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AMC Networks The Walking Dead Season 5: Walking Faster?
The new season moves in a quicker, more dynamic way, but viewers have seen the show disappoint on early momentum before.
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CBS TV Shows Based on Movies: Often Doomed
Titles like Big, Rush Hour, and Minority Report are in small-screen production, but they may not be the safe bets that Hollywood hopes they are.
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AP Neil Patrick Harris, Oscar Host: Meh
He'll be fine. But it's hard to be excited about a guy who has already led six major awards ceremonies.
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HBO No, Carrie Bradshaw Was Not 'Such a Whore'
The actor who played Sex and the City's Mr. Big has joined an old, ugly tradition: slut shaming.
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Fox The Deadpan Voice of the Moment
A conversation with Dan Mintz, the comic who plays Tina on Bob's Burgers and writes for Nathan for You and Mulaney
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Showtime Homeland: The Case Against Carrie
TV deserves a better female antihero.
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HBO Why Sunday-Night Television Is So Good
The beginning of the week is the best time of the week for heavy, quality drama thanks to economics, viewer psychology, and the "conversation cycle."
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How Clowns Became Terrifying
American Horror Story: Freak Show caps off centuries of suspicion towards Bozo & co.
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ABC TV's Renaissance for Strong Women Is Happening in a Surprising Place
Old-fashioned networks, not buzzy cable channels, are producing more boundary-breaking heroines like Viola Davis's character on ABC's How to Get Away With Murder. Why?
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ABC 'I'll See You Again in 25 Years': Why Showtime Is Reviving Twin Peaks
Just like all the show's other fans, the network's executives want answers.
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ABC Stay Weird, Twin Peaks
Showtime's reboot might be a typical Hollywood money grab, but the return of the series' creators is a good sign that the new episodes could be as freaky as the previous ones.
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Fox Mulaney's Weird, Dark Edge
The new sitcom from an SNL writer has been panned as formulaic. Are critics missing the joke?
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Food Network When Cooking Became Competition
Over the past 15 years, The Food Network has made big profits by turning the kitchen into an ever-more-stressful place.
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ABC Selfie's Challenge: The Inherent Creepiness of Pygmalion in 2014
ABC's new sitcom revives the century-old tale of a man telling a woman how to behave. Hopefully, it subverts it.
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The WB When Paris Met Rory: TV's Last Great Teenage-Girl Friendship
Gilmore Girls offered something too rare in pop culture: a deep platonic female relationship that didn't come prepackaged, but instead developed in front of viewers' eyes.
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Fox Gotham Is Gorgeous
Fox's new series shouldn't win any awards for storytelling or originality, but it does have the best-looking criminally besieged city in the the Dark Knight canon yet.
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Amazon Studios 'Can a TV Show Save Lives?'
A writer for Amazon's Transparent describes her own struggles with gender identity and storytelling, and the show's responsibility to portray transgender people in their fullness.
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Amazon Pop Culture's Transgender Moment: Why Online TV Is Leading the Way
Business smarts and broader social change have encouraged Netflix and Amazon to offer complex portrayals of long-marginalized people.
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ABC It's Still the Era of White Television
This fall's two new shows with primarily black casts don't change the reality that "black TV" has gone mostly extinct.
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Nick McPhee/Flickr Will 'Cisgender' Survive?
The linguistic complement to "transgender" has achieved some popularity, but faces social and political obstacles to dictionary coronation.
