Category: Screenings

  • Week 13: Game of Thrones

    As semester draws to a close, Spocksoc will be finishing on a high note: Game of Thrones Season 4. For those who have never seen it before, there is too much to explain properly. A few things you should know: Starks hate Lannisters Lantisters hate Starks Daenerys loves dragons Everyone hates Joffrey Seems simple enough?…

  • Week 12: Helix

    As semester 1 draws to a close, Spocksoc will be continuing our weekly Friday night screening. This week, we start a new show: Helix. A team of Scientists from the Center of Disease Control and Prevention travel to the Arctic to study a potential outbreak of disease. What they find throws them into a life-and-death…

  • Week 11: Continuum Season 3

    This week, we will be we’ll be starting season 3 of Continuum. For those who have never seen it before: When a group of rebels convicted as terrorists escapes execution by fleeing from the year 2077 to 2012, Kiera Cameron, a future Vancouver law enforcement officer, is involuntarily transported with them. In order to track…

  • Week 10: Arrow Season 2

    Don your hoods, grab your bow and apply green eye shadow, for this week Spocksoc returns to Starling City in Arrow. After five years stranded on an island, billionaire playboy Oliver Queen is found and returned to his family in Starling City. During the day he works to rebuild his life, while at night he…

  • Week 9: Grimm

    Once again, Spocksoc is holding our usual Friday Night screenings this week with Season 3 of the dark fantasy Grimm Homicide Detective Nick Burkhardt of the Portland Police Bureau learns he is descended from a line of “guardians” known as “Grimms,” charged with keeping balance between humanity and the mythological creatures (called “Wesen”) of the…

  • Week 8: Lost Girl Season 4

    Hello and welcome back. I hope you have enjoyed you mid-semester break and, unlike me, have had a productive week. To kick off the second half of semester we have season 4 of Lost Girl. Bo is a succubus who grew up in an adoptive human family, unaware of her non-human nature and of the…

  • Mid-Sem Break: Orphan Black

    Hello again. I hope you are all enjoying Easter and your mid-semester break. Spocksoc will be continuing our normal Friday screenings this week with Orphan Black The series follows Sarah Manning, a con woman and small-time hustler. She witnesses a bizarre incident- a woman who appears to be her exact twin, committing suicide by jumping…

  • Week 7: Haven Season 4

    Hello once again. With uni-break just around the corner, Spocksoc will be continuing our weekly Friday screenings. For Easter Friday this week, we will be showing season 4 of Haven When FBI Special Agent Audrey Parker (Emily Rose) arrives in the small town of Haven, Maine, on a routine case, she soon finds herself increasingly…

  • Week 6: Defiance

    Spocksoc is holding another Friday night screening this week, continuing with season 1 of Defiance. Defiance is set in 2046, in the aftermath of a conflict between Earth and a wandering alien species known as the Votans. During the war, the Votan fleet was destroyed, stranding the Votans on Earth and raining down debris and…

  • Week 5: Agents of Shield

    Spocksoc, Assemble! This week we have the return of Marvel’s Agents of Shield. Following the events of The Avengers, S.H.I.E.L.D. (Strategic Homeland Intervention, Enforcement and Logistics Division) sets up a small team, headed by Agent Phil Coulson, to investigate superhuman and supervillain activity. A must-see for any fan of the Marvel universe. As always, we…