Meathead wasn’t cool. He wasn’t charming. He was earnest, moral, occasionally annoying, and unwilling to let things slide. He asked questions that made everyone uncomfortable, including the audience.
The genius and lasting impact of All in the Family hinge on its uniquely inverted pyramid of empathy. On any empirical level, Archie Bunker is the show’s villain. He’s a dinosaur. He’s a relic. (He’s ...
Archie Bunker, for those of us who are old enough to remember the “All in the Family” television series, was a comical bigot who often argued with his son-in-law, a liberal whom Archie called ...
That so many inexcusable things have happened since Trump's re-election does not make his heartlessness toward Rob Reiner any ...
Jean Stapleton, Carroll O'Connor, Sally Struthers, and Rob Reiner in a scene from the TV series 'All in the Family.' The sudden and violent death of Rob Reiner and his wife, Michele Singer Reiner, in ...
The grisly murders last week of Hollywood director Rob Reiner and his wife Michele, allegedly at the hands of their deranged son, moved me to go back and watch two of my favorite “All in the Family” ...
The grisly murders last week of Hollywood director Rob Reiner and his wife Michele, allegedly at the hands of their deranged son, moved me to go back and watch two of my favorite “All in the Family” ...