A perfectly serviceable but utterly forgettable sitcom.

The first hour... hits you with a potent cocktail of action and intrigue.

I can’t say enough about how "Friday Night Lights" defied my expectations for what a TV show about football would be.

A mildly amusing sitcom that is promising -- including the sense that it promises to go nowhere fast.

What makes this intriguing and ultimately irresistible serial thriller one of my favorites of the fall season are its characters.

A gripping, one-of-a-kind drama.

Sleek, action-packed and heavy on the acting talent.

It’s a smart series with a pacing that sometimes takes your breath away. Still, once the action pauses, will viewers want to spend time with a bunch of amoral characters?

The punchlines fell flat more often than not.

If [Sorkin] intends to preach off-key sermons every week, “Studio 60” is going to get old fast.

Heche really shines in this role.

To me, what allows “The Wire” to surpass “The Sopranos” in the pantheon of greatest American TV shows is its ambition and its anger.

"'Til Death" seems a pretty thin concept.

I don’t get a kick out of you, “Happy Hour.”

I’m having a reverse case of Stockholm Syndrome with “Standoff”: The more time I spend with it, the less I like it.

[It] makes defense work look as sexy as anything on the high-tech "CSI."

The show teeters at times on incomprehensibility but is brought back each time by its two stars.

Hilarious, delightful and smart... "Eureka" may have the gumption to become the best sci-fi show since the late lamented “Farscape.”

It’s not near HBO quality but certainly better than that “Sleeper Cell” tripe that Showtime put on last year.

A goofy and likable new comedy.

The constant toing-and-froing of “Mrs. Harris” might have gotten tiresome, as an earlier HBO effort at revisionist biography, “The Life and Death of Peter Sellers,” did. Bening, though, is somehow able to conjure up a completely new mood for each time and setting.

It’s an ambitious and ever-shifting examination of the lack of foresight in a culture addicted to rapid change.

The one thing “Sleeper Cell” does commendably is to suggest that there is a struggle going on for the soul of Islam, and that al-Qaida does not have the only say in the matter. But that message is swamped by predictable thriller filler and cheap production values.

An out-of-the-gate triumph.

It’s a grim two hours... But it’s not overly explicit, and the script and talent are better than most Lifetime films.

Monday’s premiere was one of the most nearly perfect half-hours of television I’ve ever seen.... [But] I can’t imagine tuning in “The Colbert Report” four nights a week just to watch a caricature.