The Unfettered Critic
EAT, DRINK, AND THE FOOD NETWORK – by Paula & Terry Erdmann
The Unfettered Critic – September 2025
THROUGH OUR amazing powers of anticipatory perception, Dear Readers, we already detect you muttering, “Hey, Critics—haven’t you talked about television food shows before?”
Well, yes. But in our defense, please note […]
RESULTS MAY VARY
The Unfettered Critic – August 2025
AS DEDICATED Entertainment Geeks, we’ve reviewed movies, music, plays, weather, books, dogs, and, of course, TV. It seems the only topic we haven’t appraised is TV commercials.
Until now.
The commercials that […]
THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING IRREVERENT – by Paula & Terry Erdmann
The Unfettered Critic – July 2025
THE PANDAMMIT OF 2020 changed the world of entertainment. It was a tedious period, during which we stopped visiting Places and Events that we’d long relished: Restaurants. Movie theaters. Music […]
SHORT AND SWEET…OR NOT SO SWEET – by Paula & Terry Erdmann
The Unfettered Critic – June 2025
YOU, DEAR READER, have little reason to concern yourselves with the whims that flutter aimlessly through your Unfettered Critics’ brains at those rare moments when they’re not […]
CRAVEN…BUT COZY – by Paula & Terry Erdmann
The Unfettered Critic – May 2025
WHO DOESN’T LOVE a “cozy?”
Cozies, as mystery lovers know, involve crime-solving in a charming setting (like a historic mansion), with minimal graphic violence (so the initial […]
MUSIC, MUSIC, MUSIC! – by Paula & Terry Erdmann
The Unfettered Critic – April 2025
DOCUMENTARY/ is the first line of a poem/ known as a haiku.
Really.
It has the required five syllables. Also, it allows us to put a five-syllable word into this Lifestyle Magazine […]
A REEL PAIN – by Paula & Terry Erdmann
The Unfettered Critic – March 2025
WHEN WE HEARD that Jesse Eisenberg had written, directed, and starred in an upcoming motion picture, we were intrigued. We’d first taken note of the New York-based actor in 2010, […]
AN INCOMPLETE UNKNOWN – by Paula & Terry Erdmann
The Unfettered Critic – February 2025
A PERSON’S LIFE runs from the birth canal to the burial ground. So when deciding to write a biopic about that life, at what point should a screenwriter jump in? […]
YOU ASKED FOR IT: WOLFS – by Paula & Terry Erdmann
The Unfettered Critic – Dec 2024/Jan 2025
RECENTLY we were drifting through Art Presence admiring an exhibit of locally-crafted artwork, when a woman looked up from a chair in a corner and calmly stated, “I’m waiting […]
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? […]