Features
Wednesday, January 11 2012
The Best Television Shows of 2011
The small screen offers up the usual suspects, proving once again that, with a few exceptions, what's good on today's prime time schedule will stay that way until the next best-of list.
Wednesday, January 12 2011
The Best TV Shows of 2010
Running the gamut from the ever-present to the new and novel, PopMatters' TV picks prove that, as a medium, the small screen challenges the big at every entertainment (and aesthetic) level.
Friday, January 8 2010
The Best TV of 2009
Aside from one or two new shows, this look at the Best of TV 2009 seems awfully familiar. A look at early '60s admen? A practically incomprehensible drama about an island of airplane crash castaways? The Americanization of a UK workplace comedy? That definitely rings a bell.
Reviews
Thursday, September 29 2011
Who Would Ever Want 'Community' to Be Less Weird?
Evolution, biology, power and prison and monkey gas: this is typical of the kind of amusing thematic density that Community manages week to week.
Tuesday, September 27 2011
‘Community: The Complete Second Season’ Damns the Torpedoes
By delving ever deeper into its fanboy obsessions and metafictional games, the second season of this sitcom (too fun to be labeled “groundbreaking”, even if the label is apt) seems to be daring somebody to cancel it.
Friday, September 24 2010
'Community' Second Season Premiere
When this much-anticipated premiere briefly imploded into a big emotional mess and we could love it all the same, that just might be meta storytelling at its most sophisticated.
Tuesday, May 25 2010
Is This the Return of Must-See TV?
This year, NBC featured four strong comedies -- Community, Parks and Recreation, The Office, and 30 Rock -- each with its own distinct style and point of view, not a Single Guy among them.
Thursday, September 17 2009
Community: Series Premiere
Before you can say "The Breakfast Club," Community begins challenging stereotypes while also arguing that community college is one of the great equalizers.
