Trust me on this one.

One reality of being a TV critic is that you have to be a generalist; you may know a lot about a lot of TV shows, but you will never know as much about any particular TV show as its biggest fans do. There’s simply so much TV that—unlike, say, a movie critic, who can reasonably watch every major release a year—you have to take it in selectively. So there are always going to be TV series that are off my radar, that I don’t have time for or that, for some reason of personality, I’m just not quite capable of “getting.