Because this is a Bravo reality show, every hour has to end with a manufactured epiphany.

Like the look of the ladies, the show is gorgeous, but it needs to reveal some substance.

The Last Post seems to be one-third military thriller and two-thirds soap opera. Some sequences are harrowing. Others strain plausibility.

Spoils takes its murder mystery too seriously. While this isn’t as dour an affair as Ferrell and Wiig’s recent Lifetime debacle, “A Deadly Adoption,” a little bit more nuttiness would make this mini more a treat and not so much an endurance challenge.

Undercover presents a wonderful tribute to the working man and woman. Middle managers are the villains here, sitting at desks and docking workers for clocking in late at lunch. The hour ends with the predictable reveal.

MTV's documentary series "True Life" has walked this territory before with far more compelling subjects.

Tierney and Morrow are both seasoned TV stars, but even they can't make The Whole Truth ring true.

Many of the scenes with the teens seem staged, especially tonight's climax. Still, the Bruces aren't anything like the delusional couples who populate Bravo's "Housewives" shows. This is a functioning family trying to survive a dysfunctional time.

For a show that starts out with so much energy, Breakout Kings quickly settles into a procedural rut.

Satisfaction has the most provocative premise--until about halfway through when it doesn’t just go off the rails, it careens into the ocean, swims for England, sits for afternoon tea and then flings itself into the moon.

Grimm has a low-rent Saturday Syfy vibe to it.

All this twee is verging on twaddle.

I’m pretty sure there was a Lifetime version of this story and the best part was it was over in two hours. Cardellini does the best she can, but the writing for her character and her motivations make no sense.

Thursday’s conclusion drags a bit if only because the miniseries requires Rosemary to be so deeply stupid for so long, and it’s not entertaining watching Saldana being practically sucked dry by her infernal fetus.

The emo-dialogue only sounds good if you’re just watching your first TV show..... The show’s decade-forward future is intriguing but inconsistent.

Comparisons to the BBC show are unavoidable since the first two episodes are practically a scene-by-scene reshoot of the original's opening. The stars even look like doppelgangers of the English cast.

Sarah Palin's Alaska turns out to be a tepid travelogue of the former governor's home state's tourist attractions interspersed with homespun homilies and family downtime.

Of the handful of episodes I watched, the pilot tonight, written by Adlon and directed by C.K., is the strongest. Subsequent episodes meander.

Homeland now stumbles through familiar territory, and the view the second time around isn’t half as compelling.

Urban and Ealy are competent in their roles, damaged spirits destined to become brothers of a sort, not if, but only when.... While some viewers will be oblivious to the show’s racial politics, others will struggle to find a point. Somebody at Fox short-circuited.

Reign is a big stick of stupid wrapped in gauzy costumes and tramping around a sumptuous estate.

This hyper-violent crime soap from creator, executive producer, director and writer John Singleton is punctuated with some terrific performances fighting against predictable plot bumps.

[The] premiere serves as a rocky reboot to the once robust hit.

With its relentless narration, Gold Rush: Alaska more often plays like anaudible.com download with stunning visuals of Sarah Palin's home state as a backdrop.

Seal Team Six won't sway undecided voters; it also won't entertain many, either.

The uneven 10-episode series shifts from pedestrian cloak-and-dagger to camp.

There’s much intrigue and backbiting going on in the small domestic household of the Dowager Countess, but that, too, ultimately goes nowhere. Fellowes hints at drama and pulls his punches.

The show appears to be an uneven hour that hesitates at going either for the full-throttle laugh or an authentic dramatic beat.