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TV Club : Other Shows Behind The Candelabra

Steven Soderbergh examines Liberace in and out of love.

May 24, 2013 | 4:00pm -
NOT OPTIONAL A Trump-less Apprentice, an old-school podcast, some new recipes, Nicole Richie, and Judy Blume

Some entertainment is optional. These aren’t.

May 24, 2013 | 10:00am -
Interview Mitchell Hurwitz talks about the resurrection of Arrested Development

“I just like the idea that the audience owns this material now.”

May 24, 2013 | 12:00am -
What's On Tonight? Orphan Black stands alone over a long holiday weekend

With the long holiday weekend, most shows are skittering away from the airwaves. Not Orphan Black, though! Also: New episodes of Borgen and Maron and lots of playoff action.

May 24, 2013 | 12:00am -
TV Club : Other Shows Save Me

There are promising signs in this new comedy but little reason to hold onto them anymore.

May 23, 2013 | 2:00pm -
TV Club : Nashville “I'll Never Get Out of This World Alive”

The season finale is the best episode since the pilot, but oh, all those episodes in between.

May 23, 2013 | 4:00am -
TV Club : Slings And Arrows “The Promised End”

The series ends in a deeply emotional, staggeringly beautiful episode.

May 22, 2013 | 12:00pm -
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 -
What's On Tonight? Another TV season ends with the wacky antics of Modern Family sending us sailing toward summer

Another TV season ends, and Modern Family is there to send us sailing off into the summer. Also: Season finales for The Middle and Nashville, and the return of the B---- in apartment 23.

May 22, 2013 | 12:00am -
TV Club : Bates Motel “Midnight”

The season finale is surprisingly great right up until the last shot.

May 21, 2013 | 1:40am -
Interview Michael Cera on the evolution of George Michael Bluth and working in Arrested Development’s writers’ room

“It was probably the significant moment of my life, getting to do this show.”

May 21, 2013 | 12:00am -
Nerd Curious Why the essential collection Bradbury Stories explains how to live forever

Todd VanDerWerff reads a collection of Ray Bradbury’s fiction and remembers his own Bradbury-esque childhood.

May 20, 2013 | 11:00am -
TV Club : Mad Men “The Crash”

A seemingly chaotic and random episode reveals great order once you start to poke at it

May 20, 2013 | 2:55am -
What's On Tonight? Rectify ends its haunting run just as it seems to get going

Rectify comes to its end just as it seemed to be getting started. Also: A season finale for Bates Motel, a new Adventure Time, and the world championships of cheerleading.

May 20, 2013 | 12:00am -
TV Club : Game Of Thrones (experts) “Second Sons” (for experts)

Another disjointed episode sets our minds to wandering about the show's use of nudity. (This review is for those who have read the books.)

May 19, 2013 | 9:30pm -
TV Club : Borgen “Decency In The Middle”

The highly acclaimed Danish political drama begins with a woman whose greatest strength is also her greatest weakness.

May 17, 2013 | 10:00pm -
For Our Consideration How The Office became one of the greatest television series about the American dream

The series frequently portrayed the tension between personal and professional fulfillment.

May 17, 2013 | 10:30am -
Newswire Fall TV previews: The CW embraces the awesomeness of staring

So many attractive people! So many jawlines!

May 17, 2013 | 8:00am -
What's On Tonight? Straight outta Denmark, it's Borgen! And the crowd goes wild!

We start reviewing Borgen, a highly-acclaimed Danish show, because it's available in the U.S. now and why not? Also: Doctor Who ends its season, and Ben Affleck hosts the SNL finale.

May 17, 2013 | 12:00am -
Crosstalk A fan and a newbie catch up on the first season of The Venture Bros.

Just how steep is the learning curve for someone diving in for the first time?

May 17, 2013 | 12:00am -
Newswire Fall schedule analysis: See, The CW's schedule makes sense once you realize Mary, Queen of Scots, was a vampire

Also: Southern charm and epic romance? Well, we never!

May 16, 2013 | 9:30am -
Newswire Fall TV previews: CBS unleashes the awesome power of the Internet

It's 1993 again, everybody!

May 16, 2013 | 8:00am -
TV Club : Nashville “A Picture from Life's Other Side”

Dante returns, Rayna's deepest secret is revealed, and we meet Dark Gunnar in a stuffed-to-the-gills episode.

May 16, 2013 | 2:10am -
Newswire Fall schedule analysis: CBS projects the strength of Scar during the "Be Prepared" number in The Lion King

CBS will never die.

May 15, 2013 | 5:20pm -
TV Club : Slings And Arrows “All Blessed Secrets”

Ellen Fanshaw is the central character of this series. Here's why.

May 15, 2013 | 12:00pm -
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 -
Newswire Fall TV previews: ABC presents shows for all your LARPing needs

So many fake CGI creations, so little time.

May 15, 2013 | 8:00am -
What's On Tonight? Arrow ends a goofy, over-the-top season in goofy, over-the-top fashion, as we knew it must

Arrow ends a goofy, over-the-top season in goofy, over-the-top fashion, just as we hoped it would. Also: The Hecks ditch school on The Middle, and the Stanley Cup playoffs move forward.

May 15, 2013 | 12:00am -
Newswire Networks' reasoning for passing on various pilots will mostly just make you dislike NBC more

It doesn't love you anymore!

May 14, 2013 | 3:10pm -

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