Contributor: Paul Asay

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.

Amazon brings writer F. Scott Fitzgerald’s final, unfinished work to the small screen … with decidedly mixed results.

Despite its title, Netflix’s newest supernatural romance is far from innocent.

There’s heroism aplenty in this soapy CW superhero show. But Batman would be aghast at the moral ethos of Oliver and his superpals.

WWE’s flagship brand, features a host of beefy brawlers who, week after week, pretend to hammer each other senseless.

UPDATED REVIEW: Charlie Sheen’s FX (and Fox) show ostensibly gives him a new character with a slightly new attitude. But when it comes to content, it’s the same old, same old.

A rogue FBI agent takes a prominent D.C. doctor and her family hostage. The conditions for release? She needs to kill the president. (It’s the kind of show the Joker would green light if he were running a TV network.)

Despite its spiritual-sounding name, Plugged In won’t be recommending this AMC show anytime soon.

UPDATED REVIEW: The infamous Silence of the Lambs serial killer is the main attraction in this NBC danse macabre.

CW’s latest undead drama has legions of vampires, werewolves and witches stalking its plot. Is that really what TV calls “original” these days?

Viewers get more than just a humorously bad babysitter: They also get lots of problematic content when Uncle Buck gets that job.

UPDATED REVIEW: What’s at the top of Top Model’s fashion list? Lust. Indecency. Self-obsession. Destructive spirituality. Outrageous levels of angst and antagonism.

Wouldn’t it be great to have an identical twin? Then you could make her watch this show so you didn’t have to.

Reality television has renovated, revitalized and “saved” restaurants, hotels and homes. Now the National Geographic channel turns its attention to churches.

Veep is far from a civics lesson. It’s not even, really, civil.