Alphas

Alphas, Syfy’s two-season-old series about people with mental superpowers that doubled as a sneaky examination of mental illness, has been canceled.

What are we really laughing at when we laugh at “nerds”?

Our TV Club staffers encourage each other to check out Peep Show, Shark Tank, Elementary, and even The Neighbors.

Everything from series finales of long-running cult hits to aging sitcoms to news coverage makes our supplemental list.

We can’t try every great thing the minute it comes out. Here’s some pop-culture we got to and loved for the first time this year.

Find out what series almost made the list—and which writers need to be bugged about not watching Game Of Thrones.

A special edition of our reader and staffer question looks at our holiday entertainment rituals and how we’re observing them this year.

The science-fiction drama turns superpowers into metaphorical illnesses, and crime-solving into group therapy.

Sure, you could watch the final presidential debate or the final NLCS game, but wouldn't you rather watch the return of RuPaul's Drag Race? Also: Season finales!

Concerns about the horribleness of being young are voiced in a town hall-style debate MTV calls Underemployed. Also: Democracy preempts everything but basketball documentaries and motorcycle gangs.

Regular Show offers up a Halloween special with some sneaky similarities to another Halloween special. Also: A How I Met Your Mother that sounds fun.

You've waited this long. You can watch one more episode of How I Met Your Mother to find out who Marshall and Lily's nanny is. Also: The Houston Texans are 4-0?!

Adventure Time has arrived at its 100th episode, even though it sort of depends on who's doing the counting. Also: We're adding Regular Show! You like cartoons!

The TV season begins, with debuts of everything from Castle to How I Met Your Mother. Also: We keep covering 2 Broke Girls because you keep reading about it.

It's a night with two big network drama debuts, as NBC launches Revolution and Fox launches The Mob Doctor. Also: Fulfill your dreams of watching classic cricket matches.

So it’s come to this. The A.V. Club once again wishes to welcome you to our fall TV coverage, in which we will be covering several dozen series, new and returning, on a regular basis, each episode receiving our patented episodic review treatm...

Been missing The Voice? Here are three episodes over three nights, sure to make you wish it would go away again. Also: MasterChef wraps up its season, and Monday Night Football returns.

The CW has moved The LA Complex to a new night, because that's totally the sort of thing you do to TV's lowest-rated show. Also: How cute! Canada thinks it can play football!

MTV remade The Inbetweeners, and it somehow didn't turn it into something completely awful. Also: We encourage you to celebrate Paul Giamatti Day, as you do every August 20.

NBC got great mileage out of Grimm last season, so, naturally, it's now doing whatever it can to kill it. Also: Teen Wolf ends its second season, and the NFL revs up again. 

Our Strangers With Candy coverage comes to a sad but inevitable end, as we reach the end of season one. Also: men's diving, BMO's sock searching, and Rooney Mara's acting.

Do you know anyone who watches Web Therapy? Probably not, but if you do, read our reviews so you can converse with them. Also: The Olympics! As always! USA! USA! USA!

Alphas had one of the most promising first seasons for a new science fiction show in ages, but will season two follow suit? Also: The Bunheads spend a wild night out.

The actor discusses the many iterations of Star Trek and his other roles.

Highlights from shows outside The A.V. Club’s best-of list.