While obnoxious luxury is always watchable, the show is lazily cookie-cutter. [19 Mar 2012, p.42]

Comparisons to The Iron Lady, a sloppy movie that has Meryl Streep in roaring good form, are inevitable. Is Game Change better? You betcha. [5 Mar 2012, p.41]

A tricky show with serious potential. [5 Mar 2012, p.45]

The humor is so lighthearted, the show practically skips. [20 Feb 2012, p.48]

The show is technically flawless--so is Macy strutting like a mangy Mick Jagger--but the Gallaghers' raucous, defiant pride never really engages me. [20 Feb 2012, p.46]

The scares are not as over-the-top as American Horror Story but more chilling because they're applied glancingly. [13 Feb 2012, p.44]

Girl has a surprisingly casual sense of humor and Anna Silk is physically just right in the lead role. [13 Feb 2012, p.45]

NBC hasn't had a show this impressive since the first season of Heroes. [6 Feb 2012, p.39]

The premise might make sense if Stults had a Rain Man intensity. Instead he's laid back and scruffy. [6 Feb 2012, p.40]

This feels like an assembly line for the soul. [6 Feb 2012, p.40]

It's fun sport. [30 Jan 2012, p.44]

There's always a laugh or two. [30 Jan 2012, p.44]

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

This show dilutes Paul Fisher's personality. [23 Jan 2012, p.42]

It's still not funny. [23 Jan 2012, p.42]

The first three episodes are full of impressively strong criminals. [23 Jan 2012, p.40]

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

[A] dull new sitcom. [23 Jan 2012, p.40]

A solid, well-done series. [19 Jan 2012, p.42]

It takes a few half-hour episodes before the tone gels. [16 Jan 2012, p.39]

[Laura Prepon] doesn't have any of the original's bone-tired, hard-earned scorn. [19 Jan 2012, p.42]

Luckily the characters are so fully formed, and so fully inhabited by the cast, that the whole mess staggers up out of the trenches and keeps going. [9 Jan 2012, p.39]

It's just a plainer Ugly Betty. [9 Jan 2012, p.40]

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

The Exes is New Girl fallen off the back of a truck. [19 Dec 2011, p.44]

Brosnan remains totally believable whether he's borderline batty or bravely resilient. [19 Dec 2011, p.44]

It's bright and obvious as a cartoon yet written with a clean, precise patter of jokes. It's also very well cast. [12 Dec 2011, p.45]

This Victorian-era prequel to Peter Pan works. [12 Dec 2011, p.48]