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Like Vinyl, Terence Winter’s Boardwalk Empire regularly featured its fictional characters rubbing elbows with…

In the age of digital downloads and streaming, the hidden track has all but died. Where CDs used to make use of long…

Even at 78, it feels like Jerry Nelson died prematurely. The same could be said of any Muppet performer, really,…

As early as its pilot, The Shannara Chronicles proved it can at least do fantasy action sequences well. So you’d…

In Podmass, The A.V. Club sifts through the ever-expanding world of podcasts and recommends 10–15 of the previous…

When Richie Finestra returns to the American Century offices after the events in the first episode of Vinyl, his…

Three episodes after its winter break, ABC’s recalibration of The Muppets has developed an interesting problem: It…

Phone messages from a couple posited as Kendrick Lamar’s parents snake their way through the Compton rapper’s major…

One of the best things about last week’s episode of The Shannara Chronicles was the contrast of time periods in a…

One of the most accurate points made by HBO’s Show Me A Hero is that historical figures don’t always recognize how…

Of any network sitcom currently on the air, Fresh Off The Boat may have produced the most holiday episodes this…

The bubbling cauldron of obscure fetishes and exotic sexualities that is the internet has produced some pretty…

So far, The Shannara Chronicles’ biggest strength has been the crispness of its action sequences. Unburdened with…

On a surface level, the title “A Tail Of Two Piggies” refers to the duo of pigs at its center: Miss Piggy (of…

In Podmass, The A.V. Club sifts through the ever-expanding world of podcasts and recommends 10–15 of the previous…

The movie trope of walking in on someone having sex is a common one, but it’s most often the result of someone…

Is it me, or does The Shannara Chronicles always seem to be two steps behind its own story? In “Pykon,” for example,…

At first, the brief opening theme to ABC’s The Muppets appears to be exactly the same as when we last checked in on…

At the end of season one, Dan Fogelman and his writers took a huge gamble on Galavant, steering the narrative off…

Since its debut episode last year, ABC’s Galavant has been a strange little show, sending up both Broadway musicals…