The great irony in Kurt Sutter's biker saga being called "Sons of Anarchy" is that so much of the show's storyline these first four seasons (and vividly here in the first two episodes of the fifth) has been about control -- control over the criminal underworld of the fictional nort...
Read More »To Louis C.K., the business side of comedy obviously has some Lynchian aspects -- so much so that when he's told to report to an executive in New York who'll train him "Late Show Part 2," the man, Jack Dall, is actually played by David Lynch.
Read More »Sure, Sunday seems to always be overcrowded with high-end TV, but what to watch the rest of the week? Every Monday, we bring you five noteworthy highlights from the other six days.
Read More »Kurt Sutter, the creator of "Sons of Anarchy," is more likely to be associated with tales of gun-running and biker gang violence than, say, comedy, but it's laughs he's going in search of in the new series he's developing for FX.
Read More »Where do working stand-ups end up if they don't break big, if they have some success but mainly keep grinding it out on the road, doing gigs around the country until they're too tired? That dark kingdom is just as significant a presence as the crazy possibility of a major late night gig in last nigh...
Read More »Better get used to having Charlie Sheen back on TV. The former "Two and a Half Men" star and self-proclaimed "winner" has just gotten one hell of a renewal notice from FX.
Read More »What kind of bookstore is Louie frequenting that's so filled with increasingly out-there responses to the manic pixie dream girl? In "Looking for Liz/Lilly Changes," last night's "Louie," Louis C.K.'s character finds himself dreaming of Liz, the vibrant, unstable woma...
Read More »The first season of Ryan Murphy's "American Horror Story" was many things, but restrained (in anything other than the literal sense) was not one of them.
Read More »The final sequence of "Ikea/Piano Lesson," last night's "Louie," felt if not quite on par with still certainly akin to the great, uncomfortable episode last season in which Louie (and Louis C.K.) sat down to talk to "Dane Cook" (and Dane Cook) about the accusat...
Read More »FX, which launches the new comedy show "Totally Biased with W. Kamau Bell" tonight at 11 pm, has secured its latest scripted series. "The Americans" is a period drama set in the early '80s in Washington, D.C., where two KGB spies pose as a married American couple, and it will...
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