Year of the Month: Jacob Thomas Klemmer on New Hollywood, Commercialism, and The Star Wars Holiday Special
When did New Hollywood die, and who killed it? Ask ten different film theorists and…
Year of the Month: Ben Hammel (Bhammer100) on Homicide: Life on the Street & NYPD Blue
In 1981, Hill Street Blues broke the mold of what the hour-long television drama could…
Ben Hammel (Bhammer100) on Prescription: Murder: An Early Look at the Classic Detective (Year of the Month)
Prescription: Murder has the honor of being the first time Peter Falk donned the grubby…
Dissolve On (6/25/2017-7/1/2017)
When the late, great website The Dissolve ended operations, its commenting community had The Solute…
The Greatness of THE SHIELD (with a Brief Review of the Pilot)
Apparently, the A. V. Club will be migrating from DISQUS to Kinja this summer (2017),…
You’re Never Really Anywhere: THE MAN IN THE HIGH CASTLE season 2
In its second season, The Man in the High Castle (now streaming on Amazon and…
THE AMERICANS and the Problem with Prestige Television
PULP IS DORK CODE FOR ENTERTAINING–ZODIAC MOTHERFUCKER Tomorrow night’s episode of The Americans (Joe Weisberg,…
The Fear: THREADS (1984)
Dig a hole, cover it with a couple of doors and then throw three feet…
Every Loser Has His Day: MAD DOGS (2016)
All it takes is one bad day to reduce the sanest man alive to lunacy.…
LIFE ON MARS, Death in the U.S.
The United Kingdom has only occasionally been a font for widespread television exportation success. But…