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Everyone just wants to be on TV. Everyone wants to be on someone else’s show, and once they’re on a show they’re…

Before this season of Supernatural started, executive producer Robert Singer claimed it would be similar to another,…

When The Boondocks was a comic strip, it got most of its mileage from using its main characters almost purely as…

It might be hard to remember all these years later, but Stewie was Family Guy’s major breakout character during the…

Supernatural is no stranger to riffing on pop culture, but “Stairway To Heaven,” from its title on, really presses…

The decision to serialize this season of The Boondocks (or any show, really) has its potential benefits and…

Spinoffs are risky business. It’s easy to look at a popular supporting character and say, “Man, I wish that guy had…

Welcome to the first instance of time travel in Steven Universe (or at least The A.V. Club’s coverage of it)!…

Here we are at the season’s endgame, and after a couple of kind of rough episodes, it’s shaping up to be pretty damn…

“I’ve been giving it to you straight for a half hour.” That’s what the Freemans’ accountant tells Robert, trying to…

So this episode is called “Meg Stinks!” The title, at first, does not bode particularly well—the Meg hatred well has…

Superhero stories are awesome—it’s fun to watch really powerful people fighting, using abilities that we can only…

So finally we get the long-awaited Supernatural backdoor pilot for the appropriately titled spinoff series Supernatur…

Why wasn’t this the season premiere? After last week’s abysmal opener, which focused on Tom for some reason in a…

Family Guy makes a lot of offensive jokes. This is nothing new, and not something that’d really be worth spending a…

Steven Universe is a lot of things—a low-key, slow show about an enthusiastic child growing up, an examination of an…

Let’s start at the beginning: The title “Alex Annie Alexis Ann” directly recalls Martha Marcy May Marlene, a movie…

What makes an episode of Supernatural work? Partly, it’s an ability to commit to and nail one of the show’s many…

Adventure Time, which begins airing its sixth season on Monday, inspires a startling amount of love and devotion…

Considering proficient female musicians are still treated as something of a novelty, Women Drummers, a history of…