I am happy to report that this series remains a 100-percent authentic, white-knuckled hair-raiser. [24 Oct 2002]

OK - so plausibility is not this show's strong suit. It never has been. This show is about suspense, action and violence. And, as a look at the show's first four hours reveals, all three have been taken up several notches in the series' sixth season.

For better or worse, The Shield set the standard for what is now permissible on basic cable. It's one of those shows I can't imagine living without.

One of the finest TV shows ever made.

This new 10-episode season boasts the same high quality of production that this series has always exhibited.

Its scripts - always among the finest on TV - are even stronger this time around.

The [first two episodes] are filled with mystery, suspense, action and the lush greenery of Hawaii, where the show is filmed. Be there. Aloha.

A wall-to-wall weepfest.

Both "The Closer" and Saving Grace are at the top of their games in tonight's premiere episodes.

If you check out Mad Men tonight, I guarantee you'll be back next week.

Where most of the new shows I've been forced to sit through lately do just about everything wrong, Gilmore Girls gets most of the fundamentals right, especially the acting and writing. [5 Oct 2000, p.95]

That rare TV show that comes to the air fully formed, as if everyone involved has been working together forever, instead of just a few weeks.

"Huff" is one of the best dramas on TV and easily the best one airing currently on pay cable.

Kretschmann... delivers one of the finest performances seen on TV this year.

It is no small feat to pull off the trick of interweaving so many characters and storylines, but the producers of "Six Degrees"... have accomplished it with admirable smoothness for a series that is just getting under way.

"Dexter" is a proficiently produced crime drama. Its best feature is its star, Michael C. Hall, who applies just the right touch to playing the nice, polite serial killer who lives next door.

You should be there on Sunday night to see the premiere of something new and hilarious, and completely different.

While this Sunday's premiere gets the season started a bit slowly, Episode Two is the rarest kind of TV show there is - one that you hope will never end.

It's really a great movie, like a modern-day version of an old Judy Garland-Mickey Rooney picture in which the kids put on a show that improves the lives of all who see it.

Bobulova is delightful to watch, playing the younger Coco as winsome, stubborn, independent and gifted. MacLaine, seen always with a cigarette between two fingers, has less screen time, but she commands every minute in which she appears.

Titled Carrier, this series from Mel Gibson's Icon Productions might be the most candid look at everyday life on board a U.S. warship in wartime that has ever been filmed.

If they can maintain that level of intelligence, then John Doe stands a chance of becoming the kind of special series - like "The Fugitive" and "The Prisoner" - that people will talk about for years to come.

When I was watching the first three episodes of "Heroes" provided by NBC, I couldn't wait for Hiro's scenes, which is not to say you should dismiss the rest of the characters on "Heroes."

The show has loads of energy and charm, which is a necessity for a series whose storylines are not only implausible but, at times, not even remotely believable.

While Carell is sometimes guilty of overselling his character's eccentricities, his exuberance is offset by a laidback cast - including John Krasinski, Jenna Fischer and Rainn Wilson (of "Six Feet Under") - whose deadpan reactions to their boss make for some of this show's best moments. [24 Mar 2005, p.130]

"Battlestar" is many cuts above the usual outer-space shoot-'em-up.

Project Runway is a lot like "The Flintstones"--with both shows, you're guaranteed a gay old time.

Tracking the many ways in which reality converges with fiction is one of the principal pleasures of Entourage, which otherwise explores some pretty well-worn territory in its new season.