Through three episodes, there are enough funny, frustrating, sad and beautiful moments to make me hope Treme sticks around for a while.

Well, let's hope the show gets better after the pilot episode.

Justified is well-written and well-produced, so it would be good with any decent actor in its lead role. But the show got Timothy Olyphant for the role, and the match could not be any more perfect.

The Pacific never feels like anything less than a cohesive whole. It's really a remarkable piece of television. I know what I'm doing for the next 10 Sunday nights.

Its first two episodes do give the show a very strong foundation on which to build.

Eventually, the series makes way for just enough plot to give our poor, overstimulated eyes a rest. There's a bit of political maneuvering, fierce rivalries, the examination of slavery vs. free will, ludus-yard hazing and even romance.

Despite being populated with likable actors giving mostly solid performances, it's hard to escape the feeling that you've seen this before.

It's a somewhat old-fashioned and pretty kick-ass hour of TV, with great action sequences in the first two episodes and, probably more important, well-turned performances by its three regulars: Mark Valley, Chi McBride and Jackie Earle Haley.