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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 Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore: Season 1
    Wilmore’s approach was pointed (as pointed as a sharp stick) and often funny. Most of all, he brought a perspective to late-night TV--as the basis for entire nightly comedy show--that's been missing from late-night TV for just about as long as late-night TV has been around.
  2. Whitney (2015)
    Bassett refuses to cast blame for the troubles, and we're left with a portrait that has plenty of love--just not a whole lot of insight or edge.
  3. Justified: Season 6
    Justified remains as good as ever--and as tautly written, acted and directed, and deeply, completely pleasurable as the fifth season, and the one before that and... all of the other seasons, too, now that I think of it.
  4. 12 Monkeys (2015): Season 1
    Intelligent adaptation absent the dark humor, satire--or horror--of the original.
  5. Broad City: Season 2
    Initial indications are good--the second season of Broad City may even exceed the first.
  6. Man Seeking Woman: Season 1
    The result is something refreshingly new, and bafflingly different.
  7. Togetherness: Season 1
    It's almost a shrug of an opener, a bit diffident, a bit unfocused (not unlike Brett, in his less lucid moments). But Togetherness does gets better, and funnier.
  8. Girls: Season 4
    Girls is as Girls always was--sharply observed, intensely self-aware and very funny.
  9. Episodes (US): Season 4
    Episodes remains funny.... Mangan and Greig, whose characters remain perfectly, hilariously, beset by that terrible Hollywood contagion: Self-loathing co-mingled with self-preservation.
  10. House of Lies: Season 4
    Lies very much remains a taste acquired--inconsistent with a tone that's jagged and only intermittently funny.
  11. Shameless (US): Season 5
    It gets stranger, or--depending on your definition of justice--it gets better.
  12. Empire (2015): Season 1
    It's as if Empire had too many antecedents, and--failing to decide upon one--embraced them all. The result is an interesting idea that can't quite figure out what that idea actually is--or where it should go from here.
  13. Marvel's Agent Carter: Season 1
    To make Agent Carter work, and work well, Atwell and ABC knew she needed to be a relatable human first, and a subsidiary member of the populous Marvel universe second. Those priorities are straightened out efficiently on Tuesday's episode.
  14. Downton Abbey: Season 5
    TV's pre-eminent people-watching pleasure.
  15. Galavant: Season 1
    It's all got the stirrings of something that should be funny, or wants to be funny, except that it's too often not - confoundedly, relentlessly, insistently not. [3 Jan 2015]
    • Newsday
      • Posted Jan 3, 2015
  16. Marco Polo (2014): Season 1
    Good-looking--also lethargic, languid, listless and a little bit lifeless--at least in the early going.
  17. Regarding Susan Sontag
    Sontag, simply put, was a very interesting person, who fully inhabited some interesting times--which this film captures. But as to that genuine, lasting impact? Who knows: Regarding is so busy trying to capture this busy life, that it never gets around to an answer.
  18. Peter Pan Live!
    The overall production--good, mostly efficient, and certainly not perfect.
  19. Girlfriends' Guide to Divorce: Season 1
    Few divorces are pleasant, but the sharp, nasty scenes between Abby and Jake are the only emotionally honest moments over the first two episodes. Not surprisingly, they're the best ones, too. A shame the antagonists are so unlikable.
  20. State of Affairs: Season 1
    After this overheated effort to make Charlie interesting, or at least different, she's basically just another Carrie Mathison without the pills.
  21. The Missing: Season 1
    Nesbitt forcibly conveys the sense of a man who can't stop moving, even to sleep, until he finds his son. At least in the first hour--sorry, the only one I sampled--this feels like the kind of performance that just bought Starz a winner.
  22. The Newsroom: Season 3
    Amid all those speeches, there's beauty, passion, heart and brains in The Newsroom. There's also humor, even more than ever in Sunday's opener.
  23. The Comeback: Season 2
    The Comeback" is strictly for Comeback connoisseurs--those who deeply missed this sad/funny mockumentary on the idiocy of show business.
  24. Olive Kitteridge: Season 1
    McDormand will win an Emmy for this. Already, there's no contest.... Cholodenko's direction is masterful, and so is the bleakly funny script by Jane Anderson, but they clearly have a vision that is both part of--and separate from--the source material.
  25. The McCarthys: Season 1
    The McCarthys--good-natured, old-fashioned, unchallenging--isn't a bad sitcom, just an obvious one.
  26. Mike Tyson Mysteries: Season 1
    Mike Tyson Mysteries is highbrow lowbrow lampoon, alternately smart and stupid, dizzy and disgusting.
  27. Mr. Dynamite: The Rise of James Brown
    Mr. Dynamite instead works best as musical biography, only fitfully as a comprehensive one.
  28. Constantine (2014): Season 1
    Messy pilot that doesn't offer enough backstory, or reason to care all that much about Constantine.
  29. Big Driver
    Solid star turn, eerie production values, even a killer ending.
  30. Foo Fighters: Sonic Highways: Season 1
    Fun, lively, interesting, but also tends to lose focus at times.
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