{"id":134533,"date":"2017-09-04T11:09:49","date_gmt":"2017-09-04T17:09:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=134533"},"modified":"2017-09-04T16:09:04","modified_gmt":"2017-09-04T22:09:04","slug":"killjoys-no-dark-matter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/09\/04\/killjoys-no-dark-matter.html","title":{"rendered":"Some more “Killjoys” but no more “Dark Matter”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Our family won the Renewal Lottery, for once, with this Syfy announcement, as we’ve been faithful Killjoys<\/i> fans, but never got into Dark Matter.<\/i><\/p>\n

The KJ announcement, though, isn’t unalloyed. It’s two more seasons of 10 episodes each, which is huge to wrap up a series, sure, but is still some truncated space to tell the intended (?) story.<\/p>\n


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\nSyfy’s Killjoys Renewed for Two Final Seasons, But Dark Matter is Cancelled<\/a><\/span>
\nSyFy\u2019s story of interplanetary bounty hunters Dutch, Jon Jaqobis, and D\u2019avin Jaqobis is getting two more seasons to wrap up its story and gracefully exit the stage. Unfortunately, another Syfy show didn\u2019t get so lucky.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Our family won the Renewal Lottery, for once, with this Syfy announcement, as we’ve been faithful Killjoys fans, but never got into Dark Matter. The KJ announcement, though, isn’t unalloyed. It’s two more seasons of 10 episodes each, which is huge to wrap up a series, sure, but is still some truncated space to tell … Continue reading “Some more “Killjoys” but no more “Dark Matter””<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":134537,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-plusposts","category-media-tv"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/killjoys.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":127862,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/09\/01\/killjoys-will-return.html","url_meta":{"origin":134533,"position":0},"title":"“Killjoys” Will Return!","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 1-Sep-15 1:22pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Another 10-episode season will return in 2016. 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