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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 Son: Season 1
    The Son is mostly about a son with two fathers, one white, the other Comanche. He absorbs the soul, spirit and perspective of the latter. It’s a particularly interesting idea and character based on a celebrated book. Here’s hoping the miniseries lives up to the promise. Saturday’s opener suggests that it should.
  2. Louis C.K.: 2017
    The usual C.K. show--fresh, funny, smart, bleak, offensive, entertaining--with one minor demerit, for an overlong finish.
  3. Brockmire: Season 1
    Yes, this story’s kind of been told before, in various places, and in various forms over various decades--but with not nearly as many vulgar words called into service here.
  4. Prison Break: Season 5
    Linc’s still tough and impulsive. Michael still has that lonely middle-distance stare. Tuesday’s opener suggests there’s plenty of action ahead, some real-world parallels, and a shaggy dog that could lead us to an interesting place. Hopefully that place will finally be closure.
  5. Imaginary Mary: Season 1
    Elfman is good (as usual), but Alice doesn’t give her a whole lot of room to expand either. ... There’s not much more here, other than those standard sitcom garnishments, and that spunky, chatty fuzzball.
  6. Rebel: Season 1
    Singleton’s first TV series has a nice retro vibe, but otherwise not much action, not much originality, and not much wallop.
  7. Shots Fired: Season 1
    Ambitious and intelligent, but also a sprawl that can’t quite master all the big themes and ideas.
  8. Dave Chappelle: The Age of Spin
    With his 2000 show, HBO’s “Killing Them Softly,” as another baseline for the best of Chappelle’s TV standup, this one’s right up there, too--not quite its equal, but close.
  9. Trial & Error: Season 1
    A featherweight entertainment with a good cast, some charm, and not nearly enough laughs.
  10. American Crime: Season 3
    Another brilliant, powerful, moving season of one of TV’s best.
  11. TIME: The Kalief Browder Story: Season 1
    Remarkable film.... Based on a look at the first two episodes, this particularly well-produced film insists that even in death, Kalief Browder can still change a broken system--and must.
  12. Amy Schumer: The Leather Special
    Too much of the carnal Amy, not enough of the smart, cultural critic Amy.
  13. The Americans: Season 5
    The fourth season was great. The fifth at least needs to match it, and the evidence so far establishes that it will.
  14. FEUD: Season 1
    Full of joy, humor, brilliant writing and performances, and a deep unabiding love for what really makes Hollywood great--the women.
  15. Time After Time: Season 1
    Time after Time is timeworn.
  16. Making History: Season 1
    The show spurts onto the air like ketchup spewed from an oversqueezed bottle, plopping frenzied mayhem all over everything.
  17. When We Rise: Season 1
    Important television, but also wildly, maddeningly uneven TV, too.
  18. Taken (2017): Season 1
    Taken exercises its thriller muscles effectively, dashing between locations and speed-introducing people as props to help/harm Mills while he races the clock to save the day.
  19. Sun Records: Season 1
    Sure, it’s understandable that CMT wants to make the mini series interesting to non-music fans, but a little more music is what would take Sun Records from good to great.
  20. Planet Earth II: Season 1
    Prepare to reattach those jaws once again. Spectacular. What else?
  21. The Good Fight: Season 1
    Solid opener, compelling premise, good cast and one major hole.
  22. Big Little Lies: Season 1
    Yes, it can be mean, and yes, superficial, and yes, a little draggy (almost a whole episode about a kids’ party, really?). But the cast is fabulous, and the script by Kelley sparkles. A winner.
  23. Doubt: Season 1
    Think of this as “Grey’s” in a courtroom, with a good New York cast, two legends (Gould and Bill Irwin, who plays a judge), a TV star and a TV pioneer.
  24. Girls: Season 6
    Girls' moment is almost up, but this lovely, gossamer line ["I want to write stories that make people feel less alone than I did, to laugh about the things that are painful in life.”] reminds us why that moment was so special.
  25. Legion: Season 1
    Beautifully crafted, occasionally incoherent, often challenging and insistently demanding, but what’s not entirely clear in the early episodes is whether the payoff will be worth all the trouble.
  26. APB: Season 1
    A not nearly as bad (as you feared) cop procedural, plus toys that go boom.
  27. 24: Legacy: Season 1
    Great cast, and Hawkins is a worthy Jack Bauer successor. But Legacy can be lethargic and loquacious. More action, less talk, will hopefully close out this day.
  28. Superior Donuts: Season 1
    Reminiscent of “Chico and the Man” (the mid-’70s NBC sitcom about a cranky garage owner and his Chicano employee), but it also aspires to a contemporary relevance--but manages only a weary crustiness.
  29. Training Day (2017): Season 1
    Bruckheimer assembly-line sausage stuffed with plenty of hooey and violence--but the leads are plenty appealing.
  30. Powerless: Season 1
    Funny idea that doesn’t quite attain the level of “funny show,” but a good cast along with a few good lines indicate this superhero sendup will eventually get there.
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