The Expanse flies high in its final, uneven season
One of the current best sci-fi show comes to a powerful, exciting end.
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“The Expanse” and “Mobile Suit Gundam”: two sides of the sci-fi coin
Fans of Amazon’s premiere science-fiction series would do well to spend their time between seasons catching up on its anime forebears.
The Expanse Season 5 Finale Recap: “Nemesis Games”
The fifth season of The Expanse ends on a more muted note, giving beloved characters rushed-by-real-life exits and setting up bigger stakes for the end.
The Expanse Season 5 Episode 8 recap: “Hard Vacuum”
Naomi goes out of the frying pan and into the fire, as the occupants of Earth and the Rocinante face hard choices about how to strike back at Marco Inaros.
The Expanse Season 5 Episode 7 Recap: “Oyedeng”
Naomi has a rude homecoming, as the show narrows its focus to a family fighting for its very soul.
The Expanse Season 5 Episode 6 Recap: “Tribes”
Marco consolidates his power, as the rest of our characters recalibrate their sense of purpose and fight to survive in the wake of the Free Navy’s attacks on Earth.
“The Expanse” Season 5 Episode 4 Recap: “Gaugamela”
The show takes its season-opening cliffhanger and pries the floodgates open even further, creating more jeopardy for the system.
“The Expanse” makes its interstellar stakes more personal in season 5
Amazon Prime Video’s sci-fi series returns for another season of intergalactic intrigue, with a greater emphasis on its characters.
Naren Shankar on Bringing “The Expanse” Season 4 to Amazon
The showrunner of Amazon’s sci-fi space opera The Expanse talks about bringing the show from Syfy to its new home, and what’s in store for season 4.
The Expanse Season 4 Review: Here Comes the Juice
The cult-hit space opera heads to Amazon for a bigger budget, wider scope, and renewed sense of purpose.
In season 2, Halo Reach-es for tighter, more compelling storytelling
Paramount+’s big-budget retelling of the hit video game series inches closer to Bungie’s glory days, though not without some bloat.
The Diplomat negotiates that classic good TV feeling
Netflix’s new international politics drama excels thanks to excellent performances from the likes of Keri Russell and Rufus Sewell.
Moonhaven is an imperfect but radiant lunar gem
Moonhaven, AMC’s new science fiction serial, offers welcome pluck and strong craft but takes time to find its space legs.
Sundance 2022: 10 films we can’t wait to see
After almost two years of virtual-only festivals (of which last year’s Sundance Film Festival was one of the most impressively and cleanly organized), it was looking as though Sundance 2022 could finally start to open its doors back up to in-person audiences again. Alas and alack, Omicron reared its ugly head with its high transmission … Sundance 2022: 10 films we can’t wait to see
The Top 25 TV Shows of 2021
This year’s best in TV took us from the furthest reaches of space to murder mysteries in small Philly towns.
Fantasia 2021 Dispatch: Brain Freeze, Tin Can, Tokyo Revengers
Green zombies, isolated scientists, and time-traveling middle schoolars populate our first dispatch from this year’s Fantasia.
The Top 25 TV Shows of 2020
From BoJack to What We Do in the Shadows, we break down the TV that got us through a hellish year.
Welcome to the Blumhouse: “Black Box”/”The Lie” offer grounded scares
Blumhouse and Amazon Prime kick off their anthology series with a pair of intriguing domestic chillers.
“Sky High” is 15 years old. It’s best admired in the trophy room
In 2005, Disney showed us what a superhero high school would look like — the results are fun, but they fall short of their deconstructive potential.
In “The Call of the Wild”, You’ll Bite Off More Than Yukon Chew
Disney continues to shuffle off Fox’s remaining output with this limp, awkward adaptation of the Jack London novel.
The Top 25 TV Shows of 2019
From HBO (Chernobyl, Watchmen, Succession) to Netflix (Russian Doll, The Crown, Stranger Things) and beyond, we break down the best TV of the year.