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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 Choice: Season 1
    "Awful" doesn't begin to do The Choice justice, not that it deserves justice.
  2. 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.
  3. Justice for Natalee Holloway
    Despite Salomon's efforts at visually stylish filmmaking, Justice for Natalee Holloway never puts any real meat on the bones of the much-hyped saga.
  4. Baby Talk: Season 1
    Even the baby talk offers more variety than you'd think, with Danza frequently encountering friends with their own peculiar outlooks on toddler life (Roscoe Lee Browne voices a stuffy baby-actor in the second show). [8 Mar 1991, p.103]
    • Newsday
      • Posted Apr 16, 2014
  5. Charlie's Angels: Season 1
    Reboots can work ("Hawaii Five-0"), but they haven't got a prayer if they lavishly, ludicrously, embrace all the hooey and hokum of the original. Welcome to the new Angels.
  6. Mayday: Season 1
    Maybe the problem with CBS' new Sunday popcorn movie "Mayday" isn't that it could be better. It actually could be worse. Then this would be deliriously mockable trash instead of an occasionally gripping but mostly frustratingly loony piece of hooey.
  7. The Cougar: Season 1
    Sure, The Cougar is idiotic--these shows always are. That's a large part of their appeal. But casting fouled up here.
  8. Twenty Good Years: Season 1
    It is so ancient - in approach, tone, style and energy - that you can almost see the dust bunnies tumble across the set.
  9. Hidden Hills: Season 1
    If this is comedy, who needs it? [24 Sept 2002, p.B27]
    • Newsday
      • Posted Aug 10, 2014
  10. American Inventor: Season 1
    "American Inventor," ... is unspeakably awful, and makes not just a travesty of the type of television that "American Idol" so dramatically popularized, but an unintentional parody of it as well.
  11. Big Brother: Season 1
    Airing five nights a week and featuring 10 strangers - not to mention insufferable hosts Julie Chen and Ian O'Malley - this will fill our screens for the next three months. Unless we happen to leave the set turned off. Which, judging from last night, might be advisable. [6 Jul 2000]
    • Newsday
      • Posted Jun 20, 2013
  12. Rob: Season 1
    Yup, pretty awful.
  13. Ghost Whisperer: Season 1
    A mini-triumph of style over substance (of which there is almost none).
  14. The Return of Jezebel James: Season 1
    Our mouths may be open, but more likely agape than laughing.
  15. Sex Box: Season 1
    Sex Box is bad. It's also hackneyed, dull, derivative and surprisingly windy.
  16. Love, Inc.: Season 1
    The characters are vibrantly well-defined... And the writing is smart, with a light touch.
    • 28 Metascore
    • 0 Critic Score
    Murphy's Law (1988): Season 1
    A series so monumentally meaningless, so pathetically puerile, so irredeemably ridiculous that, within my limited professional context, it prompts the Biggest Question of them all: Why is there television? [2 Nov 1988]
    • Newsday
      • Posted Aug 7, 2014
  18. Rules of Engagement: Season 1
    This one isn't David Spade's fault. Really it isn't.
  19. Criminal Minds: Beyond Borders: Season 1
    Beyond comprehension, beyond silly, beyond words.
  20. Bleep My Dad Says: Season 1
    As awful as $#*! My Dad Says is, you almost detect an ember of promise here. Maybe it's Shatner--whom we will always love, no matter what--or maybe it's an illusion. But CBS needs to blow some life into that ember before it's too late. Maybe it already is.
  21. Marvel's Inhumans: Season 1
    Inhumans squanders its Marvel back story (largely unclear here), to come off silly and stilted (in the hands of “Iron Fist” showrunner Scott Buck), as it plods through a cheap parade of cliches in writing, design and production. Despite special effects up the wazoo, it’s utterly devoid of magic or wonder.
  22. Does Someone Have To Go: Season 1
    "Lord of the Flies"-meets-a-telephone book, and just about as entertaining.
  23. In Case of Emergency: Season 1
    "Emergency" is sodden, forbidding, a waste of 22 good minutes.
  24. Desire: Season 1
    Viewers are expected to swallow - worse, to savor - simplistic recycling of melodrama plots seen a hundred times before.
  25. Liz & Dick
    Liz & Dick is not a complete disaster, nor entirely is Lohan.
  26. Truth Be Told (2015): Season 1
    Truth Be Told doesn't let its issues come from the characters. The issues are the characters. Maybe future episodes will flesh out these people, but they initially serve as stick figures on which to hang "outspoken" opinions seeming not necessarily their own.
  27. Dr. Ken: Season 1
    Note the parade of cliche characterizations (the way-too-understanding wife who gazes upon her dim guy with affectionate he's-a-dope-but-he's-my-dope amusement). Also the schlock writing.
  28. The Trouble with Normal: Season 1
    These folks wouldn't be paranoid if they thought critics loathed their forced and annoying show and widely predicted it would be the season's first to tank. [6 Oct 2000, p.B51]
    • Newsday
      • Posted Jun 13, 2013
  29. Tucker: Season 1
    Seen "Malcolm in the Middle"? It's good, right? Clever, original and fresh? Now imagine it's a tired retread, a shadow of itself. That's this shameless ripoff, which ratchets up the leer quotient and down the brains. [2 Oct 2000, p.B07]
    • Newsday
      • Posted Aug 23, 2015
  30. The Proposal: Season 1
    [The contestants] range in age from 25 to 41, aren't all model-pretty as often found on "The Bachelor," and include black, white and Hispanic women with a variety of jobs from executive assistant to neuropsychologist and a span of body types from va-voom to fuller figures. ... Also commendable is host Jesse Palmer, the sportscaster, former NFL quarterback and season-five star of "The Bachelor" who manages to project sincerity despite the remarkable premise. ... But otherwise vapid and regressive show.
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