Surely you’ve heard by now (because we’ve certainly repeated it often enough) that Battlestar Galactica, the new remake of the cheesy ’70s series, is the most thrilling and trenchant dramatic series on TV at the moment (except, of course, for The Wire). Maybe you still haven’t given it a shot because you just can’t believe a show set on a spaceship could possibly engage you when you can watch the simpering narcissists of Grey’s Anatomy instead—in which case, you are an idiot. But if you’ve simply not yet gotten around to it, hurry: Rent the DVDs of Seasons 1 and 2 (they’re short), and then hasten over to iTunes to catch up on the first handful of episodes for Season 3 because this one is not just about other planets; it’s about our own.

So speaketh Salon.com last November, and they’re still right. It astonishes (and, frankly, kind of angers) me that more people aren’t watching Battlestar. The fact that most people I know don’t watch it further confounded me on Sunday, when critic Laura Miller was on Studio 360 to speak about about why “one of the first, most surprising attempts to deal with the [Iraq] war” was in the “wasteland of Friday night basic cable programming, on a channel otherwise devoted to no-budget thrillers about killer centipedes.”

Regardless of whether you’re dumb and haven’t started watching it yet, or if you already love Battlestar, Miller’s piece on Salon.com and her appearance on Studio 360 are well worth a read and/or listen. The Salon.com piece is here; the 360 segment is below.