James Poniewozik

The classic story (and recent culture-war object) remains wholesome but makes room for people who called the prairie home before the Ingalls family.

In its finale, this comedy about comedy circled back to the romance of creative partnership and the saving power of laughs.

The “Late Show” cancellation was a disappointment. But a surreally lovely final episode turned it into a cancellebration.

Plus, Stephen Colbert’s last show.

Stephen Colbert’s “Colbert Report” satirized politics. Then his “Late Show” confronted a moment when politics became self-satirizing.

In AMC’s merciless satire, the tech lords are extracting all they can from the business (and us) before everything goes to hell.