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Pan Am’s impeccable aesthetics and underutilized performers make for an odd mix.

Homeland’s intriguing pilot is a mix of stock techniques and strong lead performances.

FOX’s expensive, high-profile dinosaur series is the weakest, most impotent new series of the fall.

Boardwalk Empire returns with a strong season premiere.

Free Agents might be onto something, if it can realize its promise as a rom-com dramedy.

2 Broke Girls is a tired rehashing of many jokes and concepts from other, better series.

New GIrl’s pilot is a too much quirk and not enough comedy.

Boardwalk Empire is another stellar HBO period drama, although its violence and cynicism is a bit thinner than hoped.

Treme

Treme ascends to greatness in its moving, wandering second season.

Treme

Treme’s rich, textured atmosphere and cast of characters makes for one of TV’s most beautiful and politically prescient new series.