Modern Family: Season 4

Consistently entertaining, amusing and daring.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1442437/

Call the Midwife: Season 2

Chummy introduced me to "tickety-boo." Now I need to find a place and time to use it.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1983079/

Rise of the Guardians

How'd I miss this when it was around last year? Really very sweet.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1446192/

Jack Reacher

A perfect example of witty banter wrapping itself around your standard run-of-the-mill plot.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0790724/

Veep: Season 1

I'll pretty much see anything with Tony Hale in it. Even when it teeters on the edge of funny.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1759761/

Glee: Season 4

This season simply reinforces that the reason to watch Glee is and always will be solely because of Rachel.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1327801/

A Separation

A 15th century morality play updated to the 21st and given a setting that we, as Americans, find particularly fascinating.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1832382/ (Original title: Jodaeiye Nader az Simin)

The Square

The denouement was nigh on incomprehensible, but the finale? Everyone will understand that.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1085507/

Life on Mars: Season 1

Really really obvious plots, but I eventually was intrigued by the peek into 70s Britain.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0478942/

Misfits: Season 4

This moved from sci-fi freaky fun to faintly pornographic drama in the course of one season.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1548850/

The Place Beyond the Pines

Walk into this film knowing nothing about it and the plot device will be even more engaging.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1817273/

Persona

Oh yea, it's gorgeously composed, but I prefer my art-house films to have slightly more story.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060827/

The Impossible

A case of whitewashing or a case of genericizing? I see both.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1649419/