My go-to for holiday comfort is generally British TV shows. Any TV trip to the U.K. feels instantly like a vacation.

In “Andor,” Tony Gilroy paints the Empire at its most oppressive. Surveillance has become near total: Anyone can be found almost anywhere.

“The Walking Dead” ends its 12-year, 11-season, 177-episode run on AMC this month.

This “All Quiet on the Western Front” does not need special effects to hold its own. It is matter-of-fact, and that is its strength.

”I can’t say it’s not my fault,” says Lincoln Project co-founder Stuart Stevens. Really? Someone in American politics actually said that?

“Only Murders in the Building” offers something Pope Francis has talked about repeatedly during his pontificate: intergenerational friendships, in all their power and complexity.