Clark Johnson

Strictly boilerplate...fail[s] to pursue any interesting avenues, using the cardboard characters as mere shooting-range targets.

Not just another cop show...traffic[s] in the shadowy moral ambiguity of noir.

In casting the great Tim Roth as psychologist Dr. Cal Lightman, Lie to Me won the added value of a weekly master class in acting.

Imagine The Manchurian Candidate as a television series, and you have a pretty good idea of what you're in for with Showtime's paranoid thriller Homeland, adapted from the Israeli drama Hatufim (a.k.a. Prisoners of War)