Andy Griffith was one of the greatest performers in television history. His portrayal of Mayberry, North Carolina, sheriff Andy Taylor is one of the most sustained feats of comic subtlety and grace in any medium. Griffith did a lot before and after The Andy Griffith Show, but that series will remain the cornerstone of his achievement. The idyllic haven of Mayberry was helped into creation by two city slickers, producer Sheldon Leonard and comedian-producer Danny Thomas.

This year’s Christmas episode lacked the emotional impact of Season 1’s quarantine and the puckishness of Season 3’s mistletoe kiss, but it did have something going for it: Shirtless Booth. His clothing became evidence after a man dressed as Santa robbed a bank with a bomb strapped to his chest, exited to meet Booth, and blew up. Watching Booth grow increasingly uncomfortable as Brennan slowly removed his tie, his shirt, his “cocky” belt buckle and his pants (“I’m just gonna start reciting some saints”), was worth sitting through the rest of the hour that while okay, never quite lived up to its potential.

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Perhaps the biggest — and most jarring — surprise for the millions of readers of Paula Hawkins’s 2015 novel The Girl on the Train is that the film is no longer set in the book’s London and its outskirts. Instead, Emily Blunt’s Rachel Watson rides New York’s Metro-North commuter rail from Westchester County to Manhattan every day, heading to Grand Central Station, not London Euston as in the novel. But there’s a consolation: Blunt herself remains British, which director Tate Taylor (The Help) thought would be “a fun wink and nod to the novel,” and could also highlight how isolated and untethered Rachel is, an ocean away from family and most friends.

For the first time in the history of the Bachelor franchise, contestants made it through an entire Women Tell All special without name-calling, shouting, annoying crosstalk, or blatant, attention-seeking efforts to be cast on Bachelor in Paradise. Let's recap! After a brief tease of the painful rose ceremony conclusion, host Jesse Palmer greets us in the Tealight Candle Thunderdome. "Welcome to the first-ever The Golden Bachelor: The Women Tell All!" Rose lovers, can you believe it's been three years since ABC started seeking "

I never thought I’d be so happy to see so little of Reese Witherspoon in a Reese Witherspoon movie. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t dislike the actress. It’s just that I’ve hit my limit on stories about black characters told through the lens of a white movie star. Fortunately, The Good Lie isn’t another Amistad or The Blind Side. It’s a heartbreaking (if at times overly heart-tugging) account of the thousands of Sudanese refugees whose lives were ripped apart by their country’s bloody civil war in the 1980s.

Welcome back! Season 5 is finally here, and nothing — not even the inevitable CBS football delays — will keep me from Alicia & Co. But before we dive into "Everything Is Ending," let's take care of a little bit of summer hiatus housekeeping: First of all, congratulations to Josh Charles, who married his longtime girlfriend, Sophie Flack, earlier this month. Congrats are also in order for Carrie Preston, who took home an Emmy for her role as the always-delightful Elsbeth Tascioni.

Welcome to Roaring Twenties week! I hope you’re all prepared to show a little ankle because this week The Great British Baking Show is taking us back nearly a century to celebrate the baking and styling of the 1920s. In the U.K., it seems like custards and upside-down cakes were all the rage, while in the U.S. we were really focused on expelling alcoholic demons from society and/or participating in black market rum-running.

Warning: This article contains spoilers from The Great season 3. "Actually, I..." It's with these final words, packed with so much meaning — or not, this is Peter we're talking about — that Nicholas Hoult said goodbye to his utterly offensive but somehow still lovable character on The Great. After a long and heartbreakingly romantic confrontation with Catherine (Elle Fanning), where she pleaded with him to give up his stupid idea of taking her army and invading Sweden, Peter stubbornly took his horse back across the frozen lake.

Back in 1987, Fatal Attraction tapped such a mother lode of anxiety about ”unstable” women and the fragility of the modern nuclear family that when the movie became a phenomenon, both at the box office and as a sociological touchstone, it was easy to forget what a richly textured thriller it was. A lot of what made the film so riveting was the way Glenn Close, in a brilliant performance, played the jilted Medusa as both victim and victimizer — a haunted icon of urban loneliness.