If you like your comedy slathered in crude, this sitcom is catnip. Everyone else will wonder if CBS stopped making shows with recognizable human beings when “Everybody Loves Raymond” went off the air.

Ellis has one great, understated moment, when Sarah (Odette Annable), the love of his life, confronts him about his failings, and you can see Rush realizes the gulf between the man he is and the man he’d like to be is a chasm he’ll never be able to breach. The show needs more of this. But no, it backs away from the edge.

Arquette is a cool presence onscreen and brings understated conviction to a character whose powers­ of observation border on superhuman.

The Night Shift gets the X-ray right for a series. Now it just needs to find a way to pump some new blood.

The writing is so scattered, it’s hard to find anyone, Montague or Capulet, to root for.

Underwood’s Ironside rolls over everyone in his life, figuratively and literally.... As flashbacks show, Ironside was shot in the back two years ago while pursuing a suspect. His ex-partner Gary (Brent Sexton) has never recovered emotionally from what happened that night.... Their prickly relationship now is the most daring part of the show.

There's more truth in 10 minutes of Animal Planet's "Finding Bigfoot."

There’s no way to self-medicate against the relentless drear of this new medical drama.

Maybe some day someone will give some stay-at-home dads some respect. This show isn’t it.

Allen’s been doing this kind of humor for 50 years. It shows.

Germann plays Sam’s husband, who at first seems distant but then reveals touching devotion to his family. If only the main cast had such material to shine.

Mind Games is the kind of dramedy that could give you a brain cramp.

It wants you to believe that Sheen is playing the most sane, vulnerable man in the world, yet he still comes off like a creep.

The more [Vance (David Walton) is] allowed to cut loose, the closer Perfect edges to real humor.

Grammer throws himself into the material, but Lawrence seems deflated. Perhaps he recognizes these scripts seem like somebody’s first drafts. Partners doesn’t make much of a case.

The show does not inspire confidence.

Those who worry about the teenager's well-being will find little comfort in this series.

The Thundermans doesn’t do much heavy lifting, but it waves its cape proudly.

My Generation is based on a Swedish series, "On God's Highway." Dramatic storytelling seems to have veered off the road and crashed into a tree.

Alfre Woodard isn’t given a lot to do as President Constance Payton in the premiere, but, unlike Heigl, she does have the gravitas for the role, and the show would be wise to use her more.

First, the dreck: The best thing that can be said about the unscripted series The Show With Vinny, starring “Jersey” castoff Vinny Guadagnino, is that the half-hour bumbles along like Sunday dinner with your most annoying relatives.

Cross the Web with "Blair Witch" 's jittery camera and what do you get? A good reason to shut off your computer AND your TV. [6 Oct 2000, p.S32]

Sean Saves the World actually left this viewer depressed about the health of network comedy.

Most of this show is stupid stoner humor. ... There aren’t enough drugs to find the funny in Disjointed.

[Sharon Stone's] character could be erased and the show wouldn’t miss a beat--heck, it might actually be better.... Hephner comes off as a cross between Kevin Costner and a “Just for Men” model and is adequate handling the light banter the scripts spoon out. This is a Sunday night show for people who find “The Walking Dead” too grim and “The Good Wife” too real.

Nobody registers much of a connection. What’s missing from this show is heart.

Nobody here is as self-obsessed as the least Kardashian, which will come as a relief to the celebrity-jaded, but we all know where the real talent lies in this family, and he's not onscreen enough to justify this series.

Stern, who starred in the "Home Alone" and "City Slickers" movies, isn't devoid of comic instincts. Perhaps that's why he seems to be going through the motions here with a barely concealed smirk.