The best 'Trek' outing in decades understands the importance of hijinks.
During the Golden Age of Streaming, most science fiction television has had one thing in common: it's all about serious, stone-cold, high stakes drama. Take 'Westworld', for example—has anyone ever cracked a smile on that blasted show, or were they all too busy worrying about the fate of sentient life? Meanwhile, over in the thick of Disney+'s sci-fi renaissance, 'Obi-Wan Kenobi' and 'The Mandalorian' have cute kiddos up their sleeves, but somehow the little ones are always in mortal danger. 'Black Mirror' occasionally edges into black comedy, but for every single chuckle it induces, viewers get two dystopian nightmares in exchange. Over on Apple TV+, 'Foundation' is constantly at fever pitch, with the future of the human race hanging in the balance week in and week out. Sure, the genre has some punchy outliers (like 'Avenue 5' and 'Lower Decks'), but most of today's televised science fiction suffers from what I call Marvelitis: the sky is always falling, the fate of the galaxy is always at stake, the space-time continuum is always in danger of splintering apart. |
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So you never say, "Oh, my phone just died" ever again. |
| The Reservoir, from Pentair Rocean, is where function meets style. |
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And Sarah Huckabee Sanders really puts the 'goober' in 'gubernatorial race.' |
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Featuring Lululemon, Madewell, J.Crew, Nordstrom, and so many more. |
| Raekwon, Jadakiss, and more on the making of the documentary 'Clarks and New York: Soles of the City.' |
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I'm grateful for the hard-won rights the LGBTQ+ community has gained in recent years. But the fight is far from over, and new threats are mounting at an astonishing rate. |
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