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Although the burst of steam I had for The Venture Brothers tapered off enough to cause an almost month-long gulf since the last blog post about the show, the sting of the show’s ending still lingers in the flavors of my thoughts. The television show (essentially about growing out of youthful...

Having me review the 1980s American TV series The Golden Girls can ultimately become a review of the sitcom format itself. The very observational tools I have for evaluating a sitcom comes from watching this show. Glimmers of that television show are some of my first viable memories. The timing...

Just who is Mary Tyler Moore? Who’s show is it? The titular character is Mary Richards. I suppose that means the lead actress is the ‘Mary Tyler Moore’ in question. An obvious answer I suppose, but one that confounded my simple brain when I was a child watching Nick at Night. Why not just use...

It’s not all chit-chat about comic books or old sitcoms here at the fredlambuth.com blog!

This time it will be my thoughts on all +1000 pages of Judgement in Tokyo by Gary J. Bass. A mammoth single volume, published in 2023, dealing with the convening of a court made to find...

I’m reviewing a contemporary movie! A blockbuster smash who’s success I am told proves that the audience does not in fact have ‘superhero movie fatigue’. However big of a ticket selling smash this movie proved to be with the domestic and international movie-going audience, I do have superhero...

It’s been said before here on the blog that I read these big fat non-fiction books to either learn a great deal about something, or to see some familiar historical characters muck it up in closer detail, or maybe to see them weaved into a greater context. Before reading this book I knew Petain...