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Craig Blankenhorn/NBC Secret Agent Mom: How Allegiance Rethinks the Female Spy
NBC's new drama has its flaws, but does offer one intriguing twist on an old genre.
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NBC What's Wrong With Saturday Night Live's 'Weekend Update'?
Five months after Lorne Michaels switched up the hosts, the faux-news segment feels stuck in its "rocky start" phase.
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Michael Parmelee/FX The Americans: Broken Homes, Broken Bones
Can Philip and Elizabeth's marriage survive the third season?
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Fox Empire Continues to Grow (as Its Sexual Politics Remain Muddy)
Taraji P. Henson is giving one of TV's elite performances, transforming caricature into a genuine, warts-and-all character.
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ABC Why There's So Much Riding on Fresh Off the Boat
It isn't easy being (or waiting for) the second-ever Asian-American family sitcom.
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AMC/Fox/The Atlantic Previously On: In Praise of the Television Recap Sequence
As plots become more and more complex, the humble summation has risen to an art form.
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Fox On MasterChef Junior, Innate Biases Are Hard to Beat
The charm of Gordon Ramsay's cooking contest masks the way it perpetuates certain race and gender norms among its young competitors.
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Fiat America’s Existential Crisis, as Illustrated by Super Bowl Ads
The nation seems to need a hug.
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Mark J. Rebilas/USA Today Sports/Reuters The Terror and Glory of Katy Perry's Super Bowl Performance
A halftime vision from pop culture's uncanny valley
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PBS On Downton Abbey, Two Rivals Finally Face Off
On Super Bowl Sunday, a showdown between Yorkshire's most pompous patriarch and an interloping art historian was perhaps inevitable.
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Fox Is Empire's Depiction of the Hip-Hop World Authentic?
The show tackles questions of realness in the genre through the attempted recruitment of imprisoned rapper Titan.
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Chris Gethard/YouTube Chris Gethard's Journey From Public Access to Late Night
The comedian's self-broadcast show has led to a spot on Fusion's schedule, where it'll be looking to bridge the divide between Internet fame and television success.
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FX Sex, Lies, and Frank Langella: The Americans Is Back
The packed third-season premiere threw viewers (and Paige) in at the deep end.
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Amazon Point of Honor's Impossible Post-Racial Dream
The proposed Amazon series tries to make sympathetic heroes of white Confederate slaveowners by choosing to largely brush aside the issue of slavery.
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PBS Downton Abbey Has One New Trick Up Its Sleeve
What is going on with Thomas? His sickly pallor and kitchen thievery spiced up an otherwise standard fourth episode of the show's fifth season.
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HBO Adam and Jessa: Probably the Best Part of Girls This Season
With Hannah and Shosh stuck as bonkers caricatures, Adam Driver and Jemima Kirke play the most genuine characters in the third episode of the show's fourth season.
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Netflix The Fall: The Most Feminist Show on Television
The BBC drama stars Gillian Anderson as a detective investigating a serial killer, but the series' treatment of women defies the genre's conventions.
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Invision/AP Justin Bieber and the Commodification of Roasts
Comedy Central seems to have picked the troubled music star for its semi-annual traditional of televised ridicule in order to trigger Internet outrage.
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Fox Empire's Gay Son Is the Show's Greatest Asset
Audiences were promised King Lear and Def Jam, not Suge Knight's Mystic River. So why are we getting more of the latter?
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Peter Yang/Comedy Central The Fearless Comedy of The Nightly Show With Larry Wilmore
Just two episodes in, late night's newest host is deftly finding humor in darker topics.
