The case seems more like a good crusade for Nancy Grace than the starting point for a series. [28 Aug 2006, p.35]

Thorne has the right bristling, combative energy for all this commotion, but the pilot is hard to swallow. [4 Jul 2011, p.38]

Like most programs involving clairvoyance or time travel, this idea gets tired fast.

The writers' apparent priority is to place the adults in trite situations with sexual overtones.

The premiere us well-shot, humidly atmospheric, but a little more urgency would be appreciated.

It's only fun, though, when the would-be mates turn on each other and the bat guano flies: Romancing the Stone morph into The War of the roses. [25 Jul 2011, p.40]

Miller is believably blonde, and that's about it. [22 Oct 3012, p.42]

Most of Mornings is stock melodrama, and apart from Molina, not all that well acted. [18 Feb 2013, p.43]

An old-fashioned sitcom.

They're just bland. [2 Apr 2012, p.44]

The main problem is Amy's fluctuating competency level. In the pilot she floundered as if she'd never been inside a courtroom. She starts strong the next time, then yields to feelings of inadequacy before her mother gives her a jolt of tough love. Come on, get a grip on that gavel.

Cases piddle away as everyone hashes out deals at a conference table. Realistic, perhaps, but quite the buzzkill. [20 Aug 2012, p.41]

It's an awful story, and it deserves a better production than this. [31 Oct 2005, p.39]

Three Wishes is about sowing seeds of kindness that blossom into a garden of good feeling, but it can feel like a flower show dusted with endless sprayings of industrial fertilizer. [31 Oct 2005, p.39]

Big Sexy could have used less glamour and more Mike & Molly star Melissa McCarthy's salt-of-the-earth power. [Sep 2011, p.46]

It's a hallucinatory riff on an old noir tradition (is Raines being played for a sap by his own daydreams?), but the gimmick doesn't click. [19 Mar 2007, p.39]

It's still a great cast, but there's a whiff of baffled frustration. [26 Nov 2012, p.44]

This feels like an assembly line for the soul. [6 Feb 2012, p.40]

Does it deliver excitement? So far, no. [3 Oct 2005, p.39]

It's very well-done, but the opener doesn't resolve a viewer's doubts. [9 Apr 2012, p.42]

Whether the show can figure out what to do with Madsen's semi-reformed brood is the challenge. Right now the show feels less like FX's recent, underrated The Riches than Brothers & Sisters set among the criminal element.

It's pleasant, but not promising enough to care about beyond a one-episode stand. [19 Jun 2006, p.37]

It's tacky, da--or should we say duh?--but likable. [22 Aug 2011, p.45]

Shake It Up doesn't shake up the kid-com formula one bit, but it's something more than the usual shiny-sparkly cuteness. [20 Dec 2010, p.44]

Beyond the pilot, though, it appears to be a blandly generic precinct drama. [5 Mar 2013]

Daniels is great, biting clean through clotted dialogue that's twinkly yet sanctimonious. [2 Jul 2012, p.40]

It's dumb, yes, but that miracle of reality TV named Cat Deeley hosts. [2 Jul 2012, p.38]

Arli$$ is like a high draft choice who becomes an established starter but never fulfills his superstar potential.