Helix on Syfy

In a secret lab where they do bad things-wait for it-something goes wrong. Our heroes are a small group of CDC doctors who are called in to help with an outbreak in a freakishly advanced research faculty surrounded by frozen tundra. In standard cosy catastrophe fashion, we have a nice enclosed population of 120 or so people which will doubtlessly decrease by regular amounts throughout the season. The disease is the standard sci fi type where the person’s veins are pulsing and black, their eyes are bloody and odd, and they seem to have lost their mind to some other…

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Contagion

Contagion was not what I was expecting.  I thought it was going to be more 28 Days Later and less PBS Special on Diseases and how they are spread.  So instead of a tense story about the end of the world, we had a rather dry and boring story about the spread a virus and how it brings out the worst in people. Contagion was not a good movie.  None of the characters were likeable,   starting with the first person we see who is screwing around on her too good to be true husband.  This moves the story from…

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