Newsday's Scores
- TV
For 2,207 reviews, this publication has graded:
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61% higher than the average critic
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4% same as the average critic
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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: | The Crown: Season 4 | |
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| Lowest review score: | Commander in Chief: Season 1 |
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Positive: 1,506 out of 1506
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Mixed: 0 out of 1506
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Negative: 0 out of 1506
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Verne Gay
The Son is mostly about a son with two fathers, one white, the other Comanche. He absorbs the soul, spirit and perspective of the latter. It’s a particularly interesting idea and character based on a celebrated book. Here’s hoping the miniseries lives up to the promise. Saturday’s opener suggests that it should.- Newsday
- Posted Apr 5, 2017
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More of a continuation than a "remake," this one looks to be a winner.- Newsday
- Posted Jun 12, 2012
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Saul is lighter and brighter than "Bad," and--particularly with Sunday's launch--often very funny.- Newsday
- Posted Feb 9, 2015
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Besides the scenery, what's best here are the characters, and their lives--or unlives--of quiet desperation.- Newsday
- Posted Oct 30, 2013
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Diane Werts
While critics like me count quibbles, kids of all ages should share my husband's assessment: "It's a superhero show. Superman flies. Give The Cape a little space."- Newsday
- Posted Jan 6, 2011
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Diane Werts
This hour isn't perfectly paced, but its segues usually wind their way somewhere smart. O'Donnell remains a master of comic timing and tenor, holding the stage through the perils of fame, helicopter mothering, circumcision, women who don't "look gay," doctors lacking bedside manners, the persistence of childhood faith training and more.- Newsday
- Posted Feb 13, 2015
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- Posted Jan 8, 2014
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Verne Gay
A beauty that requires time and patience, but at least strongly hints at a payoff that will reward both.- Newsday
- Posted Jul 31, 2014
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Get beyond that preposterous premise outlined above, and you've got a solid piece of prime-time entertainment. This show knows what it is, and knows exactly what the core audience expects.- Newsday
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Diane Werts
Disney should be sent to detention for passing off such aural plasticity [laugh track], unfairly fouling the repute of the live-audience sitcom. But the rest of Girl Meets World does its job of bringing tween-based family viewing into the 2010s.- Newsday
- Posted Jun 25, 2014
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A surprisingly revisionist take on one of the most controversial trials of the decade.- Newsday
- Posted Jan 18, 2013
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Good start to the third season, and from what I sampled, it builds from there.- Newsday
- Posted Jan 18, 2012
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The dynamics of the show seem different enough that "Housewives" fans will want to give Miami a try. But we'll have to see if the plot lines will sustain interest.- Newsday
- Posted Feb 22, 2011
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Verne Gay
Maybe this episode really is about repression, erotica and split personalities. Or maybe it's just a good excuse for the show to shake the dust out, ditch the inferno of summertime New York and wander amid the glories of Paris while exploring the discreet bourgeois charms of Blair and Serena. Either way, it's a lot of fun.- Newsday
- Posted Dec 10, 2010
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[A] richly deserved and well-produced documentary.- Newsday
- Posted Nov 3, 2015
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Multiple-personality thriller starts a bit slowly Wednesday night, but early signs still indicate a summer keeper for TNT.- Newsday
- Posted Aug 13, 2014
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The acting is first-rate, and so is the writing, but the violence is appalling, and not just appalling, but creatively appalling.- Newsday
- Posted Sep 9, 2013
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By the end of the first season, the show had improved significantly, if not quite dramatically, and based on a viewing of the first two episodes, that trend continues.- Newsday
- Posted Jun 15, 2015
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For Mel Brooks lovers everywhere (you know who you are), but it's on the light side.- Newsday
- Posted Dec 7, 2012
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Leverage's pilot is particularly entertaining. The cast is fine, direction is expert, writing above average, and Hutton's Ford is almost convincing. But the payoff feels laden with cheese of another sort.- Newsday
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The result is often funny, ridiculous, bathetic and silly. Plus, watchable. Against all odds, this might actually be a good closing season.- Newsday
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The judging process seems arbitrary - a couple of artists are penalized for being too abstract; someone who is even more abstract (let's just say this one likes cats) goes to the next round. Otherwise, a winner.- Newsday
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While the story is briskly and engagingly told, with some key players debriefed, there's not a lot new here. It's a very good beginner's history.- Newsday
- Posted Apr 18, 2013
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Brush aside the hyperactivity and hard sell, and you're left with a winner.- Newsday
- Posted Sep 21, 2012
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Diane Werts
Beals and company (including Joe Morton as her remarkably flesh-and-blood boss) breathe life into this tale the way their characters restore life to patients, with skill and guts and, crucially, souls that radiate precisely what this show is about.- Newsday
- Posted Jun 15, 2015
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ThunderCats fanboys and girls will approve, although the story does feel a lot darker and more violent.- Newsday
- Posted Aug 1, 2011
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Terrifically hard to love, but some superb performances indicate that at least it's worth the effort to try.- Newsday
- Posted Aug 8, 2013
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All charisma and command, [Idris Elb] blasts through the screen in every shot while his performance is a constant reminder that the craft, at its best, is a gossamer of countless little details that add up to something magical.- Newsday
- Posted Sep 3, 2013
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The Young Pope is a fascinating mess with a puckish sense of humor and an outsized goal--to know the mind of God.- Newsday
- Posted Jan 13, 2017
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One little gripe---Pioneers needed to give a tip of the space helmet to some '50s pioneers, such as "Captain Video" and "Flash Gordon." Otherwise, it's all pleasure.- Newsday
- Posted Jan 18, 2011
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