Contributor: Paul Asay

This prequel to The Croods is more of a roughly animated Hanna-Barbera show than a well-rounded movie.

FX and Marvel have teamed up on Legion, the tale of a tormented antihero whose story feels more like a horror movie than a comic book.

The “mature audiences” label this Netflix superhero show bears can be largely attributed to the immaturity of its central character.

Dr. Megan Hunt is a brilliant forensic scientist doing her best to balance her professional and personal lives … while trying to catch the bad guys, of course. Wait—haven’t we seen this before?

No longer Lost, Josh Holloway’s gone from chasing smoke monsters to collaring terrorists—with the help of a nifty computer chip inside his head. He’s smarter for it … but the show is not.

UPDATED REVIEW: Something’s rotten in the town of Charming. It’s not the apricots, we can tell you that. But it just might have something to with all those hogs out on the road.

UPDATED REVIEW: Yet another New York City cop show on CBS … that somehow manages to focus on family just as much as felons.

Hell on Wheels has the feel of those old 19th-century dime novels—with the addition of as much sex and violence as AMC felt it could cram into a TV-14 rating.

UPDATED REVIEW: Disney’s new sitcom doesn’t shake free from the Mouse House’s temperate template … but it still may leave parents shaking their heads.

A certain segment of Netflix’s subscribers like pure, unambiguous trash, right?

Rookie Blue may have outlived its title, but it’s still trying to walk that thin line between good guys and bad guys (not to mention good TV and bad TV).

History geeks might appreciate the feel of this Netflix drama. But lessons about the complexity and surprising liberality of Kublai Khan’s age-old Far East civilization are learned at one’s personal peril here.

Nashville suggests love and forgiveness can go a long way to curing the world’s ills. It’s a shame the show requires plenty of forgiveness itself.

Mysteries surround Anubis House like a fog: How can a student just disappear? Is the new American girl responsible? Is there treasure hidden in the house? What’s up with that stuffed crow? And, most importantly, Why in the world do my children want to watch this silliness?

HBO’s ambitious series mixes fractious fiction with sordid fact—presenting an Atlantic City history filled with colorful and ruthless crime bosses most of us have heard of.