Joshua Alston's posts

The past year hasn’t exactly represented the halcyon days of black America, and yet it’s given rise to the zenith of…

“Twin Peaks with rappers.” That’s the delicious, bite-size logline Donald Glover used to describe his new show. It…

This week’s question comes from reader Kate Lander:

At a distance, ABC’s family sitcoms can smack of pure laziness given the network’s slavish adherence to an in-house…

Empathy is an incredibly valuable, woefully rare human trait, but while it’s a boon to a functional and harmonious…

The signature role of Kiefer Sutherland’s 23-year acting career is 24’s Jack Bauer, the counterintelligence agent…

Every day, Watch This offers staff recommendations inspired by a new movie or TV show coming out that week. This…

This week’s question comes from reader Mica Hilson:

“Go For Broke” is a really unusual half-hour of television. It’s expositional, but not clumsy. It’s weird, but in a…

As a three-time Atlanta resident (expect to see this phrase again before the season is out), I was initially worried…

This week saw the launch of Supper Club, The A.V. Club’s new food section. Given the firestorm of debate that…

Contemporary hip hop culture has been endlessly debated and dissected, but too often through the lens of a…

In the history of television, there may be no species so rare as the naturalistic, present-day drama featuring black…

Narcos, Netflix’s drama about the DEA’s hunt for Pablo Escobar during the height of Ronald Reagan’s war on drugs,…

Showtime has snagged Fatwa, a new sitcom project from The Daily Show correspondent Aasif Mandvi in which Mandvi will…

You’re The Worst creator Stephen Falk has yet another sitcom project in development at FX, a workplace comedy he’s…

There’s no bigger taboo in live sketch comedy than “breaking,” which improv actors view as a cardinal sin, but…

A run for national political office is like the aftermath of a night of hard drinking, with random people you don’t…

Late last year, Showtime nixed rumors that it was planning to reanimate its polarizing hit drama Dexter for a ninth…

Screenwriter Diablo Cody has the hot hand in television development these days, with Variety reporting that ABC has…