How Cougar Town evolved from smarm to heart

10 episodes that show how Cougar Town evolved from smarm to heart

With so many new series popping up on streaming services and DVD every day, it gets harder and harder to keep up with new shows, much less the all-time classics. With TV Club 10, we point you toward the 10 episodes that best represent a TV series, classic or modern. If you watch those 10, you'll have a better idea of what that series was about, without having to watch the whole thing. These are not meant to be the 10 best episodes, but rather the 10 most representative episodes.

Television is littered with shows that depict epic events on vast scales. Presidential assassinations, zombie breakouts, and multigenerational gang warfare are certainly ways to create conflict, reveal character, and inspire loyal viewership. But there are also plenty of ways to do those things while staying small in scope. For instance, Cougar Town is decidedly not a show with large ...

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Dick Tracy

HomeVideo Review: Dick Tracy

Some movies define their times; some are merely born of them. In the right hands, the latter can be as inspired as the former. Warren Beatty had been trying to get a film version of Chester Gould’s comic strip Dick Tracy made since the ’70s, but chances are that any Dick Tracy he might’ve made in 1975 would’ve turned out very different from the one released in 1990. The version Beatty ended up directing is a movie very much of its era: a loud, cartoony summer blockbuster that probably wouldn’t have been possible without the success of the previous two summer’s smashes, Who Framed Roger Rabbit and Batman. And yet Beatty’s Dick Tracy is no work-for-hire cash-in. It’s an accomplished stylistic exercise, reconsidering the pop culture of the ’30s through the perspective of the late 20th century. And, in retrospect, it’s a ...

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The Future Is Now: What We Imagined for 2013 — 10 Years Ago

The Future Is Now: What We Imagined for 2013 — 10 Years Ago

Ten years ago, we boldly declared that we'd be living with phones on our wrists, data-driven goggles on our eyes and gadgets that would safety-test our food for us. Turns out, we were remarkably prescient. We even got the iPhone right. A look at life in 2013, circa 2003.