On Tuesday, the American Academy of Pediatrics reaffirmed a longstanding statement that children under the age of two should not watch television. This is not exactly a new position. Doctors and development experts have urged parents to keep young children away from screens for years. And the AAP itself made much the same statement about …
Review: The Descent of Man Up!
ABC’s newest manxiety sitcom is about men estranged from their masculinity, and it will never let you forget that.
The Good Wife, Up All Night and the Spinoff-Within-a-Show
The other night while I was watching The Good Wife, a follower on Twitter asked me how I was liking the new season so far. It occurred to me that, while I’m still a big fan of the show, I wasn’t loving the season yet—the main …
Zombies Devour Ratings Record! 7.3 Million for Walking Dead
Amid the off-season drama over AMC’s The Walking Dead—in which the network cut the series’ budget and ushered out showrunner Frank Darabont—hung the question: was the network going to, er, cannibalize its zombie drama and …
Supersize Me! Welcome to TIME Entertainment
As you may have noticed, we’ve spruced up the place over the weekend. Welcome to the new TIME Entertainment, in which yours truly at Tuned In is being joined by TIME’s other arts writers to form a kind of critical supergroup. (If …
Is the Media Ready to Take Herman Cain Seriously? Is Herman Cain?
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Sunday morning, David Gregory introduced former pizza executive Herman Cain to Meet the Press as the frontrunner in NBC’s latest GOP poll and as “the man of the moment.” Taken together, you can translate those two statements thus: …
Boardwalk Empire Watch: Slap Happy
SPOILER ALERT: Before you read this post, gather round your visitors from Philadelphia and watch last night’s Boardwalk Empire.
“What Does the Bee Do?,” the fourth episode of Boardwalk Empire‘s second season, returns to a …
Dead Tree Alert: Occupy Prime Time!
My print column in TIME this week expands on an idea I wrote about in my review of Revenge: is “class warfare” really anathema to Americans, or is TV about class conflict—done the right way—appealing and entertaining? The …
Next Week’s TV Today: Watch Kelsey Grammer’s Boss Now (If You Have Comcast)
A week from tonight, Starz debuts the ambitious Boss, starring Kelsey Grammer as a ruthless mayor of Chicago hiding a debilitating neurological disorder. But the Comcast subscribers among you can watch the entire pilot now (even …
TV Weekend: The Walking Dead Has Legs
By the end of its short first season, I was ready to put The Walking Dead on my list of “almost” shows: those series that had the potential to be great, but which for lack of execution or desire never actually got there. It had …
The Morning After: A House Is Not a Home
Brief spoilers for American Horror Story below:
For its second episode, American Horror Story (which I reviewed at length earlier) dialed back the crazy and the feverish imagery, but just a touch. At the same time, it gave us …
My Rosie Serenade; or, You Don’t Really Care for Music, Do You?
So yesterday in my review of the then-two-day-old The Rosie Show on OWN, I riffed on Rosie O’Donnell’s quoting of her show’s critical reviews during her monologue: “Just in case,” I wrote, “it’s Pah-nuh-WAH-zick.'” Rosie, and her …
TV Tonight: Community Rolls the Die
Community has always been a deeply but not broadly loved sitcom, and its fans may be justifiably nervous about its future given the season’s ratings so far. (The show gave a meta-nod to these worries a few episodes ago, with …