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In 100 Episodes, The A.V. Club examines the shows that made it to that number, considering both how they advanced…
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Lives in Arkansas, writes about movies, TV, music, comics, and more. Bylines in The A.V. Club, The Week, The Verge, The Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, and Rolling Stone.
Feb 17 2017
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When Ryan Adams released his hit cover version of Taylor Swift’s 1989 two years ago, some fans and critics guessed…
Feb 6 2017
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How many TV dramas have had better first episodes than The Walking Dead’s? Most television series should come with a…
Feb 2 2017
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Do sports qualify as entertainment, or are they news? That usually depends on who’s telling the story and why. At a…
Feb 2 2017
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Look, we here at The A.V. Club know we’ve been in a mood lately. The world is on fire and we’ve let the smoke seep…
Jan 31 2017
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One of Barbara Kopple’s great gifts as a documentarian is that she can turn any subject into a story. Whether she’s…
Jan 30 2017
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Next to sex and death, there’s no more compelling subject for songwriters than the thing that happens in between…
Jan 25 2017
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James Franco catches a lot of flack for his dilettantism, zipping from project to project, trying his hand at…
Jan 18 2017
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The recent PBS docuseries Soundbreaking is a must-see for any music buff, primarily because of the way it challenges…
Jan 17 2017
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The subjects of Mehrdad Oskouei’s prison documentary Starless Dreams are hardened criminals, locked up for offenses…
Jan 16 2017
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Back in December, the Academy Of Motion Picture Arts And Science announced the 15 films that’ll be competing for the…
Jan 3 2017
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Does any organized sport have a weirder postseason than college football? I’m not talking about the “Football…
Jan 3 2017
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The A.V. Club, as you might have guessed, is staffed with no shortage of music nerds, casually tossing off comments…
Dec 21 2016
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Our list of the best films of 2016 is out now, and every year after all the ballots are counted, there are always…
Dec 19 2016
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As usual, our list of the best movies of the year has been mathematically assembled from the ranked favorites of a…
Dec 19 2016
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The family melodrama A Monster Calls alternately conforms to expectations and defies them, which is probably why…
Dec 19 2016
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When people talk about what a terrible year 2016 has been, they could be referring to any number of things, from…
Dec 15 2016
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The American public education system is a vital institution, making sure that every citizen—no matter how…
Dec 15 2016
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Critics tend to see all the same good movies and none of the same bad ones. That’s the major difference between a…
Dec 14 2016
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Yesterday, The A.V. Club ran down the first half of the year’s best television, from Last Week Tonight to You’re The…