The Unfettered Critic
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? […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]