Alphas

One of the best things science fiction can do is push us to confront questions of morality. When a work of realistic…

I sometimes think one of the worst things that ever happened to genre storytelling is the idea that being “dark” or…

“If Memory Serves” is as crammed full of incident as last week’s episode was light on things happening. It…

“Life After Death” was a necessary episode of Alphas, but I can’t say it was an episode I very much enjoyed. Maybe…

“The Devil Will Drag You Under” is what I like to call an onion episode. It starts out in a place that seems weird,…

Every week, Alphas throws a bunch of balls in the air, and almost every week, it finds a way to catch them all. It…

“Gods And Monsters” takes its fair time getting to where it’s going, but once it does, it builds up a nice head of…

Dr. Rosen and the team are visiting a special hideaway for Alphas, and the second the leader—Claude—tells Rosen that…

Alphas has been having its ratings troubles this season, falling below the million viewers mark last week and not…

I’m of two minds about “When Push Comes To Shove,” which started out rather desperate and clumsy, then abruptly…

Down at the bottom of everything, Alphas is just a cop show. It’s a cop show with a fun, science-fiction twist, and…

I realize it’s a bit glib to say this about an episode where the guest Alpha had super speed, but a lot of tonight’s…

The thing I like best about Alphas is its no-nonsense character relationships and interaction. Over the course of…

There’s some stupid stuff in the first season finale of Alphas—much of it stemming from the fact that the show has a…

Can we just discuss for a moment how bizarre it is that David Strathairn is starring in a SyFy drama about…

That? That was an Alphas episode to make viewers feel justified in sticking with the show this long. It’s not that…

I’ve spent the past week or so praising Alphas to anyone who will listen, and now, of course, the show has gone and…

Last week, I complained some about Alphas’ guest casting, so let’s do some credit where credit’s due stuff and point…

A big part of the reason that Alphas is cooking along so well is because all of its characters are at once…

One of the things that’s making me think Alphas is a cut above the usual sci-fi TV show is the fact that the…