We’ve already heard which 2017 movies had the best producing, directing, and acting (at least according to the producers, directors, and actors), which only leaves the most important group in all of content creation: the writers. Without those wizards of the written word, all movies and TV shows would simply be…

Ten years ago this month, the world met Walter White, the chemistry teacher with a terminal cancer diagnosis whose meteoric rise in the drug trade and precipitous fall from grace were traced in one of the defining TV dramas of its era. It’s Breaking Bad’s 10th anniversary, which also means that creator Vince Gilligan…

Television provides so many units in which to appreciate the medium’s annual output. A series can leap to the forefront on the strengths of a single great season; if it’s running as part of the traditional broadcast calendar, those accolades might have two halves of separate seasons. Try as streaming services and…

Halloween draws nigh, and with it the annual parade of ghosts and goblins, trolls and Trumps, pumpkins and David S. Pumpkins, and other, equally obvious guises drawn from the well of contemporary pop culture. But you read The A.V. Club (or, at least, you scroll past it on the way to the comments). Your refined tastes…

The A.V. Club is counting down the days leading up to the 69th Primetime Emmy Awards on Sunday, September 17, with an examination of this year’s major categories. Each day, TV editor Erik Adams is breaking down a category and giving us his picks for who should win, and who will win. On the final day of our Emmy Round…

The 69th Primetime Emmy Awards are coming up this Sunday, September 17th and The A.V. Club is counting down the days leading up to the ceremony with an examination of this year’s major categories. Each day, TV Editor Erik Adams breaks down a category and gives us his picks for who should win, and who will win. First…

The season-three finale of Better Call Saul brought one longstanding relationship to an end, but AMC isn’t cutting its ties with Jimmy McGill (Bob Odenkirk). Variety reports the network’s just renewed the acclaimed drama for a fourth season of backsliding and chicanery.

From a business prospective, the forecast for TV in 2017 isn’t the brightest: While ratings continue to erode for the broadcast networks, several cable outlets that joined the original-programming gold rush are now backing out, with cash-flush digital competitors like Facebook and Snap poised to stake those abandoned…

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Jimmy McGill has worn a number of different guises over the course of two and half seasons of Better Call Saul—from flashily dressed ambulance-chaser to cheap-suited working-class attorney to, yes, Gene the Cinnabon manager. But he’s never looked less like himself than he does in the cold open of “Expenses.” Clad in…

Here’s what’s up in the world of TV for Monday, May 22. All times are Eastern.

Whether or not he intended it, Mike (Jonathan Banks) has found a new life in Albuquerque on Better Call Saul. There’s his growing partnership with Gus Fring (Giancarlo Esposito), as well as his reestablished relationship with his widowed daughter-in-law Stacey and his granddaughter Kaylee. Now that he’s no longer so…

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Better Call Saul’s fried chicken franchise of choice, Los Pollos Hermanos, has released some employee training videos that feature Gus Fring walking them through their daily responsibilities. (Good luck trying to remain as composed as Gus, though.) In this exclusive video The A.V. Club is premiering, the Pollos…

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I love procedurals. Police procedurals, sure—Ed McBain’s 87th Precinct books are my favorites. But really any kind of stepwise, methodical portrayal of how something gets done. How It’s Made. Sherlock Holmes and Agatha Christie. Journalistic “tick-tocks.” Rube Goldberg comics. Song Exploder. This video about Wilson…