POSTED // Apr 5,2012 - In the second new midseason series wherein ABC is afraid to use “bitch” in the title, Krysten Ritter (still best-known as Jesse’s ODed girlfriend in Season 2 of Breaking Bad) stars as the untrustworthy B

POSTED // Mar 22,2012 - The Season 4 finale of Mad Men aired (cabled?) Oct. 17, 2010—17 months ago! Squint hard and remember: Don (Jon Hamm) had impetuously proposed to his much, much younger secretary, Megan (Jessica Paré)...

POSTED // Mar 15,2012 - It’s only been off the air for three months; you’d think NBC dropped a truckload of babies into a cage full of puppies and then fed them all to a pit of snakes (I’ve just anchored your summer schedule, TLC—you’re welcome).

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?