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HOT GALLERY: The Stars of the Cult-Favorite Series Firefly, Then and Now
It’s better to have lost and loved than never to have loved a brilliant, genre-bending, beautifully written show at all. Joss Whedon’s scifi-Western Firefly lasted less than a season on Fox, but its impact has far outlived the series. The cast reunited briefly in 2005 for the movie Serenity, but for devoted fans—like us—there just wasn’t enough of what was, for a time, the smartest, most original show on television. By Nina Hämmerling Smith
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Morena Baccarin as Inara Serra on Firefly in 2002 and Morena Baccarin in 2012
Firefly was one of Baccarin’s first roles, but she’s since gone on to appear on The O.C., Stargate SG-1, the failed reboot of the alien-invasion series V and, currently, the riveting thriller Homeland. Baccarin compared the studio’s efforts to retool V when it was clear that the formula wasn’t working to what happened on Firefly: “We didn’t have that opportunity on Firefly. We were just shut down, and it was really sad. And then we had a following.” (V was cancelled regardless.)
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