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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. Testees: Season 1
    It's horrible, horrible, horrible, and you will hate yourself for laughing--although I'm afraid you will.
  2. The Ex List: Season 1
    The Ex List--based on an Israeli hit ("Mythological Ex"), with whiffs of "How I Met Your Mother" and "My Name Is Earl" - is a flat-out great idea for a TV series. But Ruggiero (who's since left the show) needed a strong partner to reign in her worst impulses, like a running gag about shaved genitalia.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Star Wars: The Clone Wars: Season 1
    This is a cool weekly cartoon series from Lucasfilm Animation that finds a fresh new style for depicting the struggle of the Jedi and their army of genetically engineered clones against the seemingly indomitable droid army of evil Separatists.
  4. Friday Night Lights: Season 3
    This show was always best when handling the little things that aim to capture life, and often do.
  5. Pushing Daisies: Season 2
    Anyone who enters this fantastic and beautifully realized play-scape--which remains ever so slightly ghoulish--will stick around. This is a winner.
  6. Dirty Sexy Money: Season 2
    Hilarious implausibility, overheated dialogue and enough soap to do several loads of laundry are part of its appeal.
  7. Private Practice: Season 2
    Creator Shonda Rhimes promised deeper, sharper medical stories this season to tether this show to the ground, and tonight Private Practice delivers those - even if the so-called "moral gray" area of each feels contrived.
  8. Chuck: Season 2
    This is pure kiddie fare; no big deal--Chuck's back; TV's a better place.
  9. Grey's Anatomy: Season 5
    It's still the Meredere (or Deremere) show, and Cristina's right. It's just ... so ... over.
  10. Gary Unmarried: Season 1
    Gary is a throwback to a time when laugh tracks were provided by evidently demented studio audiences; when one-liners were stoked with double entendres about sexual functions; when sitcoms had a beat, pace and predictability so primitive that they engaged only the reptilian part of our brains. To some viewers, this may be comfort food. To others: Hell.
  11. Knight Rider: Season 1
    Knight Rider is a disaster, a remake so deliriously and delectably bad that you have to watch just to tell your grandchildren that you were there.
  12. The Mentalist: Season 1
    The formula--must find murderer of beautiful woman before last commercial break--predates the dinosaurs, but also incorporates some satisfying twists.
  13. Worst Week: Season 1
    You can't go wrong with Smith ("That '70s Show") or Lenehan, pros with impeccable comic timing, which leaves relative newcomers Bornheimer and Hayes. Thumbs-up here, too. Worst Week may be the best new comedy on network TV this season.
  14. Heroes: Season 3
    This is good bunk, fun bunk, energetic bunk. Much better bunk than the last volume.
  15. House: Season 5
    It's wonderful stuff, and we all seem to be on a voyage of discovery.
  16. Do Not Disturb: Season 1
    Why, then, this debacle, with bad jokes, listless lines and a parade of cliches? Beats me.
  17. Fringe: Season 1
    I wanted to love Fringe, with its extraordinary pedigree and exotic, soulful Australian beauty Torv in the lead role, and splendid Noble in key support. Plus, Blair Brown's here, too, as a top exec at an evil corporation. But I just can't shake this word "derivative."
  18. Privileged: Season 1
    Garcia is a major-league cutie and sunny on-screen presence without being cloying. But enough with the filthy-rich-kid dramedies!
  19. Entourage: Season 5
    Entourage--at least in original episodes--has been off the air for one solid year, but when that title song from Jane's Addiction kicks in, it's like an old friend calling--only this time, the friend seems worthier, and his stories more interesting.
  20. Sons of Anarchy: Season 1
    Trade press has labeled this "'Easy Rider' Meets 'The Sopranos,'" which seems apt. Show comes from Kurt Sutter, longtime co-executive producer of "The Shield" (and married to Sagal) so that should give you a sense of tone and texture - violent, taut, well written.
  21. The Shield: Season 7
    The Shield (this season and every season) is an intoxicating head-gamer of a show that grabs you by the throat.
  22. 90210: Season 1
    The show juggled a lot of storylines last night, maybe too many, but the vibe feels right. "90210" is not a disaster, and the CW can now officially let out a deep ... sigh ... of relief.
  23. Raising the Bar: Season 1
    Good show with fine cast, but it all still feels a little too familiar and old-fashioned.
  24. America's Toughest Jobs: Season 1
    Problem here is that Beers is yoking his specialty with something that is not his forte--reality competition. The result often feels forced and frivolous.
  25. Z Rock: Season 1
    Some amusing bits, but for every one of those, there are 10 misfires.
  26. The Cho Show: Season 1
    Cho has long been an acquired taste, and - while her fans will luxuriate in these 22 minutes--few newbies will acquire that tonight.
  27. Principal's Office: Season 1
    Producers play this for laughs, though just slightly. (These are high school kids, after all.) Even so, the show's flat and almost stunningly uninformative.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Tabatha's Salon Takeover: Season 1
    In the world of reality shows, this well-produced series is better than most. Betwixt and between all the emotional upheavals and drama, Coffey, only slightly witchy, dishes out sound advice.
  29. Mad Men: Season 2
    Besides the fine acting, writing and an attention to period detail that borders on the obsessive, what makes this show so ambiguous and pleasantly iridescent is narrative tension
  30. The Cleaner: Season 1
    The thing looks stylish, has a nice cast, is well written, and Bratt--scruffy, unkempt, a little more than off-center here--has the requisite intensity for the role. But it also is jarringly slick and borderline seamy; maybe that's just part of the fast world Banks and his cohorts find themselves in, but the tone ultimately robs the show--or at least the pilot--of heart and passion.
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