The show consists mostly of cheap re-creations of cases in which a marriage is undone by infidelity--and murder. [10 Sep 2012, p.40]

It's like a David Mamet parody of Roseanne. [19 Jun 2006, p.37]

It's not a fascinating process. As host and co-judge, Jewel is so glamorously reserved, she's faintly sinister. [6 Jun 2011, p.46]

[A] dull new sitcom. [23 Jan 2012, p.40]

It's still not funny. [23 Jan 2012, p.42]

[A] disappointingly thin, damp new series. [10 Jun 2013, p.47]

Annie calls for some sort of inner steel, but Perabo looks less like an untested agent than an overwhelmed intern.

Silly. [7 Nov 2005, p.41]

It has none of Desperate Housewives' winking cuteness, none of Revenge's dagger-eyed, fire-breathing kick. [12 Mar 2012, p.43]

Well, a mil doesn't go far these days, and neither does this series. [4 Sep 2006, p.41]

The show is just as bad as several other recent WB shows (Modern Men, The Bedford Diaries), neither cartoonish enough nor realistic enough to register as anything more than a conceptual shell with a handful of dried peas rattling inside. [24 Apr 2006, p.39]

The premise might make sense if Stults had a Rain Man intensity. Instead he's laid back and scruffy. [6 Feb 2012, p.40]

The Nashville-meets-California jokes are pretty weak. [12 Nov 2012, p.46]

There are small funny moments along the way. [4 Dec 2006, p.39]

This isn't much different from the studied vapidity of an earlier E! star, Paris Hilton, except that Lochte seems awfully nice. [29 Apr 2013, p.40]

Is there anything here that Bruce Springsteen hasn't already sung about? [19 Mar 2007, p.39]

An abysmal new series, but Tony winner Katie Finneran is a great comic talent. [5 Dec 2011, p.48]

The experience is like having the velvet rope lifted, then wishing you could use it to hogtie the charmed circle behind it. [22 Aug 2011, p.48]

Reiser, a precise, nimble comic, doesn't have the gut-level energy to bully life into this contraption. It's stalled. [25 Apr 2011, p.46]

The tone of the first three episodes is grubby yet also precious. [11 Jun 2007, p.41]

As an ensemble they are, like their teacher, attractive but not very exciting. [10 Apr 2006, p.35]

For now, it's a mess. [2 Jul 2012, p.37]

It just doesn't work. [30 Jan 2006, p.38]

The Exes is New Girl fallen off the back of a truck. [19 Dec 2011, p.44]

Though [Ramsay's] bleep-filled rants are supposed to bring out the best in his staff, they seem like blatant workplace harassment. When he turns his ire on the customers, it's even harder to stomach.

In the first few episodes, nothing's happening. No pulse. Doctor, what's wrong? [24 Oct 2005, p.41]

Diaries is lukewarm and earnest. [21 Jan 2013]

The show's main problem is that the guys, straddling the line between undateable-cute and undateable-unlikeable, more frequently fall into the latter camp. [2 Jun 2014, p.46]