After sitting through the pilot of Syfy’s new thriller Helix, I really wasn’t sure if those behind it found the whole exercise a personal massive joke, or this was seriously the best ideas they could ...

Second episodes are crucial to how a new series is perceived. Whereas pilots have the advantage of a relatively blank slate, those immediate follow-ups need to prove the series can facilitate momentum ...

What is Helix, exactly? It’s as much science fiction as horror. It’s got as much of Ron Moore’s Battlestar Galactica in its blood as it does John Carpenter’s The Thing. And yes, there are echoes of ...