Slow, realistic character development is one thing that serialized televisioncan do better than almost any other medium. Plays and movies are too short — you only get the Cliff Notes version of their ...

Gavan O'Herlihy on Happy Days. But what is it, why’s it a thing, and why have some of us thought about it nonstop since watching a random Nick at Nite commercial more than a quarter-century ago? We ...