So to speak. Friday’s Eureka episode, “Stoned,” finds something in the hidden Pacific Northwest town of scientific freaks and geeks turning everyone into post-Medusa statues. We wish Syfy would have given us a clip of that, instead of the one featuring Sheriff Jack Carter and Dr. Allison Blake’s clumsy romance, viewable above. But that’s what you get when you let the whitecoats run things.
We’re stoked about the arrival of new cast member James Callis, who brings the same amount of horny cheese and grounded pathos to his new character, Dr. Charles Grant, as he did to Battlestar Galactica ‘s Gaius Baltar. (That said, if you actually know anyone who watches Eureka for its bizarre love triangles rather than its weird science, please speak now or forever hold your peace.)
More interesting than that melodrama is Syfy’s greenlight of Eureka ‘s fifth season. The show’s top-secret community of geniuses, always one step away from accidental annihilation, remains the best thing on the network, which is quickly being swallowed in a morass of so-called reality television and professional wrestling. Can a brother get a Middleman or Firefly reboot? Please?
