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Spartacus comes to its end, presumably with singing, dancing, and bloodletting
By Emily St. James April 12, 2013 | 5:00am
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How “redneck reality” became the new rural working-class sitcom
By Scott Von Doviak April 11, 2013 | 5:00am
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Jon Hamm says “If you’re looking for me / You better check the Archer finale”
By Erik Adams April 11, 2013 | 5:00am
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Taxi asks, “How much of a sitcom needs to be comedic?”
By Phil Dyess-Nugent, Erik Adams, Noel Murray, Ryan McGee, Emily St. James, Donna Bowman, Genevieve Koski April 10, 2013 | 3:00pm
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Modern Family offers wacky scrapes aplenty, just like the wacky scrapes your family gets into!
By Emily St. James April 10, 2013 | 5:00am
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10 episodes that show how Cheers stayed great for 11 seasons
By Emily St. James April 10, 2013 | 5:00am
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Bureau Of Regrettable Ideas Case File #36: The Simpsons, The Yellow Album
By Nathan Rabin April 10, 2013 | 5:00am
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“Don’t worry about the government”: 13 fictional political machines that are too stupid to be sinister
By Cory Casciato, Phil Dyess-Nugent, Erik Adams, Joel Keller, John Semley April 10, 2013 | 5:00am
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Watch Cougar Town’s season finale secure in the knowledge that more episodes are on their way
By Erik Adams April 9, 2013 | 5:00am
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How The Americans makes massive, global stakes incredibly intimate
By Emily St. James April 8, 2013 | 5:00pm
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Tell us about your pop-culture weekend: April 5-7
By AV Club Staff April 8, 2013 | 5:00am
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Come up with your own cloying voiceovers to bid farewell to The Carrie Diaries
By Emily St. James April 8, 2013 | 5:00am
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A must-follow absurd Twitter account, a pair of classic TV shows, and some music worth hearing
By Sean O'Neal, Erik Adams, Andrea Battleground, Kyle Ryan, Marah Eakin April 5, 2013 | 5:00pm
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We encourage you to check out Orphan Black in the midst of a suddenly crowded weekend
By Emily St. James April 5, 2013 | 5:00am
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Who should replace Jimmy Fallon?
By Nathan Rabin, Noah Cruickshank, Josh Modell, Joel Keller, Erik Adams, Oliver Sava, David Sims, Ryan McGee, Emily St. James, Marah Eakin, Claire Zulkey, Tasha Robinson, Genevieve Koski April 4, 2013 | 5:30pm
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Hungry for new TV? A glutton for viewing options? Not Hannibal—because he eats people, you see
By Erik Adams April 4, 2013 | 5:00am
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Hogan’s Heroes’ unceremonious finale comes from the era before TV “endgames”
By Noel Murray April 4, 2013 | 5:00am
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Arrow debuts a Count who doesn't count things on a night positively crammed with new TV
By Emily St. James April 3, 2013 | 5:00am
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The Americans’ Matthew Rhys on playing a deeply emotional KGB operative
By Emily St. James April 3, 2013 | 5:00am
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It’s okay to laugh at It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia’s musical trainwreck
By Phil Dyess-Nugent, Erik Adams, Noel Murray, Ryan McGee, Emily St. James, Donna Bowman, Genevieve Koski April 3, 2013 | 5:00am
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Inside Amy Schumer
By Kyle Ryan April 2, 2013 | 9:14pm
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From Deadwood to Justified: Acknowledging Jim Beaver’s awesomeness
By Phil Dyess-Nugent April 2, 2013 | 5:00am
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Justified’s latest season glides to a finish
By Erik Adams April 2, 2013 | 5:00am
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Graham Yost talks Justified, Speed, and… Full House?
By Emily St. James April 2, 2013 | 5:00am
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Last Man Standing’s second season was the weirdest sitcom season since ’Til Death
By Emily St. James April 1, 2013 | 5:00am
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For April Fool's Day, we're going to cover Castle and pretend we always have been
By Emily St. James April 1, 2013 | 5:00am
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Tell us about your pop-culture weekend: March 29-31
By AV Club Staff April 1, 2013 | 5:00am
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Dun dun dun-dun-dun-dun-dun dun dun dun-dun-dun-dun-dun dun dun dun-dun-dun-dun-dun (Translated: Game Of Thrones is back)
By Erik Adams March 31, 2013 | 5:00am
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Casey Wilson on Happy Endings’ renewal chances and the true “Year Of Penny”
By Erik Adams March 29, 2013 | 3:00pm
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ABC wants you to save Happy Endings, as if you have any say in the matter
By Emily St. James March 29, 2013 | 5:00am
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Empathizing with art
By Nathan Rabin, John Semley, Kyle Ryan, Jason Heller, Steve Heisler, Noah Cruickshank, Joel Keller, Sonia Saraiya, Ryan McGee, Marah Eakin, Brandon Nowalk, Emily St. James, Claire Zulkey, Sam Adams, Tasha Robinson March 29, 2013 | 5:00am
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Futurama’s John DiMaggio on his new IFC show and making Robert De Niro laugh
By Will Harris March 29, 2013 | 5:00am
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The accent grave: Why don’t Americans play Americans on TV anymore?
By Noel Murray March 28, 2013 | 5:00pm
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Raising Hope ends its third season on special night at special time—but there’s no need to panic
By Erik Adams March 28, 2013 | 5:00am
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Mike White walks us through Enlightened’s second season (2 of 2)
By Emily St. James March 27, 2013 | 5:00pm
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This week we're barely putting up with Bates Motel
By Amelie Gillette March 27, 2013 | 5:00pm
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The 7th Heaven musical is one of the worst episodes of TV ever made
By Phil Dyess-Nugent, Erik Adams, Noel Murray, Ryan McGee, Emily St. James, Donna Bowman, Genevieve Koski March 27, 2013 | 5:00am
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10 episodes that show the best of Mad Men’s many facets
By Emily St. James March 27, 2013 | 5:00am
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Psych reaches 100 episodes with the noose in the library
By Emily St. James March 27, 2013 | 5:00am
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It’s still snowy and gray in Chicago—the city could use a visit from New Girl
By Erik Adams March 26, 2013 | 5:00am
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Mike White walks us through all of Enlightened’s second season (1 of 2)
By Emily St. James March 26, 2013 | 5:00am
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The Walking Dead succeeds by making death a character
By Emily St. James March 25, 2013 | 5:00pm
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Revolution is back, and it will not shut up about someone lighting the way
By Emily St. James March 25, 2013 | 5:00am
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Giancarlo Esposito on Revolution and bullying Vince Gilligan on Breaking Bad
By Will Harris March 25, 2013 | 5:00am
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Bob’s Burgers takes a holiday.
By Erik Adams March 24, 2013 | 5:00am
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Your Tiger Beat pullout posters are relevant again, because Jonathan Taylor Thomas is on Last Man Standing
By Emily St. James March 22, 2013 | 5:00am
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The Vampire Diaries bites into the Big Apple
By Erik Adams March 21, 2013 | 5:00am
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After Ally McBeal captured the zeitgeist, Robert Downey Jr. found the show’s heart
By Phil Dyess-Nugent, Erik Adams, Noel Murray, Ryan McGee, Emily St. James, Donna Bowman March 20, 2013 | 5:00pm
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Workaholics ends its season as it must: With fears of impending apocalypse
By Emily St. James March 20, 2013 | 5:00am
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Treat Me Like The Gift I Am Case File #35: Hey Paula
By Nathan Rabin March 20, 2013 | 5:00am
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Please RSVP to The Mindy Project’s birthday-party episode
By Erik Adams March 19, 2013 | 5:00am
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Why the mostly forgotten Route 66 was one of TV’s most ambitious shows
By Emily St. James March 18, 2013 | 5:00pm
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Sundance and A&E repopulate undercrowded Monday with Top Of The Lake and Bates Motel
By Emily St. James March 18, 2013 | 5:00am
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“What a nightmare!”: 21 TV episodes that do dream sequences right
By John Semley, Noah Cruickshank, Zack Handlen, Phil Dyess-Nugent, Erik Adams, Oliver Sava, David Sims, Emily St. James, Claire Zulkey, Tasha Robinson, Genevieve Koski March 18, 2013 | 5:00am
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The deadline for Girls’ second season approaches
By Erik Adams March 17, 2013 | 5:00am
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A pair of funny new TV shows, last year’s best doc, and 2 more can’t-miss entertainments
By Nathan Rabin, Erik Adams, Andrea Battleground, Kyle Ryan, Scott Tobias March 15, 2013 | 5:00pm
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Young Justice ends its run in a pitched battle against hideous monsters—aliens, not executives
By Emily St. James March 15, 2013 | 5:00am
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Going beyond “Washington” with the online cartoons of Brad Neely
By Erik Adams March 14, 2013 | 5:00pm
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How Dollhouse toyed with the idea of how people and institutions are formed
By Noel Murray March 14, 2013 | 5:00pm
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What we talk about when we talk about Girls
By Emily St. James March 14, 2013 | 5:00am
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No, this is The Office episode that was the pilot for The Farm
By Erik Adams March 14, 2013 | 5:00am
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10 episodes that show why MacGyver was more than a punchline
By Zack Handlen March 13, 2013 | 5:00pm
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Daria’s musical episode comes off like a dare—but does it hit the right notes?
By Phil Dyess-Nugent, Erik Adams, Noel Murray, Ryan McGee, Emily St. James, Donna Bowman, Genevieve Koski March 13, 2013 | 5:00am
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Survivor promises an evening of sabotage (not the Beastie Boys song, sadly)
By Emily St. James March 13, 2013 | 5:00am
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Hide the kiddies, at least temporarily: 11 famous children’s entertainers with adult sidelines
By Genevieve Koski, Tasha Robinson, Nathan Rabin, Noah Cruickshank March 13, 2013 | 5:00am
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An AT&T spot uses cute kids to sell multitasking, but fails to sell AT&T
By Noel Murray March 12, 2013 | 5:00pm
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Enjoy (or anti-enjoy) Smash coverage while you still can
By Erik Adams March 12, 2013 | 5:00am
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Check out more blatantly telegraphed twists on The Following
By Emily St. James March 11, 2013 | 5:00am
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American Dad decides there’s never a bad time for a James Bond spoof
By Erik Adams March 10, 2013 | 6:00am
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Grimm returns for no apparent reason, because NBC has no idea how to do anything
By Emily St. James March 8, 2013 | 6:00am
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The prayers of dozens are answered as Gilmore Girls comes to TV Club Classic
By Erik Adams March 7, 2013 | 6:00am
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The Neighbors is funnier than it has any right to be
By Emily St. James March 6, 2013 | 4:00pm
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Frasier forgets the words in one of the funniest sitcom episodes of the 1990s
By Phil Dyess-Nugent, Erik Adams, Noel Murray, Ryan McGee, Emily St. James, Donna Bowman, Genevieve Koski March 6, 2013 | 4:00pm
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The Americans continues to prove it's a must-see with another great episode
By Emily St. James March 6, 2013 | 6:00am
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The big twist at the end of The Joe Schmo’s third season is that there was a third season of The Joe Schmo Show
By Erik Adams March 5, 2013 | 6:00am
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Why every great TV show needs a Xander Harris
By Ryan McGee March 5, 2013 | 6:00am
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A confusing Samsung Galaxy spot offers a peek at the doofuses behind the ads
By Noel Murray March 5, 2013 | 6:00am
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Tell us about your pop-culture weekend: March 1-3, 2013
By AV Club Staff March 4, 2013 | 6:00am
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Will Donald Trump’s real-life idiocy sink The Celebrity Apprentice?
By Joshua Alston March 4, 2013 | 6:00am
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Switched At Birth performs an episode entirely in sign language
By Emily St. James March 4, 2013 | 6:00am
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Out of a tailspin: 16 great shows that recovered from bum seasons
By Cory Casciato, Scott Tobias, Phil Dyess-Nugent, Erik Adams, David Sims, Noel Murray, Emily St. James March 4, 2013 | 6:00am
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Don’t just stand there and do nothing while the powers that be threaten to destroy Enlightened
By Erik Adams March 3, 2013 | 6:00am
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The power goes out as another season of Portlandia winds down
By Emily St. James March 1, 2013 | 6:00am
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Mae Whitman on TMNT, blending into Arrested Development, and acting with Coach Taylor
By Erik Adams March 1, 2013 | 6:00am
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The Common Cult chronicles growing pains, Lovecraft-style
By Erik Adams February 28, 2013 | 6:00pm
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Sure, Community has changed… but it’s aging like any other sitcom
By Joel Keller February 28, 2013 | 6:00am
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Legit prepares you to welcome Andy Dick back into your living room—and your heart
By Erik Adams February 28, 2013 | 6:00am
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This week we're barely putting up with Boston's Finest
By Amelie Gillette February 27, 2013 | 6:00pm
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10 episodes that made The Larry Sanders Show one of the best comedies of the ’90s
By Kyle Ryan February 27, 2013 | 6:00pm
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Another season of Top Chef ends with those wacky chefs trying to get on top
By Emily St. James February 27, 2013 | 6:00am
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No accounting for The Taste: The taming of Anthony Bourdain
By Noel Murray February 27, 2013 | 6:00am
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DirectTV’s ad campaign wants to make you hate cable as much as it does
By Noel Murray February 26, 2013 | 6:00am
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CBS hopes Golden Boy will strike, er, some sort of precious metal
By Erik Adams February 26, 2013 | 6:00am
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Say goodbye to Bunheads, then wait to find out if you will get more of it
By Emily St. James February 25, 2013 | 6:00am
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Enlightened is TV’s best show right now—and it needs more viewers
By Emily St. James February 25, 2013 | 6:00am
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The A.V. Club’s Oscar coverage is a dream come true—there are so many people to thank…
By Erik Adams February 24, 2013 | 6:00am
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The Walking Dead is TV’s biggest show by at least one metric
By Erik Adams February 22, 2013 | 6:00pm
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Our Twilight Zone reviews return in the most ironic way possible! (Okay, they just return)
By Emily St. James February 22, 2013 | 6:00am
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Daniel Knauf tells us his plan for the end of Carnivàle
By Emily St. James February 22, 2013 | 6:00am
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Fictional foods we want to try
By Cory Casciato, John Semley, Kyle Ryan, Jason Heller, Scott Von Doviak, Joel Keller, Phil Dyess-Nugent, Erik Adams, Sarah Collins, Ryan McGee, Sonia Saraiya, Brandon Nowalk, Emily St. James, Claire Zulkey, Tasha Robinson, Genevieve Koski February 22, 2013 | 6:00am
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Pre-Star Wars, Six Million Dollar Man and Bionic Woman were beacons for young nerds
By Noel Murray February 21, 2013 | 6:00pm
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Daniel Knauf opens up about Carnivàle’s long, weird journey (1 of 2)
By Emily St. James February 21, 2013 | 6:00am
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Realizing there’s only so much February sweeps left, Parks And Recreation throws another surprise wedding
By Erik Adams February 21, 2013 | 6:00am
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Linda Cardellini on Freaks And Geeks, ER, and homewrecking
By Claire Zulkey February 21, 2013 | 6:00am
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Suburgatory offers you all the T-ball you need to get through this dark, baseball-less time
By Emily St. James February 20, 2013 | 6:00am
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Neil Flynn on The Middle, switching from drama to comedy, and his many Cop #1 roles
By Will Harris February 20, 2013 | 6:00am
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“I forget who I am—who am I?”: 23-plus alter egos of sitcom characters
By Nathan Rabin, Josh Modell, Erik Adams, Noel Murray, Emily St. James, Genevieve Koski February 20, 2013 | 6:00am
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You don’t know what you got ’til it’s Go On
By Erik Adams February 19, 2013 | 6:00am