Features & Essays
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Kelly Connolly
Entertainment Editor
United States
Senior editor at TV Guide · Previously Entertainment Weekly · Additional bylines in The Atlantic · An airport security agent once judged how many DVDs I had in my purse
United States
Senior editor at TV Guide · Previously Entertainment Weekly · Additional bylines in The Atlantic · An airport security agent once judged how many DVDs I had in my purse
Features & Essays
From underrated favorites to Emmy-winning standouts, these are the best episodes of Chris Carter's definitive sci-fi drama.
The Season 2 finale of Severance prompted theories that Britt Lower's Helly is actually Helena. But while the ending is uncomfortable, it isn't a lie.
Robert and Michelle King's supernatural procedural was the rare show capable of substantial conversations about the state of the world.
The Breaking Bad prequel faced the music in a tragically romantic series finale
Twenty-five years ago, the sci-fi drama series began its sophisticated exploration of the messiness of human belief.
From broadcast to streaming, the sinfully good procedural is on a hot streak. The cast and creators confess all.
AMC's Breaking Bad prequel is even better than its predecessor. The cast and creators of Better Call Saul chronicle its unstoppable ascent.
The Netflix comedy questions whether finding closure is possible outside the wrestling ring.
When director Ben Taylor and production designer Samantha Harley needed a catchphrase to sum up the look of Sex Education, they landed on a touchstone as colorful and offbeat as the show itself: "sexy municipal."
The beloved Netflix sitcom understood loss as an inevitability. But the show’s cancellation after three seasons is still difficult for many viewers to accept.
In giving Jennifer Garner's Sydney Bristow what she wanted, and in giving viewers the slightly less complicated show they wanted, Alias put out a warning to be careful what you wish for.
Reviews & Recaps
The FX/Hulu series taught its characters how to embrace community, culminating in a stunning series finale.
Here's a motto a Yonkers half-a-millionaire could get behind: What isn't broken doesn't need fixing. Especially when it's got Bernadette Peters.
Rod Serling tells us the only thing harder than finding a needle in a haystack is finding a Martian in a diner. Darin Morgan goes a step further: The only thing harder than finding a Martian in a diner is accepting that you are one.
Jenna Ortega is a scream as a teenage Wednesday, but the Tim Burton-produced Netflix series lacks the imagination to live up to her performance.
The Hilary Swank-led journalism drama can't get out of its main character's head.
The Canadian sitcom worked hard to make good storytelling look easy.
The AMC drama has mastered a very specific form of devastation: watching people who are caught in problems of their own making try and fail to escape their past.
If you've forgotten how it feels to watch GLOW — a show that looks like candy but goes down like a shot of hard liquor — the new season will remind you in record time.
Netflix's witchy drama is having a good time, but it's hollow.
Interviews
Co-creators Tara Hernandez and Damon Lindelof and star Betty Gilpin dig into the season's meaty ending.
She plays TV's best character — on TV's best show. Rhea Seehorn considers the rise of Kim Wexler.
Betty Gilpin describes playing Debbie Eagan, the soap actress-turned-wrestler she brings to life on GLOW, like being split through a prism.
Toye, who directed the pivotal seventh episode of Mrs. Davis, explains how he ventured inside the belly of the whale.
Robert and Michelle King spoke to TV Guide about crafting an ending befitting Diane Lockhart.
Herbers discusses Kristen's vulnerable moment in the Season 2 finale of Evil, as well as the transgressive ending that followed.
The Emmy-nominated actor breaks down Gus's 'beautiful yet disturbing' childhood story.
Fosse/Verdon is one dance drama that isn't content to watch from an orchestra seat.
Victor Garber is back where he belongs. The theater actor returns to his musical roots in Hello, Dolly!
Projects Edited
The year's best TV shows included FX's Emmy-winning Shogun, AMC's gothic hit Interview with the Vampire, FX's new comedy English Teacher, and HBO's buzzy Industry.
The year's best TV episodes include a dramatic hour of Interview with the Vampire, an Emmy-winning Shōgun episode, and Baby Reindeer's devastating flashback episode.
This year's best TV performances include Shōgun's Anna Sawai, Interview with the Vampire's Delainey Hayles, Fallout's Walton Goggins, and more.
AMC's Anne Rice adaptation is a monster hit. The team behind this spring's most anticipated show previews its showstopping second season.
Lately, it seems like every year has been a transformative one for television, but 2023 was especially seismic.
New series like Mrs. Davis and Dead Ringers took us by surprise with their ingenuity, while It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia proved that even the longest running series can still find a way to reinvent the wheel.
Singling out just one TV performance is a fool's errand. (We're looking at you, Emmy Awards.)
Television's era of superabundance seems to be coming to an end, so TV Guide is taking the time to appreciate how good we had it.
Thankfully, weekly episode release schedules are back in vogue, and the best TV shows are churning out tightly plotted episodes that have something to say on their own.
This year, our favorite TV performances came from actors in breakout roles, beloved stars allowing us to see them in new ways, and everything in between.
Adjusting for the TV version of inflation, TV Guide's list of the 100 Best Shows on TV Right Now should probably be about 150 shows long by now.
ABC's hit series Abbott Elementary is setting the curve for a new school of sitcom. Quinta Brunson and castmates take TV Guide inside the show's rise.
For all the havoc the pandemic wreaked on the TV supply chain, there was surprisingly no shortage of excellent shows.
Though the goal for every television show is consistency, there's no denying that if you graphed the quality of every series episode by episode, you'd end up with something pointy enough to slice bread with.
The best thing about a good TV performance is the same as the best thing about any good TV show: You get to spend so much time with it.
Bless you, Diane Lockhart, Elektra Evangelista, Homelander, Deborah Vance, Coffin Flop, and others, for being there when we couldn't be with each other.
