POSTED // Feb 2,2012 - What does TV need? More singing shows! Fortunately, Smash isn’t The Voice, American Idol, The X Factor (remember that?) or even Glee. OK, it’s a little like Season 1 Glee (deft mix of humor, drama and music)

POSTED // Jan 26,2012 - The long, weird trip of Spartacus continues—after one proper season, one slapped-together “prequel” season, one deceased star and The Fate of Starz Original Programming riding on it all, how does Vengeance stack up?

POSTED // Jan 19,2012 - H. Jon Benjamin’s other series, Fox’s Bob’s Burgers and Comedy Central’s Jon Benjamin Has a Van, are nice additions to the résumé, but he’s likely never going to top Archer ...

POSTED // Jan 12,2012 - Season Premiere: What to know about Season 3 of Justified: U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens (Timothy Olyphant) is watching his back for Bennetts more than ever after the death of family figurehead Mags ...

POSTED // Jan 5,2012 - The former Independent Film Channel is rebranding itself as a hipster destination point and, fittingly ironic, the hipster-skewering Portlandia has become its flagship series … get it?

POSTED // Dec 29,2011 - Breaking Bad (AMC) Easy. Wannabe meth kingpin Walt (Bryan Cranston) took a back seat to the rest of Breaking Bad’s players for most of Season 4—in particular, letting soul-adrift partner Jesse (Aaron Paul) and vengeful badass Gus (Giancarlo Esposito) gun the car into white-knuckle oblivion. The final face-off (ha!) didn’t take everyone out, but it sets up what should be both an explosive and implosive last run in 2012.

POSTED // Dec 22,2011 - True TV's annual holday-classic cartoon

POSTED // Dec 15,2011 - The Only TV Column That Matters™ doesn’t automatically proclaim that everything on TruTV is rehashed crap just because the Time Warner-owned network with better lawyers than me

POSTED // Dec 8,2011 - This weekend, the Syphilis Channel, er, Syfy, will unleash its 500th (give or take) original movie, the brilliantly titled Snowmageddon (Saturday, Dec. 10). Get this: It’s about a magical snow g

POSTED // Dec 1,2011 - Nine episodes in, Revenge has evolved from what initially looked like a weak Hamptons mashup of The Count of Monte Cristo, Gossip Girl and a Neiman Marcus catalog into a surprisingly smart (but still juicy)