TV: Creamerie (Season 2)
New Zealand’s Creamerie was already weird after one season; impressively, the second gets even weirder. Set in a post-plague future in …
TV: Dead Ringers
It’s a testament to the draw of Rachel Weisz that Dead Ringers pinged my radar, despite my having long forgotten …
Film: Smoking Causes Coughing
French humor is a peculiar business, and one need look no farther than the outlandish Smoking Causes Coughing (2022) for …
TV: Avenue 5 (Seasons 1 & 2)
Given the pedigree—a series led by Armando Iannucci, with Hugh Laurie in the lead—Avenue 5 should have really worked. Instead, …
Film: Infinity Pool
Like father, like son, or so one would gather from the unsettling Infinity Pool (2023). Mixing science fiction, horror, and …
Novel: Walkaway by Cory Doctorow
Cory Doctorow’s Walkaway (2017) is a perfect fictional complement to his incisive blog Pluralistic, which I have been inhaling recently …
Film: They Cloned Tyrone
While there’s much to admire, They Cloned Tyrone (2023) is an uneven, perplexing piece of work. A science fictional mash-up …
TV: I’m a Virgo (Season 1)
Boots Riley makes a triumphant return to surreal genre fiction with I’m a Virgo, a seven-episode season of strange, magnificent …
Film: Asteroid City
The pandemic utterly destroyed moviegoing for me over the past few years, so Wes Anderson’s Asteroid City (2023) is the …
TV: Silo (Season 1)
Hugh Howey’s Wool series comes to life in Silo, a richly produced mystery box with a first-rate cast. In an …
Novelette: After the Tide by Jessie Kwak
Forthcoming from Fairwood Press’s novelette line in August, Jessie Kwak’s After the Tide (2023) is a fast-paced, inventive read I …
Novelette: The Archronology of Love by Caroline M. Yoachim
Fairwood Press has a unique series of standalone novelettes. Originally published in Lightspeed, Caroline M. Yoachim’s The Archronology of Love …
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TV: Black Mirror (Season 6)
Charlie Brooker’s Black Mirror is polarizing at the best of times, and since its move to Netflix, reactions to the …
TV – Kolchak: The Night Stalker
It took me a long time to work my way through Kolchak: The Night Stalker, and it may, in fact, be …
Novel: The Terraformers by Annalee Newitz
Annalee Newitz’s work usually blends gonzo creative energy with thoughtful sociopolitical commentary, and The Terraformers (2023) successfully continues in that …
TV: Mrs. Davis
One has to admire the sheer chutzpah of Mrs. Davis, an unlikely contraption that one imagines might have just decided …