• TV Club : The League “The Freeze Out”

    Look who it is! It's Timothy Olyphant!

    October 26, 2012 | 12:00am -

  • TV Club : Ben And Kate “Emergency Kit” 

    The series flubs it a bit when it can't subvert expectations.

    October 23, 2012 | 11:30pm -

  • TV Club : Ben And Kate “The Fox Hunt”

    A scavenger hunt and an early-era WNBA shoutout perk up a fun episode.

    October 10, 2012 | 12:40am -

  • TV Club : Other Shows Steel Magnolias

    An all-black remake of the classic tearjerker stays close to its source material.

    October 7, 2012 | 10:00am -

  • TV Club : Ben And Kate “Bad Cop/Bad Cop”

    An overstuffed episode nevertheless unlocks the comedy stylings of Dakota Johnson.

    October 2, 2012 | 10:15pm -

  • TV Club : Ben And Kate “Ben And Kate”

    One of the fall’s best comedy pilots doesn’t strain for laughs.

    September 25, 2012 | 10:00am -

  • Has everybody murdered somebody on this show?

    TV Club : Other Shows Bones - “The Future In The Past”

    Bringing Brennan back from the brink of fugitive status—but all we care about is jokes about binders.

    September 17, 2012 | 8:00pm -

  • Badass Amish people in the city.

    TV Club : Other Shows Breaking Amish

    The first episode is good, but it may be the best this new reality show ever is.

    September 9, 2012 | 6:00pm -

  • TV Club : Other Shows Abby & Brittany

    Abby and Brittany wants us to know that these conjoined twins lead ordinary lives. But ordinary has never made for compelling TV.

    August 29, 2012 | 12:20am -

  • TV Club : Political Animals “Resignation Day”

    The show ends its first season with its first truly shocking moment and its best episode yet. 

    August 19, 2012 | 10:00pm -

  • TV Club : Other Shows The Next

    Finally! A singing competition that doesn’t care about the competitors!

    August 16, 2012 | 4:00pm -

  • TV Club : Political Animals “16 Hours”

    The threatened destruction of California! A punchy ex-president! Pot-smoking grandma! All that and more!

    August 13, 2012 | 1:00am -

  • TV Club : Political Animals “Lost Boys”

    For the first time in its now four-episode run, Political Animals shows its constraints as a limited series (we’re in the home stretch now, people).

    August 6, 2012 | 12:40am -

  • TV Club : Other Shows About Face: Supermodels Then And Now

    There’s a sort of sick pleasure in wanting to watch a documentary like About Face, seeing the once beautiful in all of their craggily glory or, more formally, in the Janice Dickinson way.

    July 31, 2012 | 12:00am -

  • TV Club : Political Animals “The Woman Problem”

    Ciaran Hinds’ Bud Hammond has become the punching bag of Political Animals, encapsulating the show’s worst trait: caricature without either making a statement or creating a compelling character.

    July 30, 2012 | 12:10am -

  • Patriotism.

    TV Club : Other Shows Absolutely Fabulous - "Olympics"

    If this is the end of this classic sitcom, how disappointing.

    July 25, 2012 | 10:00pm -

  • TV Club : Political Animals “Second Time Around”

    The show tamps down the melodrama and the guilty fun in its second episode.

    July 23, 2012 | 8:00am -

  • Inventory Paging Dr. Melfi: 29 characters on serialized TV shows who outlived their usefulness 

    The A.V. Club's weekly list. 

    July 23, 2012 | 12:00am -

  • TV Club : Other Shows Market Warriors

    Market Warriors takes all the fun out of the people-buying-crap genre

    July 16, 2012 | 11:15pm -

  • TV Club : Political Animals Political Animals

    Political Animals is a soapy drama that wavers from the watchable to the ridiculous, with Sigourney Weaver keeping everyone in line

    July 15, 2012 | 4:00pm -

  • TV Club : Other Shows Opening Act

    Opening Act reveals that watching people practice singing is really boring

    July 9, 2012 | 10:00pm -

  • TV Club : Other Shows Hollywood Exes 

    This show is no trophy.

    June 25, 2012 | 10:00pm -