Starting this month, I'll be a regular contributor to Mystery Scene magazine. My first piece is a look back at BREAKING BAD. I try to situate it within the context of both the gangster film and the western. I also try to make the case that the show represents the best summation of American disgust during the financial upheavals over the course of the last decade.
The issue is now in better bookstores everywhere.
My review of Season One of Jenji Kohan's new Netflix series ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK is up at Criminal Element. Check it out here.
Check out my new essay on New Zealand noir, Jane Campion style, over at Criminal Element. Elisabeth Moss stars in TOP OF THE LAKE as a haunted detective searching for a missing girl.
Click here to read The Dreadful Beauty of TOP OF THE LAKE.
Take Shakespeare's devious Richard III, marry him to Lady MacBeth, then drop them in Washington DC and watch the fireworks. The Netflix series HOUSE OF CARDS starring Kevin Spacey and Robin Wright is pretty damn great. Read my essay on the series over at Criminal Element.
