Contributor: Paul Asay

Like the show’s charismatic, dysfunctional antihero, this twisty USA drama is difficult to embrace.

You’ve heard about the ‘good cop, bad cop’ routine, right? Fox’s New Orleans-based police drama has a whole new take on it.

Power corrupts. And the more power you want, Netflix says, the more corrupt you have to be to get it.

Netflix supplies viewers of this gritty drug-trade drama with a steady stream of graphic, gratuitous imagery.

Just how many bleak shows fronted by flawed antiheroes does television really need?

USA unearths a 10-episode thriller set in Jerusalem and predicated on end-of-the-world prophecies. Things get a bit dirty in the process.

New Yorkers sometimes joke that you need to sell your soul to get into a good apartment building. In this soapy, silly and salacious drama from ABC, that might be the literal truth.

In an age when television programs love to push envelopes, Touched by an Angel creator Martha Williamson would rather deliver them.

A prison sentence isn’t actually such a bad idea for this Netflix dramedy.

UPDATED REVIEW: What kind of violent choas might the world sink into if we suddenly lost power? This J.J. Abrams series will happily make use of your steadily flowing electricity so you can find out.

It almost feels like the Mouse House’s sitcom pitch meeting was mysteriously overrun by Garbage Pail Kids.

UPDATED REVIEW: As much as NBC might want you to believe otherwise, Smash is not Glee. So why is it we aren’t feeling good about that?

It feels old-fashioned but does something that’s cutting-edge rare: It treats faith as a source of goodness.

UPDATED REVIEW: Showtime’s dark, pot-fueled satire garners a lot of buzz and relatively high ratings. Does it have medicinal value? Or should TV viewers just say no?

Comedians Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein spearhead this witty, cogent sketch comedy show. But when it goes bad, not even putting a bird on it can help.