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Year of the Month

NewsRadio’s cunning plans and crazy capers

November 28, 2023

One of the greatest sitcoms of all-time, NewsRadio uses its writing, cast, and staging and framing to perfect, maximum effect

Year of the Month

There is this place inside where all the good things die: Everclear, Sparkle and Fade

November 8, 2023

Everclear's breakthrough album is raw, painful, and brutally honest in a way that few albums are-- and that their own work never reached again

Taco Break

Overstaying their welcome

September 14, 2023

What's a show, movie, or other story you like that could have been great if it ended sooner?

Year of the Month

I love you, but baby, do you love me? Teenage Fanclub, Bandwagonesque

August 31, 2023

The debut album of Scotland's great power-pop trio is every bit as good now as it was in 1991

Deep Dives with the Captain

Barry, Ted Lasso, and Better Call Saul: Final seasons, endings, and moral dissonance

August 17, 2023

After being disappointed by the endings to three critically acclaimed shows, the author seeks to understand why, and finds a common thread-- albeit not the entire explanation-- between all three

Year of the Month

I’m not as dumb as I am: Happy Endings is the 21st century’s great screwball sitcom

April 5, 2023

An extensive look at one of the very best, and most screwed by the network, sitcoms of the last 25 years

Streaming Shuffle

Paul T. Goldman

February 1, 2023

Jason Woliner's fascinating, often hilarious, quasi-documentary series about one ordinary, extraordinary man

TV Countdown

The Best TV of 2022, Part No. 5

January 20, 2023

The year in TV countdown reaches its end, with the seven very best shows of 2022

TV Countdown

The Best TV of 2022, Part No. 4

January 19, 2023

We go through shows #14 to #8 today as we approach the end

TV Countdown

The Best TV of 2022, Part No. 3

January 18, 2023

As we start to get to the top of the 2022 TV list, we go through another seven shows