Bogus Straw Stats Popped Up in Last Night's Shark Tank
The reusable straw company Final Straw is marketing its product on the back of a 9-year-old's statistics.
Television
The O.C. Meets Friday Night Lights in Derivative All American
CW's latest teen drama seems awfully familiar.
The State of Sitcoms on Primetime Television Remains Dire
Three new shows will make you ask, "Am I supposed to laugh here?"
Murphy Brown Revival Forgets Its Roots in Desperate Attempt to Join the Resistance
It's neither funny, nor insightful. Why did it even come back?
A Million Little Things Is The Big Chill for a New Generation
New ABC show attempts to duplicate success of This Is Us.
Next Week's New Fall Shows Will Fill You with Sense of Déjà Vu
Magnum P.I. gets a reboot, sans the charismatic lead.
Rough Insights into Urban Decay, Through the Eyes of a Kids' Football Program
The Warriors of Liberty City documents harsh lives in Miami through its children.
Fall TV Kicks Off with a Couple of Whimpering Men
Rel and Kidding attempt to find comedy in failure and disaster.
Law & Order: Hate Crimes Is a Bad Idea Built on Worse Statistics
But if the show must exist, I have some ripped-from-the-headlines ideas for upcoming plots.
Meek Mill Wants to Use His Voice for Criminal Justice Reform
The rapper criticizes the probation system's obstacles to redemption.
The Nihilistic World of The Purge Brings Its Mayhem to the Small Screen
Don't expect 10 hours of serial television to add more nuance.
When Robin Leach Met John Waters
Friday A/V Club: Lifestyles of the Rich and Strange
Enjoy One Dollar's Murder Mystery; Ignore Its Awkward Class Struggle
CBS All Access show entertains, but its attempts at social relevance are dismal failures.
Matt Groening Offers a Comically Twisted Take on Fantasy in Disenchantment
Netflix lands the Simpsons creator's latest show.
Ignore the Outrage Mob and Watch Insatiable
Maybe folks angry about "fat-shaming" should have seen an episode before freaking out?
Kanye West's Support for Trump Is No Different Than the Average Voter's
Except possibly the bit about "break[ing] the fucking simulation."
Sugar Town Puts Louisiana Police Misconduct in the Spotlight
Investigation Discovery documentary details the shooting death of a young man in police custody, absurdly framed as a suicide.
Who Is America? Is at Turns Hilarious and Unsettlingly Mean
Not every random jerk's terrible opinion is worth a national spotlight.
Sacha Baron Cohen Duped Republican Lawmakers Into Saying Some Really Stupid Things
The Borat comedian's new "Kinder Guardian" videos put lawmakers in cringe-worthy light.
Rick and Morty Creator Is Right-Wing Mob's Latest Target After Tasteless Comedy Sketch Resurfaces
Dan Harmon deletes his Twitter account after a years-old video resurfaces.
Georgia Politician Fights Terrorism by Mooning Sacha Baron Cohen
The costumed comedian finds that it's not that hard to dupe politicians with irrational fears.
Stephen King's Nightmare Town Castle Rock a Distillery of Horrors
Don't even stop for gas in this fictional Maine community.
If You're Suffering from Canadian Comedy Withdrawal, Letterkenny Offers an Antidote
Wacky rural northerners on parade
Why the Heck Are Taxpayers Bankrolling Episodes of The Bachelorette?
Buy your own roses! Pay for your own fake romances!
HBO's Creaky Adaptation of Sharp Objects Will Make You Want to Stab Yourself
Heavy-handed writing fails to capture Gillian Flynn's dark energy.
Black Bodies, Radical Politics, and Rebellious Robots
Reading Zora Neale Hurston's study of the life of the last "black cargo" and watching Westworld
Margaret Hoover Talks About Life on the Firing Line
William F. Buckley Jr.'s "Firing Line" returns to PBS to elevate political discourse about the important policy issues facing the nation.
Toke Up and Chow Down on Netflix's Pot-Infused Cooking Competition
What if everybody on the Food Network was high?
Travel Shows Were Boring as Fuck. Then Came Anthony Bourdain.
The late travel host changed television—and my life.
CBS Dabbles in America's Unusual Occult History in Strange Angel
Book-based bioseries delves into the life of a rocket scientist with a dark side.
Kevin Costner Goes Back to the Well of Westerns in Yellowstone
Also: Castle gets zombified from the television graveyard in the form of Take Two
Good News: AT&T and Time Warner Get Judge's Approval to Merge
This is not an antitrust case and the Justice Department shouldn't have been trying to block it.
Mix Yourself a Cocktail Before Enjoying this Prohibition Documentary
Smithsonian Channel tells two-part story of the history of America's doomed booze crackdown.
Anthony Bourdain, Lover of Food and Enemy to All Tyrants, Has Died
America's realest celebrity chef is gone, and the world is less interesting for his absence.
Summer TV Season Launches with HBO's Murdoch-esque Succession
Didn't get that beach body prepared? That's okay-grab some popcorn and hit the couch.
The Americans Was a Show About Marriage, the Cold War, And Why Politics Is the Worst Way to Engage With Another Human Being
In this brilliant spy thriller, the personal and the political are always intertwined-but they are not always inseparable.
How To Understand The Americans Finale: Q&A with Show Creators Joe Weisberg, Joel Fields
One of the best, most-political and most-personal TV shows ever just ended. What did it all mean?
Liberals Killed Roseanne. Conservatives Crushed the NFL Protests. Everybody Happy Now?
Why ABC cancelling the show after Roseanne Barr's racist remark about Valerie Jarrett might not be a great thing.
Roseanne's Racist Tweet Leads Almost Immediately to Show's Cancellation
The show navigated a fascinating complicated world of ideological diversity. Its star was not so adept.
PBS Lets Vets Themselves Describe Life Inside the War Machine
Documentaries for Memorial Day focus on the troops' experiences.
Westworld Review: 'Shogun World' Is a Video Game, and Maeve Is Leveling Up
"Akane No Mai" is about video game characters, and who's really in control.
HBO's Dishonest Obama Documentary Is Fantasy Foreign Policy Puffery
Lots of administration official log-rolling in The Final Year, but little actual analysis
Westworld Season Two Is a Parable About Corporate Data Collection
The HBO series turns Facebook and Twitter into a theme park filled with sex, violence, and robots.
