31.   Nor was the play itself, which is easily the best new drama by an American this season.

32.   On the next two nights, network television will introduce the country to a pair of new drama series set in and shot in Seattle.

33.   Season premiere of a new drama series about cops and lawyers, crime and corruption in New Orleans.

34.   Similarly, the new dramas tend toward the familiar because the big networks are risk-averse.

35.   That collision of styles has made it the smartest, most tantalizing, most maddening new drama in a season full of them.

36.   The bad news is that, quite often, the new drama is even more confusing.

37.   The best new family drama of the season, filled with fine performances, is about a black middle-class family living in Seattle.

38.   The most glaring example is two new dramas, one for CBS, the other for ABC.

39.   The other thing that the strong batch of new dramas had in common was mostly good critical reaction.

40.   The new CBS crime drama is a hard-edged slice of testosterone where the men are men, and everyone else had better get out of the way.