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April 16, 2020

Joe R. Lansdale’s enthralling OF MICE AND MINESTRONE engages readers with dashes of simple wisdom and hard truth

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For FORT WORTH WEEKLY, E. R. Bills praises Joe R. Lansdale’s OF MICE AND MINESTRONE.

OF MICE AND MINESTRONE is enthralling storytelling that engages readers with dashes of simple wisdom and hard truth. And this particular volume includes a quirky, culinary epilogue from Joe’s daughter Kasey.

Violence aside, Hap and Leonard keep trucking on the correct side of history and humanity, and Lansdale’s storytelling is thrilling as always

Kenny Herzog at ENTREPRENEUR recommends Hap and Leonard in Shows to Binge During the Pandemic That Aren’t ‘Breaking Bad’ or ‘Fleabag’.

Nothing can prepare you for how weird this comedy/drama/mystery-thriller buddy series gets in a hurry. The broad strokes of Hap and Leonard are that it’s based on a series of novels by Joe R. Lansdale, set in the 1980s, features first-flight actors including Michael Kenneth Williams (speaking of The Wire), James Purefoy and Mad Men‘s Christina Hendricks. Purefoy is Hap, a conscientious Vietnam objector and smart aleck who literally pulls no punches. Leonard is his best friend, still scarred from having fought in the war and dealing with day-to-day life as an openly gay black man in East Texas. Over the course of three seasons, they find themselves in the crosshairs of lovestruck sadists, child killers and politically embedded Klansmen. They’re kind of like the Dukes of Hazzard, just far more tender with one another and up against much graver life-or-death odds. It’s not hard to see how this one was a hard sell, but trust us that it’s worth buying in.

James Purefoy and Michael K. Williams as Hap and Leonard

December 26, 2016

Overlooked HAP AND LEONARD is one of the best shows of the year

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The premiere season of SUNDANCETV’s adaptation of Joe R. Lansdale’s HAP AND LEONARD garnered several year end accolades.

CHICAGO’D named it one of the top ten best new shows.

Sundance TV absolutely nailed it with their adaptation of Joe R Lansdale’s book “Savage Season”. Michael Kenneth Williams and James Purefoy are incredible actors in their own right, and their on-screen chemistry made Hap and Leonard one of the more enjoyable shows of 2016. Add in Christina Hendricks (Mad Men) and Jimmi Simpson (Psych), and there were few rookie shows we were more excited to be picked up for a second season.

Michael K. Williams and James Purefoyas the titular characters in SundanceTV’s HAP AND LEONARD

Kenny Herzog at PASTE included the series on his list of The 10 Most Unfairly Overlooked TV Shows of 2016.

While we’re at it, three cheers for Sundance’s other stealthy 2016 offering, HAP AND LEONARD, adapted from Joe R. Lansdale’s novels and set to air Season Two starting March 1. As a self-contained sextet of episodes, its first season stands on its own as wild, weird and massively entertaining. It may not feel that way when we’re introduced to the show’s title characters—Hap (James Purefoy), a conscientious Vietnam objector and day laborer, and Leonard (Michael K. Williams), a gay Vietnam vet prone to rage—or even during their early misadventures salvaging some storied loot from the bottom of a swamp. But once they and their misfit co-conspirators (led by Hap’s ex, played by Christina Hendricks) cross paths with joyriding lunatics Soldier (Westworlds Jimmi Simpson, in a career-best bit of mania) and Angel (the fearsome Pollyanna McIntosh), Hap and Leonard escalates, rapidly reaching surreal heights of Mad Maxworthy mayhem, all set among the swamps of late ‘80s Texas. And with plenty of Eurodancing.

Image Credit: SundanceTV

For TV GUIDE, Kaitlin Thomas mentioned the series had one of The Best Opening Credits of 2016.

HAP AND LEONARD is based on a series of books by Joe R. Lansdale and the TV adaptation’s colorful opening credits are the right amount of twang and pulp to fit the genre.