“Ghost Hunters” returns with new Season 9 episodes June 12

The Raza crew’s collective memories that Five carries weigh heavily on her in Dark Matter, Episode 6. She  has an idea for hacking her own brain to bring out the crew’s memories, which are jumbled in her head, and only reveal themselves incoherently in dreams. She’ll modify some of the medical equipment and make a gadget that puts her into a trance, where she’ll land in a crew member’s memories, as if they’re happening to her and in real time. She sets to work. Meanwhile, Two reports to the fixer that the freighter was blown up – in fact, her […]

What’s the one thing space opera Dark Matter was missing? ZOMBIES! But Episode 5 fixes that oversight when the Raza crew agrees to salvage a freighter that suffered an explosion that killed its crew. The zombies are hard to kill, don’t stay dead and eat human flesh. How did they wind up on a wrecked freighter with zombies? Two gets a space call from a sleazy fixer who’s not happy that the Raza crew didn’t complete its original mission. And he wants them to make it up to him by salvaging the ship at half their normal rate. The crew, […]

“I kind of think of this show as a mashup of The Andromeda Strain, John Carpenter’s The Thing and The Walking Dead,” Billy Campbell tells me of his new Syfy series Helix, premiering Jan. 10. Prior to the interview, watching the pilot, that is almost exactly what I thought about this 13-episode thriller (except, for me, parts of the show called to mind 28 Days Later more so than The Walking Dead). Helix does indeed combine classic sci-fi elements from those titles — a disease outbreak, a group of people at a fairly claustrophobic, remote Arctic outpost, and, eventually, at […]