Diaries is for Shandling fans, certainly, but it’s especially for any kid who might want to become a comic, or write for TV or get into this industry. “Zen Diaries” is a nearly five-hour-long master’s degree in “the business,” and also a sober, clear-eyed view of the risks as much as the rewards.

Based on the first three episodes, this looks like another finely crafted season. Also intense, uncompromising and demanding.

Character--as the old saying goes--is a long-standing habit, and their habits remain very much intact. The same could be could be said of Justified.

The series never quite convincingly establishes what could have been a powerful undercurrent-- whether Naz and by association the rest of New York’s Muslim community had been tried and convicted based on their Muslim faith alone. That’s OK. Everything else--and everyone else--cclicks just about perfectly.

"NYC" celebrates the human spirit, not just an institution. ... A beauty.

The TV breakout Glover fans have been waiting for, also unlike anything else on TV.

Fast, furious, funny, with a twist.

Human beings live on the corner, and "The Corner" makes us care about them. [16 Apr 2000, p.D15]

Still funny and still not for everyone. Louie remains very much a taste that you either acquire--or don't.

Best series of the year so far. Easily.

It’s easy enough for new viewers to join this Emmy-nominated gem, as its third season reshuffles everyone’s deck at least once.

Smart, engaging second season (so far). The ensemble cast gets better and better.

TV's best (but do your homework before diving in).

Aside from a nagging sense that Sam and "Things" are standing in place. Inertia is part of the joke except that we think we already know the punchline. TV shows are about journeys too but through the early episodes, this one seems like it may be stuck in neutral.

A must-watch: The most important TV program of the year.

Another brilliant, powerful, moving season of one of TV’s best.

If you loved last season, there's nothing so far to indicate you won't like the second just as much.

TV's best of the year, so far.

Lean, laconic, precise and as carefully word-crafted as any series on TV, there's pretty much nothing here to suggest that the third season won't be as good as the second--or better.

Good, crackling start that--as the old saying goes--changes everything and may even point to the end.

This show--still TV's best--remains utterly true to itself.

Man, is this a good show...Boomtown is so good, it single-handedly restores your faith in broadcast networks. They can compete with the "freedom" of premium cable. All it takes is creative smarts. And NBC's Boomtown has plenty of those. [27 Sept 2002, p.B02]

Better, richer, more compelling than season one.

There’s some temporizing in the first couple of episodes, but not enough to subvert what this third season so clearly is--another winner.

McDormand will win an Emmy for this. Already, there's no contest.... Cholodenko's direction is masterful, and so is the bleakly funny script by Jane Anderson, but they clearly have a vision that is both part of--and separate from--the source material.

Battlestar Galactica is a worthy successor to Sci Fi's late and much lamented "Farscape." That's about as high as our praise gets. [9 Jan 2005, p.11]

Justified remains as good as ever--and as tautly written, acted and directed, and deeply, completely pleasurable as the fifth season, and the one before that and... all of the other seasons, too, now that I think of it.

Nobody tries to be funny here, so they're more hysterical than the folks falling all over themselves elsewhere. They're simply hopeless specimens of spoiled humanity who haven't a clue how to operate in the real world. [2 Nov 2003, p.04]