Weekend Review: Helix, Enlisted, True Detective

Billy Campbell, Hiroyuki Sanada | Photo Credits: Philippe Bosse/Syfy

Made you jump. It’s about time a Syfy show had that effect on us again.

Syfy’s Helix (Friday, 10/9c) is a chiller in every sense of the word, a welcome return to gripping sci-fi form for a network that has lately ceded bragging rights to AMC (The Walking Dead), FX (American Horror Story) and even The CW (The Vampire Diaries) in the competitive arena of hardcore genre buzz. The spirit of Michael Crichton permeates this claustrophobic exercise in suspenseful paranoia, from Battlestar Galactica‘s Ronald D. Moore and series creator Cameron Porsandeh, who sets the first season almost entirely at an icy Arctic research compound that’s actually a hothouse for mysteriously grisly medical experiments.

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