The series is a polished genre exercise with characters that feel like predigested tropes.
Will Emmy finally and mercifully annul its relationship to 30 Rock?
Ultimately, at least in the first few episodes, cancer serves as a handy device to transform an uptight suburban woman into a free spirit.
If Weeds hopes to survive, it needs to fix its one-note performances.
Mad Men’s sojourns to the West Coast have an otherworldly and surreal feel to them.
In this episode we watch both Don and Roger humiliate themselves, yet for seemingly opposite reasons.
It’s not completely original, but there’s currently nothing on TV even remotely like it.
Season four of Mad Men begins by reminding us that the heart of the show will always remain the same.
Who expected the end of the universe to be so much fun?
The show is smart enough to know that vampires, werewolves, and ghosts are more interesting when they exist in our familiar, everyday world.
Mad Men continues to hit its stride most indelibly while rendering the off-kilter uneasiness of transition.
This two-part finale is directed by another of this season’s first-time directors, Toby Haynes.
The decidedly dark and uncomic Murder on the Orient Express is, as the Brits might say, bloody brilliant.
Over the last five seasons of Doctor Who, the week or two just before the big finale has tended to be where the oddball, envelope-pushing episodes turn up.
Judging from its premiere episode, Haven has very little in common with Stephen King’s The Colorado Kid.
The Choir is a reality show about performance that is, refreshingly, not about the attainment of celebrity.
There’s something poignant about Louie, the new FX series starring drolly despondent standup comic Louis C.K.
In the end, it brings us back to reality with the reminder that a condition like depression is not to be negated by one moment of joy.
It was probably inevitable that creator Doug Ellin would shift the focus from the group to the individual.
At heart, Hung is a show about loss.
USA Network says that it puts characters first, but it really means it’s all about attitude.