90s Sci-Fi TV Shows With Awful Reviews That Are Actually Worth Watching – Beragampengetahuan

“Tales From the Crypt” was such a massive hit for HBO from 1989 through 1996 that it only made sense to look for more EC Comics to adopt. The science fiction equivalent comics made the most sense, but their name, “Weird Science,” was already associated with a 1980s sci-fi sex comedy, and its TV spin-off. Perhaps also inspired by the success of their nudity-heavy sitcom “Dream On,” HBO made it “Perversions of Science” instead, with a pointedly erotic opening sequence and sexy CG robo-host named Chrome as the Crypt Keeper equivalent.

In the third episode, Kevin Pollak gets a key part of his anatomy stuck inside a sexbot and must hide it from his fiance (Melanie Shatner). Those EC Comics do predate the Comics Code, but we’re pretty sure that never happened in the 1950s tales. This kind of forced “maturity” and Chrome’s sex puns, rather than the straightforward sci-fi with a twist of the original comics, didn’t help the show find viewers.

Yet what a guest roster! William Shatner, Wil Wheaton, Jason Lee, Jamie Kennedy, Jeffrey Combs, Ron Perlman, Elizabeth Berkley, Vincent Schiavelli, Adam Arkin, Chris Sarandon, and even Dr. Joyce Brothers made appearances across the 10 episodes, which featured such directors as Walter Hill, Russell Mulcahy, Sean Astin, Tobe Hooper, and yes, William Shatner. (We probably don’t have to tell you his was the Kevin Pollak sex-bot one.) The concept may have been a trainwreck, but in this case it’s definitely one worth staring at.