Forever comes off like a show a couple of drunks scribbled out on a cocktail napkin.

Mattfeld delivers a nuanced performance as a woman who has chosen to meet the world with hostility as a calculated defense. No matter how middling the story, she’s always worth watching.

The show runs rampant with rapid-fire dialogue and sly pop-culture references. The cast is strong.

It’s a little “Mad Max,” a little “Mortal Kombat,” a little “Gone with the Wind,” a lot head-scratchingly dumb.

In the first three episodes at least, the series features some surprisingly tense adult moments and some language that was bleeped out. Along the way, there are some cutting observations about the pageant scene.

There are larger-than-life characters and then there are impossible-to-believe roles, and “Yellowstone” runs deep with the latter. ... There’s a much easier way of summing up “Yellowstone”: Horsepucky.

As a man struggling to find where he misplaced his heart, Perry makes angst seem easy. His sense of timing isn't rusty. The sitcom has a few clouds: Alonzo needs an edge and the show should make Jorge Garcia's ("Lost") facilities manager a permanent regular. But Mr. Sunshine could be midseason's brightest ray of mirth.

Tyrant is the most engrossing new show of the summer.... Gordon’s razor-sharp timing, a skill honed on “24,” serves Tyrant well.

While White Famous proves he [Jay Pharoah] can lead a series, it doesn’t give him many opportunities to show how funny he is. It does make a great argument that everyone in Hollywood is criminally unhinged.

Average acting and troubled storytelling can be forgiven in a film about music if the music is transcendent. But Lifetime couldn’t secure the rights to any Brown or Houston hits. So we get actors lip-syncing to imitators. Often the lip-syncing isn’t even synched.

The bromance is over before it starts.

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

Bob's Burgers arrives cold, with a touch of E. coli. Beware.

If you’re doing the math at home, add shocking violence to a side of soap opera and you’re left with Six. At the end of the night, that may not be enough for you.

Bonnie & Clyde? More like Hokum and Bunk.

Fashion Star is a skimpy little show. You might buy something in the evening, but beware those morning-after regrets.

Like King’s last TV series, “Under the Dome,” The Mist would seem to have a short shelf life. One hour with these people and you’ll be rooting for the critters.

It's a drama. ... The Resident turns out to be hilarious in so many ways, but first you must get through the horror.

This is a series with no redemptive value. It barely qualifies as entertainment, but sexy summer trash will always find an audience. That's the inescapable truth at the heart of Pretty Little Liars.

With the suspenseful Eye Candy, we have a pretty good show, especially for teens who get a thrill out of being creeped out.

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

Just when you thought the teen melodrama was completely played out, along comes another trite "Dawson's Creek" clone to cause cringes of annoyance and pangs of distress. [12 Jul 2000]

Who knew the dumbed-down domestic sitcom could be fun again? ... OK. It's not "Seinfeld." But "Eight Simple Rules" does just what it's supposed to - amuse, entertain, disperse a few laughs and warm fuzzies. [17 Sep 2002]

If you’ve seen one shark fall from the sky, you’ve seen them all. To its credit, in its last five minutes, Oh Hell No! amps up the craziness to a level that should have dominated the entire film.

The drama is swamped by the saccharine cliches.

Tonight's mystery ultimately doesn't hang together, but it does establish the show's light mythos in an easy-to-digest way.

The show needs to work on building the urgency to its stories and cutting away the treacle.

There are a number of bad wigs and beards on display here, but much of the cast surmounts the costuming problems. The pace and the depth of the story might have been helped by extending this film into a two-night event.