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TV Roundtable Boobies, pee-pees, codependence, and grounding the shenanigans with heart

Two interlopers have very different effects on the core group in an early episode of Friends.

May 22, 2013 | 11:00am -
Inventory 13 Arrested Development quotes to summarize reactions to the new episodes

Another list from The A.V. Club.

May 22, 2013 | 12:00am -
TV Club : Scandal “White Hat's Back On”

Scandal embraces its heart of darkness in its fantastic season finale.

May 16, 2013 | 11:30pm -
TV Roundtable When My Boys tested its prickly chemistry by inviting some new faces to the poker table

One of the ultimate hangout shows considers a few characters who just might be a “bad hang.”

May 15, 2013 | 11:00am -
TV Club : Scandal “Any Questions?”

Scandal reveals the identity of the mole, as the show's past catches up with its present.

May 9, 2013 | 11:27pm -
TV Roundtable A classic Simpsons episode explores the universality of being Frank Grimes

The beleaguered everyman meets his doom: the incompetent whirlwind that is Homer Simpson.

May 8, 2013 | 11:00am -
AVQ&A The books you’ve loved longest

This week, our staff and reader question addresses the books we discovered earliest in life and still have on the shelves.

May 3, 2013 | 12:00am -
TV Club : Scandal “A Woman Scorned”

Scandal preps for the end of its second season with a busy episode burdened with moving necessary pieces into place.

May 2, 2013 | 11:05pm -
TV Club : Other Shows Family Tools

ABC's latest comedy possesses neither the humor nor the heart to make much of an impact.

May 1, 2013 | 4:00pm -
TV Roundtable TV Roundtable begins anew—if that’s what you’re into

Usher in a new TV Roundtable theme with Flight Of The Conchords—if that’s what you’re into.

May 1, 2013 | 11:00am -
TV Club : Other Shows Amazon.com Original Programming Pilots

Amazon.com made 14 pilots, but were any of them any good?

April 30, 2013 | 12:00pm -
Inventory “Oh my God—you’re swingers”: 12 surprise TV encounters with the polyamorous

The A.V. Club’s weekly list.

April 29, 2013 | 12:00am -
TV Club : House Of Cards “Chapter 13”

The first season of House Of Cards puts an ellipsis, not a period, on all that has come before.

April 26, 2013 | 12:00pm -
TV Club : Scandal “Seven Fifty-Two”

The show returns from hiatus in a surprisingly contemplative mood.

April 25, 2013 | 11:13pm -
TV Roundtable Futurama’s opera was a poignant final bow—until it wasn’t

Fry’s deal with Robot Devil gives him musical prowess that comes with a price. How ironic! (That’s not what ironic means.)

April 24, 2013 | 12:00am -
TV Club : House Of Cards “Chapter 12”

The twelfth episode of "House Of Cards" has some great scenes but curious seasonal rhythms.

April 19, 2013 | 12:00pm -
AVQ&A The album you’ve loved longest

A reader asks about albums we discovered early in life and still consider essential listening.

April 19, 2013 | 12:00am -
TV Roundtable Scrubs took its time to make a musical episode, but made it count

The medical comedy was bound to make an all-singing, all-dancing half-hour—all it needed was an assist from the Avenue Q guys.

April 17, 2013 | 12:00am -
Interview Spartacus creator Steven DeKnight on the show’s tumultuous history and overall legacy

“You can’t look at what the Internet is saying and people’s reactions and base your storytelling on that. That’s just a losing proposition.”

April 15, 2013 | 10:00am -
TV Club : Spartacus “Victory”

The epic series ends in fitting tribute to all that came before it.

April 12, 2013 | 9:00pm -
TV Club : Other Shows Da Vinci’s Demons

The newest Starz drama fails to excite or enlighten on almost every front.

April 12, 2013 | 4:00pm -
TV Club : House Of Cards “Chapter 11”

House Of Cards ends a promising storyline in terrible, uninspired fashion.

April 12, 2013 | 12:00pm -
AVQ&A Willful cultural ignorance

Our weekly reader-and-staffer question looks at art and information we’ve deliberately avoided because we don’t want it in our heads.

April 12, 2013 | 12:00am -
TV Roundtable Taxi asks, “How much of a sitcom needs to be comedic?”

Before Girls and Louie, a different Louie pushed the boundaries of TV comedy.

April 10, 2013 | 10:00am -
TV Club : Cougar Town “Don’t Fade On Me”/“Have Love Will Travel”

The show wraps up its fourth season in strong, emotional fashion.

April 9, 2013 | 10:00pm -
TV Club : Spartacus “The Dead And The Dying”

The penultimate episode of Spartacus pays homage to the dead, but gives slightly short shrift to those still living.

April 5, 2013 | 9:00pm -
TV Club : House Of Cards “Chapter Ten”

The tenth hour of House Of Cards finds people trying on new lives in new beds.

April 5, 2013 | 12:00pm -
TV Club : Scandal “Molly, You In Danger, Girl”

Looking for a network drama that does all the things only cable supposedly can do? This is it.

April 4, 2013 | 11:32pm -
AVQ&A Who should replace Jimmy Fallon?

The Tonight Show news has us all speculating about our dream host for Late Night.

April 4, 2013 | 12:30pm -
TV Roundtable It’s okay to laugh at It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia’s musical trainwreck

Enter the Dayman.

April 3, 2013 | 12:00am -

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