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…

This week’s question comes from reader James Cobb:

Note: This article discusses plot points from the series finale of Review, which you really should see.

We all know that television reviews necessarily discuss the events and outcome of a given episode. I rarely warn readers not to read a review before viewing the episode. But “Cryogenics, Lightning, Last Review” warrants an exception. If you’ve been following along with the masterpiece that is Review, don’t shortchange…

This is how it ends for Forrest MacNeil: His show within a show—in which the straight-arrow critic played by Andy Daly analyzes life experiences and rates them on a five-star scale—is canceled, and he’s standing around on a darkened set, thinking the cancellation is part of a prank he’s reviewing. It is not. Review is…

Here’s what’s up in the world of TV for Thursday, March 30. All times are Eastern.

Despite his bravado about his fated place in the universe, it doesn’t take much to send Forrest MacNeil’s world topsy-turvy. “Co-host, Ass-slap, Helen Keller, Forgiveness” does it several times with breathtaking ease. But the things that should send Forrest reeling are never the things that do send him reeling.

Here’s what’s up in the world of TV for Thursday, March 23. All times are Eastern.

You can’t go home again, so the saying goes. You can’t step in the same river twice… or, uh, you can’t leap into the same river, dragging your colleague and closest remaining friend with you, twice. So how does a show recover from its own spectacular season-ending (and at the time, potentially series-ending) plunge…

Here’s what’s up in the world of TV for Thursday, March 16. All times are Eastern.

After three seasons, dozens of meticulously evaluated life experiences, and 45 pancakes, Review is coming to a close. The deliriously black comedy has dragged Forrest MacNeil (Andy Daly, who developed the show along with Jeffrey Blitz and Charlie Siskel) through several dark nights of the soul, ever vigilant in his…

We’ve waited for more than a year to find out when Review will return to terrorize its terminally open-minded host Forrest MacNeil (Andy Daly) once more. Back in February 2016, Comedy Central announced that the show would end after an abbreviated third and final season, and today the network has revealed that that…

Here’s what’s up in the world of TV for Wednesday, December 14. All times are Eastern.

One of the great glories of Andy Daly’s Review is watching his “real life critic” realize he’s in way over his head with some new, preposterous challenge, but refuse to stop smiling. In a new video, in which Daly speaks uninterrupted about whiskey for three-and-a-half hours, you can watch that fade occur in real time.

Here’s what’s up in the world of TV for Friday, August 12, and Saturday, August 13. All times are Eastern.

In 2007, an A.V. Club Inventory featured 22 TV credit sequences that fit their shows perfectly, paying homage to Homicide: Life On The Streets, The Sopranos, The Andy Griffith Show, and other series where a simple montage serves as an overture for the program’s themes and aesthetic. In the near-decade since that piece…

It looks like Forrest MacNeil’s endlessly miserable quest to “review life” will soon be coming to an end, as The Hollywood Reporter says that Comedy Central and Andy Daly have come to the “joint decision” to end Review after an abbreviated third season. THR suggests that the reason for this is that Daly has been…

Even fictional people have to eat. Sometimes food reveals what we should know about a character, sometimes it’s a pleasant pause in the action, and sometimes it’s pea soup from hell on the face of a priest. Food Fiction is an ongoing feature that looks at some of the most memorable foods in the history of storytelling.

When the TV critics of the The A.V. Club started discussing the year’s best television performances, it began as an informal survey of the turns we’d most enjoyed in 2015. But a handful of consensus picks soon emerged, falling together into a brief catalog of actors who’d made us laugh, cry, fear for our lives (or…