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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. Churchill's Secret
    Nicely crafted, and Gambon--as always--is superb, but this “Masterpiece” movie can also be turgid and lugubrious.
  2. Masters of Sex: Season 4
    At least the opener indicates this remains an intelligent series in search of complex answers to complicated questions.
  3. Son of Zorn: Season 1
    Either clever idea or one-trick pony, the Son of Zorn pilot can’t entirely decide which it is either.
  4. Better Things: Season 1
    She’s a terrific and effortlessly funny actress who establishes vivid characters with vivid lives. But Sam Fox obviously required a bigger reach, and Adlon accomplishes that here.
  5. Queen Sugar: Season 1
    Good newcomer, good cast and star showrunner. What’s missing, at least in the early episodes, is a propulsive story and pace to match.
  6. Atlanta: Season 1
    The TV breakout Glover fans have been waiting for, also unlike anything else on TV.
  7. Harley and the Davidsons: Season 1
    The series does a competent job of setting mood and character--notably that anything is possible, the sky’s the limit drive of the early 20th century that animated great inventions, and consequently great fortunes.
  8. Halt and Catch Fire: Season 3
    Halt finally looks like a series going someplace important, and worth viewers going there with it.
  9. The Get Down: Season 1
    Guirgis’s language is authentic and raw, and tethers Luhrman’s gauzy-romanticized world of the South Bronx to the ground. Best of all, the cast--mostly young and mostly newcomers--has figured out how to make this visual and stylistic gumbo gel.
  10. Sharknado 4: The 4th Awakens
    Every single scene, and just about every line, will remind you that this is an unapologetically, gloriously idiotic enterprise. ... For discriminating viewers; shark lovers; sharks; meteorologists: F. For “Sharknado” fans: B
  11. Vice Principals: Season 1
    This is a Danny McBride comedy--not exactly funny, but weirdly engaging in its own uncomfortable way. His fans should be pleased. Everyone else will be puzzled--or worse, repulsed.
  12. Stranger Things: Season 1
    Unless your name is Stephen King or Steven Spielberg, there’s only so much new anyone can bring to this potluck supper. The Duffers don’t bring much new. They do bring a large degree of enthusiasm, however.
  13. Mr. Robot: Season 2
    [Showrunner and creator Sam Esmail is] a Kafka in the director’s chair, who sees alienation where everyone else sees a Facebook “like.” It’s as compelling and timely a vision as there is in a primetime series at the moment, and darkness is the price of admission.
  14. The Night Of: Season 1
    The series never quite convincingly establishes what could have been a powerful undercurrent-- whether Naz and by association the rest of New York’s Muslim community had been tried and convicted based on their Muslim faith alone. That’s OK. Everything else--and everyone else--cclicks just about perfectly.
  15. Tyrant: Season 3
    Tyrant gets a welcome addition, along with more intrigue.
  16. The Hunt: Season 1
    As always, magnificent with a moving subtext.
  17. Sex&Drugs&Rock&Roll: Season 2
    S&D&R&R don’t bring me anything but down.
  18. Ray Donovan: Season 4
    A touchier-feelier Ray Donovan emerges, and the change is welcome.
  19. Roadies: Season 1
    Unlikeable characters fill the foreground, while an unfocused music track fills the background.
  20. Greenleaf: Season 1
    As a viewing experience, Greenleaf is absorbing, hardly pulse-quickening.
  21. Mother, May I Sleep With Danger?
    This new version looks like Franco moved on to something else long before he finished it.
  22. Orange is the New Black: Season 4
    Based on the first six episodes of the 4th season, OITNB remains fresh, funny/sad, smart, inventive, well-written, and particularly well-acted.
  23. Aquarius: Season 2
    A far-improved start to the second season.
  24. Animal Kingdom: Season 1
    The most interesting character, or certainly most compelling, is Barkin’s Smurf. She’s a Ma Barker with cleavage, a brownie-baking Gemma Teller (“Sons of Anarchy”). Ultimately, she may be the one to seal the pact here.
  25. BrainDead: Season 1
    Not exactly satire, not exactly horror, BrainDead is not exactly much fun, either.
  26. O.J.: Made in America: Season 1
    Excellent, balanced, powerful, engaging, comprehensive perspective on the “trial of the century” and race. The first two parts are best.
  27. UnReal: Season 2
    Whip-smart and skintight, Season 2 clicks like clockwork. You’re appalled, you’re LOL, you can’t wait to see next week.
  28. Feed the Beast (2016): Season 1
    Just to keep our restaurant metaphors straight, this newcomer does a competent job of setting the table, but when the plates arrive, there’s nothing on them.
  29. Outcast: Season 1
    With all this time spent checking off genre boxes, there’s scant space for the narrative to breathe beyond them.
  30. Roots (2016): Season 1
    It’s more urgent and visceral, the blood more copious, the agony more intense. This Roots doesn’t flinch, but you almost certainly will. The cast is first-rate, too. ... But this Roots can’t quite escape the faults of the original. Kunta’s story, the Fiddler’s, and later Chicken George’s, are patterns, and also cycles. They seek dignity, but find only indignity--or abject cruelty--over and over.
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