Gillian Flynn

Maybe Dino's immature and occasionally unlikable, but I'm ready for a TV teen who isn't a better, more knowing human being than I am.

Almost every creative choice has been poorly reasoned.

I defy the naysayers who claim Curb is in a rut: Who cares if it's not reinventing itself? It has become one of the most reliably amusing comedies on TV, taking little annoyances, indignities, and offenses, and worrying at them until they bubble into fantastically overblown debacles.

Smart, unruly, and very fast, Arrested is the ultimate TV series for our TiVo age.

Deadwood has become one hell of a great gimmick-free Western.

It's not a nice show, but it's so damn good. ...Leary has invented simply one of the best characters on TV.

With Rescue Me, [Leary] redeems himself by doing what we always suspected he could do: really act.

What makes Veronica so strangely touching is that on a larger scale, her quest mirrors the common teen conundrum: My family's screwed up, and I'm not cool enough. How can I fix it?

A gleeful, fizzy race through Hollywood.

Still humming along, L&O has become the ultimate comfort show: Every week it offers a new crime cut, dried, and shelved, making the series a handy, self-contained alternative to all the serial dramas with their demanding mythologies.