[It] looks to be a season of solid suspense. [30 Jan 2006, p.37]

The second half builds steadily and surely toward a potential meet-and-greet with the apocalypse. [12 Dec 2005, p.39]

The quickened pulse is a plus: The violence registers as sharp, stinging slaps. [11 Dec 2006, p.41]

The best thing from Season 1 remains the same: Mary-Louise Parker. [21 Aug 2006, p.37]

A diverting, silly potboiler, a bold cartoon with none of the staffers' anxious beetle scuttling that gives NBC's venerable The West Wing a sense of verisimilitude. [3 Oct 2005, p.39]

Emily Deschanel is well cast as Brennan--she has the right sort of drained, remote presence, as if still working off last night's sleeping pill--and she's also well cast against David Boreanaz. [19 Sep 2005, p.45]

The banter is warm and fast and easy, and the sisters' personality types balance out well. [17 Oct 2005, p.39]

Ghost Whisperer can be surprisingly moving. [24 Oct 2005, p.41]

It's not clear how seriously Patinkin takes the whole thing--it's the same actorly mystery that makes David Caruso's whispery bitterness such a kick on CSI: Miami. [31 Oct 2005, p.39]

Hot Properties has a loose, engaging silliness. [31 Oct 2005, p.39]

Horror isn't my thing, but this is pretty good. [7 Nov 2005, p.41]

Unlike Daily anchorman Jon Stewart, he's not only ridiculing the headlines but mocking himself. This is closer to acting than comedy, and it may be tougher. But Stephen Colbert is a great American and deserves our support. And suppore. [7 Nov 2005, p.41]

It gets an unexpected freshness from a young cast. [5 Mar 2007, p.37]

Just about perfect in its way--always fun, well-paced--and much, much better than UPN's failed models drama South Beach. [1 May 2006, p.39]

The Class doesn't necessarily generate more laughs than other sitcoms, but it has more charm--like a kinder, gentler How I Met Your Mother--and that's incentive enough to stick with it. [16 Oct 2006, p.39]

Woods is every bit as entertaining as he strives to be. [25 Sep 2006, p.43]

The pyrotechnics involved in the opening heist are good, and the cast is a dream. [25 Sep 2006, p.43]

This show has a light, charming sense of the ridiculous. [19 Mar 2007, p.39]

It's a gripper. [25 Sep 2006, p.43]

This is Amazing Race of the damned, with something of the open-ended, Pandora's-box mystery of Lost, and it has the potential for out-there adventure. [23 Apr 2007, p.37]

Of the large, nicely peppered cast, I especially like Vergara, who has some of the vamping yumminess of a Catherine Zeta-Jones. [8 Jan 2007, p.35]

[A] rattling good series. [10 Jul 2006, p.39]

The acting is what keeps the show addictive--particularly good is Julia Stiles. [29 Nov 2010, p.44]

I found 1 vs. 100 much more enjoyable [than Deal Or No Deal]. [23 Oct 2006, p.37]

A satisfyingly meaty drama. [11 Jun 2007, p.41]

These joined stories never forge into one strong plot, but there's always Duvall. [3 Jul 2006, p.35]

The show is a lusty soap opera that aspires to the pulsating, cutting-edge glamour of Cate Blanchett's Elizabeth. It's a little ham-fisted for that. [2 Apr 2007, p.37]

[Forest Whitaker as Sam Cooper is] an arresting, oblique performance, and it works well amid all the procedural muck. [21 Feb 2011, p.42]