The series is a polished genre exercise with characters that feel like predigested tropes.
Dexter is such a darkly comic and self-aware show that its creators would joke about how far from cutting edge it is.
On and on it trundles, and the busier it gets the duller it is.
If countless comic books and superhero movies haven’t made it clear enough for you yet: Having super powers can be kind of a drag.
Some Mad Men episode titles are more difficult to decipher than others.
Luckily, stars Boris Kodjoe and Gugu Mbatha-Raw have more than enough charisma to spare and that’s about 90% of what makes TV tick.
Justin Halpern’s life must be awful.
Cougar Town has all the memorable wit of Bill Lawrence’s previous series, Scrubs, minus the inner monologues.
It’s a mistake, albeit an easy one, to compare Boardwalk Empire to The Sopranos.
Like the original series on which it’s based, Hawaii 5-0 knows exactly what it is: a testosterone-heavy mix of bromance and gunplay.
What happens when you take a family from the Witness Protection Program, move them to New York City, and give them their own reality show?
Its greatest challenge is usually avoiding becoming muddled and weighed down by its many interwoven thematic threads.
In season six, It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia continues to hit its tsk-tsk-inducing stride.
For the umpteenth time this season, Don has thrown himself into a drinking binge, precipitated by an urgent call from Anna’s family in California that he can’t bring himself to return.
If you’ve watched any of the previous incarnations of La Femme Nikita, prepare to be disappointed by the new CW version, Nikita.
Outside of the flashbacks, Mad Men gets a little meta on Emmy weekend by making Don’s winning an advertising award (a Clio) a major plot point.
Just ignore the subplot about Lewis and Hobson struggling to get to the opera to see The Fairy-Queen and you’ll be riveted.
As usual, it’s Pete who is most eager to prove that the need to consume crosses all social barriers.
Cast members O’Dowd, Parkinson, and Berry took time from rehearsal last spring to chat with Slant about making The IT Crowd.
With age comes immaturity.
The early going of Mad Men’s fourth season has given us a whole lot of Don Draper and his nonstop cycle of disintegration and reinvention.