Contributor: Steven Isaac

MTV says this show is a “smart, refreshingly candid … nuanced and multilayered portrayal of [viewers’] lives.” In Plugged In’s history, we’ve never disagreed more.

This season’s most popular new comedy keeps millions of fans coming back for more by serving up heaping portions of backbiting and insults with sides of randy sexual innuendo and scathing self-deprecation.

Jack Bauer will stop at nothing to save the world—even if he has to torture and kill most of the folks in it. Apparently we’ve updated our review in the nick of time.

Episodes divide time between Bonnie Molloy’s young family and her role hosting a morning TV talk show in Chicago.

Showtime’s cat-and-mouse CIA story is an award show favorite for Best TV Drama. And aesthetically, it should be. But it could also be nominated in a few other, less savory, categories.

UPDATED REVIEW: ABC’s bizarre, beloved show cruises in for a landing after six brain-frying seasons—and we still don’t really know if its sense of spirituality offers viewers a taste of televised redemption … or just another smoke monster.

UPDATED REVIEW: HBO’s take on the undead features raw sex, gory death and fangs-bared vampire intrigue in the deep South. Toto, we’re not in Twilight anymore.

The Amazing Race has already circumnavigated the globe more times than most of us have traveled outside our home states. We’re tagging along this season.

This science series is a reboot of Carl Sagan’s famous PBS show Cosmos: A Personal Voyage. Narrated by astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson, it is an interesting but for many Christians deeply problematic look at our universe.

What happens when Jerry Seinfeld rounds up celebrities to help married couples struggling through matrimonial crises? OK, let’s ask that question another way: Do you really want marriage advice from Alec Baldwin, Tina Fey or Madonna?

MXC, short for Most Extreme Challenge, is known abroad as “Takeshi’s Castle.” It’s a great example of what reality TV could be without its mean streak.

This first original scripted show to arrive on UP may not be gunning for Emmy nods this year. But that’s a good thing.

HBO brags that The Sopranos’ is the most watched cable series ever. Maybe that’s because everybody raves about it so much. But is all the ring-kissing deserved? Hardly.

No horror stories get told here, just Cinderella-style tales of transformation. Tears of joy, shrieks of approval and whistles of adulation are the rewards.

You could say this sitcom is about the blind leading the clueless. But it always ends with a family hug … sometimes literally.