prize-winning pro boxer who’s just a day away from fighting the current world champion in Las Vegas and he’s by no means ready. Danny’s brother, Daryl, a former heavyweight champion…