THE CASE OF THE MAGICAL INVESTIGATOR – by Paula & Terry Erdmann

The Unfettered Critic – November 2024

AN INCREASINGLY COMMON TV TROPE has ripened into our favorite TV trope.

We hope that provocative sentence has prompted you to ask two questions. #1: What the heck is a trope? and #2: What favorite TV trope is that?

To answer your first question, a trope is an overused device, or stereotype. […]

AUTUMN LEAVES MUST FALL – by Paula & Terry Erdmann

The Unfettered Critic – October 2024

WE ADMIT IT. We’ve spent the summer complaining too much about the weather. You’ve probably wondered when the heck your Unfettered Critters would get back to their primary gig: complaining about—no, no, critiquing! —Entertainment. Yeah. We wondered, too. We’ve missed it. So, what’s been stopping us?

Well, we’ve had an unwelcome […]

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A TAIL OF OUR TOWN – by Paula & Terry Erdmann

The Unfettered Critic – September 2024

“There are places I’ll remember, all my life,
though some have changed. Some forever, not for better.
Some have gone and some remain.”
~John Lennon, “In My Life.”

WE’VE COME TO THE CONCLUSION that Jacksonville is the center of the universe. Or at least our universe. We love the fact that—assuming you […]

HOT FUN IN THE SUMMERTIME – by Paula & Terry Erdmann

The Unfettered Critic – August 2024

BACK IN THOSE HEADY DAYS when groups like The Doobie Brothers and Three Dog Night were but burgeoning hopefuls, one of us Unfettered types harbored similar rock ‘n’ roll proclivities, and wrote a lyric that went: Everybody talks about the weather/But nobody does nothin’ about it (cha, cha, cha). The […]

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THERE’S A PLACE FOR US – by Paula & Terry Erdmann

The Unfettered Critic – July 2024

Britt Season!

Just entered the start of Britt Season!

It suddenly occurs

We’ve written not one word…

About it!

 

Britt Season!

Say it loud and there’s music playing.

Say it soft and…and…well, there’s music playing then, too.

 

OKAY, MOVING ON. It’s late—July already. That beautiful stage on the hill has been sweetly resonant for weeks, with the Britt […]

AND WE STILL HAVEN’T FOUND WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR – by Paula & Terry Erdmann

The Unfettered Critic – June 2024

JUST THE OTHER DAY, one of us was saying that he’d like to see a good caper movie, like The Sting, or Ocean’s Eleven. Something with a lot of action that raises adrenalin levels and makes you think. Coincidentally, Netflix sent us an ad boasting about a bunch of “action-packed […]

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GOOD BACKGROUND “NOISE” – by Paula & Terry Erdmann

The Unfettered Critic – May 2024

IT’S NOT AS THOUGH our TV is always on.

Granted, it’s active most evenings, as we watch a movie, or a favored weekly program.

But during the daytime…

Okay, okay—it’s on then too—providing comforting background noise to our daily activities, like waves slapping a pristine shore, or soft breezes rustling leaves of forest […]

By |2024-05-15T18:25:49-07:00May 1st, 2024|Featured Stories, The Unfettered Critic|Comments Off on GOOD BACKGROUND “NOISE” – by Paula & Terry Erdmann

WHAT KIND OF FOOLS ARE WE? – by Paula & Terry Erdmann

The Unfettered Critic – April 2024

“APRIL IS THE CRUELEST MONTH,” T.S. Elliot wrote in The Waste Land. He was right, at least about the month’s first day, abused as “April Fool’s Day.” We’re not big fans of the all-too-common practice of jokers attempting to draw attention to themselves by playing foolish pranks upon any and […]

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Who? Who? WHO? – by Paula & Terry Erdmann

The Unfettered Critic – March 2024

CARTOONIST DAVID SIPRESS NAILED IT with his recent illustration in the The New Yorker, titled “Two Baby Boomers Watch the Grammys.”

Two old geezers (Hey, that’s us!) sit on a sofa in front of their telly, watching the festivities. The individual thought bubbles above their heads read, “Who?” “Who?” “Who?” And […]

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WHAT’S IN A NOSE? “MAESTRO” – by Paula & Terry Erdmann

The Unfettered Critic – February 2024

WHEN WE HEARD that actor/writer/director Bradley Cooper was planning a bio-pic about Leonard Bernstein, we were stoked. Bernstein stands as perhaps America’s greatest conductor/composer, listed historically and globally among icons such as Mozart and Beethoven. As for Cooper, we praised his abilities in this column in 2018, for his work […]

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Bands On Film – by Paula & Terry Erdmann

The Unfettered Critic – Dec 2023/Jan 2024

We have good news and bad news.  Or, more accurately, good news and sad news.

We’re wildly happy that Jacksonville is home to the Britt Music and Arts Festival, and felt thrilled throughout the recent season as Executive Director Abby McKee handily demonstrated her prowess at the helm. Yet there’s […]

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Da Doo Run Run Run, Da Doo Run Run – by Paula & Terry Erdmann

The Unfettered Critic – November 2023

This is dedicated… to the one I love…

Or, more accurately, the ONES WE love. We’re thinking about “the girl groups,” teenage vocalists that had as much to do with the birth of Rock ‘n’ Roll as Elvis Presley, or as the Sears catalog’s guitar page.

You know of whom we speak. […]

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A Helluva Town – by Paula & Terry Erdmann

The Unfettered Critic – October 2023

You know that television commercial that seems to get recycled every few years? The one where the old lady pitifully moans, “Help! I’ve fallen and I can’t get up!”

This isn’t about that. Although it might as well be.

Our personal pitiful moan this month is: “Help! We’ve traveled and we can’t […]

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Four Score… and More – by Paula & Terry Erdmann

The Unfettered Critic – September 2023

Hi.

Terry here.

Paula has the month off—except that she rewrote, edited, and grammar-corrected this into readability, so, “Thanks, Paula.”

Anyway—recently I’ve been reminiscing about facts that seem, to me at least, stranger than fiction. For instance:

During the first two years of my life, the President of the United States was named Franklin […]

It’s Not the Years – It’s the Mileage – by Paula & Terry Erdmann

The Unfettered Critic – August 2023

Forty-two.

Yes, it’s the ultimate answer to life, the universe and everything. But more importantly, it’s the number of years since we first met Indiana Jones—archaeologist/professor/badass, with a bullwhip at his side and a well-worn fedora on his head.

Over the years, we’ve watched him battle his way through hostile natives, fascistic […]

Look To the Skies – by Paula & Terry Erdmann

The Unfettered Critic – July 2023

(In which your Unfettered Critics attempt to convince Our Readers that meteorology can be a form of entertainment.)

“Sure hope it doesn’t rain on Ringo,” we recently took to saying. Our concerns weren’t so much for our favorite drummer as for ourselves. Sir Ringo would stay dry on the covered Britt […]

By |2023-06-29T13:15:12-07:00June 29th, 2023|Featured Stories, The Unfettered Critic|Comments Off on Look To the Skies – by Paula & Terry Erdmann

Not Your Father’s TV Season – by Paula & Terry Erdmann

The Unfettered Critic – June 2023

You remember M.A.S.H., right? That viewer favorite ran for eleven seasons, an unusually long run, as most shows at the time said goodbye after six or seven seasons. Eleven wasn’t the record, of course—Gunsmoke had survived a then-unprecedented twenty seasons—but producers and marketing execs took note anyway. And today, a […]

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Okay Boomer – by Paula & Terry Erdmann

The Unfettered Critic – May 2023

FAR OUT! The Britt Festival has announced the entirety of their 2023 schedule, and, as expected, it’s a gas! Which is to say, it’s funky, and fab, and outtasight! We certainly dig it.

But then, we are—and we say this proudly—Boomers. Never thought that word would become synonymous with senior citizens, […]

By |2023-04-28T19:09:22-07:00April 28th, 2023|Featured Stories, The Unfettered Critic|Comments Off on Okay Boomer – by Paula & Terry Erdmann

A Little Not Much Just This Once – by Paula & Terry Erdmann

The Unfettered Critic – April 2023

Why do people go to the movies?

Prior to 2020, you probably would have answered, “For the experience of being entertained amidst a crowd of presumably like-minded individuals who will laugh or cry or gasp at the same time I do. And for the popcorn.”

These days, it’s more like: “I have […]

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A Night to Remember – by Paula & Terry Erdmann

The Unfettered Critic – March 2023

Long ago and far away, as we cheerfully informed friends that we’d purchased a home in distant Jacksonville, Oregon, a few surprised us by responding with a curious familiarity. “I once spent a whole day exploring the Jacksonville Cemetery,” recalled a dear friend in New Mexico. And from our tax […]

By |2023-03-02T14:45:21-08:00March 2nd, 2023|Featured Stories, The Unfettered Critic|Comments Off on A Night to Remember – by Paula & Terry Erdmann

The Autumn of Our Content – by Paula & Terry Erdmann

The Unfettered Critic – February 2023

Ah, Masterpiece Theatre.

Since 1971, this British-produced television program has sustained us unlettered American slobs (no offense) with weekly servings of fascinating drama. Initially, Masterpiece Theatre aired adaptations of classic novels and historical biographies. Then one happy day they added compelling mysteries and police procedurals into the mix.

These newcomers proved so […]

By |2023-01-27T17:35:56-08:00January 27th, 2023|Featured Stories, The Unfettered Critic|Comments Off on The Autumn of Our Content – by Paula & Terry Erdmann

Dilemma captivus est scriptor – by Paula & Terry Erdmann

The Unfettered Critic – December 2022/January 2023

Being that we’re comfortably relaxed into the gentle flow of Jacksonville living, the most pressing responsibility we encounter each month is the content of this column. “What the heck should we write about this time,” one of us will start. “We could take in a movie,” comes an oft-repeated […]

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Of Light & Magic & the Inevitable Impact of Innovation – by Paula & Terry Erdmann

The Unfettered Critic – October 2022

Time keeps on slippin’, slippin’, slippin’

Into the future…” ~Steve Miller, 1976

Slippin,’ in fact, happens all the time.

Let’s say you come up with the most amazing, ground-breaking technology ever seen. Your awesome innovation changes everything it touches and is applauded as true magic.

Then, in the blink of a decade or two […]

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It’s Too Darn Hot – by Paula & Terry Erdmann

The Unfettered Critic – September 2022

Cole Porter had it right. It’s too darn hot… to sup, fill the cup, or engage in any of the usual (ahem) shenanigans with your honey during this hot, hot, hot summer.

Our suggestion: boost the air conditioning, and stream, baby, stream—on the web, that is. Whether it’s a movie you […]

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Viva Las Elvis – by Paula & Terry Erdmann

The Unfettered Critic – August 2022

We thought it would be easy. We’d drive to the theater, watch Elvis, and write a review. We already knew so much about the legendary singer, we figured we could write a worthy column even without seeing the movie. The title, after all, is “Elvis,” so it’s about Elvis—right?

Well, as […]

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Something to Talk About – by Paula & Terry Erdmann

The Unfettered Critic – June 2022

Bonnie Raitt is coming back to the Britt stage. YAY!

Bonnie first “broke” into the public eye with her 1989 album, Nick of Time. It won three Grammy Awards, and is among the few CDs that never get re-alphabetized into our overstuffed library of the things. But before that heady experience, […]

By |2022-05-27T18:15:18-07:00May 27th, 2022|Featured Stories, The Unfettered Critic|Comments Off on Something to Talk About – by Paula & Terry Erdmann

A View From the Bridgerton – by Paula & Terry Erdmann

The Unfettered Critic – May 2022

Downton Abbey! Have you heard it’s coming back?”

A voice called from across the street, not far from Jacksonville’s historic downtown. We looked around, and realized it belonged to a neighbor whom we hadn’t seen for two mask-obscured years. We recalled that she was a Review reader familiar with our humble […]

By |2022-05-02T09:28:56-07:00May 2nd, 2022|Featured Stories, The Unfettered Critic|Comments Off on A View From the Bridgerton – by Paula & Terry Erdmann

If It Worked Once . . . – by Paula & Terry Erdmann

The Unfettered Critic – April 2022

We mentioned “remakes” in our last column: new movies based on existing properties that inspired studios and filmmakers to wanna do them again. Remake motivation for studio executives is obvious. If it made money before, the prospect of cashing in on the same property a second time is irresistible.

Motivation for […]

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Oscar Time: Reflections On a Gilded Icon – by Paula & Terry Erdmann

The Unfettered Critic – March 2022

You were up at five AM on February 8, anxiously awaiting revelation of the 2021 Oscar nominations, right?

Yeah, neither were we, but then, we’re old hands at this. We slept in, and looked them up on the ‘net later in the day. We felt pretty smug because we’d actually seen […]

By |2022-03-03T13:10:10-08:00March 3rd, 2022|Featured Stories, The Unfettered Critic|Comments Off on Oscar Time: Reflections On a Gilded Icon – by Paula & Terry Erdmann

Let’s all stay out of the lobby… – by Paula & Terry Erdmann

The Unfettered Critic – February 2022

Sinking into a comfy seat in a crowded auditorium ain’t gonna happen for us—yet. The good news, however, is that we all can be entertained at home (for just a little longer).

May we recommend Director Peter Jackson’s perfect (we mean it) documentary, The Beatles: Get Back, streaming on Disney+. The […]

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What We Left Behind – by Paula & Terry Erdmann

The Unfettered Critic – December 2021/January 2022

Have you ever felt as though you’re in a Twilight Zone episode?

Of course you have. Everybody feels that way these days—ever since early 2020, when we all woke to discover that our entire planet had fallen prey to a deadly viral pandemic. Suddenly everything we knew about our existence […]

By |2021-11-30T10:32:57-08:00November 30th, 2021|Featured Stories, The Unfettered Critic|Comments Off on What We Left Behind – by Paula & Terry Erdmann

Sympathy for the Devil – by Paula & Terry Erdmann

The Unfettered Critic – November 2021

Back when TVs still wore rabbit ears, rumors spread about “pay television.” Folks chuckled, “Will we have to drop quarters into a box? Who’s gonna come around to pick up the coins?”

“Streaming” was something only salmon in the Pacific Northwest cared about.

Fast forward to the twenty-first century. The streaming bill […]

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Read All About It – by Paula & Terry Erdmann

The Unfettered Critic – October 2021

Trade magazine Publisher’s Weekly reports that book sales are climbing for the second year. This news can be traced directly to the pandammit. Statistics show that people have remembered that nothing’s more comforting than a good book.

But with thousands of new books being published, how does one choose? We want […]

By |2021-09-29T16:54:51-07:00September 29th, 2021|Featured Stories, The Unfettered Critic|Comments Off on Read All About It – by Paula & Terry Erdmann

What’s on Second? – by Paula & Terry Erdmann

The Unfettered Critic – September 2021

It began at the beginning. Literally.

You’re aware that John Wayne was born Marion Morrison, right? And that Marilyn Monroe’s birth name was Norma Jeane Mortenson until she changed it to Baker until she changed it again. Changing names has been movie star practice for so long that we’re not surprised […]

By |2021-08-26T15:18:04-07:00August 26th, 2021|Featured Stories, The Unfettered Critic|Comments Off on What’s on Second? – by Paula & Terry Erdmann

Didn’t Hear It Through the Grapevine – by Paula & Terry Erdmann

The Unfettered Critic – August 2021

We watched a movie at a theater for the first time in eighteen months.

Really.

And yes, it felt like a big deal, because post-vaccinations, with the pandammit looking a little less fearsome, we felt an itch to go where we didn’t have to pop our own corn. Hollywood, finally, was releasing […]

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It’s Getting Better All The Time – by Paula & Terry Erdmann

The Unfettered Critic – July 2021

Something’s in the air. Something soothing, as opposed to the scary silence that’s surrounded us for far too long.

Voices can be heard on the street, unmuffled by masks. We hear hellos. Hellos from friends we haven’t seen in a while. Hellos from friends we’re meeting for the first time.

We may […]

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When We’re Sixty-Four (Plus a Few) – by Paula & Terry Erdmann

The Unfettered Critic – June 2021

Sixty-three years ago, a vocal group called Danny and the Juniors wailed the lyrics, “Rock ‘n’ Roll Is Here To Stay” into a vinyl creed. Preachers and teachers and parents alike pooh-poohed the beat and the lyrics, but to the kids they were pure gospel.

Then Elvis was drafted, Jerry Lee […]

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What’s in a Name? – by Paula & Terry Erdmann

The Unfettered Critic – April 2021

The recent Super Bowl halftime show (well, last February) featured music by “The Weeknd.” We’d seen The Weeknd perform on several late night TV shows, so we knew his shtick. We say “his,” because The Weeknd is one guy. In our memory, one person occupying center stage used to be […]

Award Season (Does anybody care?) – by Paula & Terry Erdmann

The Unfettered Critic – March 2021

A long time ago in a memory far, far away, when the word “pandemic” likely triggered blank stares, your diligent Unfettered duo wrote an annual column related to the year’s Academy Award nominations. This year, as we write this, the nominations have yet to be announced, while the awards ceremony, […]

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All in the Family – by Paula & Terry Erdmann

The Unfettered Critic – February 2021

One evening in 1972, a folk singer ran over a skunk. When he got home, he spent fifteen minutes jotting down a tune about the accident, calling it, Dead Skunk in the Middle of the Road. The singer’s name was Loudon Wainwright III.

The early ‘70s was a musically transitional time. […]

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They Also Serve Who Only Mask-Up And Wait – by Paula & Terry Erdmann

The Unfettered Critic – December 2020/January 2021

Back in April (hard to believe that was this year), our column revealed that we’d completed another book, titled The Art of Star Trek: Discovery.

The timing was less than propitious. The world had just been smacked by a pandemic. No one, as yet, realized how far-reaching an impact it […]

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Groundhog Daze – by Paula & Terry Erdmann

The Unfettered Critic – November 2020

You’re drifting…warm…cozy…comfortable…

Peaceful.

And then something blasts from the radio on your nightstand—the one too close to your ear.

Maybe it’s Sonny & Cher, singing “I Got You Babe.” Maybe it’s Eric Teel saying something about a virtual pledge drive.

Instinct arm-wrestles with common sense…and wins! You manage to lash out, smack that bloody […]

By |2020-10-30T16:31:32-07:00October 30th, 2020|Featured Stories, The Unfettered Critic|Comments Off on Groundhog Daze – by Paula & Terry Erdmann

All About That Bass – by Paula & Terry Erdmann

The Unfettered Critic – October 2020

Jacksonville sat silent this summer, with a stillness settling over us like dust motes, as though a phantom orchestra on an abandoned stage performed a concert of quiescence for our hollow ears.

It was a most disconcerting sound. A sound of sadness.

Call it collateral damage. Call it a sidebar to a […]

By |2020-10-01T11:51:29-07:00October 1st, 2020|Featured Stories, The Unfettered Critic|Comments Off on All About That Bass – by Paula & Terry Erdmann

Pandemic Programming – by Paula & Terry Erdmann

The Unfettered Critic – September 2020

We interrupt your regular life to bring you these reminders: Wear the mask. Maintain social distance. Stick close to home.

Don’t go to movies. Or the theatre. Just turn on the Boob Tube.

Is there anything there you haven’t seen? Maybe on the Food Network…?

After you’ve burned through “Chopped,” “Diners, Drive-Ins and […]

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What a Long, Strange Trip It’s Been – by Terry J. Erdmann

“It’s a whale of a tale I’ll tell you, lads, a whale of a tale or two.”

In late September 2019, Paula and I were walking through Manhattan’s Upper West Side, admiring the ironwork that enhances the stoops on the brownstones. At one point I glanced up and saw that Paula was thirty feet ahead of […]

What We Left Behind – by Paula Block Erdmann & Terry Erdmann

The Unfettered Critic – Submitted for the May 2020 issue

Have you ever felt as though you’re in a Twilight Zone episode?

Of course you have. Everybody feels that way these days—waking up to discover that our entire planet has fallen prey to a deadly viral pandemic, the likes of which has never ever been experienced on […]

Everything’s Coming Up Star Trek…(Again) – by Paula Block Erdmann & Terry Erdmann

The Unfettered Critic – April 2020

You may recall that back in October we announced we were writing another book. At the time, we withheld the subject matter—but now the time has come for the Big Reveal!

Drrrrummmmm roll….

It’s a Star Trek book!

(Was there ever any doubt in your mind?)

Yes, Star Trek. Sometimes we write about other […]

Have Yourself a Merry Misfits Christmas – by Paula & Terry Erdmann

The Unfettered Critic – December 2019/January 2020

‘Tis time again for animated Christmas specials to pop-up on the tube, many of them rebroadcasts of beloved classics from decades ago. We won’t waste precious space to list them all (honestly, do you really care to hear about Grandma got Run Over By a Reindeer?). Instead, we’ll touch […]

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Unfettered Gratitude – by Paula & Terry Erdmann

The Unfettered Critic – November 2019

The Oxford English Dictionary defines “Gratitude” as: “A warm sense of appreciation of kindness received, involving a feeling of goodwill towards the benefactor, and a desire to do something in return.”

Not bad, eh? We couldn’t have said it better ourselves, and in gratitude to the OED editors we’ll return the […]

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Once More Unto the Breach – by Paula & Terry Erdmann

The Unfettered Critic – October 2019

We’re back.

And so are they.

“We” being your Unfettered Critics. “They” being. . . well, we’ll get to them in a moment.

Some of you may have noticed (and we thank those of you who’ve stopped us on the street to say you had) that our column mysteriously went missing from recent […]

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