The acting is good, especially Bill Skarsgard and Landon Liboiron.... I like the show's languid, dreamlike beauty, but horror fans may be less patient. [22 Apr 2013, p.47]

It's a well-made hour of generic moments. [15 Apr 2013, p.44]

NBC's best new drama since forever. [15 Apr 2013]

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]

Thandie Newton is intimidatingly fierce.... The problem is everyone else. [8 Apr 2013, p.45]

Chalke and company are all expert comic actors, but the pilot is leapingly frantic, a puppy wanting love. [8 Apr 2013, p.45]

This likable silly series has entertainment value. [8 Apr 2013, p.42]

The production is gorgeous and the tedium unrelenting. [8 Apr 2013, p.42]

There's event television, and there's Game of Thrones. [8 Apr 2013, p.41]

This is essentially a dialogue between baffled attorney and baffling client, which makes for an arid 95 minutes. [1 Apr 2013]

This haunting New Zealand miniseries boasts a strong, tense performance from Mad Men's Elisabeth Moss as a detective, but it's very much the work of director Jane Campion. [25 Mar 2013, p.44]

The show is overworked and overthought. [25 Mar 2013, p.43]

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

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]

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

These people are all more ordinary and much less fabulously neurotic than you might have hoped. [11 Mar 2013, p.48]

This is like dramatizing War and peace without commenting on war or peace. [11 Mar 2013, p.46]

Only Visnjic, immaculately groomed and vaguely continental, seems to understand that this over-the-top story requires not only a constant flame to boil the plot but a flirtatious sense of fun. [11 Mar 2013, p.45]

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

A gauzy, pretty documentary. [18 Feb 2013, p.43]

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

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

Until, and unless, all the elements fall into place, it's more smush than smash. [18 Feb 2013, p.41]

It's tense, engrossing, mildly ludicrous--and worth checking out before the Cold War melts. [11 Feb 2013]

The two hours available for review are cinematically rich, full of sleek, oily pools of darkness. [11 Feb 2013]

What gives the show its kick is the gleefully childish lack of repentance shown by most of these rascals--countered by Olyphant's coolly amused control. [4 Feb 2013, .39]

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

[Larry Hagman's last days on the show don't] keep Dallas from being robust fun. [4 Feb 2013, p.42]