Despite being a genre beset with its own trappings, clichés, and expectations, science fiction has a tendency to subsume nearly every other genre. In the annals of television, it seems that nothing is more common and consistently popular than the police procedural, so it makes good sense to mash it up with science fiction. But is sci-fi too lousy with space cops, time cops, and even dinosaur cops? With this week’s American debut on the SyFy Channel of the new time travel crime show, Continuum, the sci-fi police procedural is back. But did this series really need to be a cop show? Or is this the sci-fi cop show to end all sci-fi cop shows?
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