Contributor: Paul Asay

This Netflix comedy, from Tina Fey and Robert Carlock, can be crass and dark … and bubbly and optimistic.

Matthew Perry has an interesting job, fun co-workers and a full-blown mid-life crisis. What he could really use, ironically, is a few good friends.

Sandra Bullock played her in The Blind Side. Now Leigh Anne Tuohy is playing herself in a fledgling UP reality show about helping families feel good about adoption.

Trollhunters isn’t a great show, not by any stretch. But it’s far from being a monstrosity.

This socially conscious drama is so woke that makers of caffeine tablets should talk to CBS about branding partnerships.

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.