Fun, light, colorful and original.

It aims for epic, and sometimes hits epic--but it's a bit shallow.

What's best about Time is its ambition; it glows with a near-theatrical shine, challenging viewers to think about TV drama as something other than boilerplate.

Fans will love the sixth season opener. Prepare to be shocked. This is Scandal, after all.

The characters, scripts and performances are surprisingly smart--almost, dare I say, deep. And you still get the comic humiliations, nasty rivalries and teeny bikinis.

The characters hold promise, the show looks swell, the stories reflect rich history and the makers have earned our trust.

Approach Victoria for what it is--a lavish production with impeccable period details and some impeccable entertainment ones--and you will be pleased. Coleman, who’s wonderful here, assures that anyway.

Hardy and cast are first-rate, but the story lumbers.

The cast throws this curveball that catches the plate for a strike.

A ninth season. Wow. In fact, a change of scenery has done Scrubs a world of good. The new students are funny. McGinley is great as always--so, too, is Turk (Donald Faison).

Nix knows how to dig deeper holes for his folks, while he broadens their motivations, sometimes recognized only along the way. Nix isn't bad at keeping the plot pot percolating, either.

Akerman has to be everything. Good thing she's a nimble actress.... Whitford is always winning, and even the poor exes find wiggle room inside their cliches.

Still good, still not for everyone, and almost gone for good.

[An] entertaining, engaging start.

This is an excellent remake featuring two actors--Caan and O'Loughlin--who almost seem made for each other.

These actors are serious sitcom pros, and their show is actually about something genuine--sibling bonding/rivalry, parental button-pushing, relationship-building. It's nice to see some emotional meat in a live-audience staging again, feeding off the energy and reactions of real people.

Looks like a summer winner.

JUNKies follows a familiar formula, but adds a buoyant burst of adrenaline when the guys spontaneously react to the inventions and their makers.

Engaging docudrama with lots of interesting detail. Worth watching.

Lots of first-rate performances--including by a dog--but some of the stories are a little bloated or unfocused.

As always, a welcome summer visitor.

Whom to vote for--Dot or Bette? Or will Paulson end up splitting the vote? The special effects are so seamless and Paulson's performance so memorable that it's not a completely incidental question. Then, of course, there's Lange.

Method makes a solid case for Lewis as underappreciated auteur.

The show is an old-fashioned courtroom procedural, but the pilot has enough sharp writing and well-greased plot twists to suggest future promise.

There’s a sense that we’ve traveled down this road paved with silicon once or twice before, but the ride is still smart, engaging and highly informative.

As a viewing experience, Greenleaf is absorbing, hardly pulse-quickening.

Entourage is clarifying a moral message--drugs will kill you, terrible behavior is terrible, and real friends are forever. It feels like a reassuring final season.

What's special is something a bit harder to define, notably the chemistry, which Montgomery and Walsh have in abundance. The supporting cast is excellent, too.