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For 1,146 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 54% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 43% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 3 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average TV Show review score: 64
Highest review score: 100 My Brilliant Friend: Season 1
Lowest review score: 0 One Tree Hill: Season 1
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 628 out of 628
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 628
  3. Negative: 0 out of 628
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  1. The Society: Season 1
    To the credit of creator Christopher Keyser (“Party of Five”), the series plays with expectations. Relationships bloom and wither in surprising combinations. Unfortunately, the show lacks a pulse.
  2. Chernobyl: Season 1
    In this true-life horror tale of a government refusing to acknowledge scientific fact and its ruthless demand for obedience, “Chernobyl” feels especially timely.
  3. Dead to Me: Season 1
    I’m pretty sure there was a Lifetime version of this story and the best part was it was over in two hours. Cardellini does the best she can, but the writing for her character and her motivations make no sense.
  4. The Red Line: Season 1
    The drama ultimately arrives at the destination you knew it would right from the opening moments. By trying to tell everyone’s story, “The Red Line” forgets to tell one good one.
  5. Chambers: Season 1
    While much of the teen supporting cast, including Kyanna Simone Simpson as best pal Yvonne and Sarah Mezzanotte as mean girl Marnie, are just right, Rose is flat through most of her scenes. The scares, at least in the opening episodes, rise from jump cuts or dreams. Ten episodes just seems too long for any heart to suffer this story.
  6. Fosse/Verdon: Season 1
    Williams is magnificent. ... It’s a small miracle that “Fosse/Verdon” never loses sight of its goal — capturing the love and frustrations of two talented people who could never let each other go. “Fosse/Verdon” is “Scenes from a Marriage” — with none of that jazz.
  7. The Chi: Season 2
    The dramedy digs deeper, tightening the connections between these seemingly random residents.
  8. Killing Eve: Season 2
    Despite the often tense, even grisly moments, the show remains furiously funny — as when Oh as Eve reacts to a robocall from a roofing company or craves a hamburger during a visit to a makeshift morgue. As the object of a growing manhunt, Comer manages to constantly keep viewers off-balance with a performance that is perpetually off-kilter.
  9. In The Dark: Season 1
    Mattfeld delivers a nuanced performance as a woman who has chosen to meet the world with hostility as a calculated defense. No matter how middling the story, she’s always worth watching.
  10. The Twilight Zone (2019): Season 1
    In its best moments, this reimagined “Zone” features some of today’s most intriguing actors and swerves from fun to disturbing and back and is just as provocative as the original.
  11. Veep: Season 7
    The #MeToo movement would seem impossible to riff on, yet Veep’s gloriously inappropriate writers have found a way.
  12. Tacoma FD: Season 1
    Tacoma FD needs more than a spark to get going. It needs a tanker full of gasoline and a convenient bolt of lightning.
  13. The Fix: Season 1
    The Fix looks like something you’ve seen before.
  14. Arrested Development: Season 5.5
    In true Bluth fashion, what you think you know about the Bluths you don’t know at all.
  15. Turn Up Charlie: Season 1
    Idris Elba is a star. The least his TV show can do is reflect that.
  16. Now Apocalypse: Season 1
    After watching the first five episodes, I don’t recommend watching “Now Apocalypse” every week. I do suggest waiting to the end of the season and downloading the series in one sitting. Now Apocalypse plays like the kind of show that can only benefit from a decadent binge.
  17. After Life: Season 1
    After Life plays like an odd vanity project.
  18. Leaving Neverland
    Leaving Neverland is not balanced, not by any standard. It is, however, a devastating testament to how childhood sexual abuse rages like a ferocious cancer through survivors and their families.
  19. The Enemy Within: Season 1
    If its characters continue to be dumb about someone in their midst (hey, see how that title comes into play), it could diminish them and the show. ... [Unlike ABC's Whiskey Cavalier,] this show goes beyond the standard cloak and dagger to ask some serious ethical questions about methods and how even the most seemingly benign operation can lead to civilian collateral damage. For treating us like grown-ups, you might be willing to make friends with “Enemy.”
  20. Flack: Season 1
    A spy show mixed with an awkward romantic-comedy. Imagine if “Grey’s Anatomy’s” Shonda Rhimes decided to remake “Get Smart” as a drama and you get a sense of the tones at war here.
  21. Documentary Now!: Season 3
    Documentary Now! is smart TV.
  22. Weird City: Season 1
    In broadcast TV terms, this is more “Night Gallery” than “Twilight Zone.” ... Weird City is built on one twisted foundation.
  23. Proven Innocent: Season 1
    So many flashbacks for a murder mystery that is not remotely compelling.
  24. The Umbrella Academy: Season 1
    The story is a little too Dark Phoenix, and the series’ pacing can be maddening. But you have to love an action-packed finale that rips from a kid’s birthday party at a bowling alley (little Kenny is never getting over that one) to a concert hall on the cusp of the apocalypse. The climax is an ending and a beginning. Umbrella Academy is just getting started.
  25. Doom Patrol: Season 1
    This adaptation from executive producers Geoff Johns and Greg Berlanti (behind all the CW superhero shows) is just as wonderful and weird as the comic.
  26. Song of Parkland
    At a half-hour, Song of Parkland is too darn short. And some perspective from the parents of the teens here would have been welcome.
  27. White Dragon: Season 1
    Simm is very much the thinking man here, an academic thriving on his wits. Leung is affecting as a young woman whose quest rocks the core of her identity and her own chance for love. ... The miniseries almost sticks its landing. Its final scene can’t resist a bit of mawkish sentimentality to wrap the story. It’s not earned or needed.
  28. Russian Doll: Season 1
    Just at the moment when you’re getting tired of the “Groundhog Day” antics and thinking Nadia’s rerun rumpus is a trip to anywhere, Russian Doll drops a twist in its third episode that changes everything.
  29. The ABC Murders: Season 1
    Malkovich’s detective lacks his spirit. ... This detective is subdued, almost meek. He is an imposter.
  30. Rent (2019)
    The dress rehearsal was rough in many spots. The camera work at times was manic, punctuated by the stray stagehand ducking for cover. It also suffered from a huge distraction--the audience. ... Hudgens brought mad energy to her part. Valentina as the doomed Angel was affecting and downright kicky on “Today 4 U.” Brandon Victor Dixon, the scene-stealer from last year’s “Jesus Christ Superstar,” didn’t find his footing until late in the show. Others in the cast seemed drawn from a community theater production.
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