Dec 16 2015
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The A.V. Club’s list of 2015’s best TV programming came together with the input of more than 30 staff members and…
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Dec 16 2015
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Yesterday, The A.V. Club began its survey of the year’s best television programming, counting down from No. 40 to…
Dec 15 2015
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“Jupiter” is one of those classic, moody before-the-storm finales. Think of Mad Men’s Cuban Missile Crisis episode…
Dec 15 2015
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In 2015, readymade and/or reductive ways of summarizing the year’s TV output cropped up as frequently and…
Dec 11 2015
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“Champagne” and “Christmas Trifle” make an unfortunately smart pair. What goes up, must come down. “Champagne”…
Dec 11 2015
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“Finally a good outcome,” Bertie says just before finding out Gallinger’s been “sterilizing idiots” and Thackery’s…
Dec 11 2015
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This one is a yearly tradition as well: What book did you finally get around to reading in 2015?
Dec 8 2015
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Manhattan is such a dense show the story tends to crowd out the rest, but get a load of the succinct, wordless…
Dec 5 2015
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Please Like Me has always had a manic streak, but “Amoxicillin” is just a little too silly a little too often. It’s…
Dec 4 2015
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The horror continues in the latest installment of Dr. Soderbergh’s Tales Of Madness. “Not Well At All” takes its…
Dec 1 2015
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Frank’s back, baby! In the course of a single episode he gets an honorable discharge, permission to see his wife,…
Nov 27 2015
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The “Get The Rope” of season two, “Williams And Walker” weaves every story and thematic throughline of the season…
Nov 27 2015
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“Puff Pastry Pizza” never quite gets off the ground. There are some great hangout premises, like the piñata of…
Nov 24 2015
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This season is enormous. In seven episodes it’s covered a year. Despite the deaths and departures, the cast keeps…
Nov 20 2015
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That’s how you open an episode. You wave a disembodied eye in our face. Not an eyeball, mind. This is the facade of…
Nov 20 2015
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It’s invigorating to watch a show this in control. Every episode has been laugh-out-loud funny and movingly…
Nov 17 2015
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Tickling the dragon’s tail sounds like a fun game. The dragon in this case is a ball of radioactive plutonium that’s…
Nov 13 2015
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“Coq Au Vin” opens with Josh and Arnold awake way too early on a Tuesday morning, hours after Alan drove them home…
Nov 13 2015
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Halfway through The Knick’s handsome second season, I’m wondering if this is going anywhere. Where’s the drama?…
Nov 10 2015
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“The World Of Tomorrow” is the story of the story of the Manhattan project. That’s not a typo. It’s the episode…