Boston Herald's Scores

  • TV
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. Mixed: 0 out of 628
  2. Negative: 0 out of 628
628 tv reviews
  1. CBS has churned out yet another lowest-common-denominator sitcom.
  2. You may laugh, but you'll hate yourself afterward.
  3. I didn't laugh much. I did, however, check my watch, still secure on my wrist, to determine when the show would be ending.
  4. Mitch just might be the stupidest attorney ever depicted on TV.
  5. Series creator and writer Julian Fellowes has a habit of using dialogue to telegraph the obvious.
  6. He sighs, "I got nothing left in me." Neither does this show.
  7. The slight sitcom has all the heft of a powder puff.
  8. While the pace of the series definitely picks up in the second night, Bag of Bones doesn't pull off the scares of King's previous works such as Misery" or "The Shining" nor does it have the poignancy of his "The Shawshank Redemption."
  9. The Exes is the kind of show you can dump without a second thought.
  10. Hate touches a comic nerve, the war of independence between teenage girls and their moms, but invariably settles for a hug when a few more slammed doors might be funnier.
  11. Let the drinking games commence.
  12. Like a lot of reality shows ranging from the silly "Real World" to the loathsome "Jersey Shore," All-American Muslim ends up reinforcing some stereotypes while defying others.
  13. Hell's greatest sin? It's often laugh-out-loud funny.
  14. Grimm has a low-rent Saturday Syfy vibe to it.
  15. Is the show still funny? Sure. But it now seems about as cutting edge and relevant as "Alf" or "Suddenly Susan."
  16. The cartoon is often laugh-out-loud funny, pulling off ridiculously zany sight gags, such as when Mondo decides to impress a girl by surfing and, instead, inadvertently beheads a bird, among other things.
  17. It's hard to imagine viewers voting with their clickers for this pretentious political soap.
  18. Once Upon a Time gets off to a bewitching start.
  19. It's all about their attitudes, and on that front, Man Up! is a downer.
  20. In its second season, The Walking Dead remains the most suspenseful show on any TV network.
  21. It's strange that the same network that airs these two stellar comedies [Modern Family & The Middle] would chose to regress and put this dreck on the air.
  22. It's not often that a movie that's important also manages to be educational and entertaining. Five is all three.
  23. I loved the pilot, mostly because I could never predict where the story was going, a rarity in prime-time TV.
  24. What seems like a straightforward question--Is Nick a traitor to his country?--might be the most devilishly complicated thing to answer, and definitely worth pursuing in this complex show.
  25. This series won't last long enough for him to complete his education.
  26. Series creator/writer Neil Cross continues to spin dark strands that stray unexpectedly into unsettling territory.
  27. Sisto is surprisingly sweet as a befuddled dad. Everyone seems to want the next Emma Stone. Levy isn't there yet, but given time she might grow into a solid comic actress.
  28. So long as the dinos roam, Terra Nova has a future.
  29. For shows that play to our longing for America's lost days of glory, the sky's the limit.
  30. While some of the best dramas can dovetail a character's work and personal lives, Prime Suspect might be better off, at least in the beginning, focusing on solving the weekly case.

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