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.

Dig

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.

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666 Park Avenue

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.

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Bunk’d

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

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Smash

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?

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God Friended Me

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

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Signed, Sealed, Delivered

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

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Orange Is the New Black

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

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Revolution

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.

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Weeds

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?

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Portlandia

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.

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The Worst Witch

Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry isn’t the only place a magically inclined kid can get a solid education.

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Pen15

While this show is obviously written about middle school, it’s intended for adults—and it gets very adult indeed.

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My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic

Like the title says, there are little ponies, there is friendship and there is magic. And that charmed combination has helped make this Hub Network series one of pop culture’s most unexpected success stories.

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Kevin Can Wait

Kevin Can Wait may be the kind of show some of us have been waiting for.

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Zoo

Be wary of Fido. Step lightly around Snowball. You can’t even trust your goldfish these days. For the animals, it’s payback time.

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