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FEATURES

PRIMETIMER | 5/25/2023

TV College Comedy Finally Made the Grade in Judd Apatow's Undeclared

PRIMETIMER | 5/15/2023

Ready for Primetime: Why the SNL Casts of the Mid-’00s and Early ’10s Were Built for Peak TV

PRIMETIMER | 3/30/2023

A Premature Elegy for Hulu, the TV Lover's Streaming Service

INDIEWIRE | 10/31/2022

The Score of ‘It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown’ Was Lost — Now It’s Found, and Better Than Ever

A.V. CLUB | 3/17/2022

Reconciling with Mr. Autumn Man: A.V. Clubber Erik Adams reflects on the viral Onion article that, for better and worse, is his biggest claim to fame

A.V. CLUB | 8/15/2020

“We’re uncool”: Almost Famous and High Fidelity celebrate music—but they’re warnings, too

A.V. CLUB | 2/19/2019

A 20-year case of the Mondays: What’s the legacy of Office Space?

A.V. CLUB | 2/2/2019

How Russian Doll uses Groundhog Day to make a better—not necessarily novel—show

A.V. CLUB | 10/29/2018

Netflix is just going to keep killing its American Vandals

A.V. CLUB | 9/29/2018

40 years after Are We Not Men? we’re just now starting to get Devo

A.V. CLUB | 6/18/2018

The Cars is so much more than The Cars’ greatest hits

A.V. CLUB | 4/10/2018

New Girl made a home at the end of one TV era and the beginning of another

A.V. CLUB | 2/1/2018

Heaven is a place onscreen: The afterlife is TV's most inspiring setting

A.V. CLUB | 8/17/2017

Halt And Catch Fire’s cast and creators on getting great while no one was looking

A.V. CLUB | 7/13/2017

So Game Of Thrones can’t surprise us anymore? In 2017, few shows can

A.V. CLUB | 4/11/2017

They saved MST3K’s brain: The story of an amazing, colossal cult TV revival

A.V. CLUB | 2/3/2017

Very special episodes were a joke—now they’re the whole sitcom

A.V. CLUB | 2/3/2017

“And how come Batman doesn’t dance anymore?” The importance of the Dark Knight’s lighter side

A.V. CLUB | 10/10/2016

“How did I get here?”: Documentary Now!’s little Talking Heads tribute that could

A.V. CLUB | 6/2/2016

Comedy Bang! Bang!: The fake talk show that spoofed all of TV (and beyond)

A.V. CLUB | 7/30/2014

That ’70s Show took TV adolescence down into the basement (where it belongs)

A.V. CLUB | 10/28/2013

Garth Marenghi’s brief, hilarious reign of terror

A.V. CLUB | 6/8/2012

How Mad Men turned Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce into TV’s scariest monster

A.V. CLUB | 5/6/2011

Memory Wipe: Boy Meets World

REVIEWS

INTERVIEWS

VULTURE | 4/4/2023

Shit Buckets and Stopwatches: The Party Down cast reflects on a season that almost didn't happen.

VULTURE | 3/20/2023

Martin Starr Pulled His Party Down Trip From Personal Experience

A.V. CLUB | 9/4/2020

How do you get six puppeteers to improvise as one alien talk show host? Ask Brian Henson

A.V. CLUB | 3/19/2019

“I’m speaking about stuff I’ve never talked about”: Jenny Lewis on her best solo album to date

A.V. CLUB | 10/9/2018

Nick Kroll on how a talk by Planned Parenthood led to Big Mouth’s boldest episode yet

A.V. CLUB | 12/13/2018

Paul Williams on the enduring magic and no-longer-lost music of Emmet Otter’s Jug Band Christmas

A.V. CLUB | 1/18/2017

Mel Brooks didn’t try to pants the president

A.V. CLUB | 12/10/2016

Charting The Platinum Age Of Television with critic David Bianculli

A.V. CLUB | 6/8/2016

How The Americans’ showrunners brought their fourth season home

A.V. CLUB | 2/19/2016

“See you next summer”: Alex Hirsch says goodbye to Gravity Falls

A.V. CLUB | 11/9/2015

Bob Odenkirk and David Cross on making a sketch show with “less crying”

A.V. CLUB | 11/10/2014

Paul Reubens on the new Pee-wee Herman movie and being “the luckiest boy in the world”

A.V. CLUB | 1/14/2013

Amy Sherman-Palladino on Bunheads, Gilmore Girls, and not making mediocre TV

A.V. CLUB | 6/18/2012

Showrunner Michael Schur on building Parks And Recreation’s fourth season (Part 1 of 5)

A.V. CLUB | 6/6/2012

Aubrey Plaza on the challenges of romance and time-travel

A.V. CLUB | 11/14/2011

Mike White

A.V. CLUB | 8/24/2011

Paul Rudd

A.V. CLUB | 5/12/2011

Joe Lo Truglio, Ken Marino, and David Wain

OBITS

A.V. CLUB | 1/6/2022

R.I.P. Peter Bogdanovich

A.V. CLUB | 7/5/2021

R.I.P. Superman and Lethal Weapon director Richard Donner

A.V. CLUB | 5/6/2020

R.I.P. Kraftwerk co-founder Florian Schneider

A.V. CLUB | 10/22/2016

R.I.P. comedian Kevin Meaney

A.V. CLUB | 2/19/2015

R.I.P. Harris Wittels, comedian and Parks And Rec executive producer

A.V. CLUB | 8/19/2014

R.I.P. Don Pardo, the voice of Saturday Night Live

A.V. CLUB | 10/27/2013

R.I.P. Lou Reed

A.V. CLUB | 8/24/2012

R.I.P. Jerry Nelson

NEWS

LISTICLES

INDIEWIRE | 12/12/2022

5 Stunning Compositions to Remember Angelo Badalamenti By

INDIEWIRE | 10/26/2022

The Craft of Fear: How to Build a Haunted House for the Big Screen

INDIEWIRE | 8/17/2022

The 20 Best Needle Drops of the ’90s

A.V. CLUB | 7/9/2021

Every I Think You Should Leave sketch, ranked

A.V. CLUB | 4/1/2020

Adam Schlesinger and Fountains Of Wayne were so much more than “Stacy’s Mom”

A.V. CLUB | 8/21/2019

Stan by your man: 15 depictions of obsessive fandom