Jun 8, 2023
Tread Perilously's tour of modern Syfy and fantasy continues with The Magicians episode "Cheat Day."
Quentin Coldwater's administrative punishment -- a desk job in a mundane office building -- gets upended when he encounters fellow magician Emily Greenstreet. Exiled to the office park sometime earlier, it becomes clear...
Jun 1, 2023
Tread Perilously starts a month of modern sci-fi and fantasy that either aired on Syfy or should have with The Watch episode "The Dark in the Dark."
As the Assassins Guild and Thieves Guild continue their merger, Vimes becomes aware of the other artifacts the guilds need to complete their ritual. He dispatches Cheery,...
May 25, 2023
Tread Perilously's pilot season concludes with the TV movie The Brady Girls Get Married.
Six or so years after the conclusion of The Brady Bunch, Jan comes home with good news: her boyfriend Phillip Covington III has proposed! Unfortunately, Mike and Carol momentarily hesitate to give their blessing because they...
May 18, 2023
Tread Perilously's month of pilots takes a drive over to the rethink of The Munsters called Mockingbird Lane.
When Eddie Munster begins to show he is a true Munster, the family moves to the Mockingbird Heights area of San Francisco. And there, on Mockingbird Lane, Eddie's cousin Marylin buys 1313 -- the so-called "hobo...
May 11, 2023
Pilot season continues as Tread Perilously looks at the TV movie/backdoor pilot for Future Cop.
Lazy and slovenly beat cop Joe Cleaver (Ernest Borgnine!) -- who somehow still gets results -- is just the sort of man to aid the police commissioner in proving a "robot cop" would be bad for the force. The robot in question...