We all have to draw some lines. To preserve my sanity, I steer clear of cooking, professional sports and most imports, unless imported to us via PBS, Sundance, etc.

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

I don't have scientific data, but I think plenty of perfectly nice weekends are being given over to the binge craze.

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

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

There just isn’t a weak season of 'Breaking Bad.' There’s just superior work, a sprint toward evil that turned into a marathon. But like all big-talker shows that bring their heavy cargo in for a rough and breathlessly observed landing, 'Breaking Bad' didn’t quite leave itself enough runway to satisfactorily end some of its better story lines, especially once the chronology gap closed up between the flash-forwards from last year’s episodes and Sunday night’s conclusion. One could easily argue that there was just too much left to do in this one episode.

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?