The show is a quietly intriguing, informative study of assimilation, identity and community. [21 Nov 2011, p.40]

If the show's isn't terribly ambitious to break new ground, it's a nice lull. [11 Jun 2012, p.42]

Motive isn't ingenious enough to motivate imitations or spinoffs, but it's smooth and diverting. [27 May 2013, p.40]

The comedy never quite lifts into giddiness, but there are lots of solid, unexpected laughs. And isn't that cause for celebration? [26 Apr 2010, p.40]

Girl has a surprisingly casual sense of humor and Anna Silk is physically just right in the lead role. [13 Feb 2012, p.45]

This parody of bad vintage miniseries is asinine--it's supposed to be--and from time to time hilarious. [13 Jan 2014, p.49]

The second half builds steadily and surely toward a potential meet-and-greet with the apocalypse. [12 Dec 2005, p.39]

The show is a bit of a junk heap--Fringe, Mission:Impossible and Death Becomes Her are in the pile--but it's a real adventure. [11 Jul 2011, p.34]

Preachers' Daughters, focusing on three families headed by ministers, has its hearts in the tight place. [18 Mar 2013, p.42]

What keeps it from being exploitative--just--is the sense that these kids know such dangerous exhilaration won't, can't, lead to the happiness they're looking for. [31 Jan 2011, p.40]

Two tense, tricky, fine performances [22 Jul 2013]

The show works and it's fun. [12 Nov 2012, p.43]

O'Loughlin's an impressively taciturn, tense presence" You get the sense that McGarrett could go to a luau and still experience it as a hurt locker. As McGarrett's sidekick Danno, Scott Caan is the opposite: all quick, bantam energy. He steals scenes as coolly as surfers catch waves. [27 Sep 2010, p.53]

This is close to sitcom, but the show's skeleton is strong enough to bear it. [28 Nov 2011, p.62]

I look forward to The Payoff. [27 Sep 2010, p.54]

[A] sure-footed legal drama. [2 Sep 2013]

It gets an unexpected freshness from a young cast. [5 Mar 2007, p.37]

This is a carefully assembled, emotionally attuned drama about obese teens stuck in a summer weight-loss camp.

This could grow into a show of more than ordinary interest. [28 Nov 2011, p.57]

This is Dallas with out all the barbecue sauce, a soap about dynastic Texans that feels closer to Friday Night Lights in its understated leanness. [27 Sep 2010, p.54]

History's first scripted series is a headlong tumble into an irresistible and surprisingly neglected genre. [18 Mar 2013, p.41]

The show is still crazily entertaining. [11 Jun 2012, p.41]

If sparks (and ratings) weren't flying, what matters most id Delany's satisfyingly forthright portrayal of a woman who trusts her intellect and instinct. [18 Mar 2013, p.42]

[A] rattling good series. [10 Jul 2006, p.39]

This doesn't have the stiletto kick of the CW's Nikita, but it's frothy, sexy, relaxed--a brief, all-expense-paid vacation. [27 Sep 2010, p.55]

Flawlessly done, but a tough sell. [2 Dec 2013, p.50]

Cove is exactly What it aspires to be--uncynical, lulling and sweet. [12 Aug 2013]

Of the large, nicely peppered cast, I especially like Vergara, who has some of the vamping yumminess of a Catherine Zeta-Jones. [8 Jan 2007, p.35]