The last thing you’d expect playwright and enfant terrible Neil LaBute to create is a rom-com for television. So, he didn’t. Not really. Well, he did, but instead of random New York young people simply having a meet-cute in a bar one night and then battling through the dating phases, he made the two principal characters stepsiblings.

How very Neil LaBute of him.

Watching Fox’s wonderfully creative and ridiculously entertaining new series The Last Man on Earth, you can’t help but laugh (it’s a comedy — duh), but also be truly and utterly impressed.

I can’t remember the last time I watched a half-hour sitcom and thought, “I’ve never seen anything like this.” Sure, the idea that a virus or plague has wiped out the entire world and there’s one guy left has been explored in sci-fi dramas before. But a comedy? On a broadcast network?

In the span of five days, ABC will air two ambitious limited-run television series, both involving a crime, deception and the unraveling of numerous characters' lives.

Secrets and Lies and American Crime are both strong and welcome efforts, even if they come in the midst of an insanely crowded dramatic landscape.

Comparatively, no other broadcast network has fielded anything on this level just yet, with NBC’s manipulative The Slap a poor attempt.

There's something glorious about the fading end of NBC's Parks and Recreation. There's a redemptive spirit to it, some morality to it and some nostalgia.

Tuesday night finds the last two episodes of the series going out into the ether. They will air, people will watch or not, another hour will be available on Hulu after the fact and the great buzz saw of network television will continue to cut across the grain, muscle and blade working harder than they probably need to.

But it will be in the books. And that's what really matters.

Now in its third season, House of Cards has one of those problems that soap operas bump up against all the time: story fatigue.

As with most CBS shows, the assumption going forward should be that it will be a hit, until proven otherwise. Which is why you can’t fault the network for wanting to do a modern version of The Odd Couple, starring Matthew Perry and Thomas Lennon.

And, in a lot of ways, The Odd Couple works — though comparisons to the original will inevitably be unfavorable. And, based on 22 minutes of a pilot — the only thing critics were able to see — not fair, either.

The Slap makes you want to slap it and every character that's a part of it. That can't be the strategy, can it?

Well, this just won’t do, will it?

Jon Stewart announced on his show Tuesday that he’s leaving and Comedy Central confirmed it later. Some time in the coming year the man who made skewering the news not only a great comedy series but a significant and important bit of social and media criticism will stop doing that. He will leave The Daily Show.

NBC's Allegiance is and will always be compared, less than favorably, to The Americans. That's just life and, in this case, it's just accurate.

In a season when ABC has already found success being both funny and diverse with its programming — Black-ish in particular — it strikes again with Fresh Off the Boat, one of the better freshman broadcast sitcoms in a while. Now, if the show could just get out of its own way — or, more accurately, if the people surrounding it could — then maybe it can find the audience it richly deserves.