True Detective has great performances, if it’s not yet a great series.
Now, SNL Is Diversifying Its Writers’ Room
This may be at least as important as hiring a black woman performer–precisely because it won’t get as much publicity.
Go Ahead, Quote My Tweet
A movie studio was wrong to silently edit a reviewer’s tweet for an ad. But quoting writers’ Twitter work is fair game.
SNL Diversifies Its Cast. Now to Diversify Its Characters
It’s good that the show cast an African-American woman. Now it needs to find a range of roles for her
2014: Looking Forward to the Year in TV
Here’s looking forward to the new and returning shows I’m most excited for in 2014–and to the surprises we don’t even know about yet.
Dead Tree Alert: Seth Meyers Speaks!
Meyers, on the cover of TIME, says his Late Night will have more news, less rap. But can the format really change?
TV Tonight: Community Is Back!
And this time, it’s really back.
Why Phil Robertson Got Suspended from Duck Dynasty
To some of the audience, the appeal was the family’s “keeping it real” with their faith. Phil’s anti-gay remarks made it way too real.
Move Over, Golden Globes: It’s The 2013 Cincy Awards
They weren’t the best of TV, they weren’t the worst of TV. Instead, these shows had great ambitions that they haven’t lived up to… yet.
Here Are 10 of the Worst Things TV Did This Year
I’m sure there were worse things that aired somewhere last year. But you don’t want to see them.
Homeland Watch: Casualty of War
The finale to an erratic season takes a big leap. But it could be too dark for some fans, and too late for others.
May All Your Christmases Be White: Fox News Reports Santa Claus Is Real, and a White Man
In which Megyn Kelly pursues the War on Christmas to the North Pole, and defends the realism of a “historical figure” with eight tiny reindeer.
The Golden Globes TV Nominations Are Out. Don’t Get Too Excited.
For a TV award that means even less than most, it helped to be new and it helped to be famous.