Episodes: 14
Streaming: Netflix
Time it took to binge: My Saturday
This is one that took me awhile to get too.
This is Firefly, a show that, no matter where you look, is always featured in a list of shows that were "Unfairly Cancelled" or "Gone Too Soon."
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Leading the cast is Nathan Fillion as badass extraordinaire Malcolm Reynolds. He's a veteran of a universal civil war that had him fighting for an independent army known as "browncoats" (fun fact, this is what fans of the show call themselves.)
After the war, he becomes captain of the Serenity, a ship that resembles a firefly, as he and his crew of oddball characters travel around the galaxy.
The action picks up when Malcolm picks up a doctor, who smuggles in his sister. She's a psychic who went through several highly invasive experiments as a child, and now the government is after her following her escape.
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Firefly has all the signature elements of a Whedon show. We have the fast-paced, witty dialogue that made Buffy so famous, as well as a quirky premise that makes the show so unique.
That's probably why the show was cancelled, this show was so..odd.
The show had several Western motifs that made this show feel so anarchistic, and yet that was part of the charm.
The show provided a ton of swashbuckling fun that shouldn't have worked, and yet oddly enough it did.
Luckily, the show has lived on. first in a series of comic books that serve as a sequel to the series, then a 2005 threatrical film (that was seriously awful, but whatever) and more comics are coming out, so yay!
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