Kevin McFarland reviews episode 5 in season 1 of HBO's crime drama "True Detective," starring Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson. If you're new to the show, start with our introduction here. This post contains spoilers.

Delaying the resolution of a cliffhanger can be tricky business. It risks rendering the previous chapter less enthralling, taking credit for a sometimes unexpected leap in the plot, and disappointing… Read the rest of the article: Justified cools off with an episode that moves in circles [Recap: season 5, episode 6]

Kevin McFarland reviews the fourth episode of HBO's crime drama "True Detective," starring Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson. Contains spoilers. If you're new to the show, start with our introduction here.

What separates HBO's crime drama True Detective from other series that obsessively catalogue dead female bodies or attempt to find the human side of serial killers is the show's ambition in style and scope.

There are few shows that know how to tell an audience right off the bat they will not be messing around on a given night better than Justified. In the… Read the rest of the article: A brilliant Justified strings together seemingly infinite conflicts in a pressure cooker [Episode 5 recap]

  With Pierce's essence preserved in an energon pod and Troy off circumnavigating the world in a sailboat with LeVar Burton, the cast of Community has thinned out. And instead… Read the rest of the article: Community: "Analysis Of Cork-Based Networking" [Recap season 5 episode 6]

And so, without any immediate family left in town, Raylan Givens gets drawn back to Harlan because of poor, stupid Wade Messer. He's one of the dumber men who tried… Read the rest of the article: What do we always say is the most important thing on Justified? Family. [Recap, s5 ep4]

How do you say goodbye to someone you love? Do you shake a hand, give a hug, and then get it over with? Do you write an epically long letter… Read the rest of the article: Community: Lava World confronts the imminent departure of Troy Barnes [Recap, season 5 episode 5]

Raylan Givens has trust issues. I don't mean that in the conventional sense, although he does seem to exist as an island too remote for any permanent bridge to reach.… Read the rest of the article: On Justified, Raylan keeps causing more trouble than he fixes [Recap]

"Cooperative Polygraphy" attempts to wrangle an incredible amount of different goals that it wants to accomplish in the span of 20 minutes. It's an episode that deals with the death… Read the rest of the article: Against all odds, Community delivers an all-time classic [Recap season 5, episode 4]

The last time Raylan Givens saw Loretta McCready, she had become the surprising but not unexpected beneficiary of pot empress Mags Bennett's money, and Raylan instructed her not to spend… Read the rest of the article: On Justified, Raylan helps protect an old friend [Recap, season 5 episode 2]

Kevin McFarland reviews the latest episode of Dan Harmon's beloved television series.

The final scenes of Justified's fourth season emphasize that neither Raylan Givens nor Boyd Crowder can escape their Harlan County roots. Boyd broke into the house he was to purchase… Read the rest of the article: Justified: A Murder Of Crowes [Recap]

"Repilot" and "Introduction To Teaching" I'm at a loss on how to properly describe something like the fifth season of Community. It shouldn't exist. It makes no sense that it… Read the rest of the article: Dan Harmon is back, and so is the soul of Community! (season 5, eps. 1-2 recap)

Kevin McFarland reviews the latest episode of AMC's lumbering, flesh-chomping, zombie-infested near future. More episode recaps are in Boing Boing's "The Walking Dead" archives.

Kevin McFarland reviews the latest episode of AMC's lumbering, flesh-chomping, zombie-infested near future. More episode recaps are in Boing Boing's "The Walking Dead" archives.

Kevin McFarland reviews the latest episode of AMC's lumbering, flesh-chomping, zombie-infested near future. More episode recaps are in Boing Boing's "The Walking Dead" archives.

Kevin McFarland reviews the latest episode of AMC's lumbering, flesh-chomping, zombie-infested near future. More episode recaps are in Boing Boing's "The Walking Dead" archives.

Kevin McFarland reviews the latest episode of AMC's lumbering, flesh-chomping, zombie-infested near future. More episode recaps are in Boing Boing's "The Walking Dead" archives.

Kevin McFarland reviews the latest episode of AMC's lumbering, flesh-chomping, zombie-infested near future. More episode recaps in Boing Boing's "The Walking Dead" archives.