These shows prove the marathon-watching juggernaut’s concern for both quantity and quality.
If the characters are a bit weak, The Walking Dead still has a compelling scenario going for it.
Laura Dern’s performance deftly encapsulates every facet of Amy’s sadness, anger, and buffoonishness.
These characters love each other and we love them, no matter how much they fuck up.
It makes clear the true nature of the relationship between the Doctor and the woman who has variously infuriated, intrigued, and attracted him for the last several years.
The latter half of The League’s second season began to usher the show into a much edgier style of comedy.
Despite the (largely) fine performances, there’s something a little shallow about American Horror Story.
How to Make It in America dramatizes a particular cultural moment with uncommon style and a little grace as well.
Each season of Dexter has started slow before building momentum, and this season is no exception.
Watching Hung is what I imagine zero-G sex would be like.
Homeland is the perfect show for a post-9/11 America, a nation united not by trust, but by suspicion.
The Cybermen part of the plot is wrapped up fairly quickly, as the Doctor simply walks into their ship and confronts them.
One wonders what the 23rd season of Matt Groening’s series would have to say about the Herbert Walker administration.
Terra Nova’s most wide-ranging appeal will likely be its promise of lifelike dinosaurs scampering around.
It has the advantage of a veritable galaxy of stars at its disposal, but all that sparkle too often comes together as a gaudy mess.
Pan Am exists largely because of the desire for 1960s nostalgia awakened by Mad Men.
Ushering in new, smartly written characters and sculpting them into real people is something the show has perfected in season four.
Whitney isn’t particularly insightful about the lives of the young Americans it represents.
Prime Suspect is arresting and criminally entertaining.
It gives the initial impression that it will be nothing more than a creepy “monster of the week” adventure for the Doctor and his friends.
There isn’t a single interesting person in CBS’s dud-on-arrival Person of Interest.