Contributor: Paul Asay

Netflix gives us a surprisingly thoughtful, provocative dystopian teen drama. Too bad about all the swearing.

It’s a dark, disturbing place these reality show creators are traveling into. And the river’s kinda creepy too.

Detective Michael Britten lives a double life, going to sleep in one and waking in the other. Will he ever figure out which one is real in this police procedural?

You could say that The Strain is in need of a strainer.

What if you saw a vision of what you’d be doing in six months? Would it be a curse? A blessing? And would you see this show in your future?

This explicit Australian Netflix series might be one of the worst exports ever from the land down under.

ABC’s medieval musical comedy is silly and salacious in equal measure, as if The Princess Bride had been scribed by that Family Guy guy.

This Netflix reality series is like Discovery’s Mythbusters—minus the myths but with more busting.

American Gothic wants to be fashionable. But in order to stand out from all the other dark shows out there, it has accessorized with an extra dose of crazy.

OK. Sure. If by perfect NBC means manipulative, mean, neurotic, confused, immoral and isolated from anything at all that might make an actual relationships work.

Interesting doesn’t always equate to spiritually or morally beneficial. And artistically satisfying doesn’t mean a marvelous walk in the park.

Rapper Courtney Rose ran on a platform of cleaning up the city. ABC’s The Mayor might be running a surprisingly similar campaign.

Dominion is Pretty Little Liars mashed up with Kabbalah, a septic spiritual stew of Gossip Girl, Gnosticism and I, Frankenstein.

For better or worse, this quartet of young mothers has become a fixture on the television landscape. … So which is it? Are we better off for Teen Mom? Or worse?

MTV’s Skins is being called “the most dangerous program ever” by the Parents’ Television Council. And nobody’s arguing. Especially not MTV.