serviceable

None of this is to suggest that this six-part “Maigret” is anything less than a perfectly serviceable Sunday-night crime series, even a worthy entry among presentations of the venerable “Masterpiece Mystery!”

Johansson’s direction is serviceable if unremarkable, and one has to wonder why this particular script spoke to her.

The goal of Nisha Ganatra’s serviceable sequel is to get audiences who love those characters to buy a ticket and hang out with them again.

I’m noncommittal myself on whether Lerman delivers a serviceable performance or a strong one.

Gould does a serviceable job of telling the Heads’ story in a book that arrives 50 years after the band’s first gig at CBGB.