The Walking Dead

As coma-woken police officer stumbles past rows of dead bodies outside the hospital, we expect them to waken. We keep seeing bodies, and we’re kept guessing whether they’re live, dead or undead.The first survivors he meets are a father and son, Morgan and Duane tormented by Morgan’s wife walking the streets outside the suburban home where they’re squatting. Unable to put her out of her misery, they’re frozen in place, tormented by her presence. It’s the most nightmarish of scenarios-hunted by the shell of a loved one-the zombies aren’t generic; this one is personal.Few living souls and little action for a zombie show also leads to good character development. Grimes (the Cop) is shell-shocked by the world he wakes up to and Morgan serves as his mentor into reality. There are more survivors, and they’ve somehow got to work together and fight the fantastical, but they won’t always work together. It’s the horror version of "Lost" with fewer smoke monsters and more crawling torsos.

Mr. Sunshine

Matthew Perry plays Ben Donovan, a self-described "emotionally broken" man who manages a sports arena in San Diego. On his 40th birthday, Donovan has a bit of a breakthrough, realizing that he's selfish, narcissistic, and unreliable. Unfortunately... he's also not very funny. Sure, we loved seeing Perry on "Friends", but it's not actually enough to make us sympathize with his character. There's probably a "Friends" rerun playing on some other channel, anyway. 

The character makes a few vague attempts to change his ways, like offering to commit to co-worker Alice (Andrea Anders), who he's been sleeping with while seeing other people. The efforts are half-hearted, and by the end of the episode, Ben's remains unappealing.

The owner of the arena, Crystal (Allison Janney) is even less fun to watch. She's a racist pill-popper with a clown phobia that sets up an incredibly obvious punch line, since of course the circus is in town. Imagine Michael Scott, highly self-medicated, in heels, with money, on a power trip. It's less pretty than that. 

The characters don't have interesting relationships with each other. You get the impression that these people work together, hate it, and don't spare each other a second thought once they've left the arena for the day. 

In other words this is one to stay away from.

Harry's Law

First of all this show is down right terrible and the evidence couldn’t be more obvious in the first few minutes. A young man trying to kill himself jumps from a building and lands on Harriet “Harry” Korn (Kathy Bates), our lead character who is fired from her job as a patent lawyer because she’s bored and depressed with it, smoking pot in her office and watching cartoons.

Of course she survives the fall. “A black man fell from the sky and landed on her head” says her assistant, Jenna (Brittany Snow). Barely bruised, Harry is released and almost immediately is hit by a car driven by Adam (Nate Corddry), who will eventually work for Harry because he found her awesome as a patent lawyer and the show apparently needs one more comic foil. He signs on for “the chance to pick your nose for two weeks -- I mean brain there…” As for the accident that sent her flying, she landed on a mattress on a mover’s truck. “It doesn’t make any medical sense to me, but you’re fine,” says the doctor.Nothing makes any sense in this ridiculous new TV series. It’s a David Kelley show. Where once his relentless quirkiness, belief in passionate lawyer-speak and willingness to crash tones together seemed original.

In Kelley’s world, what happens to Bates in the first few minutes sends up absolutely no red flags. And there’s apparently no one around him to say that rarest of words successful show creators need to sometimes hear: “No.”

The Cape

Episode 1-5 Summary The Cape follows a former cop, Vince Faraday , who resigns from the force to take on the criminal mastermind, Chess. So he can disappear as a super villain, Fleming frames Vince to make the police believe that he is Chess. Seemingly killed, Vince is taken in by the Carnival of Crime, run by owner Max Malini . Max trains him in martial arts, escapology, and illusion, and how to use a black cape as a weapon. Vince vows to fight crime and seek revenge against Chess. Since he can't return to his wife Dana  and son Trip , without putting them at risk, Vince takes on the identity of his son's favorite comic book hero, The Cape. Aiding him in his struggle is a mysterious blogger named Orwell.

Off The Map

Episode 1 Summary

Idealistic young Dr. Lily Brenner, along with fellow doctors Mina Minard and Tommy Fuller, arrive in a tiny town in the South American jungle which has a understaffed, under-stocked medical clinic. All of these young doctors are running away from personal troubles, but they aren't the only ones with emotional stress. They're introduced to the legendary Ben Keeton, who walked away from his life in the states and found the clinic. Together with his right-hand doctor, Otis Cole, the mysterious Dr. Ryan Clark and local doctor, Zita Alvarez, he'll teach the newcomers how to save lives in the most challenging environment they've ever worked in -- while taking them on adventures of a lifetime.

Chicago Code

Season 1 Summary

The series follows officers of the Chicago Police Department as they fight crime on the streets and try to expose political corruption within the city. Veteran Chicago Police Detective Jarek Wysocki leads the special unit against fighting the corruption. Wysocki was assigned to head the special unit by his boss the newly appointed first-female Chicago Police Superintendent and his one time partner, Teresa Colvin. Also on the unit is Caleb Evers, a young detective and Wysocki's latest partner. During their investigations the detectives often encounter police officers Vonda Wysocki (Jarek's niece) and Vonda's partner Isaac Joiner. Undercover officer Liam Hennessey works the streets as he gets information on the Irish mob and their connection to the corruption. Believed source of the corruption is Alderman Ronin Gibbons, a powerful and influential politician in Chicago.