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. The show's dependable high point finds him banishing everyone from the cooking area and screaming so many bleeped words that it;s hard to track a whole sentence. [27 Sep 2012, p.43]
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  2. The melodrama of it all is tasty--a jumbo macaroon. [27 Aug 2012, p.43]
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  3. Cases piddle away as everyone hashes out deals at a conference table. Realistic, perhaps, but quite the buzzkill. [20 Aug 2012, p.41]
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  4. The show is cleverer than you'd expect. [20 Aug 2012, p.41]
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  5. This air of finality throws the many small, fine details of Parker's performance, the main reason for the show's existence, into sharp relief. [13 Aug 2012, p.42]
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  6. [Perry] effortlessly brings out King's sorrow and even rage--[but] it loses something when thrown in with Go On's overly broad comedy. [13 Aug 3012, p.41]
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  7. About Face addresses some deeper implications--Gia Carangi's early death is a cautionary tale--but knows better than to over do it. [6 Aug 2012, p.39]
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  8. Bachelor Pad ups the ante this season with a cheesy gimmick that turns out to be ingenious. [6 Aug 2012, p.37]
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  9. It's awkward, sweet, sincere--and sometimes yawningly dull. [6 Aug 2012, p.37]
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  10. These are almost closer to short stories than sitcom episodes--and yes, they're fantastic. [23 Jul 2012, p.38]
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  11. It's an enjoyable enough whodunit. The problem is McCormack. [23 Jul 2012, p.38]
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  12. Bad has taken the complexity of modern television storytelling to new levels. [23 Jul 2012, p.37]
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  13. The show's tone [is] vulgar, jolly and winning. [16 Jul 2012, p.39]
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  14. The first episodes are very promising, full of feints, fibs, and a big, fat shock. [16 Jul 2012, p.40]
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  15. Season 2 of the Hollywood satire still plays too broad, [...] But Matt LeBlanc's understated performance as himself has gotten even better. [9 Jul 2012, p.36]
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  16. For now, it's a mess. [2 Jul 2012, p.37]
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  17. If it doesn't have the ABC sitcom's [Suburgatory's] satiric sheen, it captures some of those glum patches that strike in adolescence. [2 Jul 2012, p.38]
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  18. It's dumb, yes, but that miracle of reality TV named Cat Deeley hosts. [2 Jul 2012, p.38]
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  19. The Soul Man isn't great, but it's the best sitcom yet developed for TV Land. [2 Jul 2012, p.40]
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  20. Daniels is great, biting clean through clotted dialogue that's twinkly yet sanctimonious. [2 Jul 2012, p.40]
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  21. It's like watching The Hills with all the shallow fun, glamor and Lauren Conrad edited out. [25 Jun 2012, p.47]
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  22. Their white collar cases aren't always riveting but as summer fares goes, hot guys and Manhattan backdrops are a reliably escapist combo. [25 Jun 2012, p.47]
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  23. [The mentor-judges are] so blandly polite they may as well be ordering skinny lattes at Starbucks. [18 Jun 2012, p.40]
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  24. It's both old and new, a comfy piece of nostalgia that doubles as a fresh guilty pleasure. [18 Jun 2012, p.39]
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  25. Gilmore creator Amy Sherman-Palladino gives her actors a zip drive's worth of dialogue....Foster's got the mouth--and charm--to pull it off. [18 Jun 2012, p.43]
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  26. The show is still crazily entertaining. [11 Jun 2012, p.41]
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  27. [The new women are] all promising, if too polite, to take on Ramona....Luckily, previews indicate they all end the season quaking and screaming. [11 Jun 2012, p. 44]
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  28. If the show's isn't terribly ambitious to break new ground, it's a nice lull. [11 Jun 2012, p.42]
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  29. Clive Owen teams with Nicole Kidman for a long, lopsided slog through the life of Ernest Hemingway and war journalist Martha Gellhorn. [4 Jun 2012, p.42]
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  30. The pace sags, but the accumulation of sacrificed lives gives it all a haunting sorrow. [4 Jun 2012, p.44]
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