Contributor: Paul Asay

Paul Asay has been part of the Plugged In staff since 2007, watching and reviewing roughly 15 quintillion movies and television shows. He’s written for a number of other publications, too, including Time, The Washington Post and Christianity Today. The author of several books, Paul loves to find spirituality in unexpected places, including popular entertainment, and he loves all things superhero. His vices include James Bond films, Mountain Dew and terrible B-grade movies. He’s married, has two children and a neurotic dog, runs marathons on occasion and hopes to someday own his own tuxedo. Feel free to follow him on Twitter @AsayPaul.

Bloodline

Netflix peers into the lives of a family that’s peerless among the piers that stripe their Florida Keys home.

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13 Reasons Why (Season 2)

The first controversial season of 13 Reasons Why generated plenty of controversy. This one might just stir up even more.

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The Good Wife

UPDATED REVIEW: Just because she’s the good wife doesn’t mean she’s staying home and cleaning the kitchen. She’s a hotshot lawyer, after all, not a domestic engineer. And the question is still open about exactly how good she even is.

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New Girl

UPDATED REVIEW: She may be the new girl, but she’s got the same problems as the old guys.

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Great News

Is NBC’s latest newsroom sitcom great news for families?

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The Goode Family

ABC’s ‘Goode Family’ dishes out organically-grown, meat-free satire for our consumption—along with some problematic content.

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Lipstick Jungle

Forget the Big Apple. New York City—at least the one showcased in this NBC drama—is more akin to a gigantic, juicy passion fruit.

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Terra Nova

UPDATED REVIEW: Humans get a fresh start on a young Earth populated by dinosaurs. Alas, it doesn’t take us long before we start messing up the place again.

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The Last Man on Earth

Well, not exactly. But close enough for Fox’s comedy standards. (Which won’t necessarily be yours.)

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GCB

Is GCB trying to demean your faith? Or just the “faith” of its characters? And how much does it even matter when there are so many other reasons not to give much weight to what it thinks?

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Extant

This summer sci-fi series is a surprisingly daring show for a network that has thrived for years on crime procedurals and salacious comedies.

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American Pickers

Mike and Frank look to turn people’s trash into other people’s treasures—and make a bit of coin for themselves in the process.

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Magnum P.I.

A rollicking adventure that gives viewers an hour-long diversion without giving them nightmares.

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Sherlock

No matter how many times this detective seems to die, he keeps coming back—on both sides of the big pond and on all sizes of screens.

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The Fall

The X-Files’ Gillian Anderson is in another creepy drama. But instead of chasing aliens on Fox, she’s hunting a sexually sadistic serial killer in a broodingly dark Irish series.

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