Is ‘The Secret Circle’ secretly one of TV’s best new shows? (Commentary)

With a great midseason finale this week, “The Secret Circle” (8 p.m. Central Thursdays on The CW) put itself in the company of the best new shows. Entertainment Weekly might not have noticed, since it dropped the show from its weekly recaps awhile back, and it’s probably destined to never be a huge darling of the media

The new fall shows — not too shabby so far (TV commentary)

I’ve done “first episode impressions” of the noteworthy new shows this season, and many TV critics have done the same. We do this because it’s fun and quick-hitting more so than because it’s an accurate and fair way to judge a show. Indeed, my views of some shows have changed quite a bit in the

First episode impressions: ‘The Secret Circle’ (TV review)

I like just about everything about “The Secret Circle” (8 p.m. Central Thursdays on The CW) except the fact that — I am stifling a yawn just typing this — it’s yet another show about young people with superpowers. In this case it’s witch powers rather than cat powers (“The Nine Lives of Chloe King”), vampire powers