Whenever people ask me if it's okay to stop watching "The Leftovers," I always say OF COURSE IT IS.

One of the dirty little secrets of my job is that I don't do ANY food or cooking shows.

I'm pretty sure the world is in solid agreement that "The Wire" is worth watching all the way through.

It seems to me conspiracy is at the heart of dozens of TV dramas currently on. Maybe that itself is some kind of conspiracy.

Mobster stories are always a harder sell for me. I don't romanticize organize crime the way others do, though I can be swayed.

My first few years as TV critic, I would go to parties and people (usually older Posties or ex-Posties who seemed to pride themselves on not watching very much television) would take me by the arm and insist that I watch this show they'd recently starting watching on DVD, about drug dealers in Baltimore.

Just as it's unfair to review a taco stand for not being a four-star restaurant, I also have to be mindful that not every drama on TV is trying to be "The Wire."