Showing posts with label top picks from the KaCSFFS TV panel. Show all posts
Showing posts with label top picks from the KaCSFFS TV panel. Show all posts

January 14, 2018

TV and a bowl of chili! What better, on a winter night?

January KaCSFFS meeting features winter favorites!
When: Saturday, January 20, 2018. Doors open: 6:00 p.m. for setup -- Program begins 7:00 p.m. begin close-down by 9:30.
Where: The Writers Place, 3607 Pennsylvania Avenue, Kansas City, MO 64111

Annual Chili Cook-off
The Annual KaCSFFS Chili Cook-off is an ever-popular winter meeting event. We're following tradition and holding it in January this year. Please prepare and bring your favorite chili recipe, to share and vie for recognition! 

We will have separate categories for SPICY and MILD, so the unwary won't be disappointed. Please prepare a small sign that:

  • Gives your chili a TITLE (that won't betray who brought it).
  • Indicates whether it goes in the SPICY or MILD category.

We'll vote using the chili titles to identify favorites in each category!

Don't want to bring chili? Then bring your favorite side dishes or garnishes: cornbread, shredded cheese, corn chips, sour cream--whatever you like best with your chili! And as ever, bring your own drinkables, too. KaCSFFS provides cups, bowls, and tableware.

A review of SF, Fantasy and Horror TV in 2017 
Here's a small sampling of the 2016 shows, discussed by our panel in 2017. What will they discuss this year?
Another KaCSFFS January favorite also returns: our panel discussion of the best and worst science fiction, fantasy, and horror genre television shows in the year just ended. Recently, we've had a lot of them to discuss!

Weather permitting, we'll hear once again again from our panelists Carol Doms, Ken Keller, and Earline "Cricket" Beebe. Have your own strong opinions? Bring them: (civil and reasonable) audience participation is encouraged! Help us make sense of 2017's television offerings.

IMAGES: The photo of the KaCSFFS Chili cook-off lineup from 2015 was taken by Jan S. Gephardt for KaCSFFS promotional use. In the montage, the Lucifer image is from the Lucifer Wiki; the one for The Expanse is from YouTube; the Stranger Things image is from TV Series Online; and that for Outcast is from a website that's no longer there. Many thanks to all!

February 27, 2017

8 top picks from 2016 TV: Do you agree?

Do you agree with our list of the Best SF TV Shows in 2016?
Our panel discussion at the January 21, 2017 KaCSFFS Meeting looked at the good, the not-so-good, and the epic fails from the 2016 television shows that had science fiction, fantasy, or horror themes.

Panelists Carol Doms and Ken Keller started with a list of 42 shows, and ended the evening having heartily recommended eight as their top picks. Do you agree? Please add your comments below!

Our panelists' Picks in Alphabetical Order:
BrainDead



The Expanse



Lucifer



Outcast



People of Earth



Preacher



Stranger Things



Westworld



So, then, what do you think? Did we call them pretty well? Miss one? Praise a stinker? Please share your opinions in the Comments section below the image credits.

IMAGES: Many thanks to Eric M. Rozek for the Brain Dead logo, and to YouTube CBS for the Brain Dead trailer. To YouTube for both the 2015 still for The Expanse, and the 2016 trailer for the show. To the Lucifer Wiki for the title image and to YouTube for the Lucifer trailer. To International Business Times for the title image for Outcast, and to YouTube for the Outcast trailer. To YouTube for both the title image and the trailer for People of Earth. To Comic Book for the Preacher title image, and to AMC on YouTube for the trailer. To TV Series Online for the Stranger Things title image, and to Netflix US & Canada on YouTube for the trailer. And to TV Series Finale for the Westworld title image, and to HBO on YouTube for the trailer.