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.

Inside Amy Schumer

Amy Schumer is one of the hottest comedians on the scene circa 2015. But she’s one of the foulest, too.

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Catherine the Great

HBO’s dramatic portrait of this Russian empress gives 18th-century debaucher a 21st-century makeover.

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The Colony

This Discovery Channel program is positioned as a post-apocalyptic experiment, with 10 volunteers serving as Guinea pigs.

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Heroes Reborn

Heroes Reborn gives us a whole bunch of colorful superhuman characters, but it cares far more about their super-ness than their human-ness.

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Unbelievable

Unbelievable tells a gripping, horrific story and tells it well. But it shows us and forces us to feel it, too

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House

UPDATED REVIEW: You want Dr. Gregory House around when you stop breathing or can’t stop bleeding. But he’s a lousy dinner guest.

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Black Jesus

Jesus hung out with sinners all the time. But He never sinned. Cartoon Network’s Black Jesus, on the other hand, hangs out with sinners and sins with them.

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Bones

UPDATED REVIEW: While the show may feel in some ways “lighter” than some of its procedural pals over on CBS, the camera’s certainly not shy about showing us all things dead.

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The Michael J. Fox Show

Michael J. Fox is back on TV full-time, talking honestly and humorously about Parkinson’s in this NBC sitcom. Are his antics something your family should be tied to?

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Everything Sucks!

If only this Netflix’s show’s main failing was its tone-deaf sense of nostalgia. Alas, that’s just the beginning.

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Allegiance

Alex O’Connor just got a plum job as a CIA analyst, and his higher-ups tell him he has a bright future. Hmmm. Maybe the Americans don’t know his parents are Russian spies.

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Pandora

This CW show is bad. Just plain bad. But in terms of its content, it’s not as bad as it could be.

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Greek

ABC Family’s ‘Greek’ fits right in with the cable network’s don’t-expect-traditional-values slogan, ‘A new kind of family.’

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Happy Town

ABC’s Happy Town is anything but—not with kids going missing, a killer on the loose and gallons of blood being shed.

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Catastrophe

This show’s title is fitting in more ways than one.

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