1. Mix It Up Look, single-narrative episodes may be deeper, but here they’re so deep that they suffocate the action. Get back to the zippy intercut A and B story lines.
2. Lighten It Up Vegas: glaucous nights, yellow neon, flashlight beams—check. Miami: golden afternoons, pink sunsets—check. New York: mercury, copper, galvanized steel—and that’s just the faces. It’s New York City, not Soylent Green.
3. No, Seriously—Lighten It Up Mac Taylor broods a lot. A lot. I would, too, if I were dealing with suffocating plotlines and working in a visually anemic city. But TV death investigation needs zingers and iffy puns as much as it needs inert victims, so pedal back on the grief. Just a tad.
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The Transformation of TV Into an Art Form
The Draw of Dream Worlds in Film
Gosselin, Prince of the Professional Nobodies
A Decade of Defining Moments in Pop-Culture
The Invention of New York's Local Cuisine 
Thirty-Five Short-Lived Looks of the Decade
Two Views of a Swath of the Upper West Side
An Older Generation Moves Into Williamsburg
Ten Years That Changed Everything
A Generation of Overparenting
The Sports Rivalry of the Decade
What Is the Point of the United States Senate? 
