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Fox Searchlight What Birdman Understands About the State of Theater and Criticism
A scene in the Michael Keaton-starring movie gets at a central conflict now facing Broadway.
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Big Machine Records Taylor Swift's 1989: First Thoughts
She has left country behind, but her new album's a blast.
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NBC The Fall of the House of Simpson
Ashlee Simpson's lip-sync debacle on Saturday Night Live a decade ago was the beginning of the end for her—and for her family, once a celebreality dynasty in the making.
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AP The Disappointment of Michael Sam Getting Cut From the Cowboys
Dallas's team may have had good reason to drop the first openly gay NFL draftee from its practice squad, but that doesn't make the news any easier to take for supporters.
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ABC Loving How to Get Away with Murder Means Accepting Its Flaws
Not all TV is perfect, but some shows' ambition trumps their weaker moments.
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HBO No, Carrie Bradshaw Was Not 'Such a Whore'
The actor who played Sex and the City's Mr. Big has joined an old, ugly tradition: slut shaming.
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MattysFlicks/Flickr In Defense of Christmas Music in October
Idina Menzel is confused that her Christmas album is out before before Halloween—but the early release is actually a good thing for her, and for the public.
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Nintendo The Sadness of Super Smashing Solo
Nintendo's mascot melee series Super Smash Bros. just released its first handheld version. Playing it makes you feel lonely.
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ABC TV's Renaissance for Strong Women Is Happening in a Surprising Place
Old-fashioned networks, not buzzy cable channels, are producing more boundary-breaking heroines like Viola Davis's character on ABC's How to Get Away With Murder. Why?
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Phylicia Rashad's Tony Acceptance Speech Remains the Best Acceptance Speech
In honor of her Cosby anniversary, we remember another shining moment from Rashad celebrating a birthday this year.
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'Scandal' Is Back, and We Couldn't Be More Pleasantly Surprised
We had a lot of hopes for Scandal's fourth season yesterday. Somewhat surprisingly, the show did just about everything right.
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'The Daily Show' Joked That a Member of One Direction Is a Terrorist, and Directioners Are Furious
The joke's being extrapolated a bit from the original verbiage, but that doesn't change the fact that #TheDailyShowGoneTooFar is trending.
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'Revenge' Flips the Script and Gets Back to Its Roots in New Season
The day Revenge strayed from the central conflict between its two female leads was the day it lost itself. Luckily, it's found its way back.
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'Scandal' Returns: Four Hopes for the Fourth Season
The ABC hit's fourth season premieres tonight, and it would do well to remember where its own strengths lie after an uneven third.
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Lo Bosworth Talks 'Laguna Beach' a Decade Later, Not Wanting Fame, and Lying About Catalina
"I lied and said my parents wouldn’t let me go [to Catalina], but really I just didn’t want to," Bosworth told The Wire.
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'The Daily Show' Reacts to Airstrikes Against ISIS, the 'iPhone 6 of Wars'
"It's expensive, a little bigger, little more unwieldy than you thought it was gonna be," Jon Stewart said on last night's show. "Gonna be at least a two-year commitment."
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Everyone Should Be Watching MTV's 'Faking It'
The teen dramedy has evolved far beyond its original premise and, in the process, has become one of the most honest-yet-lovely shows on television.
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Celebrating 30 Years of 'The Cosby Show' by Debating Four Key 'Cosby' Questions
Best episode? Best Clair Huxtable moment? What's the proper ranking of the Cosby kids? We're answering all the pertinent Cosby questions.
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'How to Get Away with Murder' Will Be Another Shonda Rhimes Success or a Pete Nowalk Failure
New York Times critic Alessandra Stanley accidentally tripped into an interesting question about Murder: Who gets the credit if it succeeds, or the demerit if it flops?
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'The Daily Show' Is Embarrassed by Ban Ki-Moon's Choice of Climate March Outfit
"What, did you come straight from your audition for You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown?" Jon Stewart rhetorically asked the UN Secretary-General.
