Season 3We bid goodbye to New Caprica and Battlestar GalacticaZack Handlen6/23/16 10:01amEditSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkFarewell, New Caprica; we hardly knew ye. The two part “Exodus” bids farewell to a setting rife with dramatic…
Season 3Battlestar Galactica’s third season finds the Cylons in chargeZack Handlen6/16/16 10:01amEditSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkOkay at this point, they’re just showing off. “Lay Down Your Burdens, Part 2” ended with one of the best time jumps in…
Season 2Battlestar Galactica lays down its burdensZack Handlen6/09/16 10:02amEditSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkI’ll be honest: what I really want to talk about is the time jump. When ”Lay Down Your Burdens, Part 2” aired, it was…
Season 2Battlestar Galactica regains its focus in two strong episodesZack Handlen6/02/16 10:02amEditSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkLet’s all welcome the latest addition to the Battlestar Galactica cast: the great John Heard, playing the not so great…
Season 2Battlestar Galactica tries two standalone stories, with mixed resultsZack Handlen5/26/16 10:01amEditSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkBoth of this week’s episode’s follow the standalone approach of “Black Market;” neither is quite as narratively…
Season 2Epiphanies come with a cost on Battlestar GalacticaZack Handlen5/19/16 10:00amEditSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkAh, thank goodness, a Roslin episode. We get flashbacks, we get drama, we get life-or-death. Although I’m still not…
Season 2Adama makes a choice, and Battlestar Galactica suffers for itZack Handlen5/12/16 10:00amEditSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkBad storytelling decisions are like time travel. No, hear me out on this: say you have a time machine and you go back…
Season 2On Battlestar Galactica, hope is a fast ship you can’t steerZack Handlen5/05/16 10:02amEditSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkWelcome back to Battlestar Galactica reviews—again. When last we left our heroes, the band had gotten back together,…
Season 2Following the stars on Battlestar GalacticaZack Handlen1/07/16 10:04amEditSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalink“Home, Part 2” is the episode where Meier dies. This is not a big event. Much as I love character actor James Remar, he…
Season 2Starbuck leaves home to find it on Battlestar GalacticaZack Handlen12/17/15 10:00amEditSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkThe Cylons are the enemy. If Battlestar Galactica has a villain (and I’d say at this point in its run, it does), the…
Season 2Guns are pulled and blood is shed on Battlestar GalacticaZack Handlen12/10/15 10:04amEditSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkThere are plenty of ways to generate drama, but my favorite is one that Battlestar Galactica excels at: putting people…
Season 2Everyone’s in over their heads on Battlestar GalacticaZack Handlen12/03/15 10:03amEditSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkSaul Tigh is good at his job. He’s a drunk and a bastard and, at times, the sourest sack of shit in the galaxy, but as…
Season 1Battlestar Galactica: “Kobol’s Last Gleaming”Sonia Saraiya10/16/14 3:46pmEditSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalink“Kobol’s Last Gleaming” is a masterwork.
Season 1Battlestar Galactica: “Hand Of God” / “Colonial Day”Sonia Saraiya10/09/14 1:05pmEditSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkThe line that jumped out at me in this pair of episodes occurs at the end of “Colonial Day,” when Commander Adama and…
Season 1Battlestar Galactica: “Flesh And Bone” / “Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down”Sonia Saraiya10/02/14 1:00pmEditSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkLords of Kobol, I’d forgotten how unpleasant Ellen is.
Season 1Battlestar Galactica: “Litmus” / “Six Degrees Of Separation”Sonia Saraiya9/25/14 4:18pmEditSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkIt’s significant that both of the Cylons who take up most screentime in this first season of Battlestar Galactica are…
Season 1Battlestar Galactica: “Act Of Contrition” / “You Can’t Go Home Again”Sonia Saraiya9/18/14 1:00pmEditSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkThe multiple storylines that center around Zak Adama’s death have never been my favorite of the stories on Battlestar…
Season 1Battlestar Galactica: “Water” / “Bastille Day”Sonia Saraiya9/11/14 1:00pmEditSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkBattlestar Galactica draws a lot from the power of one-to-one interpersonal relationships, and that’s on display in…
ASeason 1 Battlestar Galactica: “33”Sonia Saraiya8/28/14 2:00pmEditSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalink“33” is not an easy episode to write about, because it fits together so well: It’s hard to pick up one piece and…
A-Season 1Battlestar Galactica: Miniseries, Part 2Sonia Saraiya8/21/14 1:00pmEditSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkIt’s shocking, at the tail end of this episode, when a brief conversation between Tigh and Starbuck drops reference to…
