Features
Feature articles from some of the best and brightest minds writing about television today.
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POSTED February 22, 2024
Happy Endings' Hibernation Episode Is All the Proof We Need That It Was Canceled Too Soon
The great hangout comedy of the 2010s was pulling off unicycle-and-fez jokes with aplomb, yet ABC still pulled the plug.
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POSTED February 22, 2024
Nurys Mateo Saved The Challenge: Battle for a New Champion From Being a Mockery of Itself
Untested — and unworthy — players dominated the season, which was an attempt to refresh the broader game.
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POSTED February 21, 2024
The True-Crime Lens Has Now Turned to the True-Crime Obsessives
Crime buffs who once only posited theories are now "digital detectives" at the center of the action.
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POSTED February 20, 2024
True Detective Banishes the Darkness as Death and Other Details Finds the Light
How whistleblowers, fragmented memory, and a painful past link the two shows' investigating duos.
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POSTED February 19, 2024
The Quirky Crime Solver Procedural Is Back, But It Never Really Went Away
The popularity of ABC's Will Trent is a reminder of why the offbeat detective remains so popular in the world of crime TV.
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POSTED February 14, 2024
13 Unconventional Korean Romances to Watch If You're Craving Eccentric Love Stories
These heart-fluttering tales venture outside the box.
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POSTED February 14, 2024
A Farewell to La Brea, Network TV's Last Big, Bonkers Swing
The end of the NBC adventure drama might also mark the end of broadcast networks taking any real chances.
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POSTED February 13, 2024
No Amateur Sleuth Documentary Has Ever Topped The Keepers
The seven-year-old series is both engrossing and hard to watch, but the dogged determination of its characters shines through.
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POSTED February 13, 2024
The History of Stand-Up Comedians Doing Sitcoms, Part 2
One of the most successful shows of the '90s changed how TV executives and star comedians approached the challenge of turning funny jokes into weekly episodes.
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POSTED February 12, 2024
TV Loves to Celebrate Valentine's Day With Anything But Love
Bad dates, breakups, violent stabbings — it's far from heartwarming.
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POSTED February 12, 2024
The History of Stand-Up Comedians Doing Sitcoms, Part 1
Seinfeld was a pivot point in the long history of a particular sitcom subgenre: the ones where stand-up comedians take the lead.
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POSTED February 9, 2024
Barry Keoghan Takes Old-Timey Accents to New Heights of Strangeness
With Tom Hollander and Mandy Patinkin burrowing deep into odd voices on their respective shows, it's a fine time.
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POSTED February 9, 2024
We're About to Experience Our First Nickelodeon Super Bowl
The Big Game from Bikini Bottom pays off four seasons of slime-cannon shenanigans.
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POSTED February 8, 2024
Drag Race Is the One Reality Show You Can't (Social) Game
Rate-a-Queen only got one queen to play dirty. That's not nearly enough.
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POSTED February 8, 2024
The Loneliness of Young Adulthood Is on Full Display in Netflix's One Day
Like Hulu's Normal People, the romantic drama captures how difficult and isolating this chapter of life can be.