NBC's comedy matures from middling civic mockumentary into a smart, hilarious parody of small-town life in America
By Heather Havrilesky Nov 4, 2009
-
No house, no job, no wife! "Broke and Famous: Willie Aames" gives the struggling former star a financial beatdown
By Heather Havrilesky
November 3, 2009
-
Which intergalactic attack is more harrowing: ABC's "V" or HBO's "Curb Your Enthusiasm"?
By Heather Havrilesky
October 31, 2009
-
Offensive? Obnoxious? Sure, but "The League" and "Men of a Certain Age" prove these dudes are entertaining, too
By Heather Havrilesky
October 28, 2009
-
Coach Taylor and his scrappy new team of losers are still cause for celebration during the show's fourth season
By Heather Havrilesky
October 27, 2009
-
From the Voltaggio brothers of "Top Chef" to Don Draper of "Mad Men," grandiosity and swagger make good TV
By Heather Havrilesky
October 24, 2009
-
"Modern Family" springs forward, "FlashForward" falls back, plus "Bored to Death" and "The Good Wife" outperform
By Heather Havrilesky
October 21, 2009
-
Whose isn't? On "The Good Wife" and "Dexter," rotten betrothals make for great drama
By Heather Havrilesky
October 18, 2009
-
Drop the soap! These abusive but self-doubting lotharios are only getting funnier with age
By Heather Havrilesky
October 11, 2009
-
Plus, "Dollhouse" and "Project Runway" replace the devil you know
By Heather Havrilesky
October 4, 2009
-
Suze Orman, "Survivor" villain Russell and "Californication's" Hank Moody prove sweet revenge can make you rich
By Heather Havrilesky
September 27, 2009
-
The Sundance series finds beauty in the intrepid public servants of Newark, N.J.
By Heather Havrilesky
September 20, 2009
-
On TV this fall, token gay replaces token black and Ellen DeGeneres fills Paula Abdul's tiny, wobbly shoes
By Heather Havrilesky
September 13, 2009
-
Why does CW's "Vampire Diaries" leave us cold, while WE's "Adoption Diaries" has us crying our little eyes out?
By Heather Havrilesky
September 6, 2009
-
L.A. burns, "Nurse Jackie" fizzles and Courteney Cox inhabits a charred shell of her old TV self in "Cougar Town"
By Heather Havrilesky
August 30, 2009
-
From "Flipping Out" to "Saving Grace," wackiness is in this summer
By Heather Havrilesky
August 16, 2009
-
The "Mad Men" are sweating bullets, but the show's hero is cool and collected. Is denial to blame -- or to thank?
By Heather Havrilesky
August 9, 2009
-
Smug rich people condescend to hapless entrepreneurs on Mark Burnett's new reality show, "Shark Tank"
By Heather Havrilesky
August 2, 2009
-
TV experiments with the unbearable importance of looks, from "More To Love" to "Dating in the Dark"
By Heather Havrilesky
July 26, 2009
-
An ill wind blows in the macho stupidity of "Dark Blue" and the insipid nothingness of "Great American Road Trip"
By Heather Havrilesky
July 19, 2009
-
Mysteries and magic unfold on the renamed Syfy network, from the funny "Warehouse 13" to the charming "Eureka"
By Heather Havrilesky
July 5, 2009
-
Fallen heroes forge new lives, from the well-endowed has-been of "Hung" to the angsty star of "The Philanthropist"
By Heather Havrilesky
June 28, 2009
-
"Real Estate Intervention" brings tough love to homeowners while "The Lazy Environmentalist" makes going green easy
By Heather Havrilesky
June 21, 2009
-
The polite vampires of HBO's "True
Blood" rise from the dead for a second season of blood lust and moral ambiguity.
By Heather Havrilesky
June 14, 2009
-
In Showtime's "Nurse Jackie," Edie Falco transforms the heroic hospital drama into a dark dramedy.
By Heather Havrilesky
June 7, 2009