Contributor: Paul Asay

These heroes in a half shell are back, this time on Nickelodeon via a new computer-animated show. And they’ve still never met a baddie they didn’t want to beat up.

When it comes to family viewing, Trial & Error feels like one long trial and a whole lot of error.

UPDATED REVIEW: The Foster family is a throwback to shows from the 1950s and ’60s, where families were largely aspirational. This, its makers suggest, is how a healthy family looks—sort of like The Waltons with a rainbow-friendly vibe instead of black-and-white traditionalism.

MTV knows a thing or two about transmogrifications. Handy information, that, when nurturing a coming-of-age show about a werewolf.

Legendary comedian Robin Williams returns to the small screen. Is that a good thing?

The Last O.G. might be one of the last things you’d want to flip on with kids in the room.

It seems disingenuous to say this show will help people wrestle with their faith when it revels in so much carnal content.

Vox calls this Amazon series “excruciatingly terrible television.” The L.A. Times says it features “miraculous acting and little else.” Plugged In adds …

AMC’s stylishly noir murder mystery is now on Netflix. It still features a compelling cast of police and suspects and red herring twists. But it paints an even more brutal and heartrending picture of pain and tragedy.

Year after year, iCarly wins a Nickelodeon’s Kids’ Choice Award. So it’s clearly a fave among tweens. Should parents feel the same way?

These seaworthy heroes are usually, well, heroic. Indeed, The Last Ship swings wide of the prickly antihero trend so in vogue today.

Not many cucumbers or tomatoes would be all that appetizing after 24 years. But Larry and Bob are still ripe for the watching.

The Hot Zone is often horrifying and occasionally nauseating. But it could’ve been far worse.

Josh treats his neighbors like family. Why? Because that’s what they are in a sitcom that’s both sweet and rough around the edges.

Well, at least ABC Family got the name right.