Contributor: Paul Asay

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: Stricken with lung cancer, Walt wants to make sure his wife and disabled son have enough money to live on when he’s dead and gone. So he starts cooking meth for a fast payday … which may well put him six feet under a whole lot faster than the cancer.

Sean Bean plays, well, actually a whole lot of characters in this TNT thriller where things are not always quite what they seem. Except for the violence and the sex and the swearing, of course. Those things are exactly what they seem.

What does it look like when a show within a show gets too big for its home? Well, exactly like what happened when Disney Channel’s So Random! blasted free from Sonny With a Chance.

According to Suburgatory, the suburbs are soulless, zombie-like places devoid of creativity, warmth and life. Hmmm. Kinda like this show.

Because we all love going to the dentist so much, Nickelodeon has formulated an entire Claymation show based on a traveling doctor of dentistry. The result is a ‘root canal’ of epic proportions. Without Novocain.

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.