Joel Keller

While there’s a lot of violence and melodrama in Fightland, there’s more than enough going on underneath the surface to keep viewers engaged with Duke’s plot to get back at the Marshalls for everything they put him through.

We’re on board for Joe’s inner conflict reaching new levels in Season 3 of Lioness. We just wish that Taylor Sheridan wouldn’t waste so much time with bloody shoot ’em ups and leave time for more character exploration.

The Bombing Of Pan Am 103 isn’t out to assess blame around why the investigation took so long or why it took even longer to bring anyone to justice over the largest terrorist attack on Scottish soil. But it’s not boring, either, which is a credit to the cast and to Lee’s insistence of giving the investigators lives outside of their jobs.

The Idaho Murders: College Nightmare doesn’t say anything new about the Idaho State murders, but it gives viewers more insight into the victims and their lives, which is always welcome in the true crime genre.

Furious can be too glib for its own good, and doesn’t seem to know when to ratchet back the little gags and let the weighty story stand on its own. But we hope those distractions get stripped away as Alice gets closer to catching Caroline.

Stuart Fails To Save The Universe is a funny, and weird-in-a-good-way take on Big Bang characters that we only got to know via their interactions with the show’s Big 5 (or Big 7 if you count Amy and Bernadette). Plus, it’s a fast watch, with the episodes only taking 15-25 minutes.

Ransom Canyon is definitely still a soapy, sexy guilty pleasure kind of a show. But with the addition of Clarkson and some focus on the main storylines, it’s become a soapy, sexy show with a bit more depth.

King Of The Hill continues to do exactly what it’s been doing since its first episode in 1997, giving us funny stories about Hank Hill, his family and friends that center less around gags and more around their characters and reactions.

The Map Of Longing strikes the right emotional notes with its story, which is helped along by some amazing chemistry between its two stars.

The Hawk could have overcome its inherent unfunniness if Ferrell and his collaborators made Lonnie Hawkins a character that actually somewhat resembled a real human being. But they didn’t, and that’s something that’s just going to get tiresome over an entire season.