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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. Z: The Beginning of Everything: Season 1
    While beautiful to look at--some of this was filmed in Wading River, near Herod Point--Zelda can also feel like that TV biopic we’ve all seen before: The one that trudges dutifully along without adding much depth or subtlety in the process.
  2. Scandal: Season 6
    Fans will love the sixth season opener. Prepare to be shocked. This is Scandal, after all.
  3. Riverdale: Season 1
    Well done, but formulaic.
  4. Sneaky Pete: Season 1
    After a shaky start, Pete gets denser, trickier and better.
  5. Six: Season 1
    Exciting newcomer with lots of action, and some guiding intelligence, too. (Demerits for a secondary story that doesn’t work.)
  6. Victoria (2016): Season 1
    Approach Victoria for what it is--a lavish production with impeccable period details and some impeccable entertainment ones--and you will be pleased. Coleman, who’s wonderful here, assures that anyway.
  7. The Young Pope: Season 1
    The Young Pope is a fascinating mess with a puckish sense of humor and an outsized goal--to know the mind of God.
  8. Homeland: Season 6
    The first two episodes promise a contemplative sixth as opposed to a shock-and-awe one.
  9. Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events (2017): Season 1
    A little too Lemony, but genial, well-produced and presumably faithful to the Lemony Snicket vision.
  10. Taboo: Season 1
    Hardy and cast are first-rate, but the story lumbers.
  11. Bright Lights: Starring Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds
    A beauty that will mostly make you laugh and, of course, cry.
  12. One Day at a Time (2017): Season 1
    Not perfect, but pretty darned good, and Moreno and Machado are a formidable comedy team indeed.
  13. Emerald City: Season 1
    A grim grind of a trip down that emblematic yellow road.
  14. The Mick: Season 1
    The material’s the problem. "The Mick" lumbers along instead of flies. Scenes grope for punchlines that — when or if they come — lack punch or just belly-flop. "The Mick" wants to be outrageous, but instead settles for excessive.
  15. Nashville (2012): Season 5
    A warm, welcome and even moving return. Best of all, a reflective one.
  16. Star: Season 1
    A prime-time soap that wants to be harder-edged than “Empire,” but instead manages to be less fun.
  17. The Hollow Crown: Season 2
    A lesser known, and unloved Shakespeare play (which, incidentally, had other co-authors) comes to life Sunday, but the better plays air over the next couple weeks.
  18. Hairspray Live!
    Hairspray Live! is forgettable.
  19. Mariah's World: Season 1
    There’s a fascinating sideshow here--Carey’s tough manager--otherwise this is a by-the-book celebrity reality series that just happens to star one of the world’s biggest celebrities.
  20. Leah Remini: Scientology and the Aftermath: Season 1
    Nothing much new here (based on the first hour), but Remini appears resolute, tough-talking and potentially formidable.
  21. Gilmore Girls: Season 8
    A Year in the Life is a triumph. ... A sweet, sad, sentimental and (above all) joyous return to Stars Hollow.
  22. Search Party (2016): Season 1
    Uneven, intelligent, weird, sometimes funny (more often not)--and almost consistently engaging.
  23. The Affair: Season 3
    Dark and thrilling, The Affair returns with a huge wallop--and glorious French star Irène Jacob is in the house.
  24. Soundbreaking: Season 1
    A well-crafted, well-intentioned documentary series that excels when it offers rare concrete examples of the amorphous role producers play in the musical process, while also shining a spotlight on a who’s who of great producers.
  25. Mars: Season 1
    Mars is interesting, and much more: Quirky, funky, earnest, intelligent, engaging and occasionally melodramatic.
  26. The Killing Season: Season 1
    Not nearly enough fresh information on the Long Island case, and cluttered with tangents that seem to lead nowhere, The Killing Season still makes its case — a terrifying one.
  27. The Crown: Season 1
    Sumptuously produced but glacially told, The Crown is the TV equivalent of a long drive through the English countryside. The scenery keeps changing, but remains the same.
  28. People of Earth: Season 1
    From the setup to the incidentals, People of Earth is packed with humor and heart forever revealed in clever ways.
  29. Good Girls Revolt: Season 1
    Good Girls gets the journalism part almost laughably wrong, but as an ensemble drama with a good cast, high production values, and much else, even a crusty editor might observe that, “This story has legs.”
  30. Pure Genius: Season 1
    Marred by the usual hospital prime-time melodramatics, Pure Genius is still a compelling idea matched to a superior cast.
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