Contributor: Paul Asay

Right down the road from the town of Twin Peaks and a stone’s throw, it would seem, from Transylvania is the tacky toon territory of Gravity Falls.

UPDATED REVIEW: Life in the gymnastics gym is always a balancing act—literally and figuratively. And this show teeters right along with its characters. So does it make it or break it?

Even if Adam and Andi aren’t perfect parents, they’re actually trying to be parents. And that’s good to see.

Witchcraft. Sex. Teens. Terrible parental role models. This must be a CW show.

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.

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.

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