Landon Wright is a writer and ESL teacher currently residing in the deep red Tennessee. He writes fiction as well as essays about pop culture and its relation to society and politics.
Coming full circle is a narrative device as old as storytelling itself. Even when the story sucks, it always kind of works. Most of the time, especially nowadays, it comes at the end of a trilogy or...
While we’ve only just now hit the halfway point to the year, 2020 is already been pretty damned rough. As of writing this, various American cities are in the grips of massive protests and riots...
Somewhere along the way, it feels like podcasts took over. There is a podcast for everything, and I do mean everything (if you don’t believe me, just google whatever obscure hobby plus the word...
I remember when I first played Final Fantasy 7 way back in high school. It wasn’t my first Final Fantasy like it was for so many people, I had vague memories of playing one of the SNES Final...
Resident Evil as a franchise has been an incredible success. Most successful series get a good ten years or so, especially horror franchises. But Resident Evil has been going strong for two and a...
I’m sure you’ve noticed, but we now have about 10,000 dedicated streaming services. Everyone wants in on that, including Apple, though they’ve done a pretty piss poor of promoting their Apple...
Author’s Note: The very concept of an ‘auteur’ is one that’s been challenged in video games. Unlike films, TV shows and comics, the nature of modern big budget video-game development is one...
So much television is produced nowadays it’s impossible to keep track of everything that comes out. Between the usual network and cable content and the ten thousand or so streaming services that...
Death Stranding is a video game about a mailman in a post-apocalyptic and broken America where life and death are now one and the same. Sam Porter uses a baby in a bottle to navigate ghosts and...
Danny McBride came back this season for another TV series he created for HBO in The Righteous Gemstones. After tackling the crazy politics of high school with Vice Principals, this time McBride and...
