People Weekly's Scores

  • TV
For 1,042 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 57% higher than the average critic
  • 13% same as the average critic
  • 30% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 1.6 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average TV Show review score: 69
Highest review score: 100 Girls: Season 4
Lowest review score: 16 Fear Factor: Season 1
Score distribution:
  1. Mixed: 0 out of 757
  2. Negative: 0 out of 757
757 tv reviews
  1. Ragsdale has vigor, and the office scenes, featuring Jason Bernard, Yeardley Smith, Jane Sibbett and Hank Azaria, work moderately well without the intrusion of the barbershop quartet in his cerebellum. That gimmick, however, makes the show unbearably contrived.
  2. It's like watching someone try to flirt while stuck in a revolving door. But Gummer has a whirring charm that never settles for mere adorkability. [22 Oct 2012m p.42]
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  3. It's Jersey Shore toned up as an Abercrombie & Fitch campaign. [12 Aug 2013]
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  4. It's awkward, sweet, sincere--and sometimes yawningly dull. [6 Aug 2012, p.37]
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  5. Welcome to the family is nicely cast.... [But it] needs to punch up the writing. [28 Oct 2013, p.47]
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  6. Though [Ramsay's] bleep-filled rants are supposed to bring out the best in his staff, they seem like blatant workplace harassment. When he turns his ire on the customers, it's even harder to stomach.
  7. Gina Gershon's performance as designer Donatella Versace is fabulously strange. [7 Oct 2013, p.49]
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  8. It's still not funny. [23 Jan 2012, p.42]
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  9. Murray is more interesting here than in last season's laughable The Lone Ranger, but the writing... is junior-varsity stuff.
  10. Here Comes Honey Boo Boo Child is one miserable half-hour. [27 Aug 2012, p.44]
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  11. This family sitcom, adapted from Ice Cube's hit 2005 movie, is a modestly conceived, somewhat blandly executed story about a stepdad (Terry Crews from Everybody Hates Chris), his new wife (Essence Atkins) and her two kids. [7 Jun 2010, p.50]
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  12. Just about perfect in its way--always fun, well-paced--and much, much better than UPN's failed models drama South Beach. [1 May 2006, p.39]
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  13. Outsourced really needs to move beyond this sort of broad stupidity because its cast, notably Sacha Dhawan, is actually quite good. [27 Sep 2010, p.56]
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  14. It's tacky, da--or should we say duh?--but likable. [22 Aug 2011, p.45]
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  15. Playboy Club makes the mistake of aping Mad Men's Stern social seriousness. [26 Sep 2011, p.54]
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  16. The acting is good, especially Bill Skarsgard and Landon Liboiron.... I like the show's languid, dreamlike beauty, but horror fans may be less patient. [22 Apr 2013, p.47]
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  17. The show... is partly improvised, a stunt used to richer effect on ABC's upcoming Sons & Daughters. [6 Mar 2006, p.41]
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  18. While obnoxious luxury is always watchable, the show is lazily cookie-cutter. [19 Mar 2012, p.42]
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  19. If even a few good performances lock into your vision, you perk up. In this new comedy about friends in various stages of relationship envy and regret, there are two: James Van Der Beek and Zoe Lister-Jones. [7 Apr 2014, p.45]
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  20. This is like dramatizing War and peace without commenting on war or peace. [11 Mar 2013, p.46]
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  21. It gets an unexpected freshness from a young cast. [5 Mar 2007, p.37]
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  22. Shift is competent but useful mostly as a reminder to stay healthy at all costs and avoid this sort of place. [9 Jun 2014, p.34]
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  23. It's a gauge of how much reality programming has changed TV that I kept thinking that Mark Burnett could come in, push some situational hot buttons and produce a better show. [12 Jun 2006, p.39]
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  24. It's more shoofly than pie, but amusing. [17 Dec 2012, p.39]
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  25. It just doesn't work. [30 Jan 2006, p.38]
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  26. The procedural elements of the medical drama hum along nicely, but it's Reilly's performance outside the operating room that makes this show worth watching. [28 Apr 2014]
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  27. Is this show in danger of being too nice? Somebody must have thought so, because George has been given a harridan for a mother.
  28. It's like watching a marionette with one set of strings operated by John Lithgow and the other by Pee-wee Herman. [12 Mar 2007, p.39]
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  29. For now, it's a mess. [2 Jul 2012, p.37]
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  30. Love Hewitt goes for soft, cozy sentiment. [16 Apr 2012, p.53]
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