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. Gadd remains a first-rate talent; anything he does is worth watching. But it's hard to sit through this one.
  2. It's the best new series we've seen in a while.
  3. Bitter, brutal, depressing.
  4. Strictly fan service, but fans will love it.
  5. Funny, melancholy, flawless.
  6. Settled, thoughtful and at times engaging coming-of-age sequel.
  7. Will this be your next "Downton Abbey?" Probably not, but it could be your next "Poldark." Nothing wrong with that.
  8. Murder mystery obsessives will want to check out "Scarpetta," but it's a waste of time for the rest of us.
  9. If all this sounds hopelessly hokey — and there are stretches in "The Madison" where it irredeemably is — then you'll want to do something else with your Saturday night. Otherwise, there's beauty here, some nice performances and a welcome pivot away from the mayhem of "Yellowstone."
  10. Steady start to the final season of a TV treasure.
  11. A great historical story gets wasted in this endurance test for viewers.
  12. Mostly boilerplate CBS procedural but at least the horses look great.
  13. With some of the zip of the original, and some of the heart too.
  14. Wish the news were better here, but "Reggie Dinkins" is just OK.
  15. Nicely crafted, but still Hillerman-lite.
  16. The main reason to give this version of "The 'Burbs'" a chance, of course, is the interplay between Palmer, Pell, Proksch and Julia Duffy ("Newhart") as the neighbors with a lot of time on their hands. They keep the energy high and the laughs coming.
  17. The test for the picture, then, comes in whether it's possible to emerge from it with any new insight into the man himself and into why his work resonates as much as it does. And the filmmakers find plenty of material on both fronts.
  18. In England, critics have called Cohen the new Peter Sellers. If that's the case, it's not Sellers at his "Dr. Strangelove"-"Being There" shrewdest but, rather, at his do-it-for-the-money "Pink Panther"-sequel broadest. [21 Feb 2003]
    • Newsday
  19. Slow at first, with gratuitous violence, but Dunk and Egg should win hearts.
  20. It all floats along, watchable enough as far as it goes. It unfolds in that middle ground somewhere between utter boredom and compelling entertainment. But you can do better than that.
  21. Often a great-looking newcomer with an often tedious YA throughline.
  22. The best show of 2025 also happens to be the best show of 2026.
  23. Even the most diehard of Western fans should keep on scrolling.
  24. It's extraordinarily familiar territory, as well-trod as any moment of pop cultural history. And yet "The Beatles Anthology" still feels as fresh and as relevant as ever today in the way it presents the dizzying whirlwind of this sort of fame from the front lines.
  25. This is a thinking viewers' show, filled with plump, meaty ideas — just not too plump or meaty.
  26. Miller's series offers a chance to understand Martin Scorsese's movies in a new way. What a gift.
  27. Work in progress, but at least the progress seems to be in the right direction.
  28. "House of Guinness" is always entertaining, but there's a hollowness to it that's hard to shake.
  29. Another fine Hawke performance — and entertaining series — but the character he's created never quite gets a backstory, at least over the first five episodes.
  30. Well-crafted thriller, and a reminder of just how good an actor — and director — Bateman is.

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