It's a hair-sprayed cobweb. And not funny. [9 Jan 2012, p.40]

Done without any of the smart silliness that made Drew Barrymore's 2000 movie reboot so much fun, the show is just vixen nostalgia. [17 Oct 2011, p.42]

Millennium ... has grown more pretentious and less coherent with each new installment.

This is one kid who should not stay in the picture. [7 Nov 2011, p.45]

The only thing that might make them come to their senses would be a violent but salutary shock. Like Cancellation. [7 Nov 2011, p.45]

How'd They Do That? rehashes a previously aired Home Edition and adds a few details that weren't worth including the first time. Why'd they bother?

I just wish he'd [Will Arnett] run away from this dead horse of a sitcom. [11 Oct 2010, p.38]

The premise of this one is about as dumb as you can get.

Apart from the fact that the gags aren't funny... it's off-putting to see something sacred being mucked around with. [30 Apr 2007, p.37]

The Real World is an insult to anyone who lives in the real world.

[Skip's] part is virtually unplayable, especially since Bill Pullman and Jenna Elfman, as the first couple, give restrained, relatively natural performances, and Skip's siblings are written more along the lines of Modern Family. [14 Jan 2013, p.52]

The show moves along with the dull, humming smoothness of commerce. [19 Mar 2012, p.42]

The show makes Survivor look like a utopia. [17 Apr 2006, p.43]

The pilot has come under fire for racist jokes, but at Cheap Laffs there's not enough of a creative sensibility for that to matter. [23 Sep 2013]

Saddled with stars who neither clash nor click, breaking In appears to be broken. [19 Mar 2012, p.46]

It hyperventilates when it means to be breathless. [18 Feb 2013, p.44]

The show might work if Steven Pasquale had a script that allowed for bolder contrasts. [2 Feb 2013, p.40]

There's no erotic pull between him (Jay Ryan) and the detective (Kristin Kreuk). [15 Oct 2012, p.49]

Kathy Bates' surly gravity can't prevail over the silliness of this new series. [24 Jan 2010, p.43]

Playboy Club makes the mistake of aping Mad Men's Stern social seriousness. [26 Sep 2011, p.54]

Like the world cares. [6 Jun 2011, p.46]

No zest, no fun. [26 Mar 2007, p.37]

Mostly it feels like an instructional film about disaster preparedness. [2 Oct 2006, p.45]

Can you say "ill-conceived"?

The show makes little effort to create a sense of the potent clash--or erotic attraction--between cultures. [24 Feb 2014, p.38]

Actually watching Big Brother five nights a week (total air time: 3½ hours) seems like the entertainment equivalent of enduring gavel-to-gavel convention coverage on C-SPAN.

[A] dreary, derivative sci-fi series. ... Such silliness might be palatable if Alba were more than the sum of her svelte, zippered bodysuits. Instead she pouts throughout, speaking in a Valley Girl drone.

An irritating comedy-drama. [15 Jul 2013]