“Nobody leaves until we celebrate this place!”

One day is almost never enough time to resolve a longstanding problem. But sometimes, a sitcom half-hour—or that paltry 22-minute stretch we politely call a sitcom half-hour—has to be enough. In the case of tonight’s back-to-back episodes of New Girl, that’s two paltry 22-minute stretches to resolve some sticky…

Real friends will help you bury the body

“Ruth’s gonna do what Ruth’s gonna do.”

Last week, I described Cece and Schmidt’s daughter as more of an adorable plot device than a full-fledged character, and as charming as Danielle and Rhiannon Rockoff’s performances as Ruth have been, I would have been perfectly happy for her to continue as a li’l cutie pie…

“You get one story. Take it away, Nick.”

There’s a lot going on under the surface in “Tuesday Meeting.” Last week, New Girl’s seventh and final season opened with a heartening sense of achievement and expansion for this ever-widening group of friends: of a broader world they’re exploring, of careers thriving, and of a…

“Don’t make it about the mustache!”

As New Girl hurtled toward the end of its sixth-season—and, at the time, the possible series conclusion—its last seconds showed Jessica Day and Nick Miller yelling, “Stay right there!” as they frantically raced toward each other. They didn’t stay put, though, and that’s how they…

Just four episodes in, Here And Now has succumbed to a too-familiar pattern: another speech, another family gathering, another vision. “Hide And Seek” stands out only by limiting itself to one formal speech, one assembled audience, one room full of folding chairs, where previous episodes have given speeches to two or…

“Maybe it’s just a continuing journey of successes and failures.”

“It looks like you’ve got something that could maybe become a cloud.”

“That means something, right?”

The A.V. Club’s picks for the top TV of 2017 carry with them a hint of escapism: otherworldly settings, larger-than-life characters, lavish costumes, talking horses, kitchens straight out of an interior designer’s wildest fantasies. Whatever could we be trying to escape from? And could we reasonably expect our glowing…

In The A.V. Club’s attempt to carve the mountain of TV released in 2017 into a monument commemorating the year’s best programming, we took a slightly different tack than in years past: Ballots were limited to 10 shows apiece, separating the absolute favorites from the fondly remembered and the honorable mentions. Once…

It’s Saturday night—Sunday morning, almost. I’ve just left my neighborhood bar after a night out with friends (rarer than it used to be, but just as fun). I convince my husband to walk the long way home, past the 24-hour gas station. There I grab a plain cheese pizza from the picked-over freezer section.

“What kind of freaky creep built this mixed-up jumble of jambalaya?”

“Here’s to being a team and to not having secrets!”

“You just tested positive for rudeness!”

Held with family and a few friends in their sunny backyard, binding themselves together with their Icelandic ribbon to the accompaniment of a three-man band of Icelandic drummers and Larissa’s harp, Maria and Scott’s wedding is simple, tranquil, and joyful. It’s sweet, and…

Maria’s troubles have been simmering for decades.

“Get your tongue ready, let’s go!”

Larissa and Dagmar have felt a little short-changed this season, because that’s how Maria’s treated them since Scott moved in. But by casting Lennon Parham and Bridget Everett as Maria’s closest friends, Lady Dynamite guaranteed that even their smallest gestures are rendered into character-specific glimmers of…

After a slightly bumpy premiere, Lady Dynamite bounces back with a captivating episode, seamlessly constructed and performed, and building on ideas introduced in “Wet Raccoon” without treading tediously over old ground. One of those ideas is Maria’s decision to devote more energy to her home life and new partner, with…