Contributor: Paul Asay

The first controversial season of 13 Reasons Why generated plenty of controversy. This one might just stir up even more.

This summer sci-fi series is a surprisingly daring show for a network that has thrived for years on crime procedurals and salacious comedies.

Mike and Frank look to turn people’s trash into other people’s treasures—and make a bit of coin for themselves in the process.

A rollicking adventure that gives viewers an hour-long diversion without giving them nightmares.

No matter how many times this detective seems to die, he keeps coming back—on both sides of the big pond and on all sizes of screens.

The X-Files’ Gillian Anderson is in another creepy drama. But instead of chasing aliens on Fox, she’s hunting a sexually sadistic serial killer in a broodingly dark Irish series.

UPDATED REVIEW: Asked if the channel ever told him to stop pushing boundaries so hard, Denis Leary said, “No, FX is absolutely the best group of people I have ever worked with. All they do is ask us to push the envelope even further.”

An ABC Family series based on the movie based (loosely) on Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew.

Are we there yet? Everyone who’s ever taken kids on a road trip has heard that before. Parents everywhere are familiar with the whining and crying, the queries to stop for ice cream, the pleas to get to a bathroom. And then, after what seems like hours …

Strong fences make for good neighbors, they say. But for every rule’s there’s an exception. And the exception to this one has to do with … aliens.

Every small town harbors its share of secrets. But Midnight has more than most.

UPDATED REVIEW: Murder She Wrote for Gen Xers, this mystery sendup is loaded with screwball comedy, deadpan delivery and obscure ’80s references.

Well, not exactly. But close enough for Fox’s comedy standards. (Which won’t necessarily be yours.)

Is GCB trying to demean your faith? Or just the “faith” of its characters? And how much does it even matter when there are so many other reasons not to give much weight to what it thinks?

While the twists and turns might be different, the problematic content is much the same.