This is Amazing Race of the damned, with something of the open-ended, Pandora's-box mystery of Lost, and it has the potential for out-there adventure. [23 Apr 2007, p.37]

Innocently goofy. [30 Apr 2007, p.37]

The cast has an ordinariness that's a little too believable. [16 Apr 2007, p.43]

The show is a lusty soap opera that aspires to the pulsating, cutting-edge glamour of Cate Blanchett's Elizabeth. It's a little ham-fisted for that. [2 Apr 2007, p.37]

Something like Entourage without the manic, kick-start fury of Ari Gold. [2 Apr 2007, p.37]

The show falls prey to a faint preciousness in the voiceover narration from its correspondents and host Glass. They overarticulate the ironies instead of just letting you watch. Which you should do. Watch. [26 Mar 2007, p.37]

It's Court TV's first original scripted drama, and it's bad. [16 Apr 2007, p.43]

This show has a light, charming sense of the ridiculous. [19 Mar 2007, p.39]

It's a hallucinatory riff on an old noir tradition (is Raines being played for a sap by his own daydreams?), but the gimmick doesn't click. [19 Mar 2007, p.39]

Is there anything here that Bruce Springsteen hasn't already sung about? [19 Mar 2007, p.39]

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

It's like watching a marionette with one set of strings operated by John Lithgow and the other by Pee-wee Herman. [12 Mar 2007, p.39]

I wish the show had a little more verisimilitude--the peasants' homes look cheap, not poor--but it's zippy mindless fun. [5 Mar 2007, p.37]

It gets an unexpected freshness from a young cast. [5 Mar 2007, p.37]

Everything has the familiar mechanical deadness of a sitcom assembled from old ideas. [12 Feb 2007, p.39]

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

Top Design will make you not want to leave your TV room--no matter what it looks like. [5 Feb 2007, p.37]

The series' sixth season begins with an intensely entertaining four-hour, two-night premiere. [15 Jan 2007, p.33]

As in season 1, the acting is rich and lusty, with no costume-drama fustiness. [15 Jan 2007, p.33]

It's a good cast, and Arquette's peculiar charm is always welcome. But I'm tired of comedies about the desperate infantilism of panicked adults. [8 Jan 2007, p.35]

Of the large, nicely peppered cast, I especially like Vergara, who has some of the vamping yumminess of a Catherine Zeta-Jones. [8 Jan 2007, p.35]

Cox... doesn't have the right vulgar relish to hold the show together. [8 Jan 2007, p.35]

The quickened pulse is a plus: The violence registers as sharp, stinging slaps. [11 Dec 2006, p.41]

There are small funny moments along the way. [4 Dec 2006, p.39]

The relationship of saint to sinner has seldom been so moving. [26 Feb 2007, p.39]

I found 1 vs. 100 much more enjoyable [than Deal Or No Deal]. [23 Oct 2006, p.37]

It's the best new sitcom of the fall. [16 Oct 2006, p.39]

So far, it's of interest only for watching Lithgow--who likes to shout his lines with quivering urgency, as if he'd just seen a UFO--as he goes over the top to get a laugh. [16 Oct 2006, p.39]