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.

The Goode Family

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

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Lipstick Jungle

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.

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Terra Nova

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.

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About a Boy

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).

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Bloodline

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

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13 Reasons Why (Season 2)

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

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Extant

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

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American Pickers

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.

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Magnum P.I.

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

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Sherlock

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.

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The Fall

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.

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Rescue Me

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.”

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10 Things I Hate About You

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

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The First

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 …

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The Neighbors

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.

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