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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 Killing Season: Season 1
    Not nearly enough fresh information on the Long Island case, and cluttered with tangents that seem to lead nowhere, The Killing Season still makes its case — a terrifying one.
  2. Secrets and Lies: Season 1
    It feels observed, rather than lived in. Enacted, rather than unfolding.
  3. The Exes: Season 1
    Familiar doesn't mean bad, and there's some likable charm here.
  4. Conan (2010): Season 1
    So far, so good. No late night talk show has ever been canceled after one edition--not even Chevy's--while first albeit abbreviated impressions of Conan are promising.
  5. Stranger Things: Season 1
    Unless your name is Stephen King or Steven Spielberg, there’s only so much new anyone can bring to this potluck supper. The Duffers don’t bring much new. They do bring a large degree of enthusiasm, however.
  6. Downsized: Season 1
    You can't help realizing that just by the act of taping a reality show, the Bruces--all nine of them--are already employed in a job, albeit a temporary one.
  7. Rush Hour (2016): Season 1
    The plotting had better up its game, too, with nearly every pilot “twist” being ridiculously predictable.
  8. The Glee Project: Season 1
    Gleeks will engage; hard to imagine who else will.
  9. Sons of Liberty: Season 1
    It's a cut above boilerplate, with good production values and decent performances.
  10. Comic Book Men: Season 1
    Way too obscure for the average viewer, Comic Book Men is strictly for Smith groupies, and there are probably enough of those to keep this six-parter afloat over its short run.
  11. Wayward Pines: Season 1
    Enjoy the atmospherics. They're good. Just don't expect them to lead to a satisfying payoff. It might never come.
  12. The Prisoner
    The Narrative knot is further jumbled by all the head games Two plays on him and everyone else. Six is on shifting sand, and so, too, will you be.
  13. The Seventies: Season 1
    This can sometimes be an exercise in rehashing as opposed to reassessment.... The Seventies, however, gets better when the story gets stronger, or at least more resonant.
  14. Memphis Beat: Season 1
    A by-the-book cop show without much bite or heft. But it's got Memphis and Lee.
  15. Once Upon a Time in Wonderland: Season 1
    There's too much going on to tell what might ultimately stick, other than the contents of the Mallow Marsh.
  16. Bret Michaels: Life As I Know It: Season 1
    The show is scattered, slight and abominably self-promotional. But Michaels is so full of abundant - and infectious - good cheer that you tend to overlook these many faults. Fans will eat it up.
  17. There's Something Wrong With Aunt Diane
    It's an exhaustive and exhausting film, but Garbus finds nothing that will change minds or reverse conclusions. The tragic void remains.
  18. Bonnie & Clyde: Season 1
    Bonnie & Clyde really is just another biopic with superior production values, a few good performances and a pair of protagonists who deserve no sympathy, and receive none here.
  19. SEAL Team Six: The Raid on Osama bin Laden
    Not great, not terrible--just your standard-issue TV movie about a well-known historic event.
  20. Eli Stone: Season 2
    Interesting detours, and a worthy show--but at times just a smidgen too self-righteous and melodramatic.
  21. Parks and Recreation: Season 2
    There's so much to like here. Now, all P&R has to do is become consistently likable.
  22. The Pauly D Project: Season 1
    Pauly is still Pauly--but he's a more grown-up version who cares about his friends, ailing dad and career.
  23. 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.
  24. Designated Survivor: Season 1
    Overly familiar story beats and cardboard character cutouts in Wednesday’s opener blunt the return of Jack Bauer 2.0. A hint of genuine promise, however, remains.
  25. Emily Owens, M.D.: Season 1
    At least Emily proves she's got the chops to cast a shadow of her own.
  26. Hemingway and Gellhorn
    Stellar production, famous leads. What's missing? Heart.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    Web Therapy: Season 1
    The cameos often are amusing, and so is Kudrow, but someone at Showtime evidently forgot to ask whether a one-joke webisode can or should be expanded into a one-joke TV series. This one feels like a strrrretch.
  28. The Cleveland Show: Season 1
    I laughed. Not often, or perhaps not often enough, but there was also enough McFarlane-esque gross-out sophomoric tomfoolery to keep even me reasonably entertained for a half-hour. Plus, good ol' likable Cleveland works well as a leading man.
  29. Rookie Blue: Season 1
    It's summer, expectations are low, and you could do a lot worse than this genial, softhearted import.
  30. H8R: Season 1
    The angel on my shoulder says H8R is a piece of slime, bringing out the worst in everyone involved. But the devil on my other shoulder says this show is the logical outcome of our culture's celeb-obsession, and everyone involved gets precisely what they deserve. Which is soooo fun to watch.
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