Contributor: Paul Asay

Paul Asay has been part of the Plugged In staff since 2007, watching and reviewing roughly 15 quintillion movies and television shows. He’s written for a number of other publications, too, including Time, The Washington Post and Christianity Today. The author of several books, Paul loves to find spirituality in unexpected places, including popular entertainment, and he loves all things superhero. His vices include James Bond films, Mountain Dew and terrible B-grade movies. He’s married, has two children and a neurotic dog, runs marathons on occasion and hopes to someday own his own tuxedo. Feel free to follow him on Twitter @AsayPaul.

Orphan Black

This Canadian show’s gray-obsessed content just keeps getting darker.

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Alphas

Will the Alphas fight each other … or us regular humans? Or maybe they’ll just change their name to X-Men and call it a day.

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Grimm

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.

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The Cape

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.

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Defiance

It’ll be a brave new world around here in the year 2046. Should we be fighting for it or against it?

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Duck Dynasty

UPDATED REVIEW: Sure, this may be part of what some call “redneck television.” But when it comes to family, the Robertsons are true blue.

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Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp

The only reason this show exists is to pay homage to one of 2001’s least-watched and most poorly reviewed sex comedies.

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The Whispers

The Whispers is a creepy supernatural serial that’s not particularly innovative or creative, but it’s not unwatchable, either.

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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

These heroes in a half shell are back, this time on Nickelodeon via a new computer-animated show. And they’ve still never met a baddie they didn’t want to beat up.

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Twisted

Well, at least ABC Family got the name right.

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90210

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.

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24: Live Another Day

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

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Friends With Better Lives

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

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The Crazy Ones

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

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The Last O.G.

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

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