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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. Orphan Black: Season 2
    The show can be messy and confusing--a headlong rush to who-knows- where-or-why at times. But those clones keep it grounded.
  2. Speechless (2016): Season 1
    Driver['s character] is so self-righteous in her advocacy, so insensitive to her impact, that a little of her goes a long way. And there’s more than a little of her here.
  3. Nip/Tuck: Season 5
    The busy season premiere quickly constructs an intriguing seesaw of aspirations and emotions, and it's self-contained enough to sell itself to even Nip/Tuck newcomers.
  4. Justified: City Primeval: Season 1
    The story shambles at first, then picks up but never quite enough to place this among the better seasons of "Justified."
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Seinfeld: Season 1
    Seinfeld's gentle humor is easy to take. Unlike other current comedians, such as Andrew Dice Clay or Sam Kinison, Seinfeld isn't angry: He's more awed by the wonder of it all. [13 May 1990, p.13]
    • Newsday
      • Posted Feb 21, 2013
  6. Gloria: Season 1
    This evocative hour doesn't lionize Steinem, but simply lays out what happened.
  7. Scrubs: Season 1
    I would say give them a chance. What else are you going to do for a half-hour after "Frasier"? [2 Oct 2001, p.B27]
    • Newsday
      • Posted Mar 20, 2013
  8. Party of Five: Season 1
    A socially responsible, heartwarming, beautifully made, written and acted series. [8 Sep 1994]
    • Newsday
      • Posted Jul 12, 2013
  9. United States of Tara: Season 2
    An addictive show, with great cast, excellent writing.
  10. Sesame Street: Season 46
    There are lots of other small touches--or technical flourishes--along with new cast members, notably Nina. Otherwise, best of luck finding anything radically different because there isn’t all that much that’s changed.... This is a “win-win”--for HBO, public TV, its most iconic series and those kids.
  11. True Blood: Season 3
    Silly, gross, soapy, mysterious, intriguing, exotic, erotic True Blood is fun. Even more fun this season.
  12. Mr. Dynamite: The Rise of James Brown
    Mr. Dynamite instead works best as musical biography, only fitfully as a comprehensive one.
  13. Lovecraft Country: Season 1
    To call "Lovecraft Country" "wildly original" seems almost a quaint understatement. But it is wild. And original. Little doubt about that.
  14. Brockmire: Season 1
    Yes, this story’s kind of been told before, in various places, and in various forms over various decades--but with not nearly as many vulgar words called into service here.
  15. 24: Season 6
    If all this sounds like "24" has been hijacked by public policy wonks or Shakespeare profs, don't worry. Your show very much remains your show.... It's just that your show got a little smarter.
  16. Only Murders in the Building: Season 2
    The first eight episodes (those offered for review) go down effortlessly and, if none was particularly memorable, each was pleasurable.
  17. Lights Out: Season 1
    A particularly fine new FX drama marred only by a tepid pace in the pilot. But pace and story pick up in subsequent episodes.
  18. Witness: Season 1
    Mann and HBO deserve much credit for profiling these extraordinary people. It's just too bad the execution tends to be a little long-winded or not nearly as expansive as it should be.
  19. One Day at a Time (2017): Season 1
    Not perfect, but pretty darned good, and Moreno and Machado are a formidable comedy team indeed.
  20. Smash: Season 1
    I've seen four episodes; they're all good.
  21. The Hour (UK): Season 2
    There are real pleasures with "The Hour," but the hour (actually, about an hour and 15 minutes Wednesday night) ticks by far too slowly.
  22. Black Lightning: Season 1
    The pilot’s tropes are overly familiar, the action sequences predictable. But this is absolutely a welcome addition, potentially a valuable one, and indisputably a long overdue one.
  23. This American Life: Season 1
    They've translated the radio show's aural mosaic to the visual medium so effortlessly in this first season of six half-hours, we hope Showtime orders more of this life we all can recognize.
  24. Margo's Got Money Troubles: Season 1
    It's the best new series we've seen in a while.
  25. Damages: Season 5
    Some wild twists, but you've seen a variation before on one of them. Nevertheless, the Patty Hewes story is almost over, and in Close's hands, it's still compulsively watchable.
  26. 24: Season 4
    So far no amnesia bouts or cougar attacks. And no Kim! [9 Jan 2005]
    • Newsday
      • Posted Jun 18, 2013
  27. Scrubs: Season 8
    Rest easy. Scrubs is just fine (with all cast members, except Jenkins, back), though the opening episode is superior to the follow-up.
  28. Human Planet : Season 1
    Another Discovery/BBC beauty, but short on answering obvious questions.
  29. Regarding Susan Sontag
    Sontag, simply put, was a very interesting person, who fully inhabited some interesting times--which this film captures. But as to that genuine, lasting impact? Who knows: Regarding is so busy trying to capture this busy life, that it never gets around to an answer.
  30. Dead Ringers (2023): Season 1
    This "Dead Ringers" carves out a path that's fundamentally different from the one laid out by Cronenberg, and not just because of the gender-swapped leads. But even if it takes some time to understand exactly where things are going and why, it can fall back on one of the most remarkable performances in a good long while.
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