Newsday's Scores
- TV
For 2,207 reviews, this publication has graded:
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61% higher than the average critic
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4% same as the average critic
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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: | The Crown: Season 4 | |
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| Lowest review score: | Commander in Chief: Season 1 |
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Positive: 1,506 out of 1506
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Mixed: 0 out of 1506
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Negative: 0 out of 1506
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That's a lot of pressure, even for Iron Jay, and maybe why Night One felt like a work in progress--terribly rough in spots, not bad in others.- Newsday
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This one is stylish, smartly produced and has a very appealing cast.- Newsday
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If you loved it before, you'll love it again. "Auf"-ully good.- Newsday
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Finding original humor in this tired old horse of a format may not only be difficult, but close to impossible.- Newsday
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Mad Men, as ever, remains a solid and beautifully produced TV program. Best of all, this episode promises a compelling third season. Fans will find much to savor.- Newsday
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Defying Gravity is a glorious, glimmering glop of foolishness--a spitball magnet of the first order that elicits jeers when it wants tears and catcalls when striving for philosophical heft.- Newsday
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What's new here? Nothing, really. Jane is likable, Adams is, too, and so--believe it or not--is Hung. That's another problem. Hung needed to be scabrously funny. Instead, it's just middlebrow amusing.- Newsday
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Purefoy brings some raffish charm to the role, but these days, who wants to embrace raffish philandering philanthropists--particularly ones so defiantly dim.- Newsday
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Yes, cliches about wealth and privilege abound and are confirmed, or perhaps further embedded....But NYC Prep is so eager to establish a kinship with "Gossip Girl" that it's forgotten to tell much of a story.- Newsday
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Silly, gross, soapy, mysterious, intriguing, exotic, erotic True Blood is fun. Even more fun this season.- Newsday
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The pilot is flawed (most pilots are), not particularly funny and even--bizarrely--deploys two bland jokes from the "Weeds" premiere at 10 (did the writers trade notes?). But Falco is good, proving that she can transcend Carmela Soprano.- Newsday
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The Goode Family is a highly imaginative and often amusing variation on that one note.- Newsday
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It is so numbingly derivative--effectively a dull mash-up of "House" and "Private Practice"--that you quickly forget it's also numbingly silly. But then, maybe that's the whole idea.- Newsday
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McKinley and its denizens feel just a little too cliched, the emerging romantic entanglements a little too forced, the female characters--notably Terri and Sue Sylvester--just a little too mean-spirited. Still, it's a great cast.- Newsday
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If you thought the "Real Housewives" of New York City, Atlanta and Orange County were outrageous, you haven't seen anything yet.- Newsday
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What's here is pitch-perfect - the fear, loss, emotional devastation and, peculiar to this disease, silence.- Newsday
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Overall, a meaner, harsher fashion competition, but compelling.- Newsday
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Sit Down is raw, vulgar and blithely offensive, with so many triple and quadruple entendres for so many sexual acts, I lost count.- Newsday
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The Beales' story--predictably, sadly--descends into mutual recrimination, then near madness. It's all rescued by two stunning performances.- Newsday
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CSI is not looking for a facsimile, so fans can rest assured that Fishburne will evolve into a unique and valued lead on his own.- Newsday
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Sure, The Cougar is idiotic--these shows always are. That's a large part of their appeal. But casting fouled up here.- Newsday
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What a hoot. What a ridiculous, soap-operatic cutup of a series. But if you can stop giggling long enough, as I managed to--quite a feat, let me tell you--Harper's Island is also hugely enjoyable.- Newsday
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The Unusuals is not a good show; it is a messy, uneven, silly, inconsequential show.- Newsday
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One of TV's bleakest shows is also one of TV's best comedies. What a marvel.- Newsday
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Byrne is brilliant and--for the most part--so is this fine and absorbing show.- Newsday
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Cannavale's Cupid is at least funny and charming. He's good here and so is Paulson. The weak link--the "B" story, like tonight's tepid one with the Postie, which was as appetizing as week-old cod.- Newsday
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This is a gentle, good-hearted series and Scott was pretty much born to play Precious. But LDA can also be willfully, stubbornly languid.- Newsday
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It's bright! It's energetic! It has that sort of dialogue that zips, zaps and zings! It's even ironic! Yet, at its very core, Motherhood is completely vacant.- Newsday
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Honestly, it's a complete oddball with some charm and a few good lines.- Newsday
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Kings is a worthy enterprise that will deeply puzzle millions of viewers.- Newsday
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