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There’s no shortage of fantastic sci-fi TV series out there, but not all of them are easily accessible. The Expanse is one of the best space epics ever made, but it’s cordoned off behind the Prime Video paywall. Andor is the boldest thing to come out of the Star Wars universe in decades, but you need a Disney+ subscription to see it. And then there’s Apple TV+, an underrated streaming service which specializes in great sci-fi shows. Basically, if you want to get people’s attention, it helps to be on a broadly popular platform like Netflix. Back in September of…
Monarch: Legacy of Monsters revolves around an organization that studies the biology and movements of giant monsters called Titans, the most famous of which are Godzilla and King Kong. The show is set in the same universe as the 2014 Godzilla movie as well as 2021’s Godzilla v. Kong and 2024’s Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire. With a pedigree like that, you’d figure the Apple TV+ show would be a huge deal, but its first season went largely under the radar in 2023. Season 2 is airing now, and it’s proving that the show is worth another look. The…
War Machine dropped in early March to become the most popular movie on Netflix for several weeks running. It’s about an unnamed soldier played by Reacher’s Alan Ritchson training to become an Army Ranger. When he and his team are sent out on a final training exercise, they run into an alien craft that hunts and kills several of them, until only a few are left who can stop it. Combining a sci-fi movie with a war movie is an idea that’s been done many, many times before, because it works. If you enjoyed War Machine, you owe it to…
I’m always tweaking the settings on my smart TV to better suit my setup and the way I watch content. Over time, I’ve experimented with quite a few things. I replaced the default interface with a custom launcher to give the TV a cleaner, more organized home screen. I also turned off tracking features that monitor viewing habits and even switched to a browser that’s far more capable. After trying all these different changes, I realized something interesting. I had been focusing on small tweaks here and there, but I hadn’t really addressed one aspect of the viewing experience that…
Streaming services offer content at high resolutions and relatively low costs, making them appealing to casual movie and TV watchers. You might think that a 4K video stream is superior to a 1080p Blu-ray disc or an old DVD, but that isn’t always the case. In fact, the best Blu-ray 4K Ultra HD discs will always outperform seemingly comparable 4K streaming content, and there’s a technical reason for it. Resolutions, like 1080p or 4K, only provide a snapshot of visual quality. They demonstrate the potential visual quality of a piece of content, not the actual visual quality. Resolution is a…
Dolby Atmos is a surround sound audio format that brought spatial audio mainstream. Rather than invest in an expensive surround sound speaker system, users can now experience spatial audio in Dolby Atmos with many of the earbuds and headphones they already own. Dolby Atmos is available for music, TV shows, and movies, and it creates an immersive and three-dimensional listening experience. The mastering process for Atmos content is object-based with a focus on spatial height, so you can really feel where sounds are coming from in a song, show, or movie. It’s rather easy to use Dolby Atmos with mobile…
Smart TVs have become a mainstay in many households throughout the world. Since the dawn of the streaming revolution, smart TVs are some of the most valuable ways to watch TV and movies. For anyone who has cut the cord, a smart TV is probably an option they’ve considered at some point. For some people, arguably the best feature of a smart TV is that it can recommend what you should watch next. No matter which streaming service you prefer, you’ll be able to get recommendations based on what you’ve watched before. But, if you’re not interested in having your…
Netflix is one of the oldest streaming services in the game, and despite rising costs, it still gives people a ton for their money. With so many original shows available to watch, it can be hard to choose where to start. That’s where we come in, with a list of shows guaranteed to satisfy from the first episode to the last. Before we get to it, there are some ground rules: 1) All these shows have to have more than one season, so no miniseries allowed, no matter how good they are. To be a true binge, it’s got to…
Making movies and TV shows set in the future can be dangerous, because while they sometimes turn out accurate, they always run the risk of getting things incredibly wrong and looking embarrassing later when the future they predict doesn’t come to pass. In fact, this happens more often than not. The history of sci-fi is littered with examples of movies, TV shows, and books that got things completely wrong. That doesn’t mean these movies are bad; it’s just a warning not to put too much stock in what they have to say. Back to the Future Part II (1989) The…
When you think of movies and shows that predicted the future, your mind will probably go to something like Continuum, a sci-fi drama where heroes try to prevent a future where corporations are more powerful than governments and everyone has cybernetic implants in their bodies that can be hacked. And that’s very exciting, but maybe a little dramatic. A lot of those predictions still feel too far in the future to feel relevant. There’s another movie, one that doesn’t even really quality as sci-fi, that did a better job of predicting our current reality than most hard sci-fi films: the…