• TV Club : How I Met Your Mother “The Final Page, Part One”/“The Final Page, Part Two”

    HIMYM manages the Herculean task of turning Barney into a worthy mate for Robin, with a sustained comedic effort reminiscent of the show's glory years.

    December 17, 2012 | 9:45pm -

  • TV Club : Modern Family “Diamond in the Rough” 

    Phil and Mitch fight over the role of family wet blanket, as Claire and Cam plan a field of house-flipping dreams.

    December 12, 2012 | 9:45pm -

  • TV Club : How I Met Your Mother “The Over-Correction”

    Robin makes frantic phone calls from Barney's closet while being threatened by scripts with increasingly thin motivations.

    December 10, 2012 | 8:40pm -

  • TV Club : How I Met Your Mother “Lobster Crawl”

    Clearly, Ted did something extreme to get the naming rights to Ted Mosby's Good Attitude Lollipop Bin.

    December 3, 2012 | 8:40pm -

  • TV Club : Modern Family “When A Tree Falls”  

    Sometimes, a comedy doesn't have to be all about the laughs. Check out the formalist chops on this baby. (Part of Best Of TV Club week.)

    November 28, 2012 | 9:45pm -

  • TV Club : How I Met Your Mother “Twelve Horny Women”

    Sell-out Brad, Marshall's nemesis, stacks the jury with babes and woos them with beefcake. That must have been some voir dire.

    November 26, 2012 | 8:30pm -

  • TV Club : Modern Family “Mistery Date” 

    Everybody changes partners, but the only pairing that really works is Phil Dunphy and margaritas.

    November 14, 2012 | 9:30pm -

  • TV Club : How I Met Your Mother “Splitsville” 

    One more breakup in the Autumn Of Same. And HIMYM saved the best for last.

    November 12, 2012 | 8:40pm -

  • TV Club : Modern Family “Arrested”

    Hope Haley hits the weights while she's in the joint. When she gets out she'll be totally ripped.

    November 7, 2012 | 9:40pm -

  • TV Club : How I Met Your Mother “The Autumn Of Break-Ups” 

    The paired-off characters look at themselves in a mirror, but it's the funhouse kind. Or maybe the kind that accidentally shows the future.

    November 5, 2012 | 8:45pm -

  • TV Club : Modern Family “Yard Sale”

    Ventriloquist dummy: $5. Street Strider: $10. Alex's "boyfriend" Michael: Fabulous.

    October 31, 2012 | 9:30pm -

  • TV Club : Modern Family “Open House of Horrors”

    If you have to break up the ensemble on Halloween, you absolutely should put Phil alone in a spooky piece of real estate.

    October 24, 2012 | 9:45pm -

  • TV Club : Modern Family “The Butler’s Escape”

    If Luke quits his magic lessons, all the Lance Burton DVDs in the world won’t be enough to console Phil.

    October 17, 2012 | 8:30pm -

  • This looks like a fun game.

    TV Club : How I Met Your Mother "Who Wants To Be A Godparent?"

    New parents don't have time for old friends, organize Dead Pool-esque contest to choose baby's guardian, yadda yadda yadda.

    October 15, 2012 | 9:15pm -

  • “My turn.”

    TV Club : Firefly Serenity

    Firefly ends, as we find Serenity

    October 12, 2012 | 12:00pm -

  • TV Club : Modern Family “Schooled”/“Snip”

    Two strong Modern Family episodes give the show a second chance at a first impression; Phil suggests Julia Child because it’s easy to do.

    October 10, 2012 | 10:30pm -

  • TV Club : How I Met Your Mother “Nannies” 

    Lily and Marshall discover the nanny they need is right in their own backyard. Or, more accurately, guest bedroom.

    October 8, 2012 | 8:45pm -

  • ceci n'est pas une rivière

    TV Club : Firefly “Objects In Space”

    The last Firefly episode has a pleasing shape, and we like the weight of it. 

    October 5, 2012 | 12:00pm -

  • TV Club : How I Met Your Mother “The Pre-Nup”

    Q: What's the most predictable complication for Barney and Quinn's engagement? A: [Episode Title].

    October 1, 2012 | 8:55pm -

  • TV Roundtable The far-reaching stakes of How I Met Your Mother’s slap bet

    The following rule gets delightfully complex: The winner gets to slap the loser across the face as hard as he possibly can.

    September 27, 2012 | 1:00pm -

  • TV Club : Modern Family “Bringing Up Baby”

    Gloria's pregnant, Dylan's homeless, Jay's 65, Lily's an only child, and Modern Family has a bunch of Emmys.

    September 26, 2012 | 9:35pm -

  • TV Club : How I Met Your Mother “Farhampton”

    Nobody knows when or how, but now at least we all know where.

    September 24, 2012 | 7:30pm -

  • When you can’t run anymore, you crawl, and when you can’t do that…

    TV Club : Firefly “The Message”

    An old friend brings new problems in this week’s Firefly.

    September 21, 2012 | 12:00pm -

  • TV Roundtable When Columbo’s metaphorical chess match became literal

    Never underestimate Columbo, or Columbo.

    September 20, 2012 | 1:00pm -

  • TV Roundtable Law & Order: Slave to formula, or crackling entertainment?

    Doink doink.

    September 13, 2012 | 1:00pm -

  • TV Roundtable Why Friends’ fake game show epitomized ensemble comedy 

    Big Fat Goalie, Chanandler Bong, and embryos infuse a single episode with backstory and glimpses of future storylines.

    September 6, 2012 | 1:00pm -

  • TV Club : Breaking Bad “Gliding Over All”

    With no more worlds to conquer, Walter considers abdicating his throne. With eight episodes to go, will Vince Gilligan let him get out? (Part of Best of TV Club.)

    September 2, 2012 | 11:30pm -

  • “I appreciate your honesty. Not, y’know, a lot, but…”

    TV Club : Firefly “Trash”

    Christina Hendricks returns for a heist on a floaty island and Nathan Fillion gets naked on another zippy Firefly

    August 31, 2012 | 12:00pm -

  • TV Roundtable Alfred Hitchcock Presents proposes a squirm-inducing wager

    Is this high-stakes episode more than a clever twist? 

    August 30, 2012 | 1:00pm -