It was a really strange bit of coincidence that a few weeks back that, I had the very first season of Heroes on my watch list, and had started too watch the few episode's of this brilliant season.
It was originally shown in the UK, on BBC2 and was a weekly drop. Hype surrounding the show was so well deserved. Because even now that, first season is quite extraordinary with it's original storyline, theme's, subtext and concept's.
Heroes Tv was a real major game changer.
And Season One was 23 episode's of pure undiluted joy. And as a superhero, fantasy, supernatural drama show. Heroes most definitely ticked a lot of boxes.
It was also very fresh, innovative and just a well-written show.
Heroes was often funny and also deeply moving, as it explored how certain characters were navigating their place in the world and have to deal with the trials and tribulations of their everyday life.
And all of the time trying to keep their superpowers still hidden.
Heroes tv also featured a great ensemble cast of relatively unknown actor's - it was perfect casting. Especially since there were 23 episode's where the exciting storylines and subplots, each of the main characters backstory's could properly be fleshed out and explored.
Heroes tv season one still holds up.
It's very much a rewatchable.
Just like the Lost tv season one.
Granted that subsequent season's were a mixed bag of tricks. As the show runners appeared to run out of steam.
"Save the Cheerleader, Save the World..."
Speaking of which...
R.I.P...Hayden Panettiere.
My deepest condolences to her family and friends. Hayden was only 36yr old.
And it just so sad to hear of her passing.
Gone too soon.
And Nashville and Heroes tv were Hayden's apex/Magnus opus. A very talented beautiful actress and a mother who will be missed by one and all.
To be fair, the original trailer ended up being far better than the movie.
It had very good ensemble cast.
But there was much controversy surrounding the behind-the-scenes interference by the studio.
And by the sounds of it, the top brass
weren't happy with the horror, indie vibes, and basically chose to butcher the New Mutants in the editing.
It also didn't help the release schedule when the pandemic hit. And literally put so many film and tv streaming projects on hold.
It's such a shame because on paper New Mutant had so many interesting ideas.
If only the studio had more faith and a bigger set of balls to commit themselves to going down the indie horror route.
Instead of desperately tie everything into an already dead-in-the water, Fox X-Men franchise.
Which had crossed the point of no return with that Simon Kimberb badly directed, really awful X-Men: Dark Phoenix film. At least, New Mutant was a halfway a decent film. Dark Phoenix completely wasted so many very good actor's. It was a paycheck film.
And never thought that there could be a movie than X-Men: Last Stand.
But fortunately, Battlestar Galactica, still attracts a large online fan base that, even though the ending might just not be to everybody's liking. The series as a whole is still featured in virtually every list of Top Ten Best Sci-fi fantasy show's.
And it's been syndicated and rewatched several numerous times over.
It's a masterpiece.
The Expanse, For All Mankind are also sci-fi masterpieces.
Even so, I still respect your opinion.
For me, the one sci-fi show that, I refuse to watch and that, I cannot stand is,
Babylon 5. I have no intention of rewatching that show. It's just not my jam.
I would strongly disagree with your assessment of the ending of Battlestar Galactica. Especially when compared to the problematic last season of Game of Thrones that, apart from taken an eternity to shoot. Was considerably shorter than the first several season's.
Danaerys descent into Mad Revengeful Queen only spanned the last episode.
There were also so many rushed sub-plot, and nonsensical storyline's and weird dialogue choices.
Game of Thrones, half of season 8 was just awful. But not as bad as the finale season of Stranger Things. Now that was truly bad.
Whereas Battlestar Galactica at least had a proper ending.
And I have also absolutely no problem rewatching either GoT or Battlestar Galactica. Even if not everyone didn't like the way that they ended. There's still a rewatchable factor.
The Falcon and Winter Soldier is an underrated show. I much prefer it, to the dreadful debacle of Captain America 4.
The inclusion of Harrison Ford's Red Hulk was obviously a vanity push by the Producers. And the storyline completely hijacked what should've been Anthony Mackie's movie.
However the biggest mistake and travesty in Captain America: Brave New World was not making Sam Wilson a Super soldier.
Which would've turned the Red Hulk fight into something total badass.
As for Moon Knight. The first half that show was actually superb. And then it got sucked into weird psycho sorcery mumbo jumbo. And they literally lost the plot.
However Oscar Isaac and Ethan Hawke were the real standouts in it.
Saying that, Disclosure Day, has already recouped it's production budget is a little bit of a falsedom.
Because that doesn't include the cost advertising and promoting latest Spielberg's sci-fi drama.
It's break even will be around the $300 million mark.
If Disclosure Day can stay in movie theatre's for 45 day's, then it might be a case of deminishing return's.
And it might just get head to VoD - where it should make a tidy profit.
The main problem with Disclosure Day is that, Spielberg's has already brilliantly produced an alien abduction 'Taken' miniseries in 2002, a sci-fi drama that featured the-then child star, Dakota Fanning. Now if Spielberg had used some of the premise, theme's and ideas, from
'Taken'. Then, that would've been a far better storyline to which to draw inspiration from.
All that being said...
I actually enjoyed watching Disclosure Day.
It's still 20 minutes too long.
But the car chase, clever camera work, action set-pieces, John Williams superb movie soundtrack, Emily Blunt in a tour-de-force of performance, Spielberg back at his very best - all make for a very good movie.
Ah yes...
If only Disclosure Day had actually been filmed a decade or so ago.
Perhaps the film critics and audience's would've far less cynical, angry and triggered for no other reasons than that's what people have become right now.
The Night Agent is like shopping for some nice obscure trinkets, looking at a few hardback books, even drinking some green tea and having kale for lunch at Barnes & Noble.
Meanwhile Reacher is like getting invited to a summer cookout. And you actually see a whole being Hog being slowly split-roasted on the barbecue. Folk's be chowing down grilled chicken with home made coleslaw, drinking margarita's and swigging beers. And ain't nobody complaining.
Please don't listen to any of the trolls and disgruntled naysayers.
Because For All Mankind is, still a very good sci-fi fantasy show.
And For All Mankind still delivers on it's original premise and concept's, of alternative parallel universe's of what if's,
(World history) what if the Russian's had won the late-1950-1960s space race?
And this was the original starting point that explored, cleverly diversified it's subplots and tentacles, all throughout Season One and beyond (it's not six part series but six season's).
For those people whom are actual fans of the sci-fi fantasy genre, that also have an open-minded (this, and several other Apple tv prestige sci-fi shows) this is the show for you.
There's nothing quite like when online Entertainment websites, and Marvel/Disney
continue to act completely tone-deaf, and
pretend that their sh*t don't stink.
In this case She-Hulk,
Secret Invasion,
The Acolyte (Star Wars property),
The Book of Boba Fett,
are just really bad shows that should
never ever be revisited again.
Which is a real shame.
Especially since some of the brilliant
talented involved. Which was wasted and letdown by bad script's, stupid storyline's and seasons that were only given six-episodes - instead of a minimum of 10-episodes to fully flesh out characters.
If there is one thing to get the fanboys (and the general public/armchair warrior's)
all triggered, hot & flustered - it's when any film & entertainment website, dares to say something is either a masterpiece or the best of. Which is the case here.
Typically in the comment section the fanboys people will say, "This film or show is completely overrated. Or that this boring..." And whilst everyone is more than entitled to their opinions. It always comes down to personal taste's. And we all have books, great works of art & design, film & tv show's that we will always hold in high esteem and call these the very best.
2001: A Space Odyssey was made in 1968.
And the reason why it is often quoted as being one of the very best sci-fi films is because Stanley Kubrick and production team, special effects, model makers, cinematographer, visually managed to create something that was for more than several decades way ahead of anything else, of it's time.
It is easy to overlook all of Kubrick's achievement. But it really did change the whole approach to how sci-fi fantasy movies were made. And it also inspired other great visual film maker's, production and set-designers approached the creation of their work's.
Way back in 1968, there was no blue screen, no green screen, no volume stages, no CGI, no 100s of VFX/ or sound editing software/no digital filming.
And 2001: A Space Odyssey was made on a production budget of $12 million.
By comparison, the MCU spent over 400+ million on Avengers Infinity War.
In terms of the best ever sci-fi movie(s)...
I would agree with some of the other movies being suggested by people in this comment section.
Which was a real shame, especially considering the length of the film and post production. Which as taken a few year's to create and produce. The overall look and feel of the last season was spectacular.
In particular, the last couple episodes were movie length, and most definitely had a blockbuster feel.
The negatives aside.
Kudos to the ensemble cast whom were absolutely superb. And what the Duffer Brother's and their production team, design, CGI/Visual effects, hair, costume and makeup artist - all managed to
achieve over the span of several other truly outstanding season's - has to be admired.
As for this new prequel show.
Seeing how it does not include any of the original cast of actor's, I will not be watching it.
Although I am more than interested in the Duffer's new Netflix horror show.
As soon as, I saw that, HBO's Lovecraft Country and Watchmen streaming show's made the list, I just knew that there was going to be the usual haters.
But just remind everyone (especially those amongst the fandom that seem to suffer from short-term memory loss) that both of these two HBO show's were great.
And Watchmen Tv was a brilliant adaptation of Alan Moore's original graphic novel. It ended up winning 11 Primetime Emmy award's.
Lovecraft Country...
When it originally debuted on HBO suffered from online negative Far-right review bombing.
But in spite of all of the unwarranted hate.
The show successfully adapted the theme's & ideas from H.P. Lovecraft's book's - source material. Especially when one considers H.P. Lovecraft's controversial beliefs and background.
Lovecraft Country ended up winning 25 awards including two primetime Emmy's.
So yep. Both of these show's more than deserve to be included on this list.
Netflix's Lost in Space show was absolutely brilliant. Season One being the best.
It was great to see, the showrunners, production, set design's, and strong ensemble cast, take this already established sci-fi fantasy/legacy franchise into new exciting directions.
So glad that it got three season's.
And Lost in Space managed to reach a satisfying conclusion.
Anyone new to the whole sci-fi fantasy genre, should most definitely watch this very good Netflix show.
And yep, it's best to ignore some of the other negative comments being left here.
These day's there's a minority online fandom that loves to just hate on any and everything.
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NBC’s 4-Part Sci-Fi Masterpiece Is Ready To Become a Weekend Binge
It was a really strange bit of coincidence that a few weeks back that, I had the very first season of Heroes on my watch list, and had started too watch the few episode's of this brilliant season.
It was originally shown in the UK, on BBC2 and was a weekly drop. Hype surrounding the show was so well deserved. Because even now that, first season is quite extraordinary with it's original storyline, theme's, subtext and concept's.
Heroes Tv was a real major game changer.
And Season One was 23 episode's of pure undiluted joy. And as a superhero, fantasy, supernatural drama show. Heroes most definitely ticked a lot of boxes.
It was also very fresh, innovative and just a well-written show.
Heroes was often funny and also deeply moving, as it explored how certain characters were navigating their place in the world and have to deal with the trials and tribulations of their everyday life.
And all of the time trying to keep their superpowers still hidden.
Heroes tv also featured a great ensemble cast of relatively unknown actor's - it was perfect casting. Especially since there were 23 episode's where the exciting storylines and subplots, each of the main characters backstory's could properly be fleshed out and explored.
Heroes tv season one still holds up.
It's very much a rewatchable.
Just like the Lost tv season one.
Granted that subsequent season's were a mixed bag of tricks. As the show runners appeared to run out of steam.
"Save the Cheerleader, Save the World..."
Speaking of which...
R.I.P...Hayden Panettiere.
My deepest condolences to her family and friends. Hayden was only 36yr old.
And it just so sad to hear of her passing.
Gone too soon.
And Nashville and Heroes tv were Hayden's apex/Magnus opus. A very talented beautiful actress and a mother who will be missed by one and all.
Tomorrow is never promised.
6 Years Later, Anya Taylor-Joy’s Forgotten X-Men Movie Is Officially Finding New Life on Streaming
To be fair, the original trailer ended up being far better than the movie.
It had very good ensemble cast.
But there was much controversy surrounding the behind-the-scenes interference by the studio.
And by the sounds of it, the top brass
weren't happy with the horror, indie vibes, and basically chose to butcher the New Mutants in the editing.
It also didn't help the release schedule when the pandemic hit. And literally put so many film and tv streaming projects on hold.
It's such a shame because on paper New Mutant had so many interesting ideas.
If only the studio had more faith and a bigger set of balls to commit themselves to going down the indie horror route.
Instead of desperately tie everything into an already dead-in-the water, Fox X-Men franchise.
Which had crossed the point of no return with that Simon Kimberb badly directed, really awful X-Men: Dark Phoenix film. At least, New Mutant was a halfway a decent film. Dark Phoenix completely wasted so many very good actor's. It was a paycheck film.
And never thought that there could be a movie than X-Men: Last Stand.
‘Battlestar Galactica’ Officially Sets New Release for August 11
Allan
Sorry that you feel this way.
But fortunately, Battlestar Galactica, still attracts a large online fan base that, even though the ending might just not be to everybody's liking. The series as a whole is still featured in virtually every list of Top Ten Best Sci-fi fantasy show's.
And it's been syndicated and rewatched several numerous times over.
It's a masterpiece.
The Expanse, For All Mankind are also sci-fi masterpieces.
Even so, I still respect your opinion.
For me, the one sci-fi show that, I refuse to watch and that, I cannot stand is,
Babylon 5. I have no intention of rewatching that show. It's just not my jam.
‘Battlestar Galactica’ Officially Sets New Release for August 11
Lyra
I would strongly disagree with your assessment of the ending of Battlestar Galactica. Especially when compared to the problematic last season of Game of Thrones that, apart from taken an eternity to shoot. Was considerably shorter than the first several season's.
Danaerys descent into Mad Revengeful Queen only spanned the last episode.
There were also so many rushed sub-plot, and nonsensical storyline's and weird dialogue choices.
Game of Thrones, half of season 8 was just awful. But not as bad as the finale season of Stranger Things. Now that was truly bad.
Whereas Battlestar Galactica at least had a proper ending.
And I have also absolutely no problem rewatching either GoT or Battlestar Galactica. Even if not everyone didn't like the way that they ended. There's still a rewatchable factor.
8 Netflix Miniseries That Are Perfect Masterpieces
The Dracula (2020) miniseries, the first two episodes were very good. But it completely fumbled the bag in it's finale.
But it's saving grace is the very enigmatic performance by Danish actor, Claes Bang,
whom steals, chews up the scenery, with every scene that he's in.
Even so, the setting of Dracula within 21st Century, I'm not sure really works.
And I'm really not sure why it's included on this list.
From 'Andor' to 'Moon Knight,' These 8 Disney+ Shows Are Perfect From Start to Finish
Alternative list;-
Andor should obviously be in the No.1 spot.
No.2 it's Wanda vision.
Followed by X-Men '97.
Then, The Mandolorian S1-2.
But unpopular opinion, I actually think that,
The Falcon and Winter Soldier is an underrated show. I much prefer it, to the dreadful debacle of Captain America 4.
The inclusion of Harrison Ford's Red Hulk was obviously a vanity push by the Producers. And the storyline completely hijacked what should've been Anthony Mackie's movie.
However the biggest mistake and travesty in Captain America: Brave New World was not making Sam Wilson a Super soldier.
Which would've turned the Red Hulk fight into something total badass.
As for Moon Knight. The first half that show was actually superb. And then it got sucked into weird psycho sorcery mumbo jumbo. And they literally lost the plot.
However Oscar Isaac and Ethan Hawke were the real standouts in it.
Steven Spielberg's Sci-Fi Return Recoups Reported Budget in Just 8 Days
Saying that, Disclosure Day, has already recouped it's production budget is a little bit of a falsedom.
Because that doesn't include the cost advertising and promoting latest Spielberg's sci-fi drama.
It's break even will be around the $300 million mark.
If Disclosure Day can stay in movie theatre's for 45 day's, then it might be a case of deminishing return's.
And it might just get head to VoD - where it should make a tidy profit.
The main problem with Disclosure Day is that, Spielberg's has already brilliantly produced an alien abduction 'Taken' miniseries in 2002, a sci-fi drama that featured the-then child star, Dakota Fanning. Now if Spielberg had used some of the premise, theme's and ideas, from
'Taken'. Then, that would've been a far better storyline to which to draw inspiration from.
All that being said...
I actually enjoyed watching Disclosure Day.
It's still 20 minutes too long.
But the car chase, clever camera work, action set-pieces, John Williams superb movie soundtrack, Emily Blunt in a tour-de-force of performance, Spielberg back at his very best - all make for a very good movie.
Ah yes...
If only Disclosure Day had actually been filmed a decade or so ago.
Perhaps the film critics and audience's would've far less cynical, angry and triggered for no other reasons than that's what people have become right now.
Disclosure Day is a 7/10 movie.
It may not appeal to everyone.
But I really did enjoy it.
HBO Officially Confirms a Super-Sized Premiere for Its Biggest Fantasy Series of 2026
I'm really looking forwards to Season Three of House of the Dragon's.
Especially since, during this season we're going to see some epic battle sequences, and so much more.
Bring it on!!!
10 R-Rated Thriller Movies That Are Perfect From Start to Finish
This list feels completely off-kilter.
And it's in the wrong order.
Silence of the Lambs is should've been in the No.1 spot - and it's not even close.
Also...
That Joker movie should be removed completely from any future movie lists.
It's not even rewatchable.
Hate might be too strong a word.
But I strongly detest that vile movie.
Made more even more disgusting by the complete waste of talent in the sequel - Joker: Folie à Deux. Which is one of the worst movie's ever made.
Netflix's 4-Part Spy Thriller Officially Beats ‘Reacher’ at Its Own Game
I really do like the Night Agent.
However Reacher is whole different kind of Beast.
The Night Agent is like shopping for some nice obscure trinkets, looking at a few hardback books, even drinking some green tea and having kale for lunch at Barnes & Noble.
Meanwhile Reacher is like getting invited to a summer cookout. And you actually see a whole being Hog being slowly split-roasted on the barbecue. Folk's be chowing down grilled chicken with home made coleslaw, drinking margarita's and swigging beers. And ain't nobody complaining.
Hulu’s 5-Part Superhero Sci-Fi Series Is Perfect From Start to Finish
No, it's just you.
Apple TV’s 6-Part Sci-Fi Series Falls Short of Streaming Competition Despite Strong Reviews
Please don't listen to any of the trolls and disgruntled naysayers.
Because For All Mankind is, still a very good sci-fi fantasy show.
And For All Mankind still delivers on it's original premise and concept's, of alternative parallel universe's of what if's,
(World history) what if the Russian's had won the late-1950-1960s space race?
And this was the original starting point that explored, cleverly diversified it's subplots and tentacles, all throughout Season One and beyond (it's not six part series but six season's).
For those people whom are actual fans of the sci-fi fantasy genre, that also have an open-minded (this, and several other Apple tv prestige sci-fi shows) this is the show for you.
April 2026 Will Officially Go Down As the Greatest Month in TV History for Pop Culture Fans
Calm down, calm down.
Let's just put the incessant use of 'greatest' on pause. This April could possibly be
one of the best (in terms of the return of some hugely popular streaming show's),
for a while.
By comparison, if we look at April 2016, a decade ago - when we had -
Game of Thrones
Stranger Things
Veep
Fleabag
Atlanta
The Americans
Silicon Valley
Mr. Robot
The Crown
Black Mirror
One could argue that Ten years ago, the slate of new original and the return of quality legacy franchise show's was far more stronger/superior.
There was greater choice and variety of
shows.
Also...
What's with the strange omission of Apple tv show's?
A new season of For All Mankind has just been released. And it continues be an outstanding sci-fi fantasy show.
And Apple tv continues to provide some truly outstanding fantasy drama shows
Marvel Officially Confirms One of Disney+’s Best-Performing Series Is Also Its Most Divisive
Yuck!
There's nothing quite like when online Entertainment websites, and Marvel/Disney
continue to act completely tone-deaf, and
pretend that their sh*t don't stink.
In this case She-Hulk,
Secret Invasion,
The Acolyte (Star Wars property),
The Book of Boba Fett,
are just really bad shows that should
never ever be revisited again.
Which is a real shame.
Especially since some of the brilliant
talented involved. Which was wasted and letdown by bad script's, stupid storyline's and seasons that were only given six-episodes - instead of a minimum of 10-episodes to fully flesh out characters.
Steven Spielberg’s 2-Part Sci-Fi Series Comeback Blocked by Taylor Sheridan's Western Empire
Halo have Two Seasons.
Not two Part's.
Only 3 Sci-Fi Movies Are Better Than '2001: A Space Odyssey'
I just came here for the comment section.
Which never fails to disappoint.
If there is one thing to get the fanboys (and the general public/armchair warrior's)
all triggered, hot & flustered - it's when any film & entertainment website, dares to say something is either a masterpiece or the best of. Which is the case here.
Typically in the comment section the fanboys people will say, "This film or show is completely overrated. Or that this boring..." And whilst everyone is more than entitled to their opinions. It always comes down to personal taste's. And we all have books, great works of art & design, film & tv show's that we will always hold in high esteem and call these the very best.
2001: A Space Odyssey was made in 1968.
And the reason why it is often quoted as being one of the very best sci-fi films is because Stanley Kubrick and production team, special effects, model makers, cinematographer, visually managed to create something that was for more than several decades way ahead of anything else, of it's time.
It is easy to overlook all of Kubrick's achievement. But it really did change the whole approach to how sci-fi fantasy movies were made. And it also inspired other great visual film maker's, production and set-designers approached the creation of their work's.
Way back in 1968, there was no blue screen, no green screen, no volume stages, no CGI, no 100s of VFX/ or sound editing software/no digital filming.
And 2001: A Space Odyssey was made on a production budget of $12 million.
By comparison, the MCU spent over 400+ million on Avengers Infinity War.
In terms of the best ever sci-fi movie(s)...
I would agree with some of the other movies being suggested by people in this comment section.
Arrival
Interstellar
Dune Part 1 & 2
Inception
Star Wars
Empire Strikes Back
Mad Max: Fury Road
Planet of the Apes (1968)
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (2014)
Are all fantastic Sci-Fi movies.
New ‘Stranger Things’ Episodes Officially Hit Netflix Next Month
As for the final season of Stranger Things.
Well the Duffer Brother's stumbled the bag.
They just didn't nail the ending.
Which was a real shame, especially considering the length of the film and post production. Which as taken a few year's to create and produce. The overall look and feel of the last season was spectacular.
In particular, the last couple episodes were movie length, and most definitely had a blockbuster feel.
The negatives aside.
Kudos to the ensemble cast whom were absolutely superb. And what the Duffer Brother's and their production team, design, CGI/Visual effects, hair, costume and makeup artist - all managed to
achieve over the span of several other truly outstanding season's - has to be admired.
As for this new prequel show.
Seeing how it does not include any of the original cast of actor's, I will not be watching it.
Although I am more than interested in the Duffer's new Netflix horror show.
Netflix's 7-Part Sci-Fi Series Is So Good, You Can Start From Any Episode
Black Mirror has Seven Season's.
Not 7-Parts.
That's Seven Season's.
These 8 Single-Season Fantasy Shows Are Masterpieces
As soon as, I saw that, HBO's Lovecraft Country and Watchmen streaming show's made the list, I just knew that there was going to be the usual haters.
But just remind everyone (especially those amongst the fandom that seem to suffer from short-term memory loss) that both of these two HBO show's were great.
And Watchmen Tv was a brilliant adaptation of Alan Moore's original graphic novel. It ended up winning 11 Primetime Emmy award's.
Lovecraft Country...
When it originally debuted on HBO suffered from online negative Far-right review bombing.
But in spite of all of the unwarranted hate.
The show successfully adapted the theme's & ideas from H.P. Lovecraft's book's - source material. Especially when one considers H.P. Lovecraft's controversial beliefs and background.
Lovecraft Country ended up winning 25 awards including two primetime Emmy's.
So yep. Both of these show's more than deserve to be included on this list.
And yes, it still very possible to enjoy
Zack Synder's Watchmen movie.
(The extended cut).
As well as, HBO's Watchmen show.
They are both really good.
Netflix’s 3-Part Classic Sci-Fi Reboot Is One of Its Best
Netflix's Lost in Space show was absolutely brilliant. Season One being the best.
It was great to see, the showrunners, production, set design's, and strong ensemble cast, take this already established sci-fi fantasy/legacy franchise into new exciting directions.
So glad that it got three season's.
And Lost in Space managed to reach a satisfying conclusion.
Anyone new to the whole sci-fi fantasy genre, should most definitely watch this very good Netflix show.
And yep, it's best to ignore some of the other negative comments being left here.
These day's there's a minority online fandom that loves to just hate on any and everything.