Contributor: Paul Asay

Humans unveils a world in which lifelike robots—Synths—are all the rage.

UPDATED REVIEW: We cannot tell a lie. We’ve been watching Fox’s drama Lie to Me and have written a review of it. Oh, and we don’t like sweetbreads—which are neither sweet nor bread.

A group of young adults flock to L.A. to make it big. To become stars. But judging from the way they act, some of them might actually be from beyond the stars. (Too bad this isn’t a sci-fi series.)

Hope’s small-screen family lives not on Hallmark Avenue but on Fox Street—a neighborhood where The Simpsons look positively well-adjusted.

UPDATED REVIEW: Saturday Night Live alum Tina Fey—who has become an industry “it” girl but a commercial wallflower—packs her dry wit into this self-aware show within a show on NBC. Should you ask her to dance?

UPDATED REVIEW: Royal Pains is one pinch House, three dashes Magnum, P.I. and a whole sloshing bucket load of summer escapism. It’s as deep as a light sunburn, as provocative as a sensible winter coat.

In an age when we can get gluten-free bread, sugar-free candy and fat-free mayonnaise at the grocery store, there’s another “free” trend afoot at ABC: the moral-free, value-free, merit-free sitcom.

UPDATED REVIEW: Just because she’s the good wife doesn’t mean she’s staying home and cleaning the kitchen. She’s a hotshot lawyer, after all, not a domestic engineer. And the question is still open about exactly how good she even is.

UPDATED REVIEW: She may be the new girl, but she’s got the same problems as the old guys.

Is NBC’s latest newsroom sitcom great news for families?

ABC’s ‘Goode Family’ dishes out organically-grown, meat-free satire for our consumption—along with some problematic content.

Forget the Big Apple. New York City—at least the one showcased in this NBC drama—is more akin to a gigantic, juicy passion fruit.

UPDATED REVIEW: Humans get a fresh start on a young Earth populated by dinosaurs. Alas, it doesn’t take us long before we start messing up the place again.

The 1998 novel turned into a 2002 movie now claims a spot on NBC. And it is indeed about a boy … who finds a family (along with some standard sitcom sleaze).

Netflix peers into the lives of a family that’s peerless among the piers that stripe their Florida Keys home.