TV Archives

I am hopeful that The X-Files will be remembered as an allegory of faith and faithfulness, rather than the twisted Greek tragedy it seemingly became at its close.

The guys take it down a notch after the blockbusters of last week. First they review American Animals, director Bart Layton’s follow-up to The Impostor.

Not only did these men fail to do the right thing in the moment; they failed to recognize the part they played in perpetuating their female colleague’s pain.

Human life is so much more meaningful than a mad scramble for existence—the sum total of our days so much more than to live and breed, to fight for existence and then die.

In Roseanne, the Conners’ current state of fragmentation, political and social, is like holding a mirror up to our society. It ain’t pretty, but it’s us.

In Better Call Saul, James and Charles McGill mirror the relationship of the two brothers from the Parable of the Prodigal Son.

Better to live life as a heroic optimist, desiring and expecting good, flourishing, and well-being in and for others.

Like Daly in the Black Mirror episode “USS Callister,” guns and technology allow us to imagine a world in which we call the shots.

Fortunately, Jesus Christ Superstar Live! was only a play—a surprisingly good play—and not reality.

Though we gravitate toward Midge’s beautiful and witty story of overcoming, it is modeled upon an American myth that to be free we must ultimately be unencumbered and successful.

Jessica Jones is a distinctly feminine hero story in a male world delivered to us in the era of #metoo.

The Crown shows us that we cannot live on duty alone.

The Bachelor did what the WWE did years ago—they stopped insisting on the totality of their own illusion.

Gotham deftly shows the destructive nature of sin, leaving no one immune to its temptations or effects.

The story of Danny Latimer’s murder and its effects on his family that lingers long after the end of Broadchurch season 3.

Sometimes it takes a “landline” and a little bit of getting up in each others’ business to see exactly how much friendship works for our good.