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Your Seinfeld Dining Guide

Your Seinfeld Dining Guide

WWE Raw Songs, Ranked

WWE Raw Songs, Ranked

All 37 WWE SmackDown Live Theme Songs, Ranked

By Ashley Naftule
Sep 19, 2017

Of currently active wrestlers, tag teams, managers, and valets on the 2017 roster.
MST3K's Return Is Good Enough That You Should Really Just Relax

By Alan Scherstuhl
Apr 21, 2017

First things first. The new Mystery Science Theater 3000, that basic-cable and UHF puppet show that was above all else a treatise about what it was like to grow up on basic cable and UHF, is a cheery, companionable continuation, an almost business-as-usual new season Kickstarted and Netflixed that Febreezes...
Like a Stunned America, Selina Meyer Searches for a Path Forward

By Joyce Millman
Apr 21, 2017

HBO’s acid-bathed Beltway satire Veep didn’t exactly predict our absurd political reality. But it did come close enough that revisiting past seasons is like watching footage of a train wreck run backwards in slow motion. The episode called “C**tgate” brought a vaginal euphemism into a presidential election. “Election Night” saw...
Netflix’s Teen-Suicide Drama 13 Reasons Why Offers Many Reasons to Watch It

By April Wolfe
Apr 12, 2017

In Netflix’s new teen-suicide drama series 13 Reasons Why, pretty-boy Marcus (Steven Silver) tells good-guy Clay (Dylan Minnette) that whatever the kids did to Hannah Baker (Katherine Langford) to make her kill herself was no different than what happens to any other girl in any other high school everywhere. And...
Better Call Saul Finds Its Hero Striving to Break Free of Breaking Bad

By Angela Lutz
Apr 12, 2017

It’s a good thing Jonathan Banks has such an interesting face. At the beginning of the third season of Better Call Saul, we spend a lot of quiet time with Banks’ surly, crooked-nosed cop-turned-criminal Mike Ehrmantraut of Breaking Bad fame, watching as he dismantles his own car and works out...
Here’s Your Vanderpump Rules Season Five Scorecard

By Megan M. Metzger
Apr 9, 2017

Catch up on prior seasons of Vanderpump Rules on Hulu. Part one of the season five reunion airs Monday, April 3 on Bravo. Detractors of reality TV pooh-pooh the genre as a vacuous cesspool that celebrates crass idiocy and normalizes bad behavior that leads to societal horrors like our current...
All the Best TV to Watch This Month, Women-Created-Shows Edition

By Laura Beck
Apr 8, 2017

This April, let us celebrate the glory of the flowers blossoming in vaginal fashion by only highlighting shows created by women. The list will be shorter than usual because Hollywood hates women, and we aren’t allowed to create magical stuff, and the world is worse off because of it. Anyway,...
Feud Has Delicious Details and Great Performances — So Why Isn’t It Better?

By Chuck Wilson
Apr 8, 2017

Life is in the details, and the remarkable yet frustrating eight-part miniseries Feud: Bette and Joan, of which five episodes have aired so far, is at its best when it captures the quiet textures of a given day: Bette Davis (Susan Sarandon), waking up at 5 a.m. on the first...
The Tragedy of Marvel’s Iron Fist

By Angelica Jade Bastién
Mar 15, 2017

Pop quiz. What comic-book adaptation centers on a white man orphaned by tragedy but blessed with great wealth who travels to an Asian country, only to return to America as a fearsome hero of amazing skill? That’s a trick question, of course: There are too many to count. In Batman...
Bar Rescue is Heading Back to Tempe's Brick and Barley Tonight — Here's A Preview

By Benjamin Leatherman
Mar 12, 2017

This weekend, Spike TV’s Bar Rescue will be laying the smackdown on Tempe’s Brick and Barley once again. And it promises to be just as dramatic as the first time the local bar was featured on the popular reality show, if not more so. On Sunday night, the Spike network...
The Expanse Has Become the Workaday Space Opera of Our Dreams

By Elisabeth Vincentelli
Mar 8, 2017

Science fiction has gotten so high and mighty on TV that it now can be easy to admire but hard to love. Westworld and Mr. Robot may win Emmys and prompt think-pieces, but their self-reflective chill keeps the audience at arm’s length — few things are as annoying as getting...
Six Things You Didn't See During Gallopin' Goose's Bar Rescue Episode

By Benjamin Leatherman
Aug 3, 2016

This past Sunday was a busy day for the Gallopin’ Goose in Coolidge. Hundreds of people were crowded into the legendary country bar and music venue and a lot of people were in the mood to celebrate, as well as drink, eat, and socialize. It’s understandable, considering it was a...
Legendary Coolidge Music Venue Gallopin' Goose Appears on Bar Rescue This Sunday — Here's A Preview

By Benjamin Leatherman
Jul 29, 2016

Coolidge’s famed Gallopin’ Goose has had plenty of famous visitors over the year. The late Waylon Jennings, for instance, famously made his bones at the now-historic country joint back in the early 1960s before eventually rocketing to stardom. His fellow Coolidge residents Duane Eddy and Lee Hazelwood, who later became...
Why the Empire Soundtrack Reached No. 1

By Jason Keil
Mar 19, 2015

The soundtrack to the hit television show Empire reached the top of the Billboard 200 this week, which apparently is the first time a record of original music for a network show has achieved the feat in 20 years (Somewhere Jan Hammer is crying on his keyboard, since Miami Vice...
Weird Al's UHF Turns 25 and the World Finally Catches Up

By Chaz Kangas
Dec 16, 2014

The year 2014 may go down as humanity's Weirdest. By that, we mean it's the year that the Prince of Parody "Weird Al" Yankovic has made "Weird" the new cool. After three decades of pop-decimating debauchery, we saw Yankovic finally land his first No. 1 album in Mandatory Fun, as...
Adult Swim Is the MTV for a New Generation

By Troy Farah
Sep 4, 2014

Ever since Karl Ferdinand Braun graced the world with his cathode ray tube, the masses have looked to their screens for generational guidance. In 1981, MTV appeared like an oracle and descended on the population, sinking its vampiric teeth into the neck of every suburbanite family with a cable subscription...