![]() “Who is Jessica Hyde?” There are paranoid-conspiracy thrillers, and then there’s Dennis Kelly’s extraordinary, sui generis show about a bootleg graphic novel that may contain hidden clues about a government plan too nefarious to mention. But over its three seasons on Syfy - and, thanks to an aggressive fan campaign, at its new home on Amazon - the series has wonderfully, er, “expanded” its scope and taken on a political resonance regarding the machinations of those in power and the people impacted by these interstellar policy decisions. Corey’s novels started out with a pinch of Blade Runner here and a sprinkle of BSG there. The small-screen adaptation of James S.A. Meanwhile, a police detective named Josephus Miller (Thomas Jane) becomes obsessed with a missing girl named Julie Mao, who may be the key to understanding an escalating cosmic Cold War. A distress signal leads to the mysterious destruction of a ship, stranding Captain Jim Holden (Steven Strait) and his ragtag crew in deep space. Two centuries from now, tensions have arisen between our planet and a colonized Mars a ring of blue-collar space stations called “The Belt” houses the solar system’s lowest social class. So what better time to count down the 50 best sci-fi TV shows of all time? From anime classics to outer-space soap operas, spooky British anthology shows to worst-case-scenario postapocalyptic dramas, primetime pop hits to obscure but beloved cult classics, here are our choices for the best the television genre has to offer - submitted, for your approval. Science fiction has been around in one form or another since the early-ish days of television, both here and abroad, and its legacy now looms larger than ever. You can’t turn on your TV/Roku/cut-cord viewing device without bumping into spaceships, alien invasion and wonky sci-fi food-for-thought. Today, there’s an entire cable network devoted to this kind of programming. ![]() ![]() But given the number of top-notch shows set in the far reaches of the galaxy and that used genre for pulpy and profound purposes over the last 30 or so years, it seems crazy to think that one of the most groundbreaking SF series was a network pariah and a ratings dud. Yes, a concept like Star Trek was both of its time and clearly ahead of it history has more than vindicated Gene Rodenberry’s notion of boldly going where no man had gone before. It’s odd to think that, once upon a time, a TV show set in space - one that declared, in its opening narration, as the cosmos being the “final frontier” - was considered the pop-cultural equivalent of an unwanted party-crasher. ![]()
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