This article read a bit like "my high school TV crush". Your first TV crush is like your first high school girlfriend. A golden halo surrounds her memory. Depending on your age you're going to get that warm-and-fuzzy feeling for Lorelai Gilmore or Liz Lemon because they were your first TV love. Its trickier to come up…

There's something about the earnest naiveté of early Playboy that's both charming and a little bit creepy, like giggly schoolboys peeping into a neighbor's window. There's no modern equivalent I can think of. Maybe prestige TV's fixation on flashing random boobies in every episode. Earnest naiveté about sex today has…

I MUCH prefer crazy over-the-top fever dream Riverdale to 'Dawson's Creek' Riverdale.

Okay. Maybe they should stipulate 'Best actor, actress, and that other .03% of the population where the term doesn't apply'. I recall one social media site (I think Facebook) managed to break down gender designations into 58 separate types. I'm not entirely sure what a "neutrois" is but it is its own subgenre of…

Whenever I see Mullally these days all I can think of is the woman with the swastika carved into her forehead in 'You Me and the Apocalypse'.

I don't know when this premiere was shot. Its summery (and not rainy) in the scenes. This opening episode may have been sitting in the can for 7+ months. Which means the metaphor of zombies/immigrants under threat in Trumpsylvania may be entirely unintended, if a bit prescient.
A number of series have had to deal with…

I recall McKellen from the 80s when he was a comparatively young chap doing a one man performance entitled, I think, "Acting Shakespeare". I've got to agree with the assessment. He's a virtuoso 'technical' stage actor, all 'sound and fury' to quote The Scottish Play. He's the sort of actor who you say to yourself…

That was a long eleven(?) months wait, dudes! Glad you're back.

Didn't the actor who played the part get another gig?

EVERYBODY is 'left wing' if you're dangling all by yourself off the farthest right edge of your self-constructed lunatic fringe extremist flat earth.

I recall when Limbaugh began hemorrhaging sponsors a couple years back. His right wing billionaire sponsors would rather take the financial hit than lose their all-important rural propaganda/disinformation mouthpiece. You don't think the sinister forces who are behind O'Reilly and Hannity are only in it for the money,…

The same thing happens in the military with all those rapes by superior officers. The CO get off on the power, the ability to humiliate, sexually or otherwise, whoever they want. you didn't think that GITMO torture camp had anything to do with 'extracting information' from what were mostly Afghani dirt farmers, did…

Mothra? REALLY? I mean… REALLY?

When was the last episode of iZombie? April 13, 2016? Jeez, that seems like a lifetime ago.

Bewitched (and also I Dream of Genie) was an allegory for the Women's Liberation and the Feminist movements of the time. Men trembling in fear over the limitless untapped 'magical' power that women could wield if they were given free rein, powers that the men frantically try to keep bottled up (literally in one case)…

Almost every article or podcast about that show the writer says they caught it on Netflix, sometimes months after it originally aired. People who LOVE the show yet have never watched a single episode CW broadcast. CxGF was listed somewhere as the most streamed Nextflix show in New York and California and a couple…

I joked that Sex and the City was set up like a police procedural, except instead of having a shoot-out with a different bad guy every week they banged a new loser boyfriend every week. Yeh, that's right, SATC = 'T.J. Hooker'.

I was looking forward to the justice League movie until I learned that Snyder had got his paws on it. The DC people have spent better part of a year trying to dig the Batman and Superman franchises out of a deep dark Zach Snyder size hole.

You're visiting a site called the AV Club. Complaining about entertainment criticism here is like going to a dairy farmer website and complaining about all the talk about cows.

The best part of iZombie is how much fun the actors appear to have in their roles. I can think of a couple TV series where the actors look like they're serving a prison sentence. Jeez, lighten up guys. You're actors being paid to act. Enjoy yourselves!