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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. House of Cards (2013): Season 6
    Like Walter White, she's the antihero we love to love--conflicted, intelligent, seductive, and human-all-too-human. Claire will be done in just eight episodes. A shame because she was just getting started. Claire's turn and she makes it count.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Moonlighting: Season 1
    In general, pilot films fall into three modes -- promising, bearable and for imbeciles only. Moonlighting is definitely in the last class. [01 Mar 1985, p.20]
    • Newsday
      • Posted Sep 27, 2023
  3. Here Comes Honey Boo Boo: Season 2
    Boo Boo is critic-proof. Call it vulgar, call it schlock, call it a cup of flatulence, call it whatever you like. But John Waters called it first: America loves its trash culture, smells and all.
  4. NCIS: Origins: Season 1
    Solid opener that otherwise oversells the premise.
  5. I'm Dying Up Here: Season 1
    You’ve seen it before, read it before. Too bad Dying passed up an opportunity to tell it in an exciting, engaging new way.
  6. Almost Human: Season 1
    Lively pilot, with plenty of pop--but you've seen it all before.
  7. Banshee: Season 1
    Banshee is baloney, but viewed as pure camp, there are some good action sequences and amusing moments.
  8. Rake (2014): Season 1
    Kinnear is solid, but his Keegan is a work in progress--both as human being and TV character.
  9. Scrubs: Season 9
    A ninth season. Wow. In fact, a change of scenery has done Scrubs a world of good. The new students are funny. McGinley is great as always--so, too, is Turk (Donald Faison).
  10. Medical Police: Season 1
    Money and cameos and nice locales don't make parodies work (nor does gun violence, which this newcomer jarringly has). ... Pallid, distant reflection of "Childrens Hospital." A whiff.
  11. B Positive: Season 1
    It's maybe easy, too easy, to write off "B Positive" as just another sitcom with a few setup jokes, along with the usual, predictable beats. But there's something else here, something potentially even good. Which would be? Call it comfort food, well-served.
  12. Da Vinci's Demons: Season 1
    Leonardo may not like what Starz has turned him into, but you probably won't mind this joy ride.
  13. The Slap (2015): Season 1
    The Slap is a chance, and a worthy one, too.
  14. Fleming: The Man Who Would Be Bond: Season 1
    Their [John Brownlow and co-writer Don Macpherson's] saga is so vividly shaded, even minor characters resonate.
  15. Foundation: Season 1
    It's world-building without the world having already been built in countless other movies, TV series and comic novels. Watch and you have the feeling that you are at the outset of a momentous journey. ... Spectacular.
  16. Necessary Roughness: Season 1
    My heart tells me that any show that revolves around an honest-to-goodness native of Commack deserves an A+. My head tells me this one deserves a C.
  17. The Following: Season 1
    The Following is a bummer of significant proportions. Not that it's bad--it's not--but it's bleak, sordid, blood-spattered and creepy (though not necessarily always "creepy" in a good way, like "The Walking Dead").
    • 62 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills: Season 1
    Housewives fans will enjoy the show but might tire of seeing yet another cast of wealthy, self-indulgent women. It might be time to change it up.
  19. The Handmaid's Tale: Season 4
    There's not a whole lot of pleasure to be had in the waiting. June's ordeal has now started to feel like our ordeal. We need to have it resolved as much as she does. but like her, don't have any choice in the matter because we're invested too.
  20. Untamed
    It's a smart and compelling drama, with some great acting and a real sense of place.
  21. Grey's Anatomy: Season 1
    Like Hugh Laurie's irascible "House" title character, star Ellen Pompeo's newly minted Dr. Grey conveys such substance that you simply can't stop watching. [25 March 2005, p.B33]
    • Newsday
      • Posted Feb 20, 2013
  22. The Exorcist (2016): Season 1
    With expectations low, this Exorcist surprises with appealing leads, and--a big bonus point--the return to TV of Geena Davis.
  23. Snowfall: Season 1
    Well-produced and particularly well-acted newcomer with a lot of moving parts, potentially too many.
  24. Entourage: Season 8
    Entourage is clarifying a moral message--drugs will kill you, terrible behavior is terrible, and real friends are forever. It feels like a reassuring final season.
  25. Inside Amy Schumer: Season 4
    Fans will be happy, but you newbies have been warned--the vulgarity will blow your hair back, or right off.
  26. Cherish the Day: Season 1
    Good performances, thoughtful series, but saddled with a grim inevitability.
  27. Galavant: Season 1
    It's all got the stirrings of something that should be funny, or wants to be funny, except that it's too often not - confoundedly, relentlessly, insistently not. [3 Jan 2015]
    • Newsday
      • Posted Jan 3, 2015
  28. Rizzoli & Isles: Season 1
    Mostly this show belongs to Harmon, once a key member of the "Law & Order" ensemble. She's likable and intriguing. That salvages an otherwise average cop show.
  29. True Detective: Season 2
    "Potential," in fact, is the key word. It's definitely here, but "2" may also need all eight episodes to realize it.
  30. The Ex List: Season 1
    The Ex List--based on an Israeli hit ("Mythological Ex"), with whiffs of "How I Met Your Mother" and "My Name Is Earl" - is a flat-out great idea for a TV series. But Ruggiero (who's since left the show) needed a strong partner to reign in her worst impulses, like a running gag about shaved genitalia.
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