Contributor: Paul Asay

Grimm is yanking fables out of their magical garden by the roots and slapping them down in the middle of a cookie-cutter cop procedural.

Vince Faraday is no superhero. He’s just a guy with a cape, trying to catch bad guys, rescue his reputation and get back to his wife and son. Oh, and maybe help his new pals rob a couple of banks along the way.

These seaworthy heroes are usually, well, heroic. Indeed, The Last Ship swings wide of the prickly antihero trend so in vogue today.

Not many cucumbers or tomatoes would be all that appetizing after 24 years. But Larry and Bob are still ripe for the watching.

The Hot Zone is often horrifying and occasionally nauseating. But it could’ve been far worse.

Josh treats his neighbors like family. Why? Because that’s what they are in a sitcom that’s both sweet and rough around the edges.

Well, at least ABC Family got the name right.

We’re sure there are folks who live in the 90210 area code who have solid families, strong values and wear their purity rings without irony. They don’t make it onto this tawdry retread of a show, though.

Jack Bauer is back, ready to give more than he gets in another day of gorrific world-saving mayhem.

Friends with the best lives don’t let friends with any sort of lives watch Friends With Better Lives.

Legendary comedian Robin Williams returns to the small screen. Is that a good thing?

The Last O.G. might be one of the last things you’d want to flip on with kids in the room.

It seems disingenuous to say this show will help people wrestle with their faith when it revels in so much carnal content.

Vox calls this Amazon series “excruciatingly terrible television.” The L.A. Times says it features “miraculous acting and little else.” Plugged In adds …

AMC’s stylishly noir murder mystery is now on Netflix. It still features a compelling cast of police and suspects and red herring twists. But it paints an even more brutal and heartrending picture of pain and tragedy.