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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. Heroes: Reborn: Season 1
    Creator/executive producer Kring hasn’t learned anything from seasons two through four. Heroes Reborn suffers from the same excesses that alienated viewers--too many characters, too many plot threads, too many snippets of scenes that serve to advance little but the time to a commercial break. Finally, the show seems old-fashioned.
  2. Man Up!: Season 1
    It's all about their attitudes, and on that front, Man Up! is a downer.
  3. Deception: Season 1
    Vivian's secrets are predictable. Judging from the first two episodes, Joanna is not much of a sleuth. Scene set-ups go nowhere. Minor characters are brought in, disposed of, and the show bumps along to another complication.
  4. Mariah's World: Season 1
    The real reason why “Mariah’s World” seems stale is that it comes off as a TV remake of “Madonna: Truth or Dare,” and Madge did it better in 1991.
  5. Rob: Season 1
    CBS has churned out yet another lowest-common-denominator sitcom.
  6. Star Trek: Voyager: Season 1
    The cast around Mulgrew is excellent. ... Mulgrew, however, drags it all down. Starfleet commanders are not supposed to be this dull, stiff and joyless. As a woman, she's all cardboard and mannish. [16 Jan 1995]
    • Boston Herald
      • Posted Jun 25, 2013
  7. Pure Genius: Season 1
    Nobody registers much of a connection. What’s missing from this show is heart.
  8. Joan & Melissa: Joan Knows Best?: Season 1
    At 60 minutes, these episodes will test even loyal fans, although some viewers will discover a new respect for Melissa, who displays patience not unlike Job in her trials. Still, Joan is her mother. Everyone else can skip the guilt trip.
  9. Mildred Pierce: Season 1
    While the miniseries is more faithful to the 1941 James M. Cain novel of the same name, Todd Haynes' adaptation (he co-wrote the teleplay, directed and acted as one of the executive producers on this five-part bloated whale) is so draining, it might make you anemic.
  10. American Gothic (2016): Season 1
    Madsen works hard to deliver an intimidating matriarch, but the dialogue is flat and merely functional.
  11. The Ranch: Season 1
    Beau resents his son for abandoning the family homestead. Rooster enjoys egging them on. The war of words can sometimes feel brutal. The work gives Kutcher a chance to truly act, to bring some pathos to the fore, but The Ranch is a slog.
  12. Alpha House: Season 1
    Alpha House feels like social studies homework. On a Saturday night.
  13. Retired at 35: Season 1
    TV Land tries to build on its surprise sitcom hit "Hot in Cleveland" with Retired at 35, a spectacularly unfunny show that reflects a parent's worst nightmare: A grown child moves home for no good reason and shows no sign of budging.
  14. Camping: Season 1
    The cast, it must be noted, is fine; it’s the scripts that seem to be have been drenched in Bug Juice and left to rot in the sun.
  15. Restless: Season 1
    The background music works muscularly to pump up interest, but the story's pacing is ponderous.
  16. Proven Innocent: Season 1
    So many flashbacks for a murder mystery that is not remotely compelling.
  17. Ties That Bind: Season 1
    Where Ties unravels is in its other half, as it desperately tries to be a gritty police procedural.
  18. The Passage: Season 1
    The Passage teases a disaster on an even grander scale yet backtracks several times over in its first three episodes and still manages to rush its most crucial relationship.
  19. When We Rise: Season 1
    As vital as it is, political strategizing just isn’t that engaging to watch.
  20. Z Nation: Season 1
    Gore-hounds will find a couple of visual shots fascinating, but there’s little here for anyone to justify the hour investment.
  21. Midnight, Texas: Season 1
    Midnight, Texas could have been called “True Blood: The Next Generation” or even more precisely “True Blood: The Low-Budget Network Reboot.” Either way, it can’t shake a fang at the original.
  22. Weird Loners: Season 1
    The sitcom starts with one of the best introductions to a group of losers. By the end of the third episode Fox provided for review, I was yawning and daydreaming about buying nail fungus remover.
  23. The Wizard of Lies
    The film jumps erratically across the years to show how Madoff’s arrest in 2008 for a $65 billion Ponzi scheme ruined his family, depicted here as much victims as those who trusted Madoff and lost their fortunes. Yet it’s as if you are watching the work of a first-time director who read about his craft off a flash card.
  24. Emily Owens, M.D.: Season 1
    Finally you get the sense that Meryl Streep's daughter is coming into her own as an actress and even a lead. But Emily needs a script doc, stat.
  25. Party Down: Season 2
    Party Down, about a group of aspiring Hollywood types working as caterers, returns for a second season of stale jokes.
  26. The Good Place: Season 1
    The Good Place,” from “Parks and Recreation” creator Michael Schur, is the true heir to “Lost,” right down to the flashbacks, half-baked philosophy and Colorforms-simple metaphors.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Wolf Lake (2001): Season 1
    Wolf Lake attempts to revel within the originality of its otherworldly concept but never does anything remotely original or otherworldly. [12 Sep 2001]
    • Boston Herald
      • Posted Mar 16, 2022
  28. Gypsy (2017): Season 1
    For anyone engaged in psychotherapy, Gypsy presents a nightmare, but its lazy execution is not worth the time commitment.
  29. The Chicago Code: Season 1
    Every character has a voice-over, info dumps for back story that are either irksome or unnecessary.
  30. Parenthood : Season 1
    It’s a series that zips along in one direction, suddenly accelerates in another and veers out of control into a swamp of sugar and schmaltz.
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