Steely Dan is dad rock. That’s not meant to be disparaging. On the contrary, anyone with any musical knowhow will tell you that Steely Dan rules. But it’s also the exact kind of stuff you’d expect to hear blaring out of a beat-up old boombox while your old man works in the backyard. So, why do dads everywhere feel…
Welcome to Random Roles, wherein we talk to actors about the characters who defined their careers. The catch: They don’t know beforehand what roles we’ll ask them to talk about.
Father’s day is almost here, which means it’s almost time to have that heartfelt five-minute phone call with your dad during which you ask him how he likes the present you sent, he says fine, and then hands the phone to your mom. It’s a truly fulfilling annual experience that’s cherished by fathers and their children…
With more than 5.2 million articles, Wikipedia is an invaluable resource, whether you’re throwing a term paper together at the last minute, or reassuring yourself Out Of This World was a real thing from your childhood and not a hallucination. We explore some of Wikipedia’s oddities in our 5,326,714-week series, Wiki…
Like so many other fans, I was introduced to Underworld via Trainspotting. The group’s “Born Slippy (NUXX)” and “Dark & Long (Dark Train)” featured prominently in the film, which I absolutely loved as an Anglophile teen. But what really got me into Underworld was going back around that time to check out …
When someone falls off a horse, it sometimes takes absolutely everything in their power to get back in the saddle. They’re laying in the dirt—ego bruised as badly as anything else—with friends and family hovering up above, telling them it’s OK to let go and to just stay off the horse this time. But no, they get up…
As the sun sets on another busy day of preparing the fall TV schedule—allowing for the sun to rise on a new tomorrow of renewals and cancellations, series orders and pilots turned down—Fox announced that it doesn’t live with Dads anymore. But just as every ray of sunshine must give way to an equal amount of rain, the…
After what happened in the early hours of Thursday morning on one of SXSW’s main thoroughfares, any sort of “Hey, we saw this band and it was good” recap feels understandably frivolous. Although most of the A.V. Club staff was at Stubb’s on Red River—a block or two from where everything happened—none of us was ever in…
Fox has kicked off renewal season—that long, horrifyingly protracted part of the spring when everything but your favorite show gets renewed—by picking up New Girl, Brooklyn Nine-Nine, The Mindy Project, and The Following for the 2014-15 season. Of the four, the only real surprise was The Mindy Project, which had…
Since 2007, TV Club has dissected television episode by episode. Beginning this September, The A.V. Club will also step back to take a wider view in this, our new TV Reviews section. With pre-air reviews of new shows, returning favorites, and noteworthy finales, the TV Reviews section doesn't replace TV Club—as usual,…
