Contributor: Paul Asay

This HBO miniseries helmed by five-time Oscar nominee Amy Adams may inflict its own share of scars.

UPDATED REVIEW: It’s been well more than THREE-0 years now since the original, but it’s nowhere near time for another tropical crime spree.

UPDATED REVIEW: This “new kind of family” show might just be called that because so many of its teen characters are starting families of their own.

Billed as a cross between Gilmore Girls and Juno, CW’s Life Unexpected could have also been called Series Unexpected—for both good and bad reasons.

Follow your dreams, we’re told over and over again on TV. But it’s hard to make it to the big time all by yourself. Which is why TV is helping us out … on The Voice, So You Wanna Dance, The Biggest Loser and now NFL superstar Kurt Warner’s new USA series The Moment.

Raised by wolves? Gary and Joel wish they had it so good. No, they’re raising themselves, and the results are enough to raise the hackles on anyone.

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?