Duration drama Warrior brings Bruce Lee’s vision to brilliant life after...
Enlarge / Andrew Koji plays Ah Sahm, a master martial artist who comes to San Francisco's Chinatown and gets drawn in the infamous tong wars. HBO/David Bloomer There's juicy political intrigue, forbidden love, and plenty of kung-fu fighting in Warrior, a new ten-episode series from Cinemax. The series is adapted from a treatment developed by…
Kingdom blends zombie break out with political intrigue in winning combination
Enlarge / Not your typical "Romero" zombies: the undead in Kingdom turn fast, move fast, and seem to only come out at night. YouTube/Netflix A disgraced crown prince in medieval Korea must outsmart a power-hungry rival clan and battle a zombie outbreak before it wipes out the country in Kingdom, a genuinely thrilling new period…
TELEVISION Technica 2018: Our preferred programs and binges
Warning: This story discusses a handful of specific moments from TV in 2018. Though we’ve strived to avoid spoiling anything too major, please note this list includes specific references to The Good Place, Star Trek: Discovery, Westworld, Bojack Horseman, Preacher, The Americans, Killing Eve, and The Haunting of Hill House, among others. We are in the era of "peak TV,"…
Undead crowds increase from the sea in wonderfully campy Zombie Tidal...
SYFY hopes to do for zombies what all those Sharknado movies did for sharks with Zombie Tidal Wave. Fans of SYFY's delightfully cheesy B-movies like Sharktopus and Sharknado, rejoice. This weekend, the network debuts its latest offering in the genre: Zombie Tidal Wave. The title pretty much says it all. (Mild spoilers below.) Director Anthony C.…
The Excellent Location lands a punch to the gut in S3...
Enlarge / Kristen Bell plays Eleanor Shellstrop, a former "Arizona trash bag" of a human being trying to become a better person in the afterlife. After wowing audiences for two pitch-perfect seasons, season 3 of The Good Place got off to an uncharacteristically bumpy start. But even a less-than-perfect The Good Place is still a delight, and…
Real Investigator appears all set to go back to leading kind...
Enlarge / Detective Wayne Hays (Mahershala Ali) investigates a missing persons case while haunted by his past. We'd almost forgotten about HBO's uneven crime anthology series True Detective. It had a fantastic first season, only to hemorrhage viewers with the abysmally dreary, disappointing second season. But now the series is coming back for season 3, and…
New trailer for Star Trek: Discovery S2 provides us a young...
The Klingons have hair again, Rebecca Romijn debuts as Number One, and we catch our first glimpse of a young bearded Spock (Ethan Peck) in the action-packed new trailer for Star Trek: Discovery season 2. It's the flagship series for the fledgling CBS All Access streaming network, which unveiled this sneak peek at New York Comic Con…
Evaluation: Valley of the Boom records Silicon Valley’s madness
Enlarge / The packaging could only be more perfect if it included an AOL CD. The first dot-com boom set the stage for a lot of the world we experience today. IPOs and insane valuations, tech companies without an obvious business model, the vague aroma of scams, all of it centered on Silicon Valley. Two…
BBC drops an action-packed Physician Who trailer 56 years after program...
The Time Lord and her faithful companions face all new adventures in series 12 of the BBC's Doctor Who. Jodie Whittaker returns as everyone favorite kooky-yet-brilliant Time Lord in the first action-packed trailer for the upcoming 12th series of Doctor Who. And it just so happens the trailer's debut coincides with BBC One's airing of the…
We have actually got our very first glance of BBC’s His...
New adaptation of Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy coming soon to HBO and BBC. The BBC has dropped the first teaser for its forthcoming eight-part adaptation of Sir Philip Pullman's beloved fantasy trilogy, His Dark Materials. It's mostly just a quick glimpse of several major characters, but it does give us a sense of…
