Best Of 2011

Every year, the marketplace of ideas (and products) gets more crowded with music, books, films, and TV. Every year,…

Could you tell my boy to calm the heck down? Can’t seem to get him to get the difference between bestiality,…

When we wrote about our favorite podcasts for the first time last year, we kept it casual: A core of A.V. Club…

Even more than most list-making endeavors, rounding up the best comics of the year is complicated. Does a single…

Superheroes flooded movie screens, publishers transitioned to digital, and entire lines were rebooted in 2011, a…

Every year, The A.V. Club embarks upon elaborate voting rituals to determine the sorta-consensus best films, albums,…

Each year, The A.V. Club scours the depths of our music slush pile in the quest for the least essential albums of…

‪We assembled our top-10 list in the usual way. All of the regular contributors to The A.V. Club’s game section made…

‪The Sawbuck Gamer column, our recurring roundup of free and dirt-cheap games, is notorious for destroying readers’…

As the means of producing music, books, and even films become cheaper and more accessible every year, the…

Every year, The A.V. Club receives veritable tons of ridiculous promotional items, all of them vying for notice like…

We conclude our year-end countdown of the top 10 ridiculous promotional items we received this year. No, you can’t…

It’s rare for the best series on television to attract huge audiences, but it’s equally rare for the very worst…

Because we know your lives are too busy to read every single word we publish, and because now is the time of year…

For the second year in a row, The A.V. Club looked at its year-end TV coverage and said, “Wait, there’s a lot of…

With the television industry’s entire yearly output accounted for and meticulously catalogued in lists of best series

‪We try not to toot our own horns too loudly around here at The A.V. Club—we’re all nerdy wallflowers, after all—but…

Can a luxurious setting make White Chicken & Buffalo Style Sauce go down easier? Our friends at Graham Elliot helped…

Has it really been four years since The A.V. Club last wandered hopefully into a dollar store, seeking out the…

We've looked at the best films of 2011, and spotlighted some titles we feared might get overlooked. Now, without…