Crime, Drama, Sci-Fi/Fantasy
The Defenders

The Defenders is well-written but problematic superhero story. If you’re looking for role models, you’ll have to look elsewhere.

Crime, Drama
Major Crimes

UPDATED REVIEW: Now that The Closer has wrapped, there’s a new captain in charge of L.A.’s major crimes unit. Time …

Comedy, Crime, Drama
Chuck

Chuck was toast last May as its second season limped toward home. But fans weren’t finished. And after they initiated …

Drama
Timeless

Timeless, NBC’s silly new swashbuckler, is all about second guesses.

Crime, Drama, Sci-Fi/Fantasy
Carnival Row

This show’s real monstrosity is its excessive use of language, sex and gore to tell a tale just as interesting …

Comedy, Drama
Ugly Betty

This soapy (sometimes sleazy) series is adapted from a wildly successful Colombian telenovela. Yet amidst its superficiality, there are flashes …

Drama
The O.C.

Welcome to the melodramatic world of the ultra-rich.

Crime, Drama
Five Points

Five Points may be a sign of how television is changing, but I found it a bit … pointless.

Drama, Sci-Fi/Fantasy
Once Upon a Time

This popular ABC series sometimes sets up strong distinctions between good and evil, but it stumbles around in the dark …

Comedy, Drama
Men of a Certain Age

UPDATED REVIEW: On TNT, three long-time friends run headlong into the many trials of being fortysomething. (Full disclosure for all …

Comedy, Crime, Drama
The Good Guys

Odd Couple cops Colin Hanks and Bradley Whitford are stumblin’ onto the streets of Dallas to “bust some bad dudes.”

Drama, Sports
Hellcats

Disney alumni Aly Michalka and Ashley Tisdale migrate to the CW for a sudsy soap centered on the sculpted abs, …

Comedy, Drama
Bunheads

UPDATED REVIEW: The creator of the chick-hit Gilmore Girls returns to television with another show that tries very hard to …

Drama
Switched at Birth

Really solid messages about families and disabilities sometimes get switched out for really lax ones about morality.

Comedy, Drama
Fleabag

Fleabag is bright, engaging, utterly devastating and morally impaired.