Contributor: Paul Asay

Paul Asay has been part of the Plugged In staff since 2007, watching and reviewing roughly 15 quintillion movies and television shows. He’s written for a number of other publications, too, including Time, The Washington Post and Christianity Today. The author of several books, Paul loves to find spirituality in unexpected places, including popular entertainment, and he loves all things superhero. His vices include James Bond films, Mountain Dew and terrible B-grade movies. He’s married, has two children and a neurotic dog, runs marathons on occasion and hopes to someday own his own tuxedo. Feel free to follow him on Twitter @AsayPaul.

The Millers

Will Arnett’s aging parents get divorced. Funny, right? (CBS wants to know if it helps at all that Beau Bridges plays the dad.)

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The Punisher

Daredevil, for all his flaws, seeks to follow a higher calling. The only calling the Punisher hears is the screams of his victims.

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Pure Genius

This Gray’s Anatomy meets Star Trek CBS medical drama falls somewhat short of its name.

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Longmire

Some of this show’s problems have, perhaps not too surprisingly, gotten worse with its move to Netflix.

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The Jim Gaffigan Show

The Jim Gaffigan Show manages to be both relatively clean and relatively clever—as insightful as Louie can be, but without that show’s raunch.

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Without a Trace

Ironic, isn’t it, that a show named ‘Without a Trace’ never seems to disappear?

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Mars

NatGeo tries to keep Mars within a pretty family-friendly solar system, if not exactly in Plugged In’s orbit.

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Girl Meets World

UPDATED REVIEW: Cory met world, married Topanga, had two kids and became a teacher. Now it’s time to repeat the comedic routine—this time with a girl.

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Person of Interest

Think of Jim Caviezel’s supercomputer sidekick as Santa Claus. It sees all, hears all and calculates all. But is that a good thing or a bad thing?

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The Mick

Is it possible that when you add an awful guardian to three fairly awful children, you get something … positive? Not in this case.

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Pan Am

It’s the 1960s, and four stylish stewardesses are the cat’s meow of the literal jet set. They’re on board for adventure and romance, flying toward their dreams on a wing and a—well, a wing, anyway.

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Good Luck Charlie

UPDATED REVIEW: The Disney machine cranks out another same-old-same-old sitcom that’s tween-centric and family-oriented, then uses it to break new ground when it comes to what those families look like.

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Whitney

We don’t know about you, but we’re at our wits’ end when it comes to sitcoms. And NBC’s Whitney doesn’t help one little bit.

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The Mindy Project

When your sitcom is about someone who does bad, inadvisable things, and it will naturally show her doing bad, inadvisable things. (Whether on Fox or Hulu.)

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Adventure Time With Finn & Jake

Adventure Time with Finn and Jake, cartoon, toon, animation, animated,

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