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Compared to previous American Gods episodes, “Lemon-Scented You” is lighter on character establishment, heavier on…

In “The Return, Part 3,” exasperated as Lucy and Andy get sidetracked by seemingly irrelevant evidence, Hawk blurts…

“Whoa! What is that thing?” asks the illicit visitor (Madeline Zima) to a super-secret room.

Previous episodes of American Gods have been riffing on road movies, but the flashbacks of “Git Gone” add up to a…

In its third episode, American Gods already subverts expectations as nimbly as anything on television. That’s doubly…

“Let me tell you a story: Once upon a time, a man got fucked. Now, how is that for a story? Because that’s the story…

In the opening of Old Baby, Maria Bamford suggests to an imagined audience member uncomfortable with her distinctive…

In its premiere episode, American Gods is as sweeping as the Neil Gaiman novel from which the series is adapted and…

Last week, “San Diego” feinted in the direction of convenience and cowardice, then turned the tables, letting each…

We all know that television reviews necessarily discuss the events and outcome of a given episode. I rarely warn…

New Girl is extraordinarily deft at mirroring its plot points and emotional beats in its structure, and “San Diego”…

Despite his bravado about his fated place in the universe, it doesn’t take much to send Forrest MacNeil’s world…

Let’s get a couple of things straight. One, “Misery” is a utilitarian episode of New Girl, and a utilitarian episode…

You can’t go home again, so the saying goes. You can’t step in the same river twice… or, uh, you can’t leap into the…

A gift of fine wine from Jess’ former principal opens a whole can of worms, and “Socalyacon VI” gets just as…

“The difference between Delaney and me,” Sir Stuart Strange tells George Chichester early in “Episode 8,” “is that I…

With three big stories that take all the core characters outside the loft and a gang of guest stars, “Young Adult”…

For all its flaws, Taboo knows how to drop a last line that resonates, and so does Tom Hardy. “I have a use for you“…

“Rumspringa” opens in classic New Girl style, with a made-up celebration and a momentous announcement. Together,…

Is there a more on-the-nose image for Taboo than James Delaney, blank-eyed with torment, compulsively sparking a…