Like anyone else with eyes and a heart, I spent most of my week navigating the horrific news coming out of Texas, scrolling through Twitter and jumping through TV channels, swarmed by an endless barrage of images that capture the inhumanity of a this current administration. They’re difficult images to shake; they’re…

Another year, another season of The Flash that we wanted to be just a little bit better than it was. Season four did provide slightly more levity than the past couple years, and if you liked the character most responsible for that, then we’ve got some great news for you. (If you didn’t, maybe it’s best to roll with…

One of the shining lights in the cosmic pantheon of mid-afternoon trash TV has suddenly found itself in danger of extinction, as THR reports that Jerry Springer might be shutting down after 27 years on the air. The seemingly endless syndicated sideshow—hosted with detached irony by the country musician, actor, and…

It’d be hard to overstate the importance of Greg Berlanti to Warner Bros.’ TV fortunes: As the chief architect of almost all of the company’s comic-based projects—including its many DC-branded shows, plus Riverdale—Berlanti has become a huge part of, especially, The CW’s recent gains in approval and appeal. (Dude’s…

I’ve spent a fair amount of time in the reviews of the first few episodes of this season of The 100 hailing the show’s decision to move ahead six years in time. From the season premiere onwards, it’s proven to be a smart choice, and the crux of my thinking has been that it’s allowed the characters time to change in…

Keiynan Lonsdale’s Kid Flash has always been tragically underused on The Flash, save for a few times when Grant Gustin’s Barry Allen was too busy screwing up the timeline to do regular superhero action, so it seemed like the perfect solution when he finally popped up on DC’s Legends Of Tomorrow for its most recent…

When iZombie’s fourth season began, it felt like a wide open world of story possibilities for what, up to that point, had been a show with a fairly buttoned up structure. It was essentially a full reboot of the universe, and suddenly building the world of the show beyond the immediate characters and their storylines…

We knew it would come down to this in the end: All you need is love. Exactly how that would manifest itself in the fourth season finale “We Are The Flash” is something I never would have been able to predict, and I’m not certain it made any sense at all. But it was fast-paced, exciting, suspenseful, and full-on comic…

You can tell when iZombie starts to pull a season together because the episodes are so full of plot you barely have time to take a breath. After really struggling to strike a consistent balance between character and plot in the back half of the season, this penultimate episode finally settles in and sets things up for…

The CW is a TV wonderland where shows either last forever (telling every story they want to tell and then continue on for another dozen seasons) or they barely make it through their inaugural season before being mercifully canceled. Today, the network released teasers and preview clips for its new shows Charmed and …

In advance of its upfront presentation—which is taking place in New York City as we speak—earlier today The CW confirmed what fans of Crazy Ex-Girlfriend and Jane The Virgin have been anticipating for a while: That the shows will end with their upcoming fourth and fifth seasons, respectively, as Deadline reports. …

At a recent convention in Nashville, Arrow star Stephen Amell teased that he’d be making a “really fun announcement” at The CW’s upfront presentation today, and now we know what that announcement is: Batwoman is coming to the next Arrow, Flash, Supergirl, and Legends Of Tomorrow crossover event, and the heroes will be…

“Think Fast,” the penultimate episode of this fourth season of The Flash, peaks early with one of the best action/effects sequence in the show’s history. After DeVoe gains entry to an ARGUS black site by posing as John Diggle (I understood everything about this except how he knows the counter-password to “Elvis…

The 100 has spent the first few episodes of this season keeping many of the main characters separated. Rather than immediately bringing the crew on the Ark back to earth and opening up the bunker so that Octavia and everyone else might escape, the show found a way to tell a few different stories about life in the six…

In terms of moving this season’s stories forward, “Insane In The Germ Brain” is one of the more successful episodes in this second half of this iZombie season. So many different stories either come to a head or move significantly toward their inevitable end and the result is a completely stuffed hour of things that…

Toying recklessly with forces behind its comprehension or ability to control—i.e., pissed-off Supernatural fans—The CW announced today that it would be passing on Wayward Sisters, a planned spin-off to its recently renewed monster-hunting show. The news comes despite a groundswell of fan support for the project, which…

As frequent fans of shows that often have more ambition, creativity, and talent than, uh, actual viewers, these big cancellation sprees can always be a little nervewracking for us here at The A.V. Club. So it’s always nice to see a quiet favorite manage to slip past the flailing axes and carve out another season for…

We’re now in upfront season, the time of year in which the networks and streaming outlets preview their fall lineups. These announcements are usually preceded by some bloodletting, so as we await the decisions from on high—and the inevitable petitions to save this drama or that comedy—The A.V. Club is checking in on…

If last week’s iZombie was an example of the show being an interesting mess, in contrast this week it’s mostly just a mess. There are a lot of disparate stories and tones, and none of them manage to coalesce into anything resembling a cohesive episode.