POSTED // Mar 8,2012 - If nothing else, Game Change should give you chills over the bullet ’Merica dodged in rejecting the Sarah Palin/John McCain Republican presidential bid three years ago.

POSTED // Mar 1,2012 - Series Debut: TV critics are all a-flutter in their Dockers over NBC’s weepy new fantasy/crime drama Awake, about a police detective (Jason Isaacs) who, after a car accident,

POSTED // Feb 23,2012 - Season Premiere: Mitchell the dirty Irish vampire is gone, as is Nina the she-werewolf; her werewolf boyfriend/baby daddy, George (Russell Tovey), is on his way out

POSTED // Feb 16,2012 - Season Premiere: It’s the last inning for the biggest ego in baseball, the fantastically mulleted Kenny Powers (Danny McBride)

POSTED // Feb 9,2012 - Is the so-called History Channel’s new Mudcats nothing more than a clone of Animal Planet’s inexplicably popular Hillbilly Handfishin’?

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?