Contributor: Paul Asay

We talk a lot about our American penchant for stuff and how we can’t ever get enough of it. But for some people, that’s not hyperbole: It’s reality. And it makes for very sad reality TV.

Can Napoleon Dynamite blow up TVs like he did movie screens back in 2004? Or will he end up getting squished like a pocketful of tater tots?

Based on a handful of masochistic Japanese game shows, Wipeout pits colorful contestants against cartoonish obstacle courses.

UPDATED REVIEW: When MTV premiered The Hard Times of RJ Berger in 2010, network general manager Stephen Friedman said it “speaks to where we need to go as a network.” Awkward. now puts punctuation on his statement.

Wil, Amberle and Eretria want to protect the Four Lands from the Forbidding darkness. But their show already has its own demons to deal with.

This exceptionally silly show is surprisingly good, too—and in more ways than one.

A horse, a horse! My kingdom for a horse to drag this horrible show away! Or maybe write a better one! With its hooves! (Signed, Mary, Queen of Scots)

The glimmer of hope in all this dimness? Mr. Gordon, of course, the guy with the super-flashlight.

Some people raise chickens. Others raise ferrets. On this new ABC dramedy, Ned raises the dead.

We don’t hate this show. We don’t use the word hate around here. It’s a negative word, and we try to steer clear of negativity. Unlike this show. Which we’re trying really, really hard not to … well, you know.

UPDATED REVIEW: Do the Amish really have their own mafia? Discovery says yes. So what follows here is a lesson in not believing everything you see on TV.

In an era of antiheroes and salacious excess, Netflix’s Lost in Space reboot strives for something brave: being a family show.

While the Meyerists pride themselves on their self-control, this Hulu series shows very little.

Frankly, if I knew that I had six months left before an asteroid hit, I wouldn’t spend my time watching this show.

Four CIA agents take on turbaned terrorists, international spies and their own agency’s red tape in this mash-up of The A-Team and The Office.