By Dave B.

I was bored so I decided to start a segment called "Premieres". It will feature official trailers and synopses from what I feel looks like interesting original programming coming out in the subsequent week in theaters, on Hulu, on Amazon Prime, Netflix (when available; they can be jerks about releasing trailers and synopses), and elsewhere. My intent is to post this segment each Thursday or Friday, but we'll see. Enjoy!

By Dave B.

​If you haven’t seen The Handmaid’s Tale (Hulu), it’s likely that you’ve heard some things about it. It’s a TV show that graphically depicts a dystopian world where human fertility has plummeted, enabling a theocracy to take over the majority of what was once the continental United States. In this new country (called Gilead), women who have previously borne children are ritually raped by the political elite (with the assistance of their wives) in order to have children. Further, all women are subject to social control in the form of various biblical and quasi-biblical strictures and punishments. For example, women are not allowed to read and they do, their punishment is the loss of a finger. 

By Dave B.

​Dimension 404 is Hulu’s entry into the science fiction anthology genre. It’s…quirky. It isn’t as dark as Netflix’s Black Mirror tends to be. And it isn’t as future-focused as Amazon’s Electric Dreams. Instead, it’s episodes are relatively lighthearted parables dealing with issues such as love, courage, and honor in modern settings. Dimension 404’s six, forty-five minute episodes are a refreshing change of pace from the doom and gloom that many science fiction anthologies seem to revel in.