The show is a trampoline that sags clear down to the ground, the better to catapult you off into the air. [18 Jul 2011, p.35]

ABC's reality powerhouse has just launched its 11th season untweaked and to great ratings.[11 OCT 2010, p.37]

Luck is a true original, a show with a tone like no other. [30 Jan 2012, p.43]

It takes awhile to adjust to the dissonance, but the muted naturalism of the superb cast draws us in. [9 May 2011, p.40]

The comedy here, as with Elaine, comes from watching Louis-Dreyfus's sophisticated, furiously sharp timing applied to a character who has the intelligence of a finch. [30 Apr 2012, p.35]

In such grossness is greatness. [19 Sep 2011, p.65]

This BBC hit is the soppily tender story of '50s midwives in London's East End. [1 Oct 2012, p.38]

Matthew Weiner has advanced the show far enough into the '60s that its fundamental philosophical question begins to generate its own oppressive suspense. [15 Apr 2013]

[Driver's] tone gets under the skin. As does the show. [19 Mar 2007, p.39]

The show's many subplots are handled clumsily, but these two [Grammer & Nielsen] are too good to pass up. 25 Oct 2011, p.48]

Given the amounts of sumptuous scenery to chew on, the acting is restrained, even if the gore and sex are not. [28 May 2012, p.40]

Luckily Blood is still buoyed by its weird, Gothic zest and the performers all operate with the same vibe of ripe sexuality and restrained camp. [4 Jul 2011, p.37]

Olyphant plays this laconic, loping lawman with a smiling minimalism that makes Givens both iconic and contemporary.

The 90-minute premiere sets up what could be a very good--by which I mean crassly turbulent--season 3. [23 May 2011, p.41]

This late entry in the fall season is one of the best. [25 Nov 2013, p.43]

Andy's humiliations as a minor celebrity aren't quite as funny as was his earlier shame at being a nobody, but as a satire of showbiz vanity, Extras can still be described as (what else?) stellar. [29 Jan 2007, p.43]

The first episodes are very promising, full of feints, fibs, and a big, fat shock. [16 Jul 2012, p.40]

The show has the makings of great--what else can I say?--escapist entertainment. [23 Jan 2012, p.39]

The show's tone [is] vulgar, jolly and winning. [16 Jul 2012, p.39]

With sharp camera work, pulsating music and no tedious, gimme-an-Emmy closeups, it's like CSI at warp speed. [4 Sep 2006, p.41]

What hasn't changed and what matters, is Mireille Enos's sodden, unshakable integrity as a detective who could outlast a pack of bloodhounds. [10 Jun 2013, p.48]

Challenging but engrossing.

Louis-Dreyfus's performance--which, like Congress, can be divided into two houses, Crackling Charm and Hysterical Ego--still drives the show, but we're getting more realistic sense of political gamesmanship. [22 Apr 2013, p.45]

The girls' chemistry should keep the show breakdown free. [19 Sep 2011, p.59]

One of the fall's best new dramas. [26 Nov 2012, p.48]

This show is so wrong. And I loved every minute of it. [5 Feb 2007, p.37]

Entourage remains supremely good-natured. [19 Jun 2006, p.37]

[A] fascinating reality hit. [28 Mar 2011, p.57]