Shining a light on movie serials involves covering a lot of ground. With more than 500 serials produced, that makes watching them all beyond monumental and with many of them now lost… actually impossible. Of those which survive, many are unwatchable.
Having touched on a large number of serials in previous posts, now is a good time to focus on the best among them. For me the place to start is with Sci Fi serials. Of all the serial genres that there are I particularly like Sci Fi, largely because they are completely divorced from modern reality. And while my main complaint about modern CGI action films is that they present an unbelievable, hyper-reality that defies the laws of physics and human ability… I’m fond of the science defying elements in these serials. They present a different kind of alternate reality.
Let’s take a closer look at three.
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