OK, so I'm having a real problem with the idea that Bridget could get away with this switch for even one second. If you can look past that, you'll still have to deal with a story so dense it takes a couple long expositional scenes to explain it all.

In order to fully appreciate SOA, viewers have to buy into Sutter's premise that murderers can be sympathetic and heroic, but that's not hard to do with such intelligent writing and so many mesmerizing performances.

All in all, A Royal Romance offers some OK acting of a dull story.

The smartly written series throws a lot of information, historical context, beautiful sets and costumes at viewers early on to create what eventually becomes a first-rate thriller.

There isn't anything too deeply intellectual here because the action moves the plot. And "Strike Back" has action to spare.

True Blood works best when its freak flag flies--as long as its core characters are along for the ride.

Ugly Americans can be gross and bizarre, but everything makes sense in the world that it has created.

The show still feels like it's coasting off the success of those super-charged early seasons.

The visual style pours as much emotional juice into the boiling, moody brew that Gilligan cooks up as his actors' searing performances do.

Tonally, it's all over the place.

It's a credit to Popper that the running gags seem fresh and funny every time, and that he can mine so much humor from a weekly dinner. But as long as he does, I'll have the table set.

Necessary Roughness hasn't scored a touchdown yet, but it's early in the game.

Stuffed with absurd situations and piles of bad taste, Wilfred is the strangest new show on TV. And the funniest.

Falling Skies, although competently directed, acted and sometimes written, goes off on more than a few tangents and paint-by-numbers subplots of the genre. It's best when it sticks to the main thread, and that's the battle for survival and to learn what the six-legged freaks are doing with the children.

The mockumentary soars more than it crash lands.

The Glee Project feels like an exercise in ego for the folks running the show. There's a whole lot of playing to the camera going on amongst the professionals, especially from choreographer Zach Woodlee and Murphy himself.