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Each season, ‘Mad Men’ gives us at least one great Peggy/Don episode, and this week’s “The Strategy” is just that.

The finale episode of NBC sitcom Friends aired 10 years ago this month. Michael Yellin reflects on the show’s highs, lows, quirks, and shark-jumps, all the while defending the show’s ultimate accomplishments. Once upon a time, there was a television show called Friends set in a city very much like New York, except that clean, spacious apartments […]

This week’s episode is filled with first-times for show-watchers. It’s the first time we see the city of Braavos in person, the first time Daenerys sits the throne acting as queen of Meereen (it’s not the Iron Throne, but I suppose it’s good practice), and the first time this season that we visit with Yara Greyjoy, the sister of Theon/Reek.

Reese LeBlanc retraces the massive footprints of motion picture’s most reliable radioactive dinosaur — from Saturday horror greatness to cartoonish stupidity to, just maybe, a shot at redemption.

In this week’s strange episode: Don struggles to get back on top, Megan plans a threesome, Betty finds a voice, and Ginsberg loses it (and…his nipple).

If I worked at A&E and a pitch for a TV show came across my desk that proposed this modern-day prequel to ‘Psycho,’ I would have laughed and thrown it in the trash. Thankfully, I don’t work at A&E.

This week, a new king is crowned; Daenerys postpones her quest for the Seven Kingdoms; the men of the Night’s Watch assault Craster’s Keep, and there’s another wedding — except this time, no one dies.

This week’s episode saw Don falling quickly into his old habits (drinking and ignoring responsibilities) but also saw him make a change right at the end. It also challenged old ideas with the future and put generations against each other.

WARNING: For the words are dark and full of spoilers… Season Four, Episode Four: “Oathkeeper” Written and Directed by David Benioff & D.B. Weiss This week’s episode felt more focused that what we saw last time. Instead of bouncing from person to person and place to place all across the known world, we got the […]

This week on ‘Mad Men’: Megan kicks Don out, Don goes back to work, and Betty loses her lunch.

This week’s episode was titled ‘A Day’s Work,’ but very little work was actually done. It focused on Valentine’s Day and questioned how long Don can stay in this state of limbo and lies.

With each new episode of ‘Game of Thrones,’ I’m learning more not to ask if someone will die, but rather who will die, in what way, and how important that person has been thus far to the many story arcs both in Westeros and across the Narrow Sea.

If Volume I of Lars Von Trier’s erotic opus was too much, Volume II is a kitchen sink’s worth of misguided excess.

Will the buried treasure that Abed, Annie, and the Dean found really save Greendale? Will Jeff and Britta really get married? Will Chang ever stop being awful? Will ‘Community’ live for another season?

‘Under the Skin’ tells an oblique and stylized story with a lot of nudity.

The Save Greendale Committee seems to have finally completed their mission. Everyone is happy and content. Only Abed believes that something horrible is on the horizon. And, with next week being the season finale, I’m sad to admit that he’s probably right.

FINALLY — a wedding worth celebrating. Season four of ‘Game of Thrones’ wastes no time in trimming down its large list of major characters.

‘Mad Men’ is one of the best written and acted series on television, so it comes as no surprise that the beginning of the seventh season was well-crafted. It provided important moments for Don, Joan, and Peggy and began to set the stage for what’s to come in this final chapter.

This season opener is primarily exposition — a necessary reintroduction to a rather large cast of characters and a bit of catching up. There are a lot of subtle moments of brilliance (especially the opening and closing sequences), but mostly what we got is a solid precursor to whatever is planned for the rest of the season — which is exactly what we needed.

Three Glide writers debate the merits of ‘How I Met Your Mother”s controversial finale.