by Will | Feb 3, 2018 | COUCHPOTATO, WRITING
The show I forgot to put on my Top Twenty List of 2017 (but wouldn’t have made the top ten) looked to have become less American and less godly when it was announced American Gods new showrunner would be… Hold your horses, Louis! Let’s get a bit of...
by Will | Jan 26, 2018 | COUCHPOTATO
Better Call Saul S04 news has arrived from the ether, and it will leave you cold, shivering, naked and digging your own grave in the New Mexico desert. The good news, as evidenced in a Tweet from co-creator Peter Gould, is that filming on Better Call Saul S04 is...
by Will | Jan 11, 2018 | COUCHPOTATO, DIRECTING, WRITING
You may have noticed that, after an enthusiastic effort at the beginning, I stopped posting The Leftovers reviews about half way through season three. This is because I get so involved in Damon Lindelof shows that I cannot write subjectively. They are not TV shows,...
by Will | Jan 9, 2018 | COUCHPOTATO
I wrote back in April, when the show returned to our screens that Better Call Saul was “both such a delight to watch and the antithesis of America right now…” going on a long rant about The Greatest Country on Earth’s love of style over...
by Will | Jan 8, 2018 | COUCHPOTATO, DIRECTING
David Fincher’s Mindhunter came out of nowhere to arrive on Netflix and instantly wrote itself into my top five shows of 2017. Based on the book Mind Hunter: Inside FBI’s Elite Serial Crime Unit, the brutal series tells the tale of two FBI agents Holden...
by Will | Jan 7, 2018 | COUCHPOTATO
The Discovery Channel’s Manhunt: Unabomber shouldn’t be in my top five shows of the year. If you need a clue as to why, well the clue is in the words “The Discovery Channel” and yet, the show was utterly gripping, bingeworthy stuff. Truth be...