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Oct
11
Bandleader Lawrence Welk spreads his arms out wide to celebrate the end of another number.

Liked Saturday Night? Here are more backstage TV stories that should be movies.

9 min read
Oct
09
Laura Palmer's dead body, blue lips, wrapped in plastic, lays on a beach. We can only see her face.

Twin Peaks asks us to look at horrors. And then we forget.

Do you know who killed Laura Palmer? No. Really. Do you?
8 min read
Oct
04
Carmy (Jeremy Allen White) and Syd (Ayo Edibiri) on The Bear get things out of their lockers. He's looking back at her.

Why The Bear is a comedy

8 min read
Sep
20
The many actors and people involved in Shogun stand on the purple-hued Emmy stage in their finery.

September mailbag

11 min read
Sep
15
Meatwad from Aqua Teen Hunger Force talks on the phone.

20 episodes that should have made Rolling Stone's best episodes list (part 2)

8 min read
Sep
13
Fonz from Happy Days stretches his arms out side as he cruises along the water's surface on waterskis.

20 episodes that should have made Rolling Stone's best episodes list (part 1)

10 min read
Sep
11
The text "Lost Back to the Island" appears over a blue sky. A palm tree sits off to the side.

What we miss when we miss Lost

Lost changed how TV is made. But what about the show is missing from TV today?
15 min read
Sep
06
The cast of Succession stands atop the Waystar Royco tower in the key art for the final season.

What is the signature TV show of the Biden era?

7 min read
Aug
30
Kevin Costner's Horizon is really more of a 12-hour TV show

Kevin Costner's Horizon is really more of a 12-hour TV show

6 min read
Aug
23
Eleanor's face looks deeply surprised as she points at Michael in the season one finale of The Good Place.

August mailbag

10 min read