(Caution–spoilers ahead!) Superficially, Better Than Us, the science fiction series currently on Netflix, is a typical robots-could-take-over-the-world story. A lot of people have already been pushed out of jobs by bots, and the government is floating a plan to lower the retirement age to 45, with bots taking up the slack. Of course, once that happens, …
One of the aspects of Netflix that I like is the availability of a wide variety of international programming. Particularly in genres like fantasy, the differences in the underlying mythology in which the fantasy is rooted lead to some interesting takes on familiar themes. The idea of teenagers fighting supernatural creatures with the help of …
Introduction In case anyone new to the blog is reading this, I love the fantasy genre in all of its forms. What I’m not crazy about is attempts to graft fantasy onto shows that don’t originally have a fantasy premise. I can swallow a Halloween episode with some eerie hint at the end that suggests …
(Caution: this review contains some spoilers. If you haven’t yet watched the series but intend to watch, it might be better not to read this review until you’ve done so.) Background The Karate Kid franchise has captured our imagination for many years, and rightly so. After all, who doesn’t love a good underdog story, especially one …
