A truly great pilot episode is a kind of magic trick. In under an hour, it has to introduce a world, sketch compelling characters, hint at long-term stakes, and still deliver a self-contained story ...

A good pilot episode can tell us a lot about where a "Star Trek" spinoff is going -- although a solid debut doesn't ...

Jennie Richardson is a TV Features and Lists Writer for Collider, and a graduate student pursuing an MFA in Fiction Writing. In other words, she really loves stories. A pilot episode has the difficult ...

The first episode (or pilot) in any TV series has to do so much heavy lifting. It needs to establish the world and its characters while creating a story compelling enough to get viewers returning for ...