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Category: Off the Beaten Path

Off the Beaten Path is a deep dive TV show review series by yours truly, Joseph MacMaster. These are shows that I’ve seen that I enjoyed when I first watched them over the years. Shows that I’ve been meaning to watch and now have the perfect excuse to. There are even some that are both. The one thing they all have in common; all are shows that haven’t left much of a cultural footprint here in America, and all deserve our attention.

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Off the Beaten Path | Planet of the Apes: The Series

September 14, 2020April 18, 2021 Joseph MacMaster

For the biggest show (by sheer runtime) I’ve covered for Off the Beaten Path, we go back to the year 1974 to see some astronauts crash land in the year 3084. There, they find not a world of man, but a world of apes.

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Off the Beaten Path | V: The Original Miniseries

August 28, 2020April 18, 2021 Joseph MacMaster

For this installment of “Off the Beaten Path”, I go back to the year 1983 to look at a show about an alien invasion that’s becoming more and more prescient by the day.

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Off the Beaten Path | Top of the Lake

August 10, 2020April 18, 2021 Joseph MacMaster

For this (rather elephantine and spoiler-filled) installment of Off the Beaten Path, I cover Top of the Lake, one of the best and darkest crime-miniseries of the last 10 years.

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Off the Beaten Path | Off the Air S1

July 17, 2020April 18, 2021 Joseph MacMaster

For this installment of Off the Beaten Path, I review a cult favorite visual mixtape/the most out there show I’ve reviewed yet.

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Off the Beaten Path | FLCL

June 24, 2020April 18, 2021 Joseph MacMaster

For this installment of Off the Beaten Path, I look at FLCL, one of the weirdest bits of animation I’ve seen. Plus, there are a lot of robot fights and dick jokes. What’s not to love?

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Off the Beaten Path | Crashing

June 6, 2020April 18, 2021 Joseph MacMaster

For this installment of Off the Beaten Path, I review Crashing, Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s other TV show from 2016.

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Off the Beaten Path | Spicy City

May 13, 2020April 18, 2021 Joseph MacMaster

For the first of my season reviews on Off the Beaten Path, I review the Ralpha Bakshi animated anthology Spicy City, a show forgotten by everyone including it’s home network.

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Off the Beaten Path | Other Space – Final Thoughts and Impressions

February 22, 2020September 18, 2020 Joseph MacMaster

I give my final thoughts and impressions on “Other Space”. The question is, was this show cancelled too soon, and how does it stand compared to the other shows on “Off the Beaten Path”.

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Off the Beaten Path | Other Space S1E8 – Finale

February 17, 2020September 18, 2020 Joseph MacMaster

After a truncated first contact and with the clock ticking before the wormhole opens, Stewart must make a choice whether to stay with the alien they barely met or go back to Earth with his crew, and deal with the entailing consequences.

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Off the Beaten Path | Other Space S1E7 – First Contact

February 14, 2020September 18, 2020 Joseph MacMaster

While Stewart and A.R.T. fight a potential drug addiction to make contact with an alien in his dreams, Karen ends up in HR Arbitration against Michael.

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