Terry Kelleher

Hennessy has the feistiness the lead role requires, and Miguel Ferrer bears watching as her tense, neurotic supervisor. Too bad the first couple of cases were too easily cracked.

Bottom Line: Good beat, weak drama.

King’s characters inspire indifference—except for the ones who are actively annoying—so you’re unlikely to care that some of the ghostbusters wind up dead. The author has a cheeky cameo in part 2 as a pizza delivery man, but instead of wasting his time acting he should have thought up a satisfying ending. After six hours of Rose Red, it’s truly scary to contemplate that the story may not be over. Bottom Line: Bring on the wrecking ball.

Unless several characters get more interesting in a hurry, hungry tyrannosaurs will have to provide all the excitement.

Soul Food is inconsistent, but it whets the appetite.

It's still an unabashed throwback—what folks used to call a shoot-'em-up.

The Sopranos remains a unique combination of brains, wit and raw power.

It's searching, witty, lacerating, poetic, profound—and, yes, overstuffed.

If you pay attention, the writing and direction reward the effort.

A daring police drama whose growing moral complexity redeems its occasional excesses.