Back to the Future

As with many companies that have a staff heavy on techies, we have a particular fondness for science fiction. So we hope you’re as excited as we are to see some acclaimed sci-fi series joining our content line- up.

Last week we released all three parts of the miniseries Tin Man, a re-imagining of L. Frank Baum’s classic The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and the most watched series in SCI FI history. Today we’ve added a few beloved sci-fi blasts from the past. First is Firefly, writer/director Joss Whedon’s sci-fi drama filled with Western motifs. Captain Malcolm Reynolds and his diverse crew travel through space on the transport ship “Serenity” doing jobs, legal and otherwise, to earn a living. We have all fourteen episodes of this cult series, and we highly recommend working your way through all of them sequentially before watching Serenity on DVD as that movie serves as an epilogue of sorts to the television series. To get you started, here’s the pilot of Firefly:

Next is Roswell, a series that blended aliens and star-crossed teenage love in a seamless mix that drew a loyal fanbase. The entire first season, which leaned more heavily to teen romance and drama, is now available at Hulu. Katherine Heigl fans can catch her in one of her early feature roles as alien-human hybrid Isabel Evans.

We have also added select episodes from across the first six seasons of The Outer Limits, the Emmy-winning series based on the classic series of the same name from the 1960′s. Each episode of this anthology series explored the moral and philosophical implications of advances in technology, in the grand tradition of the best in sci-fi.

Last, but not least, we’ve added a collection of clips from Matt Groening’s Futurama, a show which reassured us that the future would be just as absurd as the present (but thankfully just as funny).

All these series had devoted and outspoken fans, and we hope those of you who count yourselves among them will enjoy this opportunity to reconnect with these shows. Those of you who’ve never seen these series can jump in at your convenience and see what you missed. Even if you’re not a sci-fi fan, it’s worth checking in regularly to see what new shows we’ve added. Our content acquisition team is busy adding new shows to our lineup all the time.

Meanwhile, we have to get back to work. We also have a science fiction story to write, about a future where every one can enjoy their favorite shows anytime, anywhere, through the web.

Eugene Wei ( )
Aspiring Film Director (but instead a Director…of Product Management)