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Welcome to the TV Roundtable, where some of TV Club’s writers tackle episodes that all deal with a central theme.…

Nocturne, Jack Tatum’s sophomore album as Wild Nothing, finds the gifted young songwriter exploring a more refined,…

The two years between the second and third seasons of Chappelle’s Show were muddled, confusing, rumor-filled times.…

As The A.V. Club’s Mall Week draws to a close, we stopped to look back on all the uses that pop culture has for…

Welcome to the TV Roundtable, where some of TV Club’s writers tackle episodes that all deal with a central theme.…

We’re here at the end of Chappelle’s Show proper, ladies and gentlemen. I’ll be looking at “The Lost Episodes” next…

Welcome to the  TV Roundtable, where some of TV Club’s writers tackle episodes that all deal with a central theme.…

Future historians will look back at Comedy Central’s Roast Of Roseanne and think, “My, how quaint. There once was a…

In tackling this week’s episodes, I feared I made a mistake. A few weeks back, I offered up a trio of episodes…

Welcome to the TV Roundtable, where some of TV Club’s writers tackle episodes that all deal with a central theme.…

Here Comes Honey Boo Boo is both the title of the latest TLC reality program and a dire warning to the world at…

1. Morley Cigarettes
Establishing that television shows share a reality is typically done in an overt,…

There’s an increasing sense within Chappelle’s Show, as it works through its second season, of its growing…

We’re only a few days into the 2012 Summer Olympics, but already it feels as if we’re in the nascent stage of The…

As mentioned last week, we’re going to cover three Chappelle’s Show episodes as opposed to our normal two this week.…

1. Jennifer Melfi, The Sopranos
It happens on nearly every TV series with even the slightest nod toward…

Okay, boys and girls, we’re at the episode I’m sure many of you have been dying to discuss—or at least quote…

Welcome to the TV Roundtable, where some of TV Club’s writers tackle episodes that all deal with a central theme.…

As a native Bostonian, I had hoped that HBO’s documentary Birders: The Central Park Effect was about a group of New…

1-2. Sylvester Stallone, F.I.S.T. (1978); First Blood (1982)
Sylvester Stallone is the actor’s equivalent of a…