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Because beneath the jokes, the catchphrases, the dance moves, and the brightly colored 1990s wardrobe, The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air briefly transformed into something far more ambitious. It stopped being a sitcom and...

And then came “Through the Looking Glass,” which is still one of television’s most devastating season finales. It's a title borrowed from Through the Looking-Glass because Lost never met a literary reference it didn’t...

I still miss Eddie Guerrero, which is a ridiculous sentence in some ways because I never knew him. Most of us didn’t. But that is the peculiar magic of wrestling. For decades, these performers entered our living rooms...

The series often insisted that “all men must die,” but Hodor’s death carried an additional implication in that some people spend their entire lives unknowingly preparing for sacrifice. That idea, that destiny can...

There is something almost spiritual about the way American men talk about '80s action movies. If you mention Top Gun or Predator at a barbecue and suddenly every dad and manly man within a 30-foot radius starts speaking...

That is what makes it so devastating. Homer Simpson, the patron saint of incompetence, gluttony, and half-baked schemes, finally experiences, for one silent minute, a kind of emotional completeness. He is no longer...

Which, in retrospect, makes the episode feel almost unbearably hopeful. Not because it insists humanity always wins out, but because it suggests humanity survives at all through small acts of kindness, whether it's...

What made M*A*S*Hso extraordinary was its willingness to let comedy and tragedy occupy the same cramped tent together. One minute, somebody was wearing a dress to get discharged from the Army, and the next minute, the...

What Scrubs understands, perhaps better than many of its more self-serious peers, is that humor does not negate grief. It coexists with it, often in the same breath. The show’s silliest instincts, the fantasy cutaways...

In a series built on good times, it was the bad one that lingered. Happiness, after all, is most convincing when it acknowledges the possibility of its opposite. And for one quietly devastating scene, Happy Days did...

And so “The Body” lingers, long after the credits roll, as a kind of quiet rebuttal to everything the show had taught us to expect. It suggests that even in a universe teeming with monsters, the most profound horror is...

What makes the scene endure is not just its sweetness but its timing. Five episodes in, Cheers had no obligation to know us this well, or to let us know it. And yet, there it is. A father, a daughter, a cramped office...

There are many things one turns to How I Met Your Mother for. The yellow umbrellas, the elaborate pickup theories, and the soothing repetition of inside jokes. But a proper cry has never been high on the list. It is, at...

So, in anticipation of the home video release of Send Help, a title that feels less like a film and more like a message from Raimi to his audience, we take stock. What, exactly, can one own? The answer, like Raimi’s...

Homer J. Simpson is a one-of-a-kind creation. He's a legend not because he is perfect, but because he is loudly, messily, and unapologetically so...human. The post The Wisdom of the Donut: Homer Simpson and the Art of...