In fact, when it comes to TV, I'm not even sure what my real, true preferences are.

In the end, all critics should be guided by this one principle: Is this piece of work [TV show, movie, play, concert, album, restaurant] succeeding at what it set out to do?

I like the anthology concept. I wish more shows would do it.

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.

I'm a fan of half-hour shows that can be both funny and dramatic.

"Star Trek" expands almost instinctively - the more information you seek from it, the more it gives. It also has the benefit of taking place in our future, our mutual destinies as occupants of a peaceful, non-polluted Earth.

As far as my personal nostalgia zone goes, I find I watch more of AntennaTV than anything else.