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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. True Blood: Season 4
    HBO's True Blood rises from the grave of last year's uneven season, smarter, spookier and sexier than before.
  2. YOU: Season 1
    Once you get deep into the premiere, which with its incessant voiceovers plays more like a talking Viewmaster reel than an hour of television, you may find yourself hooked--and recognize some wry observations about human behavior at the root of this thriller.
  3. Chilling Adventures of Sabrina: Season 1
    Finally there’s something fun to binge and share with friends.
  4. Harlots: Season 1
    Forgive the salacious hook for a show that is not so much titillating as it is gripping, surprising, at times humorous and even a bit thought-provoking when it comes to exploring how sex is just as valuable as money or power.
  5. Nip/Tuck: Season 2
    Nip/Tuck is unabashed in its portrayal of the flawed ways people conduct the private sides of their lives and how the professional bleeds over in unexpected ways. [21 June 2004, p.43]
    • Boston Herald
      • Posted Jan 21, 2014
  6. Bunheads: Season 1
    Bunheads has the potential to have that cross-generational appeal. To thrive, the series must find its own tune to dance to.
  7. Episodes (US): Season 1
    Episodes has funny moments, [but] like "Curb Your Enthusiasm," the satire is an acquired taste and seems to be too inside showbiz to find a mass audience.
  8. Westworld: Season 1
    You want to see the robots turn on their masters. Canny series creators Jonathan Nolan (co-writer of “The Dark Knight”) and Lisa Joy know it, and they cleverly string you along with some disturbing questions about human nature.
  9. 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
  10. Game Change
    Moore's impersonation of Sarah Palin is the hook to reel you into HBO'S latest truelife political thriller.
  11. The Big C: Season 4
    The Big C doesn’t traffic in miracles, but it does deliver small pleasures worth pondering and savoring.
  12. Elementary: Season 1
    Elementary turns the myth into CBS' answer to "Castle," with a shade more intelligence.
  13. 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.
  14. Thirteen: Season 1
    Comer’s performance--as a 26-year-old stunted as a 13-year-old--is beautiful. She can be endearing, mystifying and aggravating, sometimes in the same moment. She’ll keep you coming back to a mystery that grows darker with every revelation.
  15. The Beat: Season 1
    The Beat resonates with a quirky, dark pulse. [21 March 2000]
    • Boston Herald
      • Posted Nov 26, 2019
  16. The Flash (2014): Season 1
    You don’t have to be a comic book fan to enjoy The Flash, but if you are one, there are so many Easter eggs in the pilot--especially the one at the closing moment--that you just might go into nerdgasms. The Flash isn’t stopping for anyone.
  17. About Face: Supermodels Then and Now: Season 1
    Photographer and filmmaker Timothy Greenfield-Sanders accessorizes his picture with some vintage clips, but his Face could do with fewer mouths.
  18. Looking: Season 1
    Looking might be the most provocative series of 2014. It’s just not original or memorable.
  19. 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.
  20. Arrow: Season 1
    Arrow has so much going for it, it doesn't need to linger on the past.
  21. Orphan Black: Season 1
    The settings never seem authentic for the Big Apple, and accents veer like partygoers after last call.... Still, Maslany shows skill in her many alternate guises, and the show has a dark sense of humor.
  22. Mozart in the Jungle: Season 1
    Mozart in the Jungle, which was adapted from Blair Tindall’s memoir of the same name, is surprisingly good, whether you’re into classical music or not. In fact, it’s almost as good as something you might find on HBO, which is what Amazon needs if it wants to succeed in the online television business.
  23. The Chi: Season 1
    Showtime’s The Chi floats like a worthy successor to “The Wire” and then descends into the sort of bathos of a Tyler Perry production.
  24. The Apprentice: Season 10
    You've seen this game before, but not played with this level of desperation. There are moments when the boardroom feeding frenzies might cause you to step away from the table. There's something to be said for escapist TV after all.
  25. Glee: Season 4
    [The] premiere serves as a rocky reboot to the once robust hit.
  26. Sense8: Season 2
    It’s a dizzying, bewildering, wonderful joy to watch their communal moments.
  27. Outlander (2014): Season 1
    Once the show tones down the voice-overs, Balfe is quite good in the part of a time-tossed lassie.... Heughan swaggers in his kilt about as well as “The Simpsons’” Groundskeeper Willie (that is not a dis), but he and Balfe generate about as much heat as two piles of wet peat.
  28. It's Me, Hilary: The Man Who Drew Eloise
    More a cotton candy bouquet than a documentary, It’s Me, Hilary: The Man Who Drew Eloise introduces you to a man who has made millions of people happy--and would like nothing more than a chance to do it again.
  29. Will & Grace (2017): Season 1
    The innuendos would make a seventh-grader giggle. ... Mullally’s Karen remains one of network TV’s greatest comic creations, even when she’s saddled with such lines as “Hasta la homos!” Hayes’ shtick has not aged well. Messing seems to be reading her lines in the pilot. It’s not all bad. The theme song has been given a kick.
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