Diaries is lukewarm and earnest. [21 Jan 2013]

An entertainingly sinister dip in the cesspool of 19th century criminality. [21 Jan 2013]

Girls can still be Girls. [21 Jan 2013]

We waste a lot of time on her gigs--not unusual for this kind of show, but we've seen it time after time. [14 Jan 2013, p.52]

Discovery's Africa is yet another marvel of high-definition photography. [14 Jan 2013, p.56]

It's a promising setup, but Deception doesn't allow us the dirty pleasure of enjoying the awful Bowers. [14 Jan 2013, p.56]

[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]

If the Granthams are low on dough, emotionally they're richer than ever. [14 Jan 2013, p.51]

It's lighter, smaller--West Condo!--but still a pleasure. [17 Dec 2012, p.37]

It's more shoofly than pie, but amusing. [17 Dec 2012, p.39]

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

They're delightful. [26 Nov 2012, p.48]

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

666 Park Avenue remains good Gothic Trash. [26 Nov 2012, p.44]

I'll take Hour's rather sour worldview--deadlines in deadly times--over the grand uplift of HBO's The Newsroom. In a nanosecond. [3 Dec 2012, p.44]

Lohan attacks the part with a relentless, huffing-and-puffing determination that rivets attention.... While Bowler is a flawless Burton, Lohan's single-minded fierceness obliterates him. [3 Dec 2012, p.43]

The heartbreak here--especially the cases of poor children who died of "dust pneumonia"--is tremendous. [26 Nov 2012, p.45

The CW's best show since Gossip Girl.... it has a forthright narrative seriousness, a respect for the gobbledy-gook that makes up any superhero's backstory--and a game cast performing with the correct degree of seriousness. [19 Nov 2012, p.35]

It's an affable show, but at an hour long, it starts to feel like a slow dance that won't end. [12 Nov 2012, p.46]

The show works and it's fun. [12 Nov 2012, p.43]

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

The endless sex jokes, most of them uttered expertly by deadpan Dennings to bubbly Behrs, are a pain. [12 Nov 2012, p.45]

Revenge's second season recaptured its melodramatic mojo after a muddled month. [12 Nov 2012, p.39]

It's [Bobi Kristins's] aunt Pat Houston who gives the show--and, one hopes, Bobbi Kristina--some backbone. [5 Nov 2012, p.43]

The high school stories are tighter-focused, and the Manhattan ones breathe with Broadway romanticism. [5 Nov 2012, p.42]

It's dark, big-top sadism, and we wait for a story to emerge. [5 Nov 2012, p.41]

Johnson is the find of the season: She's the sunbeam that doesn't filter out dust motes. [29 Oct 2012, p.38]

There are rivalries and feuds and dangerous situations, as well as a complete lack of personality. [29 Oct 2012, p.38]