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The Year In Swag 2012: In which we try to re-gift a year’s worth of promo crap
By Nathan Rabin, Kyle Ryan, Josh Modell, Erik Adams, Marah Eakin, Tasha Robinson, Genevieve Koski January 2, 2013 | 6:00am
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Ring in 2013 with floats covered in beautiful, beautiful flowers
By Emily St. James January 1, 2013 | 6:00am
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Count down to yet another year of stupid crap with a bunch of hosts you don't like all that much
By Emily St. James December 31, 2012 | 6:00am
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Do look back: What did we wind up thinking about our most anticipated 2012 entertainment?
By Josh Modell, Tasha Robinson December 31, 2012 | 6:00am
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You’ve got to go on waiting for the miracle to come: 63 of our most anticipated entertainments of 2013
By Nathan Rabin, Cory Casciato, John Semley, Kevin McFarland, Kyle Ryan, Jason Heller, Steve Heisler, Josh Modell, Zack Handlen, Joel Keller, Phil Dyess-Nugent, Noel Murray, Ryan McGee, Emily St. James, Sarah Collins, Tasha Robinson, Genevieve Koski December 31, 2012 | 6:00am
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Call The Midwife; say it's not her fault
By Emily St. James December 30, 2012 | 6:00am
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2013: The end of television as we know it
By Erik Adams December 28, 2012 | 6:00pm
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Beyond the top 30: Our favorite episodes of shows that didn’t make the cut, part two
By Kyle Ryan, Steve Heisler, Myles McNutt, Zack Handlen, Pilot Viruet, Phil Dyess-Nugent, Erik Adams, Rowan Kaiser, Noel Murray, David Sims, Brandon Nowalk, Emily St. James, Alasdair Wilkins, Marah Eakin, John Teti December 28, 2012 | 6:00pm
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Figure out what everybody else you know is talking about with a Duck Dynasty marathon
By Emily St. James December 28, 2012 | 6:00am
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The best non-2012 entertainment we discovered in 2012
By AV Club Staff December 28, 2012 | 6:00am
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The worst TV of 2012
By Phil Dyess-Nugent, Erik Adams, Emily St. James, Zack Handlen, Ryan McGee December 28, 2012 | 6:00am
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2012: The year of the half-hour TV show
By Emily St. James December 27, 2012 | 6:00pm
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The Peanuts gang just won't stop forcing you to spend different holidays with it
By Emily St. James December 27, 2012 | 6:00am
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Beyond the top 30: Our favorite episodes of shows that didn’t make the cut, part one
By Steve Heisler, Emily Guendelsberger, Myles McNutt, Molly Eichel, Brandon Nowalk, Erik Adams, David Sims, Noel Murray, Ryan McGee, Marah Eakin, Les Chappell, Emily St. James, Donna Bowman December 27, 2012 | 6:00am
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Top Chef proudly presents a roller skating Padma Lakshmi
By Emily St. James December 26, 2012 | 6:00am
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The best TV series of 2012: The ballots
By TV Club Staff December 26, 2012 | 6:00am
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The best TV of 2012
By TV Club Staff December 26, 2012 | 6:00am
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The British invite you to celebrate the holidays as they do: watching Doctor Who
By Emily St. James December 25, 2012 | 6:00am
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Want to watch A Christmas Story? Don't worry! TBS will let you watch it 12 times
By Emily St. James December 24, 2012 | 6:00am
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You didn’t have anything going on tonight, right? Good, ’cuz Fox has new Family Guy and American Dad episodes
By Erik Adams December 23, 2012 | 6:00am
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No longer terrified of family togetherness, Fox tosses Fringe to the pre-holiday wolves
By Emily St. James December 21, 2012 | 6:00am
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Bob Mould, Maria Bamford, Neil Hamburger, and others pick their 2012 pop-culture highlights
By AV Club Staff December 20, 2012 | 7:30pm
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On a night of finales, it’s the end of the road for Unsupervised
By Erik Adams December 20, 2012 | 6:00am
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10 entry points to Rankin/Bass’ enchanted holiday world
By Erik Adams December 19, 2012 | 6:00pm
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Don't stop believin' our Sopranos reviews will run forever
By Emily St. James December 19, 2012 | 6:00am
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Do you hear the (dead) people sing? 20 films and shows that end with posthumous reunions
By Cory Casciato, John Semley, Kevin McFarland, Zack Handlen, Joel Keller, Phil Dyess-Nugent, Noel Murray, Ryan McGee, Tasha Robinson December 19, 2012 | 6:00am
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Happy Endings wishes you and yours a Happy Jane-mas
By Erik Adams December 18, 2012 | 6:00am
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Adam Scott, the Sklar Brothers, and GWAR’s Oderus Urungus pick their 2012 pop-culture highlights
By Josh Modell, Marah Eakin, Emily St. James, Kyle Ryan December 18, 2012 | 6:00am
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The Great Santa Claus Switch introduced Jim Henson’s obsessions
By Tasha Robinson December 17, 2012 | 6:00pm
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This holiday season, celebrate the CW's gift of finally cancelling Gossip Girl
By Emily St. James December 17, 2012 | 6:00am
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The Lawrence Welk Show was TV’s best party—until it wasn’t
By Emily St. James December 17, 2012 | 6:00am
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Ho-ho-Homeland finale!
By Erik Adams December 16, 2012 | 6:00am
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The Simpsons believes in The A.V. Club bump
By Erik Adams December 14, 2012 | 3:30pm
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Celebrate Christm... er... the holid... er... winter with Portlandia
By Emily St. James December 14, 2012 | 6:00am
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Yvette Nicole Brown, Kumail Nanjiani, and Damon Lindelof pick their 2012 pop-culture highlights
By Josh Modell, Marah Eakin, Emily St. James, Kyle Ryan December 13, 2012 | 8:00pm
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Watch Neil Patrick Harris get felt up in Neil’s Puppet Dreams
By Erik Adams December 13, 2012 | 6:00am
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Love (or Love Actually) is all around in this year’s Glee Christmas episode
By Erik Adams December 13, 2012 | 6:00am
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10 episodes that show how Buffy The Vampire Slayer blew up genre TV
By Emily St. James December 12, 2012 | 6:30pm
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Tess Harper on Breaking Bad, Tender Mercies, and shooting Kevin Bacon
By Will Harris December 12, 2012 | 5:00pm
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The American Dad Christmas episodes provide an antidote to holiday cheer
By Genevieve Koski December 12, 2012 | 4:00pm
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Christmas? Modern Family is more popular than Christmas now
By Emily St. James December 12, 2012 | 6:00am
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“…And Introducing Chewbacca’s Family!” Case File #30: The Star Wars Holiday Special
By Nathan Rabin December 12, 2012 | 6:00am
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The Fonz plays against type in 1979’s An American Christmas Carol
By Keith Phipps December 11, 2012 | 6:00pm
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“Weird Al” Yankovic, Sharon Van Etten, Scott Aukerman, and more pick their 2012 pop-culture highlights
By AV Club Staff December 11, 2012 | 4:00pm
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Parenthood presents a very Braverman Christmas—and all the small-scale drama that implies
By Erik Adams December 11, 2012 | 6:00am
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Patton Oswalt’s favorite pop culture of 2012, from The Queen Of Versailles to Sklarbro Country
By Patton Oswalt December 10, 2012 | 5:00pm
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Howie Mandel asks you to Take It All
By Emily St. James December 10, 2012 | 6:00am
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Is this Simpsons/Portlandia crossover local? Is it USDA organic, or Oregon organic, or Portland organic?
By Erik Adams December 9, 2012 | 6:00am
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Bob Odenkirk, David Cross, Andrew W.K., and more on their favorite things of 2012
By A.V. Club Staff and Marah Eakin December 7, 2012 | 7:00pm
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The Walking Dead (nearly) conquers all
By Erik Adams December 7, 2012 | 4:00pm
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30 For 30 aims to crack the eternal mystery of what, exactly, Bo Jackson knows
By Emily St. James December 7, 2012 | 6:00am
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The Pee-wee’s Playhouse Christmas Special put a fresh coat on an old format
By Marah Eakin December 6, 2012 | 4:30pm
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Does The Office’s last Christmas episode show shadows of things that will be, or shadows of things may be, only?
By Erik Adams December 6, 2012 | 6:00am
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A holiday episode of The Bob Newhart Show defies convention and affirms Christmas
By Noel Murray December 6, 2012 | 6:00am
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This week we're barely putting up with Wives With Knives
By Amelie Gillette December 5, 2012 | 6:00pm
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Mr. Magoo’s Christmas Carol comes this close to screwing it up but somehow still works
By Emily St. James December 5, 2012 | 4:30pm
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Contemplate your own imperfections while staring into the chiseled abs of Arrow
By Emily St. James December 5, 2012 | 6:00am
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How Fraggle Rock taught kids about society and community in 10 episodes
By Myles McNutt December 5, 2012 | 6:00am
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What The Walking Dead Board Game reveals about the Walking Dead franchise
By Noel Murray December 5, 2012 | 6:00am
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Can Sons Of Anarchy’s resurgence survive another season finale?
By Erik Adams December 4, 2012 | 6:00am
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It's time for 2 Broke Girls to be the top pick again, so open those seven seals and unleash destruction upon the Earth
By Emily St. James December 3, 2012 | 6:00am
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Tell us about your pop-culture weekend: November 30-December 2, 2012
By AV Club Staff December 3, 2012 | 6:00am
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Bid yet another, temporary farewell to The Walking Dead and Boardwalk Empire
By Erik Adams December 2, 2012 | 6:00am
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Figure out what it would be like if you had never been born by watching It's A Wonderful Life
By Emily St. James November 30, 2012 | 6:00am
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Celebrities we hope stay scandal-free
By AV Club Staff November 30, 2012 | 6:00am
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Before she jumps to TV, see Issa Rae play an Awkward Black Girl
By Erik Adams November 29, 2012 | 4:00pm
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How Boss and its ilk illustrate TV’s problem with political drama
By Phil Dyess-Nugent November 29, 2012 | 6:00am
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This week we're barely putting up with Parental Guidance
By Amelie Gillette November 28, 2012 | 6:00pm
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Summarize The Simpsons in 10 episodes? That’s unpossible! (But we try anyway)
By Kyle Ryan November 28, 2012 | 5:00pm
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Can we entice you into watching The Hour by promising you Q from Skyfall is in it? No?
By Emily St. James November 28, 2012 | 6:00am
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Voice actor Rob Paulsen on playing Pinky, Yakko Warner, and two mutant ninja turtles
By Will Harris November 27, 2012 | 5:00pm
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How the live-action cartoon Suburgatory became one of TV’s best dramas
By Emily St. James November 27, 2012 | 6:00am
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Go On begins year-in-review season by asking “Hey, remember the Summer Olympics?”
By Erik Adams November 27, 2012 | 6:00am
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Dominic West on The Hour, John Carter, and yes, The Wire
By Will Harris November 26, 2012 | 4:00pm
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Enjoy tonight’s Revolution, because it’s the last you’ll get until March 2013
By Erik Adams November 26, 2012 | 6:00am
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Tell us about your pop-culture weekend: November 23-November 25, 2012
By AV Club Staff November 26, 2012 | 6:00am
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Dan Schneider on Head Of The Class and creating some of Nickelodeon’s most memorable shows
By Marah Eakin November 23, 2012 | 6:00am
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Keep your belt loosened after Thanksgiving to make room for extra Treme
By Erik Adams November 22, 2012 | 6:00am
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Enjoy the sensual delights of cooking with 10 episodes of Julia Child’s The French Chef
By Robert David Sullivan November 21, 2012 | 6:00pm
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This week we're barely putting up with Amish Mafia
By Amelie Gillette November 21, 2012 | 6:00pm
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Have some pre-Thanksgiving turkey with Emeril and Tom from Top Chef
By Emily St. James November 21, 2012 | 6:00am
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FNL’s Adrianne Palicki on learning to be a badass for Red Dawn and Wonder Woman
By AV Club Staff November 21, 2012 | 6:00am
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Meat(head) the parents on New Girl
By Erik Adams November 20, 2012 | 6:00am
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30 Rock’s improbable survival highlights the show’s study in contradictions
By Emily St. James November 19, 2012 | 4:00pm
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Patton Oswalt on his most memorable roles and giving life advice to Dane Cook
By Nathan Rabin November 19, 2012 | 6:00am
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Hey, Misfits is back, and it has a taste for human flesh, just like this website!
By Emily St. James November 19, 2012 | 6:00am
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“Boy, now I know how the pilgrims felt”: 20 impromptu TV Thanksgivings
By Caroline Framke, Matt Wild, Phil Dyess-Nugent, Erik Adams, David Sims, Ryan McGee, Emily St. James, Brandon Nowalk, Les Chappell, Alasdair Wilkins, Farihah Zaman, Dennis Perkins November 19, 2012 | 6:00am
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Ken Burns’ The Dust Bowl blots out the sun with its sheer massiveness
By Erik Adams November 18, 2012 | 6:00am
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We're finally finishing up our Millennium reviews, which we know you cared about so much
By Emily St. James November 16, 2012 | 6:00am
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Why it’s still important to take the “live” out of Saturday Night Live
By Erik Adams November 16, 2012 | 6:00am
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“Glease” is the word—even if it isn’t a real word
By Erik Adams November 15, 2012 | 6:00am
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Lizzy Caplan and Alison Brie on their new movie, Save The Date, and their TV shows
By Nathan Rabin November 15, 2012 | 6:00am
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A personal Roseanne episode mirrors its star’s fluid relationship with her past
By Noel Murray November 15, 2012 | 6:00am
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This week we're barely putting up with Girl Meets World
By Amelie Gillette November 14, 2012 | 6:00pm
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10 episodes that show off Leave It To Beaver’s quiet innovation
By Emily St. James November 14, 2012 | 4:00pm
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American Horror Story proceeds with plan to reveal everyone's a famous historical figure—even you
By Emily St. James November 14, 2012 | 6:00am
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NBC remembers it’s still airing a little show called Parenthood
By Erik Adams November 13, 2012 | 6:00am
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Why Couples Therapy and Courtney Stodden epitomize the empty narcissism of reality TV
By Nathan Rabin November 12, 2012 | 6:00pm
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Finn the human and Jake the dog take on the Lich as Adventure Time begins its latest season
By Emily St. James November 12, 2012 | 6:00am
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Sometimes safe, sometimes legal, always rare: 18 pieces of entertainment that tackle abortion head-on
By Nathan Rabin, Zack Handlen, Keith Phipps, Sean O'Neal, Phil Dyess-Nugent, Emily St. James, Tasha Robinson, Genevieve Koski November 12, 2012 | 6:00am
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Fringe sends Walter Bishop through the looking glass, because the J.J. Abrams-verse needs more Lewis Carroll references
By Emily St. James November 9, 2012 | 6:00am
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Mark Hamill revisits Sushi Girl, Batman, and The Simpsons
By Nathan Rabin November 8, 2012 | 4:30pm
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Parks And Recreation is a time bomb. Tick, tick, ticking. And Jonathan Banks intends to be around for the boom.
By Erik Adams November 8, 2012 | 6:00am
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This week we're barely putting up with Adam Carolla
By Amelie Gillette November 7, 2012 | 6:00pm
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What was the highlight of last night’s election coverage?
By AV Club Staff November 7, 2012 | 5:30pm
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Babylon 5 redefined TV science fiction, so why isn’t it better known?
By Rowan Kaiser November 7, 2012 | 5:00pm
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Jami Gertz on The Neighbors, going joyriding with Bill Murray, and more
By Will Harris November 7, 2012 | 4:00pm
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If you haven't gotten your fill of the election, let South Park make sense of it for you
By Emily St. James November 7, 2012 | 6:00am