Over the weekend, much of the world’s population dutifully set its clocks one hour ahead in adherence with daylight saving time, that mandatory act of “springing forward” in order to... something about farmers. Or coal. Or whatever. As a popular Last Week Tonight With John Oliver segment pointed out, most of us don’t…

A.V. Club film editor A.A. Dowd and staff critic Ignatiy Vishnevetsky are back with another edition of Film Club, this time discussing Veep and The Thick Of It creator Armando Iannucci’s The Death Of Stalin. The film, a satirical look at the Soviet dictator’s last days and the chaos of the regime after his death, fits…

We’ve already heard which 2017 movies had the best producing, directing, and acting (at least according to the producers, directors, and actors), which only leaves the most important group in all of content creation: the writers. Without those wizards of the written word, all movies and TV shows would simply be…

Nowadays, there’s an abundance of comedy addressing politics, with basically every late-night show—or even the Will & Grace revival—taking shots at the president with varying degrees of success. Armando Iannucci, who created political comedies The Thick Of It and Veep, knows how to do it smartly. At the premiere of…

Last year’s Screen Actors Guild Awards felt sort of like a turning point in our modern age of celebrities publicly speaking out on political topics, coming right on the heels of President Shithole’s first attempt at a travel ban. This year, with the Time’s Up campaign in full swing and the Women’s March events…

Despite having recently found season-three lead Mahershala Ali a partner in Stephen Dorff, it’ll be a while before new episodes of True Detective air. HBO president Casey Bloys tells Entertainment Weekly that the network “couldn’t have it ready for ’18 so you can assume ’19,” when it will join the final season of Game Of Thrones i

The 2018 Screen Actors Guild Awards nominations are out, and the frontrunners will be familiar to anyone who’s watched premium cable, independent films, or just looked over the Golden Globes nominees this year. Big Little Lies and Three Billboards In Ebbing, Missouri lead their respective packs, with the HBO drama…

Veep is coming off an Outstanding Comedy Series Emmy victory for what’s arguably its weakest season. While the win wasn’t necessarily surprising, it was a bit of a disappointment for TV editor Erik Adams and assistant editor Gwen Ihnat. Emmy voters are creatures of habit and Veep was already coming off two consecutive…

The A.V. Club is counting down the days leading up to the 69th Primetime Emmy Awards on Sunday, September 17, with an examination of this year’s major categories. Each day, TV editor Erik Adams is breaking down a category and giving us his picks for who should win, and who will win. Today we’re looking at the nominees…

Even the people who make TV have trouble getting around to all the TV they want to watch. Case in point: Veep star and Emmy nominee Anna Chlumsky, who’d earmarked Halt And Catch Fire for an eventual binge, and finally got the excuse to delve in when an opportunity to join the period drama’s cast arose. The latest…

To the protagonists go the TV spoils: The spotlight scenes, the attention of award-giving bodies, the premium paychecks. And while a well-realized main character might hook you in to a TV show, that show isn’t worth sticking with unless its world is also populated by equally well-realized characters who support,…

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.

What does a comedy owe its audience? Ultimately, comedies are judged on whether they make people laugh, but what happens when those laughs come at the expense of character and canon? At the expense of viewers’ common sense? After five strong seasons, Veep has struggled this year, unable to build up the momentum and…

Here’s what’s up in the world of TV for Sunday, June 25. All times are Eastern.

The small screen will have its big summer night—as opposed to its winter revelry at the Golden Globes, and autumnal celebration at the Emmys—on August 5, when the 33rd Annual Television Critics Association Awards will be held in Los Angeles. These awards recognize individual and series achievements in comedy, drama,…

Selina Meyer was a terrible president. She had no clear agenda, she dithered over what should have been easy decisions, and every significant accomplishment or morally sound choice she made was driven by self-interest. Veep may have started with Selina as a well-intentioned but powerless figurehead, but as soon as she…

Here’s what’s up in the world of TV for Sunday, June 18. All times are Eastern.