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Just four episodes in, Here And Now has succumbed to a too-familiar pattern: another speech, another family…

“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,…

In The A.V. Club’s attempt to carve the mountain of TV released in 2017 into a monument commemorating the year’s…

It’s Saturday night—Sunday morning, almost. I’ve just left my neighborhood bar after a night out with friends (rarer…

“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…

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…

After a slightly bumpy premiere, Lady Dynamite bounces back with a captivating episode, seamlessly constructed and…

Lady Dynamite’s second-season premiere wants to have its cake and eat it, too. That’s not a complaint; that’s a…

In the first-season finale of Stranger Things, promises were made to be broken—or at least long delayed. As season…

After the genre-hopping delights of “Chapter Six: The Spy” and the dead-end detour of “Chapter Seven: The Lost…

Stranger Things’ “Chapter Seven: The Lost Sister” could have worked. It should have worked.

Stranger Things has proven itself adept at crafting scenes of dread rich in horror and sci-fi allusions without…

I didn’t trust Bob Newby, a.k.a. “Bob The Brain,” until “Chapter Five: Dig Dug.” Something about his aw shucks…