Love, Death & Robots (season 4)
{3.5/5} “I can’t plot total world domination on an empty stomach.” Love, Death & Robots season 4, aired in 2025 In “The Other Large Thing” Sanchez the cat plans to rule the world but without opposable thumbs his plan lacks practicality — then his owners get a robot. In “Spider Rose” a woman alone in […]
Star Trek: Starfleet Academy (season 1)
{4.5/5} “If Starfleet was willing to acknowledge a mistake and correct it then Starfleet is a living thing, capable of growth and change.” Star Trek: Starfleet Academy season 1, aired in 2026 Nahla separated a mother and child when the mother broke the law. She was under orders but she decided those orders were wrong […]
Aliens: Hive
{4.5/5} “The alien queen mother’s royal jelly is the most sought-after consciousness altering substance in existence.” Aliens: Hive by Jerry Prosser, published in 1992 Dr. Mayakovsky has cancer — royal jelly from a xenomorph has helped. So he decided to get his own jelly. He and his colleague built an android that looked like a […]
Aliens: Newt’s Tale
{3.5/5} “‘Those people are here to protect you. They’re soldiers.’ ‘It won’t make any difference.’” Aliens: Newt’s Tale #1 by Mike Richardson, published in 1992 When Newt’s father comes across a giant U-shaped thing on their planet he intends to stake a claim on it. But when he goes to investigate, he’s attacked by a […]
Eclectic lists of SF & F TV shows
I previously pointed to some lists of SF & F movies. Now it’s time for TV shows. From Entertainment Weekly, they put The Twilight Zone at the top: The 30 best sci-fi shows of all time, ranked From Peter Sykes on Sci-Fi Lists, he put Battlestar Galactica 2003 at the top: Top 100 Sci-Fi TV […]
Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die
{5/5} “You are the least useful person I’ve ever met.” Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die, released in 2025 A man walks into a diner and says he’s from the future. Of course, no one believes him. When they don’t pay attention, he says he has a bomb. He knows things about them. He says […]
Jurassic World: Rebirth
{5/5} “‘I’m going to need a number.’ ‘Ten. Six zeroes.’ ‘Including the one that’s in the ten?’” Jurassic World: Rebirth, released in 2025 Years ago at an InGen lab, there was a containment breach and a T-Rex got out. Now virtually all dinosaurs live around the equator and humans aren’t supposed to go there. A […]
Project Hail Mary
{5/5} “The entire room is filled with argon. Just try not to rip your suit.” Project Hail Mary, released in 2026 Ryland Grace wrote a paper in which he said that water wasn’t necessarily required for life. Now he’s teaching, because of the people he ticked off. But now the government wants him on their […]
Alien: Romulus
{5/5} “The safety and well being of our colony is Weyland-Yutani‘s highest priority.” Alien: Romulus, released in 2024 A ship grabs a big rock in space because there’s something Weyland-Yutani wants inside it. But that rock was near the wreck of the Nostromo, and it has something else on it that they haven’t noticed yet. […]
Stranger Things (season 5)
{5/5} “I was looking for answers in somebody else. But I had all the answers. I just needed to stop being so… scared. Scared of who I really was. Once I did that, I felt so free. It’s like I could fly.” — Robin Stranger Things season 5, aired in 2025 Many residents of Hawkins […]