Television

Joe R. Lansdale has been doing big things for a lot of years now (he published his first novel, Act of Love, way back in 1981), and yet somehow it seems like he’s doing even bigger things now. The prolific ...

Project Blue Book is a brain-sucking worm lodged in the zombified skull of America, incessantly jamming the fear button in what’s left of our parasite-eaten gray matter to provoke us into shadowboxing hallucinations of the Deep State and Russian spies.

There is something otherworldly about teenage girls. To those of us who have never been teenage girls, or those of us whose adolescences have receded into a dim bubblegum-scented, glitter-strewn past, they seem inherently alien. The intensity of their friendships, ...

Have you been feeling down recently? Are you feeling adrift in a world that doesn’t seem to make sense in spectacularly, sinisterly different ways compared to the usual ways so much that it confuses the crap out of you? You’re ...

Through the decades, anthology series have came and went with varying degrees of success. Many are generally forgotten, either by being so short-lived and/or failing to generate viewership, like ABC’s The Darkroom (1981), which ran a mere seven episodes. But ...

Just a few months prior to the debut of The Cosby Show, which allowed NBC to crawl out from under their ratings rock in the fall of 1984, there was another run for viewership gold held during the 1983-84 season. ...

Legend of stage and screen Stacy Keach has 15 minutes to talk. Factor in the foul-ups of connecting via an international operator and that window, sadly, reduces to 10. Yet still, the fact that someone of Keach’s stature and schedule ...

Even if you open your window to the sounds of birds tweeting or a gentle breeze rustling through the leaves of trees outside, you know it’s a temporary lull because the world out there is beyond crazy. We have unqualified ...

Jack Webb is as important to television drama as anyone who has ever lived. Working mostly in the period we might refer to as “classic television,” or the Golden Age, he should be held in as high regard as Rod ...

Theodore Robert Bundy, known in notoriety as Ted, once described himself as “the most cold-hearted son of a bitch you’ll ever meet.” Bundy was a serial murderer who confessed to at least 30 murders he committed throughout the 1970s before ...