Kathy isn't a vehicle. It's a parking space. [21 May 2012, p.38]

The framework [couples counseling] is cute but irrelevant: You don't need an analyst piecing together the relationship when that's the audience's job. [14 May 2012, p.44]

In season 2 of PBS's richly clever Sherlock, the Victorian tales have been refitted to our century. [14 May 2012, p.44]

The show is gentle, winning and sympathetic. [7 May 2012, p.48]

It's a well-done, somewhat sleepy ensemble drama about newbies on patrol. [7 May 2012, p.46]

This blah drama about kids living in an LA apartment complex while hustling for big breaks is a Canadian import. [7 May 2012, p.46]

This is always a diverting junk, but if these women actually become preoccupied with preserving their dignity, the jig is up. [30 Apr 2012, p.36]

It's an MRI that's lost its mapping capabilities. [30 Apr 2012, p.36]

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]

It's a raw, ironic, occasionally touching comedy of post-millennial manners. [23 Apr 2012, p.37]

It's like watching a manor house sink beneath the waves with loud, hissing pomp. [16 Apr 2012, p.50]

The jokes hop all over the place but the show, like Chloe, is refreshingly wild. [16 Apr 2012, p.49]

Falco's performance never loses a weary, trudging toughness and, at the core two hard kernels of anger and sorrow. [16 Apr 2012, p.50]

Love Hewitt goes for soft, cozy sentiment. [16 Apr 2012, p.53]

Scandal is about as realistic as Mamie Eisenhower Witch Hunter but it has so much headlong energy, you may not care. [9 Apr 2012, p.40]

The story is promising. [9 Apr 2012, p.42]

Can. Not. Wait. [9 Apr 2012, p.39]

It's very well-done, but the opener doesn't resolve a viewer's doubts. [9 Apr 2012, p.42]

They're just bland. [2 Apr 2012, p.44]

This is just a nice, basic reality project. [2 Apr 2012, p.40]

The writing could use some gloss--it's Will & Grace with no grace--but Drescher still knows how to deploy her honking rasp and Higgins has exceptional comic skills. [2 Apr 2012, p.38]

The show still tends to go suddenly flat--it's hard to tell whether the party is supposed to be dead or it's just incompetently staged--but Hamm is always superb as Don. [2 Apr 2012, p.37]

The humor has a light, convivial burble. [26 Mar 2012, p.45]

It's mesmerizing. [26 Mar 2012, p.44]

The one great redemptive asset--and it's significant--is Kiefer Sutherland. [26 Mar 2012, p.41]

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

The jokes take of on all sorts of unexpected trajectories--foul balls that score. [12 Mar 2012, p.45]

This bifurcated character--Mother of the Year meets Jack Bauer--isn't always believable, but Judd welds the two Beccas together through sheer willpower. [19 Mar 2012, p.41]