These shows prove the marathon-watching juggernaut’s concern for both quantity and quality.
Due to its indiscreet mishandling of what’s real and what isn’t, Wilfred simply asks too much of its audience.
As always, Louie C.K. has feelers for those emotional undercurrents that aren’t often remarked on in popular art
Only one line anywhere in this show manages to ring true, and for an unintended reason: “This is what we in therapy call a train wreck.”
Aaron Sorkin’s back with another dreamy bit of wish fulfillment.
Futurama continues to be a more consistently well-assembled program than current-era The Simpsons.
Inside Men very nearly teaches the proverbial old dog new tricks.
Television often amounts to a test of loyalties.
Alan Ball should leave the handwringing to the kids in Twilight.
Over the course of Desperate Housewives’s eight-year run, the behind-the-scenes drama has often threatened to overshadow the series itself.
Believe it or not, Adventure Time is growing up, and at a fairly considerable clip.
After last week’s thematically spastic episode, it’s refreshing to see that a simple and direct, albeit unambitious, theme unites the various plot strands here.
David Benioff and D.B. Weiss try too hard to introduce an elemental aspect to Game of Thrones’s focus on the nature of power.
The Big C has never really been a show about cancer, but rather one whose story takes place in the context of the disease.
The second season of Game of Thrones really hit its stride tonight with “Garden of Bones.”
It’s perhaps a sign of Veep’s realism that the new HBO comedy feels a lot like a receptacle.
Despite its various flights of inspiration, The Ricky Gervais Show is too settled into a predictable groove.
With tonight’s episode, the writers of Game of Thrones continue the trend of organizing each episode of season two around a different theme.
The major criticism of Justified’s third season is that it’s included a few too many plot elements.
Lenda Dunham takes pains to debase her charactyers, and makes them both funnier and more recognizably human in the process.
The series isn’t jaw-droppingly hilarious, but the writing is self-assured and full of punchy, Tweetable one-liners.