Hopefully you caught last week’s season and series premieres of Defiance and Dominion on Syfy last week. Defiance is absolutely excellent this season with a new dark edge, and definitely worth a recheck if you fell off of the fan train during its first season. Dominion is sort of an odd bird, but I’m going to keep with it and see where it goes.

Here are some previews for tonight’s new episodes:

TV Spot: Defiance – 202 Preview

TV Spot: Dominion – 102 Preview

Just in case you’re diving in to the second episode without seeing the first, you need to know that this clip from tonight’s new episode is a flashback:

Clip: Dominion – 102 Sneak Peek

Yowie, those Eight-Ball angels are creepy. Not sure what those are? Or what that whole “I’m a V2” thing is about, from the premiere? Here’s your source for all the background info necessary for you to be the Dominion Know-It-All that you so hope to become, to the delight and perhaps annoyance of all those with whom you discuss the show:

TV Spot: Dominion – The Citizens Handbook

To make it easy for you, here’s the link: enterdominion.com. It’s pretty cool, you should check it out even if you don’t want to be the Dominion Expert of your neighborhood.

Defiance, starring Grant Bowler, Stephanie Leonidas, Tony Curran, Jaime Murray, James Murray, Graham Greene, Jesse Rath, Dewshane Williams, Trenna Keating, Justin Rain and Nicole Munoz, airs Thursdays at 8/7c on Syfy.

Dominion, starring Christopher Egan, Tom Wisdom, Roxanne McKee, Alan Dale, Anthony Stewart Head, and Luke Allen-Gale, airs Thursdays at 9/8c on Syfy.