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Babylon 5

Babylon 5 is the one space station television ever built that behaved like an actual city: a neutral port where ambassadors scheme in corridors, dock workers strike, and a bartender pours whiskey for everyone about to make a terrible decision.…

The Critic

Jay Sherman reviews movies on a local Boston television show watched by almost nobody, hates nearly everything, and does it brilliantly. Simpsons alumni Al Jean and Mike Reiss built the sharpest Hollywood satire of the decade around Jon Lovitz’s nasal…

The Real Ghostbusters

After Gozer got tossed through the skyline, the franchise’s smarter move was to animate the property instead of chasing it. The Real Ghostbusters keeps the firehouse, keeps the containment units, and turns the team loose on a weekly parade of…

Married… with Children

Before Married… with Children, television families fixed each other over kitchen tables. Al Bundy (Ed O’Neill, selling every shoe counter monologue like a solo stage act) hated his wife, his kids, his couch, his job, and the audience was expected…