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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. Ray Donovan: Season 1
    In the end, don't much like Ray Donovan.... [But] Donovan ultimately succeeds on the little things--some very good performances by some very good actors and sharp dialogue by Biderman, who knows how to write Tough Guy talk with the best of them.
  2. 24: Legacy: Season 1
    Great cast, and Hawkins is a worthy Jack Bauer successor. But Legacy can be lethargic and loquacious. More action, less talk, will hopefully close out this day.
  3. New Girl: Season 1
    If you love Zooey Deschanel, this one's for you. If not, a pass.
  4. Justified: Season 1
    Watch for any length of time and you may--as I did--have the eerie if not unpleasant feeling that you've been teleported to a decent network cop show from the 1970s.
  5. Beavis and Butt-head: Season 8
    Like opening a time capsule. The boys remain the same. At least their snark has been updated for contemporary targets.
  6. 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.
  7. Harley and the Davidsons: Season 1
    The series does a competent job of setting mood and character--notably that anything is possible, the sky’s the limit drive of the early 20th century that animated great inventions, and consequently great fortunes.
  8. Animal Practice: Season 1
    Not terrible--really--but not yet remotely the winner NBC so badly needs either.
  9. Minority Report (2015): Season 1
    Arthur and Agatha flit through the pilot, barely registering. In fact, no one registers. They're all line drawings in service to some very nice special effects and a pilot that's already tangled up in way too many plot tangents.
  10. Rubicon: Season 1
    Rubicon unfolds at a languid pace, dispensing information at the rate a not-quite-broken kitchen faucet dispenses drops. You want it to speed up. You want some urgency. You want a few more thrills in this thriller. At least this average TV viewer does.
  11. Hot in Cleveland: Season 1
    Hot in Cleveland is a by-the-numbers sitcom with a couple of laughs, an inoffensive premise and four seasoned actresses who make the material much better than it is.
  12. Parks and Recreation: Season 1
    Unfortunately, one show's a classic, the other a near knockoff. Nevertheless, Poehler's still got plenty of appeal here.
  13. Malibu Country: Season 1
    Malibu Country is nothing great. But its studio-shot sitcom style sure suits Reba.
  14. Friends with Better Lives: Season 1
    The cast feels solid, and likable, jelling swiftly.... Then comes that final distasteful sex gag. Let's pray it's just pilot-itis.
  15. NCIS: New Orleans: Season 1
    [Bakula and Pounder] should make the process of watching--or chore of watching, depending on your appetite for more of this formula--just a little more agreeable.
  16. Tales: Season 1
    A clever idea weighed down by heavy-handed storyline.
  17. You're the Worst: Season 1
    You're the Worst exudes some charm (Cash is rich indeed) but can't keep from overstepping, either. It's saved by relationship detail and human vulnerability that "Married" utterly misses.
  18. Lucky 7: Season 1
    Lucky 7 might offer more to like than authentic texture of place, race, personality and workplace emotions.
  19. Eleventh Hour: Season 1
    Tonight's premiere may seem like ridiculous twaddle, and it may feel like a major downer (and kinda sloooow), too, but maybe that's just Bruckheimer playing with our heads. In fact, Hour deserves a second look (next week is definitely better).
  20. Blue Bloods: Season 1
    Forgive the pun, but this brass needs polishing. The Green/Burgess team is one of TV's best and we hope they'll make this show as sharp and compelling as it should be.
  21. Deception: Season 1
    Been here/seen this--a lot--but familiarity could work in favor of Deception.
  22. Legion: Season 1
    Beautifully crafted, occasionally incoherent, often challenging and insistently demanding, but what’s not entirely clear in the early episodes is whether the payoff will be worth all the trouble.
  23. Falling Skies: Season 1
    Skies needs more horror. Less talk. More dramatic tension. Less (ummm) talk. More crazy, wild shootouts with the despicable aliens, who don't seem particularly bright, by the way. Less (all together now) talk.
  24. Whisker Wars: Season 1
    If it wasn't a docucomedy, it would just be dull.
  25. Preacher: Season 1
    Good setup pilot on Sunday that doesn’t quite carry over into subsequent episodes.
  26. 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.
  27. Lone Star: Season 1
    Let's say Lone Star has its work cut out for it, and so does Wolk. His portrayal is too nice--too romantic, too good-hearted, too bland--to make Allen interesting, or at least convincing.
  28. The McCarthys: Season 1
    The McCarthys--good-natured, old-fashioned, unchallenging--isn't a bad sitcom, just an obvious one.
  29. Sinatra: All or Nothing at All: Season 1
    This is four hours of love and music, but the film also wants to address the many controversies, then excuse them. The result: Some lily-gilding, and far too many observations we've heard far too many times before and factoids, too.
  30. The Tenth Inning: Season 1
    The Tenth Inning is dutiful, sober and thoughtful. No spitballs are thrown. No banned substances have been added to bloat it up to obscene, grotesque proportions. What is missing in at least tonight's installment is surprise, or the pleasant shock of learning something brand new or unexpected.
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