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Our Six Favorite Fictional Holidays

We celebrate the fictional celebrations of some of our favorite characters.  read more

The 15 Most Badass Heroines in Film

Women in pop fiction are often relegated to stereotypical, supporting roles. But we’re starting to see more and more strong female characters that challenge gender roles by refusing to sit in the corner and look pretty, electing instead to kick ass and take names....  read more

20 Great TV Shows To Watch on Netflix Instant

In this fall's TV landscape, there were only two new shows this fall that kept my attention. But there's plenty of great television that I missed the first time around, and lately I've caught up on several of those shows via Netflix's Instant.  read more

The 10 Best TV Title Sequences

It's no stretch to say that a TV program's title sequence can be the most memorable part of the show...  read more

The 10 Greatest Anti-Heroes: #5 Malcolm Reynolds

TV Show: Firefly Movie: Serenity Actor: Nathan Fillion When Joss Whedon created Malcolm Reynolds as the centerpiece of Firefly, he wanted a hero who is “everything that a hero is not.” Once a sergeant in the losing war for independence, Mal captains a team of misfits in smuggling operations on the edge of the galaxy. His main goal in life is to be left alone and avoid the Alliance government—until he discovers (in the movie Serenity), their heavy-handed plan to fix (i.e., medicate and subdue) the world, at which point he aims to misbehave. He’s broken, bitter and faithless. He’s...  read more

V Review, "There is No Normal Anymore" (Episode 1.2)

I was really looking forward to the new V series. In my teens, I was a fan of the original two miniseries and even the failed regular series. While my fondness for the franchise may stem from a lack of teenage discernment (especially when it came to sci-fi) and the rosy tint of nostalgia, Battlestar Galactica showed that even the lamest and cheesiest of shows could be reimagined by brilliant minds into something spectacular. Sadly, those minds were not at work on the new V series....  read more

Readers' Picks: Best TV Shows of the Decade

We spent a lot of time brainstorming, voting, arguing and refining our list of The 20 Best TV Shows of the Decade. But, of course, we got it wrong. Here’s what our readers chose as the 10 Best TV Shows of the Decade:...  read more

The 15 Best TV Shows That Were Canceled Too Soon

Despite a heap of critical acclaim, Southland got the axe earlier this week. Here are 15 more TV shows that died too young.  read more

Five Genre Fiction Gateway Drugs Other Than Battlestar Galactica (Which is Still Awesome)

With the reimagined Battlestar Galactica television series concluded, we've run out of socially-acceptable sci-fi to gush over. That should make you think, shouldn't it? Wouldn't life be more fun if we could step outside of the all-encompassing irony and self-awareness of modern living and allow ourselves a little bit of childlike wonder at the power of the imagination?...  read more

The 11 Best Villainous Species in all of Science Fiction

Whereas your typical Bond villain only wants to take over the earth, most of the dreamed-up civilizations below eat planets like earth for lunch—though our homeworld itself usually lies just beyond their grasp, thanks to often unappreciated heroic maneuvers of the good guys. When we imagine the great beyond, it's not the benign creatures out there that get the blood flowing, but the monstrous, treacherous aliens that would enslave or destroy the galaxy. Science fiction allows us to take up the banner of Us Against Them, where we are free to see Them without humanity, pity or compassion. We long...  read more