Joshua Alston's posts

The phrase “like nothing else on television” has earned its rightful place on the master list of hackneyed critical…

Ask horror-movie buffs to name their favorite decade for the genre, and you’ll likely receive a variety of answers.…

Previously on Homeland…

There’s never an inopportune moment to revisit The War Of The Worlds, the seminal H.G. Wells novel that’s been…

The horror genre loves awful humans, the kind of arrogant, self-obsessed meat puppets that simply demand to be…

If the heart-rending saga of the Central Park Five didn’t exist, Dick Wolf would have had to invent it. After all,…

The public policy around police-involved shootings of unarmed African-Americans hasn’t progressed much since civil…

Of the many challenges writer-director Ethan Hawke dealt himself in dramatizing the life of unsung country musician…

First things first: Thank God and Channing Dungey for a forthcoming fifth season of Black-ish.

Of the many compliments that can be hurled at Atlanta, the highest has to do with the show’s tendency to…

“FUBU” has a vestigial quality, which probably sounds like an insult, but it’s not intended to. Perhaps it’s because …

Nine episodes into Atlanta Robbin’ Season, each of the four central characters has lived their own surreal horror…

Set in the fictional Los Angeles suburb of Agrestic, California—a town remarkably lenient on marijuana use—Weeds…

It’s hard to tell if anything will ever truly stick in the Atlanta universe. At the risk of belaboring the point,…

Van is, now as ever, Atlanta’s most and least accessible character. She’s certainly been the most relatable, in that…

“Teddy Perkins” is the sixth episode of Atlanta’s second season, a point by which most television shows have become…

Atlanta goes heavy on the callbacks, which is to be expected of any sitcom that strives to build its own alternate…

In most durable couples, there’s a dancer and a spectator, the person anxiously waiting for “Hot In Herre” to play…

The more things change, the more they stay the same. That’s especially true in Atlanta, a show that’s most…

To clear up what appears to be a common misconception I’ve seen in most coverage of Robbin’ Season, the concept…