- Hank Stuever
- Critic
Hank Stuever, The Washington Post’s TV critic since 2009, joined the paper in 1999 as a writer for the Style section, where he has covered an array of popular (and unpopular) culture across the nation. He is also the author of “Off Ramp,” an essay collection on American life, and “Tinsel,” a non-fiction book about the emotional and economic impact of Christmas. Stuever was born and raised in Oklahoma and previously worked at newspapers in Albuquerque and Austin. He lives in Washington, D.C.
- ‘Mel Brooks’ and ‘Ghost Army’: On PBS, two different ways of punking Hitler
- 'The Office' finale: 'There's a lot of beauty in ordinary things'
- Then we came to the end: It’s our last day at ‘The Office’
- HBO’s ‘Family Tree’: A comical quest with some relative hope
- Peter Sagal’s ‘Constitution USA’: You have the right to remain hammy
- On MTV, a surprisingly sweet ‘Vinny,’ and an irritating ‘Zach Stone’
- TV reviews: ‘Inside Amy Schumer,’ ‘Maron’ and ‘Family Tools’
- ‘Rectify’: A man is freed from prison, but weighed down by everything else
- ‘All the President’s Men Revisited’: Watergate again, but not just a nostalgia trip
- TV: In Boston bombing, a race to slow down
- Julia Louis-Dreyfus, savoring ‘Veep’s’ wicked sense of hubris
- In Starz’s ‘Da Vinci’s Demons,’ a young Leonardo discovers some heat
- ‘Mad Men’ returns, heavier than ever
- HBO’s ‘Vice’: Journo-tourism for hipsters
- NBC’s ‘Hannibal’: Slow cooked, and too dry
- BBC America’s ‘Orphan Black’: A stylish case of me, myself and I
- The triumphant return of HBO’s ‘Game of Thrones’: We’re not worthy!
- In HBO’s ‘Fall to Grace,’ Jim McGreevey’s chatty search for inner peace
- HBO’s ‘Phil Spector’: A courtroom sketch with too much gray
- Sundance Channel’s ‘Top of the Lake’: Out of the gloom, a chilling mystery
- In A&E’s ‘Bates Motel,’ a teenage boy meets more than one psycho
- ‘The World According to Dick Cheney’: A too-polite form of interrogation
- Who shot (and killed) J.R.? Down at Southfork, they’re all too sad to care.
- ABC’s ‘Red Widow’: A grieving wife’s unfinished business
- In History’s compelling ‘Vikings,’ Hägar the Hipster is a brute charmer
- HBO’s ‘Parade’s End’: All dressed up with nowhere to go
- TV review: At the Oscars, the same old song and dance
- ‘Life Is but a Dream’: Beyonce’s world, seen through a mish-mash
- Nat Geo’s ‘Killing Lincoln’: An ambitious but strange docu-drama
- Showtime’s ‘History of the Eagles’: Soaring, and occasionally still sore
- ABC’s ‘Zero Hour’ and AMC’s ‘Immortalized’: Deadly dull and dully dead
- TV review: Another #SOTU, delivered to the peanut gallery
- CBS’s ‘The Job’: ‘Despertainment’ in the Raw Deal era
- TV Review: Hank Stuever on ‘Monday Mornings’
- ‘House of Cards’: Power corrupts (plus other non-breaking news)
- Bracing for ‘30 Rock’s’ sharp-witted farewell
- ‘Do No Harm,’ and do no watching
- ‘The Americans’: A tense look back at spies like us
- The inauguration: A far better view from the couch
- Fox’s ‘The Following’: Numb to violence, and deadly dull
- Golden Globes: Tina and Amy made it bearable, while Jodie made it bizarre
- HBO’s ‘Enlightened’: A triumphant comeuppance in cubicle land
- ‘Girls’ returns to the New York of now, while ‘The Carrie Diaries’ dials back to the 1980s
- ‘Banshee’: Latest edition of cable pulp is just more of the same
- In ‘1600 Penn,’ a flailing first family
- ‘Cougar Town’: Tired times in the cul-de-sac
- At ‘Downton Abbey,’ braving the fiscal cliff
- Best TV shows of 2012
- HBO’s ‘Ethel’: A Kennedy daughter, born late, reaches into the vault of memories
- Fall TV: What else is new?
- Why TV pilots crash and burn
- ‘The Mindy Project’: She stoops to conquer
- ‘Revolution’: The night the lights went out
- ‘The New Normal,’ ‘Partners’: Two different ways at going gay
- ‘Elementary’: Sherlock, rehabbed
- ‘The New Normal’: Daddies dearest
- ‘666 Park Avenue’ review: A devil of a deal
- ‘Call the Midwife’: Keep calm and puuush
- ‘Nashville’: Perfect twang
- ‘Revolution’ review: Dim all the lights
- ‘The Mindy Project’: Rom-com renaissance woman
- ‘The Neighbors’ review: Cosmic cul-de-sac
- ‘Arrow’ review: A vigilante with good aim
- ‘Go On’ Review: Awkward group hugs
- ‘Guys with Kids’: The old normal
- ‘Last Resort’ review: Tone-deaf at DEFCON1
- ‘Ben and Kate’: A brotherly brother
- ‘Vegas’ review: A pre-glitter gulch
- ‘Partners’: Yawntime companions
- ‘Made in Jersey’: Wrong exit
- 'Malibu Country': Regretfully Reba
- ‘Animal Practice’: Monkey don’t
- ‘Emily Owens, MD’: Bad medicine
- ‘Beauty and the Beast’: Hideously blah
- ‘The Mob Doctor’: An HMO for goons
- ‘The New Normal’: Daddies dearest
- On ‘American Bible Challenge,’ God is in the details
- ‘Copper’: A 19th-century drama that could use a little more shine
- On ‘Stars Earn Stripes,’ fame finds a foxhole
- On ‘Animal Practice,’ only the monkey shines
- ‘Here Comes Honey Boo Boo,’ the li’l Miss Sunshine we all deserve
- ‘Go On’: The five E-Z stages of grief
- ‘About Face’: Yesterday’s supermodels take a long look in the mirror
- HBO’s ‘Vito’: How a movie buff found his own sense of outrage
- ‘American Ninja Warrior’: A tribute to strength and, most of all, failure
- ‘Sullivan & Son’: Where everybody knows your ethnicity
- ‘Breaking Bad’: No rest for wicked Walter
- ‘Political Animals’: A Hillary-ish madam secretary, with even more bite
- ‘Hit & Miss’: A killer gets a chance to be a mother (and a father)
- FX’s ‘Anger Management’: This is winning? Sort of.
- BBC America’s ‘Twenty Twelve’: Keep calm and carry a torch
- HBO’s ‘Me @ the Zoo’: Chris Crocker and the perils of viral fame
- HBO’s ‘The Newsroom’: Aaron Sorkin has an on-air meltdown
- ‘Life’s a Tripp’: Bristol Palin, drawn like a moth to the fame
- ‘One Nation Under Dog’: We think they’re people
- HBO’s ‘41’: George H.W. Bush — never worried, never happier
- If Watergate hadn’t happened... a look back at a look back
- ‘Bunheads’: Lighthearted dramedy with some graceful moves on ABC Family
- Summer TV: Anticipatory treats, with a little extra Snooki on top
- TNT’s ‘Dallas’: A satisfying roll in the sentimental hay
- ‘Hemingway & Gellhorn’ on HBO: Swept away
- ‘Hatfields & McCoys’: Brawlers in the holler
- TBS’s ‘Men at Work’: A rerun before it’s even started
- On ‘America’s Got Talent,’ Howard Stern becomes a beloved uncle: TV review
- PBS’s ‘King of Late Night’: Johnny Carson, deeper down
- PBS’s ‘Sherlock’: He’s sexy and he knows it
- AMC’s ‘The Pitch’: Who are the ad wizards . . .
- ‘Veep’: A playful pander in Washington’s zoo
- TV review: ‘60 Minutes’ bids a too-fast farewell to tough ol’ Mike Wallace
- HBO’s ‘Girls’: Smartly cracking Gen Y’s morose code
- ABC’s ‘Titanic’: That sinking feeling
- ‘Don’t Trust the B---- in Apt. 23’: Don’t watch her, either.
- ‘Magic City’: An express checkout from Starz’s retro hotel
- ABC’s ‘Scandal’: Oh mighty Crisis
- ‘God Is the Bigger Elvis’: Cloistered with a hunka burnin’ love
- PBS’s ‘Hey, Boo’: The eternal mystery of Harper Lee
- ‘The Killing’s’ second season: Not guilty as charged
- ‘Great Expectations’ on PBS: Deliciously bitter
- The Rant: Your cool new iPad is a video gig-pig? Ever heard of a television?
- ‘Mad Men’ returns, in living color
- Fox’s ‘Touch’: Extremely clouded and incredibly lachrymose
- NBC’s ‘Bent’ almost gets the job done
- ‘Frozen Planet’: Whiteout for the mind
- ‘The Road We’ve Traveled’: Live-streaming Obama’s slick ‘docu-ganda’
- NBC’s ‘Community’: resuming and reconsidered
- ABC’s ‘Missing’: Mother kicks best in this trite TV drama
- NBC’s ‘Fashion Star’: A runway reinvented
- ‘Must Love Cats’: Hello again, kitty
- ‘Shahs of Sunset’: Roll out the Persian smug
- HBO’s ‘Game Change’: Sarah Palin and the toxic political environment
- ‘G.C.B.’: Add a Big D for dumb
- NBC’s ‘Awake’: Neither here nor there
- PBS’s ‘The Amish’: In this world, but not of it
- TV review: Oscar’s wishful thinking
- PBS’s ‘Clinton’: That was then ...
- ‘Life’s Too Short’ and so are the laughs
- HBO’s ‘The Loving Story’: A resilient romance that changed history
- ‘Comic Book Men’: Kevin Smith’s insular world of supergeeks
- ‘Parking Wars’: Sweet satisfaction on life’s mean streets
- ABC’s ‘The River’: Creepshow catches a bad case of jungle rot
- A Super Bowl’s spoiled snacks
- ‘Smash’ review: All that jazz is sometimes worth it
- HBO’s ‘Luck’ is saddled by the details
- ‘Bering Sea Gold’: Restoring reality TV’s lost glimmer
- TV review: State of the Union, real enough
- TV One’s ‘Find Our Missing’ takes on the mysteries that didn’t get the headlines
- TV review: At 2012 Golden Globes, the edge drops off
- Fox’s ‘Alcatraz’: An enigma in a mystery in a riddle already unwrapped for you
- ‘Napoleon Dynamite,’ ‘Unsupervised’ and ‘Archer’: Cartoons that feel unanimated
- HBO’s ‘Paradise Lost 3’: Into the woods once more
- ‘Are You There, Chelsea?’ (Yes, barely.)
- ‘CBS This Morning’: A snooze button for those of us who roll out slowly
- Stiff upper lips for ‘Downton Abbey’s’ disappointing return
- TV: A ‘House of Lies,’ built by slimeballs
- ‘Portlandia’ is back, finding humor in a specific Northwest
- ‘Work It’: ABC’s new sitcom is the same old drag
- ‘Intervention’s’ utterly American value
- ‘Method to the Madness of Jerry Lewis,’ with all the unhappy stuff left out
- Chelsea Clinton makes broadcast debut on NBC’s ‘Rock Center’
- Sundance’s ‘Appropriate Adult’: Lost in a killer’s ambiguity
- Best TV shows of 2011
- ‘Bag of Bones’ review: Must be recycling day
- ‘Becoming Santa’: There’s life in the old guy yet
- TV: ‘Weed Wars’ and ‘DUI’ — all the way up, then all the way down
- Fox’s ‘I Hate My Teenage Daughter’: The feeling is mutual
- E!’s voracious ‘Scouted’: Hide your daughters
- CBS’s ‘Elf on the Shelf’: Unwarranted Christmas surveillance techniques
- Old TV-shows on DVD — a tempting way to stuff a pop-culturist’s stocking
- HBO’s ‘Sound of Mumbai’: A forlorn note
- PBS’s ‘Woody Allen’: The resilient, horn-rimmed genius opens up at last
- ‘All-American Muslim’: An inalienable right to be as dull as anybody else
- War, up close and personal: ‘Vietnam in HD’ and ‘Where Soldiers Come From’
- ‘Hell on Wheels’ review: Blowing off some American steam
- TV: Brian Williams’s ‘Rock Center,’ assured, brisk and a tad sarcastic
- ‘From the Sky Down’: U2, looking back on a funk
- TV: Fox’s ‘Allen Gregory,’ a boy who’s impossible to like
- At Mark Twain shebang, comics clank a cowbell or two for Will Ferrell
- TV review: ‘Once Upon a Time’ has magic to spare
- In Kelsey Grammer’s ‘Boss,’ a little Macbeth with some Mayor McCheese
- Harry Belafonte’s endless march for justice
- ‘The Walking Dead’ comes back to life for second season on AMC
- ‘Last Man Standing’: He’s alone for a reason
- On MTV, the drama of the ‘DISconnected’ generation
- HBO’s ‘Enlightened’: Portrait of a crazy lady
- Steve Jobs and the idea of letting go
- ‘American Horror Story’: Gothic revival in a troubled neighborhood
- In Scorsese’s TV ode, Harrison remains an elusive Beatle
- Showtime’s gripping ‘Homeland’: A Marine comes home, but is he now a terrorist?
- Ken Burns takes a sip of ‘Prohibition’
- How to avoid ‘How to Be a Gentleman’
- New fall TV: CBS’s ‘2 Broke Girls’; NBC’s ‘Playboy Club’
- ‘Suburgatory’: Sprawl in the family
- ‘Hart of Dixie’: Belle epechh
- ‘Terra Nova’: The dinosaurs seem real, but the people don’t
- ‘Pan Am’: Short flight
- TV: ‘A Gifted Man,’ but will he give back?
- Thursday TV: ‘Charlie’s Angels,’ ‘Person of Interest,’ ‘Whitney’ and ‘Prime Suspect’
- ABC’s ‘Revenge’: Dark, campy fun
- ‘Two and a Half Men’ minus 1 Sheen, plus 1 Kutcher, with no net loss
- Fox’s ‘New Girl’ goes Zooey kablooey; CBS’s ‘Unforgettable’ seems a tad familiar
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