Contributor: Paul Asay

UPDATED REVIEW: On TNT, three long-time friends run headlong into the many trials of being fortysomething. (Full disclosure for all readers under age 39: They involve a great deal of angst and the need for bifocals.)

Millennials behave badly here. Their parents can be worse. And all those pretty faces don’t make all that content any less ugly.

This reimagining of Anne of Green Gables, can be, like its title character, sweet. But it has its sour moments, too.

If television is comfort food, this is its homemade meatloaf.

Just because a sitcom includes the word family in its title doesn’t mean it’s a family show. Let’s put this another way: Tim “The Tool Man” Taylor wouldn’t even recognize this family business.

Hulu’s adaption of Joseph Heller’s revered 1961 satire mingles comedy, cynicism, sex and horrific violence.

In terms of problematic content, James Bond would feel right at home in this Revolutionary War espionage drama on AMC.

Benjamin Goodwin was not a good father. Now he wants to make up for that … from beyond the grave. Let the sitcom games begin!

This is a crime thriller where few people actually wear black or white hats—but there’s always plenty of Red.

UPDATED REVIEW: Is it good to be the king? We don’t even want to be in this kingdom.

Sacha Baron Cohen’s latest endeavor on Netflix is about as far from Borat as it could be.

CBS’s new drama asks provocative questions about the future of crimefighting. But like similar shows, it comes with its own content issues, too.

UPDATED REVIEW: When MTV premiered The Hard Times of RJ Berger in 2010, network general manager Stephen Friedman said it “speaks to where we need to go as a network.” Awkward. now puts punctuation on his statement.

Wil, Amberle and Eretria want to protect the Four Lands from the Forbidding darkness. But their show already has its own demons to deal with.

This exceptionally silly show is surprisingly good, too—and in more ways than one.