In the robot's case, that's 1978's short-lived ... a robotic little ding-dong whose powers seemed to be producing whatever deus ex machina device a given episode might need for its resolution ...

After directing Ex Machina and Annihilation, Alex Garland wrote and directed an ambitious eight-episode sci-fi series on Hulu ...

In playwriting and fiction, we call it deus ex machina – literally, the “god out of the machine” – which has come to mean a miraculously happy or fortuitous ending to a long and agonizing ...