Firefly is an American space western television series created by writer and director Joss Whedon, under his Mutant Enemy Productions label. Whedon served as executive producer along with Tim Minear.
Firefly aired for one season, with episodes broadcast out of sequence and four episodes not shown during the initial season at all. With high production costs (as with many space adventure shows) and low ratings, Fox decided to cancel the series. It was later briefly revived as “Serenity”, a feature film by Universal Studios. By then the fanbase had spread by word of mouth and DVD sales, and the show enjoys a solid core of fans to this day.
The series is set in the year 2517, after the arrival of humans in a new star system, and follows the adventures of the renegade crew of Serenity, a “Firefly-class” spaceship. The ensemble cast portrays the nine characters who live on Serenity.
The show explores the lives of some people who fought on the losing side of a civil war and others who now make a living on the outskirts of society, as part of the pioneer culture that exists on the fringes of their star system. It’s a future where the only two surviving superpowers, the United States and China, fused to form the central federal government known as the Alliance, resulting in the fusion of the two cultures.
An in-depth look at the making of the show, with interviews with Firefly cast, crew, and creator Joss Whedon. “This is us, in the future. Our problems are the same… there are just more of us, spread over more planets” ~ Nathan Fillion Original air date: 2003
Beginning with a flashback to six years prior to the start of the series’ events, back when Malcolm Reynolds (Nathan Fillion) and Zoë Washburne (Gina Torres) were rebel soldiers in the war against the Alliance. The show jumps forward to the “present” where Mal and Zoë are now part of a salvage crew with Jayne Cobb (Adam Baldwin), Kaylee Frye (Jewel Staite), and Zoë’s husband Hoban “Wash” Washburne (Alan Tudyk) on the Firefly class spaceship Serenity. The crew is running a salvage operation on [...]
“Objects in Space” is the 14th episode and series finale of the science fiction television series Firefly created by Joss Whedon. Serenity encounters Jubal Early, a ruthless professional bounty hunter who will stop at nothing to retrieve River. But River, feeling unwelcome on the ship, takes a novel approach to escaping from the long arm of the Alliance. Original air date: 13 December 2002 The inspiration for this episode came from Executive Producer Tim Minear, who gave Whedon the idea [...]
A Companion-trained friend of Inara’s who runs a brothel calls for help from Serenity when a local bigwig reveals his intentions to take “his” baby from the woman he impregnated. Original air date: 19 August 2003 Another of the “unaired” episodes that didn’t see the light of day until after Firefly’s cancellation.
A former Independence soldier who had served with Mal and Zoe returns in a dramatic manner, with a vicious Alliance officer chasing after him for some unusual smuggled goods. Original air date: 15 July 2003 “The Message” was the last episode shot – but not the last episode aired during the sci-fi western’s original run on Fox in 2002. Sad. This was one of the great ones, full of metaphorical resonance about Fireflyitself. The story had the smugglers of Serenity transporting a corpse to [...]
Saffron returns to plague Serenity with a scheme to steal a rare antique weapon from a wealthy landowner. Unfortunately for Mal, she neglects to mention just how she came across the information needed to break into the landowner’s home. Original air date: 28 June 2003 “Trash” is one of three episodes of Firefly that Fox declined to air during the show’s original run in 2002. Those shelved treasures have since been seen by any and all who care via DVD and previous cable network [...]
Angered at Zoe’s unshakable war connection to Mal, Wash demands a shot at a field assignment. Unfortunately, crime lord Niska chooses this moment to exact a brutal vengeance for Mal’s failure to complete an earlier job. Original air date: 6 December 2002
Hard up for cash, Serenity takes on a job from Simon: break into an Alliance hospital on central world Ariel so that he can get a thorough diagnostic of River and the crew can loot the valuable stores of medicine. But River’s pursuers are hot on their trail, and they receive some unexpected inside help. Original air date: 15 November 2002 The episode opens as Serenity heads to Ariel, a central world of the Union of Allied Planets as Inara [...]
After Serenity suffers a catastrophe that leaves her crew with only hours of oxygen, flashbacks reveal a story in three timeframes: events in the present, events in the near-past that led to the present, and events in the past that led to the formation of Serenity’s motley band. Serenity is dead in space; her interiors in disarray and completely devoid of occupancy. The one exception is Captain Malcolm Reynolds, who falls to the floor of the cargo bay, bleeding from a stomach wound. [...]
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