Underrated/Overrated

UNDERRATED

‘Out of the Wild: The Alaska

Experiment’: Though we could do without the scenes of shooting and skinning cute, fuzzy things, this unscripted Discovery Channel series had us spellbound before its finale earlier this week. With regular people hiking and foraging across the wilderness, it was often hard to fathom there wasn’t even a cash prize at stake.

Daniel Tosh: It’s too soon to tell how the clip show “Tosh.0” on Comedy Central will fare, but when we stumbled upon this lanky comic’s stand-up special from 2007 on the same network, we loved his surreal, stream-of-consciousness riffs and smartly self-aware grin. Think a less fratty, more self-effacing version of Dane Cook and you’re getting warmer.

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OVERRATED

‘Land of the Lost’: This goes out to the original series and the remake. First came the series, which somehow terrified us when we were kids but now looks about as realistic as the average Handi-Cam YouTube epic. Then came the movie, which, after opening in a distant third last weekend, may prove that not every camp-nostalgia impulse can be mined for gold.

‘Quirky’ indie films: The eccentric has been a cinematic staple as long as we can remember, but we’re asking for a timeout after Sam Mendes’ “Away We Go.” We love John Krasinski and Maya Rudolph, but surrounded by such a rogue’s gallery of weirdos, we barely had room to breathe, much less care about their story. “Indie” is not code for “strange people.”