Newsday's Scores

  • TV
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. Mixed: 0 out of 1506
  2. Negative: 0 out of 1506
1506 tv reviews
  1. Something is missing in "Woops!," besides a second joke. ... It could have been the funniest show in the world, if there was a nuclear war, really, and this was the only one show left. "Woops!" is moronic on so many levels. [5 Oct 1992]
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  2. Zombie Apocalypse is hilariously awful, as bad, sordid, silly and foolish as you can possibly imagine.
  3. Momma's Boys is so dreadful that it effectively neuters critical disembowelment before the operation even begins.
  4. No matter where the goofy "Desperate Housewives" goes, it's not into the toilet, which is where Big Shots spends its time both literally and figuratively.
  5. Utterly vacuous and incompetent.
  6. The plastic "punch lines" grow more contrived. The tired stereotypes feel more offensive.
  7. It's hard to imagine a worse show.
  8. "Awful" doesn't begin to do The Choice justice, not that it deserves justice.
  9. There's not a whiff of actual life here, no grounding character like "Arrested Development's" Jason Bateman . There's just frantic, false and tiresome.
  10. Finally, the best new comedy of the 2005-06 TV season is here... What's that, you say? This is a drama and not a comedy? Oh, dear.
  11. Get past the genuine awfulness of this--and it is awful--and a strange melancholy begins to settle in.
  12. 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.
  13. It's all about the women-in-terror kick of frying them alive. (Oct. 15's episode promises a bride who's shot during her wedding.) Reprehensible.
  14. "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.

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