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Film Crit Hulk, one of the Internet’s greatest, greenest thinkers once wrote “the ending is the conceit.” After all…
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Conflict creates drama, but relationships create emotional stakes. Into The Badlands finally earns some of those…
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It makes no sense why The Widow and her clan are not the center of this show. Composed and calculating, but with a…
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I often think about the initial impetus creators had when conceiving a television show. Matthew Weiner wanted to…
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Superheroes are the new samurai, so it makes sense that the co-creators of Smallville have teamed up again to create …
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The League is unapologetically anarchic, a ribald exploration of male-centered friendships. In its seventh and final…
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As sports stories go, Nick Piantanida’s is a boring one. He attempted a feat, three times, and failed. Nick…
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Despite (or perhaps because of) its prolific output, Comedy Bang! Bang! has not changed much during its four-season…
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It is amazing how much plot Adventure Time can fit into eleven minutes, and “You Forgot Your Floaties” is…
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“Thomas Middleditch Wears an Enigmatic Sweatshirt and Sweatpants with Pockets” is a funny episode of sketch comedy.…
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Whatever nascent budget IFC gives Comedy Bang! Bang!, Aukerman and company decided to spend it all on this one…
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When Modern Family first came on the scene in 2009, it was lauded for the progressiveness of its characters’…
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Sketch comedy, like fruit, is a gamble. You know that going in. When it works, it transcends the script, lights,…
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The Bible, the book, is not boring. Inspiration for countless works of both religious and secular bents, its themes…
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Modern Family has no business being as good as it is. Sitcoms are expected to go stale, retread old jokes, jump the…
In Podmass, The A.V. Club sifts through the ever-expanding world of podcasts and recommends 10–15 of the previous…
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Comedy Bang! Bang! is unique in both its origin (the podcast that beget a network that beget a television show) and…
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“All is fair in love and war,” someone famous said. Host Scott Ackerman and melodic sidekick Reggie Watts put that…
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Al Madrigal is half Latino, half white. Al Madrigal gets heat from whites for being too Latino and Latinos for being…