The Playboy Club

“They still don’t know quite what to make of it.”

Julia Louis-Dreyfus vetoes the “Seinfeld curse” in Veep. Also: The dead talk back on The Killing and Game Of Thrones goes to Harrenhal.

It's a big night for TV. Game Of Thrones is back! Mad Men is on! Our Simpsons classic reviews are back! The Killing is... The Killing is also a show that will be on TV tonight!

They can’t all be Breaking Bad and Louie, but do they have to be this bad? 

We single out television’s most remarkable/strangest/curious accomplishments.

America has unexpectedly made Grimm a hit by NBC standards, so now we have to listen to the network crow about it. Also, Charlie Day is on SNL?! Awesome!

Get an early introduction to the amnesiac denizens of Storybrooke, Maine.

The warm, familiar, biting, (and occasionally terrifying) satire of Soap.

The Bugle drops in for a great episode, Never Not Funny and WTF do it live, and we check in on Greg Fitzsimmons’ Fitzdog Radio.

Before the season began, there were two big questions, mostly stemming from promotional materials: Would The X Factor fill the Idol void, and would Terra Nova debut big, justifying all of the cash Fox dumped into it?

Our five-week look at DC’s 53 new first issues continues with a bunch of female superheroes in various states of undress.

It's turning out to be a pretty good fall for most of the networks. (For purposes of this conversation, let's pretend The CW doesn't exist.) New shows are getting sampled.