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For 285 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 67% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 30% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 1.1 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average TV Show review score: 66
Highest review score: 100 Austin Stories: Season 1
Lowest review score: 0 Killer Instinct: Season 1
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 175 out of 175
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 175
  3. Negative: 0 out of 175
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  1. Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip: Season 1
    "Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip" is another Sorkin mother lode of stylish wit, uncompromising quality and timely, topical substance. It's TV with a brain for viewers in search of something other than the same old, same old.
  2. TALKSHOW with Spike Feresten: Season 1
    Feresten makes a rather engaging talk show host.
  3. Men in Trees: Season 1
    A witty, sophisticated romantic drama.
  4. The Path to 9/11: Season 1
    On a simple quality drama level, it's the best network miniseries in several years.
  5. Til Death: Season 1
    There are occasional funny moments amid the raging comic mediocrity.
  6. Happy Hour: Season 1
    The few good laughs in an otherwise so-so show are supplied by the slyly wigged-out Beth Lacke.
  7. Standoff: Season 1
    From start to finish, "Standoff" is slickly contrived, formulaic crime drama nonsense.
  8. Desire: Season 1
    In terms of intelligence, wit and quality, "Desire" is a serious cut below most prime time drama series.
  9. Fashion House (2006): Season 1
    A glossy hunk of over-the-top, sleaze 'n' tease melodrama.
  10. Justice (2006): Season 1
    "Justice" offers slick, efficiently produced whodunit escapism without a whit of real originality or dramatic spontaneity.
  11. Vanished: Season 1
    Though the glossily well-made "Vanished" may prove intermittently diverting, it lacks any of the original serial thriller zing of far better shows like "24," "Lost" or "Prison Break."
  12. Weeds: Season 2
    A comedy anchored in the flawed, deeply genuine humanity of its characters often delivers the rollicking natural high of laughter.
  13. Eureka: Season 1
    "Eureka" is clever paranormal escapism that sometimes teeters on the edge of whimsical excess. But that doesn't mean you won't find plenty of affable, oddball entertainment.
  14. Brotherhood: Season 1
    Start to finish in its first-rate opening season, Showtime's "Brotherhood" has the makings of something neat, offbeat and special.
  15. Blade: Season 1
    A tediously bloody bore.
  16. Broken Trail
    A richly entertaining winner, a saga that both stirs the emotions and whips up vivid outbursts of satisfying, varmint-vanquishing action.
  17. Tuesday Night Book Club: Season 1
    Some will find it appalling. Others just may find it appallingly addictive.
  18. Saved: Season 1
    "Saved" is a sometimes entertaining, often predictable trauma drama.
  19. Lucky Louie: Season 1
    "Lucky Louie" is a true original -- a pleasantly twisted variation on "The Honeymooners" or "Roseanne" for the 21st Century.
  20. Deadwood: Season 3
    Milch's darkly hilarious exploration of the American frontier spirit is back for a third season of twisted human conniving.
  21. Entourage: Season 3
    The breezily irreverent "Entourage" -- chock-full of witty banter, Hollywood insider jokes and real-life celebrities in self-spoofing mode -- parties on in especially fine style.
  22. Windfall: Season 1
    A breezy summertime soap opera.
  23. Elizabeth I: Season 1
    The lavishly beguiling historical drama is pumped up on passion, wit and the majestic fire of Helen Mirren's thrilling performance as one of history's most intriguing rulers.
  24. What About Brian: Season 1
    It's styled as a sort of laid-back Gen X updating of "thirtysomething," replacing that show's neuroses-fueled, East Coast edge with a more casual, lighthearted California vibe.
  25. The Ten Commandments
    The Old Testament just shouldn't be this dull.
  26. Survival of the Richest: Season 1
    Doesn't quite rise to the cheerful, sweetly clever quality level of WB's "Beauty and the Geek."
  27. The Bedford Diaries: Season 1
    Disheartening proof that even the most talented producers sometimes concoct a prime-time crock.
  28. Teachers: Season 1
    A lame, uninspired faculty farce.
  29. Thief: Season 1
    [A] smart, hard-edged new crime drama.
  30. Heist: Season 1
    In between the sardonic wisecracks and tangled storytelling, it's easy to lose interest.
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