Newsday's Scores

  • TV
Select another publication »
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
1506 tv reviews
view
per page
  1. Unorthodox: Season 1
    "Unorthodox" is an achievement of searing power and grace, attuned to big, sweeping emotions and small, observational moments in equal measure. ... This is one of the major achievements in the history of Netflix original productions. You cannot miss it.
  2. Shogun (2024): Season 1
    Watching “Shōgun" is a you-are-there-you-are-not-there experience — both bracing and chilly, not consistently engaging yet (paradoxically) always engaging, “Shōgun" draws you in, but never quite makes you feel welcome to be there.
  3. Outlander (2014): Season 2
    The Jamie and Claire show moves to Paris--and in a sense, Frank and Jack do as well. A nice change of locale, and tone.
  4. Silicon Valley: Season 4
    There’s a sense that we’ve traveled down this road paved with silicon once or twice before, but the ride is still smart, engaging and highly informative.
  5. The Missing: Season 1
    Nesbitt forcibly conveys the sense of a man who can't stop moving, even to sleep, until he finds his son. At least in the first hour--sorry, the only one I sampled--this feels like the kind of performance that just bought Starz a winner.
  6. Bright Lights: Starring Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds
    A beauty that will mostly make you laugh and, of course, cry.
  7. Downton Abbey: Season 2
    Much grimmer, grayer and (gasp) dowdier. Still mostly wonderful.
  8. The Normal Heart
    The cast succeeds, and in the end, so does Heart.
  9. The Affair: Season 1
    The Affair might be an exercise in literary gamesmanship if the acting and writing weren't so strong, or the setting so evocative.... Engrossing.
  10. The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel: Season 2
    Maisel doubles down on what it did best in the first season, and feels richer (and funnier) for the effort.
  11. Mad Men: Season 7
    This still very much feels like a journey worth taking if only because--in the process--Hamm deftly continues to locate some heroic facet in TV's reigning anti-hero.
  12. House of Cards: Season 1
    It's just super, a triumph of programme-making that even Alistair Cooke himself with his famous British overstatement can't exaggerate. [28 Mar 1991]
    • Newsday
      • Posted Jul 18, 2014
  13. In Treatment: Season 2
    Byrne is brilliant and--for the most part--so is this fine and absorbing show.
  14. Watchmen (2019): Season 1
    No, this isn't your father's (or mother's) "Watchmen," but something new, occasionally thrilling too. Just not consistently so.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Six by Sondheim
    Riveting, important and lots of fun.
  16. American Crime: Season 1
    This is often a stirring and deeply felt portrait of people in an extended state of crisis.
  17. American Crime: Season 2
    Like the first season, there’s a “Crash”-like flavor to the storytelling, but it feels more organic this time around.... Excellent, all around.
  18. Wu-Tang Clan: Of Mics and Men: Season 1
    What sets “Of Mics and Men” apart from the usual music documentary is how it goes out of its way to show the context that inspired Wu-Tang Clan’s music.
  19. The Crown: Season 3
    It's what we do with our character that matters. This season— magnificently—reveals what Elizabeth has done with her's. You will be blown away. At least I was.
  20. Dear White People (2017): Season 1
    DWP does want to be provocative, just not too provocative. Mostly it just wants to keep an open mind and open heart. Mostly, it succeeds.
  21. A Very English Scandal: Season 1
    A sharp, incisive and (above all) funny script and direction to match. ... Whishaw's brilliant here, and almost effortlessly steals the entire miniseries.
  22. The Good Lord Bird: Season 1
    As good as Hawke is here, Johnson just might be better. A winner.
  23. Insecure: Season 3
    There's growth and evolution in the third season, but not too much and based on a glance at the first four episodes, just enough.
  24. Elvis Presley: The Searcher
    The central argument in Zimny’s loving, but unflinching documentary “Elvis Presley: The Searcher” is that his openness and inquisitive nature is what made him the King.
  25. Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief: Season 1
    As indictments go, Going Clear is relentless and effective. But fair and balanced? That's another question--or maybe that's an issue.
  26. The Killing: Season 1
    Smart new cop show that takes time to build, but will reward patience.
  27. The Last of Us: Season 1
    Superior zombie series that takes a little too long to get around to what it's really about — us.
  28. EZ Streets: Season 1
    The best new drama of the season, the only one of the 44 new shows that could join "Law & Order," "Homicide," "NYPD Blue," "Murder One" in the pantheon of quality shows. [11 Oct 1996]
    • Newsday
      • Posted Jul 12, 2013
  29. Treme: Season 2
    It was last year, and remains so this year--one of TV's very best.
  30. Barry: Season 1
    Baffling, dull Barry is a bore, and so is the series named for him.
Page:

Top Trailers

See all »
See all trailers »