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For 2,207 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 61% higher than the average critic
  • 4% same as the average critic
  • 35% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 1.7 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average TV Show review score: 69
Highest review score: 100 The Crown: Season 4
Lowest review score: 0 Commander in Chief: Season 1
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1,506 out of 1506
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 1506
  3. Negative: 0 out of 1506
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  1. The Office: Season 9
    The results so far are very (very) funny.
  2. Parks and Recreation: Season 5
    Parks and Rec remains funny, sharp and inventive.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    Project Runway: Season 6
    If you loved it before, you'll love it again. "Auf"-ully good.
  4. All The Way (2016)
    All the Way gets a couple of electrifying performances that catalyze the drama--not to mention the forward momentum of history. They’re brief, but they do the job. ... Magnificent, often stirring performance by Cranston that no one else comes close to matching.
  5. Coal: Season 1
    Producer Beers' team is the gold standard in male-aimed reality, and these guys have grit to burn.
  6. Jim Henson's Creature Shop Challenge: Season 1
    We ultimately get to spend time with Henson's judges hashing it out. That brings insight into what makes things work, into creature logic, proportions, movement, performance facilitation, and letting the creation "emote through its environment." We don't just watch art being made, we come to understand the process.
  7. Fargo: Season 3
    There’s some temporizing in the first couple of episodes, but not enough to subvert what this third season so clearly is--another winner.
  8. Alphas: Season 1
    The soul of the show, though, is its conflicted "heroes," truly tortured, in palpable ways, recalling the best, early days of NBC's ill-fated Monday comic book. There's no cartoonery here. Just adult adventure and angst.
  9. Friday Night Lights: Season 3
    This show was always best when handling the little things that aim to capture life, and often do.
  10. Salem's Lot (2004)
    Screenwriter Peter Filardi ("The Craft") and director Mikael Salomon (HBO's "Band of Brothers") have defied the odds, delivering a four-hour, two-night version of King's vampire-infestation parable that ranks with the best filming of his work. It has genuinely scary parts, which is rare enough in video- King, but it's also perfectly in tune with his mordant sense of humor. Wickedly funny lines are scattered throughout Filardi's script. [20 June 2004, p.11]
    • Newsday
      • Posted May 14, 2021
  11. NYC 22: Season 1
    They honor the job without trivializing it, or turning it into melodramatic entertainment pap for the masses.
  12. Girls: Season 1
    Extremely funny and extremely raunchy (consider yourself warned), but Dunham's a major talent.
  13. Dear White People (2017): Season 1
    DWP does want to be provocative, just not too provocative. Mostly it just wants to keep an open mind and open heart. Mostly, it succeeds.
  14. Louis C.K.: 2017
    The usual C.K. show--fresh, funny, smart, bleak, offensive, entertaining--with one minor demerit, for an overlong finish.
  15. Homeland: Season 3
    Foremost, getting Brody off-screen turns out to be an inspired move. In his absence, there's a new world order, or disorder, with a lot of people left to assemble the pieces, including Saul, Carrie, and most of all, Dana.
  16. Younger: Season 1
    The show's crisp, witty dialogue is mostly egalitarian among the ages, and everyone's great at working the words.
  17. The Killing: Season 1
    Smart new cop show that takes time to build, but will reward patience.
  18. Louie: Season 2
    Still funny and still not for everyone. Louie remains very much a taste that you either acquire--or don't.
  19. House of Cards (2013): Season 5
    The fifth-season opener efficiently brooms away that creaky storyline, and even pivots on an effective twist that reinforces one more “HoC” theme: Frank will be Frank.
  20. Touch: Season 1
    A bit melodramatic, a bit manipulative, Touch is still one of the best pilots of the 2011-12 season to date.
  21. Gloria: Season 1
    This evocative hour doesn't lionize Steinem, but simply lays out what happened.
  22. Boss: Season 2
    No relaxing allowed with Boss. Sorry about that, and sorry for this series, which remains smart, absorbing and particularly well done.
  23. Lizzie Borden Took an Ax
    Lizzie Borden takes an ax to many assumptions--including the one that Lifetime movies aren't worth watching.
  24. Scott Turow's Innocent
    It all adds up to one solid nail-biter, with a profusion of clever clues that seems to cast suspicion on everyone.
  25. Dave Chappelle: The Age of Spin
    With his 2000 show, HBO’s “Killing Them Softly,” as another baseline for the best of Chappelle’s TV standup, this one’s right up there, too--not quite its equal, but close.
  26. The Americans: Season 1
    Smart newcomer with a pair of leads that turns The Americans into a likely winner.
  27. House: Season 5
    It's wonderful stuff, and we all seem to be on a voyage of discovery.
  28. COPS (1989): Season 1
    Don't miss the pilot. It's the best new crime series of the year, whatever you call it, tabloid TV, exciting TV, real TV. [6 Jan 1989]
    • Newsday
      • Posted May 7, 2013
  29. Monk: Season 1
    This playful hour gets under your skin with its quirky personality humor, at the same time it's spinning a pretty fair murder yarn. [12 July 2002, p.B51]
    • Newsday
      • Posted Jun 25, 2013
  30. Push, Nevada: Season 1
    I've watched tonight's show, the pilot, three times already - and not because I'm searching for the clues that Affleck and Bailey have embedded in the film. I love hearing nerdy IRS agent Jim Prufrock's improbably forceful declaration of why he loathes tax cheats. I love the way the Push residents talk about their local "slow-dance bar" as if it were as commonplace as a KFC outlet. I'm curious why all the couples in Push make love every other night at precisely the same time. I admire the creative visual presentation, which rivals that of a good commercial or music video. [17 Sept 2002, p.B03]
    • Newsday
      • Posted May 5, 2015
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