• TV Club : Orphan Black “Entangled Bank”

    Character and plot find an admirable equilibrium in a gripping, funny episode-with a final, shocking twist.

    May 18, 2013 | 9:00pm -

  • TV Club : Vikings “All Change”

    Vikings' season season ends too quickly. Which is also a compliment.

    April 29, 2013 | 1:30am -

  • TV Club : Vikings “Sacrifice”

    Ragnar and Athelstan's relationship pays off in unexpected ways and Donal Logue provides an antagonist upgrade in a haunting episode of Vikings.

    April 22, 2013 | 2:00am -

  • TV Club : Vikings “A King's Ransom”

    Ragnar (and Vikings) triumphant.

    April 15, 2013 | 2:30am -

  • TV Club : Saturday Night Live “Vince Vaughn; Miguel”

    Vince Vaughn brings his A-game. To the monologue, anyway...

    April 14, 2013 | 3:30am -

  • TV Club : Vikings “Burial Of The Dead”

    Ragnar scores a big win. Unfortunately, Vikings’ path seems less assured.

    April 8, 2013 | 2:25am -

  • TV Club : Other Shows The Bible - “Passion”

    The Bible concludes with two hours of the dullest Savior in screen history.

    April 1, 2013 | 2:00am -

  • TV Club : Vikings “Raid”

    A Jarl-heavy tale marks Vikings’ first real misstep, but Athelstan's brings it back on track. 

    March 31, 2013 | 10:00pm -

  • TV Club : Vikings “Dispossessed”

    Ragnar brings his booty home to face the Jarl and Vikings continues to impress in another strong episode.

    March 17, 2013 | 10:00pm -

  • Sorry for the low quality, gents.

    TV Club : 30 For 30 “Survive And Advance”

    Chronicling the fairy-tale title run of the 1983 NC State Wolfpack in improbably relaxed fashion.

    March 17, 2013 | 4:00pm -

  • BLAAAAAAAAAAAGDEN

    TV Club : Vikings “Wrath Of Northmen”

    Ragnar’s first raid provides a chilling ambiguity to Vikings second episode—and its protagonist.

    March 10, 2013 | 10:00pm -

  • TV Club : Other Shows The Bible

    A smattering of overqualified British stage actors struggle to elevate the History Channel's facile Sunday school lesson from Roma Downey and the guy from Survivor.

    March 3, 2013 | 4:00pm -

  • TV Club : Portlandia “No-Fo-O-Fo-Bridge”

    Chloe Sevigny continues to come between Fred and Carrie in another successful, funny example of Portlandia's longer-form storytelling

    February 22, 2013 | 1:25am -

  • TV Club : The Mindy Project “Mindy’s Minute”

    Mindy in a dog suit and Danny having a Broadcast News moment highlight a reliably pleasant episode. Plus: Jordan Peele guest stars!

    February 20, 2013 | 12:00am -

  • Inventory Tom Hanks vs. the Fonz: 35-plus Oscar nominees in weird TV guest spots 

    The A.V. Club’s weekly list.

    February 18, 2013 | 12:00am -

  • Lincolnnnn!

    TV Club : Other Shows Killing Lincoln

    Abraham Lincoln as you've always wanted to see him: as played by Billy Campbell and written by Bill O'Reilly.

    February 17, 2013 | 4:00pm -

  • TV Club : Other Shows Ghost Mine

    SyFy's newest entry in the "supernatural reality show" genre can't find anything remotely scary about an abandoned mine. An abandoned mine!

    January 16, 2013 | 10:00pm -

  • TV Club : Other Shows Stars In Danger: The High Dive

    The C-list gets wet in Fox's celebrity diving spectacular.

    January 9, 2013 | 11:00pm -

  • TV Club : Other Shows American Masters - Inventing David Geffen

    The PBS series is uncritically congratulatory in its look at the multimedia mogul.

    November 20, 2012 | 4:00pm -

  • Inventory “Boy, now I know how the pilgrims felt”: 20 impromptu TV Thanksgivings

    The A.V. Club’s weekly list.

    November 19, 2012 | 12:00am -

  • TV Club : The Neighbors “Halloween-ween”

    Everyone goes trick-or-treating, and we say goodbye to The Neighbors.

    October 24, 2012 | 8:00pm -

  • Look out folks.

    TV Club : The Neighbors “Bathroom Etiquette”

    A kid-centric plot aims right for the middle as usual. And misses low.

    October 18, 2012 | 3:00am -

  • TV Club : The Neighbors “Things Just Got Real”

    Comedic commitment from our two alien lead(er)s salvages a truly awful premise in the best episode thus far.

    October 11, 2012 | 10:00am -

  • TV Club : The Neighbors “The Neighbors”

    The latest fall première that feels beamed in from TV’s past.

    September 26, 2012 | 2:00pm -

  • TV Club : Other Shows Brickleberry

    The newest Family Guy wannabe gets the offensive part right. Shame about the comedy. (Part of Best of TV Club.)

    September 25, 2012 | 6:00pm -

  • TV Club : Other Shows Wallander, Series III

    Kenneth Branagh returns for an impressive third season as dour Swedish detective Kurt Wallander.

    September 9, 2012 | 4:00pm -

  • TV Club : The 2012 Summer Olympics August 11, 2012

    You didn't want to watch any sports in that first hour, did you?

    August 12, 2012 | 12:15am -

  • TV Club : Other Shows Rat Bastards

    Spike's new reality show combines bayou caricatures and good old fashioned rat killin'.

    August 1, 2012 | 1:00am -