As one of the (formerly) most beloved guys in the entertainment industry—before The New York Times ran a piece last month confirming years of rumors about his alleged behavior toward women—Louis CK has been all over the pop culture landscape of the last few years. Parks And Rec, SNL, Portlandia, even kids’ fare like…

Our A.V. Club Field Guide To Parenting is designed to guide you toward the best kids’ books, shows, movies, and music, just like we do with The A.V. Club for adults. Every month or so, we will feature a new subject with a few essential pop-culture takes parents should know, saving you from the mountains of kids’ dreck…

This post contains discussion of plot points from Game Of Thrones and Westworld.

The A.V. Club loves Rick And Morty, so much so that we will report on a lack of information about when the show’s third season will come. And, while the public’s desire for more Rick And Morty is leading to interesting stopgap measures—including these surreal video game animations and a satirical new website—this…

The A.V. Club’s list of 2016’s best television came together with contributions from 25 writers, who nominated 99 separate programs from multiple genres (including one major sporting event) for the year’s top honor. The writers’ individual ballots are listed below.

In what’s becoming a holiday tradition around these parts, The A.V. Club has once again combed the catalogs of the major streaming services to help guide your binge-watching over the Thanksgiving weekend. Unlike in years past, there’s a headline-grabbing Netflix premiere set for Black Friday—and while we’re plenty…

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.

Welcome back to AVQ&A, where we throw out a question for discussion among the staff and readers. Consider this a prompt to compare notes on your interface with pop culture, to reveal your embarrassing tastes and experiences, and to ponder how our diverse lives all led us to convene here together. Got a question you’d…

Here’s what’s up in the world of TV for Sunday, August 21. All times are Eastern.

Apparently nobody’s told Legendary Entertainment that everybody is in love with Pokémon right now, and that its upcoming movie Detective Pikachu is going to sell a billion tickets even if it turns out to be nothing but 90 minutes of an actual mouse running around in a cage with a Sherlock Holmes hat taped to its head.…

Gravity Falls creator Alex Hirsch was trying to simultaneously draw Pokémon and listen to election news yesterday. It turned out to be a brilliant move. Somehow, the two things wound up fusing in Hirsch’s head, causing him to create the first presidential primary-inspired Pokémon.

(This interview reveals major plot points from Gravity Falls, specifically relating to the series finale, “Weirdmageddon 3: Take Back The Falls.”)

Gravity Falls airs its series finale tonight, February 15, and as sad as that event may be, creator Alex Hirsch and crew deserve many kudos for going out at the top of their game. Despite an extremely haphazard broadcast schedule, Gravity Falls has transformed from a quirky monster-of-the-week show to an ingenious…

Here’s what’s up in the world of TV for Monday, February 15. All times are Eastern.

Here’s what’s up in the world of TV for Monday, February 8. All times are Eastern.

Showrunners, like carnival folk or the majestic Manx shearwater, are a transitory lot, always ready to move on to the next town or show or coastal nesting habitat once the greasepaint is stripped or the weather starts to turn. And despite the critical adoration heaped on Disney XD’s Gravity Falls—and his own clear…

Yes, we’ve been telling you to watch Gravity Falls for quite a while, despite its haphazard and diabolic schedule set forth by the Disney Channel. But now, we really mean it. As the series is winding up toward a finale, this is your last chance to catch up with the Pines family and enjoy the mystical mania of this…

Gravity Falls showrunner Alex Hirsch has announced that his beloved exploration of Bigfoots, interdimensional travel, and the joys of being a kid will be ending very soon, with its soon-concluded second season to be its last. “There are two more episodes left,” he wrote on his newly minted Tumblr, declaring that,…

Dipper and Mabel Pines are spreading their adventurous investigations to Nintendo’s handheld 3DS system, with publisher Ubisoft announcing that its using the same graphics engine behind the visually dazzling Rayman Legends and Child Of Light to power a new game, Gravity Falls: Legend Of The Gnome Gemulets. Players…

Here’s what’s up in the world of TV for Monday, July 13. All times are Eastern.