Ann Hodgman

The show looked cool, and Dakota showed star power, but the sketches fell flat, and he Breakfast Club had poor attendance

Mary Alice and Paul tell all; Tom puts Lynette back to work; and Susan and Mike are under the gun

Tom is unemployed, Carlos is jailed; and Rex is hospitalized. Meanwhile, new neighbors might shake things up even more

A question-answering episode sets up the season's final revelations

John or Carlos gets Gabrielle pregnant; Susan's mom moves in; and we learn some shocking secrets about the mysterious Dana

The New York team gets to play in the snow while hunting for clues to a vicious murder

Tabloidy plots drive a week of high-quality shows

The Vegas team learns that truth is stranger -- and goofier -- than detective fiction, while the New Yorkers find cool murders all around the town

Miami came on like gangbusters; Vegas got under your skin

Tabloidy plots drive a week of high-quality shows

The Vegas team learns that truth is stranger -- and goofier -- than detective fiction, while the New Yorkers find cool murders all around the town

Miami came on like gangbusters; Vegas got under your skin

In a week of flashy stories, Miami's drug plot is dopey, but New York is a sleeper hit

The week's episodes ran from a waste of time (Miami) to an all-time best (New York)

Although we kinda liked Miami's death by falling thief and we worried that the Vegas team might break up, Thanksgiving week's shows were turkeys

Despite cool pirates in Miami and severed fingers in New York, Vegas's transgender murder is the most engaging tale

In a moving Miami story, a severed head provides a classic gross-out, but New York's promising auto-amputation plot has its end chopped off

While New York fails to dig very deep and Miami can't quite catch a wave, Vegas gets its man

New York rappers get violent, Vegas couples get prurient, and a Miami death gets recurrent

The shows taught us that female crime scene investigators always let their hair down, an all-natural drink can keep you flushed with youth, and O.J. Simpson is innocent

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