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Tricks and treats from Gravity Falls, Fox Animation, and The American Scream
By Erik Adams October 5, 2012 | 5:00am
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Given NBC’s decent fall, how will the final season of 30 Rock bite the hand that feeds?
By Erik Adams October 4, 2012 | 5:00am
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Co-creator David Mirkin walks us through cult classic Get A Life (4 of 5)
By Nathan Rabin October 4, 2012 | 5:00am
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When The Morton Downey Jr. Show examined—and mimicked—pro wrestling’s shtick
By Noel Murray October 4, 2012 | 5:00am
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Experience The Vampire Diaries’ twisting plot and many thrills in 10 episodes
By Carrie Raisler October 3, 2012 | 5:00pm
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This week we're barely putting up with Jaden Smith
By Amelie Gillette October 3, 2012 | 5:00pm
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Younger, Sexier, Inherently Doomed Case File #25: Saturday Night Live’s 1985-1986 season
By Nathan Rabin October 3, 2012 | 4:00pm
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What was the quintessential Charlie’s Angels undercover guise?
By Noel Murray October 3, 2012 | 2:30pm
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David Mirkin walks us through cult classic Get A Life (3 of 5)
By Nathan Rabin October 3, 2012 | 5:00am
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If you change channels really quickly between Supernatural and the debate, you can imagine Obama and Romney are fighting demons
By Emily St. James October 3, 2012 | 5:00am
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Familiar faces in unfamiliar places: 17 TV cast reunions on other shows
By John Semley, John Teti, Joel Keller, Matt Wild, Phil Dyess-Nugent, David Sims, Emily St. James, 1560738667, Sam Adams, Tasha Robinson, Genevieve Koski October 3, 2012 | 5:00am
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Celebrate the return of 30 For 30 before the depression caused by its subject matter sets in
By Erik Adams October 2, 2012 | 5:00am
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Where are all the blue-collar sitcoms?
By Emily St. James October 2, 2012 | 5:00am
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Co-creator David Mirkin walks us through cult classic Get A Life (2 of 5)
By Nathan Rabin October 2, 2012 | 5:00am
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After 100 episodes, you can't tell Adventure Time what to do anymore!
By Emily St. James October 1, 2012 | 5:00am
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Co-creator David Mirkin walks us through cult classic Get A Life (1 of 5)
By Nathan Rabin October 1, 2012 | 5:00am
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Homeland returns with its million Emmys to ask, “How ya like me now?”
By Erik Adams September 30, 2012 | 5:00am
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Comedy Showrunners Week: American Dad’s co-creators on the show’s weird evolution
By Emily St. James September 28, 2012 | 5:00pm
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Comedy Showrunners Week: Alex Hirsch on the real in the unreal of Gravity Falls
By Erik Adams September 28, 2012 | 3:00pm
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Improbably, Fringe is back for one last season
By Emily St. James September 28, 2012 | 5:00am
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The far-reaching stakes of How I Met Your Mother’s slap bet
By Erik Adams, Noel Murray, Ryan McGee, Emily St. James, Donna Bowman, Genevieve Koski September 27, 2012 | 6:00pm
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Comedy Showrunners Week: How Up All Night retooled its second season
By Emily St. James September 27, 2012 | 4:00pm
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Why Louie is the next stage in the evolution of the TV sitcom
By Emily St. James September 27, 2012 | 3:00pm
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Shawn Ryan on his new thriller and the possibility of a Terriers movie
By Emily St. James September 27, 2012 | 3:00pm
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Dive (dive! dive!) into Last Resort
By Erik Adams September 27, 2012 | 5:00am
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This week we're barely putting up with Life After Top Chef
By Amelie Gillette September 26, 2012 | 5:00pm
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10 key (and mindbending) episodes of Fringe
By Noel Murray September 26, 2012 | 5:00pm
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Comedy Showrunners Week continues with Suburgatory’s Emily Kapnek
By Emily St. James September 26, 2012 | 3:00pm
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And future generations will look upon us and say, "Why, oh Lord, did they cover The Neighbors?"
By Emily St. James September 26, 2012 | 5:00am
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Nat Faxon ascends to leading man on Ben And Kate
By Erik Adams September 25, 2012 | 5:00pm
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Comedy Showrunners Week: New Girl creator Elizabeth Meriwether laughs at her characters’ pain
By Erik Adams September 25, 2012 | 5:00pm
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Comedy Showrunners Week: David Caspe & Jonathan Groff on Happy Endings’ underdog appeal
By Erik Adams September 25, 2012 | 4:00pm
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Justin Kirk on the end of Weeds and the beginning of Animal Practice
By Erik Adams September 25, 2012 | 5:00am
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Ben And Kate stakes Fox’s claim on your Tuesday night
By Erik Adams September 25, 2012 | 5:00am
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Bewitched tweaked ’60s gender roles and became one of the first feminist sitcoms
By Emily St. James September 24, 2012 | 4:00pm
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Comedy Showrunners Week: Dana Fox on translating her life into Ben And Kate
By Emily St. James September 24, 2012 | 5:00am
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The TV season begins tonight, so find out how Castle and Beckett avoided hooking up this time
By Emily St. James September 24, 2012 | 5:00am
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Your favorite dramas earn more accolades while your favorite comedies are steamrolled by Modern Family on the Primetime Emmy Awards
By Erik Adams September 23, 2012 | 5:00am
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After a short break, our Firefly reviews plunge toward the series' end
By Emily St. James September 21, 2012 | 5:00am
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When Columbo’s metaphorical chess match became literal
By Phil Dyess-Nugent, Erik Adams, Noel Murray, Ryan McGee, Emily St. James, Donna Bowman September 20, 2012 | 6:00pm
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A curious nation turns to the Saturday Night Live election special to see if anything worth mocking happened in politics this week
By Erik Adams September 20, 2012 | 5:00am
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Distilling 4 decades of Saturday Night Live down to just 10 episodes
By Phil Dyess-Nugent September 19, 2012 | 5:00pm
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Survivor returns for its 5,000th season of Jeff Probst led frivolity and bacchanalia
By Emily St. James September 19, 2012 | 5:00am
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Put aside the frivolity of fall premières for an hour and let Frontline update you on the situation in Syria
By Erik Adams September 18, 2012 | 5:00am
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Zeljko Ivanek on Damages, Lost, and playing the good guy for a change
By Will Harris September 17, 2012 | 3:00pm
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What would happen if the power went out, and all you had to watch was the Revolution pilot?
By Emily St. James September 17, 2012 | 5:00am
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The Weeds finale marks the end of one cable empire, while another—of the Boardwalk variety—extends its influence
By Erik Adams September 16, 2012 | 5:00am
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Memorable marathons
By AV Club Staff September 14, 2012 | 5:00am
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Saturday Night Live is old enough to be your father
By Emily St. James September 14, 2012 | 5:00am
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Law & Order: Slave to formula, or crackling entertainment?
By Phil Dyess-Nugent, Donna Bowman, Emily St. James, Ryan McGee, Genevieve Koski September 13, 2012 | 6:00pm
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Nixon gets socked in Laugh-In’s most famous, and influential, five seconds
By Noel Murray September 13, 2012 | 3:00pm
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Introducing Glee: The New Class
By Erik Adams September 13, 2012 | 5:00am
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Examining The Dick Van Dyke Show’s sophisticated comedy in just 10 episodes
By Robert David Sullivan September 12, 2012 | 3:00pm
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The X Factor returns to TV, loaded for bear
By Emily St. James September 12, 2012 | 5:00am
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How Sons Of Anarchy blew a chance to say something meaningful about race
By Joshua Alston September 11, 2012 | 5:00pm
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Sons Of Anarchy returns, reigniting the passive-aggressive feud between showrunner Kurt Sutter and TV critics
By Erik Adams September 11, 2012 | 5:00am
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Brett Gelman on playing Go On’s “smoke monster”
By Erik Adams September 11, 2012 | 5:00am
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The Powers That Be marked a sitcom missing link
By Emily St. James September 10, 2012 | 3:00pm
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Tell us about your pop-culture weekend: September 7-September 9, 2012
By AV Club Staff September 10, 2012 | 5:00am
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If you've missed The Voice, three episodes over three nights should disabuse you of that notion
By Emily St. James September 10, 2012 | 5:00am
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Kenneth Branagh stars as Wallander, the most popular Swedish investigator without a dragon tattoo
By Erik Adams September 9, 2012 | 5:00am
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The fate of the Fae is at stake on Lost Girl, and if that makes sense to you, you're probably really concerned
By Emily St. James September 7, 2012 | 5:00am
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Why Friends’ fake game show epitomized ensemble comedy
By Phil Dyess-Nugent, Erik Adams, Noel Murray, Ryan McGee, Emily St. James, Donna Bowman, Genevieve Koski September 6, 2012 | 6:00pm
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The MTV Video Music Awards give future voters an early lesson in electoral disappointment
By Erik Adams September 6, 2012 | 5:00am
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Judging a show by its title: The 2012 fall TV preview, part 2
By Keith Phipps, Phil Dyess-Nugent, Erik Adams, Carrie Raisler, Emily St. James September 6, 2012 | 5:00am
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10 episodes that find the ’60s Batman at its campy best
By Kevin McFarland September 5, 2012 | 5:00pm
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How Bad Can It Be? Case File #23: Saturday Night Live’s aborted 1980-81 season
By Nathan Rabin, Nathan Rabin September 5, 2012 | 4:00pm
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Football is back, finally giving you something to awkwardly discuss with your dad again
By Emily St. James September 5, 2012 | 5:00am
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Judging a show by its title: The 2012 fall TV preview, part 1
By Phil Dyess-Nugent, Erik Adams, Carrie Raisler, Emily St. James, Genevieve Koski September 5, 2012 | 5:00am
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Contemplate Monica Keena’s career trajectory with this week’s Dawson’s Creek TV Club Classic reviews
By Erik Adams September 4, 2012 | 5:00am
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Switched At Birth continues the first season that cannot be ended, only contained
By Emily St. James September 3, 2012 | 5:00am
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After [Redacted], Breaking Bad [Redacted] its [Redacted] until [Redacted]
By Erik Adams September 2, 2012 | 5:00am
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Avoid the outdoors this long weekend, with all new Doctor Who
By Emily St. James August 31, 2012 | 5:00am
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Alfred Hitchcock Presents proposes a squirm-inducing wager
By Phil Dyess-Nugent, Erik Adams, Noel Murray, Emily St. James, Donna Bowman, Genevieve Koski August 30, 2012 | 6:00pm
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Will Louie get bumped by Tom Cruise?
By Erik Adams August 30, 2012 | 5:00am
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Breaking Bad’s Betsy Brandt on the evolution of her character
By Will Harris August 30, 2012 | 5:00am
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Boardwalk Empire showrunner Terence Winter dissects the show’s second season (Part 4 of 4)
By Noel Murray August 30, 2012 | 5:00am
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Clarke Peters on Red Hook Summer, Treme, and performing with a purpose
By Sam Adams August 29, 2012 | 5:00pm
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10 classic episodes of M*A*S*H
By Noel Murray August 29, 2012 | 4:00pm
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Boardwalk Empire showrunner Terence Winter dissects the show’s second season (Part 3 of 4)
By Noel Murray August 29, 2012 | 3:00pm
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Futurama ends another season by turning everyone into animals, just like Webster that one time
By Emily St. James August 29, 2012 | 5:00am
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What should a sports recap show be in 2012?
By Noel Murray August 29, 2012 | 5:00am
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Boardwalk Empire showrunner Terence Winter dissects the show’s second season (Part 2 of 4)
By Noel Murray August 28, 2012 | 3:00pm
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MasterChef boldly declares August 28, 2012 “The Day A Soufflé Was The Most Exciting Thing On TV”
By Erik Adams August 28, 2012 | 5:00am
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LeVar Burton on Tiger Woods, Geordi La Forge, and reviving Reading Rainbow
By Chris Curtis, Christina Couch August 28, 2012 | 5:00am
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Happy Days became one of the biggest hits on TV by selling its soul
By Emily St. James August 27, 2012 | 5:00pm
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Harry Shearer talks about his new album and its real-world inspirations
By Noel Murray August 27, 2012 | 4:00pm
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#43: No such thing as a few rounds of Tetris
By AV Club Staff August 27, 2012 | 5:00am
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The CW moves The LA Complex because TV's lowest-rated show can handle things like that
By Emily St. James August 27, 2012 | 5:00am
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“The setting itself is a character”: 17 fictional TV towns with personality
By John Semley, Phil Dyess-Nugent, Erik Adams, Noel Murray, 1560738667, Tasha Robinson, Genevieve Koski August 27, 2012 | 5:00am
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Boardwalk Empire creator Terence Winter on raising the stakes in season two
By Noel Murray August 27, 2012 | 5:00am
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True Blood finale fights the Authority—but will the Authority always win?
By Erik Adams August 26, 2012 | 5:00am
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Kelsey Grammer rules all of Chicago... like a Boss. (It had to be done)
By Emily St. James August 24, 2012 | 5:00am
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Better Off Ted’s last hurrah trades tickets for laughs
By Phil Dyess-Nugent, Erik Adams, Noel Murray, Ryan McGee, Emily St. James, Donna Bowman August 23, 2012 | 6:00pm
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The promise and disappointment of the TV “mallpisode”
By Genevieve Koski August 23, 2012 | 3:00pm
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Now is the time when Suits must make good on our praises
By Erik Adams August 23, 2012 | 5:00am
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Crockett and Tubbs reunited on Nash Bridges, but not as equal partners
By Noel Murray August 23, 2012 | 5:00am
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This will be the lineup for the sixth “season” of A Very Special Episode
By Noel Murray August 22, 2012 | 6:15pm
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10 episodes that will remind you why ER was the top drama of the ’90s
By David Sims August 22, 2012 | 3:00pm
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So You Think You Can Dance just keeps giving you reasons to stew about not being married to Natalie Portman
By Emily St. James August 22, 2012 | 5:00am
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Nothing’s on tonight, so you have less of an excuse than normal for not checking out White Collar
By Erik Adams August 21, 2012 | 5:00am
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Bunheads actress Sutton Foster on her transition from stage to screen
By Genevieve Koski August 20, 2012 | 5:00pm
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Friday Night Lights’ Jesse Plemons on Breaking Bad, The Master, and Frank Zappa
By Marah Eakin August 20, 2012 | 3:00pm
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MTV remakes The Inbetweeners, and you don't have to run away in terror, surprisingly
By Emily St. James August 20, 2012 | 5:00am
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The co-creators of British series Rev. discuss the show’s look at faith
By Emily St. James August 17, 2012 | 5:00pm
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Creative processes we wish we’d witnessed
By AV Club Staff August 17, 2012 | 5:00am
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Cinemax makes the whole world a beautiful explosion in Strike Back
By Emily St. James August 17, 2012 | 5:00am
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A new form of reality TV emerges from the sands of Laguna Beach
By Phil Dyess-Nugent, Erik Adams, Noel Murray, Ryan McGee, Emily St. James, Meredith Blake, Donna Bowman August 16, 2012 | 6:00pm