Before he became the showrunner for Syfy’s Defiance, Kevin Murphy spent years as a writer and producer on ABC’s Desperate Housewives — which is one of the reasons he considers the Syfy drama less of a “space opera” than a show about relationships that just happens to be set in a post-apocalyptic Earth.
Of all the relationships on the show, the most complex dynamic might be between Datak and Stahma Tarr. They’ve moved from arrogant small-time Castithan crime lords to their current fate, which has included Stahma being forced to kill her daughter-in-law Christie in order to save her own life.
