The show is so wrapped up in moving the needle of apparently outrageous behavior that it never does anything but repeat itself.

With no other likable characters and a thin premise, Allen Gregory seems as one-dimensional as the animation.

Animating [the movie] doesn't actually make it better (or even funny), even if you bring back the original cast to do the voice work.

Two episodes of Sullivan & Son were like watching caricatures of characters you'd seen before (and were equally unfunny then).

The predictability is out in force on this series, and despite CBS' ability to make a hit out of pretty much anything it films, this one doesn't really stand up and make a case for itself.

There’s something plodding and portentous about Rogue, as if it were trying especially hard to be taken seriously, to have the ballast needed to compete with other serious cable dramas.

To call Firefly a vast disappointment is an understatement. Whedon has proven he's capable of brilliance, but this is mere folly.

The poor girl [Bynes] flops around so badly in the pilot, trying to mine laughs from physical comedy and sheer crazed movement, that you want to give her a vacation from the next three episodes.

The jokes in "Twenty" are both predictable and telegraphed.

Sure, it's got some ethically challenged cops, some overt racism, some faux hot sex and what looks to be a lot of money spent on filming on the streets of Los Angeles, but the writing is surprisingly nondescript, the acting rudimentary and the first hour ends with nothing much in the way of movement.

The writing in "Heist" is self-consciously forced, as if the writers are breaking their backs to be quick-witted and clever. It's painful to hear.

Bland and rote.

Let's present some evidence for you to analyze: A tired premise. Overly familiar characters. Dull writing. An unclear tone. A series that pales in comparison to any of the "CSI" shows and pretty much every new crime and punishment procedural in the last five years.

You won't really want to spend another hour with these people.

"E-Ring" is boring.

The premise is only a small part of the problem in "Four Kings." The writing is labored, adolescent and unfunny.

A monumental waste of time.

"Pepper Dennis" is so poorly written that the hokey dialogue not only besmirches journalism, but television journalism, which really takes some serious hackery to accomplish.

"In Justice" is a mess -- and it will take at least two additional episodes to find out which direction the show is going and whether that direction is an improvement.

"Courting Alex" is sadly predictable and unfunny at pretty much every turn.

This is a series that shimmers with potential -- until Dove shows up. Someone at the network must have thought "Free Ride" was too irreverently weird and creatively nuanced, so they made Dove as annoyingly cartoonish as possible.

Luckily, the writing here is so moronic and the situations so forced and mundane, it's easier to dismiss what is, all told, pretty fantastic work on behalf of Galecki and Parsons.

The best that "The Class" can muster is a kind of cookie-cutter familiarity (also known as lameness) that gets prodded by the laugh track to make everyone at home feel like a good time is being had. It's not.

Please say this is entertainment--and nothing more. That might not make it all right, but it would restore a whole lot of faith.

It becomes clear rather quickly that there's nothing funny going on here and, by the second episode, the show seems out of ideas for its paper-thin premise.

The worst offense is that it seems to have been pitched as the male version of you-know-what without any real interest in speaking to the notion of what it means to be a man or, if you'd like, what men think, feel and say.

Mainly Carpoolers uses the cheap conceit of four guys sharing time in the car (confiding in each other, getting away from their troubles at home) to distract you from the fact this is merely another unfunny comedy of forced antics, cliched jokes and unbelievable characters.

Not many women will want to come back after seeing it because the first 30 minutes are a complete and utter mess.