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Now this, this is more like it. After a pilot that offered promise and tested patience, the easiest way for Black…

Finally, a complete episode! After last week's shift into becoming its own show, The Originals took full advantage…

A decade or so ago, there was a running joke/conversation/cliche on the Internet and amongst geek-type people: which…

Helix belongs to a genre of storytelling, particularly popular on television, that might be called “competence…

Tonight, The Originals came of age as a show.

1. “Terminator X To The Edge Of Panic,” Public Enemy
Released in 1988, the 16 tracks from Public Enemy’s It Takes A…

The Vampire Diaries was never terribly good at working themes into its episodes, at least, not intentionally. It was…

Welcome back to AVQ&A, where we throw out a question for discussion among the staff and readers. Consider this a…

Welcome back to AVQ&A, where we throw out a question for discussion among the staff and readers. Consider this a…

For 2013’s best-of-TV list, The A.V. Club’s TV writers got together to discuss the shows that got us talking the…

1. Stephen Dillane, Game Of Thrones
In a show as epic in scope as Game Of Thrones, it’s natural that some characters…

There's a fantastic feeling that only a few shows can instill when they're finished. It's partially “that was really…

If there’s been an unambiguously positive part of this season of Misfits, it’s been the development of Matt Stokoe’s…

The Tomorrow People presents itself as being a good show. It proceeds merrily along its plot, with all its twists…

With its initial run of episodes complete as of tonight, the most impressive aspect of The Originals is how…

All right, A.V. Clubbers. It's my birthday, I'm drunk, and it's a holiday so nobody's going to read this anyway, so…

There was always a certain inevitability to the events of “The River In Reverse.” At its core, The Originals is…

How do you solve a problem like Finn? It's impossible to forget that his primary introduction to the show was that…

That is more like it. I'm not going to go and declare that this is an episode that stands with the very best…

Part of the reason I’ve focused so much on main characters, subjective point of view, and moral centers in my…