Netflix The opening minutes of Netflix’s new high school comedy Everything Sucks! include The Mighty Mighty Bosstones’ “The Impression That I Get” and Blues Traveler’s “Runaround” on the soundtrack, slap bracelets, troll dolls, and debates about both the merits of the Star Wars Special Edition re-releases and whether any of the stories told in Alanis...

Netflix Welcome to another episode of TV Avalanche, where Brian Grubb and I try to sort out the best, worst, and most interesting things happening in Peak TV. With this episode, we have officially passed the podcast one-year mark, though a few of the previous episodes featured special guest hosts like Linda Holmes, Mo Ryan, and Caroline Framke while...

Sundance In the second episode of This Close, a new dramedy debuting tomorrow on Sundance’s digital subscription service Sundance Now, publicist Kate, who is deaf, finds herself on a panel filled with disabled actors (one played by Walter White Jr. himself, RJ Mitte, who has cerebral palsy), a last-second fill-in for a deaf American’s Next Top Model...

CBS Thoughts on the Star Trek: Discovery season finale, and season one as a whole, coming up just as soon as I eat a space whale… A few weeks ago, I tried to hum the Discovery theme and realized the only parts that stuck with me were the ones that quoted the original Alexander Courage theme to the ’60s show. And while watching “Will You Take My Hand?,”...

Time for another installment of Ask Alan, as I take your questions about the past, present, and future of TV. First up this week, inspired by a recent comment I made about The Wonder Years pilot being perhaps that show’s best episode, someone asked me what other series peaked that early. Answers include both TV shows that started off strong before...

NBC We’re a little over a month into 2018, and the show that’s given me more pleasure than almost any other so far this year premiered in 1994, and last aired a new episode almost a decade ago. When Hulu abruptly announced last month that it had bagged one of the great white whales of the streaming era by adding all 331 episodes of ER, I skipped...