Leftridge: TV Time: The Americans Returns Next Week, Will Probably be Good
If you haven’t watched the first season of FX’s The Americans, there’s still some time to check it out before Wednesday night’s premier. It’s not on Netflix, though, so you’ll have to find it on...
View ArticleLeftridge: TV Time: Just in Time for Easter, ABC Premieres Resurrection
Upon first hearing about ABC’s new sci-fi drama Resurrection, my first thought was, “oh. OK. So… Walking Dead, but without the hilariously graphic violence due to network television limitations.” Then,...
View ArticleLeftridge: TV Time; Channeling Fargo
A month or so ago, my wife made a startling revelation: she’d never seen the darkly comedic, melodically disturbing 1996 masterpiece Fargo… After consulting a divorce attorney—who hung up on me after...
View ArticleLeftridge: TV Time: The Strain is the Worst Thing I’ve Ever Seen
If you were considering watching FX’s new original series The Strain, I’ve got some advice: DROP WHATEVER YOU’RE DOING AND DON’T WATCH IT, EVER. It’s just… terrible. See, I had reasonably high hopes, I...
View ArticleLeftridge: TV Time: So Many Shows, So Little Time
There’s a period of time—we’re coming out of it right now, actually—where all of the shows have gone into a merciful Christmas slumber. They’re not done for the season, but they’re also not willing to...
View ArticleLeftridge: TV Time: The Best Worst Spin Offs
Better Call Saul premieres Sunday night (and Monday night, kinda), and like everyone else who knows what’s good, my bowels are quaking in nervous, anticipatory terror. The anticipation is one of both...
View ArticleLeftridge: TV Time: Catching Up With Wayward Pines
Wayward Pines is like Twin Peaks, except modern and for Fox. It also has nothing to do with David Lynch, the person responsible for making Twin Peaks great. Instead, it’s from the mind of M. Night...
View ArticleLeftridge: TV Time: Orange is the New Black is Back for Season Three
I’ve got a thing for prison, I guess… Maybe it stems from my white-trash roots, long-nurtured by a stream of Canadian Mist whiskey and viewed through the lens of a Section 8 apartment’s dirty, cracked...
View ArticleLeftridge: TV Time: Because One Walking Dead Just Wasn’t Enough
What do you do when you have the most popular show on television but the demand is greater than your feasible output? Well, if you’re AMC, you spin off your enormously successful zombie show into...
View ArticleLeftridge: TV Time: Lots of Stuff in the Next Two Weeks
Fall is the best. The weather is less greasy, the air grows crisp, the leaves grow orange and crisp, and everyone everywhere is rubbing pumpkin and chili all over their bodies. Plus football, and then...
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