Contributor: Paul Asay

It’s a show in which every bad decision comes with a grand musical number, where the pitch may be perfect but the content leaves us feeling flat

UPDATED REVIEW: ABC’s bizarre, beloved show cruises in for a landing after six brain-frying seasons—and we still don’t really know if its sense of spirituality offers viewers a taste of televised redemption … or just another smoke monster.

Believe it or not, this NBC series isn’t actually a spin-off of the 1990s hit that also used Friends as a title. Neither is it a continuation of the 2011 film sharing the same name. What is it, then? We were afraid you’d ask that.

Glee’s Ryan Murphy drops a comedic IED right into the middle of the current cultural fight over “family.”

Cartoon Network gives us a not-so-Dark Knight in its latest Batman cartoon. Are the streets of Gotham finally free from the gloom that’s been hovering over them?

Charlie Sheen left for one reason. Angus T. Jones left for quite another. Now fans of Two and a Half Men will have to leave too. Finally. And thankfully.

In terms of its worldview, Rick and Morty is The Simpsons as written by Nietzshe, shortly after he went insane.

This science series is a reboot of Carl Sagan’s famous PBS show Cosmos: A Personal Voyage. Narrated by astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson, it is an interesting but for many Christians deeply problematic look at our universe.

The television is awash in crime procedurals. Fake crime procedurals. So it’s a bit unique to see a series dedicated to real ones. But is that a good thing or a bad thing? Maybe both.

ABC’s new vehicle for country music icon Reba McEntire is itself a little like a country music song: It aims for the heart but sometimes hits below the belt.

UPDATED REVIEW: The underworld hasn’t been blown off the Avatar map as if by an airbender. It’s just been transplanted into a more steampunk scenario.

CBS is desperate to attract younger viewers, and it’s not above launching programming based on a profane Twitter feed to do so. The result? A formulaic sitcom starring a nearly 80-year-old actor.

ABC’s spy spoof is vacuous, escapist fare … that’s still plenty violent.

Degrassi, in its various incarnations, has been around far longer than any of its tween and teen fans. And so have the very “adult” subjects it routinely explores—and exploits.

Thin ties and thick smoke. Strong martinis and weak hearts. It’s a mad, mad, mad, mad world where men are men and women are secretaries.