The L Word Returns, With an Unwelcome New Obsession With Identity Politics
The original lesbian-centric series was groundbreaking. The new generation is exhausting.
The original lesbian-centric series was groundbreaking. The new generation is exhausting.
Bloody revenge fantasy draws more from the 1970s than anything cutting edge.
Jennifer Aniston and Reese Witherspoon kill it as troubled television journalists in a changing media environment.
The Netflix original series chronicles the origins and development of the FBI's profiling unit and its quest to identify serial murderers.
Also: Did anybody actually ask for a Mad About You reboot? Anybody at all?
BBC production finds U.S. home on Showtime.
Friday A/V Club: The 40th anniversary of Life of Brian's British debut—and of a legendary TV debate
TV's cultural dominance is unchecked by anything except your own time, and increasingly tailored to your unique interests and obsessions.
Harlem’s famous incubator of black performers gets a closer look on HBO.
Screenwriter Nigel Williams seems to have thought he was working on Fast Times At Moscow High.
Rigged elections, sham marriages, and a faked cancer diagnosis make Ryan Murphy's new series worth a watch.
What if the superheroes everyone loved and looked up to were actually awful people?
"When I say, 'Be kind to one another,' I don't mean only the people that think the same way that you do. I mean be kind to everyone. Doesn't matter."
"You gotta lower your ideals of freedom if you want to suck on the warm teat of China."
Fall network premiere rollouts end with a weak burst of remakes.
Network primetime premiere week ends with a jump in quality.
Did they run out of budget for the jokes?
Stumptown may be the best new television offering of the season.
The crumbling remains of network premiere season tumble out of the gate Monday.
Friday A/V Club: A prank from the final days of the Soviet Union
You don’t have to enjoy the genre to find this 16-hour PBS docuseries fascinating.
A police procedural about rape cases that focuses on details without getting tedious
New HBO documentary is moving … until it wanders into our current politics.
In 1953, President Eisenhower ordered a purge of gay federal employees, who were deemed security risks. A new documentary delves deeper into this executive order.
Hulu's Untouchable is a relentless accounting of the mogul's sexual misdeeds.
The comedian's new Netflix special deftly skewers woke scolds.
Familiar faces move between government office and media slots, rarely questioning the institution that plays a core role in their lives.
This Showtime documentary sings. You should listen.
Wave of zombie apocalypse stories reaches a very literal—and absurd—destination.
Reviews of campy Why Women Kill and documentary Manson: the Women
If a chaotic concert that nearly failed "defined a generation," what does that actually mean?
TV's "Mr. Wonderful" says that the president has deregulated the economy.
TV's "Mr. Wonderful" says that the president has deregulated the economy in a powerful way and "is a great entertainer."
Fourth season of iconic murder mystery show is on Hulu.
An original movie about sexual trauma doesn't take the easy route.
How can a show about Chicago's squalid corruption have so little to actually say?
HBO documentary explores teen’s culpability in boyfriend’s suicide.
Brian Lamb, the network's founder, is stepping down as CEO after 40 years of putting cameras on Congress, hosting in-depth interviews, and creating an enduring home for diverse civil discourse.
There was a lot more to the Fox News boss than just vicious villainy.
A meticulous re-enactment of the misbegotten prosecution of the Central Park Five gets a lot right.