Commentary: When it first aired 30 years ago, The Simpsons was groundbreaking TV. The gags just don't produce the same laughs anymore. Journalist Bonnie Burton writes about movies, TV shows, comics, ...
Back in the day, I used to fancy myself something of a Simpsons snob. Sure, lots of people loved and continue to love the show, but I was downright obsessed with it. Aside from watching multiple ...
Although The Simpsons plays infamously fast and loose with its canon, one gag that was spread across two episodes seven years apart proved the show does have some consistent continuity. The Simpsons ...
The universe of “The Simpsons” — outlandish, yellow and absent of normal human growth — has sketched with parodying perfection the struggle of family life, the exploitation of a neighbor’s good will ...
The Simpsons are no stranger to parody and taking shots at Oscar-nominated films like Alfred Hitchcock's Rear Window and ...
The show that was once celebrated for its warm and handmade texture continues into the fully digital era, not only sleeker, sharper and faster, but also different in tone and feel. The series that ...
We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Interestingly, though, if you take a look at my Simpsons DVD collection, it ends rather abruptly at season 8. Hardly a coincidence, the ...