It’s Friday so that means a new episode of Syfy’s Helix. And yes, we’re pretty glad about that. The show is fun and we enjoy it. So should you.

On this week’s episode as Jordan’s condition deteriorates, Alan and Julia travel to an abandoned satellite station for help. There they will learn more about the virus – and Hatake’s plans. Oh Hitake, you evil man.

We’ve got a preview for tonight’s episode for you after the break. Also, there’s an interview with series star Kyra Zagorsky who talks about filming one of the most difficult scenes for her character. Sorry, could be some spoilers.

Check out both videos after the break. Helix airs tonight at 10/9C on Syfy.

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This week on The Following Mark hears noises coming from Luke’s room, and finds Giselle dead in Luke’s bed. Luke is pretending that she’s alive, but it’s very obvious that Giselle is dead. Luke tells him that Hardy killed her.

Max is stitching up Hardy’s gunshot wound while Hardy calls Mike. He tells Mike that Lily has a whole family, and that he thinks they (including Joe) are nearby. Mike tells him he’s on the way, and takes off without telling anyone at the FBI. When Mike arrives by himself, he tells Hardy he thinks the FBI has been compromised, and that someone from the inside has been tipping off Joe.

Lily and Joe are still in bed, and Lily is telling Joe all about how they can take the whole family to Venezuela. She has her own plane, and a place on the beach, and it’s very tough to extradite from Venezuela. Joe tells Lily that there are always options. Lily is upset that he doesn’t want to just pick up everything and leave. One of the French girls comes in to tell Lily there is a problem.

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Friday night used to be pretty much a wasteland when it came to TV shows. People go out on Friday nights so networks used to dump their least interesting shows, or ones they didn’t care much about, at the end of the work week.

Now, with pretty much everyone having a DVR and the networks needing to compete with cable and online, Friday’s TV fare has greatly improved. Case in point are two shows we’re big fans of: Grimm and Hannibal.

Both are new tonight, now that the Olympics are over, and we’ve got previews for both of them for you. We won’t get too much into details about what happens in the new episodes, but you can definitely expect some surprises and a lot of action.

Grimm airs at 9/8C followed by Hannibal at 10/9C on NBC. Check out the previews after the break.

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Carl is eating cereal as Michonne jokes with him.  She is wearing normal people clothes, and is acting like a normal person, not the emotionless zombie she’s been all along.  They talk and joke about soy milk, and for a minute they seem actually happy.  Not a good emotion for Carl, but none really seem to be.  Carl says he’d rather drink Judith’s formula than soy milk, and the realization that she is gone sends him back into a funk.

Rick thanks Michonne for making Carl laugh, and tells her she is the friend to him that he cannot be, since he is too busy being his father.  Michonne offers to take Carl looking for supplies so Rick can rest up.  Rick objects, but Michonne promises him it’s only one day of rest.

As they go from house to house, Michonne is trying to get Carl to laugh again, but she’s basically acting like an idiot.  Carl tells her he was laughing on the inside.  She tells Carl about her son, and says she could make him laugh all the time.  Carl seems shocked that Michonne was ever an actual person.  Can’t say I don’t agree.  He asked all kinds of questions, which Michonne promises to answer one at a time as they clear each room.

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We’ve said it before and we’ll say it again, Helix is a fun show. It’s also quite good and scary. So, you owe it to yourself to watch.

To help get you interested, we’ve got another in a series of previews for the show. This week’s episode is called “Level X” and promises to be just as crazy as the last ones.

In it “the scientists will learn more information about the virus, after discovering a secret lower level within the research facility.” And you just know that can’t be good. . . for anyone.

Check out the preview, and more, after the break. Look for Helix on Friday at 10/9C on Syfy.

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That’s not even me being sarcastic, as I have been known to be. Who were the people, aside from the ones who made money directly from it, hoping for the return of Heroes? I could maybe understand Jeph Loeb looking for a comeback, but he’s busy with Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. right now, so I can’t pin this one on him.

When talking about Heroes with the many geek friends and acquaintances I have, the common thread is that it started strong and by the second season had fallen apart. After that, popularity, ratings and the fandom waned.

In the end during what we thought was the series finale, everything got wrapped up in a trite and contrived little package that most of us hoped would stay sealed away with our HD-DVD box sets of season 1. The plot holes, hanging threads and characters that devolved could all be laid to rest and we’d all be better for it.

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In case you haven’t been watching, we need to alert you to the fact that HBO’s True Detective is a great show. But you can’t really be surprised, it is HBO after all. They have some other great shows you may have heard of like The Sopranos or Game of Thrones.

But if you really haven’t been watching, here’s a bit of info about the show:

True Detective is written by Nic Pizzolatto and directed by Cary Fukunaga. It centers on two detectives, Rust Cohle (Matthew McConaughey) and Martin Hart (Woody Harrelson), whose lives collide and entwine during a seventeen-year hunt for a serial killer in Louisiana. The investigation of a bizarre murder in 1995 is framed and interlaced with testimony from the detectives in 2012, when the case has been reopened.

In truth, that description doesn’t really do the show justice. It’s way more complicated than that. And awesome on so many levels.

If you have been watching (good for you) you know this Sunday brings a brand new episode, which we have a preview for after the break. Look for True Detective Sunday at 9/8C on HBO.

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If you haven’t been watching Helix on Syfy, you’re missing out. Over the course of its first seven episodes it’s become one of our “must watch” shows of the season.

With a brand new episode dropping tonight, we’ve got previews of it for you to get you ready. This is what it’s about:

It’s Day Eight. As Daniel gets closer to the truth about his past, Sutton wreaks havoc on the base. Yeah, she kinda does. But that’s okay because she looks great doing it.

Oh didn’t we mention who Sutton is played by? None other than Jeri Ryan. That’s her in the pic above.

Check out the previews after the break. Helix airs tonight at 10/9C on Syfy.

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This week’s episode almost plays in Pulp Fiction style (or as I am more familiar with, the Simpsons episode titled ’22 Short Films About Springfield’).  We see what has happened to everyone other than Rick, Carl, and Michonne (since we found out their fates last week).  One group will walk by a spot and notice something, and then we’ll see a different group having gone that way earlier, causing what we’ve already seen.

It’s difficult to describe without specific details, so hopefully my review will unmuddy the waters for those who I’ve totally confused above.  It starts with Beth and Daryl running through the woods.  Beth is narrating the scene with passages from a diary she started at some point.

Beth and Daryl are resting, but Beth is intent on doing something.  She wants Daryl to track, because he’s a tracker.  Daryl is just sitting there saying nothing.  Beth goes off on her own, and Daryl begrudgingly follows her.  She is convinced everyone is ok, and Daryl is not so bright eyed.

Beth finds some footprints, which she takes as a sign that “they” are alive.  Daryl only confirms that they were alive four or five hours ago.  Daryl sees some trampled grapes, and determines that the people that were there got scared and took off in a hurry.  They find an open area with a bunch of dead walkers.  Beth takes this as a sign that the people survived, but Daryl points out blood on a bush that is not from a walker.

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Much as it did with The Killing and Arrested Development, Netflix has decided to give a cancelled series a new lease on life. Well, for at least one more season anyway. That series? Star Wars: The Clone Wars.

That’s right, the streaming service will unleash a 13-episode sixth season of the animated series next month. The season will be called Titled The Lost Missions which promises to reveal “some of the deepest mysteries of the conflict between the light and the dark sides of the Force leading to a series finale.”

“An intrepid clone trooper discovers a shocking secret, Anakin Skywalker’s closest relationship is tested to its limits, and what Master Yoda discovers while investigating the disappearance of a Jedi could forever change the balance of power in the galaxy.”

Sounds good, right? We really hope this is a success because then it could open up other opportunities for canceled series that didn’t get a proper send off.

Firefly anyone? Let’s make it happen Netflix.

Look for Star Wars: The Clone Wars to debut in March 7.