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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. Bucket & Skinner's Epic Adventures: Season 1
    Bucket & Skinner makes Saved by the Bell seem as sophisticated as "Modern Family." There are a few bones thrown parents' way to make the half-hour bearable.
  2. Necessary Roughness: Season 1
    Basic cable is known for carving out niche audiences, but it's hard to imagine this "Friday Night Lights Shrink" will score with many.
  3. True Blood: Season 4
    HBO's True Blood rises from the grave of last year's uneven season, smarter, spookier and sexier than before.
  4. Suits: Season 1
    No one expects "The Good Wife," but if the show is aiming for balance, it needs to step up its court game.
  5. Wilfred: Season 1
    By the end of the third episode, I was tired of all the sodomy jokes. Wood is an appealing comedic lead, but he's working off scraps. Be charitable and chalk up Gann's appeal to cultural differences.
  6. Falling Skies: Season 1
    Don't look now, but Falling Skies could be a summer obsession.
  7. Happily Divorced: Season 1
    In Happily Divorced, TV Land, the cable channel for baby boomers, finally may have found the perfect companion to its smash "Hot in Cleveland."
  8. The Protector: Season 1
    Why is she The Protector? Why didn't Lifetime call this series "The Protectors" and give Campbell-Martin and her character equal footing? As this show proves, some mysteries aren't worth solving.
  9. The Glee Project: Season 1
    This admittedly over-produced series has one of the toughest elimination rituals to watch: Each of the three finalists walks to check out a callback list to discover if they are still wanted.
  10. Red Faction: Origins
    Red Faction: Origins is light-years brighter than the typical Syfy Saturday dreck.
  11. Franklin & Bash : Season 1
    TNT bills Franklin & Bash as a dramedy, but it is more accurately a comedic bromance laced with pop-culture jokes and a dash of legal jargon to trick you into thinking you spent an hour on something of substance.
  12. Love Handles: Season 1
    While it isn't as tacky as the MTV hit, it does wallow in uncomfortable moments in therapy and exposes people at their most vulnerable. These couples should have checked their love handles in private.
  13. Too Big To Fail
    For a topic that sounds as dry as a fund prospectus, the acting and pacing is exceptional.
  14. Becoming Chaz: Season 1
    Becoming Chaz never really gets under its subject's skin.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Lady Gaga Presents The Monster Ball Tour: At Madison Square Garden
    You just have to wade through a landfill of lame camp and gratuitous weirdness to get to the pop center of Gaga's HBO show.
  16. Why Not? with Shania Twain: Season 1
    Why Not? With Shania Twain rings of a last-ditch effort to avoid counseling.
  17. The Voice Australia: Season 1
    As The Voice made loud and clear, there's not enough talent to go around.
  18. Treme: Season 2
    It's wonderful HBO is willing to subsidize so many artists, but Treme feels more like a tax write-off than an actual series.
  19. Cinema Verite
    Additional time would have made Verite more convincing. At 90 minutes, it runs short, especially as the family copes with its newfound notoriety
  20. Game of Thrones: Season 1
    Those who love the books will probably geek out on the series. The rest of us may have a harder time sitting through Game of Thrones.
  21. The Paul Reiser Show: Season 1
    The Paul Reiser Show is stale and dated.
  22. Happy Endings: Season 1
    When Happy Endings is funny, it's need-to-pause-the-DVR-because-I'm-laughing-so-hard funny. And viewers should easily be able to commit to that.
  23. Upstairs, Downstairs: Season 1
    There were moments during the first two episodes in which I wondered if the series was doddering along like a blindfolded Miss Marple. Have faith. Each episode swings in unexpected directions.
  24. Breaking In: Season 1
    The show runs rampant with rapid-fire dialogue and sly pop-culture references. The cast is strong.
  25. The Killing: Season 1
    This is no CBS crime procedural, and viewers deserve the chance to delve into this smart mystery for themselves.
  26. The Kennedys: Season 1
    If you can accept you're watching the Kennedy saga through the prism of the "Fringe" universe, what you will find is an absorbing, addictive drama, with some authentic performances.
  27. The Borgias: Season 1
    Unfortunately, Iron's not in every scene, and the 100-minute premiere, after a promising opening, becomes bogged down in political intrigue as his rivals scheme to remove the new pope.
  28. Camelot: Season 1
    This is "King Arthur Begins." Fiennes seems determined to play the Joker. Whether this interpretation of the sorcerer will cast a spell over viewers is uncertain.
  29. Body of Proof: Season 1
    Delany can be both captivating and infuriating as the know-it-all medical examiner, but she always holds the screen.
  30. Nurse Jackie: Season 3
    When Jackie snaps over one patient's plight, she could be speaking for impatient viewers: "People gotta stop trying to save people who don't want to be saved." Same goes for TV characters stuck in the same shtick.
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