Surveying the season-ending episodes that made the grade (and the ones that flunked out).

John Waters exploits the Patty Hearst story for a billet-doux to movies good and bad, schlock and art.

Barney Fife explains why dogs needn't worry about lightning.

Salon's TV picks for Monday, Feb. 5, 2001

"Top Design" bids a mediocre farewell, while "Friday Night Lights" haunts us with dreams of a second season. Plus: "Survivor's" Yau-Man reinvents the reality hero!

Mysteries and magic unfold on the renamed Syfy network, from the funny "Warehouse 13" to the charming "Eureka"

Antonio Banderas directs his wife, Melanie Griffith, in this little morsel of easily digestible nostalgia.

"Mad Men" and "Breaking Bad" are pushed aside, as Claire Danes, Julie Bowen and "Game Change" are honored

This column was guest-written by a freedom-loving Afghan warlord. That's why it sings the praises of Heather Locklear and wanders merrily through three different corpse-riddled urban landscapes!

The comic world takes yet another step toward becoming one of the most artistically inclusive mediums

Saintly small-town doctors, Lynchian mysteries and repeating your teen years, twice: The new prime-time season lurches out of the gate this week.

Salon's TV picks for Weekend, June 29-July 1, 2001

They come from all over to France's Lacanau Pro '99. The board riders' brains seem blasted away by the overpowering waters and they exhibit the weird, gentle majesty of giraffes or monks.

Never accept a Thanksgiving invitation from a chef who serves cheese soup, liquid pie or a "Turketta"

Conservative activists name Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck their favorite commentators