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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. Perception: Season 1
    Perception is a head trip not worth the journey.
  2. Containment: Season 1
    It’s a series without interesting characters, story or a modicum of tension.
  3. Sean Saves the World: Season 1
    Sean Saves the World actually left this viewer depressed about the health of network comedy.
  4. Jersey Shore: Season 2
    From pariahs to parodies. What a quick ride. The party is almost over for Jersey Shore.
  5. The Millers: Season 1
    It’s wearying to watch actors of this caliber try to fluff laughs out of this dreariness.
  6. The Real Housewives of Miami: Season 1
    The ladies are so desperate to be noticed, they recycle bits from other shows.
  7. Fairly Legal : Season 1
    One problem with the show is intrinsic to its premise. Though mediation is valuable in the real world, it doesn't lead itself to interesting stories in a medium that chugs on conflict, victims and victors.
  8. Black Box: Season 1
    There’s no way to self-medicate against the relentless drear of this new medical drama.
  9. Sharknado 4: The 4th Awakens
    This franchise finally jumps the sharknado.
  10. Hunters: Season 1
    Much of Hunters seems like torture porn. McMahon overacts as the unhinged Hunter who seems to want to destroy humanity but is taking the long road to armageddon. Phillips is just miscast as humanity’s best hope.
  11. The Crazy Ones: Season 1
    As a sitcom version of herself, the onetime “American Idol” outshines Gellar, which is not a good omen for the show. Williams seems ex­hausted. So is this show.
  12. Grace of Monaco: Season 1
    Kidman works hard here, but she is sabotaged by a common script.
  13. The Real World: Season 25
    Not even a return to Sin City - the site of the most notorious, debauched entry in the franchise - can jump-start any excitement into this, the 25th season of the unscripted series.
  14. Rubicon: Season 1
    It's a dull blend, a slow-moving mind-rot creeping on unsuspecting viewers.
  15. Snooki & JWOWW: Season 1
    The unscripted answer to "Laverne & Shirley" will now be tamer than "Anne of Green Gables."
  16. My Generation: Season 1
    My Generation is based on a Swedish series, "On God's Highway." Dramatic storytelling seems to have veered off the road and crashed into a tree.
  17. Outsourced: Season 1
    The humor is crude and risque and often at the expense of Indian culture. I could have lived without the defecation jokes. To be fair, the writers don't give America a pass.
  18. Guys With Kids: Season 1
    There are some adorable tots mugging hard on NBC's Guy with Kids. The adults muck it all up.
  19. Saving Hope: Season 1
    [Smallville's Erica Durance, Stargate SG-1's Michael Shanks and The Vampire Diaries' Daniel Gillies] should be a winning cast, but the writing and plodding execution are worthy of a quick DNR order.
  20. Bad Judge: Season 1
    From Will Ferrell, Adam McKay and Anne Heche comes this mostly numb comedy about a judge with a messy personal life.
  21. Work It : Season 1
    The slight sitcom has all the heft of a powder puff.
  22. The Vineyard: Season 1
    In this eight-episode, hourlong show, instead of Lauren Conrad, we get Katie, who is about as interesting as a McDonald’s salad.
  23. The Gates: Season 1
    The Gates is ultimately just another literary mashup with the undead, like Jane Austen's "Pride & Prejudice" tweaked with zombies, only here it's a stifling John Cheever story with bloodsuckers.
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  24. Kourtney and Kim Take New York: Season 2
    Let the drinking games commence.
  25. Into the Badlands: Season 1
    It’s a little “Mad Max,” a little “Mortal Kombat,” a little “Gone with the Wind,” a lot head-scratchingly dumb.
  26. Late Night with Seth Meyers: Season 1
    Right now he’s as bland as Carson Daly.
    • 92 Metascore
    • 42 Critic Score
    My So-Called Life: Season 1
    My time spent in Angela's life was a wasted hour in my own so-called life. [24 Aug 1994, p.47]
    • Boston Herald
      • Posted Aug 27, 2015
  28. Past Life: Season 1
    Reincarnation, recycling, rip-off. On network TV, it’s all the same. Whatever you did in a past life, you don’t deserve this drivel.
  29. Beauty and the Beast (2012): Season 1
    The true horror here is the utter lack of imagination.
  30. Fear the Walking Dead: Season 1
    Fear resorts to the dumbest of jump scares and runs in circles. You’ll get impatient for a walker to come chomping by. You might be disappointed when one does. An action sequence that caps the extended premiere is choppy and amateurishly directed.
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