TV #28 of 2025: Farscape: The Peacekeeper Wars, season 1 This 2004 miniseries, airing a couple years after the premature cancellation of the regular Farscape TV show, reminds me a lot of the movie Serenity (2005) and its relation to Firefly. Like that film, it aims to offer a stronger conclusion to the ongoing storyline …
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TV #14 of 2025: Farscape, season 4 This is the end of Farscape proper, though I still need to watch the sequel miniseries. Setting aside the shocking cliffhanger, which I’m sure would have been pretty frustrating if no continuation had ever come along, it’s another solid run that doesn’t quite live up to the series …
TV #7 of 2025: Farscape, season 3 Cast shakeups are hard. Some TV series take such overhauls in their stride, like Doctor Who‘s revolving door of companions and regenerations, while others can weather the occasional new arrival or departure by leaning into the mission at the core of the premise and how the ensemble pursuing …
TV #43 of 2024: Farscape, season 2 An excellent escalation of an already-strong beginning the year before. While the passage of time and their shared experiences together have sanded down the edges and rendered Moya’s crew into more of a cohesive and friendly unit — with the possible exception of Rygel, who remains a bit …
TV #33 of 2024: Farscape, season 1 Another sci-fi series that I missed at the time and am belatedly getting into now. I like this one a lot so far! It feels a bit like Star Trek crossed with Stargate — the latter in part because Farscape stars Ben Browder and Claudia Black would later …
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