Joshua Alston's posts

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…

In the run-up to the second season of Atlanta, Donald Glover’s comments to the press have revealed two interesting…

The A.V. Club’s picks for the top TV of 2017 carry with them a hint of escapism: otherworldly settings,…

In The A.V. Club’s attempt to carve the mountain of TV released in 2017 into a monument commemorating the year’s…

The fun of Nathan For You lies in the unpredictability of its format. A Nathan episode doesn’t follow predictable…

“I Came Out A Believer,” Molly Lambert’s Grantland piece from 2014, remains the closest thing to a proper, thorough…

The hard part of processing the final act of Ten Years Later is figuring out what exactly happened to the Camp…

Wet Hot American Summer teeters between being a rousing, fast-paced tall tale suited to the campfire and a…

At some point during these eight episodes of Wet Hot, I’m going to have to get it through my head that Ten Years…

Wet Hot American Summer has expanded from a relatively small, esoteric comedy film about a weird summer camp into a…

The Wet Hot American Summer Cinematic Universe is crammed tightly with goofy gags and absurd premises, many of which…

The Leftovers has earned the right to whatever kind of finale it damn well pleases. That feels like an odd thing to…

The final season of The Leftovers wouldn’t have been complete without another visit to the other side, the…

Episodic loglines are one of the more underappreciated art forms in the era of Peak TV. At their best, they have a…

In 1995, Neale Donald Walsch published the first book in his best-selling Conversations With God series, which…

The image above is technically from the fifth episode of Dear White People, but the armed confrontation between…

Winchester University needed a palate cleanser after the Pastiche party, and so did Dear White People, which has…

In an interview with Vulture, Damon Lindelof described The Leftovers as a love story, with the relationship between…