Contributor: Paul Asay

Paul Asay has been part of the Plugged In staff since 2007, watching and reviewing roughly 15 quintillion movies and television shows. He’s written for a number of other publications, too, including Time, The Washington Post and Christianity Today. The author of several books, Paul loves to find spirituality in unexpected places, including popular entertainment, and he loves all things superhero. His vices include James Bond films, Mountain Dew and terrible B-grade movies. He’s married, has two children and a neurotic dog, runs marathons on occasion and hopes to someday own his own tuxedo. Feel free to follow him on Twitter @AsayPaul.

The Mick

Is it possible that when you add an awful guardian to three fairly awful children, you get something … positive? Not in this case.

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Pan Am

It’s the 1960s, and four stylish stewardesses are the cat’s meow of the literal jet set. They’re on board for adventure and romance, flying toward their dreams on a wing and a—well, a wing, anyway.

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Good Luck Charlie

UPDATED REVIEW: The Disney machine cranks out another same-old-same-old sitcom that’s tween-centric and family-oriented, then uses it to break new ground when it comes to what those families look like.

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Whitney

We don’t know about you, but we’re at our wits’ end when it comes to sitcoms. And NBC’s Whitney doesn’t help one little bit.

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The Mindy Project

When your sitcom is about someone who does bad, inadvisable things, and it will naturally show her doing bad, inadvisable things. (Whether on Fox or Hulu.)

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Adventure Time With Finn & Jake

Adventure Time with Finn and Jake, cartoon, toon, animation, animated,

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Rizzoli & Isles

UPDATED REVIEW: 155 characters or fewer. Does not have to be exactly word for word from review, but can be.

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Watchmen

HBO’s take on this influential DC Comics franchise offers a wincing, razor-sharp critique of racism and societal conflict.

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Mr. Mom

When dad steps into mom’s role at home, scatological, child-focused hijinks soon follow.

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Samantha Who?

Just how different is old Samantha from new Samantha? Christina Applegate hopes you’ll want to find out.

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Insatiable

This Netflix show feels incredibly unseemly: A guilty pleasure with extra guilt, hold the pleasure.

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Heartland

While the TV landscape has been getting drenched in blood and its inhabitants consumed by lust, this gentle Canadian drama takes us all back to the family ranch, both literally and figuratively.

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13 Reasons Why

13 Reasons Why may, unintentionally, romanticize suicide for some teens, even though that’s not the show’s intent.

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Scream Queens

Scream Queens is what you’d get if Jason, Freddie and Michael Myers all pledged to a 21st-century version of Animal House.

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American Dad

UPDATED REVIEW: Seth MacFarlane is not known for his restraint. But American Dad may give us MacFarlane at his most foul.

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