If you didn’t already know that Mad Men was created by a producer of The Sopranos, you might be able to guess it by now. Like The Sopranos, it has a gift for making its world seem utterly hellish and utterly seductive at the same time. The casual sexism and racism and the highly cultivated [...]

Lost producers Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse held their panel at ComicCon in San Diego yesterday. I hear from TIME’s Rebecca Winters Keegan, who’s on-site, that after the TV critics forced Harold Perrineau’s return from Steve McPherson on pain of torture at press tour, there was little in the way of actual news from the [...]

So the big question about The Simpsons Movie has been: Is it a funny, successful movie in its own right or just an extra-long Simpsons episode? I’ve finally seen it, and I can report: Yes and yes. To be more specific: the movie works because it’s just like a classic Simpsons episode, in ways that [...]