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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 Great Indoors: Season 1
    In the pilot, some of the lines even find their mark--assuming the intended mark are sites like BuzzFeed, Digg, Cracked, Reddit, Upworthy and so on. But the millennial jokes quickly grow stale, along with their “what is it with these kids” setups.
  2. Man With a Plan: Season 1
    A wan, weary network-sitcom-by-committee--oh, and Matt LeBlanc, too.
  3. Crazy Ex-Girlfriend: Season 2
    Yet, for all its jam-packed insanity, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend can be one of the tube’s most perceptive and moving shows.
  4. The Rocky Horror Picture Show: Let’s Do the Time Warp Again
    Dutiful, reverent, energetic, expertly crafted and yet utterly incapable of escaping the long shadow of its exotic midnight forbear. The capacity to entertain is still here. The capacity to shock is not. Even as good as she is, Cox’s immaculate-- and historic--performance feels tame compared with Curry’s subversive screen one.
  5. Chance: Season 1
    One of the best new fall series and--double bonus points--it stars the great Hugh Laurie and Ethan Suplee, who ruthlessly hijacks his scenes.
  6. Goliath: Season 1
    A lethargic procedural is brightened by a good cast.
  7. American Housewife: Season 1
    The “fat” stuff is way overdone, but Bader and Mixon are good. Otherwise, your watchwords are: too soon to tell.
  8. Divorce (2016): Season 1
    Parker’s good, but otherwise Divorce is sullen and sodden.
  9. Frequency: Season 1
    Frank and Raimy are co-authors of their own personal histories. How they write it together, or mess it up together, could make an intriguing cop procedural.
  10. Insecure: Season 1
    Who is the real Issa? Neither... or more likely both. That’s the series, and also the wellspring of the humor, which tends to be fleeting, subtle or, in a few instances, flat-out funny.
  11. No Tomorrow: Season 1
    If only I were 12 again. The tween in me would have loved the scruff and the cute and the “wild” antics.
  12. Timeless (2016): Season 1
    It is merely OK--not quite tricky enough to satisfy the hard-core geeks, not quite mindless enough to satisfy someone who just wants to watch the tube and forget a long day. But it is tricky, with at least one interesting twist.
  13. Conviction (2016): Season 1
    Conviction is so into overkill, it’s hard to tell what to take seriously.
  14. Crisis in Six Scenes: Season 1
    Talky, tired, tame Crisis is a misfire.
  15. Westworld: Season 1
    If all this sounds heady, pretentious or derivative, then Westworld may eventually turn out to be guilty as charged. But from at least from the first two episodes sampled, Westworld is also a genuinely different new series that offers something even better than that: It’s genuinely engaging.
  16. Marvel's Luke Cage: Season 1
    At times, Luke Cage feels like a series in search of a story, or a series intent on drawing one out, scene by chatty scene, over 13 episodes. (Six were available for review; I watched the first two, sampled the rest.) A cast this good, especially a Luke Cage this good, should compensate.
  17. Transparent: Season 3
    Based on the first three episodes, this looks like another finely crafted season. Also intense, uncompromising and demanding.
  18. The Exorcist (2016): Season 1
    With expectations low, this Exorcist surprises with appealing leads, and--a big bonus point--the return to TV of Geena Davis.
  19. MacGyver (2016): Season 1
    A few of the critical “makeshift” moments defy logic, if not ridicule.
  20. Notorious: Season 1
    Character likability is actually just one issue. Plausibility is the other.
  21. Designated Survivor: Season 1
    Overly familiar story beats and cardboard character cutouts in Wednesday’s opener blunt the return of Jack Bauer 2.0. A hint of genuine promise, however, remains.
  22. Speechless (2016): Season 1
    Driver['s character] is so self-righteous in her advocacy, so insensitive to her impact, that a little of her goes a long way. And there’s more than a little of her here.
  23. Pitch: Season 1
    Pitch is doggedly inspirational. And despite its hackneyed moments, the pilot introduces enough meaty stuff to warrant a wait-and-see response. It’s a fresh concept amid TV’s sea of cookie-cutter franchises.
  24. Lethal Weapon (2016): Season 1
    Crawford and Wayans display little rapport. That leaves racing cars, speeding bullets and wannabe wit to prop up an essentially superfluous show.
  25. The Good Place: Season 1
    Fun, colorful, lively--but is there a real show here, or just a good joke?
  26. This Is Us: Season 1
    Saccharine by jaded prime-time standards, this show still just might be the kind of sentiment lots of viewers crave at the moment.
  27. Bull (2016): Season 1
    Bull is sleek in look, pace and technique--and crafty enough to indulge CBS’ trademark dollop of human feeling amid the flash. But it’s essentially breezy TV junk food, leaving behind a prefab aftertaste.
  28. Kevin Can Wait: Season 1
    Kevin Can Wait is neither as bad as you may have feared nor as good as you may have hoped. It’s squarely and innocuously in the middle.
  29. High Maintenance (2016): Season 1
    Lots of first-rate performances--including by a dog--but some of the stories are a little bloated or unfocused.
  30. Blindspot: Season 2
    This season opener is in fact a true data dump: Everything along with that name is unloaded. Blindspot instantly becomes a new show, which is a good thing. ... Along with some new characters, including Panjabi’s and another played by stage and TV veteran Michelle Hurd, Blindspot suddenly feels fresher, or at least intelligible.
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