The overall mythology is sprouting nicely thorny tendrils. [10 Sep 2012, p.42]

The high school stories are tighter-focused, and the Manhattan ones breathe with Broadway romanticism. [5 Nov 2012, p.42]

Branagh is very fine as Wallander. [10 Sep 2012, p.40]

About Face addresses some deeper implications--Gia Carangi's early death is a cautionary tale--but knows better than to over do it. [6 Aug 2012, p.39]

The show is cleverer than you'd expect. [20 Aug 2012, p.41]

Girls can still be Girls. [21 Jan 2013]

The color, pace and performance are vibrant, often crazily so. [10 Sep 2012, p.39]

The melodrama of it all is tasty--a jumbo macaroon. [27 Aug 2012, p.43]

666 Park Avenue remains good Gothic Trash. [26 Nov 2012, p.44]

This new series is a bold military thriller. [8 Oct 2012, p.60]

The Inbetweeners is a companion to the network's hit Awkward. And equally funny. [27 Aug 2012, p.48]

The show is a birdhouse full of woodpeckers. [24 Sep 2012, p.54]

The show works and it's fun. [12 Nov 2012, p.43]

I'll take Hour's rather sour worldview--deadlines in deadly times--over the grand uplift of HBO's The Newsroom. In a nanosecond. [3 Dec 2012, p.44]

[Larry Hagman's last days on the show don't] keep Dallas from being robust fun. [4 Feb 2013, p.42]

It's tense, engrossing, mildly ludicrous--and worth checking out before the Cold War melts. [11 Feb 2013]

An entertainingly sinister dip in the cesspool of 19th century criminality. [21 Jan 2013]

This provocatively, almost boisterously violent thriller bolts into action with a clever premise and sustains it with good, unexpected jolts. [28 Jan 2013, p.43]

Motive isn't ingenious enough to motivate imitations or spinoffs, but it's smooth and diverting. [27 May 2013, p.40]

History's first scripted series is a headlong tumble into an irresistible and surprisingly neglected genre. [18 Mar 2013, p.41]

Preachers' Daughters, focusing on three families headed by ministers, has its hearts in the tight place. [18 Mar 2013, p.42]

The acting is good, especially Bill Skarsgard and Landon Liboiron.... I like the show's languid, dreamlike beauty, but horror fans may be less patient. [22 Apr 2013, p.47]

[Rectify] feels damply airless--the tension might be ripped open at any moment by a thunderclap of revelation.... It's a disturbing, impressive performance [from Aden Young as Daniel]. [13 May 2013, p.49]

A lovely piece of work. [6 May 2013, p.49]

It wouldn't hurt to pick up the pace, but Graceland is a successful move toward true grittiness. [3 Jun 2013, p.43]

Somehow the premiere hour fills in all this background without getting lost and--more importantly--with sincerity and sensitivity. [10 Jun 2013, p.50]

A smoothly executed vehicle for Rebecca Romijn and Jon Tenney, it knows exactly what it's doing, [16 Jun 2013]

As in season 1, the acting is rich and lusty, with no costume-drama fustiness. [15 Jan 2007, p.33]