In a renaissance of high-production TV programming, science fiction and fantasy series are giving fans a corpiconia of watchable shows.
February 7, 2022
When I was a kid, we waited years between great science fiction series on TV. There was Twilight Zone, followed by the Outer Limits followed by Star Trek and Lost in Space. In the case of Twilight Zone and Star Trek, the writing was excellent. Yet the production values were weak due to hopelessly tiny budgets. Real science fiction was on the big screen.
What a difference 60 years makes. I’d argue that TV science fiction has now surpassed movies. A series has time to dig deeply into narrative details. Stephen King put it well when he said, movies are short stories and the TV series are novels.
Here are a bunch of brand new and currently running science fiction and fantasy series. Some of these programs are sufficiently strong that they prompted me to subscribe to platforms. I keep telling myself that if TV is better than film, why not take what I was spending at the movies and invest it in the streaming services that deliver programs that are superior to movies. Then boom, the new movies started showing up quickly on the streaming services.
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