Matt Grant

Growing Up Is Hard to Do: A ‘Wonder Years’ Retrospective

Growing Up Is Hard to Do: A ‘Wonder Years’ Retrospective

Executive producer Bob Brush and actor Dan Lauria ruminate on The Wonder Years timeless nostalgia.
‘Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.’ Is a Small Part of a Growing Live-Action Comic Book

‘Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.’ Is a Small Part of a Growing Live-Action Comic Book

Marvel is making their own live-action comic series, and while you don’t necessarily need to collect all the pieces to enjoy the story, there’s a much bigger payoff if you do.
‘I Love Lucy: Ultimate Season One’ Is Really Smokin’

‘I Love Lucy: Ultimate Season One’ Is Really Smokin’

I Love Lucy has been treasured for years, but this is the first time that it has been presented in a manner so thoroughly studied and examined within its historical context.
Ron Burgundy and the Sorry State of Journalism

Ron Burgundy and the Sorry State of Journalism

I didn't expect Anchorman 2 to be something the first Anchorman was not at all: a relevant, and dare I even say intelligent, satire on the state of news reporting in the US.
Darkness Comes to ‘Downton’

Darkness Comes to ‘Downton’

Season 4 of Downton Abbey is suddenly like the British aristocracy’s version of Breaking Bad.

‘The Great Muppet Caper’ and ‘Muppet Treasure Island’

‘Downton Abbey’s Poor Relations

‘Defiance’ and the Possibilities and Pitfalls of Transmedia

‘Now You See Me’ Is but an Illusion of Substance

Go Home, Walter: The Case for Gustavo Fring as the Greatest Villain in Television History

Place and Satire in ‘Portlandia’

Time and Prejudice Eat at You in ‘Rectify’

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