Tony Shalhoub plays buttoned-up exceptionally well—his repressed, depressed Adrian Monk is the most memorable character to emerge from a network devoted to them. But the Emmy-winning actor also spent much of Monk’s eight seasons hinting at the vibrancy buried beneath all the mannerisms and immaculate (if a bit drab)…

Amy Sherman-Palladino’s TV creations have always evoked a romantically vintage feel, like the beloved cozy world of Gilmore Girls’ Stars Hollow or the idyllic California dance setting of Bunheads. In her new Amazon series, Sherman-Palladino embraces nostalgia wholeheartedly, diving into a rose-colored mid-century…

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.

Man, these space ants are a disorganized bunch. As BrainDead’s main threat (just a shade ahead of the hopelessly entrenched and shallowly partisan political system), the aliens continue to be maddeningly inconsistent it their methods. While it’s fine not to know exactly what the li’l critters’ long-term plans are, and…

So just what do these space-bugs want, anyway?

BrainDead, the new sci-fi political satire from The Good Wife creators Robert King and Michelle King, begins with the all-too familiar sight of real-life politicians like Donald Trump, Bernie Sanders, and Hillary Clinton, on a wall of TV screens, belting out their stump speeches. Over the rising cacophony, a legend…

In a time when there are more worthy hours of television than there are hours in the day, it would be a relief if shows could be counted on to be as terrible as their log lines suggest. Instead, we have gravity-defying shows like iZombie and Lucifer to prove that a premise is only as silly as its execution. Add to…

Every day, Watch This offers staff recommendations inspired by a new movie coming out that week. This week: Thanksgiving is upon us, so let’s gorge ourselves on films about food.

For most of the history of television, the barrier to syndication—and to profitability—has been 100 episodes. The shows that have made it to that mark are an unusual group. Many were big hits. Some found small cult audiences. Still others just hung on as best they could and never posted numbers quite low enough to be…

Few celebrities these days are lucky enough to have the kind of smoldering attractiveness that makes everyone stop and pay attention when they walk into a room, and none can pull it off quite as impressively as one actor in particular: Monk’s Tony Shalhoub. Now, as reported by Entertainment Weekly,…

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